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US 10,751,602 B2Granted
Article of sport gear
AssigneeBauer Hockey, LLC
InventorsJean-Francois Laperriere, Thierry Krick, Robert Lavoie, Chin-Te Su, Lin-Yu Lee
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Abstract
A sport helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse or football player. The sport helmet includes an outer shell with an internal side and an external side and an inner pad mounted to the internal side of the outer shell for absorbing shocks when the sport helmet is impacted. The inner pad includes a core of polymeric cellular material with a body of expanded polymeric microspheres and a molded covering being molded onto the core of polymeric cellular material.
Claims28
An article of sport gear comprising:
- a) a first component;
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- b) a second component adjacent to the first component and comprising:
- a core of polymeric cellular material comprising a first side and a second side opposite one another, the core of polymeric cellular material comprising a body of expanded polymeric microspheres, each of the expanded polymeric microspheres comprising a polymeric shell expanded by a fluid encapsulated in the polymeric shell, the body of expanded polymeric microspheres constitutes at least 85% of the core of polymeric cellular material by weight;
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- a covering on the core of polymeric cellular material, the covering being arranged to cover at least part of the first side and at least part of the second side of the core of polymeric cellular material.
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