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  • Patent number: 8485551
    Abstract: A covering assembly for a seat, including a cover adapted to cover a support frame of the seat and an inflatable member adapted to assume a resting deflated condition and an active inflated condition is described. The inflatable member is located on a side of the cover intended to be faced towards the support frame. The cover is adapted to contain the inflatable member both in the deflated condition and in the inflated condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 9027170
    Abstract: A personal protection device for protecting a user is described. The personal protection device can have an inflatable member having an internal chamber that can be inflated or deflated according to predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 9554602
    Abstract: A garment having a portion suitable for being combined with an inflatable member for protecting a user is described. The portion of the garment includes a covering surface suitable for forming a covering for the inflatable member. The covering surface comprises at least one insert made of elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco, Alessandro Bellati
  • Patent number: 8910319
    Abstract: A garment comprising a portion suitable for being combined with an inflatable member for protecting a user is described. The portion of the garment includes a covering surface suitable for forming a covering for the inflatable member. The covering surface comprises at least one insert made of elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco, Alessandro Bellati
  • Patent number: 6852087
    Abstract: A back protector, in particular for motorcyclists, including two vertically aligned supports provided with elements for fixing them to a motorcyclist's body, each of the supports containing a plurality of substantially rigid elements fixed thereto, the lower support being hinged to the upper support by a pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventor: Lino Dainese
  • Publication number: 20130093224
    Abstract: A covering assembly for a seat, including a cover adapted to cover a support frame of the seat and an inflatable member adapted to assume a resting deflated condition and an active inflated condition is described. The inflatable member is located on a side of the cover intended to be faced towards the support frame. The cover is adapted to contain the inflatable member both in the deflated condition and in the inflated condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 8608191
    Abstract: A protection device comprising an inflatable member and one or more structures is described. The inflatable member comprises a first wall and a second wall that form an internal chamber. The one or more structures are housed in the internal chamber, and each structure in the one or more structures comprises a first mesh and a second mesh connected by a plurality of tie members. Methods for manufacturing such a protection device are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lino Dainese, Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 6951033
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a multi parts garment having multiple means for the protection of motor bikers and/or of athletes practicing various sports against traumas from accidental falls and violent impacts; said garment has in cooperation a jacket having seam sections in preset tearing yarn, a gilet internally joined thereto and integrally associated to plural pockets in a fabric having a predetermined porosity and preset to be inflated by means of compressed gas bottles, which are advantageously overlapped, or adhering to a back protector protecting the spine and having a rigid polymeric structure, and an electronic unit, receiving pulses from acceleration sensors between the motor biker and the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventor: Lino Dainese
  • Patent number: 7979922
    Abstract: A protective device, in particular of a type suitable for use during sports activities to protect in case of knocks, falls and impacts in general, comprises at least one substantially rigid main protective element, apt to be applied at a region to be protected, at least one substantially rigid ancillary protective element, apt to be applied in a position next to the main protective element and connecting means for connecting the ancillary protective element to the main protective element apt to allow the mutual rotation working as hinge about a main axis. The connecting means comprises deformable connections between the protective elements so that the connecting means allow, besides said rotation, also rotations along axes different from said main axis and/or limited translation motions nearing thereto and/or away therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Ronco
  • Publication number: 20140110924
    Abstract: A protection device for the protection of a user is described. The protection device has an inflatable member in which an internal chamber is defined. The inflatable member includes at least one first layer and one second layer overlapped and joined by an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes polyurethane deriving from polycarbonate and/or polyurethane deriving from polyether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 11801435
    Abstract: Protector for an American football player, including, as impact absorption device, an inflatable element defining an inner chamber adapted to receive an inflation fluid and adapted to assume an active inflated condition. Use of an inflatable element as a protector for an American football player and a method for protecting an American football player are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Azzolin
  • Publication number: 20080201831
