Electrically releasable safety ski binding

US4436321A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GEZE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Ralf Storandt · Leonberg, DE
• Georg Scheck · Weitramsdorf, DE
• Peter Biermann · Warmbronn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 1981
• Grant date: Mar 13, 1984
• Expiry date: May 7, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63C9/088
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An electrically releasable safety ski binding in which a measuring system determines the load applied to a skier's leg during skiing and a release mechanism incorporating an electromechanical converter such as a solenoid acts on a clamp device securing the ski boot to the binding to release the ski boot when the aforementioned load reaches a dangerous level. To prevent the binding becoming inoperative on failure of the electrical power supply the binding is equipped with an auxiliary release mechanism having a first inoperative state and a second operative state which can be selected either manually or automatically should the electrically operated release mechanism fail.