Patent ID: 6457736
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: A43B,A63C

Abstract:
A snowboard boot, comprising:a snowboard boot body including a toe portion, a heel portion and a leg portion, the leg portion being flexible relative to the toe and heel portions in a toe direction and a heel direction; and an active highback supported on the snowboard boot body about the leg portion to provide heel side support, the highback being engagable with a forward lean actuator that is separate from the snowboard boot to automatically activate the highback into a ride position at a predetermined forward lean, where the highback is tilted toward the toe portion of the boot to prevent movement of the leg portion in the heel direction beyond the predetermined forward lean so that leg movement in the heel direction is transmitted through the highback into a snowboard, the highback being deactivated from the ride position to assume a walk mode when the highback is not engaged with the forward lean actuator, where the highback is unrestrained so that the leg portion of the boot is permitted to flex in the heel direction beyond the predetermined forward lean.