US2011209263A1PendingUtilityA1

Garment

Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIESPriority: Oct 30, 2008Filed: Oct 29, 2009Published: Sep 1, 2011
Est. expiryOct 30, 2028(~2.3 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
A41D 13/0015A41D 7/00A41B 9/00A61F 5/03A41D 13/00A41D 31/185A41B 2400/38
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Abstract

A garment is provided with a main part which consists of a front body section, a back body section and sleeves extending from front and back body sections toward both arm sides over shoulders, and a pair of first tightening parts separately placed in right and left areas located at the positions of right and left deltoid muscles covering the boundary of the wearer's shoulder and upper arm in the back side, wherein the front and back body sections and the upper arm sections of the sleeves comprise at least two kinds of stretch materials, which differ in stretchability from each other, including a material for the main part and a material for the first tightening parts having a lower stretchability than the main part.

Claims

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1 . A garment comprising:
 a main part which includes front and back body sections, and sleeves extending from the front and back body sections towards both arm sides over shoulders; and   a pair of first tightening parts separately placed in left and right areas located at the positions of a wearer's right and left deltoid muscles covering a boundary of the wearer's shoulder and upper arm in a back side, wherein   the front and back body sections and upper arm sections of the sleeves are made from at least two kinds of stretch materials, which differ in stretchability from each other, including a material for the main part and a material for the first tightening parts having a lower stretchability than the main part.   
     
     
         2 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein the first tightening parts are formed from one of the following:
 (1) a patch made from the same material as, or a different material from, the main part is overlapped on an outer surface or an inner surface of the main part, and then sewed, or adhered or thermal compression bonded using a resin adhesive;   (2) a patch made from a different material from the main part is filled and arranged in an opening provided in the main part, and joining end edges are sewed;   (3) a fabric is changed from the main part with the same material as, or a different material from, the main part; and   (4) an elastic resin is applied to the main body.   
     
     
         3 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein the first tightening parts form a point group, the point group being formed with one of the following:
 (5) a fabric is changed from the main part with the same material as, or a different material from, the main part; and   (6) an elastic resin is applied to the main body.   
     
     
         4 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein a contraction force at the time of 30% extension of the first tightening parts is greater than or equal to two times, and smaller than or equal to ten times, the contraction force at the time of 30% extension of the main body. 
     
     
         5 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein an area of each first tightening part arranged on the left and the right is 10 cm 2  to 300 cm 2 , the first tightening parts being provided one each on the left and the right, or in plurals separately each on the left and the right. 
     
     
         6 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein a shape of each first tightening part on the left and the right arranged between a shoulder region and a sleeve region with the shoulder in between is a shape in which an upper part is branched to a shoulder region side and a sleeve region side, and left and right side edges at a lower part are converged towards a middle of the lower end. 
     
     
         7 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein the back side of the sleeve is sewed to the back body section as a raglan sleeve, the first tightening part being arranged on the raglan sleeve. 
     
     
         8 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is a short sleeve or a long sleeve, and is a sleeve in which a front part of the sleeve is sewed to the front body section along a shoulder line or a raglan sleeve. 
     
     
         9 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein the sleeves are long sleeves, and a pair of second tightening parts of band-shape for alleviating arm fatigue, which pass obliquely through a common digital extensor muscle from an inner side of a wrist towards an outer side of an elbow, is arranged on a forearm of the sleeves from the wrist to the elbow. 
     
     
         10 . The garment according to  claim 9 , wherein the second tightening parts respectively have a width of 3 cm to 10 cm. 
     
     
         11 . The garment according to  claim 1 , being one of an undershirt, an outer upper garment including those for sports and rehabilitation, a swimming wear, and a leotard. 
     
     
         12 . The garment according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the front and back body sections continuously includes a lower body section reaching to at least a femoral area or coupled to the lower body section in attachable/detachable manner through a connecting portion;   a main part of the lower body section is made from a stretch material; and   the lower body section includes a band-shaped third tightening part along a waist, a fourth tightening part for holding down a middle of a buttocks arranged up to a position corresponding to a sacral bone in continuation to a middle of the back of the third tightening part, and a band shaped fifth tightening part arranged along a hip joint at a base of the femoral area on the back side.   
     
     
         13 . The garment according to  claim 12 , wherein a sixth tightening part continuing to the third tightening part passing obliquely upward towards a lower abdomen at a middle of the front part along the hip joint on the front side in continuation to the fifth tightening part and then passing obliquely upward towards the back side, and a seventh tightening part arranged in continuation to the third tightening part at the lower abdomen of the middle of the front part sandwiched by the front end edges of the sixth tightening parts on the left and right sides and having the lower end position up to the intermediate position of a length reaching a crotch portion from a waist line are arranged at a front part of the lower body section. 
     
     
         14 . The garment according to  claim 13 , wherein the lower end position of the seventh tightening part is a position immediately before reaching a local area that bulges out for male garments. 
     
     
         15 . A garment comprising a garment of top and bottom set with a top garment and a bottom garment; wherein
 the top garment includes a main part which includes front and back body sections and sleeves extending from the front and back body sections towards both arm sides over shoulders, and a pair of first tightening parts separately placed in left and right areas located at the positions of right and left deltoid muscles covering a boundary of the wearer's shoulder and upper arm in the back side,   the front and back body sections and the upper arm sections of the sleeves are made from at least two kinds of stretch materials, which differ in stretchability from each other, including a material for the main part and a material for the first tightening parts having a lower stretchability than the main part;   the bottom garment includes a lower body section reaching to at least a femoral area;   a main part of the lower body section is made from a stretch material;   the lower body section includes a fourth tightening part for holding down a middle of a buttocks arranged at a position corresponding to a sacral bone, and a fifth tightening part arranged in a band shape along a hip joint at a base of the femoral area on the back side; and   the fourth tightening part and the fifth tightening part have lower stretchability than the main part of the lower body section.

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