Patents by Inventor Jean-Francois Laperriere
Jean-Francois Laperriere has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240100768Abstract: A 3D printed thermal expansion structure includes a thermoplastic material and a thermal expansion material, wherein the thermoplastic material is in a range from 50 to 90 wt % based on a weight of the 3D printed thermal expansion structure, and the thermal expansion material is in a range from 10 to 50 wt % based on the weight of the 3D printed thermal expansion structure. The thermoplastic material and the thermal expansion material are mixed to form a mixed material, and the mixed material is utilized by a 3D printing apparatus to form a solid object, and the solid object is heated to form the 3D printed thermal expansion structure. A manufacturing method of a 3D printed thermal expansion structure is provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: FENG TAY ENTERPRISES CO., LTD., Bauer Hockey, LLCInventors: CHIN-TE SU, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Francois Asselin, Martin Ladouceur, Ivan Labonte, Marco Beauregard
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Publication number: 20230346065Abstract: A helmet comprising one or more additively-manufactured components designed to enhance performance and use of the helmet, such as: impact protection, including for managing different types of impacts; fit and comfort; adjustability; and/or other aspects of the helmet. Methods of additively-manufacturing components for such helmets are also provided, including methods involving expandable materials and the expansion of post-additively manufactured expandable components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Jacques Durocher
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Patent number: 11731028Abstract: A leg pad (e.g., a hockey leg pad) for protecting a leg of a user, in which the leg pad is designed to enhance protection and freedom of movement (e.g., during skating strides), such as by providing flexibility of the leg pad proximate to a knee and optionally an ankle of the user (e.g., for extension and optional retraction of one or more parts of the leg pad) to better follow natural movements of the user's leg (e.g., bending of the knee and optional flexion of the ankle of the user).Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Anthony Gauvin, Thomas Lemelin, Marco Beauregard, Jean-François Laperrière
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Patent number: 11713384Abstract: A device (e.g., an article of athletic gear) comprising a post-molded expandable component, which is a part of the device that is configured to be expanded or has been expanded after being molded. This may allow the post-molded expandable component to have enhanced characteristics (e.g., be more shock-absorbent, lighter, etc.), to be cost-effectively manufactured (e.g., by using less material and/or making it in various sizes), and/or to be customized for a user (e.g., by custom-fitting it to the user).Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Thierry Krick, François Asselin, Jean-François Laperrière, Martin Ladouceur, Ivan Labonté, Marco Beauregard
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Patent number: 11684104Abstract: A helmet comprising one or more additively-manufactured components designed to enhance performance and use of the helmet, such as: impact protection, including for managing different types of impacts; fit and comfort; adjustability; and/or other aspects of the helmet. Methods of additively-manufacturing components for such helmets are also provided, including methods involving expandable materials and the expansion of post-additively manufactured expandable components.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Jacques Durocher
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Patent number: 11659884Abstract: Protective headgear that is wearable on a head of a user and may be configured to provide impact protection and contaminant protection. The protective headgear may comprise a helmet configured to protect the user's head against impacts and a contaminant blocker configured to protect against contaminants (e.g., infectants), such as pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms) or other biohazards, chemical hazards, or other hazardous substances, transmittable to or from the user (e.g. as part of spatter, an aerosol, or other droplets). The helmet and the contaminant blocker may be configured to connect or otherwise interact with one another to be usable together. This may facilitate their use to enhance protection of the user and/or an environment of the user, while maintaining performance of the user, including by providing breathability, being spatter proof, ensuring proper vision, being antifogging, being customizable, and/or having other desirable attributes.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Jacques Durocher, Charles-Antoine Desrochers, Daniel Bourgeois, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Philippe Jean, Thierry Krick, Marie-Claude Genereux
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Publication number: 20230024564Abstract: A helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse, football or other sports player. The helmet includes an outer shell and an inner padding disposed between the outer shell and the wearer's head when the helmet is worn. The inner padding includes a plurality of shock absorbers and an interconnector interconnecting the shock absorbers, each shock absorber being deformable in response to a rotational impact on the helmet such that an outer part of the shock absorber moves relative to an inner part of the shock absorber in a direction tangential to an angular movement of the outer shell due to the rotational impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Jean-Francois LAPERRIERE, Thierry KRICK, Jacques DUROCHER, Ryan OUCKAMA, Marie-Claude GENEREUX, Denis COTE, Philippe JEAN, Ken COVO, Garnet ALEXANDER, Jean-Marie BIDAL
