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US 6,883,823 B2Granted
Stiffening and/or damping element for a sliding device, especially for a ski or snowboard
AssigneeATOMIC Austria GmbH
InventorsBernhard Riepler, Helmut Holzer, Rupert Huber
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Abstract
A runner device (1), in particular a ski (2), snowboard, runner or similar, with a stiffening and/or damping element (50) joined to at least one part of the runner device (1), e.g. a layer or an inlaid element, the stiffening and/or damping element (50) being formed by a casing element (46) forming a housing compartment (45) filled with packers (44), which can be adjusted in terms of its hardness or its deformation resistance as necessary by reducing an internal pressure to a pressure below atmospheric pressure.
Claims37
A runner device comprising
- (a) a stiffening and/or damping element extending over at least a portion of the length and width of the runner device for absorbing and counterbalancing external forces to which the runner device may be subjected, the stiffening and/or damping element consisting of
- (1) an elastically deformable casing element formed by at least one covering layer, the casing element enclosing a housing compartment having an evacuatable interior chamber which is filled with filler bodies and has a vent,
- (b) an evacuation mechanism, and
- (c) a supply line for connecting the evacuation mechanism to the vent for changing the air pressure in the interior chamber whereby the hardness and resistance to deformation of the stiffening and/or damping element is adjustable.
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