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Title:
OUTFIT SUPPORTING MEMBER AND OUTFIT MADE BY USING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/1998/055160
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A light, thin-walled, highly rigid, durable and highly gas-permeable outfit used mainly in the fields of orthopedics, rehabilitation and sports, and a supporting member therefor, especially, a suupporting member which is formed out of a fiber-reinforced plastic obtained by impregnating a triaxially woven fabric with a resin, and which is suitably applied to the outfit, characterized in that the supporting member comprises a planar molded body formed from a triaxially woven fabric-reinforced plastic. The molded body preferably has openings the area of which accounts for 5-33 % of the total area thereof, a flexural rigidity per unit width thereof in at least one direction of 10-1x10?4� kg.mm?2� and a weight per unit area of 50-1000 g/m?2�. The outfit is formed by using such a supporting member.

Inventors:
MAKI HIROSHI (JP)
UCHINO HIROYUKI (JP)
IZUMIHARA YOSHIKAZU (JP)
TAKEKAWA NAOMITSU (JP)
KATOH YUKIHIRO (JP)
WATANABE AKIHITO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP1998/002447
Publication Date:
December 10, 1998
Filing Date:
June 03, 1998
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Assignee:
ALCARE CO LTD (JP)
SAKASE ADTECH CO LTD (JP)
MAKI HIROSHI (JP)
UCHINO HIROYUKI (JP)
IZUMIHARA YOSHIKAZU (JP)
TAKEKAWA NAOMITSU (JP)
KATOH YUKIHIRO (JP)
WATANABE AKIHITO (JP)
International Classes:
A61F5/01; A61F5/02; A61F5/058; A61L15/07; A61L15/12; B29C70/22; D03D25/00; (IPC1-7): A61L15/07; A61F5/02; A61F13/04; B29C70/06
Foreign References:
JPH06319791A1994-11-22
JPH08209492A1996-08-13
Other References:
See also references of EP 0934749A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tamura, Hiroaki (1-1 Asakusabashi 3-chom, Taito-ku Tokyo, JP)
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