Garment for upper body

• Main Authors: MAI SUDO, AKIKO SAKAMOTO, TAKATO YAMADA, MAKI KAKUNO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.10.2014
• Subjects: BABY LINEN; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HANDKERCHIEFS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; SHIRTS; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; UNDERWEAR; WEARING APPAREL

The utility model provides a garment for an upper body. The garment can reduce burdens of the body in the work of bending over a table. The garment for the upper body comprises a front and back body portion (101) and a pair of sleeve portions (102) and is characterized by further comprising posture supporting line portions (103). The posture supporting line portions comprise a first supporting line portion (103A) and a second supporting line portion (103C), the first supporting line portion comprises two line portions, the two line portions are arranged in a bilateral symmetry mode and pass through the position of the shoulder blade of the back face side of the front and back body portion from the sleeve portions to the position nearby the center of the back portion in the wearing process, the second supporting line portion comprises two line portions which range from the position nearby the center of the back portion of the back face side of the front and back body portion to the front face side, and are arranged at the position along the lower portion of the thoracic cage in the wearing process in a bilateral symmetry mode, and at least one of the tightening force of the posture supporting line portions and frictional resistance between the posture supporting line portions and the skin in the wearing process is larger than the portion, except for the posture supporting line portions, of the garment.