Mechanical Safety of Embedded Electronics for In-body Wearables: A Smart Mouthguard Study.

ABSTRACT: The growing popularity of contact sports drives the requirement for better design of protective equipment, such as mouthguards. Smart mouthguards with embedded electronics provide a multitude of new ways to provide increased safety and protection to users. Characterisation of how electronic components embedded in typical mouthguard material, ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), behave under typical sports impacts is crucial for future designs. A novel pendulum impact rig using a hockey ball disc impactor was developed to investigate impact forces and component failure. Two sets of dental models (aluminium and plastic padding chemical metal) were used to manufacture post-thermoformed mouthguards. Seven embedding conditions with varying thickness of EVA (1.5 and 3 mm) and locations of electrical co

SUBMITTER: Bridgman H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647539 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature