US 12,262,783 B2
Multi-layered films for use in airbags and footwear
Diya Bandyopadhyay, Portland, OR (US); Narayanan Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj, Hillsboro, OR (US); Yihua Chang, Portland, OR (US); Christopher J. Dimitriou, Portland, OR (US); Nancy D. Eisenmenger, Portland, OR (US); Sharon Oba, Beaverton, OR (US); and Richard L. Watkins, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/815,224.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/203,612, filed on Jul. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0041247 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B32B 27/00 (2006.01); A41D 13/012 (2006.01); A43B 13/20 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 13/20 (2013.01) [A41D 13/012 (2013.01); B32B 27/00 (2013.01); B32B 2250/05 (2013.01); B32B 2250/24 (2013.01); B32B 2250/42 (2013.01); B32B 2274/00 (2013.01); B32B 2307/724 (2013.01); B32B 2307/7376 (2023.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cushioning element comprising:
a multi-layered film including
one or more core regions, each core region comprising a plurality of gas-barrier layers comprising at least one gas-barrier material and a plurality of elastomeric layers comprising at least one elastomeric material, wherein the gas-barrier layers alternate with the elastomeric layers, wherein each of the gas-barrier layers comprises at least one gas-barrier material and has an average thickness in a range of from about 0.01 micrometers to about 0.75 micrometers, and wherein each of the plurality of elastomeric layers comprises at least one elastomeric material and has an average thickness ranging from about 2 micrometers to about 8 micrometers, wherein the at least one elastomeric material comprises one or more thermoplastic elastomeric polyurethane homopolymers or copolymers.