US 12,302,960 B2
Body part pad
Martijn Schaaper, Monster (NL)
Assigned to INMARKET B.V., Delft (NL)
Appl. No. 17/907,226
Filed by INMARKET B.V., Delft (NL)
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/NL2021/050198
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/194342, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2025213 (NL), filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0120562 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A41D 13/06 (2006.01); A41D 13/05 (2006.01); A41D 13/08 (2006.01)
CPC A41D 13/065 (2013.01) [A41D 13/0512 (2013.01); A41D 13/08 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Body part pad for protecting a double curved body part from an external load, the body part pad comprising:
a flexible carrying dish, which in a first bending direction is bendable about a first bending axis, and which in a second bending direction is bendable about a second bending axis;
wherein the carrying dish comprises a multiplicity of segments of which adjacent segment parts are disposed with an intermediate distance, and wherein the intermediate distance of adjacent segment parts is variable upon bending of the carrying dish in the second bending direction, so that, in use, a force that is exerted by the body part on an inner side of the carrying dish and opposed forces that are exerted on an outer side of the carrying dish by the external load from which the body part is to be protected result in curvature of the carrying dish around the first and second bending axis to a curvature corresponding more with the body part to be protected;
a supporting cap arranged on the outer side of the carrying dish;
wherein the supporting cap has a multiplicity of supports arranged thereon for transmitting the opposed forces from the external load from which the body part is to be protected onto the outer side of the carrying dish,
wherein the supports are spaced apart with a mutual intermediate distance, and
wherein the supports are provided at least near to a circumferential edge of the supporting cap, on both sides of the first bending axis and on at least one side of the second bending axis.