Digital Garment Embroidery Pattern for Wireless Communication Fabrication
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Solution Overview
Problem
The fabrication of digital garments using digital yarns is complex due to the need for one-to-one connections and additional processing at seams, making the process time-consuming and complicated.
Innovation Solution
A digital garment using embroidery technology, where a digital embroidery pattern is formed on a common garment to provide a communication path, with sensors, arithmetic units, and communication modules attached and electrically connected to the pattern, using upper and lower threads that interlock to create hooks and shapes, allowing for wireless communication and display functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital yarns are used to fabricate digital garments, then communication functions can be integrated into the garment, but the fabrication process becomes complicated and time-consuming due to one-to-one connections and additional processing at seams
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of weaving or knitting digital yarns into garments with an embroidery process. Instead of integrating digital yarns through complex weaving/knitting operations that require one-to-one connections and seam processing, the invention uses embroidery technology to form digital patterns on the surface of conventional garments. This substitution of the fabrication method eliminates the need for complex mechanical integration while maintaining the communication functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent separates the communication function from the garment structure itself. Rather than making the garment fabric itself conductive through digital yarns, the invention creates separate digital embroidery patterns that are applied to the garment surface. This segmentation allows the communication functionality to be added independently without complicating the fundamental garment fabrication process.
2Reliability
If digital yarns are connected to connectors in a one-to-one relationship, then electrical connections can be established, but the processing time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual digital yarn connections into a single integrated digital embroidery pattern. Instead of establishing separate one-to-one connections between digital yarns and connectors throughout the garment, the embroidery process creates a unified conductive pattern that achieves the same electrical connectivity function in a single operation, dramatically reducing processing time while maintaining connection reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs the electrical connection function preliminarily through the embroidery pattern design. The conductive threads are pre-configured in the embroidery pattern to create complete electrical circuits and communication pathways before the garment is finalized. This preliminary establishment of electrical connections eliminates the need for subsequent time-consuming connection work.
3Stability of the object's composition
If additional work is done to connect digital yarns at seams, then garment integrity is maintained, but the overall fabrication process becomes more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of connecting digital yarns at seams with an embroidery process that forms continuous conductive patterns across the garment surface. The embroidery needles and threads create seamless electrical connections that maintain garment integrity without requiring separate seam connection operations, thereby simplifying the fabrication process while preserving structural stability.
4Adaptability or versatility
If digital yarns are attached to a garment, then communication functionality is added, but reprocessing of digital yarns is inevitably required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the complex process of attaching and reprocessing digital yarns with a single embroidery operation. The embroidery process directly forms the digital communication patterns on the garment surface using conductive threads, eliminating the need for separate attachment and reprocessing steps. This substitution maintains communication functionality while significantly improving fabrication simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a digital garment using embroidery technology. In the digital garment, a digital embroidery pattern is formed on a common garment to provide a communication path, an antenna pattern, etc. The digital garment comprises a garment made of a textile and having one side and the other side opposite to each other, a digital embroidery pattern formed along the inner or outer surface of the garment using embroidery technology to provide a communication path to the garment, a sensor attached to the garment and electrically connected to the digital embroidery pattern to convert physical signals to electrical signals, an arithmetic unit attached to the garment and electrically connected to the digital embroidery pattern to process the electrical signals inputted from the sensor, and a communication module attached to the garment and electrically connected to the digital embroidery pattern to perform wireless communication. Further disclosed is a method for fabricating the digital garment using embroidery technology.