Protective Glove with Conductive Stitching
a technology of conductive stitching and gloves, applied in the field of gloves, can solve the problems of not providing significant thermal protection to the wearer's hand, glove does not provide significant thermal protection to the wearer's fingertips, and conventional esd gloves do not provide significant thermal protection
Inactive Publication Date: 2013-06-20
OLIVE TREE FINANCIAL GROUP
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This patent describes a glove that has a special layer made of electrically conductive thread stitched onto a non-conductive base. This conductive layer can help protect the wearer from things like hot or cold temperatures, abrasion, and sharp instruments. The non-conductive base also provides a good grip for the wearer. The special layer can help the wearer use capacitive sensing devices and also protect against electrostatic discharge and radio frequency radiation.
Problems solved by technology
While this type of glove works with capacitive sensing devices, it does not provide significant thermal protection to the wearer's hand due to the fact that the glove's threads are coated with a conductive material.
This glove does not provide significant thermal protection to the wearer's fingertips due to the conductive material in that region of the glove.
Accordingly, conventional ESD gloves do not provide significant thermal protection.
ESD gloves also cannot typically be worn when working near electrically charged matter due to the risk that the gloves will conduct electric current and shock the wearer.
Conventional capacitive sensing device and ESD gloves also do not provide cut, puncture, or RF radiation protection.
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[0016]A glove in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention is generally identified as 10 in FIG. 1. Glove 10 includes an electrically non-conductive base 12 and electrically conductive layers 14, 16, 18, and 20 that are stitched to finger tips and a thumb tip of the base 12 with electrically conductive thread 22. The base 12 includes an inner surface 12a, shown in FIG. 3, that is adjacent a hand wearing the glove 10, and an outer surface 12b, shown in FIG. 1. Electrically conductive layers 14, 16, 18, and 20 cover a portion of the outer surface 12b. As shown in FIG. 3, thread 22 penetrates the inner surface 12a of the base 12 so that the thread 22 is positioned to contact the hand of a person wearing the glove 10 and electrically couple layers 14, 16, 18, and 20 to the hand. The electrically conductive layers 14, 16, 18, and 20 and electrically conductive thread 22 allow a person wearing glove 10 to utilize a capacitive sensing device and use the glove 10 for electrost...
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A glove with an electrically non-conductive base and an electrically conductive layer stitched to the base with electrically conductive thread. The base has a body and a plurality of finger receptacles each having an end that is joined to the body. The electrically conductive layer is stitched to an end of one of the finger receptacles opposite the end that is joined to the body. Preferably, the base includes a number of panels stitched together with electrically conductive thread that is electrically coupled to the thread joining the conductive layer to the base.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Not applicable.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not applicable.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]1. FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0004]The present invention relates generally to a glove, and more particularly to a glove with conductive stitching.[0005]2. DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART[0006]Gloves have been developed with conductive material for use with capacitive sensing devices, such as mobile phone touchscreens, and for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. One type of capacitive sensing device glove is made entirely from threads that are coated with a conductive material. While this type of glove works with capacitive sensing devices, it does not provide significant thermal protection to the wearer's hand due to the fact that the glove's threads are coated with a conductive material. Another type of capacitive sensing device glove includes a liner with an electrically conductive portion in a fingertip regio...
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IPC IPC(8): A41D19/015
CPCA41D19/01594G06F3/044G06F3/014
Inventor SCHULTZ, GREGORY R.
Owner OLIVE TREE FINANCIAL GROUP