Garment comprising an inflatable protection device
AssigneeAlpinestars Research SRL
InventorsGiovanni Mazzarolo, Lorenzo Nardo
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Abstract
A garment (1) comprising an inflatable protection device (10) and a housing (2), the inflatable protection device (10) comprising at least one inflatable bag (12) housed in the housing (2) and designed to move between a rest condition, where it is in a deflated status and an operating condition, where it is in an inflated status and inflation means (14) connected with the inflatable bag (12) and designed, once triggered, for selectively inflating the inflatable bag (12). The at least one inflatable bag (12) is manufactured with an elastic material and, in said rest condition, occupies a limited portion of said housing (2).
Claims19
A garment comprising an inflatable protection device and a housing delimited by an inner surface and an outer surface, said inflatable protection device comprising:
- at least one inflatable bag housed in said housing and moveable between a rest condition in a deflated status and an operating condition in an inflated status;
- an inflation means connected with said at least one inflatable bag and triggerable for selectively inflating said at least one inflatable bag;
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- at least one casing designed for housing said at least one inflatable bag, the at least one casing coinciding with at least a portion of the housing;
- wherein said at least one inflatable bag is manufactured with an elastic material so that in the operating condition, a size of said at least one inflatable bag is subjected to an expansion, the housing being of a larger size than the at least one inflatable bag in the rest condition so as to accommodate any expansion of said at least one inflatable bag ranging from between 30% and 1000% greater than said at least one inflatable bag in the rest condition;
- wherein said at least one inflatable bag when in said rest condition occupies a limited portion of said housing, whereby a portion of the inner and outer surfaces defining the housing are uncovered by the at least one inflatable bag;
- wherein a projection of the at least one inflatable bag on a plane increases from the rest condition to the operating condition;
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- wherein the casing is made of breathable material, so as to permit passage of air through coinciding inner and outer surfaces of the housing that are uncovered by the at least one inflatable bag when said at least one inflatable bag is in the rest condition.
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