US 11,731,028 B2
Leg pad
Anthony Gauvin, Montreal (CA); Thomas Lemelin, Boisbriand (CA); Marco Beauregard, Gore (CA); and Jean-François Laperrière, Prévost (CA)
Assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC, Exeter, NH (US)
Filed by BAUER HOCKEY LLC, Exeter, NH (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/565,990.
Application 17/565,990 is a continuation of application No. 16/438,145, filed on Jun. 11, 2019, granted, now 11,241,609.
Prior Publication US 2022/0226715 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63B 71/12 (2006.01); A41D 13/06 (2006.01); A41D 13/05 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 71/1225 (2013.01) [A41D 13/0543 (2013.01); A41D 13/065 (2013.01); A41D 2600/10 (2013.01); A63B 2071/125 (2013.01); A63B 2071/1241 (2013.01); A63B 2071/1258 (2013.01); A63B 2209/10 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A leg pad for protecting a leg of a user, the leg pad comprising:
a knee cap configured to cover at least part of a knee of the user;
a shin shell configured to cover at least part of a shin of the user, movable relative to the knee cap, and comprising shell members that are rigid, disposed adjacent to one another in a longitudinal direction of the leg pad, and movable relative to one another when the leg of the user bends and extends;
wherein: when the knee of the user bends and an ankle of the user flexes, a first one of the shell member and a second one of the shell members are movable relative to one another in an upper half of the shin shell in accordance with bending of the knee of the user and the second one of the shell members and a third one of the shell members are movable relative to one another in a lower half of the shin shell in accordance with flexing of the ankle of the user an overlap between the first one of the shell members and the second one of the shell members is configured to decrease when the knee of the user bends; and an overlap between the second one of the shell members and the third one of the shell members is configured to increase when the knee of the user bends and the ankle of the user flexes.