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Encyclopedia > Air conditioned clothing

Air conditioned clothing is primarily used by workers in areas where air conditioning systems cannot be easily installed, such as tunnels and underground construction sites. Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ...


Patents for air conditioned clothing have been around for years, but few products have made it to market. Two such items, a jacket and blouson, went into production in April 2005 in Japan. They have two lightweight fans to draw in air and help vaporize sweat. The fans, attached to the back of the clothes near the waist, are about 10 cm wide and run on four rechargeable AA-size nickel-hydrogen batteries. Look up jacket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A jacket is an outer garment worn by both men and women, for warmth or fashion. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... SWEAT is an OLN/TSN show hosted by Julie Zwillich that aired in 2003-2004. ... Rechargable AA batteries An AA battery (pronounced either ay-ay or double A) is a dry cell-type battery commonly used in portable electronic devices. ...

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