Glove Coating with Particle Clustering for Anti-Slip and Permeability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gloves with anti-slipping coatings suffer from weak particle fixation, leading to inadequate anti-slipping performance due to thin resin coating films and isolated particles, which result in poor durability and moisture permeability.
Innovation Solution
A glove design featuring a first coating layer with pores and a second coating layer containing particle-clustering regions formed by aggregating particles and a binder, providing enhanced anti-slipping, moisture permeability, and abrasion resistance through a specific production method that includes immersing the glove in a second coating layer-forming material and allowing it to flow, creating a scattering particle-clustering effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a thin resin coating film is used to achieve moisture permeability, then moisture permeability is improved, but particle fixation strength deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The coating layer is segmented into multiple functional zones: a resin-rich base layer providing particle fixation, and a particle-rich surface layer providing anti-slipping effect. This segmentation allows each layer to optimize its function without compromising the other.
Solution Approach 2:
The coating layer is constructed as a composite material system combining resin binder and anti-slipping particles in specific proportions and arrangements. The composite structure provides both the mechanical strength for particle fixation and the permeability characteristics for moisture management.
2Reliability
If particles are distributed uniformly to provide anti-slipping effect, then anti-slipping performance is improved, but flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The particle distribution exhibits local quality variations with higher particle concentration at the surface for anti-slipping, and resin-rich zones internally for flexibility. This spatial variation in composition allows simultaneous optimization of anti-slipping performance and flexibility.
3Strength
If a dense coating structure is used to enhance abrasion resistance, then abrasion resistance is improved, but moisture permeability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The coating layer incorporates a porous structure with controlled void spaces that provide moisture permeability pathways while the overall dense matrix structure maintains abrasion resistance. The porosity allows moisture vapor transmission without creating weak points for abrasion.
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 solution achieves superior anti-slipping, moisture permeability, and abrasion resistance, reducing hand fatigue and improving working efficiency by maintaining a superior wearing feel even during extended use, while also enhancing flexibility and weight reduction.
Implementation Method 1
a first coating layer which is applied at least on a palm side region of the external surface of the glove body, and contains a plurality of pores
Implementation Method 2
a second coating layer which is laminated at least on a part of the external surface of the first coating layer, and is constituted with a plurality of particles and a binder thereof
Data Source
AI summary
The glove of the present invention includes: a glove body made from fibers; a first coating layer being applied at least on a palm side region of the external surface of the glove body, and containing a plurality of pores; and a second coating layer being laminated at least on a part of the external surface of the first coating layer, and being constituted with a plurality of particles and a binder thereof. The second coating layer has particle-clustering regions that are scattering. In the glove, the pores preferably include interconnected cells. Also, in the glove, regions other than the particle-clustering regions of the second coating layer preferably have moisture permeability, and a percentage of the total area of the particle-clustering region with respect to the area of the second coating layer is preferably no less than 20% and no greater than 90%.