Abstract: A protective undergarment includes trousers of stretch fabric. Pads located inside the trousers are sewn to the trouser sides. The pads include laminated layers of fabric and a foam substrate. The foam substrate is perforated to augment air circulation and evaporative cooling of the wearer's skin.

Abstract: A sport protector includes a chest-and-back protector, two shoulder guards and two arm guards. The chest-and-back protector and the arm guards have elastic paddings provided with air apertures and small air holes in walls of each air aperture for air to flow out so as to disperse shock in addition to absorb shock at the same time. Further, the air apertures are useful for heat produced by the body of a user to escape out, furnishing comfort to the user in wearing the protector. Besides, a reinforcing plate is respectively added on an outer side of the chest-and-back protector and the arm guards to increase endurable force against shock.

Abstract: The invention provides a personally-worn system for security and combat units, comprising modular, interchangeable, load-bearing front and back panels having predesignated pouch arrangements integrally formed therewith, the front and back panels being interchangably secured to each other via interconnecting shoulder straps. The load-bearing panels are each further provided with interconnection means for optional releasable attachment of front or back body armour panels to an inner-facing surface thereof, and each of the body armour panels, when attached to the load-bearing panels, is secured to the body of the wearer by means of the respective load-bearing panel to which it is attached.

Abstract: A baseball training vest is disclosed for use in training baseball hitters to swing a baseball bat without dropping the trailing arm so far as to cause a poor swing. The vest includes a resilient pad formed to fit under the batter's trailing arm and includes a harness for adjustably securing the pad to the batter.A method of training a baseball batter in which the batter uses an arm guide to restrict the downward range of motion during batting practice is also disclosed.

Abstract: A hip protection device for the elderly which provides protection to the trochanteric region the wearer to prevent fracture thereto upon falling from a standing position. An undergarment is provided with at least one pocket enclosing a pad, or other alternative arrangements for securing the pads to the hip regions of the garment. Each protective pad defines an open-ended channel having an elongated major axis along which it is substantially linear and a minor axis which has a generally parabolic curvature. The undergarment and pad are configured such that the pads rap around and fit snugly against the trochanteric area of the wearer's hip. Each pad has a relatively rigid, thin shield on its convex side and a relatively thin layer of resilient impact absorbing material on its concave side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a protective gear having a primary front protective pad and a rear protective pad, the front and rear pads being flexibly connected to one another and being adjustable relative to one another. This allows the primary front protective pad to extend to a greater or lesser extent downwardly over the player's abdomen, so as to accommodate the desired positioning of the front protective pad on the player's body. The protective gear also has arm sections that are adjustable in length to permit desired positioning on the player's arms. In a variant, the protective gear of the invention also has an adjustable secondary front pad which is attached to the primary front pad and the rear pad and which is configured to cover the player's upper chest and clavicle areas. The protective gear according to the invention is particularly useful for ice hockey players and particularly goaltenders.

Abstract: The protective brace is worn by a figure skater to prevent impact borne bone bruising resulting from one or more falls of the skater on the ice. The brace has a semi-rigid, resilient plastic shell. The latter has a generally rectangular web defining a longitudinal axis and having two downwardly oriented, wide, curved extensions at the respective extremities of the longitudinal axis. The shell has a lower and an upper tongue integrally and orthogonally extending from the middle of the web respectively downwardly and upwardly. The shell is molded to fit a particular skater, the web resting on the lombo-sacral area of the back of the skater and molded so as to position the longitudinal axis partially around the hips, the two curved extensions projecting downwardly from the hips over the thighs, the lower tongue straddling over the coccygeal section of the spine and the upper tongue extending over the lombo-thoracic section of the spine.

Abstract: A garment, in one embodiment of the invention, reduces the risk of bone fracture of a human or animal subject due to impact forces on a vulnerable region having a bone part near the skin surface when the vulnerable region is proximate to a soft tissue region lacking a bone part near the skin surface. The garment has an arrangement for shunting a substantial portion of the impact energy from the vulnerable region to the soft tissue region, where such energy may be safely absorbed and/or dissipated. In a further embodiment, there is utilized a dilatent material that is relatively stiff near the time of impact and relatively fluid at other times. Related methods are also provided.

Abstract: Two-piece padded skating shorts include a padded core shell and an outside shell releasably fastened to the padded core by first and second pairs of complementarily-formed fastening members at leg portions thereof. The padded core shell includes ball joint, thigh, hip, tail bone, kidney and buttocks pads, some of which include curved reinforced padding. The outside shell includes at least one pocket to store items therein. Waist portions of the core shell and the outside shell each include a belt sewn therein to secure the core shell and the outside shell to a wearer thereof.