US 11,862,359 B2
Conductive polymer fibers, method and device for producing conductive polymer fibers, biological electrode, device for measuring biological signals, implantable electrode, and device for measuring biological signals
Shingo Tsukada, Atsugi (JP); Hiroshi Nakashima, Atsugi (JP); Akiyoshi Shimada, Tokyo (JP); Koji Sumitomo, Atsugi (JP); and Keiichi Torimitsu, Atsugi (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/171,589.
Application 16/171,589 is a continuation of application No. 13/261,900, granted, now 10,153,065, previously published as PCT/JP2012/079805, filed on Nov. 16, 2012.
Claims priority of application No. 2011-251524 (JP), filed on Nov. 17, 2011; application No. 2012-185343 (JP), filed on Aug. 24, 2012; application No. 2012-189102 (JP), filed on Aug. 29, 2012; and application No. 2012-212998 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2019/0066866 A1, Feb. 28, 2019
Int. Cl. H01B 1/12 (2006.01); D06M 13/148 (2006.01); D06M 15/356 (2006.01); D06M 11/83 (2006.01); D06M 11/74 (2006.01); D06M 15/61 (2006.01); D06P 1/38 (2006.01); D06M 15/53 (2006.01); D06M 15/256 (2006.01); H01B 13/30 (2006.01); D06M 23/10 (2006.01); A61B 5/25 (2021.01); A61B 5/283 (2021.01); A61B 5/291 (2021.01)
CPC H01B 1/127 (2013.01) [D06M 11/74 (2013.01); D06M 11/83 (2013.01); D06M 13/148 (2013.01); D06M 15/256 (2013.01); D06M 15/356 (2013.01); D06M 15/53 (2013.01); D06M 15/61 (2013.01); D06P 1/38 (2013.01); H01B 1/12 (2013.01); H01B 13/30 (2013.01); A61B 5/25 (2021.01); A61B 5/283 (2021.01); A61B 5/291 (2021.01); A61B 2560/063 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0215 (2017.08); A61B 2562/043 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01); A61B 2562/125 (2013.01); D06M 23/10 (2013.01); Y10T 428/292 (2015.01); Y10T 428/2944 (2015.01); Y10T 428/2958 (2015.01); Y10T 428/2962 (2015.01); Y10T 428/2967 (2015.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conductive polymer fiber, wherein a conductor containing a conductive polymer impregnates and adheres to base fibers, the base fibers are fibers which are at least one selected from the group consisting of nylon, polyester, acrylic, aramid, polyurethane, and carbon fiber, the conductor is arranged with close adhesion to said base fibers among a plurality of said base fibers so that the conductor bonds the base fibers to each other,
the base fibers are straight fibers,
the conductor contains sphingosine as an additive, and
a concentration of the additive in the conductor is 0.1 to 50 wt %, and the interior of said base fibers is impregnated with said conductor,
metal or carbon coats an exterior surface of said base fibers, and
an exterior surface of said metal or carbon coating is coated by said conductor.