WO2017077040A1

WO2017077040A1 - Sportswear with at least one controlled temperature zone

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Publication number: WO2017077040A1
Application number: PCT/EP2016/076680
Authority: WO
Inventors: Bodo Lambertz
Original assignee: X-Technology Swiss Gmbh
Priority date: 2015-11-04
Filing date: 2016-11-04
Publication date: 2017-05-11
Also published as: DK3370555T3; SI3370555T1; CA3002310A1; CA3002310C; EP3370555B1; PL3370555T3; US20180317582A1; CN108289518A; ES2779775T3; JP6896727B2; JP2018538451A; AU2016349411A1; KR20180077208A; CN108289518B; RU2018120355A; AU2016349411B2; RU2720956C2; RU2018120355A3; DE102015118892A1; HK1254990A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a piece of sportswear with at least one controlled temperature zone (10.1) which is made of a textile fabric structure (11.1) that is shirred locally via tension zones (15.1) so as to form webs (14.1). The webs are designed to contact the skin (200) of the wearer on the interior of the fabric structure (11.1), and inner air channels (13.1) are formed between the webs. At least one groove which forms an outer air channel (18.1) is formed on the rear face of each of the webs (14.1) on the shirred sheet structure (11.1). The controlled temperature zone (10.1) is equipped with a plurality of individualized controlled temperature elements (12.1) which are contained in short webs (14.1) that are separated from one another by lateral separation zones (16.1). Adjacent inner air channels (13.1) are connected together by the separation zones (16.1), and the separation zones (16.1) are laterally offset to one another between the controlled temperature elements (12.1) such that the controlled temperature elements (12.1) are arranged so as to at least partly overlap with respect to the length of the vertical body axis (X).

Description

Sportswear with at least one climate zone

The invention relates to a sportswear item with at least one climate zone having the features of the preamble of claim 1.

Such a sports article of clothing is known from EP 1 476 033 B1. It includes ridge-shaped sections that are thickened and thereby rest on the skin and form external air channels on the back, as well as areas that do not rest on the skin and form the inner air channels. Sweat, which is absorbed by the webs and allowed to evaporate through the outer air passages, is absorbed by the skin-ridges on the inside of the garment. The evaporation leads to local cooling. Between the webs, in the inner air ducts, air can flow and provide a temperature compensation. In order to catch falling sweat, the webs are aligned substantially transverse to the body axis. Although these proven climatic zones allow excellent absorption of sweat, they have the disadvantage that the air circulation in the climate zone is only possible parallel to the bars. Heated air can not rise along the body axis within the climate zone.

The object of the present invention is thus to improve a sports clothing with at least one climate zone of the type mentioned in terms of air circulation, but to maintain the good properties with respect to sweat absorption and sweat evaporation.

l For the solution according to the present invention, a sports garment with the features of claim 1 is proposed.

According to the present invention, the climatic zones do not comprise continuous webs and air ducts which are parallel to one another, but comprise a plurality of individual air conditioning elements, each of which is formed in the known manner, but has only at least one web which does not extend over the whole Width of the climate element extends. The climate elements are separated from one another in the transverse direction to the vertical body axis by lateral separation zones.

Separation zones are within the meaning of the present invention, the areas laterally adjacent to a climatic element or between two adjacent air conditioning elements. Even vertically, the air conditioning elements are separated from each other, by transversely or obliquely extending inner air ducts as is common in the prior art. The separation zones are basically also internal air channels, but the linguistic differentiation serves to better characterize the invention with regard to the subsequent directions in which air flows up and sweat flows out.

The climate elements are surrounded by textile fabric. Between them, the inner channels are formed, circulating through the air. The air conditioning elements are arranged in such a way that drops of sweat can not run on the skin from top to bottom through the entire climate zone, because they are each collected at a deeper sweat collecting area, the next, lying on the skin web. For this purpose, the climate elements positioned at different heights with respect to the vertical body axis are arranged laterally offset from one another. The arrangement of the elements is possible in various ways, all of which have in common that the areas which rest on the skin alternate with those which do not rest on the skin in a manner such that no further trickling down of a drop of sweat is allowed. At the same time, the staggered air conditioning elements present only a small impediment to rising air. The air on the surface of the skin can circulate in several directions, since air ducts are kept open vertically by the arrangement of the air conditioning elements with separation zones between them. This allows heated air to rise through the climate zone. by virtue of the associated chimney effect, the moisture removal and thus the cooling of the skin is improved.

