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US 2017/0290374 A1Published application
Lower Torso Garment
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsAbby Biodrowski, John Luong
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Abstract
A lower torso garment has a genital portion or gusset having a single layer panel or a double layer panel including inner and outer layers. The genital portion includes at least one pair of darts extending from a crotch region to at least a lower front part of the pelvic portion to provide comfort and/or support to the wearer. In a double layer panel, may have a single dart on an inner layer and a single dart on an outer layer.
Claims33
A lower torso garment comprising
- a pelvic portion, wherein an upper end of the pelvic portion terminates in a waist opening;
- a left leg portion and a right leg portion, wherein upper ends of the left and right leg portions merge with respective left and right sides of a lower end of the pelvic portion, lower ends of the left and right leg portions terminate in respective left and right leg openings, and a crotch region is defined between the left and right leg portions;
- a genital portion extending at least from a front part of the crotch region and toward the waist opening on a front side of the garment, the genital portion comprising a multiple layer panel including an inner layer and an outer layer;
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- the multiple layer panel includes a pair of darts extending from the crotch region to at least a lower front part of the pelvic portion, the darts being displaced from one another in a left-right direction, the darts located in at least one of the inner and the outer layers.
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A lower torso garment comprising
- a pelvic portion, wherein an upper end of the pelvic portion terminates in a waist opening and lower ends of left and right sides of the pelvic portion terminate in respective left and right leg openings, wherein a crotch region is defined between the left and right leg openings;
- a genital portion extending at least from a front part of the crotch region and toward the waist opening on a front side of the garment, the genital portion comprising a multiple layer panel including an inner layer and an outer layer;
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- the multiple layer panel includes a pair of darts extending from the crotch region to at least a lower front part of the pelvic portion, the darts being displaced from one another in a left-right direction, the darts located in at least one of the inner and the outer layers.
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A lower torso garment comprising
- a pelvic portion, wherein an upper end of the pelvic portion terminates in a waist opening,
- a left leg portion and a right leg portion, wherein upper ends of the left and right leg portions merge with respective left and right sides of a lower end of the pelvic portion, lower ends of the left and right leg portions terminate in respective left and right leg openings, and a crotch region is defined between the left and right leg portions;
- a genital portion extending at least from a front part of the crotch region and toward the waist opening on a front side of the garment, the genital portion comprising a multiple layer panel including an inner layer and an outer layer;
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- one of the outer layer and inner layer of the multiple layer panel includes a single dart extending from the crotch region to a lower front part of the pelvic portion, and the other of the outer layer and inner layer includes a single dart extending from the upper front part of the pelvic portion toward the lower front part of the pelvic portion.
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A lower torso garment comprising
- a pelvic portion, wherein an upper end of the pelvic portion terminates in a waist opening;
- a left leg portion and a right leg portion, wherein upper ends of the left and right leg portions merge with respective left and right sides of a lower end of the pelvic portion, lower ends of the left and right leg portions terminate in respective left and right leg openings, and a crotch region is defined between the left and right leg portions;
- the pelvic portion includes a genital portion extending at least from a front part of the crotch region and toward the waist opening on a front side of the garment, the genital portion comprising a single layer panel;
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- the single layer panel includes a pair of darts extending from the crotch region to at least a lower front part of the pelvic portion, the darts being displaced from one another in a left-right direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.