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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136555 | Abrasion resistant product and method of fabricating an abrasion resistant product An abrasion resistant woven product includes a plurality of weft yarns interwoven with a plurality of warp yarns. The plurality of weft and warp yarns are interwoven perpendicular to each other to define a webbing with opposite top and bottom surfaces. Each of the t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8061391 | 3D composite fabric A fabric includes a base pattern having at least twenty-eight weft fibers disposed in a staggered configuration and forming eight columns that comprise in alteration four weft fibers and three weft fibers, the weft fibers extending in seven layers. The fabric furthe... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7712488 | Fiber architecture for Pi-preforms A woven preform for a reinforces composite material, which may be woven flat and folded into a shape. The preform has a three-dimensional weave architecture with fill fibers woven to provide layer-to-layer interlocking of layers of warp fiber as well as interlocking... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7690401 | High-density hollow weave ground fabric A high-density hollow weave fabric for an air bag is provided, wherein an inflatable double-layer hollow weave portion is encircled on the outer periphery thereof with a seam zone including a reversible figured weave pattern and a basket weave pattern. In the seam z... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7484539 | Shaping method and structure of woven fabric with a groove A shaping method for a woven fabric having a hollow looped portion includes the steps of laying top longitudinals and bottom longitudinals in a pattern corresponding to a shape and size of the hollow looped portions, forming top warps and bottom warps in a generally... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7426943 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric includes pairs of warps obtained by stacking an upper side warp to be woven with an upper side weft and a lower side warp to be woven with a lower side weft and having, as at least one of the pairs. A pair of binding warps includes war... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424899 | Hollow-weave airbag A hollow-weave airbag is constituted of a bag portion (11) with a 1/1 bag structure, and a closed portion (12) that has two or more weave structures and adjoins the bag portion 11. In addition, the closed portion (12) is constituted of, i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412991 | Industrial two-layer fabric In an industrial two-layer fabric, either one of an upper side binding yarn and a lower surface binding yarn constituting a pair to be woven with an upper surface weft and a lower side weft passes under one lower surface weft and then passes over a plurality of lowe... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406986 | Woven tape for trimming of a brassiere A woven tape for use as a trimming of a brassiere is disclosed as including a body portion provided with a number of openings along its warpwise centerline. An advantage in the use of a woven tape according to this invention as a trimming of a brassiere is that its ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7351464 | Planar adhesive closure piece A planar adhesive closure piece for an adhesive closure, has detachable closure elements (18) that may be brought into engagement. A base material (14) has warp threads (10) and weft threads (12) and at least one functional thread (16 | 04/01/2008 |
| 7331363 | Textile weave of inelastic and elastic fiber forming an elastic weave with one or more rigid loops Procedure consisting of the of textile weaving of inelastic and elastic fiber forming an elastic weave with one or more rigid loops. Field of application: clothing, footwear, headgear, haberdashery, costume jewelry, items for personal use, travel items, cases, leath... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7319802 | Conduit insert for optical fiber cable A flexible innerduct structure is configured to contain a cable within a conduit. The innerduct structure includes a pair of adjacent strip-shaped layers of flexible material that are joined along their longitudinal edges to define a channel through which the cable ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7254853 | Air mattress An air mattress is disclosed, which comprises an upper raw material member which has a coating layer at an upper surface of the same; a lower raw material which is spaced and installed at a lower side of the upper raw material member and has a coating layer at a low... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243825 | Bag holder A bag holder for use in a vehicle trunk comprising a trunk lid having trunk hinges which attach the trunk lid to the vehicle. The bag holder device comprises a band portion having two ends, the band portion being at least partially elastically stretchable and of suf... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237575 | Tetraxial fabric and machine for its manufacture A tetraxial fabric is obtained using warp yarns, weft yarns, first bias yarns and second bias yarns. The warp yarns alternate to the weft yarns and the first bias yarns are overlaid by the second bias yarns, in addition the first bias yarns cross the second bias yar... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238415 | Multi-component conductive polymer structures and a method for producing same Novel electrically conductive polymer composite structures having a horizontal plane that contain effective amounts of two different types of conductive graphitic nanofibers. The first type of graphitic nanofiber is aligned substantially parallel to the horizontal p... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7216678 | Self-curling sleeve A substrate including a plurality of monofilaments, or a combination of monofilaments and multi-filament yarns oriented in perpendicular directions, has a tendency to curl around a central space. When all monofilaments are used, the monofilaments along one direction... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7192633 | Architectural covering A covering for an architectural opening, having a first layer with alternating relatively opaque stripes and relatively translucent stripes, and a second layer with alternating relatively opaque stripes and relatively translucent stripes. The first and second layers... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188642 | Low-friction pull tape A pull tape for facilitating positioning of elongated items within a protective sleeve is disclosed. The pull tape is woven of filamentary members preferably using a twill or satin weave that allows floats to form on the surface of the tape that reduce friction betw... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178559 | Webbing belt Belts and methods of their manufacturing are provided. In one aspect, belts are manufactured by the steps of weaving the belt from a plurality of warp yarns and at least one weft yarn, the belt having a central region and two opposed edges. The warp yarns in the cen... