WO2006036072A1 - Stratifies resistant au choc - Google Patents

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WO2006036072A1
WO2006036072A1 PCT/NZ2005/000248 NZ2005000248W WO2006036072A1 WO 2006036072 A1 WO2006036072 A1 WO 2006036072A1 NZ 2005000248 W NZ2005000248 W NZ 2005000248W WO 2006036072 A1 WO2006036072 A1 WO 2006036072A1
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  • the present invention relates to impact resistant, deformable, resilient, protective and/or absorbing ("resistant”) laminates, padding forms or structures, assemblies including such impact resistant laminates or padding forms or structures, and related methodologies and uses as well as the products themselves.
  • impact resistant material including single or multiple material including materials whether as a laminate, a complex matrix, a varied density form, etc or otherwise.
  • Suitable laminates, materials, structures, assemblies etc useful in sport will also have application in non sporting activities (e.g. motorcycling, cycling etc) as well as in respect of sports.
  • One particular interest in the area of impact resistance is the lightness and/or flexibility of the resultant item so as not to restrict the wearer and/or the ability to play the game.
  • the present invention recognises a potential advantage from a manufacturing and/or resultant product point of view from a provision of a lattice of a resilient material as the impact absorbing medium to be affixed to sheet such as a stretchable fabric, film or some mechanical equivalent (e.g. a cured coating) or to be sandwiched between such sheets (and/or to be optionally be incorporated by sewing, adhesion or otherwise into a garment or having one or both of the sheets as part of a garment).
  • sheet such as a stretchable fabric, film or some mechanical equivalent (e.g. a cured coating) or to be sandwiched between such sheets (and/or to be optionally be incorporated by sewing, adhesion or otherwise into a garment or having one or both of the sheets as part of a garment).
  • the present invention confers manufacturing advantage particularly where the lattice is to be cut from a pre-formed sheet of the resilient material, be it a foam or other type impact absorbing material.
  • resistant refers to any one or more of the meanings normally ascribed to a pad for conferring a measure of impact protection (e.g. impact resistant, deformable, resilient, protective, and/or absorbing). It should preferably deform under impact and return at least substantially to its initial condition after impact (irrespective of whether or not there is any energy absorption by such deformation, although preferably there is some absorption).
  • a measure of impact protection e.g. impact resistant, deformable, resilient, protective, and/or absorbing
  • sheet refers to non perforate sheets (such as of a film, fabric, or combinations of such and other materials) but may in some forms refer to perforate, netting, or the like "sheet” materials, or assemblies including such materials. It can include an in situ formed "sheet” e.g. from a one or two pot compatible curable and/or dryable composition in which part of the lattice is dipped and/or otherwise coated with some spanning of the resultant composition material between the lattice regions.
  • region or “regions” refer to areas of any particular shape and irrespective of whether or not of mixed shapes throughout the lattice that are interconnected directly and indirectly as a whole.
  • attice refers to a resultant structure having inherent flexibility beyond that hitherto that existed between such areas as a consequence of removal of material so as to provide a close array (preferably as hereinafter described) of such regions or areas linked by one or more integral bridge provided by the material(s) with a proximate region or proximate regions.
  • Reference hereinafter to a "maximum dimension" preferably does not include the depth of any such precursor sheet from which the lattice may have been prepared by die cutting, laser cutting or any equivalent.
  • the present invention however does not exclude a moulded form of the lattice.
  • close array preferably means spacing less (preferably much less than) the maximum dimension of each region of the array.
  • proximate refers to one or more regions of substantially similar distances or same distances from the first region.
  • the invention is a lattice of an impact deformable and resilient material defining a close array of regions linked at least one to another by said material, the material links not having been affixed after the defining of the close array of regions.
  • the present invention consists in a lattice of an impact deformable and resilient material defining a close array of regions (of the same and/or varied forms) linked at least one to another by said material, the material links not having been affixed after the defining of the close array of regions and the regions preferably (at least predominantly) having a greatest dimension greater than the linked distance between proximately linked regions.
  • the lattice is derived from a precursor sheet having a depth and that depth is not the direction at which said greatest dimension is to be measured.
  • the regions are linked to all of their proximate regions whilst others are linked to some or one only of the proximate regions. This enables by selective linking some more linked areas articulating on fewer links connecting directly and indirectly to an adjacent linked area of regions.
