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US 11,110,324 B2Granted
Ball, in particular a soccer ball, and method of manufacturing a ball
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorHans-Peter Nürnberg
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a ball, in particular a soccer ball, comprising: a shell with a plurality of panels on an outside of the shell, wherein the plurality of panels are arranged in such a way that there is a gap between two adjacent panels, and wherein the gap is at least partly filled with a filling material.
Claims21
A ball comprising:
- a shell with a plurality of panels on an outside of the shell,
- wherein the plurality of panels are arranged in such a way that there is a gap between two adjacent panels, the two adjacent panels each having a lateral edge, an outer surface, and a chamfered transition surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface, and
- wherein the gap is at least partly filled with a filling material such that a top surface of the filling material is above a height of the lateral edges of the two adjacent panels and below a total height of the two adjacent panels, and the filling material covers a first portion of each of the chamfered transition surfaces, wherein a second portion of each of the chamfered transition surfaces is uncovered.
A ball comprising:
- a shell with a plurality of panels on an outside of the shell,
- wherein the plurality of panels are arranged in such a way that there is a gap between two adjacent panels, the two adjacent panels each having a lateral edge, an outer surface, and a transition surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface,
- wherein the gap is at least partly filled with a filling material such that a top surface of the filling material is above a height of the lateral edges of the two adjacent panels and below a total height of the two adjacent panels, and the filling material covers a first portion of each of the transition surfaces, wherein a second portion of each of the transition surfaces is uncovered, and
- wherein the transition surface of each of the two adjacent panels comprises a convex surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface.
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A ball comprising:
- a shell with a plurality of panels on an outside of the shell,
- wherein the plurality of panels are arranged in such a way that there is a gap between two adjacent panels, the two adjacent panels each having a lateral edge, an outer surface, and a transition surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface,
- wherein the gap is at least partly filled with a filling material such that a top surface of the filling material is above a height of the lateral edges of the two adjacent panels and below a total height of the two adjacent panels, and the filling material covers a first portion of each of the transition surfaces, wherein a second portion of each of the transition surfaces is uncovered, and
- wherein the transition surface of each of the two adjacent panels comprises a concave surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface.
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A ball comprising:
- a shell with a plurality of panels on an outside of the shell,
- wherein the plurality of panels are arranged in such a way that there is a gap between two adjacent panels, the two adjacent panels each having, a lateral edge, an outer surface, and a transition surface extending from the lateral edge to the outer surface,
- wherein the gap is partly filled with a filling material such that a remaining gap has a depth and extends from the transition surface of one of the two adjacent panels to the transition surface of another one of the two adjacent panels, and the filling material covers a first portion of each of the transition surfaces, wherein a second portion of each of the transition surfaces is uncovered, and
- wherein the depth is at least 1.5 millimeters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.