The arrangement preferably takes place in a regular pattern, but may also be irregular, as long as the basic principles of the invention are taken into account in the design and arrangement of the air conditioning elements, on the one hand to provide separation zones in order to allow vertical air flow and, on the other hand, to arrange the separation zones with lateral offset. in order to be able to catch swirling sweat in the next lower rows. The climatic zones with the climate elements are thus optimally adapted to the body zones that sweat particularly hard during physical activity.

The offset arrangement relates in particular to a vertical body axis. However, according to the present invention, this does not necessarily mean exactly vertical alignment when an athlete wears the sportswear, but it is intended to characterize a direction of air passage, that is, the direction in which heated air can rise along the body surface of the athlete. This air passage direction will of course be aligned in the usual movement patterns of the athlete somehow contrary to the direction of gravity, whereby not only an exactly vertical, but also oblique air passage direction is possible. It can be formed on the sports garment or even within the same climate zone and several flow strands, that is, the air flow can be fanned out. It is only important for the invention that the air passage direction is not interrupted by barriers in the flow path, as formed by the webs in the prior art.

Contrary to the direction of air passage, the direction in which drops of perspiration bead. This direction, in turn, should be interrupted according to the invention in order to absorb run-off sweat. Not every element of climate elements needs such a barrier, which is created due to the laterally offset arrangement of the climate elements. It is also possible to detach a series of rows without barriers by at least one pair of staggered rows, in which the sweat is then collected. The climatic zones can be created by knitting, but also by sticking elements on fabric or other textiles.

The shape and arrangement of the air conditioning elements can be chosen in various ways, with all embodiments having in common that the areas that rest on the skin alternate with those that are not on the skin, in a manner or offset to each other are that no unhindered trickling down a drop of sweat is possible, but that each drop of sweat are caught again as quickly as possible.

The shape of the climate elements in the plan view can e.g. be a Y, a V, an X, a double Y or the like, since these shapes are well suited to catch a drop, but at the same time represent only a slight obstacle to sideways passing, ascending air.

The climatic zones on the clothing can be different in the total extent, including all individual climate elements, in order to produce various additional benefits. You can e.g. be pulled vertically long to achieve a pronounced chimney effect, and thus to be able to transport air from as far down as possible and up to the collar of a shell or to transport the waistband of a pair of pants, where it then exits.

Preferably, the fabric is a knit that forms the climate zone and is either designed specifically for it or connected to the basic knitwear of the sportswear. In order to form the rising structures with respect to the body axis, which can be seen in the following figures, the following measures can be provided during knitting:

Linear row offset

Linear, uniform offset of single stitches

Uneven offset of single stitches

Alternate row offset of mesh zones, forming a preform

Alternate uniform offset of single stitches as well as alternate uneven offset of single stitches The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the figures. The figures show in detail:

1 shows a detail of a climatic zone of a sportswear piece in a schematic, perspective view

Fig. 2 to 5 each have a plan view of a climate zone with climate elements in different versions

Fig. 6 is a schematic plan view of a knitted climate zone with and

Fig. 7 shows the climate zone of Figure 1 in a perspective view.

FIG. 1 shows a climate zone 10.1 in a textile fabric 11.1, which may be a woven fabric or a knit fabric. The climate zone 10.1 is arranged, for example, on a piece of sports clothing and is formed there in each case at those body sites where a particularly high amount of perspiration occurs during physical activity.

