JP2011044235A - Wearing tool equipped with reflective material, light-emitting material or luminous material - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wearing tool equipped with a reflective material, a light-emitting material or a luminous material, free in expansion/contraction, easy to be removed and carried, and contributing improvement in a finding rate by night. <P>SOLUTION: The wearing tool 10 is equipped with a flexible base material 12 possessing stretch porperties, and transfer portions 11 onto which the reflective material, the light-emitting material or the luminous material is transferred. The transfer portions are formed on a plurality of positions with a predetermined interval in a stretching direction of the base material. Since the wearing tool is flexible, it can be easily fitted or removed to and from an arm or a foot or the like capable of being closely adhered. And, since fabric or the like used for the base material is flexible, the wearing tool gives no unpleasant feeling but an excellent effect capable of being carried by being folded into a small shape. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an appliance including a reflective material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material that can expand and contract and can be easily attached / detached and carried and contributes to an improvement in the night discovery rate.

  In the evening or at night, pedestrians and bicycles are difficult to see from drivers of cars and the like, and traffic accidents may occur. As a countermeasure, it is recommended that pedestrians wear bright and conspicuous clothes, but in general, the percentage of people wearing dark clothes is high. Therefore, in addition to wearing bright clothes, a device equipped with a reflective material, a light emitting material or a phosphorescent material (hereinafter referred to as “equipment” means a piece of clothing worn by a person and a thing that is attached to anything other than a person. Can be considered to improve the visibility from the driver.

  Vests used at construction sites and specific work clothes are conceived as appliances equipped with reflective materials, etc., but none are generally widely used. This is thought to be largely influenced by fashion factors, but not only that, but also because the reflective material is thick, it is not comfortable to wear, and it is inconvenient to store and carry. It is done.

  It is also effective to fasten a carried armband or the like (for example, the armband described in Patent Document 1) with a hook-and-loop fastener or a safety pin, or to apply a reflective tape to a bag or the like. I don't see it. It can be said that this is because safety awareness is not widely permeated, but conventional armbands are difficult to bend and are inconvenient to carry, and also have problems that they are complicated to wear. I can say that. Reflective tapes are not used very much because they do not look good in the daytime.

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  However, since it is important from a safety aspect to inform the driver of his / her location with a reflector or the like and improve the night discovery rate, it should be disseminated more generally. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide an appliance that is easier to use than in the past.

  Therefore, in view of such a situation, the present invention provides an appliance including a reflective material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material that is extendable and easy to attach / detach and carry and contributes to an improvement in the night discovery rate.

  The appliance of the present invention is characterized by having a flexible base material having elasticity, and a transfer portion to which a reflecting material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material is transferred. In addition, when a base material has a stretching property mainly in one direction, it is good to set it as the structure where the transfer part is formed in several places at predetermined intervals in the expansion / contraction direction of the said base material. In addition, when the base material has stretchability in two directions or in a plurality of directions, the transfer portion is formed in a plurality of places with a desired interval with respect to the respective stretch directions of the base material in a dotted or small pattern. It is good to have a configuration.

  Here, the brace can be configured to form an annular shape in one expansion / contraction direction of the base material, or a retroreflecting material can be used as the reflecting material. In addition, the transfer portion may be formed by thermocompression-bonding a film having a reflective material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material, or formed by screen printing an ink containing the reflective material, the light emitting material, or the phosphorescent material. May be.

  Conventionally, there has been no device in which a reflective material or the like is transferred to a flexible base material having elasticity, but according to the present invention, the elasticity is not hindered, and thus transfer is possible. Moreover, according to the orthosis of this invention, since it can expand-contract, attachment / detachment to an arm, a leg, etc. is easy and can be made to contact | adhere. And since a base material is flexible, the feeling of attachment is not unpleasant, and there exists an outstanding effect that it can be folded small and carried. In addition to being worn by a person, it can be used by being attached to various objects such as a bag, a cane, a bicycle, and a construction tool.

It is a figure which shows the brace which transferred the reflecting material etc. to the base material which expands-contracts in one direction. It is the figure which made the orthosis of FIG. 1 cyclic | annular. It is a figure which shows the brace which transferred the reflecting material etc. to the base material which expands-contracts in a plurality of directions.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a view showing an appliance in which a reflective material or the like is transferred to a base material that expands and contracts in one direction. The appliance 10 is a transfer unit 11 in which the surface of the base material 12 is thermocompression-bonded using a film having a reflective material, a luminescent material, or a phosphorescent material, or screen-printed with ink containing the reflective material, the luminescent material, or the phosphorescent material. Is formed. The base material 12 is a fiber, rubber, resin, or the like having elasticity and flexibility mainly in one direction like a knitted fabric. The transfer portions 11 are formed at a plurality of locations on the surface of the base material 12 with a desired interval in the direction in which the base material 12 expands and contracts.

  Here, when the transfer unit 11 is a reflective material, it is desirable to use a retroreflecting material that reflects incident light toward the light source because the viewing distance is long. In the case of a retroreflective material, for example, a 3M (registered trademark) Scotchlite (registered trademark) reflective transfer film can be used. This reflective film has a glass bead coated on the front surface, and a thermally activated adhesive is applied to the back surface, and therefore can be transferred to the substrate 12 by thermocompression bonding. When the reflection film is transferred, the transfer portion 11 is provided on the base material 12 as shown in the cross-sectional view of FIG. 1. However, since the thickness of the reflection film is about 0.1 mm, it is almost practical. There is no thickness, and it is good to carry the brace smallly. It should be noted that a light-emitting material or a phosphorescent material may be used other than the reflective material as long as the purpose is to contribute to night visibility.

