Patent ID: 7841021
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: A41D,A42B,F21Y

Abstract:
1. The garment, comprising: a garment sized to be worn by a human, the garment having a front and back and left and right sides; each right and left side having a shoulder portion extending from the front side to the back side over a shoulder of a human wearing the garment; each right and left side further having a side portion extending from the front side to the back side around the side of a human wearing the garment; a flexible flat strip EL lighting device having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis; the flexible flat strip EL lighting device including at least one planar EL lamp, wherein the at least one planar EL lamp provides one or more planar EL light emitting areas; the flexible flat strip EL lighting device extending along the longitudinal axis between the front side of the garment and the back side of the garment; the flexible flat strip EL lighting device having a planar surface facing away from the garment, the planar surface facing away from the garment at least partly in a first direction on the front side of the garment and facing away from garment at least partly in a second direction on the back side of the garment; the planar surface facing away from the garment at least partly in a first direction including at least in part a portion of the one or more planar EL light emitting surfaces; the planar surface facing away from the garment at least partly in a second direction including at least in part a portion of the one or more planar EL light emitting surfaces; the first direction and the second direction being at least in part opposite one another when a human is wearing the garment so that when the EL one or more light emitting areas are illuminated the garment has at least some EL light emanating from the EL lighting device on both the front and back sides of the garment; the flexible flat strip EL lighting device further including a portion facing away from the garment at least partly in a third direction pointing away from a first side of the garment and a fourth direction pointing away from a second side of the garment opposite the first side, the first side and the second side being sides other than the front side and the back side; the planar surface facing away from the garment at least partly in the third direction including at least in part a portion of the one or more planar EL light emitting surfaces; the flexible flat strip EL lighting device further bending at least in part with respect to the transverse axis as it extends between the first side and the second side of the garment so that it follows a contour of the garment and lays flat with respect to a surface of the garment.