Patent ID: 8116898

Claim:
A digital garment comprising a plurality of knitting yarns forming loops at regular intervals and interwoven through the loops, and one or more digital yarns woven with the knitting yarns and through which a current flows, wherein the knitting yarns and the digital yarns are knitted together into a garment, wherein each of the digital yarns comprises at least one metal line positioned at the center of the cross section thereof to provide a communication path, and a coating layer being formed of a waterproof material and surrounding the metal line to shield electromagnetic waves, wherein the coating layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and perfluroalkoxy (PFA), and wherein the coating layer is surrounded by a plurality of cover yarns that are made of the same material as the knitting yarns, and the plurality of cover yarns are parallel to the length direction of the coating layer.