| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 280609000 | With special shape, contour, or groove | 30 |
| 20080272575 | SNOWBOARD - A snowboard which incorporates a rocker element instead of a camber. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080272576 | Snowboard and Skis for Use in Loose Snow - A snowboard comprising a board on which two bindings are mounted on the board's surface at a distance apart approximately corresponding to around ⅓ of the board's length, where the board is designed with inwardly curved edge portions, the board having greater width at both ends at the transition to the tips (A-A) than at the middle (B-B), with upwardly curved tips ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090008906 | Snowboard and Ski - A snowboard or ski ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090102161 | SNOWBOARD OR SKI OR THE LIKE HAVING A CHANNELED EDGE OR MULTIPLE ELEMENT EDGE - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a snowboard or ski or the like comprises a base body having at least one edge, a top surface and a bottom surface; wherein the edge comprises at least one channel formed therein to provide two or more edge elements to contact a medium during use. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090256333 | Cambered Snowboard - At least one embodiment of the inventive technology relates to a snowboard having a lower surface that does not at any point along at least one specified portion thereof contact a horizontal surface underlying the snowboard when the snowboard is unweighted. Such portion(s) may be defined, at least in part, by one or more cambers. A rocker may be used to impart additional board performance benefits to a rider. Other embodiments may relate more specifically to the positioning of cambers relative to mount regions. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090273161 | Snowboard - A snow sliding board ( | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090273162 | SNOWBOARD AND SKIS - The tips are upwardly curved and the board's/ski's underside (the sole) is provided with first and second surfaces, straight in cross section, extending in the board's/ski's longitudinal direction, which are arranged at an angle to each other and usually interconnected via a third surface. The sole's first and second sole surfaces ( | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090309333 | Three-in-one alpine ski - An alpine ski that facilitates carving for beginner and intermediate skiers by having at its bottom surface two shallow wedge-shaped indentations, one at each edge, so that it is functionally equivalent to three narrow skis fused into one, the left-hand one of them being used on left turns, the right-hand one of them being used on right turns, all three of them being used when the ski is flat on the snow. Also, a pair of alpine skis that facilitate carving for advanced skiers, the two skis being mirror images of each other, each ski having on its bottom surface one such indentation. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100025966 | Ski, in particular alpine ski - A ski, especially an alpine ski, having a ski body with a shovel area forming a front end of the ski body, a rear ski body section forming the rear end of the ski body and in between these two sections, a reduced ski body section forming ski body longitudinal sides, in which the width of the ski body in the shovel area is greater than the maximum width of the ski body on the rear ski body section, and the maximum width of the rear ski body section is greater than the minimum width of the ski body in the reduced middle ski body section. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100096839 | WINTER SPORTS GEAR COMPRISING RUNNERS - Winter sports gear, particularly an ice skate, include runners to which a sliding blade ( | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100171288 | ADJUSTABLE WIDTH SKI - An adjustable width ski can comprise a top plank and two bottom planks. The relationship between the top plank and the two bottom planks can be adjusted to increase the width of the ski. The ski can further comprise a fastener to secure the top and bottom planks in the different configurations. A user can adjust the width of the ski depending on the preferences of the user. The ski can further have a mechanical or electro-mechanical adjustment mechanism. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100194076 | SNOWBOARDS - Snowboards are provided that consolidate and redirect a portion of the weight and forces of the rider to the optimal locations (near the edges and near the longitudinal center of the board), providing excellent turning and control and providing impact absorption when landing from a jump. In some implementations, an adjustable spring suspension system allows custom optimization of both the turning and ride characteristics of the snowboard. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110001306 | Cambered Snowboard - At least one embodiment of the inventive technology relates to a snowboard having a lower surface that does not at any point along at least one specified portion thereof contact a horizontal surface underlying the snowboard when the snowboard is unweighted. Such portion(s) may be defined, at least in part, by one or more cambers. A rocker may be used to impart additional board performance benefits to a rider. Other embodiments may relate more specifically to the positioning of cambers relative to mount regions. