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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128947 | Textile Material Having Increased Mechanical Strength, in Particular Having Increased Resistance to Piercing or Shooting The present invention relates to a textile web material having improved mechanical strength, in particular having resistance to piercing and/or shooting, having a protective function against chemical and/or biological toxins, in particular weapon agents. The textile web... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120066819 | ASSEMBLY FOR PROTECTING AN INDIVIDUAL, COMPRISING AN INSULATION SUIT A personal protective ensemble including a sealed suit having at least one area intended to enclose the wearer's head, the suit being equipped with connection means intended to be connected to a pressurized air source, the ensemble including a protective device having a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120040600 | Clean Room, Clean Room Suit and Arrangement Therefor A clean room suit for clothing a person in a clean room, the clean room suit comprising a fabric configured to cover at least a part of a body of the person, and a clean room lock adapter arranged on and/or in the fabric and being configured for coupling to a clean room... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036621 | Electrostatic Discharge Garment An electrostatic discharge garment (10) having a body (11) and a pair of sleeves (12a, 12b) comprises a continuous electrically conductive path (17) provided along the length of the sleeve (12a) and extended... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120023648 | GARMENT ADAPTED TO BE ASSOCIATED TO A DEVICE FOR THE PERSONAL PROTECTION OF A USER A garment comprising a portion suitable for being combined with an inflatable member for protecting a user. is described. The portion of the garment includes a covering surface suitable for forming a covering for the inflatable member. The covering surface comprises at ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027972 | FAIL-CLOSED ADAPTIVE MEMBRANE STRUCTURE Porous adaptive membrane structures having movable membranes are provided. The structures can be made to change their gas, liquid and/or particulate permeability in response to surrounding environmental conditions. Applications include protective apparel that is comfort... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120005812 | Insect protective garment The inventive concept is directed to an insect protective garment that is manufactured of synthetic fibers to produce a non-woven fabric to result in a predetermined thickness that will not allow the stinger of an insect to reach the skin of a wearer. The resulting non-... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110274858 | FAIL-CLOSED ADAPTIVE MEMBRANE STRUCTURE Porous adaptive membrane structures having movable membranes are provided. The structures can be made to change their gas, liquid and/or particulate permeability in response to surrounding environmental conditions. Applications includes protective apparel that is comfor... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110231986 | GRAVITY-LOADING BODY SUIT An elastic skin suit simulates gravitational loading. By selecting material(s) of appropriate dimensions and appropriate moduli of elasticity, and optionally integrating inelastic portions to maintain a desired surface distribution, the suit can be adapted to impose a l... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231985 | Body Armor Protection System The present invention relates to a body armor system designed to maximize protection, optimize mobility and reduce fatigue. More particularly, the system consists of a set of external, highly ergonomic hard armor plates in both ballistic and non-ballistic (riot) configu... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110220126 | BIODEGRADABLE MEDICAL MATERIAL A biodegradable monolayer medical material, comprising at least 20 percent cellulose fibers by dry weight, with a remainder consisting of at least 75 percent by dry weight of natural fibers, the monolayer medical material providing a barrier to liquids and/or microorgan... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110203039 | Protective Garment With Curved and Protected Extremities A protective garment including a body portion and an extremity permanently coupled to the body portion. The extremity includes a joint that provides the extremity with a bent position forming an acute angle relative to a vertical axis when the extremity is at rest witho... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110177732 | COLD WATER SURVIVAL APPARATUS Apparatus for helping a person survive on a cold body of water includes a suit capable of covering at least a substantial portion of the user's body while allowing the user to move and work out of water. An inflatable raft is provided to hold and support the person on w... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110113538 | FUNCTIONAL PROTECTIVE MATERIAL WITH A REACTIVELY FINISHED MEMBRANE AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING PRODUCED THEREWITH The object of the invention is a functional protective material, especially with the function of protecting against chemical and/or biological poisons and/or noxious materials, such as combat agents, wherein the functional protective material comprises a multilayer cons... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110107502 | TRAINING AND RECOVERY CLOTHING AND RELATED METHODS This disclosure relates to training and recovery clothing and related methods. In some aspects, a garment includes a fabric having about 41-54 wt % polyester, 27-43 wt % nylon, and about 16-19 wt % polyurethane-polyurea copolymer, and the fabric is constructed to increa... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110107503 | Compressible Liner for Impact Protection A compressible liner for impact protection, which may be installed in a helmet worn by a person. The compressible liner may also be applied to other impact protection situations, for example to baby capsules and child safety seats, as well as offering customised zones o... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20100306906 | Insect Protection Garment A one piece, self-supporting total body covering for protection against insects to be used by campers, hikers, fisherman, hunters or by professionals who work in the outdoors such as scientists and photographers. The garment will be mostly made of a see-through material... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100292623 | POLYETHYLENIMINE NANOPARTICLE-CONTAINING MICROBICIDAL ELECTROSPUN POLYMER FIBERS FOR TEXTILE APPLICATIONS The present invention relates to a process for producing electrospun fibers comprising polyethyleneimine nanoparticles (PEIN). The use of PEIN permits the antibacterial finishing of electrospinnable polymers, provided that these polyethyleneimine nanoparticles are parti... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100263109 | MULTILAYER MATERIAL, COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO METALIZED LAYERS ON AT LEAST ONE TEXTILE, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF Multi-ply materials comprise at least two metalized layers on at least one textile, produced by
| 10/21/2010 |
