Cooling clothing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooling clothing technologies fail to provide effective coolness, convenience in wearing, and ease of washing, leading to issues with user comfort, work safety, and outdoor exercise efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An ICT technology-based piece of cooling clothing that includes an outer cover, a lining, a cooling pad unit with cooling channels, a cooling unit connected to the cooling pad unit, and a controller that can be operated directly by the wearer or automatically through temperature sensing, allowing for collective cooling for group workers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If cooling devices are combined with clothing, then temperature adjustment capability is improved, but convenience in wearing and washing deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling system is divided into separate modules: a removable cooling pad unit with cooling channels, a detachable controller, and washable clothing layers. This segmentation allows the cooling components to be separated from the clothing for easy washing while maintaining temperature adjustment functionality when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller and cooling pad unit are designed to be extractable from the clothing structure. The controller can be removed from the receiving pocket, and the cooling pad can be detached, allowing the clothing to be washed separately without dealing with electronic components or complex cooling mechanisms.
2Reliability
If cooling functionality is added to clothing, then work safety and exercise effect are improved, but user comfort deteriorates due to lack of detailed cooling function
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling pad unit is designed with specific local cooling zones corresponding to key body areas that require cooling for safety and performance. The cooling channels are positioned to target specific regions, providing detailed and effective cooling where needed most rather than uniform cooling across the entire garment.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cooling pad unit is made flexible, then adaptability to clothing shapes is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling pad unit is constructed using flexible materials and thin-film cooling channels that can conform to various clothing shapes and body contours. The flexible construction allows the cooling channels to maintain their positional accuracy and functional integrity while adapting to different garment geometries and wear conditions.
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 effectively provides coolness to the wearer, increases activity comfort, enhances work safety by allowing automatic temperature regulation, and can be easily integrated with various clothing items.
Implementation Method 1
a cooling unit (400) supplying cool air by being connected to the cooling inflow hole (330) of the cooling pad unit (300) and absorbing heat, which is generated by the cooling pad unit (300), through the cooling outflow hole (350), thereby performing heat dissipation and cooling
Implementation Method 2
the cooling unit (400) is a Peltier element (420) of which a cooling level depends on the intensity of an applied current
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AI summary
An ICT technology-based piece of cooling clothing includes: an outer cover (100) forming an external shape of the piece of cooling clothing and having a receiving pocket (110); a lining (200) provided to be disposed toward the skin of a wearer that is the inside of the outer cover (100); a cooling pad unit (300) disposed between the outer cover (100) and the lining (200) or inside the lining (200), made of a rectangular flexible material having short sides (310) and long sides (320) to transmit coolness to a wearer, and having a cooling inflow hole (330), cooling channels (340), and a cooling outflow hole (350); a cooling unit (400) supplying cool air by being connected to the cooling inflow hole (330) of the cooling pad unit (300) and absorbing heat, which is generated by the cooling pad unit (300), through the cooling outflow hole (350), thereby performing heat dissipation and cooling; a controller (500) provided to collect temperature information from at least any one of the cooling pad unit (300) or the cooling unit (400) through a temperature information collector (510) and to transmit a cooling control signal to the cooling unit (400); and a user terminal (600) connected with the controller (500) through a network and provided to receive and display the temperature information on a display (610) and to transmit a control signal of a user to the controller (500).