Protective material, clothing item and method of protection
AssigneeSun-Soul Inc.
InventorsMichael Kreindel, Mark Gray, Christopher Hawthorne
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Abstract
A material and method delivering to the skin therapeutic radiation and filtering a part of the sun spectrum causing skin damage.
Claims18
-48. (canceled)
A protective material comprising a fabric having the following optical properties:
- absorption of at least a substantial amount of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage;
- and,
- at least one of:
- (a) transmission of a substantial amount of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that has a therapeutic effect for the human skin and
- (b) converting at least part of the absorbed radiation to a radiation having a therapeutic effect on human skin.
A portable item which includes at least a portion made from a material having optical properties which, in use, can protect at least an area of the wearer's skin from electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage, while allowing radiation that has a therapeutic effect on human skin to be transmitted from said material to said area of the wearer's skin.
A method for protection of human skin from electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage, comprising delivering some of the electromagnetic radiation from the sunlight to the skin through a material having the following optical properties:
- absorption of at least a substantial proportion of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage;
- and
- at least one of:
- (a) transmitting a substantial amount of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that has a therapeutic effect on human skin and
- (b) converting at least part of the absorbed radiation to a radiation having a therapeutic effect on human skin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.