Resistance Welding in Smart Textile

With the growing Smart Textile industry, there is currently increasing interest in mapping the possibilities and quality of contacting embroidered conductive patterns. This paper deals with one of the contacting options currently in use, the method of resistance welding. Furthermore, the paper deals with the testing of these realized samples. All created specimens went through a dry heat test, thermal cycling test and washing test. Tests were designed to determine the resistivity of each pattern against both thermal and mechanical stresses.