EP3936656A1 - Method for the application of 3d functional textile structures with activatable and controllable hardware and software components - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for the application of variably interpretable and variably configurable 3-D functional textile structures with activatable and controllable hardware and software components is described, which are preferably used as textile applications for methods for the catalytic modification of liquids or gases as well as methods using microorganisms or procedures for Generation and storage of electrical charges and other textile-based process applications should be designed. Preferred versions should have textile sub-structures with catalytically active material or surface properties and sub-structures made of hollow conductor materials with features of membrane-like walls, with at least these sub-structures being provided in addition to solid, skeletal or frame-like support - and holding structures should each have an optoelectronically detectable marking matrix of individual, optoelectronically detectable marking elements en.The individual marking elements on substructures with catalytically active material or surface properties and substructures made of hollow pipe materials with features of membrane-like walls are intended to indicate potential connection positions to be marked, to which line and control components and electronic components can potentially be connected at a later point in time after selection In special application designs, textile sub-structures are also to be provided with a pre-equipment in the form of conductor track structures or conductor track elements pre-integrated in the material, with these conductor track structures or conductor track elements, which can be found in the thread materials as pre-equipment and raw structure, for example, are also considered potential for subsequent optionally selectable usability, at least in selections to identify selectable elements on the material side in both an optoelectronic way individually as well as network are to be marked in an addressable manner and are to be provided, at least in selections, also in a matrix-like manner with hardware and software components and data linking components that can be recorded and controlled in a network-capable manner and can also be recorded and displayed in virtual copies of the workpieces.

Description

This patent application describes a method for using 3-D functional textile structures, whereby these are to be produced in various versions as preliminary products to be subsequently further processed and configured and, depending on the version, these are preferably used as catalyst elements or as receiving structures for fluid media or microorganisms or for the Storage of electrical charges should be provided.

In the case of the differently executable pre-products, a structure of components and parts and software components and line components that can optionally be activated later and further configured should be created step by step during their production, with individually marked and individually named and with position-determining marking elements previously provided positions at intended positions Components are to be provided with individually network-addressable hardware and software components and selected components and interfaces step by step after selection and the software components should be activated step by step after selection and digital documentation of the activation of software components and network-supported remote controllable processing of marked positions together with digital documentation are to be provided is.

The relevant positions to be provided with marking elements in advance should be found as optional usable target positions that can be located directly on the components in a matrix-like manner, which can be individually identified both locally and individually provided with network addresses at the intended times after selection, whereby Selections of the target positions should preferably be provided as measuring or reference points and for the display of components integrated on the material side or for the display of optionally selectable targets for the assembly with components or the creation of interfaces.

In preferred embodiments, data conductor and current conductor raw structures and/or line raw structures made of thread materials to be applied in a matrix-like fragmented manner are to be included within thread material structures as component pre-equipment Hollow profile characteristics are to be provided, whereby advantageously the relevant components from those thread materials should be able to be detected mechanically locally in the preliminary products and the optionally selectable positions provided for the placement of interface components, which are to be provided for interconnection and control of the line components according to optional selection, should be displayed and network-addressable are to be named.

Here, on structures made of thread materials, detail surfaces should be provided with separately pre-marked target points with individually associated data deposits, which should be usable as subsequently selectable, optoelectronically controllable and network-addressable target positions for the placement of data linking components, which, due to their network addressability, can be assigned step by step to special components of your choice or in the type of survey marks to be used.

In all applications, positions intended to be marked in this way within the textile bodies of the preliminary products should be able to be determined and recorded locally at least in an optoelectronic manner, with individually definable positions on components of the preliminary products being provided step by step with software components and these data records being assigned both individual, network-addressable designations include the marked positions as well as documentation on materials and components and additional software components that can be provided, the software components advantageously initially being able to be provided as optoelectronically readable data sets whose carrier components should be locally detectable.

In special versions, it should be possible to control and process marked positions on moving component details within body parts of the preliminary products using predefined measurement and reference points already on other components, with the relevant controls and structural changes being documented and the changes being digitally documented are.

In preferred versions of the preliminary products, textile structural parts made of hollow profile materials should be providable, with cavities that can be found in segments and can be filled with fluids or contain fluids being provided within incorporated thread materials, which are also to be provided with conductor track structures located within the cavities, with the conductor track structures having exposed electrical contacts may have that should be provided for contact with fluids.

In preferred embodiments, hollow line walls should be designed in such a way that they have charge-separating membranes in the material structure of their walls, with internally stored or flowing gases and gas-flowing electrical conductor elements as well as hollow wall components in the form of proton exchange membranes being found and the gases located inside by means of the conductor elements when there is contact electrical voltage to act as an air anode.

State of the art:

Numerous applications for 3-dimensional counting of three-dimensional textile structures or textile bodies are already known.

According to the prior art, the German patent application DE 10 2015 003 003 A1 to be mentioned, which describes a photoelectrochemical cell for the light-driven production of hydrogen and oxygen from an aqueous medium in a basic environment, which according to patent claim 1 has a gas-impermeable, anion-conducting and electronically insulating polymer electrolyte membrane as separator and according to patent claim 7 according to claim 6 the Patent application described porous structures is foamed nickel or a textile fabric whose fibers are made of nickel, carbon or an alloy with iron, carbon and nickel.

According to the state of the art German patent application DE 102 10 465 A1 to be mentioned, which describes a photocatalytic element for the splitting of hydrogen-containing compounds and a method for the production of such an element and uses for the splitting of such compounds, in which a photocatalytically active thin layer of a photosemiconductive Material is formed without binder.

