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US 12,507,750 B2Granted
Article of apparel including protective panels
AssigneeUnder Armour, Inc.
InventorsMargaret Snoke, Kayla Stevens, Caitlyn Taggart
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Abstract
An article of apparel includes protective padding adapted to contour to the wearer. In an embodiment, the protective panel is a multilayered panel including a foam layer, a fabric layer, and a bonding layer located between the foam layer and the fabric layer. The foam layer may be formed of auxetic foam. Alternatively or in addition to, the bonding layer may be a film including a plurality of openings, and each of the openings defines a reentrant shape.
Claims20
An article of apparel comprising:
- an auxetic foam layer;
- a fabric layer;
- and
- a bonding layer located between the auxetic foam layer and the fabric layer in a first portion and a second portion of the article of apparel, the bonding layer including a plurality of openings configured to at least partially control an auxetic response of the auxetic foam layer in the first portion and the second portion of the article of apparel, each of the openings defining a reentrant shape, wherein the openings in the first portion of the article of apparel are defined by a first size and a first density, wherein the openings in the second portion of the article of apparel are defined by a second size and a second density, and wherein the second size is smaller than the first size and the second density is greater than the first density.
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An article of apparel comprising:
- an auxetic foam layer arranged in a first portion and a second portion of the article of apparel;
- and
- a bonding layer bonded to the auxetic foam in the first portion and the second portion of the article of apparel, the bonding layer including a plurality of openings configured to at least partially control an auxetic response of the auxetic foam layer, each of the openings defining a reentrant shape, wherein a density of the plurality of openings in the second portion of the article of apparel is greater than a density of the plurality of openings in the first portion of the article of apparel, and wherein the plurality of openings configures the bonding layer as an auxetic.
An article of apparel comprising:
- an auxetic layer that is auxetic in three dimensions;
- and
- a bonding layer bonded to the auxetic layer in a first portion and a second portion of the article of apparel, the bonding layer auxetic in only two dimensions and configured to at least partially control an auxetic response of the auxetic layer, wherein the bonding layer includes a first plurality of reentrant shaped openings in the first portion and a second plurality of reentrant shaped openings in the second portion, wherein the first plurality of reentrant shaped openings are differently configured than the second plurality of reentrant shaped openings such that the auxetic response of the auxetic layer in the first portion of the article of apparel is different than the auxetic response of the auxetic layer in the second portion of the article of apparel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.