ES2640751B2 - Supplement for glove that allows the activation of a capacitive touch device - Google Patents

Abstract

Supplement for a glove that allows the activation of a capacitive type touch device (1) of the type that adheres in the area of the fingerprint and fingernails of a glove (0) that mainly consists of: #a. a conductive surface (10), arranged in the area of the fingerprint of the glove, composed of electrically conductive material. # b. an electrochemical device (20), arranged in the area of the fingernail of the glove finger, consisting of a filling (21) of electrically conductive material whose purpose is to make electrical contact between the conductive surface (10) and a conductive envelope (22) from the negative pole of the anode (24), and which also consists of an ionic liquid electrolyte (25) and a cathode (26), isolated positive pole, all encapsulated in an insulating envelope (23).

Description

DESCRIPTION

Supplement for glove that allows the activation of a capacitive touch device.

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Object and sector of the technique to which the invention relates

The present invention relates to a glove complement that allows the actuation of a capacitive type touch device.

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The object of the invention is a complement that adheres to the area of the fingerprint and fingernail of a glove; For all types of gloves.

Being applied in gloves in the manufacturing phase or already manufactured both new and used.

The invention is located in the technical sector of industrial engineering and, more specifically, in the field of textile manufacturing.

20 General and closest prior state of the art

The glove is a garment whose purpose is to wrap your hands or protect them from bumps, cuts, abrasions, infections, high temperatures, etc. Many activities, both in medicine and industry, require the mandatory use of gloves; Among them: 25 surgical gloves and healthcare professionals, their materials are: latex, nitrile and vinyl, for welders, for firefighters. Many times it is not only used to protect the hand, but it is also used to protect the product (memories, screens, glass, food, etc.). It is included as Personal Protective Equipment (EP1), in accordance with the definition of Royal Decree 1407/1992, dated November 20, 03, which regulates the conditions for the commercialization and free intra-community circulation of personal protective equipment. BOE no. 311, of December 28, protecting the part of the body that suffers the most injuries such as the hand.

3 5 The most popular touch screens currently used in the

Smart mobile phones or touch panels of the laptops are the “capacitive” type, because the image quality is better, they have better response and some allow the use of several fingers at once (multitouch). However, they are more expensive and cannot be used with a normal pointer, but with a special one.

4 0 for capacitive screens. Based on capacitive sensors, they consist of a layer of

electrical insulation, such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor, such as tin-doped indium oxide (ITO). As the human body is not insulating but is an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the electrostatic field of the screen, which is measured by the change in capacitance 4 5 (electrical capacity). Different technologies can be used to determine in what

Screen position was tapped; The position is sent to the controller for processing.

The unexpected side effect of the capacitive screens of having to remove the 5 gloves to use any function of the phone has become a problem.

Different types of solutions to said technical problem are known in the state of the art.

10 Special gloves for touch screens are known as e.g. coughs that can be found on the following website:

https://www.muiio.com/touchscreen-uloves. manufactured with fabric that incorporates electrically conductive fibers, the problem being that we can only find a small range of gloves, also with high cost, and that the problem for gloves already manufactured remains unresolved; In addition, the electrically conductive fibers are heat conductive, reducing the thermal insulation capacity of the glove.

Special gloves for touch screens are known, such as those found on the following website:
https://www.amazon.es/OUTAD-Guantes- 2 O Ciclismo-Funci% C3% B3n-Caliente / dp / B0191FGRPQ. that incorporate conductive fibers in the thumb and index finger, the problem being that we can only find a small range of gloves, and that the problem for already manufactured gloves remains unresolved, in addition to the one indicated above.

2 5 Gloves are also known that allow the actuation of a touch device

capacitive type such as the one included in the patent document with publication number ES-2552214 T3 and priority date 09.12.2011, which refers to a glove that has a coating part of a user's palm and the less a housing to cover at least one finger of said user, the problem being that

3 0 is described glove is complex and the problem for gloves is still not solved

manufactured, in addition to the one indicated above.