Textile bodies with characteristics of 3-dimensional textile structures include textile structures that are known, for example, under technical terms such as spacer textiles, spacer fabrics or 3-D mesh structures and can also consist of different textile substructures and have different characteristics of textile design.

These textile structures can also be found as structures that have different textile components, each in a different way worked out components with characteristics such as pile thread structures, meshes, scrims, knitted or warp-knitted fabrics or may have.

Three-dimensional textile structures are already being produced and used for many technical applications as preliminary products intended for further processing, whereby these can be pre-produced as a pre-designed starting basis with basic properties, for example in the form of blocks or webs.

The state of the art includes 3-dimensional textile structures, which are known under the technical term textile preforms and are also produced as preliminary products.

Functional components and partial structures made of thread, hollow thread or hollow pipe materials are described in the patent literature, inter alia, in the German patent DE 10 2009 018 171 B4 mentioned.

In this patent application, a system of event-triggered unfolding and stiffening of textile body structures is displayed, the devices made of spacer textiles or other textile-joined bodies with features of three-dimensionally manufactured textile layers, the pile threads or meshes or loops as three-dimensionally designed textile structures made of characterizing hollow, tubular or hose-like relates to hollow fiber materials.

The devices made of spacer textiles or other textile-joined bodies with features of three-dimensionally manufactured textile layers, pile threads or meshes or loops should have three-dimensional textile structures made of characterizing hollow, tube-like or hose-like hollow fiber materials, which are used for the internal guidance of gaseous or liquid media under pressure are designed to be fillable and should be characterized in that provided individual pile thread or mesh or loop structures, which can be found in multiples in the same or different design, each at their access openings at the line ends and the provided access openings of the hollow line walls with individually electronically directly controllable valve-like structures Control device are provided.

It contains clear statements on "three-dimensional textile structures made of characteristic hollow, tube or hose-like hollow fiber materials, which are designed to be filled under pressure for the internal guidance of gaseous or liquid media and that intended individual pile thread or mesh or loop structures, which are can be of the same or different design, in each case at their access openings at the line ends and the access openings provided
the hollow line walls are provided with individually electronically directly controllable valve-like control devices, which can have additional connection options for modularly connectable components or feed lines or other hollow lines. Valve mechanisms or valve-like filling and regulation mechanisms of the hose-like or tube-like hollow fiber elements are fed in sections via separate supply lines and via sectional non-return-secured pressure accumulators or pressure accumulators.

According to publications from textile research, 3-D knitted fabrics are known in which modified and appropriately prepared metal yarns are incorporated into 3-D knitted fabrics using knitting machines can also be worked into the spacer area as pile threads in 3D knitted fabrics.

(Contribution of the Institute for Special Textiles and Flexible Materials TITV - press release for the Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference 2014)

The prior art includes principles and publications on low-threshold catalytic processes that are already known from basic research.

According to the state of the art and publications, methods and materials are described here in which optimized, large, widely distributed catalytically active surfaces with, however, area-related low-threshold efficiency should be used.

Functional biohybrid material composites are known from basic research, in which exoelectrogenic bacteria settle on nanoscale frameworks made of conductive materials, with these composites remaining stable for days and showing electrochemical activity.

For example, a current publication from the research of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT describes the use of a porous hydrogel consisting of carbon nanotubes and silica nanoparticles, with these carbon nanotubes and silica nanoparticles being interwoven with DNA strands.

This hydrogel is a nanocomposite material that supports the growth of exoelectrogenic bacteria and at the same time transmits the electrons released by bacteria in an efficient and controlled manner.

According to the state of the art, an article from the journal Electrochemistry Communications should be mentioned after a breakthrough in the field of electrochemical water desalination was achieved at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken. The article mentions that the research group led by Prof. Volker Presser, head of the program area energy materials at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, and his co-authors have published the novel method of zinc-air desalination (ZAD), which is a new process describes the electrochemical water desalination with significantly improved effectiveness.

,INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials gGmbH. (Original publication: High-performance ion removal via zinc-air desalination Authors: Pattarachai, Srimuka, Lei Wang, Öznil, Budak, Prof. Volker Presser)

The following patent specifications and publicly available, written and electronic publications are mentioned for the current status of the patent literature and the freely available publications and the current published status of research and development:

Patent Literature:

1. 1.) DE 10 2009 018 171 B4
2. 2.) EP 0 617 152 A1
3. 3.) DE 10 2005 046 675 A1
4. 4.) EP 1 153 642 B1

On patent literature:

DE 10 2009 018 171 B4 (System and method for event-triggered unfolding and stiffening of textile body structures):
In this publication, webs and pile threads are described in a hose-like or tube-like manner with a hollow profile cross-section, which are used, among other things, in technical textile applications such as for filtering or separating mixed or contaminated gaseous or liquid media and their storage and/or conveying, for example the filtering of contaminated water and/or its desalination for the extraction, storage and/or pumping of drinking water. Here hollow pipe walls are described which, among other things, should also be executable as permeable variants, in which the gaseous or liquid media guided within the hollow pipes should pass outwards through their partially permeable walls depending on the pressure.

In the Patent specification EP 0 617 152 A1 a use of treated starting material is described, whereby chemical or physical properties are retained during the treatment during or after production and this can therefore be used, for example, as a filter or catalyst material.

Task:

An improved method for using 3-D functional textiles, primarily for use as catalyst elements or as receiving structures for fluid media, microorganisms or the storage of electrical charges, is to be specified.