  • the array of the regions and the linking thereof is such as to maximise flexibility for the functional purpose of the lattice.
  • said lattice is of a foam or non foam material capable of being resistant to impact.
  • said material of the lattice is thermo formable but not necessarily so.
  • said material of the lattice is selected from any one or more of a material representable as a stable flexible material.
  • a material representable as a stable flexible material is one or more of PE, PU, PVC, and EVA.
  • Other flexible materials can be of a synthetic or partly synthetic nature and/or of a natural material (e.g. rubber). Examples include foam or non foam forms of any such flexible material preferably being of a material capable by heating of having adhesion with a thermofilm adhesive but not necessarily so.
  • the material preferably has existed as a sheet from which the lattice is capable of being defined by die cutting, laser cutting, or other equivalent procedure preferably to leave the form required for the purpose including preferably the periphery.
  • a peripheral surround can be left after any such die cutting, laser cutting and/or the like or can be provided by fabrication. Preferably however there is no such continuous surround with preferably there being intrusions between whole or part regions from the periphery of the lattice.
  • a mixture of materials can be utilised whether as a laminate or a mixed matrix to provide said material of the lattice. In some forms it can be partially or fully foamed although in other forms it is not foamed at all.
  • the material is a polyethylene rubber of, for example, 35 kg per cubic metre but could be, in less preferred forms, a PE material of, say, 30 or 60 kg/m3.
  • the PE material is totally unfoamed and is unlaminated prior to the lattice forming process save optionally with, and preferably with, a thermofilm adhesive on one side, and preferably both sides, of the sheet prior to a cutting of the lattice.
  • a clicking press and knife tool is used for the forming of the lattice from a precursor sheet.
  • the precursor sheet material to be transformed into the lattice can be other than of constant cross thickness if particular regions of greater thickness are desired and/or allowable. Such provision however may require some lamination to achieve that effect and/or moulding. If a moulding process is involved it could instead be used directly to form the lattice.
  • the present invention is as a laminate constituent, a cushioning and/or impact layer of a material configured to provide a close array of regions linked at least one to another by said material.
  • the constituent is a lattice as aforesaid.
  • the present invention is a protective construction, said construction comprising or including a lattice or laminate constituent as previously defined, and adhered on at least one major face thereof, a flexible sheet material (e.g. a fabric) preferably capable of being attached or used for attachment.
  • a flexible sheet material e.g. a fabric
  • each major face Preferably there is a similar or dissimilar flexible sheet material on each major face.
  • the invention is, a method of forming an impact resistant region of a garment, protective or sporting item, said method comprising or including associating to a flexible sheet a lattice of an impact deformable and resilient material defining a close array of regions linked one to another by said material.
  • the invention is a protective region of an item to be worn by a user, the region having a lattice as defined formed by die cutting of a laminate or association of said impact deformable and resilient material and a thermofilm adhesive which has, reliant on the thermofilm adhesive, been affixed to a fabric or like panel already or subsequently incorporated into the item.
  • the present invention consists in a method of forming an impact resistant region of a garment, pad or pad structure, a protector or a sporting item, said method comprising or including associating to a flexible sheet a lattice of an impact deformable and resilient material defining a close array of regions linked one to another by said material.
  • a flexible sheet is a resiliently stretchable material.
  • said lattice is interposed between two such flexible sheets.
  • association to the at least one flexible sheet is by adhesion and/or heating.
  • thermofilm capable by application of heat directly or indirectly thereto of adhering to both a said flexible sheet and said lattice.
  • thermofilm on one or both sides alternatives include flame bonding, hot melt adhesive, water based adhesives, MEK adhesive, solvent based adhesives.
  • An example of a suitable thermofilm is that under the XROTM brand.
  • said lattice is of one or more materials whether as a laminate or otherwise.
  • said lattice is a lattice defined by die cutting, laser cutting or otherwise from a sheet of the material.
  • the lattice as a sheet is very much more thick than said flexible sheet or said flexible sheets e.g. preferably at least a factor of five times the thickness and preferably at least ten times the thickness.
  • said lattice is as previously defined.
  • the invention is a product of the aforementioned method.
