Abstract: A garment for use by a user wearing a safety harness includes a garment body having a front side and a rear side, an opening having a shape defined in the front side of the garment body and partially retained by a flexible portion, a releasable closure disposed on the garment body adjacent the opening and configured to cover the opening. The flexible portion allows the shape of the opening to expand to allow a portion of the safety harness to extend through the opening without displacing the garment body.

Abstract: The disclosure provides systems, devices, and associated methods for mitigating traumatic brain injury, injury to an ocular structure, or injury to the inner ear of a subject by applying pressure to one or more neck veins before and during an injurious event.

Abstract: A motorcycle helmet which can drastically improve motorcycle driving technique and skill. A motorcycle helmet is provided with a helmet body configured to partially or entirely cover a head of a wearer and having an opening in front of a face surface of the wearer, and a gaze corrector provided in a center of a frame forming the opening in the helmet body to divide the opening and being an angular columnar body and enabling correction of a gaze of the wearer. The gaze corrector has mutually different colors on a facing surface facing the wearer, a right side surface located to the right of the facing surface and a left side surface located to the left of the facing surface, and the gaze corrector divides a field of view of the wearer into a right field of view and a left field of view.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an article of footwear includes arranging a three-dimensional upper on a last and placing a plurality of elongated support structures on the three-dimensional upper arranged on the last using an automated placement assembly. The method further includes heating the plurality of elongated support structures to secure the plurality of elongated support structures to the upper.

Abstract: A protective glove includes a primary yarn that forms the palm, thumb and finger sections of the glove. The primary yarn has an interior surface forming the interior surface of the glove, and an exterior surface forming the exterior surface of the glove. A plaiting yarn can be plaited to portions of the exterior surface of the primary yarn to form a plurality of enhanced sections on the exterior surface of the glove. The enhanced sections can have at least one substantially enhanced physical characteristic in relation to the primary layer.

Abstract: A mask which will provide air purification along with cooling and warming of a wearer's face and mouth, utilizing tubing that is filled with liquid that is detachable to the mask. The liquid is temperature controlled utilizing a thermostat and distributed by a pump. The mask is provided with removable filters, the filters clean incoming air and have filaments of organic herbs that are breathable and can serve medicinal purposes. A fan is attached to the mask to provide air circulation from outside the mask that is filtered before it reaches inside the mask to help purify the incoming air. An exhaust valve filter is placed inside the mask that filters air exiting the mask to the outside environment.

Abstract: An article comprised of tape segments embroidered in place is disclosed. One embodiment includes tape segments embroidered to a self-supporting embroidered structure. Another embodiment includes tape segments embroidered together to form an embroidered lattice structure. In one embodiment, some of the tape segments may expand when exposed to heat and may be used to form cushioning regions for the article.

Abstract: A helmet assembly for a spacesuit or other protective suit is disclosed. In embodiments, the helmet assembly includes an external face shield attachable to the spacesuit and providing the spacesuit user with a forward field of view. The helmet assembly includes suit status displays hard-mounted to the external face shield at a periphery or edge of the forward field of view (e.g., upper, lower, left, right). Each suit status display includes a linear or one-dimensional array of individual light emitting diodes (LED) in communication with a suit controller of the spacesuit. Each LED array receives from the suit controller suit status data (e.g., consumables levels, suit performance, position data) communicated to the user by illuminating one or more of the individual LED units.

Abstract: A disc golf jacket includes a front torso portion that covers a front torso of a player. The jacket includes a back portion that is coupled to the front torso portion along a top edge. The jacket includes an upper pocket having opposed side edges and a bottom edge therebetween which, together, are coupled to the back portion for defining an upper pocket interior area. The upper pocket includes an open top edge for receiving a disc in a top-loaded configuration. The jacket includes a lower pocket having a lower edge coupled to the back portion, left and right-side edges coupled to the lower edge, the side edges extending at angles that converge toward one another until meeting at an upper edge. The side edges are open for receiving a second disc in a side-loaded manner.

Abstract: A tubular collar adapted to be worn around the neck of an individual. The tubular collar has a front sheet and a rear sheet, each with tapered ends. A fastener is provided on opposite ends of the front and rear sheets. The tubular collar is configurable in an open configuration and a closed configuration. In the closed configuration, the fasteners are attached to each other to affix the tapered ends together to form a loop sized to be placed around the neck of an individual. The tubular collar comprises an opening on the front sheet sized to receive ice or other cooling medium, or a heating medium, within an enclosed space of the tubular collar. By positioning the tubular collar around the neck, the weight of the cooling or heating medium is distributed across the neck and shoulders thereby providing comfort during motion such as during strenuous activities.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to devices, systems and methods for optimizing and masking compression in a biosensing garment. The biosensing garment has a first fabric portion configured to be disposed about a circumferential region of a user, the first fabric portion having an inner surface including electrode sensor assembly configured to be placed in contact with the skin of the user, the first fabric portion having a first compression rating; and a second fabric portion extending from the first fabric portion, the second fabric portion having a second compression rating less than the first compression rating.