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168453 | Multi wefts inserting weaving machine for lattice woven structure A multi-wefts inserting weaving machine, comprising a block arraying device comprising an upper plate and a lower plate which face each other and are movable upward and downward; and a plural number of unit blocks attached to the internal facing sides of the upper p... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146649 | Ornamentation for apparel article A headwear piece defining an opening for receiving a wearer's head with the headwear piece in an operative position on the wearer's head. The crown has an exposed surface. Ornamentation is applied to the exposed surface of the crown. The ornamentation has a substrat... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7115317 | Flexible non-metallic seals made of non-woven fabric with inserts A seal has a non-woven fabric folded along lines transverse to the opposite side of the seal and secured by adhesive to fabric strips. The non-woven fabric forms elongated cells with a plurality of the cells receiving inserts to increase seal stiffness. By securing ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7041357 | Selective PCB stiffening with preferentially oriented fibers Apparatus and methods are presented for reinforcing and stiffening a printed circuit board (PCB) in selected locations by utilizing preferentially oriented fibers. Selected fibers within the polymeric material matrix of the PCB fiber-matrix layer are removed and rep... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7025375 | Air-bag arrangement and a method of inflating an air-bag An air-bag arrangement provides protection for the occupant of a motor vehicle. The air-bag arrangement incorporates an airbag (50) formed by two layers (51, 52) interconnected to form a first set of chambers (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58), having a p... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7004205 | Unidirectional textile reinforcing sheath capable of being taped onto a mechanical structure to be reinforced A unidirectional textile reinforcing sheath capable of being taped onto a mechanical structure to be reinforced, said sheath being formed from a tape produced by the weaving of high-strength warp threads based on aramid, and having a central zone bordered by two lat... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6994124 | Three dimensional waffleweave and stitching method thereof A three dimensional waffleweave includes a plurality of light coloring yarns interlaced with a plurality of dark coloring yarns to form a plurality of waffleweave units, wherein each of the waffleweave units, having an oblong shaped, defines four sidewalls and a cen... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994125 | Fabrication of air bag fabric A method for weaving fabrics that comprise in at least some sections multiple layers, especially one-piece woven (OPW) airbags comprising single-layer, double-layer and multi-layer sections. Weaves or weave combinations are produced in the double- or multi-layer sec... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6955192 | Vehicle running assisting fabric In a fabric to assist a vehicle to run in the presence of snow, sand, or mud, or in an unleveled land, a core fabric is formed by weaving the weft and the warp. An upper convexity warp which is disposed over the core fabric forming warp and is woven with an upper co... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6923236 | Sector curtain A curtain assembly contains a long cloth. An upper extending portion has a plurality of parallel and equally spaced first folding portions, a plurality of first supporting portions, and a plurality of first rings. The first folding portions are seamed to be as a bag... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918410 | Method for fabricating wovens A method for weaving single-layered and/or multi-layered woven fabric, especially airbag fabric, includes interweaving warp threads delivered by at least two warp beams. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6883557 | Method for weaving an airbag The available fabric mass in the one-piece woven airbag as tailorized by the method, now makes it possible to reinforce the airbag fabric individually oriented. Thus, at a high stress location formerly exhibiting airbag tears, a fabric quality is now available of en... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883555 | Device for producing a tubular belt band that can be turned inside out A device for producing at least two tubular belt bands that are turned inside out, where each of the belt bands has two fabric layers on top of one another and connected to each other in a longitudinal direction by woven hems to form a cavity. Warp threads of the la... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6854489 | Multi-purpose shoelace structure A multi-purpose shoelace structure comprises a shoelace flatly woven via multiple layers of side-by-side warps yarns and weft yarns interlacing back and forth the warp yarns thereof. A left and a right branches are formed by the interlaced warp and weft yarns respec... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6832633 | High density fabric for air bag and method for manufacturing high density fabric There is provided a high density woven fabric wherein air permeability under 50 kPa differential pressure is 2.5 L/cm2/min. or less, and air permeability index (50 kPa) calculated by the formula 1 is 1.2 or more. Air permeability index (50 kPa)=... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6830078 | Weaving structure improvement of trampoline fabric The present invention relates to the weaving structure improvement of trampoline fabric, and more particularly to a weaving structure of trampoline fabric that is able to increase strength, shorten manufacturing process, and saving processing time cost. The present ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6803333 | Airbag fabrics made from high denier per filament yarns An airbag fabric is made from multifilament yarns each comprised of a plurality of individual filaments, with each filament having a linear density in the range from about eight (8) decitex to eleven (11) decitex per filament, and more preferably a linear density in... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6794319 | Unbalanced twill weave fabric and airbag device The present invention relates to an unbalanced twill weave fabric having fill yarns at least about three times larger than the warp yarns. Such a fabric thus has increased strength provided by the fill direction. The present invention further relates to an airbag re... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6777051 | Protective sheath for flexible tubes A protective sheath made of a woven synthetic fabric having a structure formed of high tenacity warp and weft yarns, the count of the yarns ranging from 400 to 2000 decitex and the number of the yarns ranging from 54 to 78 yarns per centimeter. The woven synthetic f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6770578 | Laminated textile fabrics for use in air holding vehicle restraint systems A multi-layered woven side air curtain has pre-configured air holding cavities and a polymeric film laminated thereto. An adhesive polyether polyurethane or polyester polyurethane prime coat layer is first coated onto a textile substrate, and then a polymeric film, ... | 08/03/2004 |