  • Figure 1 shows a rectangular piece of a single material (e.g. PE) that can be used to provide the lattice or constituent,
  • PE a single material
  • Figure 2 shows how a thermofilm can be applied, and preferably is applied to each face, of the material of Figure 1, heat if necessary being used to attach the thermofilm on each side of the material of Figure 1,
  • Figure 3 shows a lattice defined by die cutting through the resultant product of Figure 2 cutting through the thermofilm (not shown in Figure 3) on both sides thereof and leaving a lattice which, in this case, is primarily of hexagon shaped regions linked in some cases to three nodal connections (i.e. 3 links to a node) each of which nodal connection is to two other hexagonal regions,
  • Figure 4 shows the lattice of Figure 3 being laid on to a fabric suitable as part of a garment and which will enable sewing or attachment thereof into a harness, garment or the like,
  • Figure 5 shows the product of Figure 4 being overlaid with a further flexible sheet material (e.g. preferably a material the same as or different from that shown in Figure 4),
  • a further flexible sheet material e.g. preferably a material the same as or different from that shown in Figure 4
  • Figure 6 shows the final product of Figure 5 post heat pressing
  • Figure 7 shows in a press the material with its thermofilm lamination underneath a cutting die
  • Figure 7A shows the press applying pressure to the cutting die
  • Figure 8 shows the cutting die having passed through the laminated material just prior to uplifting of the press, thereby to provide, after removal of waste, a product as shown in Figure 3,
  • Figure 9 shows an arrangement as, for example, in Figure 4 (this time with the flexible material over the lattice) about to have the thermofilm adhered thereto by a heated press part
  • Figure 10 shows the heated press on the flexible material of Figure 9
  • Figure 11 shows the resultant product of the process of Figure 10 subsequent for a further heat application of fabric in this case as shown in Figure 5,
  • Figure 12 similarly to as shown in Figure 10, shows the heat attachment of the fabric to the thermofilm
  • Figure 13 shows in a similar manner to Figure 4 an arrangement where some of the nodal links shown in Figure 4 have been removed thereby providing greater flexibility
  • Figure 13 A shows intrusions for some of the peripheral parts of the lattice.
  • a product capable of being sewn as a pad into a garment e.g. shoulder pads, chest pads, thigh pads
  • a lattice 1 is defined from a material as depicted in Figure 2 being of the relatively thick (e.g. near 5 or near 10mm thick) material 2 having attached to each side thereof a thermofilm sheet 3 such as for example 1 as previously mentioned. It is this sandwiched product that is die cut to provide a lattice substantially as shown in Figure 4 where regions 4 are linked by integral links 5 which, in the case of Figure 4, are of nodally connecting links where a link from one region 4 is linked directly to a link of two others, save near peripheral regions.
  • Figure 13 are cut to provide the total area of lattice required.
  • Shown in Figure 13 is an option of rendering the product more flexible by selectively designing the knife so as to reduce the number of internal links thereby making some areas of linked regions more easily able to articulate as an area relative to another area of other more tightly linked regions. Such removal of some of the links can be seen in areas such as 7.
  • the lattice 1 is preferably provided simply by die cutting as shown in the sequence Figures 7 through 8 with preferably infills in regions of the knife corresponding to the Y shaped cut outs 8 (as shoulders or otherwise) popping to some extent the waste material from the plane of the lattice for their subsequent easy removal.
  • Any suitable form of die cutting knife 9 can be utilised.
  • the regions can be circular, hexagonal, triangular, square, multi-faceted or of any other form provided there is some semblance of linking of each one to at least one other. It matters not if they differ in their form one to another although in preferred forms of the present invention, save-where-an-exterior perimeter may interfere with any regular patterning, preferably there is some measure of regularity albeit with some of the regions optionally having only a few links to proximate regions whilst some may have links to all proximate regions.
  • the flexible sheet to act as a substrate of the lattice is a nylon or Lycra type fabric but it can be of any other suitable form e.g. whether fabric, netting, film, or the like.
  • the lattice forming material is a die cuttable polyethylene rubber.
  • the present invention therefore enables compliance with both requirements by an appropriate choice of materials from which the lattice is formed.

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L'invention concerne un constituant de stratifié : une couche d'amortissement et/ou de choc (1) conçue pour mettre en place un réseau étroit de régions (4) liées au moins les unes aux autres au moyen d'un matériau, par le bais de liens intégraux (5). Un matériau de feuille souple, adhéré, de préférence, sur au moins une surface principale de celui, peut être fixé ou utilisé comme fixation.
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