Athletic glove
AssigneeMizuno Corporation
InventorsShigeki Kuroda, Kazuhiro Kume, Satoshi Yoshida, Konosuke Nishijima, Soichi Fujimoto
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Abstract
An athletic glove comprises a back portion and a palm portion. A tape is stitched to the back portion. The tape extends from a little finger portion, a ring finger portion and a middle finger portion toward the base of a thumb portion, and can supply proper fastening force to the little finger, the ring finger and the middle finger of the user's hand when the user grasps an object.
Claims19
An athletic glove comprising a back portion covering the back of the user's hand and worn for grasping an object, wherein
- said back portion is provided with a tape extending along a direction from the proximal phalanx of at least one of the little finger, the ring finger and the middle finger of the user's hand toward the metacarpal bone of the index finger.
The athletic glove according to clam 1, wherein
- a little finger portion, a ring finger portion and a middle finger portion of said back portion include a first material portion having first elasticity and a second material portion having second elasticity higher than said first elasticity, and
- said tape is made of a third material having third elasticity higher than said first elasticity and lower than said second elasticity.
An athletic glove comprising a back portion covering the back of the user's hand and worn for grasping an object, wherein
- said back portion is provided with a bending resistance portion increasing the bending resistance of at least one of the little finger, the ring finger and the middle finger of the user's hand beyond the bending resistance of the index finger thereby increasing the ratio of grasping power for said object with the little finger, the ring finger and the middle finger with respect to grasping power for said object with the overall palm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.