阅读说明：本技术 智能吸湿感测材、其湿度管理系统与应用 (Intelligent moisture absorption sensing material, humidity management system and application thereof ) 是由 胡衍荣 郑国彬 于 2018-08-22 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供智能吸湿感测材、其湿度管理系统与应用,智能吸湿感测材包含一基材,该基材具有可挠曲或拉伸、压缩特性；以及至少二导电条间隔排列并附着于该基材的表面；各导电条以多个电导通单元所组成,使该导电条以非实心但连续电导通的状态附着于该基材的表面；本发明利用结构/图形设计来克服导电银胶延伸性不佳、容易龟裂与成本过高的问题,并在不影响导电性的情况下,进一步减少导电银胶的用量及延长保存与使用时间,兼顾导电效果与成本效应,为一创新、实用与优化的发明创造。(The invention provides an intelligent moisture absorption sensing material, a humidity management system and application thereof, wherein the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material comprises a base material, and the base material has the characteristics of flexibility, stretching and compression; and at least two conducting strips are arranged at intervals and attached to the surface of the base material; each conductive strip is composed of a plurality of electric conduction units, so that the conductive strip is attached to the surface of the substrate in a non-solid but continuous electric conduction state; the invention utilizes the structure/graphic design to overcome the problems of poor extensibility, easy cracking and high cost of the conductive silver adhesive, further reduces the consumption of the conductive silver adhesive, prolongs the storage and use time and considers the conductive effect and the cost effect under the condition of not influencing the conductivity, and is an innovative, practical and optimized invention.)

1. An intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material, comprising:

a substrate having flexible, tensile or compressive properties; and

at least two conductive strips are arranged at intervals and attached to the surface of the substrate, and each conductive strip is composed of a plurality of electric conduction units, so that the conductive strips are attached to the surface of the substrate in a non-solid but continuous electric conduction state.

2. The intelligent moisture sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrical conduction unit has tensile, bending and/or compressive properties in the length, width or thickness direction of the conductive strip.

3. The intelligent moisture-absorption sensor material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the electrically conducting unit is a grid or a totem, wherein:

the grid comprises a square grid, an oblique square grid, a bifilar spiral grid, a sawtooth staggered grid or a square wave staggered grid; and the totem comprises a single-strand spiral, saw tooth, or square wave.

4. The smart moisture absorption sensor according to claim 1, wherein:

the substrate is a polymer film, a sheet, a fabric or a non-woven fabric; and

the fabric comprises a woven or knitted fabric;

the material of the electric conduction unit comprises conductive silver adhesive, conductive copper adhesive, conductive carbon nanotube adhesive, conductive graphene adhesive, conductive carbon black adhesive or conductive polymer, and the electric conduction unit is attached to the surface of the substrate in a printing, physical sputtering, chemical sputtering or 3D printing mode.

5. The smart moisture absorption sensor according to claim 1, wherein:

the line width of the conductive strips is more than 0.15mm, and the distance between the conductive strips is more than 0.1 mm; and

the wire diameter of the electrically conducting unit is 100nm or more.

6. The intelligent moisture sensor of claim 1, wherein the conductive strip is disposed on the surface of the substrate in a curved line, a saw-tooth shape, a concentric circle or a curved line.

7. A humidity management system for intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material, comprising the intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material as claimed in any one of claims 1-6 and a humidity management module electrically connected to the intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material, wherein the humidity management module comprises:

the receiving interface unit receives the resistance values of at least two conductive strips of the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material and outputs signals;

a micro central processing unit, which receives the output signal of the resistance value from the receiving interface unit and judges the output signal; and

an output interface unit, which makes the output interface unit output reaction.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the humidity management module is electrically connected to at least two conductive strips of the smart wetness sensing material by an adhesive, a button connector or a clip connector.

9. A humidity management system of an intelligent moisture sensor as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein:

the response output by the output interface unit comprises starting the LED lamp, vibrating, a buzzer or generating an electronic signal; and

the electronic signal generated by the output interface unit comprises a WI-FI or Bluetooth communication mode.

10. An intelligent dressing comprising the intelligent moisture-absorbing sensing material of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.

11. An intelligent diaper comprising the intelligent wetness sensing material of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.

