Abstract: A garment includes a wearer protection assembly for a driver of an open vehicle, such as a motorcycle. The wearer protection assembly is operative to automatically detect for the driver wearing the garment, the driver's departure, for example, as a consequence of a highway accident, from the vehicle. In response to such detection, the wearer protection assembly deploys a normally (prior to departure from the motor vehicle) deflated bladder-like gas reservoir to be explosively inflated with a previously-stored compressed gas. The inflated bladder-like gas reservoir provides a gas-filled volume between an outer surface of the garment and body parts of the thrown person. That gas-filled volume is compressible and the gas within absorbs some of the energy encountered by the thrown person in response to external forces resulting from the accident or other separation-causing event.

Abstract: A garment with a full silhouette ventilation assembly includes an air permeable front panel, and an air impervious lining sheet that underlies and spans the air permeable panel. The air impervious lining sheet defines an opening, and a cover sheet is provided and shaped to cover the opening. The cover sheet has peripheral edges attached to peripheral portions of the opening by a selectively operable closure assembly, which extends along the peripheral portions of the opening and the peripheral edges of the cover sheet. The air permeable front panel is preferably made of a unitary sheet of a perforated leather, which is substantially non-stretchable, with no cuts or stitches on the panel, so that graphics, such as advertisements, can be painted on or attached to the panel at any locus on the panel as desired, and the panel can still provide ventilation to a wearer.

Abstract: A garment with a subpanel ventilation assembly includes an upper air impervious panel having a top edge and a bottom edge, a lower air impervious panel having a top edge and a bottom edge, an air permeable vent panel having a top edge continuously joined with the bottom edge of the upper air impervious panel, and a bottom edge continuously joined with the top edge of the lower air impervious panel, and an air impervious underlay panel underlying and spanning the vent panel. The underlay panel includes peripheral edges affixed to the peripheral edges of the vent panel. The underlay panel includes a slit extending along a vent axis, wherein the slit includes a selectively operable closure assembly extending therealong.

Abstract: A protective garment is presented. The protective garment includes at least one extremity covering piece capable of being attached to a torso covering piece. The extremity covering piece is closable about a length thereof and includes at least one closure element attached to the extremity covering piece. The closure element is capable of closing at least a portion of said extremity covering piece about its length. The protective garment further includes a protective shield member attached to an inner surface of the extremity covering piece.

Abstract: A ventilating panel for a garment includes an air impervious sheet which defines an interior void region, a first at least partially air permeable sheet extending from and spanning the void region, and a second at least partially air permeable sheet having opposing side edges and a bottom edge coupled respectively to the peripheral portions of the interior void region. The first air permeable sheet and the second air permeable sheet form a pocket with an opening defined by the top portion of the interior void region and the top edge of the second air permeable sheet. A flexible air impervious cover sheet includes a top edge fixedly coupled to the second air permeable sheet, and two side and a bottom edges adapted for releasable coupling to the peripheral edges of the second air permeable sheet.

Abstract: A protective garment is presented. The protective garment includes at least one extremity covering piece capable of being attached to a torso covering piece. The extremity covering piece is closable about a length thereof and includes at least one closure element attached to the extremity covering piece. The closure element is capable of closing at least a portion of said extremity covering piece about its length. The protective garment further includes a protective shield member attached to an inner surface of the extremity covering piece.