Hydro-wear developed for extreme marathon runners (German) (Hydro-Wear fur Ultra-marathonathleten entwickelt)

A loss of just 1 litre of liquid from the body can increase the heart rate by 8 beats/min, and this can happen within half-an-hour, depending on the type of sport, hydro Reservoir Wear (HRW) refers to functional outerwear and sportswear featuring integrated hydropads, which are ergonomically engineered to suit the shape of the body. A dri..

Can a Tablecloth Play Music?

SOFTswitch technology combines light weight conductive fabrics with a thin layer of composite materials featuring digital and analog electronic responses. Invisible switches and sensors respond to basic on/off controls or pressure controlled proportional electronic responses. SOFTswitch fabrics operate in temperature ranges of 20 to 100 d..

Goretex Crimp Design for Oxygen Sensors

A Gore Tex membrane over the breather holes between two cylindrical metal shields provides the necessary water resistance and breathability for an oxygen sensor. Designing the crimp die to introduce a natural squeeze effect achieves a consistent tight fit between the ceramic core and the inner shield. A as segment die has three tight spot..

Smart Textiles.

Increasing production of intelligent fabrics will create added value markets in the domestic textile and apparel industries. Passive intelligent fabrics, which react to environmental conditions, frequently contain optical fiber sensors that measure strain, temperature, displacement, chemical concentration, acceleration, pressure, electric..

Toray's High Multi-compact Woven Fabirc

Toray Industries Incorporated’s Artirosa fabric combines supple polyester microfibers and nylon filament yarns in a high density woven fabric featuring 400 threads of warp and filling yarns per square inch. The high density polyester microfiber surface creates a water and wind resistant layer that is soft and comfortable and has a microp..

Smart Clothes Powered by Body Heat

Infineon Technologies’s thermoelectric generator silicon based chips are low cost, environmentally friendly devices that generate power from body heat. Thermogenerators integrated into fabric with water resistant encapsulation feature small copper plates placed at the warm and cold ends of a thermocouple for connection to outside monitor..

Worldwide manufactured fiber capacity survey: 1998 to 2003

The 2001 world Survey of producing capacity was completed in the second quarter of 2002 and reports actual capacity as of March 2002 plus projected capacity for December 2003. In the 2001 survey the outlook for expansion of synthetic fiber capacity calls for capacities to increase between March 2001 and December 2003 as follows: acrylic u..

Hi-tech fabrics at JIAM

The Japan international Apparel Machinery (JIAM) show was held in mid-May 2002 in Osaka, Japan. This review some of the seminars includes one on biodegradable fibre given by one of the original researchers who developed “Lactron”, a biodegradable synthetic fibre made from polyactic acid derived from corn starch. The fibre has characteri..

Yarn and fabric innovations for high-tech clothing (German) (Garn-und Gewebeinnovationen fur Hochtechnologie-Bekleidung)

Many German producers are increasingly concentrating on producing high-tech clothing in the face of massive competition from low-wage-cost countries. Some of the latest developments include smart textiles, which are specially constructed textile structures which, in addition to their usual apparel functions, also fulfil additional functio..

Nerves for smart clothing - Optical fibre sensors and their responses

Deals with the optical responses of fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors under different modes of deformation. It derives both the polarization states and reflection spectra of FBGs based on coupled mode equations by considering the deformation perturbations. It conducts numeric simulations, finds that the experimental results agree well wit..