Electrostatic discharging overshoe
Assignee32north Corporation
InventorDouglas E. Norton
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Abstract
An electrostatic discharging, detachable, overshoe, includes an electrically conductive flexible skeleton with oversized heel and toe regions for placing over footwear, and a conductive element situated to facilitate conducting static electricity between a body of a wearer of the footwear and the overshoe. The overshoe can be worn over a wide variety of street, work, office, and specialty footwear and may support reduction of electro-static discharge buildup on the body of the wearer by safely conducting any electrical charge generated or transferred to the body of the wearer to a grounded surface such as an electrically conductive floor.
Claims23
An electrostatic discharging, detachable, overshoe, comprising:
- an electrically conductive flexible skeleton overshoe for placing over footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe is constructed of a molded dissipative material;
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- a conductive strap molded to the skeleton overshoe and positioned to be in contact with a body of a wearer of the footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe dissipative material provides a conductive conduit to transmit an electric charge from the conductive strap to a grounded surface.
An electrostatic discharging, detachable, overshoe, comprising:
- an electrically conductive flexible skeleton overshoe for placing over footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe is constructed of a molded dissipative material;
- a conductive strap molded to the skeleton overshoe and positioned to be in contact with a body of a wearer of the footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe dissipative material provides a conductive conduit to transmit an electric charge from the conductive strap to a grounded surface;
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- a resistor in series with the conductive strap and the skeleton overshoe.
An electrostatic discharging, detachable, overshoe, comprising:
- an electrically conductive flexible skeleton overshoe for placing over footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe is constructed of a molded dissipative material;
- a conductive strap molded to the skeleton overshoe and positioned to be in contact with a body of a wearer of the footwear, wherein the skeleton overshoe dissipative material provides a conductive conduit to transmit an electric charge from the conductive strap to a grounded surface;
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- wherein an interface between the skeleton overshoe and the grounded surface has a coefficient of friction of 0.5 or greater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.