12. An intelligent diaper comprising the intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.

13. An intelligent diaper comprising the intelligent moisture-absorbing sensor material according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.

Technical Field

A moisture absorption sensing material, in particular to an intelligent moisture absorption sensing material with a humidity management function.

Background

The blood and suppuration on the wound can cause the phenomenon of re-deterioration, and can cause ulcer and rot in severe conditions, even danger such as amputation or septic shock; the diaper should be changed regularly to avoid bedsore, skin allergy or uncomfortable feeling for the ill-disposed patients and the uroclepsia patients, and the nursing staff should pay attention to the dressing of the patients and the wounded or the state of the diaper for the ill-disposed patients and the uroclepsia patients at any time and change the dressing and the diaper at any time to avoid the above situations.

However, under the condition of serious imbalance of medical conditions and insufficient medical care personnel, it is difficult to frequently pay attention to the status of each patient, which results in endless medical disputes and aggravation, and further greatly reduces the medical quality due to the shortage of medical care personnel and overtime work.

At present, although manufacturers provide a solution to this problem, for example, sensing lines made of conductive silver adhesive are arranged on the dressing material and the diaper to sense the humidity state of the dressing material, and then a warning signal is sent out by the change of the humidity state to prompt medical staff to change the dressing material and the diaper, the existing sensing lines are all solid printed, the extensibility of the conductive silver adhesive is not good, cracks may be generated along with the flexing or stretching of the dressing material, the electric conduction effect is reduced, the sensing quality is affected, and the sensing lines which are solid printed are more in material, higher in cost and difficult to store.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problems that medical personnel cannot pay attention to the state of each wounded person or diaper frequently due to serious medical imbalance at present, and the sensing lines of the dressing and the diaper with the sensing function cannot crack along with the bending or stretching degree of the dressing or the diaper, so that the sensing quality is influenced, the invention provides an intelligent moisture absorption sensing material, which comprises: a substrate having flexible, tensile or compressive properties; and at least two conductive strips arranged at intervals and attached to the surface of the substrate, wherein each conductive strip is composed of a plurality of electrically conductive units, so that the conductive strips are attached to the surface of the substrate in a non-solid but continuous electrically conductive state.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the electrically conductive unit has a stretch property in a length, width or thickness direction of the conductive strip.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the electrically conducting unit is a grid or a totem, wherein: the grid comprises a square grid, an oblique square grid, a bifilar spiral grid, a sawtooth staggered grid or a square wave staggered grid; and the totem comprises a single-strand spiral, saw tooth, or square wave.

As a further improvement of the invention, the base material is a polymer film, a sheet, a woven fabric, a knitted fabric or a non-woven fabric; and the material of the electric conduction unit comprises conductive silver adhesive, conductive copper adhesive, conductive Carbon Nanotube (CNT) adhesive, conductive graphene adhesive, conductive carbon black adhesive or conductive polymer, and the electric conduction unit is attached to the surface of the substrate in a printing, physical sputtering (PVD), chemical sputtering (CVD) or 3D printing mode.

As a further improvement of the invention, the line width of the conductive strips is more than 0.15mm, and the distance between the conductive strips is more than 0.1 mm; and the wire diameter of the electric conduction unit is more than 100 nm.

As a further improvement of the invention, the conductive strips are arranged on the surface of the substrate in an arc, a sawtooth shape, a concentric circle or a curve.

The invention further provides a humidity management system of the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material, which comprises the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material and a humidity management module electrically connected with the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material, wherein the humidity management module comprises: the receiving interface unit receives the resistance values of at least two conductive strips of the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material and outputs signals; a micro central processing unit (MCU) for receiving the output signal of the resistance value from the receiving interface unit and judging; and an output interface unit, the micro central processing unit makes the output interface unit output reaction.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the humidity management module is electrically connected to at least two conductive strips of the intelligent moisture sensor by using an adhesive, a button connector or a clip connector.

As a further improvement of the invention, the response output by the output interface unit comprises activating an LED lamp, vibrating, Buzzer (Buzzer) or generating an electronic signal.

As a further improvement of the invention, the electronic signal generated by the output interface unit comprises an output mode such as WI-FI or Bluetooth.