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110079986 | Personal Transportation Device and Method - A personal transportation device, typically for use in snow, includes first and second foot boards and a boot binding assembly for each. Each foot board may have a reverse or zero camber, with the underside having a generally flat or convex central portion and upwardly and outwardly extending end portions, which acts to lift the end portions off of the riding surface during use thereby improving performance. In some examples, the boot binding assembly may be oriented generally parallel to the length or width. The central portion may have a convex v-shape region to create a vertex under the rider's foot. One or more longitudinally extending ribs may extend from the underside of the foot boards. The foot boards may include shock absorbing bumpers or riding-surface-engaging projections extending from the edges. Attraction or repulsion elements may also be used along the edges. A method for moving may also be used. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110121542 | ALPINE SKI - A ski adapted for the practice of alpine skiing includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a central portion, the central portion being adapted to receive an assembly for binding a boot to the ski, which is inserted between the front portion and the rear portion. The front portion includes a maximum width having a value ranging between 135 mm and 165 mm, and the difference between the maximum width value of the front portion and the maximum width value of the rear portion is greater than 25 mm and less than 55 mm. The rear portion can include a maximum width value ranging between 90 mm and 130 mm, and the central portion can include a smaller width value ranging between 60 mm and 130 mm. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110148075 | Board For Snowboarding - A board for snowboarding, having forward and rear contact lines; lines of greater width located beyond the forward and rear contact lines respectively; binding-mounting areas, each including a set of mounting points by which the binding is secured to the board; a non-zero camber (C), measured substantially midway between the forward and rear contact lines; forward and rear shovels; wherein seen from above, the forward and rear contact lines pass through forward and rear areas respectively, each delimited on the one hand, board center side, by an inner transverse line located at a maximum distance (D | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110175326 | BOARD FOR SNOWBOARDING - Board for snowboarding, having forward and rear contact lines; binding-mounting areas, forward and rear respectively, each including a set of mounting points by which the binding is secured to the board, each mounting area having a central position; a non-zero camber (C), measured substantially midway between the forward and rear contact lines; wherein, seen from above, the forward and rear contact lines pass through areas, a forward and a rear area respectively, each delimited by two transverse lines, an inner and an outer line respectively, located between the central positions of the binding-mounting areas, the outer transverse line of the forward area being at a distance (D | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110193322 | RUNNING SURFACE FOR A CROSS-COUNTRY SKI OR SIMILAR GENERIC SKI AND CROSS-COUNTRY SKI OR SIMILAR GENERIC SKI EQUIPPED THEREWITH - The invention relates to a running surface for a cross-country ski or similar generic ski, which running surface has a climbing aid profile within a part-portion of its length to prevent backward sliding, which comprises a plurality of consecutive step profiles in the longitudinal direction of the running surface, which are of a saw tooth design as viewed in longitudinal section through the running surface. A flank height of the saw tooth step profiles extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the running surface increases or decreases continuously or discontinuously by reference to the longitudinal direction of the running surface. Also specified is a cross-country ski or similar generic ski equipped with this running surface. The features proposed by the invention result in an improved ratio between the gliding and kick-off behaviour of the running surface. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110204596 | Snowboard - Some embodiments are directed to a board for riding on a snow surface, comprising a base having a first snow engaging element, a second snow engaging element, and a third snow engaging element positioned on a bottom surface of the base. The first snow engaging element can be positioned beneath a user's front foot during operation of the board and positioned entirely on a forward half of the base. The second and third snow engaging elements can be positioned such that a fore portion of each is positioned beneath a user's front foot during operation of the board and extends toward the rear portion of the board at least to the user's rear foot. In some embodiments, the snow engaging elements can be protrusions, depressions, or otherwise, and can be removably supported by the base. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110233901 | SNOWBOARD - A snowboard which incorporates a rocker element instead of a camber. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120032417 | Sliding Board, in Particular Ski - A sliding board, in particular a ski, comprising a front part, a middle part and a rear part with a contact surface comprising a running surface and metal edges bordering it. In accordance with the present disclosure, the contact surface of the non-loaded sliding board has a curvature development which, starting from a central contact line in the middle part which has a horizontal tangent, in each case has a positive curvature without turning points toward the front part and rear part. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120080867 | Steerable and/or Convertible Sport Boards - A sport board is provided having a running surface which provides improved steering and directional control of the sport board. In one embodiment, the sport board has an arcuate bottom with a series of alternating ridges and grooves. The central ridges and grooves run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the board, while the ridges and grooves in the side areas run perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the board. In a second embodiment, the sport board comprises a bottom having a small number of a larger ridges and grooves which arrangement provides better control. By use of either approach, however, turning and cornering of the board is more controllable. The board is also fitted with foot straps so as to be easily convertible from a sport board configuration to a snowboard configuration. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120181777 | SPOON SKIS AND SNOWBOARDS - According to the invention, a ski is provided. The ski may be a longitudinal member having lengthwise edges, a convex base, and a first and second pair of undulations. Each lengthwise edge may have a sidecut portion, where the longitudinal member is thinner near a middle portion of the sidecut portion than at an end of the sidecut portion. The convex base, in an un-deformed state, may have lengthwise edges which are elevated compared to a bottom-most portion of the convex base. The first pair of undulations may be located at a first end of the sidecut portion, one undulation of the first pair per lengthwise edge. The second pair of undulations may be located at a second end of the sidecut portion, one undulation of the second pair per lengthwise edge. The undulations may be a downward depression of the base compared to proximate portions of the convex base. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120256394 | SNOWBOARD AND SKIS FOR USE IN LOOSE SNOW - A snowboard or ski for use in loose snow, the snowboard or ski having inwardly curved edge portions where the snowboard or ski has greater width at both ends at the transition to the tips than at the middle of the snowboard or ski with upwardly curved tips. The base is divided into a right running surface and a left running surface which two running surfaces together form a downwardly directed apex in the entire length of the snowboard or ski along a partition line between the two running surfaces when seen in a cross direction of the snowboard or ski. Each of the running surfaces forms an angle with the ground, where the sum total of the two angles is less than 90 degrees everywhere along the length of the snowboard or ski. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20130214512 | SPLITBOARD JOINING DEVICE - Some embodiments disclosed herein provide a splitboard joining device for releasably coupling at least two separate portions of a splitboard, thereby creating a snowboard when coupled and at least a first ski and a second ski when uncoupled. The device may include a first interface and a second interface for attaching to a first portion and a second portion, respectively, of the splitboard. In some embodiments, the device comprises an adjustable tension element disposed on either the first interface or second interface to adjustably control the tension between the first interface and second interface, and to adjustably control the compression between the first and second portions of the splitboard when coupled. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130270796 | Ski Having Asymmetric Characteristics - In order to assure smooth and essentially equidistant running of correspondingly loaded pair of skis over ground when turning left or right without any sideslip, a ski is bent at its tip at a pre-determined angle around its longitudinal axis and deflected from the ground by a radius along a that longitudinal axis. Despite a practically symmetric appearance of the circumference of such ski when observed in top view, the distance between a front inflection point and a rear inflection point on the left ski edge and the distance between the front inflection point and the rear inflection point on the right ski edge differ from each other such that the active lengths of the ski edges differ from each other. A weak area of the ski is provided adjacent at least one inflection point to provide different compression distributions between the ground and each of the ski edges. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140159344 | SKI WITH TRI-DIMENSIONAL SKI SURFACE - A ski for mounting a binding on the ski's surface approximately in the middle of the ski or slightly behind the middle, where the ski is provided with inwardly curved edge portions, the ski having greater width at the transition to the front tip than in the middle, and the ski has an upwardly curved front tip. The ski combines features from skis with a very special and characteristic three-dimensional geometry in the actual sliding surface, and a special design of the tip (possibly also in a rear tip where this is relevant), where the tip's secondary sole surfaces ( | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140217702 | SNOWBOARD - A snowboard which incorporates a rocker element instead of a camber. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20150290522 | Cambered Snowboard - At least one embodiment of the inventive technology relates to a snowboard having three cambers, a first of which may be disposed immediately inboard of a first tip section, a second of which may be disposed immediately inboard of a second tip section, and a third of which may be centrally disposed between tip section termina of the snowboard, and between said first and second cambers. The third camber may be part of a centrally disposed rocker. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20160114240 | SNOWBOARD - A snowboard according to the disclosure includes a deck body (A) having a panel-type effective edge part ( | 04-28-2016 |
