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US 6,546,560 B2Granted
Full body swimsuit
Assigneeadidas International B.V.
InventorsCiro Fusco, Armin Böhm
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Abstract
This invention relates to a full body swimsuit for enhancing a swimmer's performance in the water. Swimming performance is enhanced by optimizing swimming efficiency, which include influencing the swimmer's physiological responses, improving the accuracy of the swimmer's movements, and optimizing the direction of the resultant propellant forces by modifying the propellant areas.
Claims12
A full body swimsuit comprising:
- an arm portion having a region of graduated compression;
- a leg portion having a region of graduated compression;
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- a turbulence protuberance on at least one of the arm portion and the leg portion, wherein the turbulence protuberance creates a localized point of turbulence during swimming.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.