The climate zone 10.1 consists in the embodiment shown of a regular arrangement of individual climate elements 12.1. Each air conditioning element 12.1 per se has at least one region in which the fabric or knitted fabric is gathered by less elastic and / or shorter tensile zones 15.1, so that on the inside of the garment, which is the skin 200 of the wearer to turn, in cross-section U- or V-shaped configuration results. As a result, a so-called web 14.1 is formed on the inside of the textile fabric 11.1. At the adjoining the skin 200 areas of the crest of the web 14.1 sweat is collected and absorbed by the textile. Between the resting on the skin 200 webs 14.1 inner air channels 13.1 are formed, through which air can circulate over the skin surface.

The collected sweat is partially transported via the textile, hygroscopic side walls of the webs 14.1 to the top of the climate zone 12.1 into the surrounding areas 17.1 of the climate elements 12.1, which are held at a certain distance from the skin surface 200 due to the webs 14.1. Here, the sweat can evaporate particularly well. The evaporative cooling, in turn, cools the air into the inner air ducts 13.1 below the surrounding areas 17.1. At the back of the webs 14.1 form trough-shaped structures that form outer air channels 18.1, also takes place on the evaporation.

Due to the fact that the outer air channels 18.1 are not completely covered by the tension zones 15.1, they can also cause evaporation of trapped sweat without this causing heat accumulation in the climate elements 12.1.

The arrangement of the air conditioning elements 12.1 in the fabric 11.1 is preferably carried out in such a way that two essential directions are fixed, namely a body axis X, which is substantially vertical when the carrier is held upright and corresponds to an air passage direction, and a transverse direction thereto, the perpendicular to the body axis or at an obtuse angle thereto. In the transverse direction, the individual climate elements 12.1 are separated from each other by the surrounding regions 17.1, under which inner air channels 13.1 are formed. Furthermore, the webs 14.1 of adjacent air conditioning elements 12.1 are separated by separation zones 16.1 in their extension in the transverse direction.

The outer air channels 18.1, which are formed in the grooves of the shirred textile are also interrupted at the separation zones 16.1, however, there is on the inside of the climate zone 10.1, below these separation zones 16.1, a cross-connection of the individual inner air channels 13.1 with each other. The separation zones 16.1 and the inner air channels 13.1 or are thus parts of an air duct network which is formed on the inner, the body side of the wearer facing side of the sheet 11.1.

The effects thus achieved are explained below by the respective plan view of the various exemplary embodiments of climate zones 10.2, 10.6 formed according to the invention, which are illustrated in FIGS. 2 to 6.

FIG. 2 shows a detail of a climate zone 10.2 according to a further embodiment of the invention. This can be formed directly on a textile fabric 1 1.2, from which the adjacent areas of the sportswear piece are formed. The climate zone 10.2 can also be made separately and connected to the other areas of the sportswear.

Fig. 2 shows the view of the skin to be turned inside of the climate zone 10.2. The dark areas are intended for contact with the skin, while the bright areas between maintain a distance to the skin surface, when the garment is worn with the climate zone 10.2.

In the climate zone 10.2 several rows of individual, each Y-shaped climate elements 12.2 are arranged, in such a way that one of the legs of the Y-shaped air conditioning elements 12.2 in the vertical direction, that is aligned parallel to the body axis X. In adjacent rows of air conditioning elements 12.2, there is also an offset of the row of air conditioning elements 12.2 in the transverse direction. As a result, wherever there is a separation point 16.2 between the climatic elements 12.2 in the overlying row and thus an inner air channel 13.2 is formed therebetween, there is a collecting area 19.2 for welding droplets. The collecting area 19.2 is formed in the embodiment of FIG. 2 by the spread apart legs of the Y-shaped air conditioning elements 12.2. The thin, dot-dashed lines with the upward-pointing arrows characterize the so-called air passage direction, ie the path that the air A heated on the skin takes on the inner side of the textile fabric 1 1.2 facing the skin. The climate elements 12.2, which are depicted as dark zones, act as a barrier on the skin due to the system and lead to a deflection of the air streams. Due to the chimney effect, the warm air moves past the obstacles upwards.

