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US 6,192,944 B1Granted
Method of forming a textile member with undulating wire
AssigneeProdesco, Inc.
InventorE. Skott Greenhalgh
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Abstract
A method of forming a textile having an undulating wire member therein. The method includes forming a wire which exhibits shape memory behavior into an undulating wire member, training the wire to remember its shape, causing the undulating wire member to straighten by undergoing a shape-memory transformation, securing the straightened wire member in a conventional textile and then causing the straightened wire to undergo a shape memory transformation back to the remembered undulating shape.
Claims3
A method of forming a textile with an undulating wire member therein, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming a wire exhibiting shape memory behavior into an undulating wire member;
- (b) training said wire to remember its shape while it is formed into said undulating wire member;
- (c) causing said undulating wire member to straighten by undergoing a shape-memory transformation, thereby producing a straightened wire with a memory of an undulating shape;
- (d) securing said straightened wire with said memory of said undulating shape into a conventional textile;
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- (e) causing said straightened wire to undergo a shape memory transformation back to its remembered undulating shape.
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