Patents Assigned to Hiturn AS
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Patent number: 9636569Abstract: The invention consist of a tool-less system applied for adjusting the wrist-strap and the toe-strap on snowboard bindings, where such tool-less system is made up with the combination of 3 elements, 1. It is tool-less so the attachment position of the binding strap can be unlocked from one position on the binding frame and locked into another position fairly easily with bare hands 2. It has a stable locking mechanism based on a profiled press-button/pin element fitting into at least one hole with profiled shape provided in the frame of the binding where also at least one hole provided in the strap(s) will fit in and be securely locked in when the button element is put in place 3. The press-button element is put in place from the inside and prevented from popping out during use also by the boot which blocks the only exit direction for the button element, which is inwards.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: HiTurn ASInventors: Jorgen Karlsen, Dennis Dusseldorp, Daniel Kiebert, Cleay Perham
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Patent number: 9044663Abstract: The present invention is based on the combination of a snowboard with a 3-dimensional sole which wholly or partly has a tripartite sliding surface in the portion between the transition to the tip(s) and the binding fastening(s), in addition to which the board is equipped with an additional special 3-dimensional geometry in the tip(s), in order to continue the existing uplift in the lateral sliding surface (5), thereby ensuring better uplift and thus better glide and greater speed in loose snow, a combination which provides quite unique riding characteristics. The tip of the snowboard is designed in such a manner that it presses the snow under the board more efficiently, lifting it further up from the snow than an ordinary tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: HiTurn ASInventor: Jorgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20140159344Abstract: A ski for mounting a binding on the ski's surface approximately in the middle of the ski or slightly behind the middle, where the ski is provided with inwardly curved edge portions, the ski having greater width at the transition to the front tip than in the middle, and the ski has an upwardly curved front tip. The ski combines features from skis with a very special and characteristic three-dimensional geometry in the actual sliding surface, and a special design of the tip (possibly also in a rear tip where this is relevant), where the tip's secondary sole surfaces (3, 4) are twisted upwards relative to a central reference surface (1, 2), with the result that the ski's tip succeeds in pressing more snow under the ski when running in loose snow and slush, and the invention thereby provides a ski which both glides better in loose snow as well as retaining all the favourable dynamic properties which exist in the described three-dimensional design of the actual sliding surface on the ski.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: HiTurn ASInventor: Jørgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20130300098Abstract: The invention relates to a roller ski which is employed amongst other things for training in classic cross-country skiing during the summer. The object of this roller ski is to achieve a pressure-dependent grip when a kick is generated, with the result that more pressure on the ski from the foot provides better grip. This is in order to simulate skiing on snow, where in classic style pressure has to be placed on the ski during the kick in order to obtain grip on the middle of the ski. The invention is based on a common principle. Roller systems with free roll both forwards and backwards are combined with roller systems with one-way roll, in such a manner that when the pressure on the roller ski from the skier increases, the roller system(s) with one-way roll will be activated to an increasing extent as the pressure on the ski increases, with the result that the ski obtains grip thereby enabling a kick to be generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: HiTurn ASInventor: Jorgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20130154237Abstract: The present invention is based on the combination of a snowboard with a 3-dimensional sole which wholly or partly has a tripartite sliding surface in the portion between the transition to the tip(s) and the binding fastening(s), in addition to which the board is equipped with an additional special 3-dimensional geometry in the tip(s), in order to continue the existing uplift in the lateral sliding surface (5), thereby ensuring better uplift and thus better glide and greater speed in loose snow, a combination which provides quite unique riding characteristics. The tip of the snowboard is designed in such a manner that it presses the snow under the board more efficiently, lifting it further up from the snow than an ordinary tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: HiTurn ASInventor: Jorgen Karlsen
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Patent number: 8348300Abstract: The tips are upwardly curved and the board's/ski's underside (the sole) is provided with first and second surfaces, straight in cross section, extending in the board's/ski's longitudinal direction, which are arranged at an angle to each other and usually interconnected via a third surface. The sole's first and second sole surfaces (2) at the lateral edge, which normally consists of a steel edge, have a varying height over a third sole surface (1), where this height typically both increases and decreases as one advances from the middle of the snowboard/ski towards the transition to the tip (A-A). At the same time the first and second sole surfaces (2) at the lateral edge substantially have a greater height over the third surface (1) in a 10 cm long area from the transition (A-A) and backwards than in the area forming the central half of the snowboard/ski.