EP2036596A1 - Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine Schuhbindung auf einem Snowboard oder Rollerboard und Verfahren zur Umsetzung dieser Vorrichtung - Google Patents

Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine Schuhbindung auf einem Snowboard oder Rollerboard und Verfahren zur Umsetzung dieser Vorrichtung Download PDF

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EP2036596A1
EP2036596A1 EP07405280A EP07405280A EP2036596A1 EP 2036596 A1 EP2036596 A1 EP 2036596A1 EP 07405280 A EP07405280 A EP 07405280A EP 07405280 A EP07405280 A EP 07405280A EP 2036596 A1 EP2036596 A1 EP 2036596A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C5/00—Skis or snowboards
    • A63C5/06—Skis or snowboards with special devices thereon, e.g. steering devices
    • A63C5/075—Vibration dampers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C9/00—Ski bindings
    • A63C9/003—Non-swivel sole plate fixed on the ski

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  • the present invention relates to a damping device for a shoe attachment on a gliding or rolling board, such as a ski, a surf or other pad intended to move for example on snow, sand, a plane water or a hard coating, and a method of implementation of this device.
  • the device of the invention is intended to be mounted on such a board, either directly before the sale of this board, or later in the form of complementary equipment easily adaptable to any board that can receive a fixation shoe.
  • the invention aims in particular to equip downhill skis, which is why the present description will mainly focus on such gliding boards.
  • the invention is in no way limited to equipping exclusively alpine skis.
  • the ski boots are generally attached to the ski, namely to the batten or gliding board, by the only intermediary of a binding directly screwed to the ski.
  • a binding directly screwed to the ski.
  • the pair that forms the binding and the shoe is a rigid assembly that, in the length of the ski, breaks the absorption of shocks to the right of this attachment. This break occurs despite the fact that the ski was originally designed to be flexible over its entire length. From this phenomenon stem the beating of the ski which may appear both in the front and back of the fastening area.
  • the document US5820154 suggests to add, under the binding of the shoe, a layer of elastomeric material extending between 35 and 80% of the total length of the ski. In the middle part of this length, however, is a portion of non-elastic material which aims to take up and transmit the efforts between the ski and the shoe.
  • a rigid torsion element useful for negotiating turns on the edges of the ski and thus keep control.
  • the main disadvantage of this device lies in the fact that the rigid element, arranged in the central part of the ski under the binding of the shoe, although fulfilling its role, however transmits most of the vibrations of the ski to the shoe without being able to absorb.
  • the document EP0104185 describes another damping device in which the resilient material fills the space left between the inking points on the ski of a support plate intended to accommodate the attachment of the shoe.
  • This plate is thus fixed by its front and rear ends, in direct contact with the upper surface of the ski.
  • cylindrical holes in this plate admit screws fixed in the thickness of the slat, while at the rear, this plate is provided with oblong holes whose ends are filled with an elastomeric material.
  • the screws for holding the back of the plate on the ski first pass through an absorption member before passing through the oblong holes and screw into the thickness of the ski.
  • the document US4979761 refers to another cushioning device for a shoe attachment on a ski board. He suggests the arrangement of a block of elastic material filling the space between an upper support plate, intended for fixing the boot, and a lower plate connected to the batten of the ski. Maintaining the upper plate and the elastic block is effected by means of posts integral with the lower plate, which extends over at least the entire length of the attachment of the shoe. The upper end of the columns is threaded so as to be able to screw a nut also serving as adjustment for the pre-stress of the elastic block. Between the upper and lower plates, compression springs are held around the balusters.
  • a plurality of articulated oblique plates connect the upper and lower support plates and serve to take up and transmit the torsional forces that appear in the damping device when the ski initiates turns.
  • the whole mechanism (columns, springs, hinged plates) is embedded in the elastic block.
  • One of the disadvantages of this device lies in the fact that its method of attachment, its lower plate and the arrangement of the elastic block under the attachment of the shoe, affect the flexion of the ski.
  • this system appears to be relatively complex in view of the many recesses in the elastic block to be able to arrange all the damping members as well as those for strengthening the device against its torsion.
  • the object of the present invention aims at remedying at least in part the aforementioned drawbacks by suggesting a damping device for a shoe attachment on a gliding or rolling board, in particular on alpine skis, as stated in the claim 1.
  • This device comprises a support plate of a shoe attachment which is secured to the gliding board via an elastic structure traversed by vertical guide rods.
