Michael D Sopuch from Kalispell, MT, age 46

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Michael Sopuch

GOOSE POINT MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT LLC
Mortgage Broker

1001 SW Higgins STE 203, Missoula, MT 59801

Ski Integrated Solar Power System
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US Patent:

20090032517, Feb 5, 2009
Filed:

Aug 1, 2007
Appl. No.:

11/888574
Inventors:

Michael Dominic Sopuch - Missoula MT, US
Clinten Edward Gundelfinger - Missoula MT, US
International Classification:

H05B 1/00
A63C 5/06
US Classification:

219202
Abstract:

A system for heating a ski boot or snowboard boot powered by way of photovoltaic (solar) cells banked in a flexible solar panel or flexible solar panels placed within the structure of a ski or snowboard. Electricity produced by the photovoltaic cells is conducted from the solar panel(s) to the ski boot or snowboard boot via a circuit which is run from the solar panel(s) through the structure of the ski or snowboard to a contact point within or at the surface of the ski. The aim of which is to power a temperature controlled, heating element containing boot and/or binding and its circuitry, resulting in solar powered heat for the wearer.

Michael D Sopuch