Garment

• US 10,092,048 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2011
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wacoal Corporation (Wacoal Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Wacoal Corporation (Wacoal Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Takato, Kitagawa, Yuka
• Primary Examiner(s): HADEN, SALLY CLINE
• Application Number:
  US14/110,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20140020149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,736 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 9/06 Undershirts; Chemises
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/38 Shaping the contour of the body or adjusting the figure
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/00 Details of garments or of their making buttons, pins, buckles, slide fasteners or the like A44B
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/18 Elastic

Abstract

The present invention embodies a garment which can smoothen motions of its wearer by a new technique, which is totally different from that of exerting a tightening force on a muscle, according to findings that the range of motion of a joint can be widened if a structure for extending and gathering respective parts of a skin gathering and leaving when the joint works in relation to bending/extension or abduction/adduction of the wearer is added to the garment and that the range of motion of the joint can be widened if a structure for moving the skin along a direction of motion of a muscle when the joint works in relation to turning of the wearer is added to the garment, on the basis of a close relationship between a motion of the skin when the joint works and an extending direction of a tension line.

Claims

1. A garment comprising:

a main part formed by a material having elasticity, said material of the main part adapted to tightly fit a wearer'"'"'s body, including a pair of buttocks of the wearer'"'"'s body, the main part including a waist part and a crotch part; and

a plurality of arch-shaped line parts,

wherein each arch-shaped line part has at a first end and a second end, and an entire length of each arch-shaped line part being between said first end and said second end,

wherein each arch-shaped line part is disposed between the waist part and the crotch part, each arch-shaped line part being parallel to another arch-shaped line part of the plurality of arch-shaped line parts along the entire length of each arch-shaped line part, each arch-shaped line part adapted to have a stretching force greater than a stretching force of the main part and exhibiting a greater radius of curvature when the garment is worn than when the garment is not worn, each arch-shaped line part having a convex side and a concave side; and

,

wherein each arch-shaped line part is a knit structure, a resin print, or an opal finish, and each arch-shaped line part is adapted to be disposed in a region corresponding to a center of the pair of buttocks, wherein the concave side faces the waist part and the convex side faces the crotch part;

wherein the garment has an unworn configuration and a worn configuration,

wherein in the unworn configuration, the entire length of each arch-shaped line part is a first value and each arch-shaped line part has a first radius of curvature, and in the worn configuration, the entire length of each arch-shaped line part is a second value and each arch-shaped line part has a second radius of curvature,

wherein the second value is greater than the first value and the second radius of curvature is greater than the first radius of curvature.

2. A garment according to claim 1, wherein each arch-shaped line part comprises a mixture of yarns such that there is a greater stretching force on the concave side than the convex side thereof.

3. The garment according to claim 1, wherein each first end is adapted to be disposed at a first buttock of the pair of buttocks, and each second end is adapted to be disposed at a second buttock of the pair of buttocks.