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US 10,195,506 B2Granted
System and method of using shear thickening materials in sports products
AssigneesHead Technology GmbH, Design Blue Limited
InventorsHerfried Lammer, Harald Rosenkranz, Johan Kotze, Ralf Schwenger
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Abstract
A sports product may include a support member and an impact region configured to impact an object. The impact region may be coupled to the support member. The sports product may also include a shear thickening material in at least one of the support member or the impact region. The shear thickening material may be configured to exhibit shear thickening behavior when an impact occurs between the impact region and the object.
Claims16
A racket, comprising:
- a head region;
- a striking region;
- a throat region;
- a shaft region;
- a handle region;
- and
- a shear thickening material in the striking region, the shear thickening material being configured to exhibit shear thickening behavior when an impact occurs between the racket and an object.
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A sports product, comprising:
- a support member;
- an impact region configured to impact an object, the impact region being coupled to the support member;
- and
- a shear thickening material in the impact region, the shear thickening material being configured to exhibit shear thickening behavior when an impact occurs between the impact region and the object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.