At the same time, sweat can run down from top to bottom, as shown by the thick, solid lines in the left portion of Figure 2. Welding drops that arise directly in the area between adjacent air conditioning elements 12.2, run directly on the underlying climate element 12.2, which according to the embodiment in Fig. 2 by the transverse offset of the air conditioning elements 12.2 in the second and fourth row opposite those in the first, third and fifth row is reached. The effects of catching expiring sweat S and rising of heated air A overlap everywhere; merely for clarity, the paths of the sweat S and the air A in Fig. 2 are shown in separate areas of the drawing.

FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of a climate zone 10.3 formed according to the invention. Again, in the left area, the paths of perspiration S are shown by thick arrows pointing downwards, and on the right the paths of air A are shown by thin, dashed arrows and lines. The body axis runs again vertical. In the left and right area of the climate zone 10.3 each rod-shaped air conditioning elements 12.3 are arranged. The air A can in turn ascend through the inner air channels 13.3 and the separation zones between the climate elements 12.3, 12.3 '. In a central zone, climate elements 12.3 are arranged in V-shape with each other. Within the tip-down climate element 12.3, a weld trapping region 19.3 is formed. With respect to the lateral, rod-shaped air conditioning elements 12.3 ', the arrangement is such that the offset, which leads to the formation of a Schweißauffangzone 19.3', is not caused by lateral offset of the rows of climate elements 12.3, 12.3 ', but that inclination and distance of the rod-shaped air conditioning elements 12.3 'Is coordinated so that drops of sweat that run past the respective upper ends of the air conditioning elements 12.2', are collected at a lower end of an adjacent air element 12.3 '.

The illustration in Fig. 4 corresponds in principle to the previously described representations with respect to the paths of the sweat S and the air A and the orientation of a climatic zone 10.4 with respect to a vertical body axis.

In the embodiment according to FIG. 4, individual rod-shaped air conditioning elements 12. 4 are aligned one behind the other in their elongated extent and are separated from one another by separation zones 16. 4 on the narrow sides. Several rows of climate elements 12.4 are arranged one above the other, wherein between the rows respectively surrounding areas 17.4 are formed, which form in the transverse direction to the body axis, inner air ducts 13.4. Between the rows of climate elements 12.4 there is an offset in the transverse direction by half a grid width, so that by the separation zones 16.4 downwardly dripping weld drops are collected in a collecting area 19.4. The collecting area 19.4 is formed by the respective underlying in the row and arranged as a cross bar climate element 12.4.

5 shows a further embodiment of a climatic zone 10.5. The paths of sweat and air are not shown in this case, since they also run as in the previously described embodiments. The embodiment of the climate zone 10.5 of FIG. 5 illustrates that even arrangements of climate elements 12.5 are possible without a uniform grid. In Fig. 5, the climate elements 12.5 each have different lengths per row, and also the offset The series of climate elements 12.5 among themselves has no coupled to the length of the climate elements 12.5 uniform measure. It is only essential that in turn Schweißauffangbereiche19.5 below a separation zone, which also forms an inner air duct 13.5, are provided.

FIG. 6 shows a further plan view of a climatic zone 10.6, which is arranged in a textile fabric 11. 6 designed as a knit fabric. The staircase-like structure in the illustration in FIG. 6 serves to illustrate the individual stitches. Webs 14.6 and formed at the back of outer air channels 18.6 consist for example of 10 courses, while a the outer air duct 18.6 spanning tension zone 15.6 has only a width of three courses. In a similar ratio, the width of the outer air ducts 18.6 can be increased by providing up to twenty-five rows of stitches to form an outer air duct 18.6, while the tension zones 15.6 spanning these areas have only about ten rows of stitches so that a gathering action occurs. Seen in the longitudinal extent of the outer air channels, the tension zones 15.6 have a length of two to seven stitches and are arranged at a distance of five to twenty stitches below each other, so that the outer air channels 18.6 do not result in spanned chambers with a width of five to twenty stitches. The stacked parts of air conditioning elements 12.6, which form the outer air ducts 18.6 are separated by inner air ducts 13.6 with a width of four to thirty courses.

