EP2433513B1 - Safety helmet - Google Patents

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EP2433513B1
EP2433513B1 EP10425314.1A EP10425314A EP2433513B1 EP 2433513 B1 EP2433513 B1 EP 2433513B1 EP 10425314 A EP10425314 A EP 10425314A EP 2433513 B1 EP2433513 B1 EP 2433513B1
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chin guard
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Luca Gafforio
Gabriele Tomasoni
Alberto Salvetti
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Priority to BRPI1104842-5A priority patent/BRPI1104842B1/pt
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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
    • A42B3/10—Linings
    • A42B3/12—Cushioning devices
    • A42B3/125—Cushioning devices with a padded structure, e.g. foam
    • A42B3/127—Cushioning devices with a padded structure, e.g. foam with removable or adjustable pads

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  • the present invention relates to a protective helmet, particularly for motorcyclists, of the type comprising a shell with a chin guard and an opening for a corresponding visor, one or more shock absorbing layers internally coupled to the shell and to the corresponding chin guard, and one or more paddings placed within said shock absorbing layers, as well as at least one support mask for the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard, wherein said internal support mask comprises holding means for the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard and mechanical hooking means to said chin guard.
  • EPS polystyrene foam
  • shock absorbing layers also to prevent that undue mechanical actions may damage them, padding is normally placed, for example, covered in fabric, engaging the user's face, which also ensures needed comfort of use.
  • the shock absorbing layer suited to protect the user's chin not only is usually separated from one or other shock absorbing layers, but is also without external padding, which could disturb the user's breathing and hinder the grip and hand holding of the helmet.
  • a surface cover for example consisting of synthetic leather (i.e. a fabric layered with polyurethane PU or a polyamide PA) or consisting of polyurethane (PU) foam, which is able to prevent or reduce the chance of accidental damage of said shock absorbing layer as well as being a layer pleasant to the user's touch.
  • synthetic leather i.e. a fabric layered with polyurethane PU or a polyamide PA
  • PU polyurethane
  • This surface cover for the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard in the common case where the latter is produced in EPS, is usually made by overprinting (e.g. low pressure injection) of said shock absorbing layer with an appropriate coating material, such as polyurethane foam, which defines a layer of limited thickness, for example equal to a minimum of 2mm, defining the final shape of the piece to allow coupling with the rest of the components of the helmet, also guaranteeing appropriate stylistic requirements.
  • an appropriate coating material such as polyurethane foam
  • the surface cover layer for both intrinsic technological limits of the process of overprinting along with the production process of the shock absorbing layer in EPS of the chin guard, leads to a final unit weight which may be excessive.
  • This support mask which can be opportunely shaped and fitted with ducts allowing the guided passage of an air flow from the outside to the inside of the helmet, is usually a plate-like member made out of an injection molded plastic material (such as polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP), or also thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)), including both the hooking means to the chin guard, formed for example by screws, bolts or elastic-type couplings, and also by holding means of the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard, made for example by portions and shaped strikers or elastic tabs or other elements designed to execute mechanical constraining of said shock absorbing layer.
  • PE polyethylene
  • PP polypropylene
  • TPU thermoplastic polyurethane
  • this support mask of the shock absorbing layer makes no longer necessary the overprinting operation of the said absorbing layer, usually in EPS, with a thin layer of a coating material, such as PU foam.
  • the padding that is sandwiched between the head and user's face and the shock absorbing layer is usually constrained to this last layer by temporary coupling means, to allow the user, whenever necessary, to easily detach and eventually reattach any padding from the shock absorbing layer, in order to perform cleaning or replacement of said padding.
  • these temporary, or reversible, coupling means of the padding usually comprise fixing plates, glued to the shock absorbing layer, which bear strikers for complementary buttons or hooks built into the corresponding portions of the padding.
  • a further purpose of the present invention is to provide a protective helmet equipped with a chin guard by way of an economical and quick production process, providing a wide choice of finishes and shapes within the chin guard, while requiring a smaller amount of components.
