Direct Printed Battery-On-flexible circuit boards for digital applications

适用于数字应用的直接印刷电池柔性电路板

• 批准号: 105735
• 金额: $ 47.18万
• 依托单位: REELABLES EUROPE, LTD.
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105735
• 关键词: Direct; Printed; Battery; flexible; circuit

When something goes missing at home, like your keys, it's an annoying program. When things get misplaced or lost at work, it's a real problem that costs businesses across the world a lot of money.In the course of everyday business, a growing new workforce of geographically disperse employees share use of things ranging from tools, demo kits, equipment for portable medical use, IT, or service truck-rolls, to boxes put into storage. When something goes missing, work doesn't get done. Production lines go down. Lives can even be at stake when medical equipment isn't where it's supposed to be.Reelables, a London-based start-up, has invented a smart label to make tracking things at work completely automatic. It simply peels and sticks like a barcode label. Employees gather information about assets at work with their phones running an app in the background. No scanning required. The unique software provides every employee the ability to know where all their things are at any moment. It also enables them to find things, see what their co-workers have, and when they had it.Existing asset tracking solutions on the market require a lot of work or are very costly to use and install. They range from simple barcode labels to very expensive GPS-enabled devices. RFID solutions, like barcodes, require manually going about scanning things or installing high power antennas in the ceiling or doorway. The Reelables smart label addresses a mid-range solution which allows for wider market implementation.The key innovation making this possible is a manufacturing process to form a battery directly alongside a wireless circuit on a thin plastic film. Initial working prototypes of the smart label are made on the same material used for ordinary potato crisp bags. However, the added cost and size of an external battery is the barrier to mass production.This feasibility study, in conjunction with the Centre for Process Innovation and Digital Catapult aims to demonstrate a game-changing new technology for forming a Battery-on-Circuit. The team intends to show that by electrochemically coating and laminating two plastic films together, an extremely low cost battery can be formed to power a wireless label for more than a year. The team further intends to demonstrate a host of new applications, business efficiencies, and use cases enabled by the innovation that in turn drives economic growth.

当家里有东西不见了，比如你的钥匙，这是一个烦人的程序。当工作中物品放错位置或丢失时，这是一个真实的问题，会让世界各地的企业付出大量金钱。在日常业务过程中，越来越多的新员工分散在不同的地理位置，共享从工具、演示套件、便携式医疗设备、IT或服务卡车卷到存放的箱子等各种物品。东西丢了，工作就没法完成。生产线被关闭。当医疗设备不在应有的位置时，甚至会危及生命。总部位于伦敦的初创公司Reelables发明了一种智能标签，可以完全自动跟踪工作中的物品。它只是像条形码标签一样剥离和粘贴。员工通过手机在后台运行应用程序来收集有关工作中资产的信息。无需扫描。独特的软件使每个员工都能够随时知道他们所有的东西在哪里。它还使他们能够找到东西，看看他们的同事有什么，当他们有它。市场上现有的资产跟踪解决方案需要大量的工作或非常昂贵的使用和安装。它们的范围从简单的条形码标签到非常昂贵的GPS设备。RFID解决方案，如条形码，需要手动扫描物品或在天花板或门口安装高功率天线。Reelables智能标签提供了一种中档解决方案，可以实现更广泛的市场应用。实现这一目标的关键创新是在薄塑料薄膜上直接与无线电路一起形成电池的制造工艺。最初的工作原型的智能标签是由相同的材料用于普通马铃薯脆袋。然而，外部电池增加的成本和尺寸是大规模生产的障碍。这项可行性研究与工艺创新和数字弹射器中心合作，旨在展示一种改变游戏规则的新技术，用于形成电池电路。该团队打算证明，通过电化学涂覆和层压两层塑料薄膜，可以形成一种极低成本的电池，为无线标签供电一年多。该团队还打算展示一系列新的应用程序，业务效率和创新所带来的用例，从而推动经济增长。