Patents Examined by Anna Kinsaul
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Patent number: 10188158Abstract: A wetsuit for aquatic activities may include a wetsuit material having a first surface and an opposite second surface. The wetsuit comprises one or more sipes on the first surface that extend from an upper portion of a chest region of the wetsuit to a lateral portion of the chest region of the wetsuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Nike, Inc.Inventors: James Molyneux, Ty A. Ransom
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Patent number: 10154697Abstract: Provided is a neck supporter which is easy to use and which can reliably support the head of the wearer. The neck supporter includes an elongated main body providing said air-bag; an air injection valve that is provided in said main body to enable the air to be injected into said air-bag or discharged therefrom; connection sections (e.g., loops and hooks) that are provided on opposite surfaces in a vicinity of opposite ends of said main body to connect said opposite surfaces to each other; and a plurality of retaining portions (e.g., thermal compression bonding portions and through-holes) that are provided dispersedly as dots in series in a longitudinal direction of said main body to provide bonded portions between a front surface and a back surface of said main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignees: Yukari Corporation, Sole Balance Laboratory Co., LtdInventor: Iwao Kasahara
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Patent number: 10143255Abstract: An impact diverting mechanism having a top layer and a bottom layer is provided. The two layers are connected such that the top layer is configured to move in relation to the bottom layer when impacted, and therefore is able to divert impact and reduce rotational and linear acceleration on the bottom layer. The impact diverting mechanism may be attached to, or configured to attach to, an object in need of protection, such as a helmet.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Simon Fraser UniversityInventors: Farid Golnaraghi, Gaofeng Gary Wang, Daniel Eamon Abram, Combiz Jelveh
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Patent number: 10137036Abstract: An underwater mask includes a buckle with a strap that can be moved and adjusted in the up-down and lateral directions on a wearer's head. The buckle includes a base including a spring with a locking hook, a strap adjuster body turnably attached to the base and including a plurality of engaging teeth configured to sequentially engage with the locking hook according to the turn, a handling member held inside the body and operated from outside the body, and a stopper held by the body. The handling member includes a spring, sliding portion, and a pair of finger pads exposed outside the body by the spring. The stopper includes a sliding contact tapered protrusion that slides sliding against the pair of sliding portions to cause the stopper to swing toward a direction opposite to the strap adjuster body and release the pawl from the engaging teeth of the strap.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: TABATA CO., LTD.Inventor: Takashi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10130134Abstract: A protective headgear device including a fabric cap (102) into which a hard shell (120) of reinforced fibers is inserted. A foam liner 140 or foam inserts (1500) are secured to the hard outer shell 120 and serve a shock absorbing function. The foam liner (14) and/or foam inserts (120) include or form grooves and/or channels used to direct hot air towards the top center of the headgear assembly where the hot air can be vented through holes which extend through the cap (102) and hard outer shell (120). The holes may pass through the foam liner 140 or meet up with holes on channels in or between the foam inserts through which air can pass. The hard outer shell may be thinnest on top and thicker on the left and right sides. The center front and rear may be the same thickness as the top of the hard shell.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Inventor: Mary Lynne Blair
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Patent number: 10111486Abstract: A size adjuster for helmets for cycling use of the type that can be fixedly connected inside a helmet for cycling use is disclosed. The size adjuster includes an annular structure arranged along the lower periphery of the helmet and is able to be switched between a minimum diameter configuration and a plurality of increased diameter configurations to allow the helmet to be worn by different sized users. The adjuster can include a manual switching device of the configuration of the annular structure and further includes headrest elements for a user connected to the annular structure in a freely orientable manner along at least one axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KASK S.R.L.Inventor: Angelo Gotti
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Patent number: 10098405Abstract: Multi-axis quick-release gimbal hinges that releasably attach a face protector to a helmet. The hinges allow the face protection to be easily and quickly released from the as-worn position to a position hanging from the other side of the helmet—even if the user has only a single hand free to release the face protector, and further to be fully detached from the helmet if desired. The present multi-axis quick-release gimbal comprise at least two degrees of freedom due to two gimbal hinges and also facilitate re-attachment compared to former systems, for example because the dual-gimbal hinge configuration holds the face protector in a particularly easy-access positions and/or by providing a rotational stop.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Eye Safety Systems, Inc.Inventors: Brian Ross, Joel Cater, Chris Randolph Dawson
