Patents by Inventor Michael Douglas Blenkarn
Michael Douglas Blenkarn 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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Patent number: 9731801Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Publication number: 20160144938Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Patent number: 9272187Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: AMER SPORTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Publication number: 20150017851Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche, for example. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: ARC'TERYX EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Patent number: 8893940Abstract: A bag or pack, such as a backpack, having a pack portion that includes a back side made of flexible material, a carrying system directly or indirectly connected to the pack portion and including at least one carrying element, a frame connected to the pack portion, the frame including at least a rigid or semi-rigid sheet frame which is affixed to the back side of the pack portion by adhesive bonding.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.Inventors: Daniel Allan Green, Michael Douglas Blenkarn
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Patent number: 8876568Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.Inventors: Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Gordon Thompson Rose
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Patent number: 8844781Abstract: An adjustable positioning mechanism, such as for positioning ends of straps or handles of bag or packs, such as for backpacks, but also, more generally, for removably connecting an item to an article to be carried to provide a range of attachment locations for the item relative to the article, to achieve an optimum ergonomic position of the item at one of the attachment locations. One element of the adjustment mechanism can be either adhesively bonded to the article or made in one piece with a frame of the article, the item to be attached bearing a second element of the mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.Inventors: Gordon Rose, Daniel Allan Green, Michael Douglas Blenkarn, Jason Berns
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Publication number: 20120060267Abstract: The invention is directed to an airbag system and, more particularly, to such a system employed as a rescue or life-saving system to enable a person to survive an avalanche. In a particular embodiment, the invention relates to an airbag system utilized with a backpack to be worn by a skier, snowboarder, hiker, or snowmobiler, for example. Instead of relying upon compressed gas cartridges or cylinders to inflate the airbag(s), the invention inflates the airbag(s) with ambient air only. In a particular embodiment, air is supplied to the airbag by means of a battery-powered electrical motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: ARC'TERYX EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Michael Douglas BLENKARN, Thomas Walker Clarke FAYLE, Gordon Thompson ROSE
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Patent number: 7849520Abstract: A garment and a collar for such garment, the collar having a lower zone and an upper zone, the lower zone having a greater rigidity than the upper zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.Inventor: Michael Douglas Blenkarn