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December 26, 2014 at 07:00
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This unique invention
is being used for many applications: an electrical wire that is woven into
normal fabric. This wire is made of carbon-coated threads woven into a flexible
fabric that radiates heat. Thus, the fabric heats up.
ThermoSiv’s fabric is
made of strong nylon/polyester yarn threads that are coated with its
proprietary carbon-based compound. The semi-conductive carbon threads are woven
with additional metallic conductive threads to make an all-in-one robust and at
the same time extremely thin and flexible heating fabric.
The strong and
flexible threads can be woven using existing industrial textile facilities,
enabling it for high volume production at low cost and fast delivery.
The fabric radiates
Far Infra-Red heat (FIR) between 8-14 microns. These are the same invisible
spectrum of rays that are the healthy therapeutic rays that the sun radiates
After several years of
development, and joint R&D projects companies, such as Du Pont, Peugeot,
HoMedics and others, the company is now entering its commercialization stage.
Approximately 1.6M$ has been invested in the development of the various
applications and products thus far. The special fabric is marketed under the
name ThermoSiv.
Brig. General (Ret.)
David Agmon, has developed the unique system and it is being used in many
countries for different applications. A very popular one is to make light
clothes radiating heat, allowing ease of movement.
The recent application
creates great interest, since a major cause of death after battlefield injury
is hemorrhage: soldiers died in potentially survivable cases, because they did
not timely receive medical treatment. The new application will help detect,
identify, locate and report wounds to soldiers, in real time.
In other words, if
only wounded soldiers were located on time, the bleeding wounds were diagnosed
on time and the soldier timely received proper treatment, the number of
casualties could be significantly reduced. Zohar Dvir told i-HLS.
Dvir, an engineer that has realized the potential of the special cloth has
developed a wounded soldier detection and location based on the ThermoSiv.
The solution, which is
called WounDetect, is integrated in clothing will monitor and report wounds to
a medical team. The system includes means for calling for rescue while
precisely reporting the identity of the wounded soldier, the part of his body
which was hit, number of hits, soldier’s location, etc.
The detection is based
on measuring the electrical parameters of the cloth and physiological
parameters of wounded soldiers body and using changes in that parameters as
indices of wounds incurred by the soldier.
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