Patents Assigned to The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited
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Patent number: 11892443Abstract: A micro-environment controllable temperature and humidity system evaluates heat and humidity comfort level of textiles. The system includes a bed-shaped partitioned platform having one or more non-temperature and humidity-controllable sections and one or more temperature and humidity controllable sections. One or more temperature and humidity control machine is in communication with the one or more temperature and humidity control sections for supplying air with a pre-set temperature and humidity. A central controller electrically is connected to the one or more temperature and humidity control machines. The micro-environment controllable temperature and humidity system can perform partitioned control on the temperature and humidity in a micro-environment during sleep, and is used for studying the influence of the temperature and humidity on the comfort level of different regions of a subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventors: Lei Yao, Xiao Liao, Siyu Lin
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Patent number: 11868018Abstract: Disclosed are an electrochromic element, device, and product, and a manufacturing method therefor. The electrochromic device (7) comprises: an electrochromic yarn (6), an ion storage yarn (18), and a power source (8), wherein the electrochromic yarn (6) contains a first flexible conductive yarn (5) and an electrochromic layer (4) coated on a surface layer of the first flexible conductive yarn (5); the ion storage yarn (18) contains a second flexible conductive yarn (1) and an ion storage layer (17) coated on a surface layer of the second flexible conductive yarn (1); and the first flexible conductive yarn (5) is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source (8), and the second flexible conductive yarn (1) is electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power source (8). The electrochromic device (7) can achieve a clear color development effect and make an electrochromic material have a good fastness.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventors: Edwin Yee Man Keh, Lei Yao, Yeung Yu Hui, Xinxin Huang, Yue Kit Hui, Colin Xin Chen, Derek Lai
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Patent number: 11860051Abstract: Disclosed are an intelligent bionic human body part model detection device and a method for manufacturing same. The device comprises: a bionic human body part model (1); and multiple optical fiber grating sensing units (5) which are integrated on an optical fibre and arranged at multiple pre-determined positions of the bionic human body part model (1). The device can improve the accuracy of the detection of pressure applied to the intelligent bionic human body part model.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventors: Xiao-ming Tao, Bao Yang, Xi Wang, Su Liu, Xia Guo, Shi-rui Liu
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Patent number: 11802370Abstract: A method for decolorizing a dyed textile comprising a synthetic fiber and a disperse dye, the method includes contacting the dyed textile with a super critical fluid thereby extracting at least a portion of the disperse dye from the textile into the super critical fluid and forming an at least partially decolorized textile.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Edwin Yee Man Keh, Lei Yao, Hok Chung Chan, Sai Lung Fung, Un Teng Lam, Lap Hung Chan, Lee Ying Yu
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Patent number: 11801403Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms, a washable mask for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms, applications of the mask and a method for manufacturing the same. The method for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms includes the steps of: providing a mask with a breathing zone, the breathing zone being used for covering a breathing part of a user; arranging two or more magnets around the breathing zone of the mask, the magnets generating a three-dimensional magnetic field, so as to change the moving trajectories of charged microorganisms in gas to be inhaled thereby increasing the probability of the microorganisms being captured by the filtering material.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Lei Yao, Xiao Liao, Yongli Wang, Siyu Lin
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Patent number: 11788184Abstract: Disclosed is a functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer. The functional curtain fabric is manufactured by method comprising step S1, preprocessing a fabric substrate; step S2, placing the preprocessed fabric substrate in step S1 into vacuum chamber of magnetron sputtering machine for coating: sputtering a metal onto the fabric substrate by using magnetron sputtering technology, so as to form a nano-metal film on the fabric substrate; and step S3, performing anti-oxidation treatment on the fabric substrate covered with the nano-metal film. The functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer can serve as an effective heat shield against exterior sunlight while having good light transmission. In addition, the functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer has good antimicrobial properties due to use of a metal coating of silver and titanium, and also has a degree of water resistance due to the nano-metal layer of silver and titanium.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Shou-Xiang Kinor Jiang, Jiangtao Xu, Dagang Miao, Yishu Yan, Qingxin Peng
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Patent number: 11627911Abstract: An evaluation system including a hardware system for collecting real-time data for evaluating sleeping comfort performance of a bedding system is disclosed. The hardware system includes a thermal and moisture comfort measurement system, a thermal and moisture comfort control system, a biomechanical comfort control system, and a biomechanical comfort measurement system. The evaluation system also includes a computational system having a processor and a tactile database, and a portable device. The computational system is configured to receive and process the real-time data from the hardware system, and is communicatively connected to the portable device for transmitting real-time data for evaluating the bedding system and adjusting the hardware system.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Gloria Lei Yao, John Kin-ming Leung, Erika Kit-shan Ngan, Ryan Sai-yuk Leung, Siu-cheung Ho, Lv Ru, Hing-leung Chan, Jasmine Li Chi, Yammy Yan-yi Cheng, Christopher Wui-ka Ho, Venus Hoi-yan Lee, Cathy Hiu-ching Li
