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US 12,655,548 · App. 18/021,619 · Granted Jun 16, 2026

Highly sensitive acoustic fabric including an acoustic fiber transducer

Inventors: Yoel Fink (Brookline, MA); Wei Yan (Singapore, SG)
Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Patent No.
US 12,655,548
App. No.
18/021,619
Granted
Jun 16, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The acoustic fiber transducer has a piezoelectric domain with Young's modulus, E piezo , and including a non-centrosymmetric crystalline-phase piezoelectric material and inorganic piezoelectric particles. At least one charge collector domain is in electrical connection with the piezoelectric domain and includes an electrically conductive material operative to collect electrical charge generated in the piezoelectric domain. At least one electrical conductor is in electrical contact with the at least one charge collector domain and includes an electrically conductive material operative to transport electrical charge from a charge collector domain to an end of the acoustic fiber transducer as an electrical signal indicative of input acoustic sound pressure on a matrix of textile fibers that includes the acoustic fiber transducer. Outer acoustic energy transmission material has a Young's modulus E trans , of 0.3 Pa-500 MPa, for matching vibrational modes of the textile fiber matrix. A ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 5 and about 70,000.

Claims (51)

1 . An acoustic fabric comprising:

a matrix of textile fibers, the matrix of textile fibers having a Young's modulus of at least about 1 GPa;

at least one acoustic fiber transducer, the acoustic fiber transducer physically coupled with the matrix of textile fibers with at least one of a coupler and a weave of the matrix of textile fibers; and

said acoustic fiber transducer comprising:

a piezoelectric domain disposed between a first end and a second end of the acoustic fiber transducer, the piezoelectric domain including a piezoelectric material that is in a microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline phase and including a population of inorganic piezoelectric particles dispersed in the microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline piezoelectric material, the piezoelectric domain having a Young's modulus, E piezo ;

at least one charge collector domain in electrical connection with said piezoelectric domain and including an electrically conductive material operative to collect electrical charge generated in said piezoelectric domain;

at least one electrical conductor in electrical contact with said at least one charge collector domain and including an electrically conductive material operative to transport electrical charge from said at least one charge collector domain to at least one of said first and second ends of said acoustic fiber transducer as an output of an electrical signal indicative of input acoustic sound pressure on the matrix of textile fibers and the acoustic fiber transducer; and

an outer electrically insulating acoustic energy transmission material encapsulating said piezoelectric domain, said charge collector domain, and said electric conductor between the first and second ends of the acoustic fiber transducer, said acoustic energy transmission material having a Young's modulus E trans , greater than about 0.3 Pa and less than about 500 MPa, for conformally matching vibrational modes of the matrix of textile fibers, and wherein a ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 5 and about 70,000.

2 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is greater than that for a sensitivity of at least about 1 mV in the output electrical signal for input acoustic sound pressure of no more than about 100 dB on the matrix of textile fibers and the acoustic fiber transducer.

3 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 1 and about 10,000.

4 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 10 and about 2,000.

5 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises at least two different textile fiber species, including a first textile fiber species having a first Young's modulus that is at least about 1 GPa and a second textile fiber species having a second Young's modulus that is less than about 1 GPa.

6 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises at least two different textile fiber species, including a first textile fiber species having a first Young's modulus that is at least about 25 GPa and a second textile fiber species including cotton fibers.

7 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises at least two different textile fiber species, including a first textile fiber species having a first Young's modulus that is at least about 1 GPa and a second textile fiber species including cotton fibers.

8 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises at least two different textile fiber species including a first textile fiber species selected from biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate fibers, para-aramid fibers, ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene fibers, polyparaphenylene terephthalamide fibers, and silk fibers, and a second textile fiber species having a second Young's modulus that is less than about 1 GPa.

9 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers has an area of at least about 20 square meters and wherein no more than about 0.2% of textile fiber matrix volume is acoustic fiber transducer.

10 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises a weave of textile fibers and wherein the physical coupling of the acoustic fiber transducer with the matrix of textile fibers comprises including the acoustic fiber transducer in the weave of textile fibers.

11 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises a weave of textile fibers and wherein the physical coupling of the acoustic fiber transducer with the matrix of textile fibers comprises attachment of the acoustic fiber transducer to at least one textile fiber by at least one fiber coupler.

12 . The acoustic fabric of claim 11 wherein the acoustic fiber transducer attachment to at least one textile fiber comprises a coupler selected from a sewing stitch, a knot, a fastener, a tie, and a connector.

13 . The acoustic fabric of claim 11 wherein the physical coupling of the acoustic fiber transducer with the matrix of textile fibers comprises attachment of the acoustic fiber transducer to at least one textile fiber by a plurality of couplers having a separation distance between adjacent couplers of no less than between about 1 cm and about 4 cm.

14 . The acoustic fabric of claim 11 wherein the physical coupling of the acoustic fiber transducer with the matrix of textile fibers comprises attachment of the acoustic fiber transducer to at least one textile fiber by a plurality of couplers having a separation distance between adjacent couplers of no less than about 2 cm.

15 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers is arranged as a human garment.

16 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the matrix of textile fibers comprises a weave of textile fibers including cotton textile fibers in one of weave weft and weave warp, including para-aramid fibers in one of the weave weft and weave warp, and including the acoustic fiber transducer in one of the weave weft and weave warp.

17 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the piezoelectric material that is in a microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline phase comprises P(VDF-TrFE) including between about 20 mol % and 45 mol % TrFE.

18 . The acoustic fiber of claim 1 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a weight fraction of piezoelectric β phase at least about 40%.

19 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a piezoelectric domain viscosity that is at least about 10 4 Pa·s less than a charge collector viscosity of the at least one charge collector domain at a common draw temperature of the piezoelectric domain and the charge collector domain.

20 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the acoustic fiber transducer has a neutral axis of strain in a cross section of the acoustic fiber transducer and wherein the piezoelectric domain, the at least one charge collector domain, and the at least one electrical conductor are disposed together at a site in the acoustic fiber transducer cross section that is between about ten microns and about 500 microns distant from the neutral axis of strain.

21 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a piezoelectric coefficient d 31 of at least about 60 pC/N and a piezoelectric coefficient d 33 of at least about 50 p C/N.

22 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the population of inorganic piezoelectric particles dispersed in the microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline piezoelectric material comprises between about 15 wt % and about 25 wt % BaTiO 3 particles.

23 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein said at least one charge collector domain comprises two charge collector domains, including a first charge collector domain directly adjacent to a first surface of the piezoelectric domain and a second charge collector domain directly adjacent to a second surface of the piezoelectric domain opposite the first surface, each of the first and second charge collector domains comprising a polymer-based domain selected from carbon-loaded polyethylene, carbon-loaded polycarbonate, and carbon loaded styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene.

24 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the at least one electrical conductor comprises at least two electrical conductors, and wherein each electrical conductor is embedded in a charge collector domain.

25 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the at least one electrical conductor comprises a copper wire.

26 . The acoustic fabric of claim 1 wherein the acoustic energy transmission material is a material selected from poly(styrene-b-(ethylene-co-butylene)-b-styrene), a two-phase block copolymer of a polydimethylsiloxane phase and an aliphatic isocyanate phase, a cyclic olefin copolymer elastomer, and a semicrystalline cyclic olefin copolymer elastomer.

27 . An acoustic fiber transducer comprising:

a piezoelectric domain disposed between a first end and a second end of the acoustic fiber transducer, the piezoelectric domain including a piezoelectric material that is in a microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline phase and including a population of inorganic piezoelectric particles dispersed in the microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline piezoelectric material, the piezoelectric domain having a Young's modulus, E piezo ;

at least one charge collector domain in electrical connection with said piezoelectric domain and including an electrically conductive material operative to collect electrical charge generated in said piezoelectric domain;

at least one electrical conductor in electrical contact with said at least one charge collector domain and including an electrically conductive material operative to transport electrical charge from said at least one charge collector domain to at least one of said first and second ends of said acoustic fiber transducer as an output of an electrical signal indicative of input acoustic sound pressure on the acoustic fiber transducer; and

an outer electrically insulating acoustic energy transmission material encapsulating said piezoelectric domain, said charge collector domain, and said electric conductor between the first and second ends of the acoustic fiber transducer, said acoustic energy transmission material having a Young's modulus E trans , greater than about 0.3 Pa and less than about 500 MPa, and wherein a ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 5 and about 70,000.

28 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is greater than that for a sensitivity of at least about 1 mV in the output electrical signal for input acoustic sound pressure of no more than about 100 dB on the acoustic fiber transducer.

29 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 1 and about 10,000.

30 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the ratio of E piezo /E trans is between about 10 and about 2,000.

31 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the piezoelectric material that is in a microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline phase comprises P(VDF-TrFE) including between about 20 mol % and 45 mol % TrFE.

32 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a weight fraction of piezoelectric β phase at least about 40%.

33 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a piezoelectric domain viscosity that is at least about 10 4 Pa·s less than a charge collector viscosity of the at least one charge collector domain at a common draw temperature of the piezoelectric domain and the charge collector domain.

34 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the acoustic fiber transducer has a neutral axis of strain in a cross section of the acoustic fiber transducer and wherein the piezoelectric domain, the at least one charge collector domain, and the at least one electrical conductor are disposed together at a site in the acoustic fiber transducer cross section that is between about ten microns and about 500 microns distant from the neutral axis of strain.

35 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the piezoelectric domain has a piezoelectric coefficient d 31 of at least about 60 pC/N and a piezoelectric coefficient d 33 of at least about 50 pC/N.

36 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the population of inorganic piezoelectric particles dispersed in the microscopic non-centrosymmetric crystalline piezoelectric material comprises between about 15 wt % and about 25 wt % BaTiO 3 particles.

37 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein said at least one charge collector domain comprises two charge collector domains, including a first charge collector domain directly adjacent to a first surface of the piezoelectric domain and a second charge collector domain directly adjacent to a second surface of the piezoelectric domain opposite the first surface, each of the first and second charge collector domains comprising a polymer-based domain selected from carbon-loaded polyethylene, carbon-loaded polycarbonate, and carbon loaded styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene.

38 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the at least one electrical conductor comprises at least two copper wires, and wherein each electrical conductor is embedded in a charge collector domain.

39 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the piezoelectric domain disposed between a first end and a second end of the acoustic fiber transducer, has a length of at least about 10 meters.

40 . The acoustic fiber transducer of claim 27 wherein the acoustic energy transmission material is a material selected from poly(styrene-b-(ethylene-co-butylene)-b-styrene), a two-phase block copolymer of a polydimethylsiloxane phase and an aliphatic isocyanate phase, a cyclic olefin copolymer elastomer, and a semicrystalline cyclic olefin copolymer elastomer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2026
From: FINK, YOEL, MR.; YAN, WEI, MR.
To: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Reel/Frame 073992/0046 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63076433 · Sep 10, 2020
Related Publication 20230304197A1 · Sep 28, 2023
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