1890results about "Textile decoration" patented technology

A fabric, in the form of a woven or knitted fabric or garment, including a flexible information infrastructure integrated within the fabric for collecting, processing, transmitting and receiving information concerning-but not limited to-a wearer of the fabric. The fabric allows a new way to customize information processing devices to "fit" the wearer by selecting and plugging in (or removing) chips/sensors from the fabric thus creating a wearable, mobile information infrastructure that can operate in a stand-alone or networked mode. The fabric can be provided with sensors for monitoring physical aspects of the wearer, for example body vital signs, such as heart rate, EKG, pulse, respiration rate, temperature, voice, and allergic reaction, as well as penetration of the fabric. The fabric consists of a base fabric ("comfort component"), and an information infrastructure component which can consist of a penetration detection component, or an electrical conductive component, or both. The preferred penetration detection component is a sheathed optical fiber. The information infrastructure component can include, in addition to an electrically conductive textile yarn, a sensor or a connector for a sensor. A process is provided for making an electrical interconnection between intersecting electrically conductive yarns. Furthermore, a process is established for sheathing the plastic optical fiber and protecting it.

A method of manufacturing a fabric article to include electronic circuitry in which a flex circuit is assembled to include conductive traces and pads on a flexible substrate, a fabric article is placed on a rigid surface, and the substrate of the flex circuit is secured to the fabric article. Also disclosed is a fabric article which includes electronic circuitry and an electrically active textile article.

Methods and devices for producing images on coated articles are provided. The methods generally comprise applying a layer of magnetizable pigment coating in liquid form on a substrate, with the magnetizable pigment coating containing a plurality of magnetic non-spherical particles or flakes. A magnetic field is then applied to selected regions of the pigment coating while the coating is in liquid form, with the magnetic field altering the orientation of selected magnetic particles or flakes. Finally, the pigment coating is solidified, affixing the reoriented particles or flakes in a non-parallel position to the surface of the pigment coating to produce an image such as a three dimensional-like image on the surface of the coating. The pigment coating can contain various interference or non-interference magnetic particles or flakes, such as magnetic color shifting pigments.

The invention comprises a full-fashioned weaving process for the production of a woven garment which can accommodate and include sleeves. The garment is made of only one, single integrated fabric and has no discontinuities or seams. Additionally, the garment can include intelligence capability, such as the ability to monitor one or more body vital signs, or garment penetration, or both, by including a selected sensing component or components in the weave of the garment.

A fibrous substrate having a first side and a second side, the substrate comprising discrete densified portions on the first side, at least one of the discrete densified portions comprising a colored portion, the colored portion comprising solid residue of a liquid colored substrate applied to fibers of the second side.

A method is provided of generating a pattern image used to form a pattern on a surface of a fabric using laser irradiation. A plurality of parameters associated with laser irradiation units are input into a user interface. The parameters include an area parameter, a laser irradiation unit density parameter, optionally a discontinuity parameter, and a dye removal parameter. A plurality of laser irradiation units arranged in a pattern area of a user interface based on computer processing of the inputted plurality of parameters is received for viewing at the user interface. The laser irradiation units collectively establish the pattern image for viewing by the user.

An interactive-design garment which has heat-affixed thereto a flexible substrate formed of a laminate including a layer of plastisol ink which includes a primary graphic image therein of a particular theme and a plurality of flexible PVC sheet appliques which have secondary graphic images thereon and are positionable onto the substrate by a user to cooperate artistically with the graphic theme of said substrate on the garment.

A method for labeling fabrics, such as fabric garments, and a heat-transfer label well-suited for use in said method. In one embodiment, the heat-transfer label comprises (i) a support portion, the support portion comprising a carrier and a release layer; (ii) a wax layer, the wax layer overcoating the release layer; and (iii) a transfer portion, the transfer portion comprising an adhesive layer printed onto the wax layer and an ink design layer printed onto the adhesive layer. Preferably, at least a portion of the ink design layer is printed using a variable printing technique, such as thermal transfer printing.

A process for applying digitally printed applique” indicia which results in decorative and identification elements for decoration and identification when applied to uniforms, fashion, “basic” and performance apparel, swimwear and intimate apparel as well as other textile products, the elements being an alternative to direct embroidery, embroidered emblems, thermo-transfer films, silk screen or sublimated printing. The production process includes the following phases (FIGS. 3A-C): a design phase (1); a separation phase (2); a printing phase (3); an optional traditional embroidery phase (4); and an etching/cutting phase (5). The process can incorporate embroidered elements but has the benefit of reducing or eliminating portions of stitching and or extra applique layers in the emblem. The resulting product has superior care and durability characteristics to screen printing and heat transfers as the image is more wash fast and can be ironed. The heat or pressure transfer capability can allow much faster customization of finished garments.

