Patent ID: 8938816
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: A41B,A41D

Abstract:
1. A pair of female pants for use by an active person, comprising: front and back portions; a waist portion connected to the front and back portions; a crotch portion connected to the front and back portions, wherein the crotch portion includes an air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer for providing ventilation, wherein the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer includes non-absorbent material, wherein the non-absorbent material has a width corresponding to a crotch width of the pair of pants and a length extending forward and backward from a middle portion of the crotch portion, wherein the non-absorbent material is compressible from a non-compressed condition to a compressed condition, wherein, in the compressed condition, the non-absorbent material has air channels that extend in a plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material and in a direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material, and wherein, in the compressed condition, the air channels provide air circulation through the air permeable and moisture-transporting material layer and actively drain moisture from the crotch portion; and a flexible supporting layer that covers and is fixed to the crotch portion; and wherein the non-absorbent material includes a fiber material, and wherein the flexible supporting layer includes a cloth material, and wherein the air channels alternate in a direction toward and approximately up to a middle of the fiber material; wherein the pair of female pants further comprises a cloth-like material covering, and wherein the non-absorbent material, including the fiber material and the air channels, is located between the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer and the cloth-like material covering; wherein the non-absorbent material, in the non-compressed condition, has a thickness of about 2-10 mm in a depth direction, which is perpendicular to the plane of the width and length of the non-absorbent material; wherein the air channels include first and second air channels, wherein the first air channels have first and second ends, the second air channels have first and second ends, the first air channels extend in the depth direction from the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, approximately to the middle of the fiber material, but not to the cloth-like material cover, such that the fiber material is located between the second ends of the first air channels and the cloth-like material cover; wherein the second air channels extend in the depth direction from the cloth-like material cover toward the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, approximately to the middle of the fiber material, but not to the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer, such that the fiber material is located between the second ends of the second air channels and the cloth material of the flexible supporting layer; and wherein the second air channels are alternatingly located between the first air channels, and wherein the fiber material is located between the first air channels and the second air channels.