Suggested solution:

A method for the use of 3-D functional textile structures that can be designed in different ways and subsequently configured as required is proposed according to the applicable patent claim 1. Advantageous developments of the method are the subject matter of the subclaims.

With the help of the marking elements and hardware and software components that can be recorded as units, structural details of components or target positions on components should be recorded optoelectronically in real time according to current requirements during production and transferred to virtual twin representations of the workpieces in question.

The regulation and control mechanisms and the target positions provided for these components should preferably be equipped, processed, operated and maintained according to current requirements using assigned data linking components and optoelectronically detectable marking elements that are intended to indicate their positions, whereby the Transfer and representation of the relevant processes and procedures to parallel, virtual processes and twin representations of the relevant workpieces should be foreseeable.

For preferred application designs for water catalysis, it is proposed that the process products, by-products and residues that occur are treated by means of specially provided device parts and infrastructure in the form of textile substructures made of thread materials or materials similar to hoses or hollow pipes with the characteristics of wall sections that are selectively media-absorbent and permeable, classified according to properties. to be gradually separated and removed.

In the case of designs for catalytic process applications, it is proposed that the catalytically active or otherwise process-active or process-controlling materials be used in pure form or in combination with other materials or as components of membrane-like permeable material combinations or in the form of nanoscale layers applied in segments on interfaces such as thread material surfaces of textile substructures such as Meshes, loops, weft threads, pile threads or others.

In preferred embodiments for applications relating to electrochemical processes, it should be possible for textile structure details such as mesh, weft thread, pile thread and loop structures to have widely distributed electrodes as equipment.

In this case, a separation of anodes and cathodes can be provided in each case, with corresponding anode/cathode pairings also being able to be provided on different, singular adjacent thread structures or also being to be provided several times on singular thread structures, in which case the individual electrodes of the electrode pairs and the electrode pairs are to each other must be kept at a safe distance from one another and, if necessary, separated from one another in a chamber-like manner by insulating materials such as walls made of membrane materials.

In special design variants, structures made of hollow fiber materials with inner, gas-carrying cavities should also be provided, with the gas volume being intended to function as an electrode when electrical voltage is applied in a similar way to zinc/air batteries.

In specially intended applications, the electrodes can be separated into anodes and cathodes, for example in the form of segmented metallic surface coatings, which would have to be connected to electrical energy supply infrastructures via internally integrated current conductors or via separate electrical lines and bridges integrated into other thread structures.

For special photocatalytic applications and special application variants of electrochemical electrobiological procedures, it is proposed that the catalyst elements or electrodes or functional composite material structures provided in microformat should be designed here in such a way that they themselves can be found as layers in front of the hollow fiber material structures with features of walls with exchange membrane features, which themselves have nanoscale sized catalyst material particles on their surfaces or even within their material structure can have catalyst material shares and whose surfaces have supporting structures or skeleton-like holding structures for other materials or microorganisms in nanoscale format or are designed as such.

In special versions, it is provided that fluid media are directed to the surfaces of inner textile structure details of 3-dimensional textile bodies in a controlled, circulatory manner and are connected to these substructures in the area of their functional surfaces and/or other functional interfaces of the substructures, which are classified as nanoscaled functional layers or inner interfaces of pores or bubbles or channels can be found in micro format, come into contact and saturate the intended membrane-like receptive material in the environment and thereby interact with the functional components and the catalytic or other material-changing processes via the regulation of the supply and circulation process of the Output media can be controlled.

In special applications, it can be provided that bacteria are settled and cultivated in functional layers provided on the outside of thread materials, which can be provided for the generation of electrical charges or material-changing purposes and via the interior of the hollow fiber materials and their membrane-like walls or via the outer Environment of the partial structures are supplied from thread materials with nutrient solutions.

It is also proposed to provide special application designs for biological process applications in which textile substructures have composite material layers that are intended to serve in a hybrid manner as an electrically conductive, synthetic conduction matrix and as a receiving and carrier matrix for bacteria that generate electrical charges.

In special designs, nanoscale, surface-forming layers or layers close to the surface with permeable, net-like protective and stabilizing coatings should be provided for thread materials, which can themselves perform a function as a receiving structure and support framework and into which, for example, hydrogels as carriers for microorganisms and nutrient solutions could be fed.

It is proposed, at least on catalytically active surface portions or outer surfaces of membrane-like hollow line walls or thread material surfaces with markings of integrated conductor fragments at specific, previously potentially foreseeable positions on thread materials with hollow profile characteristics or integrated conductor track fragments, to provide marking elements with their own ID and data linking components with the data on the marking elements, which are already for the assembly of electrical line connections, hydraulic connections, as well as other electronic or mechanical ones Control components are provided.

It is suggested that, in the case of special applications, the pre-products in the form of thread materials should already be fitted at marked positions, which in special designs are additionally protected with protective seals and by laminating the thread structure surface in such a way that they are completely embedded within the protective sealing materials that the components on the surface of the thread materials do not form any impeding highlights.

In this case, the protective seals or laminations can also be provided as variants that are to remain permanently on the thread structure or can also be applied only because of textile-technical necessities and can be removed again after certain production and finishing steps have elapsed.

It is proposed that, in special designs, connections and components are also worked into the raw structures at marked positions of the worked-in thread materials in intermediate steps, which are only further processed in later production steps to the workpieces or the processing and packaging of the workpieces according to processing and wiring plans to be finally determined later and/or connected and/or interconnected.

Here, selections of the marking elements should specifically identify the conductor fragments integrated within thread materials in the area of their ends on the outer surfaces of the thread material in advance as potential connection or processing targets.

