Heat Pipe Gloves

"This new glove will be lighter, thinner, warmer and more comfortable than anything on the market today," said Hongbin Ma, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who started on the project a year ago and recently completed a prototype of the glove. "We simply use the body heat from the upper arm to warm up the fingers during the wintertime."

Each glove, which will be made of polyester, contains five small heat pipes, one for each finger, that are about 14 inches long and 1 mm x 2 mm in the cross section. Each pipe consists of three sections: an evaporating section, which is attached to the upper arm area; an adiabatic section, which is between the finger area and the arm area; and the condensing section, which is attached to the finger area.

For more info, see http://atmizzou.missouri.edu/jan04/glove.htm Received on Thu Jan 22 14:18:00 2004