Accessories (gadgets) for gloves are known, such as those found on the following website:

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https://www.kickstarter.com/proiects/nanotips/taps-touchscreen-sticker-w-touch-id- ships-before-x? token = 5b586aa6. that incorporates a flexible film that sticks to the gloves, where our fingerprints should be, and we can register them on the mobile as one more fingerprint among those we have authorized to unlock the equipment; they are waterproof, so nothing happens because it rains, and capable of

4 Or stick to any type of fabric from which the gloves are made, the problem being

that have complex and expensive nanotechnology that once stuck can not be taken off for a change to a new glove.

Technical problem raised

The prior art systems present a problem that focuses primarily on the following aspects:

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X require gloves specially manufactured with fabric that incorporates conductive fibers, having a small range of high cost and not being applied in gloves already manufactured;

10 x require gloves that incorporate conductive fibers in the thumb and index finger, having a small range and not being applied in already manufactured gloves;

X incorporate electrically conductive fibers that reduce the thermal insulation capacity of the glove, especially in the area of the fingers that is where

more is required;

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X require complex and expensive nanotechnology;

X some accessories require piercing the glove tissue.

Technical advantage that aborts the invention

The device (1) that the invention advocates fully resolves in a satisfactory manner the aforementioned problem, in each and every one of the different aspects mentioned.

Brief description of the figures

3 0 To complement the description and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, a set of figures with an illustrative and non-limiting nature is attached as an integral part of said description.

Glossary of references 35

(0) Glove, any of the prior art;

(01) Finger of the glove;

(X) Supplement for glove that allows the actuation of a capacitive type touch device, object of the invention;

4 0 (10) Conductive surface, fingerprint area of the glove;

(20) Electrochemical device, fingernail area of the glove finger;

(21) Stuffing;

(22) Conductive envelope, negative conductor pole;

(23) Insulating envelope, positive pole isolated;

4 5 (24) Anode, (-) of the electrochemical device;

(25) Ionic liquid electrolyte;

(26) Cathode, (+) of the electrochemical device;

(30) Adhesive surface;

Figure 01 (Fig. 01) .- shows a perspective view of a glove (0), any of the prior art;

Figure 02 (Fig. 02) .- shows a perspective view of a glove that incorporates several accessories (1) for a glove that allows the actuation of a capacitive touch device (1);

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Figure 03 (Fig. 03) .- shows an arrangement profile view of a complement (1) on a finger of the glove (01);

Figure 04 (Fig. 04) .- shows a bottom plan view of the arrangement of a complement (1) on a finger of the glove (01);

Figure 05 (Fig. 05) .- shows a profile view of a complement (1);

Figure 06 (Fig. 06) .- shows a detail view “A”

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Detailed description of the invention and detailed presentation of a preferred embodiment of the invention

A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in detail, among the

2 5 different possible alternatives, by listing their components as well as

its functional relationship based on references to the figures, which have been included, by way of illustration and not limitation, according to the principles of the claims.

Reference is made to the figures as necessary according to achieving a better

3 0 understanding of what is shown in them.

A perspective view of a glove (0) is shown in Fig. 01, any of the prior art. As described, gloves (0) of the closest prior art suffer from a number of drawbacks.

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A perspective view of a glove that incorporates several accessories for a glove that allows the actuation of a capacitive touch device (1) can be seen in Fig. 02. As described, gloves (0) incorporating various accessories (1), object of the invention, solve said drawbacks. He

4 0 complement (1) can be arranged on each of the fingers of the glove, although

preferably it will be placed on the thumb and index finger.

An arrangement profile view of a complement (1) on a finger of the glove (01) is shown in Fig. 03, in which the parts it contains can be seen:

to. a conductive surface (10), Fig. 04, disposed in the area of the fingerprint of the glove, composed of electrically conductive material.

b. an electrochemical device (20), Fig. 05-06. arranged in the area of the nail of the 5 finger of the glove, which consists of a filling (21) of conductive material of the

electricity whose purpose is to make electrical contact between the conductive surface (10) and a conductive envelope (22) from the negative pole of the anode (24), and which also consists of an ionic liquid electrolyte (25) and a cathode (26) , positive pole isolated, all encapsulated in an insulating envelope (23).

