Garment designed to reduce cellulite by micro-massage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9756881-B2
Application number	US-201514879491-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 9, 2015
Priority date	Oct 10, 2014
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

A garment having at least one sleeve, intended to cover a part of the body of a wearer, the sleeve having at least one region, the inner surface of which is equipped with a network of picots, the sleeve being designed to be able to exert compressive stress from said picots onto the skin of the body part that is intended to be positioned facing said network, the picots each having a trigonal base and being distributed in the network so as to form alveoli between adjacent picots, the sleeve being designed such that the picots can exert pressure on the skin great enough to form a skin protrusion in at least one alveolus in order to micro-massage the protrusion during relative movements taking place between the network and the body part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A garment comprising at least one sleeve, intended to cover a part of the body of a wearer, said sleeve having at least one region, the inner surface of which is equipped with a network of picots, said sleeve being designed to be able to exert compressive stress from any picots of said network of picots onto the skin of the body part that is intended to be positioned facing said network, said garment being wherein each picot of said network of picots has a pyramidal geometry which extends from a trigonal base to a tip, having three walls spaced by an edge, said picots of the network of picots being distributed in the network so as to form alveoli between adjacent picots, said sleeve being designed such that the picots can exert pressure on the skin great enough to form a skin protrusion in at least one alveolus of said alveoli in order to micro-massage said protrusion during relative movements taking place between said network and said body part, and each of said alveoli being formed between opposing walls of three adjacent picots of the network of picots.

2. The garment according to claim 1 , and the adjacent picots are linked in the network via at least one corner of their base.

3. The garment according to claim 1 , and the adjacent picots are spread in at least one direction.

4. The garment according to claim 3 , and the distance of spread is less than 75% of the dimension of the base of the picots in the direction of spreading.

5. The garment according to claim 1 , and the picots are distributed in the network according to a 3-fold symmetry.

6. The garment according to claim 1 , and the picots have a substantially equilateral base.

7. The garment according to claim 1 , and the picots have a blunt tip in order to form an upper wall supporting them on the skin of the wearer.

8. The garment according to claim 1 , and the picots are made from at least one material that adheres on contact with the skin of the wearer.

9. The garment according to claim 1 and the picots have a base with a maximum dimension not exceeding 15 mm and a height not exceeding 10 mm.

10. The garment according to claim 1 , and the network is formed on an association support on the inner surface of the sleeve.

11. The garment according to claim 1 , and the sleeve is made from an elastic material, the resilience of which is sufficient for applying compressive stress to the body part of the wearer.

12. The garment according to claim 1 , and it is intended to be worn on the lower part of the body of the wearer, the garment having two sleeves for respectively covering one leg, as well as one sleeve for covering the pelvis of the wearer.

13. The garment according to claim 12 , and each sleeve comprises at least one region, the inner surface of which is equipped with a network of picots in relief, said region being positioned in an upper rear area of said sleeve.

Assignees

• Decathlon Sa

Inventors

• Grandin De L'Eprevier Laurie
• Piechaud Sophie
• Agape Florence

Classifications

• A61H7/007

  Kneading · CPC title

• A41D1/06 Primary

  Trousers · CPC title

• A41D27/10

  Sleeves; Armholes · CPC title

• A61H7/001 Primary

  without substantial movement between the skin and the device · CPC title

• A61H2201/164

  Feet or leg, e.g. pedal · CPC title