Suitability of conductive knit fabric for sensing human breathing | ||
Journal of Scientific Research in Science | ||
Article 4, Volume 33, part1, September 2016, Pages 359-369 PDF (763.13 K) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/jsrs.2016.15319 | ||
Authors | ||
Aliaa A. A. Mohamed* 1; Mohamed M. Ezzat2; Z. M. Abdel Megeid2; Ahmed Saeed3 | ||
1Faculty of Women Ain Shams University, Textile and Clothing, Cairo, Egypt | ||
2National Research Center, Textile Research Division, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt | ||
3Electronics, Communications and Computer engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
This paper studies the suitability of conductive knit fabric in order to produce a reliable breathing sensor. Conductive single jersey knit fabrics was manufactured from silver coated nylon yarn with different production parameters (stitch type (ST)- combination ratio (CR) and number of wales (NW)). A cyclic tester was built to simulate the breathing mechanism of a human being and to explore the influence of these parameters on the electric resistance. The results show that there is a significant effect on the resistance value by the difference in ST and CR, while the width of the sample doesn’t show a significant effect.The best sample suited for breathing sensor is the one with increase in width (NW), less CR and normal stitch. | ||
Keywords | ||
conductive fabric- breathing sensor- combination ratio –stitch type | ||
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