It is proposed, for preferred application designs, to integrate trace fragments, slightly spaced apart at the ends, into pre-products in the form of thread materials, lined up one after the other in advance and within the body, this being done within the cavities in a space-filling, cable-like manner or in the walls or within cavities in of the type of co-integration with remaining cavity volume as void space or flow channel.

After the incorporation of the thread materials into textile-based workpieces, the internally integrated conductor track structures should also be subsequently integrated in the course of the production progress at points previously individually identified by marking elements with ID markings as potential control targets, which indicate the ends or previously as available connection or assembly positions to be machined for selections to be made.

It is proposed that the marking elements with their own ID and the marking positions to be determined directly or indirectly by means of inferential calculation methods on textile thread structures and the positions indicated by them on thread materials with integrated conductor track fragments as optionally usable and expandable marking matrices and matrix-like conductor track structure parts to digital representations to the workpieces and to corresponding calculation methods and to use them during the production processes for control, whereby these matrices serve both virtual and real with mutual data compensation as a basis and can also be edited afterwards and according to the intended product variant also for use after product completion on the are to be kept up-to-date.

It is proposed that the conductor and line structures should be connected to external infrastructures provided outside the application devices at subsequently selectable positions marked by marking elements from a marking matrix with their own ID in such a way that they can be represented digitally as addressed connection ports, located optoelectronically to make and can also be processed automatically with the help of addressing and optoelectronic control.

Here, functional substructures of the application designs, for example consisting of hollow conductor materials with features of membrane-like walls and/or surface segments with catalytic properties or thread materials with integrated conductor structure fragments, should advantageously be able to be recorded as individually addressable units, which can be provided in large numbers within devices or modules.

Advantageously, a step-by-step digital monitoring and Remote control methods are to be provided in functional textile structural parts, which should support further planned assembly and processing processes.

It is proposed that the 3-D functional textiles to be manufactured as preliminary products should be equipped with marking elements to be provided in a matrix-like manner in addition to these associated hardware components and software components.

The intended marking elements should be able to be determined individually, at least optoelectronically, locally in their position within the bodies of the workpieces and should be provided at least in selections with software components that can be detected at least optoelectronically and at least network-addressable identifiers and data sets for the individual marking elements include.

The corresponding optoelectronically readable data should also be stored at suitable times on assignable, network-addressable data linking components and network-addressed electronic data linking components, controllers, control devices or on data carriers of microcomputers integrated within the individual application versions, which should be provided in individual device versions, with the marking elements provided from the marking matrix and the electronic components are to be mutually assigned with their IDs and their network addresses at appropriate times.

Thanks to their network addressing, the electronic data linking components, controllers and control devices and microcomputers should also be able to be connected to external electronic control and data processing devices via interfaces and integrated into network-supported control processes.

In preferred embodiments, line infrastructures with microfluidic control components for the supply and removal of liquid or gaseous media and an infrastructure to be distributed over a wide area consisting of a marking matrix and an infrastructure in the form of a data line and power line network can be found.

It is proposed that, in a characteristic way, intermediate products or workpieces intended as parts of the 3-D functional textile applications and/or versions of 3-D functional textile applications should be marked in advance in the form of an expandable marking matrix and/or a marking matrix that is still fragmented , optionally configurable later according to providence Should have conductor track raw structure in the form of not yet interconnected conductor track fragments.

In special application versions, conductor track fragments are to be integrated in advance into preliminary products such as thread materials or other thread-like materials as elements of a raw line structure, whereby marking elements and hardware components together with associated software components are also to be provided in advance on the upper side of the thread materials in the very local area above the ends of the integrated conductor track fragments. which should be machine identifiable and controllable, at least in an optoelectronic manner.

The ends made identifiable in this way for optoelectronic detection devices should be identified in advance as potential processing positions, at least in selections according to sequences to be specifically defined, and provided in advance with respective optically readable IDs.

The positions previously defined as potential processing positions are to be used in intended selections with their respective individual ID and other associated data during later processing steps and the incorporation of the relevant thread materials with integrated conductor track fragments into the workpieces, also in digital representation and calculation methods for the corresponding workpieces according to the corresponding Production progress to be transferred.

Subsequently, these potential machining positions should be used as intended to be used as positions that can be located optoelectronically within the workpiece structure and individually verified optoelectronically, to which virtual individual network addresses and position and location data regarding their position in the workpieces can also be assigned.

The marking elements should also be able to be defined subsequently after the creation of the raw structures of the workpieces as target positions for the assembly with components or processing and, if necessary, to be controlled remotely.

The conductor track fragments marked in advance at the ends and subsequently optionally editable and to be completed at the ends should be able to be subsequently connected and interconnected across structures at later times in provided selections at least within the application versions when the intended production progress is achieved.

In particular, those versions of the 3-D functional textile applications that have functional elements in the form of membrane-like and/or catalytically active surface or interface parts that characterize photocatalysis processes as process applications should also have a marking matrix as a special functional element with a plurality of target and measuring points present Have marking elements.

In preferred embodiments, marking elements should preferably indicate addressed potential connection points for the supply of output media or the discharge of process products.

In the case of designs that are intended as electrochemical process applications, multiple individual structures can be provided here, the detailed surfaces of which are provided with electrodes in the form of anodes and cathode pairs at the intended distances and sequences.

The pairs of electrodes are to be connected to current conductor infrastructures, which are to be integrated in advance as fragments in neighboring textile structure parts such as thread materials and subsequently to be connected and interconnected in planned selections by means of bridging conductors with other components such as electrodes and control components and with other power line network components.

