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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Gunze Limited, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A41D 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A41D 1/300 ;
Abstract
A waist protection member comprises a primary chamber (,) to be placed against at least an area of the human body surface in correspondence to a greater trochanter (,) of a femur (,), and is fined with a gel-like substance (,). The waist protection member also comprises at least two auxiliary chambers (,) which are vertically juxtaposed to be placed against an area of the human body surface forwardly of the area covered with the primary chamber (,), and which are each filled with the gel-like substance (,) and have a smaller contact area with the human body than does the primary chamber.