Sports equipment with alterable characteristic
AssigneeBauer Hockey, LLC
InventorsMathieu Ducharme, Ivan Labonte, Alexis Seguin, Jean-Francois Corbeil, Edouard Rouzier, Yannick Paquette
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Abstract
Articles of sports equipment, such as striking implements (e.g., sticks) and wearable articles (e.g., skates, helmets) for playing hockey or other activities, in which at least one of the characteristics (e.g., stiffness) of the articles of sports equipment is adaptable and can be altered during use of the sports equipment, such as by comprising an alterable component coupled to a controller, by comprising an alterable component that is autonomously alterable, and/or by an alterable component that can be altered in response to a command of a remote device.
Claims45
An article of sports equipment configured to be held or worn by a user during a sport and cause a component of the article of sports equipment to switch between a first mode and a second mode in response to a change of movement of the article of sports equipment initiated by the user, wherein the article of sports equipment is a skate, and the component includes a runner of the skate, wherein the first mode includes a first profile of the runner, and the second mode includes a second profile of the runner.
An article of sports equipment configured to be held or worn by a user during a sport and cause a component of the article of sports equipment to switch between a first mode and a second mode in response to a change of movement of the article of sports equipment initiated by the user, wherein the article of sports equipment is a ski, and the component includes a base of the ski, wherein the first mode includes a first profile of the base, and the second mode includes a second profile of the base.
An article of sports equipment configured to be held or worn by a user during a sport and cause a component of the article of sports equipment to switch among at least three modes in response to a change of movement of the article of sports equipment initiated by the user, wherein the at least three modes including a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode, the change of the movement corresponding to a respective one of at least three movement patterns.
An article of sports equipment configured to be held or worn by a user during a sport and cause a component of the article of sports equipment to switch between a first mode and a second mode in response to a change of movement of the article of sports equipment initiated by the user, wherein the article of sports equipment is a ski boot, wherein in the first mode a binding of the ski boot is shifted to a first angle, and in the second mode the binding of the ski boot is shifted to a second angle different from the first angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.