FIG. 7 shows a single air-conditioning element 12.1 in a textile fabric 1.1 with its three-dimensional structure in a perspective view of the outer side of the clothing. It is clear that there are no sharp boundary edges in a sports article of clothing designed according to the invention, as they are only shown graphically in the schematic representations according to FIGS. 2 to 6. Clearly visible is the gathering of the textile fabric or knitted fabric by the tension zones 15.1 and the channel-shaped structure extending underneath, which forms the so-called outer air channel 18.1. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10.1 ... 10.6 Climate zone

1 1.1 ... 1 1.6 Sheets

12.1 ... 12.6 Climate element

13.1 ... 13.6 inner air duct

14.1 ... 14.6 Footbridge

15.1 ... 15.6 train zone

16.1 ... 16.6 Separation zone

17.1 ... 17.6 Surroundings

18.1 ... 18.6 outer air duct

19.1 ... 19.6 Welding catchment zone

200 skin

S sweat

A air

Claims

claims:

1. sports clothing item having at least one climate zone (10.1, ..., 10.6), which is formed from a textile fabric (11.1, ..., 11.6), which webs locally via tensile zones (15.1, ..., 15.6) ( 14.1 14.6) is gathered,

wherein the webs (4.1 14.6) are formed to bear on the skin (200) of the carrier on the inside of the fabric (11.1, ..., 11.6), wherein between adjacent webs (14.1, ..., 14.6) inner air channels ( 13.1 13.6) are formed,

wherein on the back of the webs (14.1 14.6) on the shirred sheet (11.1, ..., 11.6) in each case at least one channel is formed, which forms an outer air channel (18.1 18.6), and

wherein in the climate zone (100.1 100.6) a plurality of webs (14.1, ..., 14.6) are arranged one above the other, characterized

that in the climatic zone (100.1 100.6) a multitude of isolated

Climate elements (12.1 12.6) are arranged, the short webs

(14.1, 14.6), which are separated by lateral separation zones (16.1, 16.6),

that on the inside of the sheet (11.1, 11.6) adjacent inner air ducts (13.1 13.6) by the separation zones (16.1, ..., 16.6) are interconnected, and

that the separation zones (16.1, 16.6) between the climate elements (12.1 12.6) are laterally offset from one another such that the climate elements (12.1 12.6) are arranged at least partially overlapping with respect to the longitudinal extension of the vertical body axis (X).

2. Garment according to claim 1, characterized in that in at least one climatic zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.5, 10.6) the climatic elements (12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.5, 12.6) are at least partially angled, include an obtuse angle of 120 ° to 150 °.

3. Garment according to claim 2, characterized in that in at least one climatic zone (10.1) at least a part of the climate elements (12.1) have the shape of a lying Y.

4. garment according to claim 2, characterized in that in at least one climatic zone (10.2) at least part of the air conditioning elements (12.2) have the shape of a standing Y.

5. Garment according to claim 2, characterized in that in at least one climatic zone (10.1, 10.3, 10.6) at least part of the climatic elements (12.1, 12.3, 12.6) have the shape of a horizontal or upright V.

6. Garment according to claim 1, characterized in that in at least one climatic zone (10.3, 10.4, 10.5) at least part of the climatic elements (12.3, 12.4, 12.5) are rod-shaped and extend transversely or at an oblique angle to the body axis (X) ,

7. Garment according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the webs (14.1, ..., 14.6) and tension zones (15.1, ..., 15.6) part of a separately manufactured air conditioning element (12.1, ..., 12.6 ) associated with the fabric (1 .1, ..., 11.6).

8. Garment according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the textile fabric (11.1 11.6) is a knitted fabric, wherein the webs (14.1, 14.6) are formed from the shirred basic knit and the tension zones (15.1, 15.6) one opposite have the reduced mesh count of the basic knit.

9. Garment according to claim 8, characterized in that by a linear or alternate row offset in the Stri The climate zones have both oblique and staggered structures to the body axis (X).

Garment according to claim 8, characterized in that the climatic elements both obliquely and offset from the body axis (X) extending structures, wherein a linearly uniform or non-uniform offset knitting and / or an alternately uniform and non-uniform offset of individual stitches are provided in the knitting.