In special designs, textile structures should be provided that have catalytic properties on their detailed surfaces and/or, as variants made of hollow conductor materials, additionally have membrane-like wall sections or other interfaces with special hydrogen permeability and/or special proton conductivity.

In preferred embodiments, the membrane-like components can be located in a layer-like manner below special catalytically active and at the same time membrane-like permeable surface materials such as metallic, particularly hydrogen-absorbing coatings or can be found as surface parts that are individually in direct proximity to catalytically active surface parts and are connected to them located on the suture material surfaces.

Here, in these special designs with characteristics of hollow profiles, special wall sections should have selectively highly membrane-like receptive material components and thereby be provided for the reception of such fluid process media or process products that arise on their other, directly adjacent surface sections with catalytic properties or in the intended way with their membrane-like ones surfaces come into contact.

The functionality and task of the textile structure details with catalytic properties is, in particular, that with the intended flow of starting media such as water through their inner, water-permeable structure, their intended inner detailed surfaces are to be found as functional elements in the form of distributed interface parts with catalytic properties and these functional elements in form of structural surface details with catalytic properties each function as a multiplicity of catalyst elements that are spatially distributed.

The absorption takes place in such a way that the individual structures of hollow pipes themselves absorb defined portioned amounts via their membrane-like interfaces, with the process product hydrogen gas occurring in the relevant application versions being distributed to individual small and mutually isolated collection volumes at low pressure ratios.

In preferred versions of the preliminary products, particularly selected thread materials should be provided with optoelectronically detectable marking elements together with the associated optoelectronically readable data deposits, which after their incorporation into the workpieces of the preliminary products during various manufacturing and furnishing steps can be repeatedly identified and relocated even if there are changes in position, whereby these are to be provided with individual, network-addressable designations and associated data records.

The ID of each marking element provided should be able to be compared via attached or attached optoelectronically readable components and electronic network-addressed data linking components when comparing the optoelectronic recording data with the marking IDs noted on electronic linking components and the data noted for this, so that the positions of the marking elements are optoelectronically and network-supported are to be located and verified and also due to our own data processing, which can also be interpreted as self-sufficient, with our own data storage records that can be called up on site as required and Providence, also automatable, with or without remote assistance.

In this case, the corresponding data on the marking components and the positions or components specified by them are to be managed and stored under the respective marking ID, it being possible here for each corresponding individual marking ID to be assigned to network addressing upon request.

In special application variants, marking elements with their own ID should be found on selections of frame-like or skeletal different support or holding structures and should be transferred as a starting point and as basic elements in virtual representations in a coordinate-like manner and can be used here as basic measuring and reference points and starting points for Calculations and position determinations to be used.

It is proposed to gradually equip at least the corresponding textile structures with a conductor track structure, with parts of the conductor track structure being integrated as fragments in production materials such as thread or filament materials in a new way and with parts of the marking matrix to be completed later in the workpieces in the form of regularly applied marking elements are each to be equipped with individual optoelectronically detectable ID information, with these marking elements intended to make the positions at the ends of integrated data or current conductor fragments recognizable and controllable as potential connection or processing positions for later processing steps.

According to this patent application, special functional elements are to be found in preferred applications, which are to be designed in the form of structural parts made of hollow fibers, hollow lines or other tube-like materials that can be connected to form line networks and have special wall portions with membrane-like characteristics.

These special functional elements in the form of textile-joined partial structures made of thread or hollow pipe or hose materials with features of membrane-like wall sections are intended for the selective absorption, storage and supply and removal of fluid process media or catalysis products such as water, hydrogen and oxygen from the external environment of the textile substructures and their outer interfaces are to be provided.

The individual marking elements distributed in the workpieces and subsequently to be provided in the workpieces should function in their entirety as individual parts of the respective marking matrix in the workpieces and thereby make it possible to provide the components, connections, hydraulic switches, Identify sensors, valves, or connector position markings on fragmentary conductor elements or other assembly and connector positions for the assembly of components, connectors, sensors, continuing electrical or data conductors, or continuing fluid conductors and associated control mechanisms.

The necessary control parameters for the optoelectronically supported control by processing machines during assembly and processing processes can be determined and calculated by retrieving data on the corresponding marking element ID and network addressing of assigned components, so that from the planning phase onwards a virtual monitoring and control process is possible, which is already possible can be used during production and should also be able to be continued after the completion of the workpieces in operation as required.

With the help of the optically readable ID markings, the markings are to be combined with further documentary data storage and network-addressed in the course of the production processes
Be assigned data linking components that can be assigned to each of these marking elements with their own network address and their own ID, if any, by means of the ID of individual marking elements.

It is proposed for preferred embodiments to provide optoelectronically detectable marking elements with optoelectronically readable information about the marking elements and their respective ID on preliminary products such as thread materials as individual designations and addresses, since these are processed into components of raw textile structures and in the raw textile structures there is an expandable and editable Basic structure of a marking matrix is built up, whose individual, addressed and ID-marked elements are located in the tissue structure by optoelectronic scanners and can be transferred to digital twin representations of workpieces and can subsequently be used as traceable reference and measurement points or as processing targets.

In this context, individual markings should also be detected virtually in pre-defined target areas within the workpieces in inferential methods and should be able to be determined in the workpieces in real terms with the help of movable optoelectronic scanning devices in the respective current positions.

It is proposed, for special applications, for example for process applications for electrochemical catalysis, to introduce an initially still fragmented conductor track structure prepared for further processing into textile raw structures, which already represent the outer circumferences and shapes of the 3-D structures in raw form, in advance. which is to be completed and put into operation in the course of the production processes.

