Active fabrics typically include a plurality of fibers. At least one of the fibers exhibits a change in length or width upon exposure to an external stimulus, such as heat, moisture, or light. The active woven materials can exhibit local transformation, such as creating areas that are tighter or more open, or global transformation, such as changing from flat to curled. The effect is a precise and repeatable change in shape upon exposure to an external stimulus. Embodiments can be employed, for example, in sportswear, compression garments, furniture, and interior products.

In a harness for conduction, a knitted fabric that despite having high stretchability and flexibility as well as restorability at the time of repeated elongation, has the characteristics that a change in electrical resistance is zero or suppressed between elongation and non-elongation has never been available. A conductive part knitted using a conductive yarn and an elastic yarn simultaneously, and a non-conductive part knitted using only a non-conductive yarn are provided, in which the conductive part is such that at least the conductive yarn is provided in a zigzag arrangement in a front-back direction in a knitted fabric, and the elastic yarn is provided in an arrangement that generates a tightening force along a surface direction parallel to the front and back surfaces of the knitted fabric to keep the shape of the zigzag arrangement of the conductive yarn, the conductive part includes a constituent path employing a metallic wire as the conductive yarn, and the non-conductive part includes a constituent path employing a synthetic fiber as the non-conductive yarn.

An integral shoe upper fabric, woven by a round knitting machine from at least one non-elastic yarn, includes: a first suture reserved section including a first opening; a first toe woven section; a first foot body woven section; a first sole extension section; a first heel woven section; a second sole extension section; a second foot body woven section; a second toe woven section; and a second suture reserved section including a second opening.

The present disclosure provides an article. The article may include a knitted component with a first zone, the first zone being at least partially formed with a first yarn and a second yarn. The first yarn may be a monofilament yarn. The second yarn may have a tenacity of at least 5 grams per denier (g/D). The first yarn and the second yarn may be adjacent at least at one location within the first zone.

This invention is directed to a composite laminate comprising in order (a) a flame retardant polymeric moisture barrier (b) an inorganic platelet layer and (c) a flame retardant thermoplastic film layer The invention is also directed to a thermal insulation and acoustic blanket comprising a core of fibrous material or foam surrounded by the above composite laminate wherein the thermoplastic film layer of the composite laminate contacts and encapsulates the core.

The invention relates to an intermediate product intended for the production of a composite part in combination with a resin matrix, formed by at least two unidirectional sets of reinforcing yarns, the yams of each set extending in a different direction, whereby the sets are interlinked by means of stitching or knitting using at least one stitching or knitting yarn. The invention is characterized in that the stitching or knitting yarn has a yarn count of less than or equal to 30 dTex, preferably less than or equal to 25 dTex, in accordance with standard EN ISO 2060.

This planar heat-generating knitted fabric 10 comprises a knitted fabric including conductive yarns 400 as a heat-generating portion, wherein the conductive yarn 400 has a core yarn 410, and a conductive sheath yarn 420 wrapped around the core yarn 410, the conductive sheath yarn 420 is a metal wire covered with an insulating resin 422, the knitted fabric is knitted in the form of a multilayer knitted fabric including a front structure 201 and a back structure 202 including insulating yarns 300 as a base, the front and back structures 201 and 202 being linked together by linking yarns 100, the conductive yarns 400 are knitted in at least one of the front and back structures 201 and 202, and the ratio (D1/D2) of a diameter (D1) of the conductive yarn 400 and a diameter (D2) of the insulating yarn is 0.81 to 4.0.

Problems for the present invention to be solved is to provide a multiply knitted wearable garment that has excellent heat retention properties and hardly causes stuffiness in a wearing part of a wearer. The multi-knitted wearable garment 100 according to the present invention includes at least one first knitted layer O11 and at least one second knitted layer I11. The first knitted fabric layer includes a region formed with a bulky knitted fabric. The second knitted fabric layer includes a region formed with a water-absorbing and quick-drying knitted fabric. The water-absorbing and quick-drying knitted fabric has a higher water-absorbing and quick-drying properties than the region formed with the bulky knitted fabric. The multi-knitted wearable garment preferably further includes at least one third knitted fabric layer O12. The third knitted fabric layer includes a region formed with a partially bulky knitted fabric.

A yarn that contains at least one potential-generating filament constructed to generate an electric potential in response to energy from the outside of the at least one potential-generating filament, the yarn having a total linear density of 90 dtex or more.

A knitted component includes a first yarn and a second yarn, where the first yarn comprises a thermoplastic material having a melting temperature. The first yarn is used to create window openings of different shapes and sizes within the knitted component. This is achieved by using the first yarn to releasably secure adjacent edges of a window opening. The first yarn is then heated to release, at least in part, the first yarn from the edges of the window opening, allowing the edges to separate and thereby form a window opening.