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Patent number: 10092056Abstract: A hockey or lacrosse helmet with a rear shell having a central elongated slot extending along a longitudinal axis of the helmet; a rear inner pad for facing the back and left and right side regions of the head, the rear inner pad being mounted to the rear shell; an occipital inner pad located below the rear inner pad for facing the occipital region of the head; and a single wedging member located between the rear shell and the occipital inner pad, the single wedging member being movable along the longitudinal axis of the helmet from a first position to a second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY, LLCInventor: Jacques Durocher
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Patent number: 10076150Abstract: An integrated sweat-guiding band and hat comprises a sweat-guiding band having a sweat-guiding portion and an adjustment portion wherein the sweat-guiding band further comprises a base wall and an upwardly extending containment wall defining a channel for conducting sweat away from a user's eyes, the sweat-guiding portion having a plurality of upwardly extending tabs. Adjustment straps are permanently attached to the sweat-guiding band, the adjustment straps including means for adjustably securing the sweat-guiding band to a user's head. A front panel of the hat is configured to couple front the front panel to the upwardly extending tabs to attach the cap/visor to the sweat-guiding band. The tabs are configured to be connected to the front panel in a manner that holds the front panel away from a user's forehead.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Inventor: Erick P. Flatt
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Patent number: 10070677Abstract: An attachment system for securing a frontal helmet extension to protective headgear, the attachment system including one or more magnetic elements disposed on the helmet and/or frontal helmet extension and one or more complementary elements disposed on the helmet and/or frontal helmet extension and adapted to engage the magnetic elements. The magnetic elements and complementary elements are configured to detachably couple the frontal helmet extension to the helmet in a position wherein the frontal helmet extension extends forward from the helmet. The magnetic properties of the magnetic elements are adapted to magnetically attract the complementary elements so that the frontal helmet extension is effectively secured to the helmet during ordinary use of the helmet while allowing release of the frontal helmet extension from the helmet upon impact.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Fox Head, Inc.Inventors: David Leroy Durham, Gabriel Pablo Prats
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Patent number: 10064440Abstract: A gown with an opening to allow passage the user's head allowing the gown to rest on the user's shoulders and an opening in the back with one cord attached to the inside of each side of the opening in the back of the gown and each cord then extends toward the shoulder area where each cord is temporarily attached and the cord further extends toward a hole in the opposite side of the opening in the back where it passes through a hole to the outer portion of the gown.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Inventor: Ian Levine
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Patent number: 10039330Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exercise garment with a crotch part includes a main body portion formed from a material having stretchability; and a tightening portion having higher tightening force than the main body portion, in which the tightening portion includes a pair of right and left first tightening portions respectively covering an approximately triangular region formed by the upper part of the hip, the lateral side of the lumbar region, and the vicinity of a position corresponding to the greater trochanter as the apex of the triangular region, in the right and left sides of the wearer. The first tightening portions include plural partitioned tightening portions extending in the vertical direction and adjoining in the width direction. The partitioned tightening portions are formed such that the directions of high stretchability in the respective partitioned tightening portions approach closer to one another toward the lower side.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: WACOAL CORP.Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike
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Patent number: 10034511Abstract: An athletic helmet includes an outer shell, having an outer surface and an inner surface, shaped to receive a head, and a magnetic system disposed adjacent to the inner surface. The magnetic system has at least one magnet configured to have one pole aligned such that its magnetic dipole moment is oriented approximately normal to the outer surface and a magnetic holding device configured to allow the at least one magnet to slidably move along a surface of the magnetic holding device.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: American Doctors Online, Inc.Inventor: Paul I. Bulat
