Market Assessment Application for Method of Fabricating Flexible Pressure Sensors

将进行一项市场研究，以评估将制造柔性电子压力传感器的新成本效益制造方法商业化的可行性。柔性传感器被认为是包括柔性压力传感器在内的当前颠覆性技术之一。其核心灵感来自于柔性压力传感器可以在任意弯曲情况下保持其压力灵敏度，从而提供保形压力测量。因此，该技术在汽车、人机界面、智能座椅、软机器人、消费电子和健康监测等市场领域得到了广泛的新兴应用。随着近年来对柔性压力传感器成本效益制造的需求激增，许多新的材料设计和设备制造方法正在通过操纵材料成分，机械和电气性能来证明。我们的技术在制造基于电（电容）测量的固有柔性，可拉伸和合格的压力传感器方面优于当前技术。这项新的临时专利技术具有可扩展性，制造成本效益高，灵敏度高，特别是在高压环境下。预计制造不需要任何专门的设备或使用专门的微加工设施。与以前制造柔性和可拉伸压力传感器的方法相比，该技术依赖于简单，超低成本的成型硅氧烷基材料（介电材料），从而大大降低了制造成本和时间。这项技术将在多个领域得到应用，包括；恶劣环境下的压力监测，轮胎、胎面、座椅和其他汽车部件的压力监测，机器人的压力传感，人机交互的触摸屏压力传感。目前，压力传感器市场是一个价值数十亿美元的产业，预计将继续增长。申请机构须进行市场研究，以更详细地了解和确定其技术的不同行业和潜在市场机会，并与业界主要持份者验证其价值主张。

A market study will be conducted to assess the viability of commercializing a new cost effective manufacturing method for fabricating flexible electronic pressure sensors. Flexible sensors are considered one of the current disruptive technologies that include flexible pressure sensors. The core inspiration comes from the fact that flexible pressure sensor can maintain its pressure sensitivity with any arbitrary bending thus providing conformal pressure measurement. Therefore, the technology is finding a wide range of emerging applications in market sectors such in automotive, human-machine interface, smart seat, soft robotics, consumer electronics and health monitoring. With the recent surge in demand for cost effective manufacturing of flexible pressure sensors, many new material design and device fabrication methods are being demonstrated by manipulating material composition, mechanical and electrical properties. Our technology benefits over current technologies on the fabrication of intrinsically flexible, stretchable and conformable pressure sensors based on electrical (capacitive) measurements. This new, provisionally patented technology is scaleable, cost effective to manufacture, and highly sensitive, especially at high pressure regimes. Manufacturing is not anticipated to require any specialized equipment or access to specialized microfabrication facilities. In contrast to previous methods to fabricate flexible and stretchable pressure sensors, this technology relies on simple, ultra low-cost molding to pattern siloxane-based materials (dielectric) thus considerably reducing manufacturing cost and time. This technology will find applications in multiple sectors including; monitoring of pressure in harsh environments, monitoring of pressure in tires, treads, seats and other automotive components, pressure sensing for robotics, touch panel pressure sensing for human machine interaction. At present, the pressure sensor market is a multi-billion dollar industry and is projected to continue growing. The applicants seek to pursue a market study to understand and identify the various sectors and the potential market opportunity for their technology in greater detail, and to validate the value proposition with industry key stakeholders.