US 12,082,630 B2
System and device for affecting drag properties of an object
Yuki Aihara, Portland, OR (US); Leonard W. Brownlie, Portland, OR (US); Jorge E. Carbo, Jr., Aloha, OR (US); Edward L. Harber, Beaverton, OR (US); Ryan P. Henry, Beaverton, OR (US); Irena Ilcheva, Portland, OR (US); and Susan L. Sokolowski, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on May 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/887,793.
Application 16/887,793 is a division of application No. 15/160,795, filed on May 20, 2016, granted, now 10,716,340.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/167,062, filed on May 27, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0288794 A1, Sep. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. A41D 13/00 (2006.01); A41D 1/08 (2018.01); A41D 31/18 (2019.01); B64C 23/06 (2006.01)
CPC A41D 1/08 (2013.01) [A41D 13/0015 (2013.01); A41D 31/185 (2019.02); B64C 23/06 (2013.01); A41D 2400/24 (2013.01); Y02T 50/10 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vortex-generator kit comprising:
a detached leg sleeve;
a detached arm sleeve, the detached arm sleeve being independent from the detached leg sleeve, the detached arm sleeve having an anterior midline separating a lateral side from a medial side,
a first vortex-generator arrangement coupled to the detached leg sleeve, the first vortex-generator arrangement comprising a first set of vortex generators having a first substantially consistent spacing and a first substantially consistent vortex-generator height; and
a second vortex-generator arrangement coupled to the lateral side of the anterior midline of the detached arm sleeve, the second vortex-generator arrangement comprising a second set of vortex generators having a second substantially consistent spacing and a second substantially consistent vortex-generator height,
wherein the second substantially consistent spacing is different than the first substantially consistent spacing, the second vortex-generator height is different than the first vortex-generator height, or any combination thereof,
wherein each of the detached leg sleeve and the detached arm sleeve omits vortex generators on the medial side of the anterior midline.