In this context, it is proposed to introduce fragments of a data conductor or electrical conductor structure into the thread materials provided or other textile-joinable materials, whereby these fragments should be found as multiple elements, lined up in longitudinal rows and integrated into the materials, with their slightly spaced ends are defined as potential connection or processing or insertion positions and are identified by marking elements located on or on the surface of the thread materials with their own marking element ID.

Once the thread materials have been incorporated into raw textile structures, the marked positions are intended to indicate the positions on certain data conductor elements at which these are further connected in the course of the production steps with electrical or electronic components or electrically operated regulators, switches, sensors, control devices or other components, depending on the provision and design variants are possible, equipped or connected differently.

The task of the current conductor structures to be provided is preferably the supply of electrical components to be provided over a wide area, such as electrodes and other electrical components that are used, for example, to regulate the inflow and outflow of fluid output media and the handling of fluid process products and mostly on the fluid media provided here management structures can be found.

The task of the data conductor structures is the connection of those sensors, data linking components, optical signal transmitters and other data acquisition and Data exchange and control components, with the help of which both the control of the catalytic processes and the handling of the process media and the resulting process products are regulated.

Parts of the data conductor and current conductor structures and parts of the sensors and marking matrix should already be able to be put into operation during production for certain control tasks and assembly and configuration processes, so that with their help a new and targeted processing and further processing is possible in the intended areas of the workpieces will.

For example, remote-controlled signal transmitters could display exactly those positions for equipment with components to be provided later, such as hydraulic switches, valves, further conductor connections, sensors and other components that were previously planned and displayed exclusively in digital form.

As an example of a foreseeable positioning of optical signal transmitters that can be triggered remotely, line structures can be mentioned here in particular, which are provided for regulating and controlling the inflow and outflow of fluid starting materials and process products.

Depending on the application variant, the line structures in the workpieces should only be designed differently and/or completed and interconnected in later production steps after completion of the raw structures as required and subsequent completion and determination of final circuit diagrams and assembly and production specifications.

Some of the line structures themselves can be found as elastic and movable structures that have to be completed and connected in different ways and in differing positions within the components for specific later production steps at predetermined and marked positions and to be provided with control components.

With appropriate placements or activations of marked positions on moving parts in raw or intermediate products, an up-to-date, exact localization and localization of these positions by optoelectronic detection devices is required in each case during further processing at marked positions.

The data storage designs and data linking components to be assigned to individual optoelectronically detectable marking elements, which should be implemented as required, for example as barcodes, RFID tags and other data linking and communication components that can be detected in the near field, can be found at positions of the marking elements or also at a defined distance from the marking elements.

The textile-based raw structures to be further processed can, as workpieces to be further processed, before their further processing, themselves have fixed, consistent features such as consistent, distinctive outer contours with fixed corner points and/or internal structural divisions or other consistent overall and in selective details sensory or optically real identifiable features or as workpieces with flexible textile structures already have components that are to be handled as fixed frame or support structures.

The unchangeable or constantly existing, selective details or sensory or optically real identifiable features should be defined in selections in advance as reference and reference and measurement points and when creating or changing and further developing digital representations to corresponding development and production steps and corresponding to be included in digital simulations as reference and measuring points that can be represented digitally and to be depicted in digital workpiece copies.

In the event of real changes in the workpieces, the digital copies of the optoelectronically detectable elements should be updated in real time or at the specified times.

In special application versions, data link components and other electronic data link components should also be able to specify positions within the tissue structures that were not initially marked due to their individual identifiability and addressing and correspondingly readable data storage. These positions located within the tissue structures should be able to be determined using parameters that can be predetermined, and these should preferably be able to be related to elements of the marking matrix that are already known and recorded and are also virtually imaged at certain points.

As a result, positions that are located further away from the data and linking components and are to be assigned as target points and reference points should also be determined and subsequently to be marked so that these positions can then be accessed at a later point in time as required.

In preferred applications, at least after completion of the textile joining of the textile base and carrier structures or frame structures, for which essential dimensions, shape and basic structures are to be defined, positions to be provided on the workpieces should be specified as first reference points and reference points and marked with marking elements with associated data storage and /or to be provided with data linking components, with the combinations in question also being able to be recorded organizationally as the first addressable units as required.

The current actual data obtained from optoelectronic recordings of marking elements and optically readable data deposits can in principle be used as actual data obtained at corresponding points in time and, if required, can be combined with their corresponding counterparts, on which digital images of the positions defined by the markings are based relate and match.

If necessary, positions newly planned and displayed in digital representations that were not previously marked should also be determined in the workpieces with the help of optoelectronic control in conclusive methods, in which already known and digitally represented markings are used as the starting point and calculation basis and be provided with markings and intended elements.

If necessary, new target positions and measuring point markings should also be subsequently determined and defined as an update on both existing and newly added components, with the newly created, associated marking elements also being recorded digitally and a copy also in the existing digital copies would have to be integrated as an update to the workpieces and the existing digital copies of the marking matrix.

The new positions are to be identified automatically in the components by means of the addressing in the form of markings and elements that can already be found on the components that can actually be found, as well as their digital copies in digital component representations in the case of optoelectronic control, using retroactive, automated calculation methods, and automatically assigned be marked and provided with the intended elements.

Here, marking elements that are already firmly located and already digitally recorded and represented in a digital copy, which can be found at prominent structural positions, should preferably be used in a similar way to geographical measuring points as a reference basis for the inferential calculation method.