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Patent number: 10034496Abstract: Next-to-skin garments for men include an internal stretch panel. An opening in the stretch panel receives a wearer's external genitalia. A three-dimensional pouch is defined between the stretch panel and a front portion of the body of the garment. Embodiments provide garments such as undershorts, boarding shorts, and athletic shorts.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: 0912139 B.C. LTD.Inventors: Dustin Douglas Bigney, Shawn Robert Ellis
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Patent number: 10004975Abstract: A protective sports glove worn by athletes during training or for use in a combative event to protect against injury and increase performance (including but not limited to total force generation, grip strength, striking force and speed, muscular endurance, time to contraction, etc.). These gloves are engineered with a dorsal splint system and a cooperating adjustable dual strapping wrist tie system to secure the gloves to the contour of the hands, to ensure they remain tight and fixed, and to support the wrist from excessive bending. The dual strapping system with the dorsal splint system provides increased wrist/hand rigidity mirroring a tightness of hand wrap bandages for maximal bone and tendon support of the hands and wrists, and this novel tie system increases the transfer of force generation to the point of impact.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: HAYABUSA FIGHTWEAR INC.Inventors: Ken Clement, Craig Clement, John David Zikakis
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Patent number: 9999263Abstract: The present invention is sport equipment for reducing the impact force by a user wearing the sport equipment. The sport equipment has an outer body, an inner body in spaced relation with the outer body, at least one impact absorbing member located between the outer and inner bodies, and at least one first magnetic element located in a longitudinal bore defined through the impact absorbing member. A gap is defined between the first magnetic element and an inner surface of the outer body. The first magnetic element has a first pole orientated in a direction exterior of the sport equipment, and is configured to produce a repulsive magnetic force when a second magnetic element of a second sport equipment is at a predetermined distance from the sport equipment prior to the sport equipment contacting the second sport equipment.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Inventor: Sebastian Yoon
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Patent number: 9986773Abstract: A pair of convertible pants comprising an upper pants portion, a lower pants portion, an opening extending longitudinally from a hem end of the lower pants portion to a section that turns and continuously extending substantially circumferentially around the leg opening and ends at a terminus, and a closure being operable to extend along the entire length of the opening to selectively open and close the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Ideavelopment Product Development & Consulting Inc.Inventor: Andre Kroecher
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Patent number: 9980528Abstract: An article of headwear including a crown component, a brim component, and an elongated attachment component is provided. The attachment component is configured to attach the brim component to the crown component. The attachment component may include a female-type engagement element along a first elongated edge of the attachment component and a flange element along a second elongated edge of the attachment component. The second elongated edge is opposite to the first elongated edge. The female-type engagement element has first and second arms defining therebetween an elongated channel having a length and a depth. The flange element extends in a direction transverse to the length of the channel. The crown component is attached to the flange element. The brim component includes a connection region configured for insertion into the channel. An article of headwear having an attachment component for attaching decorative elements to the headwear is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Centrex, LLCInventors: Terrence Lee Reinhart, Nickolas Lee Reinhart
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Patent number: 9968147Abstract: A garment having an improved pocket construction. The garment includes a garment body and at least one partial bag pocket attached to the garment body. The garment may also include a finished edge along the lower portion of the at least one partial bag pocket for providing reinforcement. Finally, the garment may also include a closure.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Wrangler Apparel Corp.Inventor: John D. Lindquist
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Patent number: 9961948Abstract: A knee pad system includes a knee pad attached to a base that includes integrated roller balls on its exterior surface. The roller balls can roll within the base and facilitate movement of the knee pad over a flat surface when worn by a user. The improved knee pad system can include a locking mechanism selectively preventing the roller balls from moving within said base. The knee pad of the improved knee pad system can be selectively detached from and reattached to the base.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Mesa Digital, LLCInventor: Anthony Archuleta