Garment Pocket with Reflective Textile for Radiation Shielding
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing exposure to high-frequency radiation from telecommunications devices, such as smartphones, poses potential health risks, and existing methods do not adequately protect vital body parts while maintaining mobile device functionality.
Innovation Solution
A garment pocket with a rear side made of radio-wave-reflecting textile containing metal-comprising threads and a front side partially made of a permeable textile, creating an electromagnetic barrier that reflects and blocks radio waves, thereby protecting the body while ensuring mobile device functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If the pocket is made entirely of radio-wave-reflecting textile, then body protection against radiation is improved, but mobile device reception is deteriorated
Solution Approach 1:
The pocket is designed with different textile materials in different regions: the rear side (facing the body) uses radio-wave-reflecting textile to protect against radiation, while the front side (facing outward) uses radio-wave-permeable textile to ensure device reception. This spatial differentiation of material properties resolves the contradiction between protection and functionality.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If metal-comprising threads are integrated into textile, then radio wave reflection is improved, but textile flexibility and comfort are deteriorated
Solution Approach 1:
The textile is constructed as a composite material system combining metal-comprising threads (for radiation reflection) with conventional textile fibers (for flexibility and comfort). This composite structure integrates the beneficial properties of both materials, achieving radio wave blocking while maintaining wearability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The pocket effectively blocks radio waves emitted by smartphones, reducing exposure to vital body parts and maintaining mobile device reception by using metal-comprising threads integrated into the textile, providing enhanced protection and functionality.
Implementation Method 1
the rear side is at least partly made of a radio-wave-reflecting first textile, which first textile comprises at least one metal-comprising thread, and wherein the front side is at least partly made of a radio-wave-reflecting second textile, which second textile comprises at least one metal-comprising thread
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AI summary
The invention relates to a pocket for a garment, in particular to a pocket comprising a rear side configured to be turned towards the body of a person and a front side which is connected to the rear side and configured to face away from the body of a person. The invention also relates to a garment provided with at least one pocket according to the invention.