  • this elastic structure consists of two independent elastic means, spaced apart from each other and each traversed by at least one guide rod rendered in turn integral with the gliding board.
  • a free space of vertical movement between the support plate and the gliding board is preserved between the two attachment points linking the present device to this board. So, flexing the board along its longitudinal axis is found little or no impediment.
  • a resilient and flexible protection means can still close the periphery of the free space useful for the deflection.
  • this arrangement provides a relaxing effect generating an acceleration of the ski, especially at the reception of a bump.
  • This dynamic effect makes it possible to propel the skier forward and contributes to shortening his downhill time so precious during competitions.
  • the guidance and the holding of the gliding board are improved by the addition of plain bearings intended to slide along the various guide rods.
  • the longitudinal flexion of this board can advantageously become completely free thanks to the arrangement of rear bearings each provided with an oblong bore allowing only a relative displacement of the gliding board with respect to the support plate, in the longitudinal direction of this board only.
  • the elastic means consist of interchangeable elastic blocks that can easily be replaced by other blocks of the same size.
  • such exchange blocks then give the possibility of being able to easily adapt the present device to the conditions of use of a gliding board. In the context of a ski descent, these conditions will be dictated in particular by the quality of the snow, the level of the skier, the configuration of the descent or the quality of the skis or its bindings for example.
  • the object of the present invention incorporates an independent means of adjusting the hardness of the front and rear elastic means.
  • this also makes it possible to improve the accuracy of the release of the shoe provided during a fall, according to a pre-set reference value.
  • front and rear terms used in the description which follows are in reference to the front and rear parts of the gliding board, parts located opposite each other, along the longitudinal axis of the plank, respectively at the left end and at the right end of this axis as shown in the first figure.
  • this board represents a downhill ski under a very schematic form.
  • the device 1 comprises a support plate 10 at the upper surface 11 of which a shoe attachment (not shown) can be immobilized.
  • a binding is generally composed of a front jaw and a rear jaw to maintain the ski boot conventionally by its tip and by its heel.
  • a plurality of holes 12 formed in the support plate at the front and rear of the upper surface 11, are intended to provide a range of possible positions to receive the screws that will be used to immobilize the binding of shoe on the damping device 1.
  • the support plate 10 is intended to be mounted mobile in translation in a direction substantially perpendicular to its surface 11, as indicated by the double arrow 7 of the figures 1 and 3 .
  • This translational assembly is obtained by means of an elastic structure 20a, 20b, traversed in this same direction 7 by guide rods 30.
  • the elastic structure on which the support plate 10 is constituted consists of two elastic means 20a, 20b, independent of each other and each traversed by at least one guide rod 30.
  • the resilient means 20a is located at the front of the support plate 10 while the other elastic means 20b is at the rear of the latter.
  • This arrangement leaves between them a free space 25 of vertical deflection, located between the support plate 10 and the board 3.
  • the height of this free space corresponds to at least the length of the stroke that can make the support plate following its translational movement along the double arrow 7.
  • the figures 3 , 4 and 5 give a representation of the guide rods 30 as they appear in the assembled device, respectively viewed from the side in the figure 3 , in section in the figure 4 and in detail at the figure 5 .
  • the preferred embodiment of one of these guide rods which comprises a lower end 31 and an upper end 32.
  • the lower end is preferably provided with a base 33 which is intended to serve as a guide. shoulder against which may rely a countersink of a fastener 40a, 40b described below.
  • the upper end 32 comprises an upper portion 34, which is preferably provided with a thread 36 intended to engage an adjustable stop 35, clearly visible in the figure 4 .
  • this stop is constituted at least by a nut.
  • Each abutment 35 maintains in pressure, at least in abutment, the elastic structure 20a, 20b, in particular the upper surface of this structure.
  • This stop constitutes an adjustable member in position along the upper portion 34.
  • the guide rods 30 are, at their lower end 31, secured to the board 3.
  • the guide rods associated with the same elastic means 20a, 20b are preferably made integral with this board by means of a fastener 40a, 40b, independent and fixed to this board with screws 41.
  • a fastener 40a, 40b independent and fixed to this board with screws 41.
  • Such an organ can take the form of a plate, as well illustrated at figure 1 .
