Knit Gloves with Conductive Finger Pads

Abstract

The seamless knit glove has electrically conductive finger regions, either defined by pads or thread. The glove is worn by a user to enable operation of a capacitive touch screen on an electronic device. The seamless knit glove finger sleeves, anterior palm side and posterior “back side” are knit as a unitary structure which has a high degree of stretch. The glove needs no finger-linking operation to attach the sleeves to the anterior and posterior glove regions. In one, electrically conductive yarn is deployed over at least an anterior tip region of the thumb and the index finger sleeve to enable the user to activate a capacitive touch screen of an electronic device. The user's electrical skin condition is transferred via the conductive threads to the capacitive touch screen. In another, a multiplicity of printed-on conductive ink pads is disposed over the anterior surfaces of the thumb and index sleeves.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A seamless knit glove with electrically conductive finger regions adapted to be worn by a user to enable the user to operate an electronic device having a capacitive touch screen comprising: a seamless knit glove including finger sleeves, an anterior palm side glove region and a posterior glove region wherein the seamless glove is knitted in one piece by a single seamless glove making machine and wherein the glove needs no finger-linking operation to attach said finger sleeves to said anterior and posterior glove regions;
 one of said finger sleeves adapted to retain a thumb of said user and another of said finger sleeves adapted to retain an index finger of said user;   electrically conductive yarn deployed over at least an anterior tip-end region of said thumb sleeve and said index finger sleeve to enable said user to activate said capacitive touch screen of said electronic device;   wherein the seamless knit glove is made of about 5% stretch nylon to enable the glove to fit users from 4 years old to an adult and is a single size-fits-all.   
     
     
         2 . A seamless knit glove as claimed in  claim 1  wherein seamless glove is a 7 gauge fabric glove. 
     
     
         3 - 5 . (canceled) 
     
     
         6 . A seamless knit glove with electrically conductive finger regions adapted to be worn by a user to enable the user to operate an electronic device having a capacitive touch screen comprising:
 a seamless knit glove including finger sleeves, an anterior palm side glove region and a posterior glove region wherein the seamless glove is knitted in one piece by a single seamless glove making machine and wherein the glove needs no finger-linking operation to attach said finger sleeves to said anterior and posterior glove regions;   one of said finger sleeves adapted to retain a thumb of said user and another of said finger sleeves adapted to retain an index finger of said user;   a multiplicity of printed-on electrically conductive ink pads deployed over at least an anterior tip-end region of said thumb sleeve and said index finger sleeve to enable said user to activate said capacitive touch screen of said electronic device;   wherein the seamless knit glove is made of about 5% stretch nylon to enable the glove to fit users from 4 years old to an adult and is a single size-fits-all.   
     
     
         7 . A seamless knit glove as claimed in  claim 6  wherein said multiplicity of printed-on conductive ink pads includes a first multiplicity of conductive ink pads over substantially all of said anterior surface of said thumb sleeve and a second multiplicity of conductive ink pads over substantially all of said anterior surface of said index finger sleeve. 
     
     
         8 . A seamless knit glove as claimed in  claim 7  wherein glove includes:
 a third multiplicity of conductive ink pads over substantially all of said anterior surfaces of the remaining finger sleeves. 
 
     
     
         9 . A seamless knit glove as claimed in  claim 8  wherein glove includes:
 a fourth multiplicity of conductive ink pads over substantially all of the anterior surface of said palm side glove region. 
 
     
     
         10 . A seamless knit glove as claimed in  claim 6  wherein glove includes:
 a further multiplicity of conductive ink pads over substantially all of the anterior surface of said palm side glove region formed as an alphabetic symbol to uniquely identify the glove.