In order to ensure or support the optical identification and control of addressed marking elements in shifting positions or fixed positions, it can be provided that the marking elements are selected as optical signal transmitters that can be triggered remotely or as elements with additional optical signal transmitters, for example in the form of diodes or near-field communication components or transponders can become.

It should preferably be possible to operate these signal components remotely using digital workpiece representations and, if necessary, they should be able to be used as destination or orientation displays in robot-assisted processing.

The marking elements that can be found should be able to be identified and located here preferably indirectly according to known, inferential methods using other marking elements provided with optoelectronically readable identification data and other data according to parameters to be defined accordingly, based on their positions.

In order to determine relevant, necessary data that is not directly stored at certain markings, the position of other marking elements provided for this purpose and already provided with corresponding data links and already currently located and virtually detectable should be assumed, so that these themselves and the These defined positions can be identified almost in real time according to parameters to be defined in the tissue structures, both virtually and currently, and can be displayed as a potentially controllable target with a known identity.

Here, positions with or without indicating marking elements on textile substructures made of thread or hollow thread or hollow wire-like materials should be able to be subsequently defined and fixed, the surface of which should be covered by additional, covering coatings or laminations or functional composite materials that serve as carrier or holding structures for Catalyst material particles, hydrogels or other substances are provided to be covered during certain production steps.

The covering structures or functional outer layer to be applied subsequently can themselves have different configurations, for example in the form of bristles or scales or Velcro-like structures with hooks and/or loops and/or knobs or 2- or 3-dimensional lattice or net-like structures in microformat or in other forms with jagged surfaces in microformat.

These layers can also be designed or attached in the form of prints, cable jackets, net-like coatings or in some other way, whereby these should preferably be found as structures permeable to water or other fluid media even after they have been applied or attached.

The uppermost functional layers, which can be found on the material surfaces of the textile substructures, should themselves be able to be found as carriers for third-party substances and carriers such as hydrogels and as carriers for catalyst material particles in nanoformat.

In special applications, the structural components of these layers, which can be provided, for example, as bristle or 3-dimensional lattice structures in microformat on membrane-like thread material interfaces, can also act as host materials and carriers and/or reaction spaces for various organic and/or inorganic materials and /or be found as electrically conductive structures that can be used to supply or drain off electrical energy or could themselves function in the manner of electrodes.

The outer layers, also to be applied subsequently to textile partial structures made of thread materials, can be provided in parts as elements having electrodes or as electrodes themselves and can also be found in neighboring parts as electrical conductors and/or porous host material capable of absorbing media.

This host material could be implemented, for example, in the form of defined electrically conductive composite material structures in microformat with components such as polymers and proportions of semiconductor materials and metallic material proportions.

Different electrode materials can also be provided on different thread structures that are to be provided at a corresponding distance from one another, or also on and in individual textile thread structures with a hollow profile, separated according to anode and cathode, can be provided in their inner cavities or in their walls.

In special applications, provision can be made for electrolytes or carrier media and electrode materials bound to the carrier media to be present within interstices of textile partial structures made of thread material with a hollow profile cross-section, which can be found, for example, as interstices within mesh or looped or pile thread structures.

In this context, provision can be made for this material to be found in solid form or in the form of particles indirectly bound in solid form or in the form of amorphous material mixtures or in the form of electrode materials dissolved in fluid, moveable carrier media.

Variants should also be foreseeable in which liquid electrolytes can be provided within the interstices of textile substructures separated in a chamber-like manner by exchangeable membranes that can be provided separately, for example here within these structures separated in a chamber-like manner as interstices of mesh or loop or pile thread structures.

Zeichnung 1a

(schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel) zeigt: Fadenmaterial roh (Vorprodukt vor der textilen Verarbeitung)

Zeichnung 1b:

(schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel) zeigt: Abschnitt eines Fadenmaterial roh (Vorprodukt vor der textilen Verarbeitung) in der Oberflächenansicht

Zeichnung 2a:

Detail von vorgesehenem Fadenmaterial mit zweilagig geschichtetem Wandungsaufbau und innen liegenden Leiterbahnfragmenten

Zeichnung 2b:

Detail von vorgesehenem Fadenmaterial mit zweilagig geschichtetem Wandungsaufbau und mit innenliegenden Leiterbahnfragmenten im Querschnitt (schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel - bezugnehmend auf Zeichnung 2a)

Zeichnung 2c:

Vergrößertes Detail aus Zeichnung 2a (Schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel)

Zeichnung 3a:

Abschnitt einer Hohlleitungmaterials mit bereits aufgebrachten Markierungselementen (schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel / Aussenansicht im Detail)

Zeichnung 3b:

Detail eines Hohlleitungsmaterials im Längsschnitt (nach Modifikation und Weiterbearbeitung - in Nachfolge auf Zeichnung 3a ) (schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel)

Zeichnung 4a:

Querschnitt von zumindest anteilig vorgesehenen Abschnitten eines Hohlleitungs- oder Hohlfadenmaterials mit wasseraufnahmefähigen Oberflächenanteilen (schematische Darstellung)

Zeichnung 4a:

Querschnitt eines Hohlfadenmaterials mit mehrlagig aufgebauten Wandungen und einer Ummantelungsschicht (schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel hier: Netzartig ausgeführte Ummantelungsschicht - siehe Zeichnung 4b)

Zeichnung 4b:

Längsschnitt eines Hohlfadenmaterials mit mehrlagig aufgebauten Wandungen und einer Ummantelungsschicht (schematisches Ausführungsbeispiel hier: netzartig ausgeführte Ummantelungsschicht - siehe Zeichnung 4a)

Description of the drawings:

