International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Table 1 Information on the cooling vests compared in this study
From: Cooling performance measurements of different types of cooling vests using thermal manikin
Code | Product name (Company, Country) | Cooling mode | Size | Weight (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ACV | Active Cooling Vest (Teijin, Japan) | Air-cooling by battery-powered built-in-fans | Small | 1366 |
LCV | CompCooler Univest ICE Water Cooling System (UICS) (Compcooler, the United States of America) | Liquid-cooling by ice water circulating system | X-Small–Small | 4430 |
EVAP | Bodycool Hybrid (Inuteq, Netherlands) | Evaporative cooling by water absorbed into the vest | Small | 232a) |
PCM | Bodycool Hybrid (Inuteq, Netherlands) with INUTEQ-PAC® PCM cooling inserts having a melting temperature of 15°C | Conductive cooling by PCM inserts | 1386a) | |
Hybrid | Evaporative cooling by water absorbed into the vest and conductive cooling by PCM inserts |