| 20100257661 | DISPOSABLE SAFETY GARMENT WITH REDUCED PARTICULATE SHEDDING A nonwoven disposable safety garment made by cutting at least one sheet of nonwoven material into a safety garment pattern, stitching the at least one sheet to define a garment, and hemming the garment. Cut edges are twice folded and hemmed under to prevent exposure of ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100180470 | ICE SKATE BOOT An ice skate boot includes a blade in thermal communication with heat transfer plates that extend into the interior of the boot. The heat transfer plates pass heat from the foot of the skater, through the blade to the blade, thereby warming the blade and cooling the ska... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100175175 | ELEMENT PROTECTION SYSTEM An element protection system for protecting wearers from cold and/or wet weather includes a garment portion having a torso section surrounding a torso-receiving cavity and a pair of sleeves, and a storage case portion including a bottom wall and a surrounding sidewall p... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100138982 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR COOLING A SAFETY SUIT A cooling device for a safety suit, including an air delivery device (2) and a cooling source (3), has a substance that reacts endothermically with water as the cooling medium.... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100107320 | System and Method for Providing a Suspended Personal Radiation Protection System An improved personal radiation protection system that substantially contours to an operator's body is suspended from a suspension means. The garment is operable to protect the operator from radiation. The suspension means is operable to provide constant force and allows... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100101007 | ENGINEERED TEXTILE YARN The present invention relates to an electrically conductive textile yarn for production of protective garments, comprising a first element which is made electrically conductive by means of a layer of silver, and a second element which is different from the said first el... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100083429 | ENGINEERED TEXTILE YARN The present invention relates to integral protective overalls for operations on uncovered high-voltage cables, comprising a first electrically conductive layer whose surface area is substantially equal to the surface area of the overalls and that is obtained from a poly... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100083428 | Body Armor Plate Having Integrated Electronics Modules A body armor plate is configured to provide ballistics protection to a wearer of the plate. For example, the plate may be configured to protect the upper torso of the wearer from high-speed, ballistic projectiles like bullets, shrapnel, and/or other projectiles. In some... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100050309 | CUT RESISTANT YARN, A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE YARN AND PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE YARN Cut resistant yarn the yarn containing filaments and/or staple fibers, the filaments and/or staple fibers containing a hard component to improve cut resistance of the yarn, wherein the hard component is a plurality of hard fibers having an average diameter of at most 25... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100037375 | UNDERGARMENT APPAREL SPACERS AND LOW RESISTANCE AIR FLOW Described herein is protective apparel that comprises a set of spacers attached to an undergarment. Each spacer attaches to the undergarment and is arranged under shroud material that rests over top of the undergarment. Collectively, the spacers maintain the shroud mate... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100031427 | Garment With Interior Surface Indicator A protective garment with an interior surface indicator to facilitate proper donning of the garment is described. The garment includes at least one indicia on the central portion of the interior surface of the garment to communicate to the wearer which is the interior s... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100011490 | Explosion safety garment A retrievable flash suit designed to protect the wearer from injury due to explosion and flame, and to allow retrieval of the wearer by others in case of unconsciousness of the wearer. The device consists of a suit and a hood. The suit consists of an outer layer of flam... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090320190 | Protective garment for use by a firefighter or other emergency worker and having a detachable cuff/wristlet A protective garment (10) is provided for use by a firefighter or other emergency worker, and includes an outer shell (16) having a torso covering portion (22), a pair of limb covering portions (24), and a pair of cuffs or cuffs/wristlets com... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090320189 | TREE CLIMBING SUIT A tree climbing suit 10 formed as a one-piece suit has a long-sleeved upper torso portion 12 and a lower torso portion 22. The long-sleeved upper torso portion 12 has two long sleeves 14 for covering the arms and a shirt portion 16<... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090313747 | SUBMARINE ESCAPE SUITS The submarine escape suit has a hood (14) covering the head of a wearer during ascent from a submarine. In order to allow the wearer to expose his/her face, the hood (14) is provided with a portion (21) overlying the face of a wearer that is releasa... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090288244 | Correlated Magnetic Suit and Method for Using the Correlated Magnetic Suit A suit is described herein which incorporates correlated magnets that enable an object (e.g., tool equipment bag, hood, glove, boot, flipper) to be secured thereto and removed therefrom. Some examples of such a suit include a scuba suit, a construction suit, a bio-hazar... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090271916 | Hockey suit A one piece athletic garment provides protection in a sport such as hockey and includes a unitary body enclosure having a torso section, legs, and sleeves and that includes protection for elbows, knees, shins, shoulders, and chest and protective pants.... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090260137 | SAFETY SUIT A safety suit has an interior space that is well air conditioned while the weight to be carried along by the user of the safety suit is reduced to a minimum. A heat exchanger surface (5), which is provided with a porous material (17) towards the outside fo... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090119824 | CONTAMINATION CONTROL GARMENTS A cleanroom garment containing a nanoweb bonded in a face to face relationship with a fabric, and a second fabric. The garment has a permeability of at least 1 m.min−1.m−2, and a particle filtration efficiency according to IEST-RP-CC003.3 at 0.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090112295 | Devices and systems that deliver nitric oxide The present disclosure relates to dressings, such as patches and bandages, and other devices and systems that deliver nitric oxide.... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090100557 | Protective Suit A protective suit (1) with a trunk part (5) comprising an upper shoulder part (2) with a neck opening (22) and sleeve openings (7,8) arranged on either side of the neck opening (22), a lower trouser part (3) with two leg ... | 04/23/2009 |
