A garment of vest type (1) incorporating a non-destructive control system includes, as constituent elements, an electronic measurement device (26) able to be connected to a measurement sensor, and linked to an electronic card (20) itself linked to an electrical power supply source (21) and to a viewing and control screen (27), and cables for electrically and electronically linking the constituent elements to one another.

In general, the present invention has to do with a UV reference indicator calibrated to represent the color or shade of a UV reactive dye after a predetermined exposure time to a UV radiation source.

Example implementations include a textile apparatus for transporting perspiration and heat, the textile apparatus including a substantially planar and heat-conducting substrate including at least one recess, and a textile film including one or more fibers disposed in contact with at least one substantially planar surface of the substrate and at least one surface of the recess. Example implementations also include a method of manufacturing a textile apparatus for transporting perspiration and heat, the method including forming a nanofiber solution, extruding one or more nanofibers from the nanofiber solution, forming one or more recesses in a substantially planar surface of a substrate, and integrating one or more of the nanofibers with the substantially planar surface of the substrate and at least one surface of the recesses.

Apparatus for quantifying the amount of re-breathing due to bedding materials. The re-breathing analyzer applies heated air to the material under test through an exhaust port in a probe and receives return air from an intake port in the probe. The exhaust and intake ports are placed to engage the material under test when the probe is in contact with the material. In one embodiment, the probe has a surface that is exposed through a top surface of a housing for the analyzer whereby the material under test is placed on the top surface for testing. The analyzer includes a differential temperature measuring instrument that determines the temperature of the return air, where an increase of the temperature of the return air above the temperature of the ambient air indicates the presence and quantity of re-breathing due to the material under test.

An automatic fabric folding device has a rotating mechanism, an automatic folding mechanism and a crease generating mechanism. The automatic folding mechanism is located below the finger cylinder on one side of the rotating mechanism, and the finger cylinder on the other side of the automatic folding mechanism is fixed with a crease generating mechanism. The two rotating cylinders are central symmetrical with the rotating arm. This accurately controls the bending and folding of the fabric sample through the automatic control technology, and realizes the automatic detection of the fabric crease recovery process. By mechanical and numerical control technology, the parts to be measured are effectively prevented from interference by human factors, and the detection accuracy is improved.

A method for measuring the attraction propensity of fabric including the steps of charging a neutralized test fabric, optionally by contacting with a charging fabric, presenting the charged test fabric a predetermined distance from a static-influenced agent such that at least a portion of the static-influenced agent attaches to the charged test fabric, and determining the quantity of attached static-influenced agent.

The invention relates to a sensor system for measuring and/or processing measured pressure and/or humidity values, comprising at least one sensor for measuring pressure and/or humidity and at least one processing unit, which is set up and intended to control the sensor and/or to store and/or process data measured by the sensor. Furthermore, the sensor system comprises at least one evaluation unit, which evaluates the data forwarded to it by the processing unit and subsequently forwards these data or a data record generated from the data to a CPU, in particular wirelessly, wherein these data comprise a user behavior, movement sequences, body functions, body behavior, weight, pressure or moisture of a skin of the user, and are collected and subsequently evaluated by the CPU.

A method for evaluating crease recovery of fabrics based on power function equation. The steps are: (1) place the sample in the sample placement area; (2) pressure the overlapping part of the sample; (3) let the free part of the sample automatically restore and record the video image of the sample crease recovery by camera; (4) process the video image of the fabric crease recovery and calculating the recovery angle of each frame of video image; (5) repeat steps 1 to 4 to measure N samples of the same fabric; (6) obtain the dynamic process of fabric crease recovery angle change. This can reveal which type of fabric has better recovery property, when the existing methods have the similar results of recovery angle.

A test device for determining the prickle property of the fabrics objectively includes nails on a measuring head fixed in an upper region of the test device, wherein the nails come in the contact with stiff fibers. The test device also includes an operation panel, a light source, a camera, a sample holder. The measurement uses a circular movement of the fabric instead of a linear movement unlike the previous studies. The measuring head does not apply any pressure on the fabric, only by lowering the measurement head, the nails squeezed in the head penetrate in the hairs of the fabric. In this situation, during the movement of the head, prickle force caused by the fiber ends can be detected. With the test device, it is possible to test both woven and knitted fabrics.

A sweating simulator has a foundation panel (14), a panel (1) and a temperature control panel (2), a fixture for fixing a specimen, a container (7) for holding simulated sweat, a container (15) for collecting the simulated sweat, and a plurality of weighing scales for measuring masses of the simulated sweat supplied, evaporated and dripped from the specimen, respectively. The panel (1) and temperature control panel (2) constitute a simulated sweating plane for simulating wetting properties and temperature of skin. An upper middle position of the temperature control panel (2) has a sweating zone (3), which has a plurality of sweating pores (4). The temperature control panel (2) has a temperature sensor (8) and a heating element to control the temperature of the temperature control panel (2) around 33-35° C. to simulate the temperature of the human skin surface. The sweating rate of the sweating zone (3) is in the range of about 1 to 624 ml/h or about 0.004 to 2.5 L/h-m.sup.2 to simulate various sweating intensities.