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.
Claims38
A protective material comprising a fabric having the following optical properties:
- absorption of at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage;
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- conversion of at least part of the absorbed radiation to a converted radiation having a therapeutic effect on human skin, said converted radiation having wavelengths of 400 to 490 nm, wavelengths of 590 to 670 nm or wavelengths of 700 to 900 nm.
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, wherein the optical properties include:
- absorption of at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage;
- and
- conversion of at least part of the absorbed radiation to a converted radiation having a therapeutic effect on human skin, said converted radiation having wavelengths of 400 to 490 nm, wavelengths of 590 to 670 nm or wavelengths of 700 to 900 nm.
A method for protection of human skin from electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage and for therapeutic treatment of human skin, comprising covering the human skin with a material having the following optical properties:
- absorption of at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation in sunlight that causes skin damage;
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- conversion of at least part of the absorbed radiation to converted radiation having a therapeutic effect on human skin, said converted radiation having wavelengths of 400 to 490 nm, wavelengths of 590 to 670 nm or wavelengths of 700 to 900 nm.
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