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Condensation - An Important
Issue for People Who Are Active in Freezing Conditions - DiAPLEX
Works to
Prevent Hazardous Condensation
Prevent Hazardous Condensation
In the effort to provide waterproofing and breathability for conventional heavy-duty clothing materials anti -condensation characteristics have generally been overlooked. But condensation in clothes, resulting from differences in the in-garment and external air temperature, is a recognized hazard during severe weather conditions. It water vapor cannot escape it may condense and freeze inside the garment and suck heat away from the body of the wearer. Vapor-permeable DiAPLEX, with its high moisture absorption -emission membrane, is designed to alleviate this danger.
The anti -condensation properties of DiAPLEX
have been realized through a unique mechanism that combines vapor
permeability with the ability to expel moisture at a high rate
of absorption-emission. DiAPLEX has proved itself in tests. Scoring
a rate of 2 - 3 g/m2/h in tests, DiAPLEX is capable
of pushing through much more condensation vapor transmission
than conventional waterproof-breathable materials. Due to the
powerful moisture absorption characteristics of the DiAPLEX membrane,
water vapor inside the garment is absorbed before it has a chance
to condense. The absorbed water vapor is conducted into and diffused
throughout the membrane and then emitted from the surface of
the membrane.
This mechanism functions effectively
even during rest, when the temperature within the garment is
relatively low; because water vapor is expelled even when the
differences in temperature are small. If exercise causes the
in-garment temperature to rise micro-Brownian motion allows DiAPLEX's
self-control function to form open spaces through which perspiration
vapor is quickly transferred to the outside.
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