Full-fashioned garment with sleeves having intelligence capability
AssigneeGeorgia Tech Research Corporation
InventorsSundaresan Jayaraman, Sungmee Park
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Abstract
The invention comprises a full-fashioned weaving process for the production of a woven garment which can accommodate and include sleeves. The garment is made of only one, single integrated fabric and has no discontinuities or seams. Additionally, the garment can include intelligence capability, such as the ability to monitor one or more body vital signs, or garment penetration, or both, by including a selected sensing component or components in the weave of the garment.
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A process for continuously weaving a full-fashioned garment with integrated sleeves, comprising the steps of;
- providing at least two sets of warp threads to be used alternately, one set for the front and the other set for the back of the garment;
- providing at least two sets of filling threads;
- weaving a tubular structure section of the garment from the filling and warp threads;
- a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section continuously from the said tubular structure section;
- a stand-alone double layer structure section from the said combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
- and then a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section from the said stand-alone double layer structure section;
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- the vaxious structure sections being woven continuously one from the other to form the garment.
A woven garment with integrated sleeves comprising:
- (a) a tubular structure section;
- (b) a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the tubular structure;
- (c) a stand-alone double layer structure section woven continuously from the combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
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- (d) a second combination self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the stand-alone double layer structure section;
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- (e) the various sections being woven continuously one from the other to form the garment.
A woven garment with integrated sleeves comprising:
- (a) a woven structure comprising the following sections:
- a tubular section;
- a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
- a stand-alone double layer structure section;
- and a second combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
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- (b) a sensing component fiber selected from the group consisting of either optical fibers, electrical conducting fibers, or both.
A woven garment with integrated sleeves comprising:
- (a) a woven structure comprising a tubular structure section;
- a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the tubular structure;
- a stand-alone double layer structure section woven continuously from the self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the stand-alone double layer structure section, the various sections being woven continuously one from the other to form the garment;
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- (b) a sensing component fiber selected from the group consisting of either optical fibers, electrical fibers, or both.
A process from continuously weaving a full-fashioned garment with integrated sleeves, comprising the steps of producing each of the following sections:
- a tubular structure section;
- a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
- a stand-alone double layer structure section;
- and a second cobination self-stitched—double layer structure section.
A process for continuously weaving a full-fashioned garment with integrated sleeves comprising the steps of:
- weaving a comfort component of the garment comprising the step of weaving a tubular structure section;
- a combination self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the tubular structure;
- a stand-alone double layer structure section woven continuously from the combination self-stitched—double layer structure section;
- and a second combination self-stitched—double layer structure section woven continuously from the stand-alone double layer structure section, the various sections being woven continuously one from the other to form the garment;
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- weaving a sensing component fiber selected from the group consisting of either optical fibers, electrical fibers, or both into the comfort component of the garment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.