Integrated Multilayer Textile Wearable for Impact Protection and Comfort
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable articles struggle to balance protection against impacts and abrasions with user comfort and versatility, often resulting in heavy and non-versatile designs due to separate components for external protection and internal comfort structures.
Innovation Solution
A multilayer textile structure with a textile support layer having a first surface for external impacts and a second surface for user comfort, where two layers of materials with different hardness are integrated through overmolding, forming protuberances on both sides to provide protection and comfort without additional components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate protection elements and comfort structures are used, then protection performance is improved, but weight and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the protection element and comfort structure into a single integrated component. The protection element includes an outer shell with protuberances and an inner cushioning layer with comfort structures, eliminating the need for separate components while maintaining both protection performance and comfort functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated protection element serves multiple functions simultaneously: the outer shell with protuberances provides impact protection, while the inner cushioning layer with comfort structures provides user comfort. This multi-functional design reduces the number of components needed in the wearable article.
2Reliability
If multiple separate components are used for protection and comfort, then protection requirements are met, but weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the protection element and comfort structure into one integrated component, reducing the total weight by eliminating redundant materials and interfaces between separate components while maintaining impact resistance through the designed outer shell and cushioning layer structure.
3Ease of operation
If additional internal structures are added for comfort, then comfort is improved, but versatility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing comfort structures only in specific areas where they are needed, rather than uniformly throughout the protection element. This allows the design to maintain versatility while providing targeted comfort where it matters most for user 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 solution achieves a lightweight, comfortable, and versatile wearable article that meets impact resistance and comfort requirements by integrating materials with varying hardness through a single textile structure, optimizing weight and performance.
Implementation Method 1
the material of said first layer adheres and penetrates at least partially into said textile support layer and the material of said second layer penetrates at least partially into said textile support layer
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a wearable article (10). The wearable article (10) includes a textile support layer (14) having a plurality of through-holes (16), wherein said textile support layer (14) has a first surface (18) designed to face an external area, towards a possible impact or shock generating force or impact, and at least one second surface (20) intended to face a user wearing the wearable article. The wearable article comprises, formed as one body with the textile support layer (14), a first layer of material (22) fixed to said first surface (18), wherein said first layer of material (22) adheres and penetrates between fibers of said second textile support layer (14), and a second layer of material (24) fixed to said second surface (20), wherein said second layer adheres and penetrates between fibers of said textile support layer (14). The first layer of material (22) and said second layer of material (24) respectively define first protuberances emerging from the first surface (18) and the second layer of material (24) defines second protuberances emerging from the second surface (20).