Sports garment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11219257-B2
Application number	US-201615735101-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2016
Priority date	Mar 14, 2016
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

A sports garment having a section covering the upper part of the body of a wearer during intended use of the garment, wherein a climate zone is arranged in the region covering each axillary area of the wearer during intended use. To improve the cooling of the axillary area efficiently, the climate zone has a plurality of fins which are arranged parallel to another and which are contacting the skin of the wearer during intended use of the garment, wherein the fins are extending along a defined height over a base material of the garment, wherein the fins are arranged in such a manner that the envelope of all fins has a kite-shape or rhomb-shape seen in the direction perpendicular onto the base material of the garment.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sports garment having a section covering an upper part of a body of a wearer during intended use of the garment, wherein:
the garment is made of a base material having an inner side facing the body of the wearer during intended use of the garment and an outer side facing away from the body of the wearer during the intended use of the garment,
climate zones are arranged in regions covering respective armpit regions of the wearer during intended use, each of the climate zones having a plurality of fins which are arranged parallel to another, the fins projecting from the inner side of the base material by a defined height from the base material toward a skin of the wearer such that the fins directly contact the skin of the wearer during the intended use of the garment, and the base material has no contact with the skin of the wearer at the locations of the fins,
the section covering the upper part including the climate zones having the plurality of fins is an integral structure of a knitted fabric made by a knitting process, and
connection webs bridging a bottom side of the fins are arranged at the side of the base material facing away from the skin of the user,
the fins in each of the climate zones are arranged in such a manner that an envelope of all the fins has a kite-shape, the kite-shape having a quadrilateral shape with two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other,
the fins are distributed in incremental groups with increasing number of fins bundled together towards a center region of the envelope,
wherein single fins are arranged in at least one of an upper region and a bottom region of the envelope,
at least one group of two fins are arranged following the single fins when moving toward the center region of the envelope, and
at least one group of three fins is arranged in the center region of the envelope
the single fins are distanced from each other and from the at least one group of two fins by a distance of at least 7 mm, the at least one group of two fins is distanced from the at least one group of three fins by a distance of 7 mm, and fins within the at least one group of two fins and fins within the at least one group of three fins are arranged adjacently with a distance of a maximum of 2 mm.

2. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the envelope has a height in vertical direction and a width in horizontal direction, wherein the height is between 120% and 160% of the width.

3. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein a length in horizontal direction of the fins of the at least one group of two fins is between 50 mm and 90 mm.

4. The sports garment according to claim 3 , wherein a length in horizontal direction of the fins of the at least one group of three fins is between 80 mm and 120 mm.

5. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the height of the envelope is between 140 mm and 200 mm.

6. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the width of the envelope is between 120 mm and 150 mm.

7. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the fins are made of Polyester and Polyamide yarns.

8. The sports garment according to claim 2 , wherein the height of the envelope is between 130% and 150% of the width of the envelope.

9. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the fins of the at least one group of two fins and the fins of the at least one group of three fins are arranged adjacently with a distance of a maximum of 1 mm.

10. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the defined height of the fins is between 1 mm and 3 mm.

11. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the fins are folds in the knitted fabric.

12. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the connection webs facing away from the skin of the wearer during intended use is flush with a surface on the outer side of the base material facing away from the skin of the wearer during intended use.

13. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the garment includes sleeves and the climate zones are respectively arranged under the sleeves of the garment.

14. The sports garment according to claim 1 , wherein the center region of the envelope includes a widest portion of the kite-shape.

Assignees

• Puma SE

Inventors

• Beneyto-Ferre Jordi
• Clarke Hugh Anthony
• Miles Baljinder Kaur

Classifications

• A41D27/28 Primary

  Means for ventilation · CPC title

• A41D2600/10

  for sport activities · CPC title

• A41D2500/50

  Synthetic resins or rubbers · CPC title

• A41D27/10

  Sleeves; Armholes · CPC title

• A41D13/0056 Primary

  using evaporative effect · CPC title