Systems, methods and articles having a heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material layer or coating are disclosed. In one example, the heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material completely covers the interior of a housing having a plurality of battery cells removably disposed therein. Other examples include a heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material layer having anti-static, anti-radio frequency (RF), anti-electromagnetic interference (EMI), anti-tarnish, and/or anti-corrosion materials and properties that effectively protect battery-operated devices and/or the batteries that power them from damage or diminished operation.

Garment, in particular for a human body, includes several sections connected together and are each made of one or more plies. For one ply in each case, such a fabric is usable for the sections that the, in particular, human body is shielded from electromagnetic radiation thereby. This at least one ply is advantageously knitted or woven from a fabric made of metal-coated threads, filaments and/or yarns for shielding the electromagnetic radiation. In this way, the human body is shielded from the electromagnetic fields that occur increasingly frequently and with greater intensity, in particular in the high-frequency range.

Provided is a garment that has an antistatic capability and exhibits washing durability without, when producing a woven or knitted fabric, using a conductive fiber at a part that becomes a wearing part of the woven or knitted fabric, and without applying an antistatic treatment to the woven or knitted fabric, but rather by incorporating a conductive fiber into a sewing thread. The garment according to the present invention has a conductive fiber incorporated in a sewing thread (linking thread), and has a frictional charge amount of 0.8 C or less per garment. The garment preferably has an electric resistance value of 110.sup.4-510.sup.8 per 1 cm length of the conductive fiber in a fiber axis direction thereof, and the sewing thread preferably includes the conductive fiber in an amount of 30-100 mass %.

Protective combat clothing (PCC) may include a shirt and trousers, wherein the shirt and the trousers are at least partially made of woven fabric made of a composition of the materials comprising flame-resistant fiber, flame-resistant meta-aramid fiber, heat-resistant fiber, polyamide and anti-static fiber.

An intimate blend of staple fibers, and a yarn, fabric, and article of clothing providing surprising arc performance; the intimate blend comprises 15 to 70 weight percent modacrylic fiber, 5 to 27 weight percent para-aramid fiber; and 3 to 80 weight percent meta-aramid fiber, wherein 25 to 100 parts of the meta-aramid fiber contains 0.5 to 20 weight percent discrete homogeneously dispersed carbon particles and 0 to 75 parts of the meta-aramid fiber free of discrete carbon particles, the intimate blend having a total content of 0.1 to 3 weight percent discrete carbon particles.

An article of thermal protective clothing suitable for use in arc protection comprising a woven fabric comprising yarns comprising modacrylic fiber and aramid fiber, wherein 25 to 100 parts of the aramid fiber contain 0.5 to 20 weight percent discrete homogeneously dispersed carbon particles and 0 to 75 parts of the aramid fiber are free of discrete carbon particles; the fabric having an ATPV of 10 cal/cm.sup.2 or greater at a basis weight of 6 ounces per square yard (203 grams per square meter) or less, and a total content of 0.1 to 3 weight percent discrete carbon particles.

A yarn comprising a plurality of bicomponent filaments having a first region comprising a first polymer composition and a second region comprising a second polymer composition, each of the first and second regions being distinct in the bicomponent filaments; each bicomponent filament comprising 5 to 60 weight percent of the first polymer composition and 95 to 40 weight percent of the second polymer composition; wherein the first polymer composition comprises aramid polymer containing 0.5 to 20 weight percent discrete homogeneously dispersed carbon particles and the second polymer composition comprises modacrylic polymer being free of discrete carbon particles; the yarn having a total content of 0.1 to 5 weight percent discrete carbon particles.

An electrically conductive yarn for producing protective garments is described, wherein the yarn comprises: a first electrically conductive strand; a second strand different from the first strand and comprising fire-resistant synthetic fibres, wherein the first and second strands are coupled and twisted; the first strand comprises a core of a first metal and a coating of a second metal different from the first metal.

A method is related to a wearable clothing for children to protect them against hazardous electromagnetic waves radiated from tablet and/or mobile phone and/or laptop and/or game-net and/or game-pad. The wearable clothing is made by anti-radiation and anti-electromagnetic fiber and is usable in all season and anywhere at any time.

The invention relates to an arc fault protective glove (10) for the protection against the thermal effects of an arc fault, wherein the arc fault protective glove (10) includes a palm section (26) which is assigned to a palm when the arc fault protective glove (10) is worn, and a glove back (54) opposite to the palm section (26), which is assigned to the back of a hand when the arc fault protective glove (10) is worn. The palm section (26) has a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure comprises at least a first layer (24) and a second layer (32), wherein the first layer (24) is sewn to the second layer (32) in an edge area (28) of the second layer (32)