A textile substrate is patterned by the selective application of various dyes to the substrate surface in a way that provides desirable, visually apparent enhancements in the area of pattern detail, definition, and color range, through the use of a novel patterning system, including the application of various chemical agents, that makes such enhancements possible. In one embodiment, the patterning system described herein is capable of producing pile-faced textile substrates, useful as floor coverings, that exhibit a unique combination of desirable pattern attributes that have been identified and measured using novel techniques specifically developed for these substrates and pattern attributes.

A number of new laser patterns are defined by laser scribing the material. This produces new laser patterns which have not previously been known.

A variety of embodiments are disclosed, in both apparatus and method form, that relate to the use of fabric material in the manufacture of an air bag deployment system. In addition, fabric weakening is disclosed according to a technique that does not result in physical alteration of the fabric. This invention therefore includes an air bag cover for an air bag safety system for a vehicle comprising a fabric outer layer having a frontside and a backside and a substrate containing an opening wherein the opening has a periphery. The substrate is preferably formed by low pressure molding, wherein the fabric outer layer overlies the opening in the substrate, and wherein the fabric outer layer is weakened at a location that is adjacent or overlies the substrate opening periphery.

A transfer film configured for transferring optical beads to a substrate is disclosed. The transfer film typically contains optical beads, a temporary bead carrier layer retaining the optical beads, and an optional adhesive layer configured to permanently adhere the optical beads to a substrate. The temporary bead carrier layer contains a carrier backing and a heat-resistant carrier coating that temporarily holds the beads during application at elevated temperatures to a substrate. The carrier coating is formed such that it initially softens to retain the beads, but is then hardened or thermoset (such as by crosslinking) to prevent the carrier coating from softening during transfer of the beads to a substrate.

The invention belongs to a composite material manufacturing technology which relates to a liquid molding prefabrication fabric and a preparation method thereof. The prefabrication fabric of the invention comprises a basal fiber fabric and is characterized in that: a toughening layer is adhered on one surface or two surfaces of the basal fiber fabric. The preparation method of the invention includes the steps: the toughening layer is conglutinated; a molding layer is conglutinated. The prefabrication fabric of the invention has both the interlayer selectivity toughening and molding functions, and realizes the high toughness modification of the composite material while keeping the composite material liquid molding performance and the good fabric prefabrication molding performance.

The processes and articles of the present invention use thermally stable and loft retentive polymers in sublimation printed flock fibers, which are particularly attractive for forming molded articles. A preferred fiber is a multi-component (composite) fiber, such as a bicomponent fiber.

Methods of forming a printed multicolor synthetic pile fabric having a substrate and pile formed of fibers arranged in random groups extending essentially unifomn-y across the entire width and along the entire length of the fabric are disclosed. The methods can be utilized to form fabrics wherein each of the above-mentioned groups comprises a random number of fibers extending at angles and in directions that randomly vary from the angles and directions of the fibers in adjacent groups. The methods can involve washing griege goods for selected times and at selected temperatures so as to randomly re-orient the fibers forming the flocked surface of the fabric. In preferred embodiments, the fabrics are printed after fiber re-orientation.

A three-dimensional (3-D) shape measurement method using a Moire measurement principle and a Stereo vision measurement principle is provided. The method comprises; a first step to detect candidate points and 3D positions of the candidate points in world coordinates which are identical results from typical Moiré technique by using a pattern projector, which adjusts a pitch of a fringe pattern and projects the fringe pattern to a measurement object, and a first camera, which detects a modulated fringe pattern caused by shape of shape of the object, by means of obtaining candidate points by comparing a reference fringe pattern to the modulated fringe pattern and calculating 3D positions at an arbitrary point on an image captured from the first camera; a second step to determine a final matching point among the candidate points detected from the first step by using the Stereo vision technique with the first and the second cameras, by means of projecting the 3D positions of the candidate points to an image plane of the second camera based on a camera matrix of the second camera, comparing intensity value of a projected point in the image plane of the second camera to intensity value of given point in the image plane of the first camera, and judging whether the candidate point is matched with an arbitrary point by using the stereo vision criteria; and a third step to measure the depth value of the arbitrary point by using the resultant value of the final matching point, which was determined at the second step. Therefore, the error of 2π ambiguity of the typical Moire principle is eliminated, and thus 3-D shape information can be more rapidly and accurately measured.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a surface silver-plated electric-spinning fiber by using dopamine. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing a matrix fiber by using a static electric-spinning method, depositing the dopamine on the surface of the matrix under alkali condition, subsequently putting the matrix which is subjected to surface functionalization by using poly-dopamine into a silver plating liquid, adding a reducing agent glucose solution and preparing the surface silver-plated composite fiber which is good in coating property and conductivity. The method disclosed by the invention is simple to operate and short in time; and the composite material prepared by using the method is good in coating property and conductivity.