A fabric-based item such as a fabric glove may include force sensing circuitry. The force sensing circuitry may include force sensor elements formed from electrodes on a compressible substrate such as an elastomeric polymer substrate. The fabric may include intertwined strands of material including conductive strands. Signals from the force sensing circuitry may be conveyed to control circuitry in the item using the conductive strands. Wireless circuitry in the fabric-based item may be used to convey force sensor information to external equipment. The compressible substrate may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. Electrodes for the force sensor elements may be formed on the upper and lower surfaces. Stiffeners may overlap the electrodes to help decouple adjacent force sensor elements from each other. Integrated circuits can be attached to respective force sensing elements using adhesive.

A multilayer printed wiring board includes a core substrate, a first buildup layer, and a second buildup layer. The first buildup layer includes a first insulating layer and a first conductor layer alternately laminated with each other. The second buildup layer includes a second insulating layer and a second conductor layer alternately laminated with each other. The core substrate, the first insulating layer, and the second insulating layer each include a glass cloth. The glass cloth is woven with warp threads and weft threads. The warp threads each have a width narrower a width of each of the weft threads. Each of the warp threads constituting the glass cloth in the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer both lying adjacent to the core substrate is arranged perpendicular to each of the warp threads constituting the glass cloth in the core substrate.

An immersion weaving system includes a first drum immersed in a first bath of a liquid. The first drum is configured to form a glass strand from individual glass filaments. The immersion weaving system also includes a second drum immersed in the first bath of the liquid. The second drum is configured to form a yarn spool from the glass strand. The immersion weaving system further includes a loom immersed in a second bath of the liquid. The loom is configured to form a void-free glass cloth.

Provided is a glass cloth enabling to reduce a mass of the glass cloth, being manufactured efficiently, suppressing generation of pinholes in a prepreg including the glass cloth, and maintaining excellent appearance. The glass cloth is composed of warps and wefts obtained by bundling 30 to 44 glass filaments having a diameter in the range of 3.0 to 4.0 m, the weave densities of the warp and the weft being in the range of 100 to 125 yarns/25 mm; the glass cloth has a thickness in the range of 6.5 to 11.0 m; the glass yarn coverage C is 85.5 to 99.5%; and the glass yarn coverage C, the average value F of the number of glass filaments constituting the warp and the weft, and the average value D of the weave densities of the warp and the weft satisfy the following expression (1):

53.0CF.sup.1/2/D.sup.1/257.3 (1).

A fabric-based item may include a housing that is covered in fabric. Areas of the fabric may overlap input circuitry such as button switches, touch sensors, force sensors, proximity sensors, and other sensing circuitry and may overlap other components such as light-emitting components and haptic output devices. The fabric-based item may include control circuitry that gathers user input from the input circuitry and wireless communications circuitry that the control circuitry uses to transmit remote control commands and other wireless signals in response information from the input circuitry. The fabric-based item may have a weight that is located in the housing to orient the housing in a desired direction when the housing rests on a surface. A movable weight may tilt the housing in response to proximity sensor signals or other input. Portions of the fabric may overlap light-emitting components and optical fiber configured to emit light.

Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with substrate assemblies for computer devices are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a core for a substrate assembly includes a first metal region, a second metal region, and a dielectric region located between the first metal region and the second metal region. The dielectric region includes one or more fibers, wherein each of the one or more fibers includes aluminum, boron, silicon, or oxide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A fabric-based item may include a housing that is covered in fabric. Areas of the fabric may overlap input circuitry such as button switches, touch sensors, force sensors, proximity sensors, and other sensing circuitry and may overlap other components such as light-emitting components and haptic output devices. The fabric-based item may include control circuitry that gathers user input from the input circuitry and wireless communications circuitry that the control circuitry uses to transmit remote control commands and other wireless signals in response information from the input circuitry. The fabric-based item may have a weight that is located in the housing to orient the housing in a desired direction when the housing rests on a surface. A movable weight may tilt the housing in response to proximity sensor signals or other input. Portions of the fabric may overlap light-emitting components and optical fiber configured to emit light.

A wiring board includes: a support body including at least one woven fabric woven from weaving yarns that are each formed by bundling insulating fibers; and a conductive body supported by the support body. The conductive body includes a first conductive path disposed on a first main face of the support body and that extends in a planar direction of the first main face. The first conductive path includes at least one of a first conductor portion disposed in a basket hole of the woven fabric and a first intervening portion disposed in a gap between the insulating fibers.

A fabric-based item such as a fabric glove may include force sensing circuitry. The force sensing circuitry may include force sensor elements formed from electrodes on a compressible substrate such as an elastomeric polymer substrate. The fabric may include intertwined strands of material including conductive strands. Signals from the force sensing circuitry may be conveyed to control circuitry in the item using the conductive strands. Wireless circuitry in the fabric-based item may be used to convey force sensor information to external equipment. The compressible substrate may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. Electrodes for the force sensor elements may be formed on the upper and lower surfaces. Stiffeners may overlap the electrodes to help decouple adjacent force sensor elements from each other. Integrated circuits can be attached to respective force sensing elements using adhesive.

Provided is a glass fabric formed by weaving warp and weft glass yarns comprising a plurality of glass filaments, wherein the surface of the glass fabric is subjected to surface treatment with a surface treatment agent, and the total carbon extraction amount when the glass fabric is subjected to extraction with methanol is greater than 0 and not more than 0.25%.