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Patent number: 11396114Abstract: A method for separating and recycling a waste polyester-cotton textile by a hydrothermal reaction catalyzed by an organic acid, comprising the following steps: dividing a waste polyester-cotton textile into fragments and dispersing in an aqueous solution system of the organic acid catalyst to obtain a mixed system; in a high-pressure reactor, heating the mixed system to 110˜180° C. so that cotton fibers in the waste polyester-cotton textile undergo a degradation reaction for 0.5˜3 h to obtain a mixture; and filtering the mixture by a sieve, washing to obtain a polyester fiber aggregate, and then filtering the remaining portion by a filtration membrane in vacuum so as to obtain cotton fiber fragments after washing. Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide advantages for the separation, recycling and reuse of waste polyester-cotton textiles. For example, the catalyst used during processing is derived from nature and is biodegradable.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Edwin Yee Man Keh, Lei Yao, Xiao Liao, Yang Liu, Kevin Cheuk, Alex Chan
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Patent number: 11371169Abstract: Provided is a rubber for a textile roller and a preparation method therefor. The main material of the rubber for a textile roller is a nitrile butadiene rubber, added with conductive powder and conductive bands to form a net-node structure in the nitrile butadiene rubber by means of a mixing process, so that the rubber for a textile roller has a high electric conductivity, can timely export static electricity, and has good mechanical performance suitable for a textile roller, applicable in components of a spinning frame, a roving frame, a drawing frame and other textile machines.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Jingping Wang, Xue Luo, Chenxiao Yang, Li Li
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Patent number: 11374228Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for preparing a current collector. The method includes: (1) anchoring vinyl groups onto the surface of textiles through the silanization between hydroxyl groups and coupling agents; (2) synthesizing polyelectrolyte brushes through in-situ radical polymerization; and (3) obtaining catalyst ions on the polyelectrolyte brushes through ion-exchange and obtaining metal-coated layers through subsequent electroless deposition). The current collector according to the present disclosure has high electrical conductivity and excellent mechanical flexibility, and thus the lithium ion battery including the same is suitable for portable and wearable electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Zijian Zheng, Dongrui Wang
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Publication number: 20220054322Abstract: Disclosed is a pair of medical compression stocking, each comprising a body, an auxiliary pressure part and a present sensing part. The body is formed by means of knitting knitted yarns and inlay yarns. The auxiliary pressure part is integrated with the body, is located at an ankle of a lower limb of each medical compression stocking, and can be in contact with an ankle of a wearer. The pressure sensing part comprises a conducting part and a signal receiving part, wherein the conducting part is integrated with the body and is used for sensing pressure at a corresponding part of the medical compression stocking; and the signal receiving part can receive a signal from the conducting part, and same determines the value of the pressure from the corresponding part according to the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Xiaoming Tao, Ying Xiong, Jinyun Zhou, Shirui Liu, Chad Cheuk-Wa Tse, Xiuyuan Hu
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Patent number: 11098417Abstract: A yarn twisting method and device for a ring spinning machine is provided. The twisting method comprises the following steps: feeding three roving strands (1, 2, 3) into a back roller (8) of the ring spinning machine; after drafting, the three roving strands, three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) exiting from a nip point of a front roller (10), wherein a fiber strand (2) in the middle forms an angle with a plane formed by the other two fiber strands (1, 3), and thus the three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) form a multi-strand spinning triangle region having a three-dimensional spatial form; and in the multi-strand spinning triangle region, the three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) obtaining twist by means of a ring traveler of the ring spinning machine, and the twisted fiber strands (1 ,2, 3) are combined into a composite yarn (4) through a convergence point.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityInventors: Bingang Xu, Jie Feng
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Publication number: 20210130982Abstract: An application of a profiled fiber in an infrared radiation material and a textile, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the profiled fiber is polygonal, trefoil, quatrefoil, cross-shaped, double-cross shaped, I-shaped, epsilon-shaped, C-shaped, V-shaped, or hollow. The profiled fiber can be directly used as an infrared material having a high property and has a stable and persistent infrared function without adding an infrared additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Li LI, Feng YAN, Yifei TAO, Chenxiao YANG
