US 10751218

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Summary: US Patent 10,751,218 B2 (patent number: 10751218)

Bibliographic data

Source: Google Patents (patents.google.com/patent/US10751218/en), Justia (patents.justia.com/patent/10751218), patents-review.com, and freepatentsonline.com — all consistent with one another.

Abstract (verbatim)

A sports goggle comprising a lens attached to a flexible frame and configured to be positioned over the user's eyes, the flexible frame comprising an outer surface that is oriented away from the user's face and an inner surface that generally conforms to the shape of the user's face, the inner surface completely or partially covered with a flexible liner, and one or more first apertures in the outer surface connected to one or more apertures in the inner surface by one or more channels to allow airflow through the frame to the flexible liner. The flexible liner may be made of foam, open-cell foam, another porous material, or other material that allows air to pass through it. The goggle may include a screen and/or a filter positioned near the first aperture, between the first aperture and the second aperture, or near the second aperture.

Plain-language overview of the independent claims

The patent has 17 claims; there are four independent claims (1, 7, 16, and 17):

• Claim 1 (sports goggle — core cooling concept). A goggle with a flexible frame (outer surface facing away from the face, inner surface shaped to the face), a lens held by the frame around its periphery, and a flexible liner on the inner surface that contacts the face. The frame has a first aperture on its outer surface and a second aperture on its inner surface, with the liner placed directly over (covering) the second aperture. A channel through the frame connects the two apertures so incoming air flows through the frame and is dispersed directly into the liner to cool the skin where the liner contacts it. The liner seals against the face and contacts at least the forehead, cheeks, and temples.

• Claim 7 (eye protection device — central raised frame portion). A frame with outer/inner surfaces that receives a lens around its periphery. The top of the frame has a single central raised portion between left and right top portions, joined to them by left/right angled joints, and rising vertically above the otherwise continuous profile of those portions. Like claim 1, it has a liner over a second aperture and a channel directing airflow into the liner. The angled joints themselves also contain one or more outer-surface apertures connected by channels to inner-surface apertures.

• Claim 16 (sports goggle — multiple vents on top and bottom). A flexible frame whose inner and outer surfaces are spaced apart by a "spaced apart region," with a lens, multiple first apertures, multiple second apertures (covered by the liner), and multiple channels each connecting a respective first aperture to a respective second aperture through the spaced-apart region. At least one aperture/channel set is on the top of the frame and at least one is on the bottom.

• Claim 17 (sports goggle — frame members in the spaced-apart region). Similar construction with inner/outer surfaces spaced apart, but adds frame members extending between the surfaces within the spaced-apart region, plus a lens, liner, a first aperture, a second aperture (covered by the liner), and a channel formed through the frame and through the space between the surfaces, connecting the apertures to deliver airflow into the liner.

In short, the invention routes outside air through dedicated channels in the goggle frame directly into the porous face-foam liner — rather than into the lens-to-eye space — to actively cool the skin areas the goggle seals against (forehead, cheeks, temples) without letting dust/irritants reach the eyes.

CAFC 2026 docket search result

No CAFC (or other appellate) proceeding involving patent 10751218 was found. Searches of CAFC 2026 docket coverage (WilmerHale Federal Circuit Patent Watch, A&O Shearman IP Blog, and general litigation/keyword searches for "10751218," "10,751,218," and "US10751218B2") returned no appeal, IPR, reexamination, or infringement action naming this patent. The patent appears in the cited-art lists of later 100% Speedlab design patents (e.g., D917606, D948599) but in no litigated or post-grant proceeding located.

Uncertainty notes

• I could not directly query the USPTO Patent Center/assignment database in these searches; bibliographic data above is corroborated by Google Patents, Justia, patents-review.com, and freepatentsonline.com, all of which agree.
• The absence of CAFC docket entries reflects only what the searches returned; absence of results is not definitive proof that no proceeding exists, but no such proceeding surfaced in any search.