  • the screws 41 are represented, in a simplified form, by their longitudinal axis only. They are intended to be housed in the holes 42 formed in the fasteners 40a, 40b, before coming into engagement in the board 3.
  • the lower ends 31 of the guide rods are, via their base 33, welded to the corresponding fixing members 40a, 40b, more precisely at the bottom of the countersinks formed in these members ( figure 4 ).
  • each guide rod 30 allows the sliding of a sliding bearing 50a, 50b whose lower end 51 is located inside the corresponding elastic means 20a. , 20b ( figures 1 and 4 ), while the upper end 52 is secured to the support plate 10.
  • the maintenance of the plain bearings 50a 50b to the upper surface 11 of this support plate is obtained by welding a flange 55 arranged at the upper end 52 of each bearing.
  • the plain bearings 50a associated with the guide rods 30 of the elastic means before 20a each consist of a cylindrical bore 53, without play with the corresponding guide rod.
  • the plain bearings 50b located at the rear of the support plate 10 each consist of an oblong bore 54 allowing a relative displacement of the guide rod 30 with respect to its sliding bearing 50b, that in the direction of the longitudinal axis 5 of the board 3.
  • the cylindrical bores 53 make it possible to perfectly maintain the strength of the ski, in particular when the skier initiates the turns thus inducing a localized stress mainly at the front of the binding of the boot.
  • the oblong bores 54 are located at the rear of the damping device 1 and allow, thanks to their orientation according to the longitudinal axis 5 of the board, to compensate for the deformation of the latter relative to the support plate 10 which is not likely to be deformed.
  • the board portion 3 located between the two front and rear attachment points intended to link the latter to the damping device can freely be arched in the form of a convex or concave curvature, encroaching for the latter in free space 25.
  • each elastic means before 20a and rear 30b is preferably constituted of a single member or element in the form of a block of elastic material.
  • the front block is provided with through holes 21 having a circular section whose diameter allows the insertion of the corresponding bearing 50a.
  • the rear block comprises oblong and through holes 22 which can each admit an oblong smooth bearing 50b.
  • each of these blocks is formed of an elastic material, for example an elastomer Vulkan® type consisting of a microcellular material having a maximum compressibility rate of the order of 80%.
  • an elastic material for example an elastomer Vulkan® type consisting of a microcellular material having a maximum compressibility rate of the order of 80%.
  • Such a material has the advantage of being able to compress with a minimum of deformation on its lateral surfaces.
  • the compressed material fills above all the free space within it before being deformed in the plane perpendicular to the stress applied to it.
  • This property makes it possible to guarantee the absence of any hindrance, blockage or malfunction of the damping device, in particular to preserve the correct arrangement of a flexible and elastic protection means (not shown) which could close the periphery of the free space. useful for vertical deflection.
  • This protection means would prevent for example any insertion of snow between the support plate 10 and the board 3.
  • Such a member could be obtained from an elastic band surrounding the free space 25 and
  • this combined system could be replaced by an oleopneumatic suspension involving an oil damper and a gas, preferably a non-corrosive neutral gas and safe to handle such as nitrogen.
  • a gas preferably a non-corrosive neutral gas and safe to handle such as nitrogen.
  • such a gas would be contained in a chamber closed by a membrane, which could be compressed by the displacement of a piston in a cylinder containing oil.
  • a board with such a system runs through a bump, it will transmit a pressure on the piston that compresses the membrane through the oil contained in the cylinder.
  • the compression of the membrane will in turn put in compression the gas which will behave like a shock absorber.
  • the gas pressure within the chamber could be adjusted using a regulator such as a valve.
  • the gas could be injected into the chamber through a valve and a small reserve tank easily transportable.
  • the support plate 10 is advantageously ribbed or folded down along its longer sides so as to increase its mechanical strength, particularly in bending and torsion.
  • This support plate could also be formed from a hollow section of rectangular section. More preferably, the front portion of this support plate will be contoured to improve aerodynamics.
  • the pairs formed by the sliding bearings 50a, 50b sliding along the guide rods 30 do not require any particular maintenance. Their sliding can be ensured either by the kiss of self-lubricating material, or by means of a lubrication such as that procured by a graphite grease.
  • the present invention also suggests a method of implementing the damping device 1, in which is performed a boring or grinding operation of the plain bearings 50a, 50b after welding of the latter to the plate- support 10.
  • the process step in which the reaming or grinding operation is carried out may be carried out for example by means of a cutting tool such as a reamer or a chisel mounted on a head of bore, or by grinding by means of an abrasion tool.

