Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Technology/Business Opportunity Flexible, Serpentine Circuits
Deadline: 24 Sep 2018
Posting Date: 31 Aug 2018
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 26164055
Document Ref. No.: FBO395-18
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: -
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Opportunity
lawrence livermore national laboratory (llnl), operated by the lawrence livermore national security (llns), llc under contract no. De-ac52-07na27344 (contract 44) with the u.s. Department of energy (doe), is offering the opportunity to license an innovative neurotechnology to further develop and commercialize.
Background
many types of devices are available in smaller, sleeker shapes, which require their internal electronics to flex, bend, and stretch as they do. The ability for circuits to stretch and bend allows them to fit into spaces where rigid printed circuit boards cannot. Flexible circuits also offer the advantage of being thinner and lighter, and examples of these can currently be found in implantable devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, and cochlear implants.
There has been a steady increase in patent filings since 2013 with regard to "smart clothing" (clothing that monitors the wearer's physical condition, providing biometric data such as pulse rate, temperature, muscle strength, heart rhythm and physical movement). Industrial facilities are looking to adopt smart clothing as a way to improve workers' efficiency, and both professional and casual athletes are looking for tools to monitor and record their workouts and progress. Additionally, developers are seeking better ways to incorporate electronics into clothing to help monitor the daily activities of many kinds of potential users- from young children to the elderly- for both health and safety information.
Description
il11169: serpentine and corduroy circuits to enhance the stretchability of a stretchable electronic device (us patents 7, 265, 298 and 7, 871, 661)
il11206: stretchable polymer-based electronic device (us patent 7, 337, 012)
this invention has a central longitudinal axis and is a stretchable polymer body in a longitudinal direction. Within the polymer is a circuit line extending in the longitudinal direction with an offset component...
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