Patent Application
20210045466
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The disclosure relates to protection devices and more particularly pertains to a new protection device for reducing electrostatic discharge between a user and electronic equipment.
The prior art relates to protection devices.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shirt that is worn on a user when the user is working with electronic equipment which is sensitive to electrostatic discharge. A set of first insulators is provided and each of the first insulators is woven into fabric of the shirt. Each of the first insulators is comprised of an electrically capacitive material to absorb static electrical energy in the user's body. A set of second insulators is provided and each of the second set of insulators is woven into fabric of the shirt. Each of the second insulators is comprised of an electrically insulating material. Thus, the second insulators inhibit electrical communication between the electronic device and the first insulators. In this way the potential for electrostatic discharge between the user and the electronic device is reduced.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A set of first insulators 30 is provided and each of the first insulators 30 is woven into fabric of the shirt 12. Moreover, each of the first insulators 30 is integrated into the inside surface 26 of the shirt 12. In this way each of the first insulators 30 is in electrical communication with the user's body when the shirt 12 is worn. Each of the first insulators 30 is comprised of an electrically capacitive material to absorb static electrical energy in the user's body. The first insulators 30 are distributed around the bottom edge 20 of the body portion 16, around the cuff 22 of each of the sleeves 18 and on the elbow 24 of each of the sleeves 18. Moreover, the first insulators 30 are comprised of a flexible material so as not to interfere with the user's range of motion while the shirt 12 is worn.
A set of second insulators 32 is provided and each of the second set of insulators is woven into fabric of the shirt 12. Each of the second insulators 32 is integrated into the outside surface 28 of the shirt 12. In this way each of the second insulators 32 may be in electrical communication with the electronic equipment 14 when the electronic equipment 14 touches the shirt 12. Each of the second insulators 32 is comprised of a flexible material so as not to interfere with the user's range of motion while the shirt 12 is worn.
Each of the second insulators 32 is comprised of an electrically insulating material. In this way the second insulators 32 inhibit electrical communication between the electronic device 14 and the first insulators 30. Thus, the first insulators 30 and the second insulators 32 reduce the potential for electrostatic discharge between the user and the electronic device 14. The second insulators 32 are distributed around the bottom edge 20 of the body portion 16, the cuff 22 of each of the sleeves 18 and the elbow 24 of each of the sleeve. In an alternative embodiment 34 as shown in
In use, the shirt 12 is worn when the user will be working with electronic equipment 14 that is sensitive to electrostatic discharge. Each of the first insulators 30 absorbs static electrical energy from the user's body. Additionally, each of the second insulators 32 inhibits the electronic device 14 from being in electrical communication with the first insulators 30. In this way the electronic equipment 14 is protected from being exposed to static electrical energy from the user's body.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
