| 摘要 |
New bodily cooling techniques are provided. In some aspects of the present invention, a new rapidly-evaporating cooling gel or fluid is sprayed or doused over or about an athlete's body and/or worn garments in thermal-reduction-optimized gravitational, diffusion and movement-induced patterns, to maximize cooling during exercise. In some aspects, a worn garment may serve as the matrix or platform for this distribution of the fluid. In other aspects, tuned, heat-absorbing port-controlling devices cause the release of the cooling gel or fluid from distribution tubes or other channels (e.g., integral to the flexible fabric itself) upon local underlying body heat exceeding a threshold, and resealing (halting release) upon body or regional heat dropping below a threshold. In still other aspects, heat-expanding sub-elements rise away from a body heat source toward a wider region for heat release, while other cooled sub-elements descend and exchange places with them, to absorb more body heat. |
| 主权项 |
1. A network or matrix of coolant fluid transporting conduits mounted in, on or about a garment, comprising at least one coolant fluid containing conduit and at least one openable port(s), placed at a location(s) such that, when coolant fluid is released from said port(s), it will be guided more predominantly onto at least one first region of a human or other animal's body which at least one first region is a more effective medium for transpiration cooling of said body than at least one second region of said body, wherein triggering to release coolant fluid from the openable port(s) is by thermodynamic expansion of a ring or other shaped structure within the openable port(s), wherein the ring or the other shaped structure comprises a thermally expanding material. |