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: HiTurn ASInventor: Jørgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20120256394Abstract: A snowboard or ski for use in loose snow, the snowboard or ski having inwardly curved edge portions where the snowboard or ski has greater width at both ends at the transition to the tips than at the middle of the snowboard or ski with upwardly curved tips. The base is divided into a right running surface and a left running surface which two running surfaces together form a downwardly directed apex in the entire length of the snowboard or ski along a partition line between the two running surfaces when seen in a cross direction of the snowboard or ski. Each of the running surfaces forms an angle with the ground, where the sum total of the two angles is less than 90 degrees everywhere along the length of the snowboard or ski.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Hiturn AsInventor: Jørgen KARLSEN
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Patent number: 8042827Abstract: A snowboard or ski (1) is made having a flat sole, seen in cross-section, and with a longitudinal bendable zone or zones so that the whole or parts of the right-hand and/or left-hand part of the board are bendable in such manner that the sole, seen in cross-section, is or can be curved upwards in these parts of the board, thus causing the steel edges outermost on the upward curved portions to be higher than the sole in the middle of the board. The board may be equipped with tensioning means to hold these portions permanently flexed upwards.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: HiTurn ASInventor: Jorgen Karlsen
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Patent number: 7914013Abstract: A snowboard for use on rails and installations found in snowboard parks is disclosed. The snowboard has a combination of features specially adapted for rails, and other known per se features from boards with three running surfaces, selected and employed on snowboards so as to achieve greater stability on rails, with a substantially reduced risk of catching the steel edge in irregularities, while retaining many of the good running characteristics of boards with 3 running surfaces. Some of the features of the snowboard are that more than 70% of the snowboard's base is composed of a flat central portion, and that there are secondary running surfaces from the steel edges and inwards, either along the entire length of the board or at any rate in the front and rear portions of the snowboard.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2006Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Hiturn ASInventor: Jørgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20090273162Abstract: The tips are upwardly curved and the board's/ski's underside (the sole) is provided with first and second surfaces, straight in cross section, extending in the board's/ski's longitudinal direction, which are arranged at an angle to each other and usually interconnected via a third surface. The sole's first and second sole surfaces (2) at the lateral edge, which normally consists of a steel edge, have a varying height over a third sole surface (1), where this height typically both increases and decreases as one advances from the middle of the snowboard/ski towards the transition to the tip (A-A). At the same time the first and second sole surfaces (2) at the lateral edge substantially have a greater height over the third surface (1) in a 10 cm long area from the transition (A-A) and backwards than in the area forming the central half of the snowboard/ski.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: HiTurn AsInventor: Jørgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20090121453Abstract: A snowboard consisting of a board on which two bindings are mounted on the surface of the board, at a distance apart approximately corresponding to ? of the board's length. The board is designed with inwardly curved edge portions and has upwardly curved tips (3), possibly with a more moderate tip at one end.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: HiTurn ASInventor: Jorgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20090008906Abstract: A snowboard or ski (1) is made having a flat sole, seen in cross-section, and with a longitudinal bendable zone or zones so that the whole or parts of the right-hand and/or left-hand part of the board are bendable in such manner that the sole, seen in cross-section, is or can be curved upwards in these parts of the board, thus causing the steel edges outermost on the upward curved portions to be higher than the sole in the middle of the board. The board may be equipped with tensioning means to hold these portions permanently flexed upwards.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2005Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: HiTurn ASInventor: Jørgen Karlsen
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Publication number: 20080272576Abstract: A snowboard comprising a board on which two bindings are mounted on the board's surface at a distance apart approximately corresponding to around ? of the board's length, where the board is designed with inwardly curved edge portions, the board having greater width at both ends at the transition to the tips (A-A) than at the middle (B-B), with upwardly curved tips (3,4), possibly with a slightly more moderate tip at one end, or skis comprising a ski on which a binding is mounted slightly behind the middle of the ski, where the ski is designed with inwardly curved edge portions, the ski having a greater width at both ends at the transition to the tips (A-A and C-C) than in the middle (B-B), with upwardly curved tips (3,4), and normally a slightly more moderate tip at the rear, characterised by the combination of features which are known separately, but which together form the basis for a new design with improved dynamics in special applications, which features comprise: The base is divided into a right runnType: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: HiTurn AsInventor: Jorgen Karlsen