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Publication number: 20230016881Abstract: Methods and systems for customizing wearable equipment such as athletic equipment, including ice skates and protective equipment such as masks. For example, a hockey goaltender mask may comprise a shell a liner attached to the shell, the liner being customized for a face of a user. The liner may be produced using a customized mold. Such customized mold may include a base mold and at least one attachment attached to the base mold; wherein each of the at least one attachment is characterized by at least one feature determined based on computer processing of data representative of the face of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: BAUER HOCKEY, LLCInventors: RAYMOND BOISSONNEAULT, JEAN-FRANCOIS LAPERRIERE, JACQUES DUROCHER, MATHIEU POITRAS, THIERRY KRICK, THOMAS LEMELIN
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Publication number: 20230002580Abstract: A device (e.g., an article of athletic gear) comprising a post-molded expandable component, which is a part of the device that is configured to be expanded or has been expanded after being molded. This may allow the post-molded expandable component to have enhanced characteristics (e.g., be more shock-absorbent, lighter, etc.), to be cost-effectively manufactured (e.g., by using less material and/or making it in various sizes), and/or to be customized for a user (e.g., by custom-fitting it to the user).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Thierry KRICK, François ASSELIN, Jean-François LAPERRIÈRE, Martin LADOUCEUR, Ivan LABONTÉ, Marco BEAUREGARD
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Publication number: 20230002581Abstract: A device (e.g., an article of athletic gear) comprising a post-molded expandable component, which is a part of the device that is configured to be expanded or has been expanded after being molded. This may allow the post-molded expandable component to have enhanced characteristics (e.g., be more shock-absorbent, lighter, etc.), to be cost-effectively manufactured (e.g., by using less material and/or making it in various sizes), and/or to be customized for a user (e.g., by custom-fitting it to the user).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Thierry KRICK, François ASSELIN, Jean-François LAPERRIÈRE, Martin LADOUCEUR, Ivan LABONTÉ, Marco BEAUREGARD
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Patent number: 11481103Abstract: Methods and systems for customizing wearable equipment such as athletic equipment, including ice skates and protective equipment such as masks. For example, a hockey goaltender mask may comprise a shell a liner attached to the shell, the liner being customized for a face of a user. The liner may be produced using a customized mold. Such customized mold may include a base mold and at least one attachment attached to the base mold; wherein each of the at least one attachment is characterized by at least one feature determined based on computer processing of data representative of the face of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Raymond Boissonneault, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Jacques Durocher, Mathieu Poitras, Thierry Krick, Thomas Lemelin
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Publication number: 20220296975Abstract: A hockey stick or other sporting implement designed to enhance its use, performance and/or manufacturing, including, for example, by being lightweight, having improved strength, flex, stiffness, impact resistance and/or other properties, reducing scrap waste during its construction, and/or enhancing other aspects of the hockey stick or other sporting implement. For instance, in some embodiments, the hockey stick or other sporting implement may include a structure that is open, such as by being latticed (e.g., trussed), and/or made by additive manufacturing, selective material positioning, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Thierry Krick, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Edouard Rouzier
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Patent number: 11425951Abstract: A helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse, football or other sports player. The helmet includes an outer shell and an inner padding disposed between the outer shell and the wearer's head when the helmet is worn. The inner padding includes a plurality of shock absorbers and an interconnector interconnecting the shock absorbers, each shock absorber being deformable in response to a rotational impact on the helmet such that an outer part of the shock absorber moves relative to an inner part of the shock absorber in a direction tangential to an angular movement of the outer shell due to the rotational impact.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Jacques Durocher, Ryan Ouckama, Marie-Claude Genereux, Denis Cote, Philippe Jean, Ken Covo, Garnet Alexander, Jean-Marie Bidal
