TEXTILE STRUCTURE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME

• US 20140030455A1
• Filed: 04/02/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Safety Textiles GmbH (Hyosung Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Global Safety Textiles GmbH (Hyosung Corporation)
• Inventors: Ruschulte, Jrg, Stegmaier, Thomas, Sartori, Julian
• Application Number:
  US13/983,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20140030455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/35.2
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1075 with muscles or tendons
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/142 comprising inflatable bodies
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 1/02 Inflatable articles
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 41/004 Looms for three-dimensional fabrics
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 7/00 Woven fabrics designed to be resilient, i.e. to recover from compressive stress
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 15/20 inflatable, e.g. shaped, strengthened or supported by fluid pressure
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2015/201 with inflatable tubular framework, with or without tent cover
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2015/204 made from contiguous inflatable tubes
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/025 in the form of an overhead canopy, e.g. carports
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 15/10 the motor being of diaphragm type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1334 Nonself-supporting tubular film or bag [e.g., pouch, envelope, packet, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/3008 Woven fabric has an elastic quality

Abstract

The invention relates to a textile structure element, having textile stretch elements and integrated textile support elements, wherein, in places, the stretch elements and the support elements are interconnected and allow, at least in part, a spatial expansion of at least one fillable stretch element and/or support element.

Claims

1. A textile structural element, having textile stretch elements and integrated textile supporting elements, wherein said stretch elements and the supporting elements are portionally interconnected and at least partially allow a spatial expansion of at least one inflatable stretch element and/or supporting element, characterized in that said textile stretch elements and/or textile supporting elements are configured woven in one piece, i.e. as OPW (OPW=one-piece-woven) airbags or as single and multilayer woven textile sheeting provided with air chambers.

2. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 1, characterized by contractible stretch elements and spatially expandable or constant supporting elements.

3. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 1, characterized by a first fabric layer (I) comprising textile stretch elements, a second fabric layer (II) comprising fabric supporting elements and a third fabric layer (III) comprising textile stretch elements.

4. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 3, characterized by a fourth fabric layer (IV) comprising textile supporting elements.

5. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 1, characterized by a first fabric layer (I) comprising non-inflatable textile stretch elements, a second fabric layer (II) comprising inflatable textile supporting elements and a third fabric layer (III) comprising non-inflatable textile stretch elements.

6. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 5, characterized by a fourth fabric layer (IV) comprising inflatable fabric supporting elements and a fifth fabric layer (V) comprising inflatable textile stretch elements.

7. The textile structural element, as set forth in claim 1, comprising at least partially inflatable stretch elements and supporting elements, characterized in that said stretch elements and/or the supporting elements are individually inflatable, and in that the outer shape of the textile structural element can be changed by inflating.

8. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 7, characterized in that said structural element can be rendered curved.

9. The textile structural element as set forth in claim 7, characterized in that said structural element is adapted to grip and/or hold and/or clamp objects.

10. A method of producing a textile structural element as set forth in claim 3, characterized in that one-piece-woven (OPW=one-piece-woven) airbags or textile sheeting woven single and multilayer and provided with air chambers (31) and portions of fabric sheeting are stitched together.