EP0802742B1 - Casque de protection et son dispositif de fixation de jugulaire - Google Patents

Casque de protection et son dispositif de fixation de jugulaire Download PDF

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EP0802742B1
EP0802742B1 EP95943552A EP95943552A EP0802742B1 EP 0802742 B1 EP0802742 B1 EP 0802742B1 EP 95943552 A EP95943552 A EP 95943552A EP 95943552 A EP95943552 A EP 95943552A EP 0802742 B1 EP0802742 B1 EP 0802742B1
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Gilles Basson
Jean-Paul Noyerie
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A42—HEADWEAR
    • A42B—HATS; HEAD COVERINGS
    • A42B3/00—Helmets; Helmet covers ; Other protective head coverings
    • A42B3/04—Parts, details or accessories of helmets
    • A42B3/08—Chin straps or similar retention devices
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45471—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration
    • Y10T24/45524—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment
    • Y10T24/45529—Requiring manual force applied against bias to interlock or disengage
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45471—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration
    • Y10T24/45524—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment
    • Y10T24/45545—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment forming total external surface of projection
    • Y10T24/45581—Projection having movable connection between components thereof or variable configuration including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment forming total external surface of projection having inserted end formed by oppositely biased surface segments

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  • the present invention relates to a protective helmet, and more particularly the device for fixing his chin strap.
  • Protective helmets have long been in use current in different fields either professionally, as it is the case for soldiers, gendarmes or firefighters, either on a civil basis or private, as is the case for users of motorcycles or rally or racing cars.
  • the current chinstrap connecting device are totally unsatisfactory, because ineffective, often unreliable, and are very inestlietic and removal or putting the helmet on is most of the time quite difficult., and it sometimes the chin strap comes off unexpectedly, the helmet then not ensuring its protective function in good conditions.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy these disadvantages, by proposing a new chin strap connection device allowing a setting up and a disconnection particularly simple and quick for the user, while ensuring retention of the reliable and certain chin strap.
  • the device for fixing a chin strap to a protective helmet is of the type allowing a removable connection, device in which the chin strap attachment means are constituted by the cooperation of a fastening member integral with the chin strap intended to engage with a fastening notch secured to the helmet wall.
  • the attachment member is constituted by a cylindrical profile integral a pivoting gripping lever while the hooking notch is consisting of a corresponding hollow profile.
  • means are provided for lock to lock the lockable lever grip on the helmet and in particular on its side wall.
  • the gripping lever is mounted pivoting on a retainer to which the strap of the jugular.
  • the hollow profile constituting the notch hook is open at the top and closed at its ends by two end walls and is bounded outward by an external profile in projection serving as retaining and hooking rim and towards the wall of the helmet by a rear wall, while the retaining rim is, in its central part, interrupted by a central cutout intended for passage of the retaining end of the retaining part of the latching member.
  • the notch attachment is secured to an independent border piece fixed on one of the lateral wall portions, and advantageously close to the lateral border of said lateral wall portion.
  • each of its side portions of walls includes the device, which allows a total disconnection of the chinstrap, but it could be otherwise, and the helmet could for example have only one connection device removable arranged on one side only, while the chin strap would be fixed irremovable on the other side of the shell.
  • the protective helmet shown as an example in Figures 1 to 18 with the general reference (1) is in particular a helmet for airplane pilot, which has a longitudinal plane of general symmetry (P) which comprises in a manner known per se a main external shell (2) having a front facial opening (3) with internal padding commonly called calotin (4).
  • P longitudinal plane of general symmetry
  • the main external shell (2) is constituted by a wall (5) substantially spherical with a general vertical plane of symmetry (P) which is advantageously made of composite material of the type comprising a stacking layers of reinforcing fibers, impregnated and bonded together by a resin matrix.