Abstract: An automatic thread trimming device of a sewing machine contains: a holding disc, a cutter assembly, a fixed cutter, and a protective sheet. The automatic thread trimming device further contains an abutting segment formed on a distal portion of a curved section of a front end of an elastic extension and corresponding to a contact zone of a movable cutter, such that the movable cutter moves to the fixed cutter horizontally to produce cutting force. In the meantime, a longitudinal thickness of a protrusion corresponding to a receiving orifice is 0.5 mm so that a short thread end is cut between a thread and a cut portion of the thread, and the short thread end retracts inward because of a woven fabric, thus obtaining a flatness of a sewing product. Preferably, the automatic thread trimming device is capable of being driven by drive elements of any sewing machines.

Abstract: Articles of apparel include: (a) a garment structure having one or more fabric elements structured and arranged to provide a close fit to at least one predetermined portion of a body (e.g., area(s) of the body for which enhanced position sensing and/or feedback are desired); and (b) a body position feedback system engaged with or integrally formed as part of the garment structure. The body position feedback system may apply higher tensile or constricting (compressive) forces to selected portions of the wearer's body and/or stretch resistance, which can help stimulate or interact with nerves and deep tissue receptors located in various portions of the body. The increased forces at selected locations of the body give the wearer sensory feedback regarding the position or orientation of these parts of the body and can improve or accelerate development of “muscle memory.

Abstract: A leg massaging trouser assembly treats leg pain while driving. The leg massaging trouser assembly includes trousers having a pair of leg portions. Each leg portion includes a pocket mounted to an inside leg surface and having an open end. Each leg defines a slit opening in communication with an interior of the pocket, each pocket configured to receive a therapeutic device operable to massage a driver's legs. Each leg includes an adjustment area having a plurality of fasteners adjacent each slit. An upper fastener, such as a flap, is coupled to the leg therapeutic device and is pivotally movable between an open configuration that allows insertion or removal of the leg therapeutic device from a pocket and a closed configuration attached along the adjustment area, which secures the leg therapeutic device and enables each leg to be cinched tightly or relaxed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and methods by which a garment may be accessorized. Preferred embodiments of the present invention include one or more mountable accessorizing apparatus which may be shaped and/or shapeable to form one or more mounting surfaces for mounting the mountable accessorizing apparatus on the garment and to provide one or more display components which may be viewable for accessorizing the garment. Some embodiments may include attachment components which facilitate mounting the one or more mountable accessorizing apparatus on the garment. Attachment components may include friction pads, magnets, pressure-sensitive adhesive, and/or hooks. The one or more display components may be viewable to accessorize the garment such as through color, pattern, and/or texture. In some embodiments, the system may include one or more supplemental modules which may supplement mounting and/or accessorizing.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an adaptive article of clothing. In one example, the adaptive article of clothing may have a first front tail panel and a second front tail panel configured to overlap while wrapping at least partially around a front of a wearer in opposite directions in a first worn configuration and hang open in a second worn configuration. A top portion of at least one of the first front tail panel and the second front tail panel may be detachably coupled in a shoulder region of the adaptive article of clothing to enable access to the wearer while the adaptive article of clothing is worn in each of the first worn configuration and the second worn configuration.

Abstract: A customizable footwear system including a footwear having a smooth, water-impermeable washable material covering a major surface area of an upper region of the footwear, and a smooth, water-impermeable outer sole extending along a lower region of the footwear and abutted against the washable material, and a plurality of orifices passing through the outer sole in such a manner that fluid and debris is channeled downwardly from the washable material, through the outer sole and out from a bottom-most surface of the outer sole.

Abstract: An air-conditioning garment includes a garment main part that is worn on the upper body of a wearer, and two fans that are attached to a lower part of a back part of a garment main part, and configured to feed outside air into the inside of the garment main part. Each of the two fans includes a fan main body and a case that houses the fan main body and includes two air outlets. The two air outlets are formed so that their blowing directions are restricted to being upward or obliquely upward. The two air outlets are formed in such a manner that their blowing directions have an upwardly-opened V-shape.

Abstract: A coupler to couple a D-ring from a harness to a fall arrest device connector provides walls to guide and contain the harness webbing whilst allowing it to move freely (reducing webbing wear) and does not necessitate the removal of the coupler, connector, or D-ring as may be required for harness size adjustment. The coupler has a circular passageway which runs through the length allowing a shaft of the connector to couple to the part whilst maintaining 180 degrees of swivel. The coupler also has a groove which runs along the length to fit onto a central bar of the harness D-ring. The design is such that, during a fall, should the device break, the webbing will remain securely coupled to the D-ring of the harness.

Abstract: An impact protection device includes a first shell configured to be disposed on a body portion of a user, a second shell spaced at a distance from the first shell, and a set of elastomeric members spanning the distance between the first shell and the second shell. Each elastomeric member includes a first end and an opposing second end, each first end comprises a first end portion disposed within a corresponding opening defined by the first shell and a terminal portion disposed against an inner wall of the first shell and each second end connected to the second shell. The set of elastomeric members are configured to stretch between the first shell and the second shell in response to a translation of the second shell relative to the first shell and at a location that is substantially opposite to an impact receiving location of the second shell.