Further, the invention provides an intelligent dressing material, an intelligent diaper and an intelligent diaper, which comprise the intelligent moisture absorption sensing material.

As can be seen from the above description, the present invention has the following advantages:

1. the invention can automatically sense the humidity conditions of intelligent moisture absorption sensing materials, such as dressing materials and diapers and feed back to medical staff, so that the medical staff does not need to spend a great deal of effort on watching the states of different patients, thereby not only reducing medical disputes and avoiding the problem of aggravation of diseases, but also lightening the workload of the medical staff, improving the comfort of the patients, increasing the medical quality, and even greatly improving the comfort of the patients and the degree of movement of the respected patients.

2. The invention is characterized in that the conductive strip is attached to the surface of the base material in a non-solid but continuous electric conduction state, and the conductive strip has the characteristics of stretching, bending and compression in the length direction, the width direction or the thickness direction, the problems of poor extensibility, easy cracking and overhigh material cost of the conductive silver adhesive are solved by utilizing the structure/graph design, the consumption of the conductive silver adhesive is further reduced, the storage and use time is prolonged under the condition of not influencing the electric conductivity, the electric conduction and the cost effect are considered, and the invention is innovative, optimized and practical.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a first preferred embodiment of the intelligent moisture sensor of the present invention;

FIGS. 2a to 2j are schematic views of preferred embodiments of the electrical conduction unit;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an intelligent moisture sensor moisture management system according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a graph showing the resistance change rate and the diffusion area caused by water drops in a 50ml water drop test according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a graph showing the variation of resistance due to stretching in the present invention.

Description of the symbols:

10 intelligent moisture absorption sensing material

11 base material

12 conductive strip

121 electrically conducting unit

20 humidity management module

21 receiving interface unit

22 micro central processing unit (MCU)

23 output interface unit

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1, a preferred embodiment of the smart wetness sensing device 10 of the present invention comprises a substrate 11 and at least two conductive strips 12 arranged at intervals and attached to a surface of the substrate 11, wherein the substrate 11 has a flexible, stretchable or compressible characteristic, and the conductive strips 12 are formed by a plurality of electrically conductive units 121, such that the conductive strips 12 are attached to the surface of the substrate 11 in a non-solid but continuous electrically conductive state.

By non-solid, it is meant that the electrically conductive elements 121 of the conductive strip 12 may be in the form of a grid or a totem, and the grid or totem formed by the electrically conductive elements 121 preferably has a stretch property in at least the length, width and/or thickness direction of the conductive strip 12. As shown in fig. 2, when the electrical conduction unit 121 is in a grid form, the pattern may include a square grid (fig. 2a), an oblique square grid (fig. 2b), a bifilar spiral grid (fig. 2c, fig. 2i), a zigzag grid (fig. 2d), or a square wave zigzag grid (fig. 2e, fig. 2j), and when the electrical conduction unit 121 is in a totem form, the pattern may include a single-strand spiral (fig. 2f), a zigzag grid (fig. 2g), or a square wave (fig. 2 h). The form of the conductive unit 121 is only an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention to be presented only in the form of the grid or totem, and it is within the scope of the present invention that the conductive strip 12 is non-solid and continuously conductive and has stretching, bending or compressing characteristics in the length, width and/or thickness direction. In addition, due to the moisture diffusion trace, the at least two conductive strips 12 of the present invention are preferably disposed on the surface of the substrate 11 in the form of an arc, a zigzag, a concentric circle or a curve, so as to achieve the best sensing effect.

The substrate 11 is a polymer film, a sheet, a woven fabric or a non-woven fabric, the woven fabric may include woven fabric or knitted fabric, the material of the electrical conduction unit 121 includes conductive silver glue, conductive copper glue, conductive carbon nanotube glue (CNT), conductive graphene glue, conductive carbon black glue or conductive polymer, and is preferably attached to the surface of the substrate 11 by printing, physical sputtering (PVD), chemical sputtering (CVD) or 3D printing, and the printing includes screen printing.

