Technique for Producing Woven Fabric with Moisture Mangement Properties
A technique allowing manufacturers to produce woven moisture management fabrics with good moisture transfer properties is based upon a model of the fabric construction, thereby avoiding a manufacturing trial-and-error process. An initial woven fabric design including hydrophilic and hydrophobic yarns are modeled, the warp and weft yarns generally lying in a plane of the fabric. By orthographic projection onto respective planes substantially parallel to the plane of the fabric, a first view and an opposing second view of a unit cell of the model is produced. If the total projected area of hydrophobic yarn on one of the first and second views is between 40% and 70% of the total projected area, and total projected area of hydrophilic yarn on the other of the first and second views exceeds 50% of the total projected area, then a fabric according to the fabric design will have near optimum moisture wicking properties and is manufactured to the design. Otherwise, in an iterative process, one of the factors in the model is varied and the design steps repeated.
Inventor: Li, Yi | Hu, Jun-Yan
Priority Number: US7565920B2
IPC Current: D03D001500 | D03D000100 | D06M002308 | D03D002300 | D03D002500
US Class: 139420A | 139420R | 139426R
Assignee Applicant: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Title: Woven fabric with moisture management properties
Usefulness: Woven fabric with moisture management properties
Summary: For producing a woven moisture management fabric having a design including hydrophilic and hydrophilic yarns (claimed) useful for wicking sweat or moisture away from the skin; in components of clothing including sports wear, causal wear, uniform and pants; and also in components of diaper and household articles such as bed sheets, covers and pillows.
Novelty: Producing woven moisture management fabric for wicking sweat from skin involves summing areas or structure cross points of hydrophilic and hydrophobic yarns on both sides of fabric to determine hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas
紡織/服裝
織品工程
LI Yi
HU Jun-yan
美國