  Since the transfer unit 11 has a smaller expansion / contraction rate than the base material 12, if a reflection material or the like is transferred over the entire surface of the base material 12, the transfer unit 11 may be prevented from expanding and contracting, and the transfer unit 11 may be cracked or peeled off. . Therefore, if the reflective material or the like is transferred at a desired interval in the expansion / contraction direction, the base material 12 can expand / contract at the portion where the transfer is not performed, so that the stretchability of the entire appliance 10 is not hindered. Therefore, it is desirable that the shape of the transfer portion 11 is a rectangle, an ellipse, or other elongated shape having a long side in a direction orthogonal to the expansion / contraction direction of the base material 12. Further, if a desired interval is provided in the expansion / contraction direction, a dot-like row or a wavy pattern can be formed. Even when the substrate 12 expands and contracts in only one direction, the substrate 12 also expands and contracts somewhat in the longitudinal direction of the transfer portion 11. However, the expansion and contraction in this direction can be substantially followed by the transfer unit 11.

  Moreover, the transfer part 11 which has the same effect as the case where a film is thermocompression-bonded can be formed by screen-printing the ink containing a reflecting material, a luminescent material, or a luminous material on the base material 12. Also at this time, if printing is performed with an interval in the expansion / contraction direction, an effect of not inhibiting the stretchability of the entire brace 10 can be obtained.

  FIG. 2 is an annular view of the appliance of FIG. Thus, by making it annular, the device 10 of the present invention can be easily attached to various parts. For example, it can be used not only as an armband but also attached to a foot. If the size is changed, it can be attached to the head (hat or helmet) or to the torso. In addition to being worn by people, it can also be used by attaching it to a handle portion of a cane or umbrella, a bag, or the like. In addition, if it is put on a bicycle basket, it can also be used as a countermeasure against snatching. In other words, it can be carried more easily than before, and the range of use is widened.

  In addition, although the example made into the cyclic | annular form closed with the brace 10 itself is shown in FIG. 2, it can also be used by carrying out cyclic | annular form by providing a hook-and-loop fastener and a fastener in the edge part of the brace 10 of FIG. In the case of armbands, it is easier to use the closed ring as shown in Fig. 2 because it is only necessary to pass the arm, but for example, when you want to pass it through your feet while wearing shoes. Since shoes are in the way, it is easier to wear them by wrapping them around the legs and fastening them with hook-and-loop fasteners.

  FIG. 3 is a view showing an appliance obtained by transferring a reflective material or the like to a base material (for example, rubber) that expands and contracts in a plurality of directions. Here, the arrangement of the transfer portion 11 when the base material 12 expands and contracts in all directions becomes a problem. Since the reflective material has a smaller expansion / contraction rate than the base material 12, if the transfer material is transferred without any interval in the expansion / contraction direction, the elasticity of the base material 12 is inhibited, and the transfer portion 11 is not cracked. This is because peeling easily occurs.

  If the expansion / contraction direction of the base material 12 is unidirectional as shown in FIG. 1, the transfer unit 11 may be formed in an elongated shape such as a rectangle and spaced in the expansion / contraction direction. However, as shown in FIG. When expanding and contracting, it is necessary to arrange the transfer unit 11 as a dot or small pattern. When aligned at regular intervals as shown in FIG. 3, the transfer unit 11 can be spaced to some extent in both vertical and horizontal directions, so that problems such as cracks are unlikely to occur when the appliance 20 expands and contracts. it is conceivable that. Here, the small pattern is not limited to a simple shape such as a circle, a triangle, a square, or the like, but may be a character or a one-point design, although it is limited to a range that can be manufactured.

  In the case of a base material that expands and contracts in a plurality of directions as shown in FIG. 3, the use range is widened and portability is improved by making it annular as shown in FIG. 2. Moreover, since it expands and contracts in all directions, it can be worn on joints such as knees and elbows.

  In addition, even when the ink containing the reflective material, the light emitting material, or the phosphorescent material is screen-printed, if the transfer portion 11 is arranged as a dot-like or small pattern, similarly to the case of thermocompression bonding, the expansion and contraction is inhibited. In addition, the same effect can be obtained that the transfer portion 11 can be prevented from being cracked or peeled off.

  As in the present invention, the use range of the reflective material or the like has been expanded by using the reflective material or the like by thermocompression bonding or screen printing on the fiber or the like rich in elasticity and flexibility. Moreover, since the orthosis of this invention can be folded small and can carry easily, it thinks that it is easy to spread generally and can contribute to traffic safety.

10, 20 Equipment 11 Transfer part 12 Base material

Claims (7)

  An appliance comprising: a flexible base material having elasticity, and a transfer portion to which a reflecting material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material is transferred. The base material is a base material having elasticity mainly in one direction,
The appliance according to claim 1, wherein the transfer unit is formed at a plurality of positions with a desired interval in the expansion and contraction direction of the base material. The substrate is a substrate having elasticity in two or more directions,
The appliance according to claim 1, wherein the transfer portion is formed in a plurality of places with a desired interval with respect to each expansion and contraction direction of the base material in a dotted or small pattern.   The appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the appliance forms an annular shape in one expansion and contraction direction of the base material.   The appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the reflective material is a retroreflective material.   The appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the transfer portion is formed by thermocompression bonding a film having a reflective material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material.   The appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the transfer portion is formed by screen printing ink containing a reflective material, a light emitting material, or a phosphorescent material.

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