Patent ID: 7017808

Claim:
An electronic tracking system for a combination of sporting articles consisting of a plurality of structurally different sporting articles including a retaining mechanism for a sport shoe and a sport shoe, comprising (a) at least two code transmitters integrated respectively in the retaining mechanism for the sport shoe and in the sport shoe and assigned to the retaining mechanism and the sport shoe, (1) at least one of the code transmitters assigned to the retaining mechanism containing and displaying data relating the properties and/or settings of the retaining mechanism, and (2) at least one of the code transmitters assigned to the sport shoe containing and displaying data relating the properties and/or settings of the sport shoe, and (b) at least one control unit for contactlessly detecting the data of the code transmitters integrated respectively in the retaining mechanism for the sport shoe and in the sport shoe, the control unit being arranged to analyze the data and to ascertain whether the retaining mechanism for the sport shoe and of the sport shoe have the properties and/or settings to make their combination safe.