Adjusting stiffness and flexibility in sports equipment

Details Adjusting stiffness and flexibility in sports equipment Adjusting stiffness and flexibility in sports equipment

1998-08-18

2000-09-05

Chiu, Raleigh W.

Games using tangible projectile

Player held and powered, nonmechanical projector, per se,...

473524, 473564, 473560, 473318, A63B 5300, A63B 5912

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061135089

ABSTRACT:
A sports apparatus with variable directions of stiffness and flexibility, including sports equipment having a body with an elongated cavity; and a stiffening rod that is elongated and has a longitudinal axis in a direction of elongation of the stiffening rod, the stiffening rod being inserted within the cavity and stiffer in one direction than in a different direction and being more flexible in the different direction than in the one direction, both the one direction and the different direction being directed transverse to the longitudinal axis.

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