The width of the conductive strip 12 formed by the plurality of conductive units 121 is preferably greater than or equal to 0.15mm or greater than or equal to 0.3mm, and the distance between the conductive lines 12 is preferably greater than or equal to 0.1 mm; the wire diameter of the electrical conduction unit 121 is preferably over 100nm (physical sputtering, chemical sputtering or 3D printing) or over 0.1mm (printing) according to different processes.

As shown in fig. 3, the intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material 10 of the present invention is further electrically connected to a humidity management module 20, the humidity management module 20 includes a receiving interface unit 21, a micro-processing unit (MCU)22 and an output interface unit 23, which are electrically connected to each other, the receiving interface unit 21 receives the resistance values of at least two conductive strips 12 of the intelligent moisture-absorption sensing material 10 and transmits the resistance values to the micro-cpu 22, and the micro-cpu 22 makes the output interface unit 23 output a response when determining that the change of the resistance values reaches a Threshold value (Threshold).

The humidity management module 20 of the present invention senses the moisture state of the intelligent moisture sensor 10 through at least two conductive strips 12, for example, when the diaper is applied to a dry diaper, the resistance value measured by the at least two conductive strips 12 is infinite because there is no conductive loop, and when the diaper absorbs moisture to a certain degree, the resistance value is from 10⁴Omega rises to 5 x 10⁴k Ω (as shown in FIG. 4), the resistance of tap water of high quality is about 10⁴～10⁵Ω, the receiving interface unit 21 receives the signal with the increased resistance value and transmits it to the micro-cpu 22, so that the output interface unit 23 outputs the response.

The intelligent moisture sensor 10 and the humidity management module 20 can be electrically connected by using a conventional technique, such as an adhesive, a button connector or a clip connector, and are electrically connected to the humidity management module 20. When the button-type connector is used, the female button portion needs to be fixed on the conductive strip 12, the male button portion needs to be welded with one end of the conductive wire, and the other end of the conductive wire is connected with the humidity management module 20; the clip connector can be directly clipped on the conductive strip 12 and then connected to the humidity management module 20 through a conductive wire.

The reaction output by the output interface unit 23 may include the activation of an LED lamp, vibration, Buzzer (Buzzer), or the generation of an electronic signal to directly prompt the indication that the dressing needs to be replaced, or the generation of an electronic signal to be sent to a nursing station, a doctor's mobile phone, a family's mobile phone, a specific caregiver, or a professional via a Micro Control Unit (MCU) monitoring management and WI-FI or bluetooth communication mechanism, so as to monitor the humidity state of the intelligent moisture-absorbing sensing member 10 or diaper in real time for replacement at the right time.

The intelligent moisture absorption sensing material 10 can be a gauze dressing for covering a wound, and can also be a wrapping material for receiving and absorbing body fluid of a human body, such as a diaper, a diaper pant, a sanitary napkin or a protection pad. When the invention is used as dressing, diaper pants, sanitary napkin, diaper or protective pad, the invention can be further laminated with other absorbing materials or coating materials according to the requirements, but is not limited in this respect.

Next, to confirm that the conductive strip 12 of the present invention, which is not solid and is electrically continuous, does have the claimed efficacy, the following provides a preferred embodiment and provides a data graph related to the detection.

[ example one ]

Base material 11: a polymeric nonwoven fabric;

conductive silver paste: the silver particles D50 is 2.5 μm, and the solid content is 58 + -2%.

Two conductive strips 12: the screen printing line diameter of the plurality of conductance units 121 is 0.5mm, the line pitch is 0.5mm, and the screen printing plate of 250Mesh is subjected to drying heat treatment at 150 ℃ for 3 to 5 minutes after screen printing, and then the surface is dried by using an infrared heating furnace.

The resistance change rate and the diffusion area of the invention when 50ml of water is dropped are tested, and the resistance value and the diffusion area tend to increase along with the increase of time, as shown in figure 4. Further, the invention can display the signal of the LED warning within 1.0 second in a sensitivity test, and has high sensitivity.

As shown in FIG. 5, which is a graph showing the variation of the resistance value of the stretching of the present invention, it can be seen from FIG. 5 that the resistance value of the present invention is maintained in a stable state even though it is slightly increased (between 3.5. omega. and 6.0. omega.) during the stretching of the base material 11.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, which is claimed, and all other equivalent changes and modifications that do not depart from the spirit of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.