Nike patents wearable airbags that share pressure data between limbs
Nike describes a wearable system that attaches rigid frames to body parts, each containing a small airbag with a pressure sensor inside. These sensors send data to other wearables on the body to help adjust support or stability in real time.
In the filing’s own words
A Smart Electro-Adaptive Reactive Airbag System (“SEARAS”) provides for smart augmentation wearables and may incorporate any of a variety of wearable articles that provide for enhanced mobility, sensory, and/or stability augmentation for the wearer. The proprioceptive inputs and outputs may be tactile, neurological, or other stimuli perceptible, e.g., seen, felt, heard, smelt, tasted, or otherwise apprehendable or appreciable by the senses and/or mind of the wearer, including possible adjustments for the physicality of the wearer.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A smart electro-adaptive reactive airbag system, comprising: a plurality of enhanced wearable mobility articles, each comprising: a rigid frame configured to be secured to a body part of a wearer; and a sensory cushioning system, secured to the rigid frame and configured to interface with the body part of the wearer, comprising: an airbag forming an interior volume and a pocket, wherein the interior volume is substantially airtight; an internal electronic assembly positioned within the pocket and including a pressure sensor; an external electronic assembly positioned exterior to the airbag; an interconnect electrically coupling the internal electronic assembly to the external electronic assembly; and a communication module configured to provide electronic communication with an external source; wherein the sensory cushioning system of each of the plurality of enhanced wearable mobility articles is configured to transmit an output of the pressure sensor to each of the other of the sensory cushioning systems via the electronic communication provided by the communication module.
Facts
- Company
- Nike (NIKE, Inc.)
- Official title
- Enhanced mobility wearable system with sensory cushioning system
- Patent number
- US12759135B2
- Application number
- 19055027
- Filed
- Feb 17, 2025
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
B25J 9/0006 Operations & transportA61F 2/7843 Human necessitiesA61H 1/024 Human necessitiesA61H 1/0255 Human necessitiesA61H 1/0277 Human necessitiesA61H 1/0281 Human necessitiesMore from Nike in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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