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Patent number: 10980294Abstract: A leg-protecting apparatus is arranged in close contact with a body surface of a wearer to cover a thigh, a knee, and a calf of the wearer, including a biomechanically protecting strap arranged to correspond with structural locations and paths of tendons and ligaments of the knee and muscles proximal thereto during an exercise process. The strap comprises a cruciate ligament protecting strap, a patellar tendon protecting strap, a thigh muscle group protecting strap, and a calf muscle group protecting strap. Elastic moduli of the cruciate ligament protecting strap and the patellar tendon protecting strap has a step-change upon a change in a fabric tensile ratio caused by the knee bending of the wearer, wherein the step-change occurs after an initial low tensile modulus stage, during a tensile sudden-change stage, and before a high tensile modulus stage transitioning between the stages as knee angle decreases.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Yi Li, Yinglei Lin, Shu Sun, Xiao Han, Jinyun Zhou, Xuyong Cao, Yueping Guo, Jiao Jiao, Ru Lv, Qing Ye
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Publication number: 20210084897Abstract: Provided is a bio-based material having an antibacterial effect, comprising a polymer represented by a formula (1) or a mixture of the polymer represented by the formula (1) and polyethylene glycol as an antibacterial active ingredient. The use of the bio-based material is also mentioned. The antibacterial bio-based material has excellent, stable and long-lasting antibacterial activity, and has remarkable antibacterial effects against various bacteria and fungi. The antibacterial bio-based material also has excellent biodegradability and biocompatibility, is derived from bio-based products produced by microbial fermentation, has high safety and is suitable for industrial production and large-scale use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventors: Xiaoming TAO, Xingxing YANG, Ziheng ZHANG, Jun LI, Shirui LIU, Linlin MA, Bin FEI, Hang Mei LEUNG
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Publication number: 20210079565Abstract: A yarn twisting method and device for a ring spinning machine is provided. The twisting method comprises the following steps: feeding three roving strands (1, 2, 3) into a back roller (8) of the ring spinning machine; after drafting, the three roving strands, three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) exiting from a nip point of a front roller (10), wherein a fiber strand (2) in the middle forms an angle with a plane formed by the other two fiber strands (1, 3), and thus the three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) form a multi-strand spinning triangle region having a three-dimensional spatial form; and in the multi-strand spinning triangle region, the three fiber strands (1, 2, 3) obtaining twist by means of a ring traveler of the ring spinning machine, and the twisted fiber strands (1 ,2, 3) are combined into a composite yarn (4) through a convergence point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Bingang Xu, Jie Feng
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Patent number: 10942133Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for automatic detection of a fabric defect. The method comprises: preprocessing a region of a fabric to be detected during a fabric transmission process by a noise removing device to eliminate noise interference during a detection process; triggering a camera to perform image acquisition on the fabric to be detected according to rotation information of a motor of a roller of a cloth inspection machine; and automatically identifying a defect on the fabric to be detected based on an acquisition image.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventor: Wai Keung Wong
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Publication number: 20210033940Abstract: Disclosed are an electrochromic element, device, and product, and a manufacturing method therefor. The electrochromic device (7) comprises: an electrochromic yarn (6), an ion storage yarn (18), and a power source (8), wherein the electrochromic yarn (6) contains a first flexible conductive yarn (5) and an electrochromic layer (4) coated on a surface layer of the first flexible conductive yarn (5); the ion storage yarn (18) contains a second flexible conductive yarn (1) and an ion storage layer (17) coated on a surface layer of the second flexible conductive yarn (1); and the first flexible conductive yarn (5) is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source (8), and the second flexible conductive yarn (1) is electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power source (8). The electrochromic device (7) can achieve a clear color development effect and make an electrochromic material have a good fastness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Edwin Yee Man KEH, Lei YAO, Yeung Yu HUI, Xinxin HUANG, Yue Kit HUI, Colin Xin CHEN, Derek LAI
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Publication number: 20210010877Abstract: Disclosed are an intelligent bionic human body part model detection device and a method for manufacturing same. The device comprises: a bionic human body part model (1); and multiple optical fiber grating sensing units (5) which are integrated on an optical fibre and arranged at multiple pre-determined positions of the bionic human body part model (1). The device can improve the accuracy of the detection of pressure applied to the intelligent bionic human body part model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: Xiao-ming TAO, Bao YANG, Xi WANG, Su LIU, Xia GUO, Shi-rui LIU
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Patent number: 10798317Abstract: The present invention provides a multispectral color imaging device, an automatic calibration method based on a reference reflective surface, and a method for eliminating background signals. A multispectral color imaging device including a light house module comprising a light source and a light intensity collection device surrounding the light source; an integrating sphere module including an integrating sphere, a light inlet on one side of the integrating sphere, a light outlet on the top of the integrating sphere, a sample holder gateway on the other side of the integrating sphere and a sample holder having access to the interior of the integrating sphere; and a filter wheel module including a camera, a filter wheel below the camera, and a lens below the filter wheel. The device and calibration methods of the present invention together improve the accuracy and stability of the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel LimitedInventors: John Haozhong Xin, Hui-liang Shen, Quan-geng Ge