Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
280602000 | With camber or flexibility control | 12 |
20090267324 | Supporting Plate Incorporating An Adjustable Asymmetry Function For Shaped Skis - The invention relates to a supporting plate incorporating an adjustable asymmetry function enables the carving turns to be performed in such a way, that the skis run along two parallel curves, which in ideal circumstances match closely the arcs of two concentric circles, that no additional energy is needed to maintain the skis in parallel position throughout the turn, and that the turns are executed without unwanted vibrations and with normal, not much increased physical activity. The asymmetry of the skis, that is the assignment of a left and a right ski, is set up in a control assembly, comprising a weighting member, made of two balls, one steel ball and one highly compressible ball made of rubber or similar material, and two mechanical stops, as well as a housing, where an aluminum piston with a magnet acts as a find regulating device. The left and the right ski are set up by the disposition of the balls and the outside ski in a turn, respectively, are distinguished. The supporting plate of the inside ski allows a maximal flexion of its ski, while the supporting plate of the outside ski restricts successively the bending line of the ski and thereby slightly increases the radius of its turning arc. Consequently, the tracks of a turn are two parallel curves matching closely the sections of two concentric circles, spaced at a distance between the skis. | 10-29-2009 |
20100038884 | Suspension System for a Ski - Suspension systems are provided for skis. In some implementations, the suspension system includes a spring-like element and a support structure configured to attach one end of the spring-like element to the central half of the longitudinal running length of a ski body. The spring-like element is configured so that the opposite end of the spring-like element contacts the ski body at a contact point on the front-most or rear-most fifth of the longitudinal running length of the ski body, and applies a downward force at the contact point such that the degree of free camber of the ski is increased relative to the natural free camber of the ski body without the suspension system attached. | 02-18-2010 |
20100052291 | Snow-ski board - Snow-ski board, especially a ski, having at least one trimming mechanism with at least one trimming rod with its axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the snow-ski board, including at least one damping element and at least one adjusting or tensioning mechanism for supporting the trimming rod on both ends by adjustable mechanical tension. | 03-04-2010 |
20100148472 | ALPINE SKI WITH CONTROLLED FLEXION - An alpine ski includes a zone for mounting a binding centered on a mounting point, and a single particular flexion deformation zone arranged between the mounting zone and one or each end of the ski. Under a static load of 900 Newtons, applied to the center of the particular deformation zone and along a direction perpendicular to the ski sole, the deformation zone adopts a generally dihedral configuration, whose deflection is greater than or equal to 13 mm, 15 mm in a particular embodiment, the ski being supported on two rods arranged under the sole, symmetrically on both sides of the zone and spaced from one another by an axial distance equal to 400 mm. | 06-17-2010 |
20100176575 | SNOW RIDING IMPLEMENT - A ski in accordance with the invention increases in width from a tip or shovel portion to a mid-portion. The mid-portion includes at least a slight sidecut. The ski then decreases in width from the mid-portion to a tail portion. The ski also includes an undersurface with a substantial portion being rockered. A substantial portion of the mid-portion of the ski is not rockered. | 07-15-2010 |
20100320731 | Ski With Suspension - Skis and methods of skiing are provided. In some implementations, the skis include a preload, and/or have a relatively low spring rate. In one aspect, the skis include (a) a ski body having a front and a back, the front and back terminating, respectively, at a tip and tail at opposite ends of the ski body; and (b) a suspension system connected to the ski body so as to apply a load to the front and back of the ski body. In some cases, the suspension system is configured to provide the ski with a spring rate that diminishes as the ski is flexed from a normal unloaded state or a predetermined state of deflection to a state of greater deflection. | 12-23-2010 |
20100327560 | GLIDING BOARD - A gliding board including a primary core positioned between a lower sub-assembly and an upper sub-assembly, the upper sub-assembly and the lower sub-assembly including at least one first upper reinforcement and one first lower reinforcement, respectively, extending longitudinally over at least two thirds of the length of the gliding board, and further including a frictional damping arrangement. The damping arrangement includes a blade having a thickness of less than 2 mm and a structure that enables the sliding of at least one of the ends of the blade. The damping arrangement is positioned between the first lower reinforcement and the first upper reinforcement, and the distance separating the damping arrangement from the first upper reinforcement, or from the first lower reinforcement can range, for example, between 0 mm and four times the thickness of the blade. | 12-30-2010 |
20110148074 | Articulated Two-piece Snowboard With Rigid, Flexible Connector - A two-piece snowboard includes an improved bottom shape and connector. The bottom surface of each snowboard section facilitates three primary functions: riding in a straight line, turning, and stopping. The bottom surfaces are concave or substantially flat, and grooves or ribs are provided along bottom edges of the sections to provide for turning and/or braking. Thus placed, the grooves and/or ribs do not interfere with straight line riding. The connector is somewhat stiff, and resists twisting. An example of a suitable connector is a length of reinforced hydraulic hose. The connector allows both vertical and horizontal flexing to facilitate riding over irregular terrain, while resisting twisting between sections to facilitate control. In one embodiment, the two-piece snowboard is constructed from sandwiching upper platforms provided by a donor snowboard between a connector assembly and bottom platforms according to the present invention. | 06-23-2011 |
20110181023 | Ski or snowboard with means for influencing its cross-sectional shape - A ski or a snowboard is in the form of a board-type gliding device. By reference to the width of the gliding device, at least one recess is provided in its middle portion extending in its depth direction from the top face of the gliding device in the direction towards the running surface facing and disposed in its longitudinal direction essentially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the gliding device with a view to causing a cross-sectional weakening. At least one manually adjustable adjusting device is provided, which is designed to produce an individually adjustable change in the load-dependent deformability of the cross-sectional shape or to produce an individually adjustable limit to the maximum permissible load-dependent cross-sectional deformation of the gliding device. Further, a ski or a snowboard is provided with a manually adjustable adjusting device which is designed to act as a spreading device for producing an individually adjustable increase in the width of the recess on the one hand and to act as a pulling device to produce an individually adjustable decrease in the width of the recess on the other hand. | 07-28-2011 |
20110233900 | CAMBER ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SNOW-RIDING DEVICES - The system comprises a first elongate blade and a second elongate blade. The second elongate blade is substantially in superposition with reference to the first blade. The first and the second blades are affixed together at one end. The system includes a user-actuated mechanism is connected at least to the second blade. The mechanism is selectively operable by a user of the snow-riding device to longitudinally reposition at least a portion of the second blade with reference to the first blade. This longitudinal repositioning modifies the efficient length ratio between the two blades and thereby the camber of the system. The system is self-contained and once integrated to the snow-riding device, the system permits a selective camber adjustment of at least a portion of the snow-riding device upon modifying the camber of the system. | 09-29-2011 |
20140312597 | Suspension System for a Ski - Suspension systems are provided for skis. In some implementations, the suspension system includes a spring-like element and a support structure configured to attach one end of the spring-like element to the central half of the longitudinal running length of a ski body. The spring-like element is configured so that the opposite end of the spring-like element contacts the ski body at a contact point on the front-most or rear-most fifth of the longitudinal running length of the ski body, and applies a downward force at the contact point such that the degree of free camber of the ski is increased relative to the natural free camber of the ski body without the suspension system attached. | 10-23-2014 |
20160008697 | GLIDING BOARD WITH A DAMPING DEVICE | 01-14-2016 |