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Publication number: 20220226715Abstract: A leg pad (e.g., a hockey leg pad) for protecting a leg of a user, in which the leg pad is designed to enhance protection and freedom of movement (e.g., during skating strides), such as by providing flexibility of the leg pad proximate to a knee and optionally an ankle of the user (e.g., for extension and optional retraction of one or more parts of the leg pad) to better follow natural movements of the user's leg (e.g., bending of the knee and optional flexion of the ankle of the user).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Anthony Gauvin, Thomas Lemelin, Marco Beauregard, Jean-François Laperrière
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Publication number: 20220142284Abstract: A helmet comprising one or more additively-manufactured components designed to enhance performance and use of the helmet, such as: impact protection, including for managing different types of impacts; fit and comfort; adjustability; and/or other aspects of the helmet. Methods of additively-manufacturing components for such helmets are also provided, including methods involving expandable materials and the expansion of post-additively manufactured expandable components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Jacques Durocher
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Publication number: 20220079280Abstract: Articles comprising one or more additively-manufactured components are provided, as are method of additively manufacturing such components. The additively-manufactured components are designed to enhance performance and use of the article, such as, but not limited to: impact protection, including for managing different types of impacts; fit and comfort; adjustability; and/or other aspects of the article. The provided methods of additive manufacturing include methods involving expandable materials and the expansion of post-additively manufactured expandable components.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Jean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Jacques Durocher, Jean-Francois Corbeil, Alexis Seguin, Edouard Rouzier
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Publication number: 20220073695Abstract: A device (e.g., an article of athletic gear) comprising a post-molded expandable component, which is a part of the device that is configured to be expanded or has been expanded after being molded. This may allow the post-molded expandable component to have enhanced characteristics (e.g., be more shock-absorbent, lighter, etc.), to be cost-effectively manufactured (e.g., by using less material and/or making it in various sizes), and/or to be customized for a user (e.g., by custom-fitting it to the user).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Thierry KRICK, François ASSELIN, Jean-François LAPERRIÈRE, Martin LADOUCEUR, Ivan LABONTÉ, Marco BEAUREGARD
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Patent number: 11241609Abstract: A leg pad (e.g., a hockey leg pad) for protecting a leg of a user, in which the leg pad is designed to enhance protection and freedom of movement (e.g., during skating strides), such as by providing flexibility of the leg pad proximate to a knee and optionally an ankle of the user (e.g., for extension and optional retraction of one or more parts of the leg pad) to better follow natural movements of the user's leg (e.g., bending of the knee and optional flexion of the ankle of the user).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Anthony Gauvin, Thomas Lemelin, Marco Beauregard, Jean-François Laperrière
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Publication number: 20220033610Abstract: A device (e.g., an article of athletic gear) comprising a post-molded expandable component, which is a part of the device that is configured to be expanded or has been expanded after being molded. This may allow the post-molded expandable component to have enhanced characteristics (e.g., be more shock-absorbent, lighter, etc.), to be cost-effectively manufactured (e.g., by using less material and/or making it in various sizes), and/or to be customized for a user (e.g., by custom-fitting it to the user).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Thierry KRICK, François ASSELIN, Jean-François LAPERRIÈRE, Martin LADOUCEUR, Ivan LABONTÉ, Marco BEAUREGARD
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Publication number: 20210337912Abstract: Protective headgear that is wearable on a head of a user and may be configured to provide impact protection and contaminant protection. The protective headgear may comprise a helmet configured to protect the user's head against impacts and a contaminant blocker configured to protect against contaminants (e.g., infectants), such as pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms) or other biohazards, chemical hazards, or other hazardous substances, transmittable to or from the user (e.g. as part of spatter, an aerosol, or other droplets). The helmet and the contaminant blocker may be configured to connect or otherwise interact with one another to be usable together. This may facilitate their use to enhance protection of the user and/or an environment of the user, while maintaining performance of the user, including by providing breathability, being spatter proof, ensuring proper vision, being antifogging, being customizable, and/or having other desirable attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Jacques Durocher, Charles-Antoine Desrochers, Daniel Bourgeois, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Philippe Jean, Thierry Krick, Marie-Claude Genereux