  • the fibers can be glass fibers, aramid, nylon, polyethylene or carbon, while the matrix may be a resin of the thermosetting type or thermoplastic.
  • the main external shell (2) comprises several portions of wall, namely, an upper front portion of wall (6) extended towards the rear by an upper rear wall portion (7), itself extended downwards by a lower rear wall portion (8), and furthermore comprises two lateral wall portions (9).
  • the part upper front (6) corresponds to the area occupied by the front user and is limited by the upper border (10) of the opening facial (3) which, in turn, is bounded laterally by two borders side (11).
  • the upper rear wall portion (7) corresponds to the area occupied by the user's skull, while the portion lower rear wall (8) corresponds to the area occupied by the neck of the user.
  • the wall (5) of the cap is limited downwards by a lower border (12) extending in a plane general (Q) inclined with respect to the horizontal plane (H) to extend backward (AR) and upward (HA).
  • the lateral wall portions (9) correspond to the areas occupied by the user's ears and are bounded forwards by the corresponding lateral border (11) of the facial opening (3) and down through the front ends of the border lower (12).
  • the connection between the side edges (11) and the lower edge made according to a connecting edge (13) advantageously curved.
  • the helmet of the invention comprises a chin strap (14) retaining removably to the lateral wall portions (9) of the shell (2) of the helmet (1) and more particularly at the connection edge (13) of each of said side wall portions (9).
  • the chin strap (14) consists of a flexible strap (15) carrying at its two ends (16) a hooking member (17).
  • each of the fastening members (17) is pivotally arranged on a retaining part (18) by means of a transverse axis (19).
  • the retaining part (18) is a part which is substantially flat comprising a retaining end (180) carrying the axis of pivoting (19) of the hooking member (17) and an enlarged end (181) comprising the retaining and adjusting means for the strap (15) formed by two transverse cuts (182, 183) separated by a crosspiece (184), said two transverse cutouts allowing passage of the strap as is known per se.
  • the attachment member (17) comprises a cylindrical profile (20) integral with a gripping lever (21).
  • the cylindrical profile (20) being interrupted in its central part by a central cutout (22) for receiving the retaining end (180) of the retaining part (18) corresponding.
  • the attachment member (17) of the chin strap (14) is intended to cooperate with a hooking notch (30) integral with the helmet (1) and more particularly of its main external shell (2) and in particular of its wall (5).
  • the notch of attachment (30) is arranged externally to the lateral portion of wall (9) of the wall (5) of the helmet and near the wall edge (13).
  • the chin strap (14) is removable and can advantageously be totally or partially disconnected from the helmet itself, as we will see later.
  • the device for fixing the chinstrap is symmetrical and each of the lateral wall portions (9) therefore includes a hooking notch.
  • Said hooking notch (30) is in turn constituted by a profile hollow (31) intended to cooperate with the cylindrical profile (20) of the member corresponding hooking (17).
  • This hollow profile advantageously a shape complementary to the profile of the attachment member. So, this hollow profile (31) is substantially cylindrical to extend along a axis (XX ') parallel to the border (13).
  • the axis (XX ') being inclined for extend upward (HA) and forward (AV) to form with horizontal (H) an angle (A) open towards the front of a value included between 30 and 60 ° and, for example, 40 °.
  • the hollow profile (31) is of course open upwards and advantageously closed at its ends by two end walls (32, 33) and is limited towards the outside by a projecting external profile (34) serving as a retaining and hanging rim and towards the helmet wall by a rear wall (35).
  • the retaining rim (34) is, in its part central, interrupted by a central cutout (36) intended for passage of the retaining end (180) of the retaining part (18) of the member attachment (17).
  • the hooking notch (30) is arranged on the lateral portion of wall (9) and advantageously close to the lateral border (11) and more particularly of the border of connection (13).
  • the attachment means are, for example, constituted by a clip-on type device or any other device. So it can be provided, and as illustrated in Figure 10a, a device of the "button type pressure "(37) one of the elements (38) of which is integral with the lever (21) of the attachment member (17) while the other element (39) is integral with the helmet or the rear wall (35) of the hollow profile (31) of the notch attachment (30).
  • the hooking notch (30) for the member for attaching the chin strap (14) is secured to an edge piece independent (40) fixed to the wall of the helmet.
