GB2574678A

GB2574678A - Compression clothing to monitor body temperature and heart rate

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Publication number: GB2574678A
Application number: GB1809903.6A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Ellis John
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2018-06-16
Filing date: 2018-06-16
Publication date: 2019-12-18
Also published as: GB201809903D0

Abstract

A garment, which may be a compression sportswear apparel incorporates a lueco crystal dye to provide a thermochromic indicator. The indicator may be in the form of thin rubberised adhesive lines encapsulating imbedded leuco crystals that are layered on the garment, 2, 3 and 4 in specific areas of the garment. Colour change may be triggered by an alteration in body temperature of the wearer, by virtue of exercise, or by a change of the ambient temperature surrounding the wearer.

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Compression clothing to monitor body temperature and heart rate.

This invention relates to a garment that will be worn very close to the body and skin of a person. The clothing/garment will have very fine textured lines merged and or layered/integrated on the fabric of the garment that follow the contour lines of the muscle fibres of the human body. When the wearer of the garment is either exercising of participating in physical activity or simply exposed to a change in external environment temperature, the fibres on the garment will be triggered either by heat or cool temperature’s thus causing the textured lines to change colour acting as a visual indicator for the wearer of the garment.

A person wearing the garment will be able to see from a visual perspective if the muscles they are exercising are working at the optimum temperature range depending on the exercise and environment in question.

Also an entire spectrum of reactive colour changing textured lines can be used on different garments specific to the activity sought.

Example; A person may wear the garment with the colour changing temperature sensitive rubberised fibres climbing and when the outside environment dropped below 0 degrees Celsius the fibres would react to the temperature change by turning from black to blue, thus acting as a visual indicator to the wearer who may not have noticed as he was participating in physical activity and had not noticed. The garment could also have each fibre uniquely fused with a different colour and temperature setting pre-installed allowing the garment to show a range of colours each set for a different temperature.

The garment/clothing will be made of material such as Lycra, Spandex (both TM registered names) or a combination of materials. The material will be worn close to the skin in order to give effective use to the wearer. On the garment, the major muscle parts such as the pectorals and triceps but not limited too, will have a thin rubberised adhesive printable strips applied to the garment, giving the appearance of a correct anatomical look and feel, similar to muscle fibres.

The thin rubberised printable strips will be infused with leuco dye and liquid crystals, the strips will either have a specific set trigger temperature for if a person was exercising in the weights gym and need an optimum workout muscle temperature to maximise the exercise or the garment can have the rubberised strip’s set at a much lower trigger temperature of say 0 degrees Celsius thus alerting an outdoors activity person to a temperature change in the external environment by way of visual aid to which they may not have noticed due to exercise. The garment can have the ability if required to have a combination of strips with different colours and temperature setting to each rubberised strip placed on the garment acting like a traffic light colour system warning to either increase or decrease in either body, environment or both depending on requirements. Once the garments have passed the active temperature they change colour and will return to the original colour once they have either heated up or cooled depending on the active temperature.

The garment will aid the wearer in keeping track of their body temperature and/or external environment while participating in exercise.

The garment can be worn as either a top or bottoms or as a combination or the two. The colour changing effect triggered by either body temperature or external environment, which is integrated on the garment will be made from liquid crystal components mixed at either a Nano/Micro level encapsulation causing an expansion or contraction effect with temperature. The mixture can be calibrated to a specific temperature.

In figure 1, the compression garment to monitor body temperature is shown as a top/long sleeve t-shirt, which will be worn close to the skin 1.

The thin rubberised adhesive lines that will be printed on the garment will have very fine lines of imbedded leuco crystals layered across the garment on the surface 2,3 and 4.

In figure 2, the compression garment to monitor body/muscle temperature shown as a top will have the colour changing strips across the major muscle groups and/or can be specific to a group of muscles, such as pectorals 3.

Claims

1. A compression garment to monitor body/muscle temperature or external environment temperature using encapsulated leuco crystals for visual aid.

2. A compression garment to monitor muscle temperature when exercising to aid optimum muscle growth or endurance using a visual aid.

3. A compression garment to act as a visual indicator to the change in external temperature change while exercising.