Modular stretchable and flexible capacitance sensors for use with electrical capacitance volume tomography and capacitance sensing applications

摘要

A flexible capacitance sensor having multiple layers for communicating signals to a data acquisition system for reconstructing an image of an area or object located in a subject being sensed, the flexible capacitance sensor having a flexible layer of capacitance plates; a flexible shielding ground layer next to the layer of capacitance plates; a flexible layer of signal traces next to the shielding ground layer, where the layer of signal traces has a plurality of trace lines; and where the capacitance sensor is flexible and adapted to be wrapped around the subject being sensed. The sensor is adapted to communicate signals via the plurality of trace lines to a data acquisition system for providing an image of the area or object between the capacitance plates.

主权项

1. A flexible capacitance sensor having multiple layers for communicating signals to a data acquisition system for reconstructing an image of an area or object located in a subject being sensed, comprised of:
a flexible layer of capacitance plates; a flexible shielding ground layer next to the layer of capacitance plates; a flexible layer of signal traces next to the shielding ground layer, the layer of signal traces having plurality of trace lines; wherein the capacitance sensor is flexible and adapted to be wrapped around the subject being sensed; wherein the capacitance plates in the flexible layer of capacitance plates are individually addressable; wherein the sensor is adapted to communicate signals via the plurality of trace lines to the data acquisition system for providing an image of the area or object between the capacitance plates.