US 12,366,017 B2
Touch-sensitive cord
Tong Wu, Mountain View, CA (US); Ivan Poupyrev, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Xiaoyu Guo, Santa Clara, CA (US); Shiho Fukuhara, Tokyo (JP); Shozo Harada, Tokyo (JP); and Adam Bernstein, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 18/010,327
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/046813
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/040491, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/068,742, filed on Aug. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0279589 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. D04C 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC D04C 1/02 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04164 (2019.05); D10B 2401/16 (2013.01); D10B 2401/18 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04103 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An interactive cord, comprising:
a plurality of non-conductive lines;
a plurality of conductive lines at least partially arranged with one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines to form at least a portion of the interactive cord, the interactive cord comprising an outer layer, wherein
the plurality of conductive lines is arranged together with the one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines along a first longitudinal portion of the interactive cord to form a touch-sensitive area along the first longitudinal portion of the interactive cord,
the plurality of conductive lines is arranged along a second longitudinal portion of the interactive cord such that the plurality of conductive lines are not exposed along an outer surface of the outer layer to form a non-touch-sensitive area along the second longitudinal portion of the interactive cord, and
the plurality of conductive lines is arranged together with the one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines along a third longitudinal portion, and wherein the second longitudinal portion is arranged between the first longitudinal portion and the third longitudinal portion with respect to a longitudinal direction of the interactive cord, and the third longitudinal portion is open along the longitudinal direction to form a pair longitudinal edges of the outer layer that extend in the longitudinal direction of the interactive cord;
an internal conductive line extending through the outer layer without being exposed along the outer surface of the outer layer within the first longitudinal portion or the second longitudinal portion of the interactive cord; and
an aglet electrically connected with the internal conductive line.