Shock absorbing device designed to be mounted to a snow sliding board
AssigneeSkis Rossignol S.A.
InventorArnaud Moenne-Loccoz
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Abstract
A shock absorbing device designed to be mounted to a sliding board, includes a mobile device connected to a mechanism transmitting the forces generated during the deformation of the board and including a part of a deformable viscoelastic material, such that the part is shaped in such a way that its transversal section varies longitudinally in an increasing and decreasing manner, to form hollows and ridges, wherein the distance between the hollows and/or the distance between the ridges varies during the deformation of the part.
Claims13
A sliding board equipped with a shock absorbing device comprising a mobile device connected to a mechanism transmitting forces generated during deformation of the board and including a first element formed of a deformable viscoelastic material, wherein the first element is shaped in such a way that its transverse section varies longitudinally in an alternately increasing and decreasing manner, to form hollows and ridges, wherein the distance between the hollows and/or the distance between the ridges varies during the deformation of the first element, wherein the shape of the first element imparts (i) a first stiffness, due to the compressibility of the hollows and ridges, during a first range of motion between a position where the hollows and ridges are not compressed and a position where the hollows and ridges are compressed, and (ii) a second stiffness different from the first stiffness, due to the compressibility of the viscoelastic material, during a second range of motion after the hollows and ridges are compressed, and wherein the first element comprises a central channel through which an element of the mechanism transmitting the forces passes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.