    Abstract: A neck protective device, comprising at least two protective elements (100), partially overlapped therebetween, supporting means (200) and respective connecting means (300) of the protective elements (100), and characterized in that the connecting means (300) is apt to allow the mutual rotation of the protective elements (100), working as hinges along different axes of rotation (401, 402), in a manner such that the protective elements (100) slide the one against the other one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: DAINESE S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Ronco
  • Patent number: 9775389
    Abstract: A personal protection device for the protection of a portion of the body of a user is described. The device has an inflatable member intended to protect at least partially a zone of the body of a user. The personal protection device includes at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are superimposed in a corresponding overlapping area or superimposition area. In the personal protection device the height or thickness of at least one, or each, of the first portion and the second portion is, in the overlapping area or superimposition area, smaller than the height or thickness of a remaining part of the inflatable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Azzolin, Marcello Bencini
  • Publication number: 20160088883
    Abstract: A personal protection device for the protection of a portion of the body of a user is described. The device has an inflatable member intended to protect at least partially a zone of the body of a user. The personal protection device includes at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are superimposed in a corresponding overlapping area or superimposition area. In the personal protection device the height or thickness of at least one, or each, of the first portion and the second portion is, in the overlapping area or superimposition area, smaller than the height or thickness of a remaining part of the inflatable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea AZZOLIN, Marcello BENCINI
  • Publication number: 20150168265
    Abstract: A method for positioning an impact detection device on a fork of a vehicle supporting a wheel of the vehicle, in which the fork has a right-hand rod-shaped member and a left-hand rod-shaped member is described. The impact detection device has at least one first sensor unit associated with the right-hand rod-shaped member and a second sensor unit associated with the left-hand rod-shaped member. The second sensor unit is mounted inverted or rotated by an angle of 180 degrees around a steering axis of the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Mattia Perego, Cristian Previtali, Enrico Silani
  • Patent number: 9464963
    Abstract: A method for positioning an impact detection device on a fork of a vehicle supporting a wheel of the vehicle, in which the fork has a right-hand rod-shaped member and a left-hand rod-shaped member is described. The impact detection device has at least one first sensor unit associated with the right-hand rod-shaped member and a second sensor unit associated with the left-hand rod-shaped member. The second sensor unit is mounted inverted or rotated by an angle of 180 degrees around a steering axis of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Mattia Perego, Cristian Previtali, Enrico Silani
  • Patent number: 9505366
    Abstract: A method for detecting accidents is described. The method has the following operating steps: obtaining at least two axial accelerations; integrating at least one first axial acceleration and one second axial acceleration of said at least two axial accelerations for obtaining at least two axial acceleration integral values; calculating an energy modulus according to the at least two axial acceleration integral values; and comparing the energy modulus with an energy threshold. An apparatus and a system which can carry out the method is also described. Furthermore, vehicles that have the apparatus are described as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Sergio Matteo Savaresi, Ivo Boniolo, Mattia Perego, Enrico Silani, Pierpaolo De Filippi
  • Publication number: 20140125450
    Abstract: An apparatus for the personal protection is described. The apparatus has at least one main control unit which is connected to one or more main sensors and to a first main transceiver for transmitting and receiving on a first radio channel control signals and/or activation signals, wherein the main control unit is also connected to a second main transceiver for transmitting and receiving on a second radio channel control signals and/or activation signals. Vehicles and a system which comprise the apparatus are also described. The vehicles and the system also include a secondary apparatus and a protective garment which can communicate with the apparatus. A process which can be carried out by the system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: DAINESE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Carlo Brandolese, Giuseppe Di Martino, Matteo Grotto, Cristian Previtali, Giovanni Dallara
  • Patent number: 8667618
    Abstract: A helmet (1, 100, 200) for protecting a user's head (90), comprising a cap (2) for protecting the user's cranium (92) and a chin guard (3) for protecting the user's chin (93), wherein the chin guard (3) is adapted to move between a first protecting position (31) and a second protecting position (32) under the action of a force (50) acting in the direction of the chin (93) of a user wearing on said helmet (1), the chin guard (3) in said second protecting position (32) being nearer to the user's chin (93) with respect to the chin guard (3) in said first protecting position (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Dainese S.p.A., Universita' Degli Studi di Firenze
    Inventors: Marco Pierini, Niccolò Baldanzini, Antonio Scippa, Francesco Lorenzi, Roberto Parissenti
  • Patent number: D489845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Dainese S.p.A.
    Inventor: Lino Dainese
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