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C. optionally an adhesive surface (30) for adhering the conductive surface (10) and the electrochemical device (20) to the glove finger (01).

An operation scheme 15 of the electrochemical device (20) in which the positive pole makes contact with the insulating envelope (23) is shown in Fig. 06 to the right of the detail "A", so it will remain isolated, and The negative pole makes contact with the conductive envelope (22) that will make contact with the conductive surface (10).

2 0 In a preferred embodiment the conductive surface (10) is formed of plastic

doped to be a conductor of electricity adhered to an adhesive surface (30) and the filler (21) is formed of doped plastic to be a conductor of electricity so that the electrochemical device (20) adheres to an adhesive surface ( 30), and the entire adhesive surface (30) adheres to the finger of the glove (01).

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In another preferred embodiment, the conductive surface (10) is formed on the basis of an electrically conductive paint that adheres to the glove finger (01) and the filling (21) is formed on the basis of an electrically conductive paint that adheres the device. electrochemical (20) to the finger of the glove (01).

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In a preferred embodiment the electrochemical device (20) is constructed on a millimeter scale, consisting of an anode (24) of tin dioxide (SnOi), an ionic liquid electrolyte (25), and a cathode (26) of cobalt dioxide. lithium (LiCoCh).

3 5 When operating on a capacitive touch screen, the conductive surface (10) that

is attached to the anode (24), negative pole, of the electrochemical device (20) will activate the capacitive screen that will recognize a change in the capacity of the area in which contact is made with it. It has been proven in an experiment with different prototypes that the battery charge does not influence the activation so even though

4 0 lacks charge (electrochemical device discharged) while available

potential, which always occurs, the device (1) will work in perpetuity. One of the great advantages of the device (1) is that there is no need to make contact with the finger by piercing the glove with an insert, the potential of the electrochemical device (20) makes contact unnecessary.

Claims (4)

ES 2 640 751 A1 1. Supplement for glove that allows e! actuation of a capacitive type touch device (I), of the type that adheres to the fingers of a glove (0) with 5 in order to act on a capacitive touch screen, which is characterized by: to. a conductive surface (10), arranged in the area of the fingerprint of the glove, composed of electrically conductive material. 10 b. an electrochemical device (20), arranged in the area of the fingernail of the glove finger, consisting of a filling (21) of electrically conductive material whose purpose is to make electrical contact between the conductive surface (10) and a conductive envelope (22) from the negative pole of the anode (24), and that 15 also consists of an ionic liquid electrolyte (25) and a cathode (26), isolated positive pole, all encapsulated in an insulating envelope (23). 2. Supplement for a glove that allows the actuation of a capacitive touch device (1), according to claim 1. characterized in that 2 0 the conductive surface (10) is formed of doped plastic to be Electricity conductor adhered to an adhesive surface (30) and the filler (21) is formed of doped plastic so that it is electrically conductive so that the electrochemical device (20) adheres to an adhesive surface (30), and The entire adhesive surface (30) adheres to the finger of the glove (01). 25 3. Glove complement that allows the actuation of a capacitive type touch device (1), according to claim 1, characterized in that the conductive surface (10) is formed based on conductive paint of the electricity that is adheres to the glove finger (01) and the padding (21) is formed on the basis 3 0 conductive paint of electricity that adheres the electrochemical device (20) to the finger of the glove (01). 4. Glove complement allowing the actuation of a capacitive type touch device (1), according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is 3 5 characterized by the fact that the electrochemical device (20) is constructed on a millimeter scale, consisting of an anode (24) of tin dioxide, SnCh, an ionic liquid electrolyte (25), and a cathode (26) of dioxide of cobalt-lithium, UC0O2.