Drawing 1a

(schematic embodiment) shows: thread material raw (pre-product before textile processing)

Drawing 1b:

(schematic embodiment) shows: section of a raw thread material (pre-product before textile processing) in the surface view

Drawing 2a:

Detail of the intended thread material with a two-layer wall structure and conductor track fragments lying on the inside

Drawing 2b:

Detail of the intended thread material with a two-layer wall structure and with conductor track fragments on the inside Cross section (schematic embodiment - referring to drawing 2a)

Drawing 2c:

Enlarged detail from drawing 2a (schematic embodiment)

Drawing 3a:

Section of a hollow pipe material with marking elements already applied (schematic embodiment / exterior view in detail)

Drawing 3b:

Detail of a hollow pipe material in longitudinal section (after modification and further processing - in the following on drawing 3a) (schematic embodiment)

Drawing 4a:

Cross-section of at least partially intended sections of a hollow pipe or hollow fiber material with water-absorbent surface parts (schematic representation)

Drawing 4a:

Cross-section of a hollow fiber material with multi-layered walls and a cladding layer (schematic example here: latticed cladding layer - see drawing 4b)

Drawing 4b:

Longitudinal section of a hollow fiber material with multi-layered walls and a cladding layer (schematic example here: latticed cladding layer - see drawing 4a)

References to the drawings: Show it: (1) Circuit fragment in cross section (drawing 2b) (1a) Circuit fragment in longitudinal section (drawing 2a; 2c) (1b) Circuit fragment in longitudinal section (drawing 2b; 2c) (2) 1. Wall of hollow fiber material (Drawing 2a; 2b; 2c; 3b; 4a; 4b) (3) Marking component with individual ID (Drawing 1a; 1b; 2a; 2b; 2c; 3a; 3b) (4) 2. Wall layer or membrane layer (Drawing 2a; 2c; 3b; 4a; 4b) (5) optoelectronically or electronically readable component (Drawing 1a; 1b; 2a; 2b; 2c; 3a; 3b) (data linking component) With marker ID/position ID) (6) Spacing area between trace fragments integrated into hollow fiber material (drawing 2a; 2c) (7) Cavity/chamber (empty or to be provided for later filling or flow with fluids (Drawing 2a; 2b; 2c) (7a) interior space/cavity within (Drawing 3a; hollow fiber materials (8th) 3. Wall layer or functional layer with a supporting or host structure (8a) and nanocoated particles integrated there (Drawing 3b; 4a; 4b) (9) Outer layer or covering (drawing 3b)

Claims (12)

Process for the use of 3-D functional textile structures that can be designed in different ways and subsequently configured as required, which are manufactured as textile pre-products and, according to the intended design, have components made of thread materials with catalytic material properties and/or thread material portions with a hollow profile cross-section and/or thread materials with components that are internally integrated on the material side, wherein the textile pre-products are provided with additional hardware components such as marking elements before they are further manufactured, with optoelectronically readable data records or marking elements indicating the destination being integrated in these electronic hardware components, characterized in that additional software components and data linking components are integrated in the hardware components and these hardware components are network-addressable elements that belong together Units can be recorded and activated si nd. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that thread material parts with a hollow profile cross-section have membrane-like hollow walls that are selectively permeable to material or charge and thread materials are provided with integrated energy or data conductor elements, network-addressable units being provided on the surfaces of the thread materials in question. Method according to Patent Claim 1, characterized in that the marking elements contained in the network-addressable units detect positions on detailed surfaces of components of the preliminary products by sensors, so that these marking elements can be used as target points for placement or as measuring points after selection. Method according to Patent Claim 1, characterized in that the activation of the software components that can be provided as components of network-addressable units are defined and displayed and, if a selection can be made optionally, are controlled and digitally documented. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that tubular or hollow threads are also used as thread materials, which are available in selection their processing are provided on their surfaces in a matrix-like manner with marking elements and these respectively associated hardware and software components. Method according to Patent Claim 5, characterized in that the marking elements and hardware components to be provided on the thread material surfaces are embedded flush in protective sealing materials. A method according to claim 6, characterized in that the protective sealing materials to be provided on the thread material surfaces are removed during subsequent manufacturing steps after the thread materials have been incorporated into the bodies of the workpieces. Method according to Patent Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that network-addressable units are assigned to individual copies of energy or data conductor elements and, in this case, preferably positions on the thread material surfaces in the area of the ends of the energy or data conductor elements and other intended positions on the thread material surfaces as potentially selectable target positions for Make assemblies or processing optoelectronically detectable and label them in a network-addressable manner. Method according to Patent Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that anodes or cathodes are placed at the positions indicated by the marking elements and network-addressable units, which are to be provided internally integrated by means of bridging conductors and components with line structures to be provided on the thread material side or in a manner covering the thread structure by means of bridges and components with external conductor structures get connected. Method according to Patent Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the positions indicated by the marking elements and network-addressable units on the surfaces of thread material structures are indicated, at which connections and components for connecting and controlling functional surface coatings to be provided or functional thread material coatings to be provided can be made, whereby these are to be broken down into segments and assigning individual segments to units to be provided proximate to those segments. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that coverings or coatings are applied to thread materials which themselves have a microstructured three-dimensional structure which is intended to be similar to a three-dimensionally structured permeable lattice structure and are to be provided as media-permeable carriers for hydrogels and microstructured carrier materials, the carrier materials to be stored components of catalyst materials that can even be found on a nanoscale. Method according to Patent Claim 10, characterized in that thread material structures have parts with a hollow profile cross-section and are suitable for the internal guidance of gaseous or liquid media.

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