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DE602007010462T DE602007010462D1 (de) 2007-09-14 2007-09-14 Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine Schuhbindung auf einem Snowboard oder Rollerboard und Verfahren zur Umsetzung dieser Vorrichtung
AT07405280T ATE487520T1 (de) 2007-09-14 2007-09-14 Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine schuhbindung auf einem snowboard oder rollerboard und verfahren zur umsetzung dieser vorrichtung
EP07405280A EP2036596B1 (de) 2007-09-14 2007-09-14 Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine Schuhbindung auf einem Snowboard oder Rollerboard und Verfahren zur Umsetzung dieser Vorrichtung
EP08783480.0A EP2192961B1 (de) 2007-09-14 2008-09-12 Dämpfungsvorrichtung für eine schuhbindung auf einem snowboard oder rollerboard und verfahren zur umsetzung dieser vorrichtung
PCT/CH2008/000380 WO2009033307A1 (fr) 2007-09-14 2008-09-12 Dispositif amortisseur pour une fixation de chaussure sur une planche de glisse ou de roulage et procede de mise en oeuvre de ce dispositif

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EP0104185A1 (de) 1982-03-25 1984-04-04 Walter Gerber Dämpfungselement für einen ski.
US4565386A (en) * 1984-02-01 1986-01-21 Design Standards Corporation Ski
DE3709802A1 (de) * 1987-03-25 1988-10-13 Heinz Giljohann Stossdaempfer fuer skier
US4979761A (en) 1989-09-14 1990-12-25 Rohlin William F Ski suspension
EP0469452A1 (de) * 1990-07-30 1992-02-05 NORDICA S.p.A Vibrationsdämpfungseinrichtung, insbesondere für Skis
EP0791378A2 (de) * 1996-02-24 1997-08-27 Franz Völkl GmbH & Co. Ski und Tennis Sportartikelfabrik KG Tragplatte
US5785342A (en) * 1996-07-30 1998-07-28 Bronson; Henry D. Ski binding dampening assembly
US5820154A (en) 1997-04-29 1998-10-13 Howe; John G. Ski construction
EP1166834A1 (de) * 2000-06-19 2002-01-02 Skis Rossignol S.A. Alpinski

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EP0104185A1 (de) 1982-03-25 1984-04-04 Walter Gerber Dämpfungselement für einen ski.
EP0104185B1 (de) * 1982-03-25 1987-05-06 Brosi Bettosini Dämpfungselement für einen ski
US4565386A (en) * 1984-02-01 1986-01-21 Design Standards Corporation Ski
DE3709802A1 (de) * 1987-03-25 1988-10-13 Heinz Giljohann Stossdaempfer fuer skier
US4979761A (en) 1989-09-14 1990-12-25 Rohlin William F Ski suspension
EP0469452A1 (de) * 1990-07-30 1992-02-05 NORDICA S.p.A Vibrationsdämpfungseinrichtung, insbesondere für Skis
EP0791378A2 (de) * 1996-02-24 1997-08-27 Franz Völkl GmbH & Co. Ski und Tennis Sportartikelfabrik KG Tragplatte
US5785342A (en) * 1996-07-30 1998-07-28 Bronson; Henry D. Ski binding dampening assembly
US5820154A (en) 1997-04-29 1998-10-13 Howe; John G. Ski construction
EP1166834A1 (de) * 2000-06-19 2002-01-02 Skis Rossignol S.A. Alpinski

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