  • This piece (40) has the form of a curved gutter and is, for example, of injected plastic fixed to the side edge of the helmet by any means such as, for example, by screws (41) and therefore includes the hooking notch (30, 31) with its end walls (32, 33) and its longitudinal walls (34, 35).
  • the border piece (40) not only has the functions previously mentioned techniques but also participates in the aesthetics of the helmet.
  • the gutter (40) constituting the border piece extends not only in the area of the catch notch (30) but beyond towards the connecting edge (13) to extend towards the edge lower (13) by a rear extension (401) to cover a part of this lower border, and upwards by an extension (402) to cover the side border (11).
  • the border piece (40) can be adapted to retain a respiratory mask as illustrated in figure 21.
  • said edge piece may include a retaining member (41 ') to which the end (42) of the retaining arm (43) of a respiratory mask (44).
  • said border piece (40) might as well retain another element other than a mask respiratory, such as a microphone (440), as is illustrated in figure 24.
  • the helmet according to the invention can, of course, include one or more several swiveling protective face shields such as, for example, illustrated and bearing the reference (50).
  • FIGs 11 to 13 illustrate how the attachment of the jugular.
  • the cylindrical profile (20) the fastening member (17) is placed in the hollow profile corresponding (30) constituting the notch for attaching the helmet (FIGS. 11 and 12).
  • the user only has to do pivot the gripping lever (21) towards the wall of the helmet along V, Figure 14, to lock said lever by means of lock (37) to put the fixing device in position illustrated in Figures 13, 9, 10, 1 and 2.
  • retaining the chin strap is particularly safe while allowing disconnection particularly simple for the user, who will only have to proceed conversely by first pivoting the lever (21) outwards, in order to be able to release the embedding produced by the notch (30).
  • the helmet is symmetrical and includes on each side fixing means for its chin strap, this which allows total disconnection of the chin strap, as illustrated in Figure 15, or only partial, and in particular that on a right side or left as shown in Figures 16 and 17 respectively.
  • the lateral wall portions (9) include advantageously projections (90) internally forming hollows intended to receive the ears of the user, this so that the rest of the wall is closer to the notch of the latter.
  • the overall width (L1) of the helmet shell (2) is therefore greater than the width (L2) between the two lateral edges (11) of the facial opening as well as that between the two connection edges (13). Since the hooking notches (30) are arranged near the connection edges (13), there results that the width (L3) between them is less than the overall width (L1) of the outer shell (2).
  • Means of attachment of the chin strap therefore fit within the lateral space requirement of the helmet and are thus thus protected which prevents any unwanted attachment of the lever (17) and therefore condemns any untimely triggering of the jugular.
  • pivot axis (19) of the lock (17) is preferably arranged in the region of the notch locking, so that its axis (YY ') is arranged coaxially with the axis (XX ') of said housing is under the latter (XX').
  • the axis (YY ') is advantageously arranged behind the retaining edge (34) of the hooking catch. So even in case of unlocking of the fastening member (17) it cannot occur accidental stall due to traction which could be exerted on the jugular.
  • the device of the invention is therefore in this respect perfectly reliable.
  • the hooking notch does not consist of a part attached to the helmet wall, but is an integral part of the wall, to be, for example, injected with it.
  • the locking the gripping lever (21) could be done by elastic deformation of the material in which the parts are made and in particular the lever (21) which comprises a deformable projection (380).

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  • Helmets And Other Head Coverings (AREA)
  • Devices For Conveying Motion By Means Of Endless Flexible Members (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
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FR9500339A FR2729058B1 (fr) 1995-01-09 1995-01-09 Casque de protection et son dispositif de fixation de jugulaire
FR9500339 1995-10-09
PCT/FR1995/001760 WO1996021369A1 (fr) 1995-01-09 1995-12-29 Casque de protection et son dispositif de fixation de jugulaire

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KR100399369B1 (ko) 2003-12-24
CZ287466B6 (en) 2000-12-13
EP0802742A1 (fr) 1997-10-29
BR9510188A (pt) 1997-12-23
MX9705133A (es) 1998-07-31
GR3031137T3 (en) 1999-12-31
DE69510088T2 (de) 2000-01-20
ATE180633T1 (de) 1999-06-15
ES2135112T3 (es) 1999-10-16
AU4489596A (en) 1996-07-31
DE69510088D1 (de) 1999-07-08
CZ216197A3 (en) 1997-10-15
WO1996021369A1 (fr) 1996-07-18
US5915538A (en) 1999-06-29
DK0802742T3 (da) 1999-12-27

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