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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7406782 | Set comprising two articulated boots having different mechanical properties A footwear designed for a plurality of sports for protecting a user's feet and legs includes a first rigid shell defining a body (2) adapted to receive a user's foot and extending along an elongation direction (8); a second rigid shell defining an uppe... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7334355 | Footwear support system A footwear base (320) and a structurally designed footwear bracing system (340) including a footwear base is provided. The footwear bracing system reduces the likelihood of ankle injuries when incorporated in a variety of footwear. The footwear bracing... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320191 | Sports shoe, in particular a ski shoe The invention relates to a sports shoe (1), in particular a ski shoe (2), consisting of a shoe bottom part (3) comprising a sole (4) and a shell part (5) with a cuff part (7) pivotably connected to the shoe bottom part (3... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320190 | Article of footwear having an at least partially composite structure An article of footwear comprises a shell (10) and preferably also a leg piece (20), and features, at least at some portions thereof that do not include the sole (15), a composite structure formed of two layers (30, 40; 30A, 40A) th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7293372 | Footwear upper with flexible collar assembly A footwear upper having a collar assembly that is joined at its forward edge to the lower portion of the upper by a flexible region of material so that the collar may flex forward and rearward in relation to the lower portion of the upper. In one aspect of the inven... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7257908 | Boot having a floating articulation An item of footwear is intended for sports practice and is used to protect the feet and legs of a user. The footwear includes: a first rigid shell defining a body (2) which is designed to receive the foot of the user and which extends in a horizontal directio... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231729 | Ski boot providing longitudinal torsion A ski boot comprises an essentially stiff outer boot and a soft inner boot or inner lining for receiving the foot of a skier. The sole of the outer boot is made of an essentially rigid material, preferably plastics, comprising an elastic zone in the metatarsal regio... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7210252 | Step-in snowboard binding and boot therefor A three point step-in snowboard binding includes medial and lateral binding pin engagers that interact with corresponding pins in a boot. The binding latches the boot after the snowboarder steps into the binding, and remains latched until a release control is actuat... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204495 | Highback formed of multiple materials A highback for controlling a gliding board, such as a snowboard, through leg movement of a rider. The highback is comprised of at least two distinct materials with different stiffnesses to achieve a desired blend of stiffness and flexibility. The highback may employ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7103994 | Automated tightening shoe An automated tightening shoe with crisscrossed laces and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the crisscrossed laces to tighten the shoe about a wearer's foot, and which can be released easily so that the shoe can b... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7077403 | Highback with independent forward lean adjustment A highback for controlling a gliding board, such as a snowboard, through leg movement of a rider. The highback is comprised of an upright support member including at least two portions that are to be contacted by and to support a rear portion of the rider's leg and ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7040042 | Ski boot An alpine ski boot is provided that consists of a rigid sole and a shell-less substantially flexible upper portion that is attached to the sole. The boot is secured to the wearer's foot by laces or buckles. The boot is further secured to the wearer's mid-foot area b... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040633 | Rolling or gliding sports equipment Rolling or gliding sports equipment, such as an in-line roller skate, including such equipment or skate adapted to receive an independent boot. The equipment/skate according to the invention includes a frame, a base connected to the upper portion of the frame, and h... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7028421 | Anatomically correct skating boot A skating boot adapted to fit around the foot of the user and allowing adequate forward and backward motion of the upper portion relative to the lower portion. The boot is equipped with an inside joint and an outside joint connecting the upper portion and the lower ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6829846 | Sports boot including a riveted and adhesively-bonded flap A sports boot made up of an upper having first and second elements assembled by bonding and use of a mechanical device. A part of one of the elements permanently covers the mechanical device in order to seal it and to hide the mechanical device from view, in order t... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826853 | Sports shoe particularly for motocross A sports shoe, comprising a soft upper provided with a cuff and with a rear counter which are semirigid and are separately connected to the upper, an additional semirigid element that is associated with the upper or monolithically coupled thereto, in an intermediate... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6802524 | Snowboard binding system and method of using same A snowboard binding system comprising at least one movable engaging member that, when engaged, secures a snowboarder's boot from vertical or horizontal movement is disclosed. In one embodiment, a binding system having two active sides is disclosed, allowing a snowbo... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6799384 | Sports shoe with leg-piece hinged on the shell Sports shoe having a shell (10) partially overlapped by a leg-piece (20) and adjusting hinge (52, 53) for allowing a flexing movement of controlled amplitude of the leg-piece about a hinging axis. In the overlapping zones (ZE, ZI) plates (42,... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6708425 | Ski boot A ski boot, in particular a ski-mountaineering or telemark boot, having a shell made of plastic material; a shank hinged to the shell; and a control mechanism, located at the rear portion of the boot, for controlling the tilt of the shank and having a lever hinged t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6671982 | Shell, particularly for a ski boot A shell, particularly for a ski boot, constituted by a box-like main body which is open in an upward region and is rigidly coupled to a sole. The shell has, at the foot instep region, two arc-like partially overlapping plates, each of which is rotatably p... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6663118 | Snowboard interface with an upper portion that translates and rotates relative to a lower portion A snowboard interface has an upper interface and a lower interface, wherein the upper interface rotates and translates relative to the lower interface.... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6622402 | Sports boot, especially ski boot, provided with an automatic device for pivotal immobilization of the upper A sports boot, especially a ski boot, including a shell base overlaid by an upper at least partially pivotal in relation to the shell base and including a device for locking and unlocking with respect to the latter, which is constituted by an abutment zon... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6594919 | Snowboard boots A snowboard boot includes a heel member and a leg member positioned above the heel member. The heel member and the leg member are secured to the boot so that the leg member is capable of movement relative to the heel member about an axis of rotation that ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594920 | Ski boot with variable volume shell The top of the shell (2) made of molded plastic forms part of a flexible upper (1) in which a longitudinal opening line (9) forming a flap (12) is formed. The front lateral side of this flap is connected to the upper by an extensible elastic part (15). Go... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6453580 | Cross-country ski boot A cross-country ski boot having a collar that is pivotally mounted by journals on an upper, and a device for retaining the collar that is active from a angular position and only in the front-to-rear direction by means of a fixed abutment located on the up... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6381877 | Controlled flex skate boot A flexible skate boot having lower and upper portions made of leather, synthetic leather or similar material is provided with a flexible ankle encircling cuff made of synthetic moldable plastic material capable flexing designed in amounts in the forward a... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6371494 | Sports boot with variable rigidity A sports boot, particularly for gliding sports, of the type including a rigid sole, an external upper, and a removal liner, the external upper including a first portion made of a rigid and substantially non-flexible material including at least one heel st... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6336279 | Ski boot Ski boot has a shell (1), a collar (4) articulated on the shell and an inner reinforcement element (7) fixed to the collar. The reinforcement element is in the form of a half-collar surrounding the upper edge of the shell. The boot has a wedge-shaped proj... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6327796 | Ski boot Ski boot comprising a sole and a shell of plastic material designed to house the wearer's foot and including a flexible portion in correspondence with the metatarsus area, a leg piece hinged to the shell substantially at the ankle and designed to wrap the... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6298584 | Ski boot The boot has a cuff (4) articulated to a shell (1) and means for retaining the cuff which counteract the rearward tilting of the cuff but give way when the force tilting the cuff exceeds a specific value. These means consist essentially of a ramp (12) whi... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6295745 | Ski boot The present invention relates to a ski boot comprising a first component, consisting essentially of a sole and an upper which encloses the foot and the malleolar region, and a second component consisting of a cuff which is articulated with respect to the ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6264214 | Sport boot having a partially covered rigid frame A boot adapted to the practice of skating and a method of manufacturing such boot, the boot including a shell base equipped with a rigid sole adapted to be attached on the frame of a skate and a heel reinforcement part, and a flexible liner that is positi... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6247252 | Ski boot A telemark ski boot including a shell of plastic material and a sole is provided. The shell is provided with a pair of lateral walls and a flexible portion extending transversely to the shell in the metatarsus area from one side to the other of the sole. ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6226898 | Downhill ski boot with dual liner A downhill ski boot (10) includes an inner shell (14) that is secured within a substantially rigid outer shell (12). The outer shell has a base (18) and an ankle cuff (20). The base includes a sidewall portion (24) having medial and lateral sides, with a ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6148546 | Sport boot Sport boot, especially for gliding sport, including an external sole adapted to be affixed to a sporting item, and from which an upper covering the foot extends, wherein the upper is composed of two portions the first of which is made of a relatively rigi... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6145867 | Shoe/shoe retention device assembly on gliding element A snowboard boot and an assembly of a snowboard boot and a retention apparatus for securing the boot to a snowboard. The boot includes a sole, an upper affixed to and extending upwardly from the sole, and an attachment member attached to the sole. The att... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6101745 | Locking devices for sports footwear, in particular for ski-boots Locking device for sports footwear such as ski boots, in which a lower leg envelopment (12) is hinged to a shell (10). The device consists of a support (20) fixed on an inner wall of the lower leg envelopment, in which there is mounted a cam (24) on which... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101744 | Ski boot A ski boot consisting essentially of a comfort liner (8), a lower shell (1) and a cuff (2) articulated to the lower shell. The cuff is provided with a strap (62) in its upper part and a lower-leg band (61) made of a material which is more rigid than the m... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098317 | Boot intended for cross-country skiing A boot is intended for cross-country skiing, ice skating or roller skating, the boot including an upper that includes stiffeners. The boot has a cuff mounted on the upper so that the cuff can articulate forward and rearward. The boot includes two rivets h... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6082026 | Snowboard boot ankle support assembly An ankle support assembly for use in combination with a soft-style snowboard boot. The assembly includes a rigid heel cup and a high back support for supporting the calf region of the snowboard rider. The high back support includes an extension member hav... | 07/04/2000 |
