US 11,962,296 B2
Flexible sensing interface systems and methods
Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri, Atlanta, GA (US); Chaoyu Chen, Atlanta, GA (US); Gregory D. Abowd, Atlanta, GA (US); Shivan Mittal, Atlanta, GA (US); Thad Eugene Starner, Atlanta, GA (US); Yi-Cheng Wang, Atlanta, GA (US); Zhong Lin Wang, Atlanta, GA (US); Dingtian Zhang, Atlanta, GA (US); Steven L. Zhang, Atlanta, GA (US); and Anandghan Waghmare, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US)
Appl. No. 17/269,547
Filed by Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/047398
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/041403, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/721,263, filed on Aug. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0320657 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H03K 17/96 (2006.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); A63F 13/214 (2014.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC H03K 17/962 (2013.01) [G06F 3/038 (2013.01); A63F 13/214 (2014.09); A63F 2300/1068 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H03K 2217/960755 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor comprising:
a co-axial arrangement of layers about a central axis comprising, from an innermost layer to an outermost layer:
a first, innermost core layer, having an outer core surface;
a second, inner electrode layer, physically communicative with the outer core surface;
a third, inner dielectric material layer, physically communicative with the inner electrode layer;
a fourth, outer electrode layer, physically communicative with the inner dielectric material layer and electrically communicative with the inner electrode layer; and
a fifth, outermost dielectric material layer, physically communicative with the outer electrode layer;
wherein the sensor is reversibly deformable in response to a longitudinal force along the central axis.