Flexible Smart Textile to PCB Connector for Emg EEG ECG Gsr Suit E Textile

• Type: Slimming Machine
• Theory: EMS
• Application: Salon, Home
• Portable: Portable
• Service: OEM ODM
• Condition: New
• Customized: Customized
• After Sales Service: Online Support
• Certification: CE, ISO, RoHS
• Transport Package: Carton
• Specification: Xxxs-Xxxl
• Trademark: Bodytech
• Origin: Guangzhou, China

Product Description

Wearable equipment is a generic term for "electronic devices that can be worn on the body or embedded in the body." Depending on their intended use, they can be broadly divided into two categories: devices that monitor and record physiological data such as heart rate, blood pressure,number of steps, sleep and calorie consumption; devices that enhance connectivity to the digital environment, such as smartwaches. Devices such as these will further strengthen and drive the wearable market forward in making them even more sophisticated, lighter, thinner, and smaller. In addition, smart-style devices which can be embedded within clothing enabling them to record and collect more advanced information while the person is exercising. The use of smart clothing is expected to expand in the medical sector for patient monitoring; considering electrocardiography and whole body motion sensing cannot be easily measured using smartwatches or similar devices.

Use Case

Textile manufacturers are focusing their efforts on the smart clothing business, which uses conductive materials, and are increasingly being used in a variety of applications. This Series supports more sophisticated bio-information monitoring equipment which require more than four electrodes, thanks to the batch-connection construction allowing all pins to be connected in a one-action operation.



Our modular sEMG suit is comprised of arm sleeves, shorts, and calf sleeves in order to access the bicep/tricep, quadriceps/hamstring, and tibialis anterior/gastrocnemius muscles (Fig. 1a). Each component of the suit was fabricated using the same materials and procedure, with variations only in the pattern of the base fabric and overlaying materials. The base composition of the arm sleeve is shown in Fig. 1b,c below, detailing the final top side configuration. The exterior of the sEMG sleeve was composed of four main layers: (i) a non-conductive high performance athletic base textile (see Supplementary Information), (ii) a patterned conductive layer, (iii) a flexible tab, and (iv) an adhesive backed protective thermoplastic polyurethane layer (Fig. 1b).


The finalized sEMG garment gathered electrical signals produced during muscle activation from the surface of the skin of the wearer, and carried them to a circuit board that amplifies and processes the electrical signals. The garment had multiple conductive CCSM based textile electrodes positioned on the inside surface to make contact with the skin over specific muscles and/or muscle groups. To ensure good contact to the skin, the fabric for the garment was cut to size for small, medium, or large individuals and a cushion was included underneath the internal electrode. These cushions added thickness at the measurement site and aided in local compression. Further, the thermoplastic polyurethane surrounding the electrode increases adhesion at the measurement cite to maintain contact during normal activity. With these design enhancements, the CCSM based electrodes exhibited favorable baseline noise and signal to noise ratios in comparison to conventional gel electrodes (see Supplementary Information). Once the sEMG signal is collected, it travels from the inside of the garment to the outside through a metallic snap fastener, then through a conductive textile interconnect that connects the sEMG sites to a single centrally-located site where the circuit board was mounted on the sleeve. Here, the outermost light layer of the Fig. 6b details the dimensions for the overlaid protective TPU and the innermost dark layer details the dimensions for the paired e-textile based interconnects. The Kapton flex printed connector was laminated to the sleeve at one end, with electrical pads in contact with the conductive textile interconnects. The other end of the Kapton flex connector was free-hanging and shaped to mate with a locking flexible printed connector (FPC) socket on the custom circuit board.

If you wish to develop a custom wearable suit, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
We will also explain the assembly method of the textile-side connector and FPC.