Aerogel-containing insulation layer
AssigneeOutlast Technologies, Inc.
InventorsVolker Schuster, Stefan Saur
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Abstract
Applying aerogel-containing insulation layer(s) to an article. The insulation layer comprising: aerogel particles; and at least one binder, comprising the steps of: providing the article to be coated; mixing the aerogel particles with the particles of a pulverulent binder and/or a pulverulent solid, for example expanded glass, to give a particle mixture; applying the particle mixture to the article to be coated by scattering the particle mixture onto the article to be coated; and activating the at least one binder of the at least one insulation layer, in order to provide a bond of the particle mixture to the article, wherein the aerogel particles are present in the particle mixture in a proportion of 5 to 95 percent by weight of the particle mixture.
Claims20
A method of applying at least one aerogel-containing insulation layer to an article, wherein the at least one insulation layer comprises aerogel particles and at least one binder, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing the article to be coated;
- mixing the aerogel particles with particles of a pulverulent binder and/or a pulverulent solid, for example expanded glass, to give a particle mixture;
- applying the particle mixture to the article to be coated by scattering the particle mixture onto the article to be coated;
- and
- activating the at least one binder of the at least one insulation
- layer, in order to provide a bond of the particle mixture to the article, wherein the aerogel particles are present in the particle mixture in a proportion of 5 to 95 percent by weight of the particle mixture.
A method of improving ease of handling of aerogel particles to be applied to an article for application of at least one aerogel-containing insulation layer to the article, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing the article to be coated;
- mixing the aerogel particles with a pulverulent binder and/or a pulverulent solid, for example expanded glass, to give a particle mixture, in order to improve the ease of handling of the aerogel particles;
- applying the particle mixture to the article to be coated by scattering the particle mixture onto the article to be coated;
- and
- activating the at least one binder of the at least one insulation layer, in order to provide a bond of the particle mixture to the article,
- wherein the aerogel particles are present in the particle mixture in a proportion of 5 to 95 percent by weight of the particle mixture.
A method of applying at least one aerogel-containing insulation layer to an article, wherein the at least one insulation layer comprises aerogel particles and at least one binder, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing the article to be coated;
- mixing the aerogel particles with particles of a pulverulent binder and/or a
- pulverulent solid, for example expanded glass, to give a particle mixture;
- applying the particle mixture to the article to be coated by scattering the particle mixture onto the article to be coated;
- and
- activating the at least one binder of the at least one insulation layer, in order to provide a bond of the particle mixture to the article, wherein:
- the article comprises a textile surface to which the at least one insulation layer is to be applied, and
- the aerogel particles are present in the particle mixture in a proportion of 5 to 95 percent by weight of the particle mixture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.