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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Nathan Demarest, Portland, OR (US);
Richard C. Macdonald, Portland, OR (US);
Jorge Emilio Carbo, Jr., Aloha, OR (US);
Nathan Demarest, Portland, OR (US);
Richard C. MacDonald, Portland, OR (US);
Jorge Emilio Carbo, Jr., Aloha, OR (US);
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
The apparel is an athletic garment formed from textiles for use as a resistance training tool that works by increasing the fluid resistance such as aerodynamic drag or hydrodynamic drag on an athlete in a predetermined event. The athletic garment has a first fabric for covering at least a portion of a first body segment, and a second fabric, different from said first fabric, for covering at least a portion of a second body segment; wherein the second fabric is a turbulence-generating fabric.