  • the protective helmet according to the present invention comprises a shell with a chin guard and an opening for a visor, one or more shock absorbing layers, internally coupled to said shell and said chin guard, and one or more paddings inside said shock absorbing layers, as well as and at least an internal support mask for a shock absorbing layer of the chin guard.
  • This support mask also comprises respective holding means of the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard, and hooking means to the chin guard.
  • the support mask also comprises temporary coupling means of at least one of the aforesaid paddings.
  • the aforesaid temporary coupling means of the padding may be of an elastic coupling of complementary parts type, or of the type comprising a geometric fit coupling between parts belonging to the aforesaid support mask.
  • said temporary coupling means can be constituted of at least one hook and one relative striker respectively integral to a padding and to said support mask.
  • said temporary coupling means of at least one padding to the support mask of the shock absorbing layer of the chin guard achieve a stable mechanical fixing between these components (i.e., a constraint not easily releasable by the user), as even the loosely coupled joint (i.e. a constraint easily releasable by the user) between these latter, even joined by a traditional fixing (for example by Velcro® strips to the padding and to the corresponding shock absorbing layer), provides a solution which results in an easier and less expensive assembly of the padding in question within the shell, and a significant reduction in the number of components necessary to provide such fixing.
  • the support mask may moreover include ducts for the passage of air flow and/or constraining means for additional external accessories of the helmet, such as for example a lower windscreen or a diffuser for an upper airflow.
  • the helmet 100 of the present invention comprises, as known in the art, an outer shell 101, for example, injection molded in a polycarbonate (PC), shaped so as to define an opening 103 for a visor, and provided with a protection portion of the chin, commonly called a chin guard, 102, which is located below the opening 103 and can be obtained as a whole piece, or removable or irremovably fixed to the remaining part of the shell 101.
  • an outer shell 101 for example, injection molded in a polycarbonate (PC), shaped so as to define an opening 103 for a visor, and provided with a protection portion of the chin, commonly called a chin guard, 102, which is located below the opening 103 and can be obtained as a whole piece, or removable or irremovably fixed to the remaining part of the shell 101.
  • PC polycarbonate
  • the helmet 100 moreover includes one or more layers 10, 104, 107 of a material suited to absorb possible impacts (shocks), such as polystyrene foam (EPS), fixed inside the shell 101, 102, for example through forced restraining (shrinking) between parts or trough gluing, and one or more paddings 105, 106, also joined inside the shell 101, and arranged to be sandwiched between the user's head and one or more shock absorbing layers 104, 107.
  • shocks such as polystyrene foam (EPS)
  • EPS polystyrene foam
  • the helmet 100 provides that, for manufacturing reasons, there is at least a first homogeneous shock absorbing layer 104, placed below said portion of the shell 101 destined to protect the user's skull, at least two side layers 107, facing the area of the user's cheeks and at least one additional shock absorbing layer 10, differing from the first layer 104 and from the two side layers 107, and placed correspondingly to the portion of the chin guard 102.
  • the shock absorbing layer 10 of the chin guard which can then be glued to the inner surface of the chin guard 102, is supported within said chin guard 102, according to the present invention, by a proper support mask 1, shaped so as to retain the shock absorbing layer 10 and to be easily constrained to the same chin guard 102, or to the remaining part of the shell 101.
  • said support mask 1 of the shock absorbing layer comprises, with particular reference to Figures 2 to 4 , a frontal surface 5, shaped so as to provide accommodating and supporting regions to the relative shock absorbing layer 10, an upper frame 4 and a lower region 3, operating as guides to said layer 10, as well as tabs 2a, 2b, conformed to mechanically retain said layer 10, by contrasting (overlapping) of parts, following a relative elastic deformation.
  • the frame 4 of the mask 1 may also have, obtained as a whole piece, ducts for the passage of a direct air flow from outside the helmet, through appropriate air inlets, towards the inside of the helmet.
  • the lower region 3 of the mask 1 can have, obtained as a whole piece, or defined by the coupling effect with the lower edge 109 of the shell, seats capable of receiving the hooking of other accessories to be optionally installed in the lower zone of the helmet such as a wind screen tab, a deflector of aerodynamic flow, or appendices aimed to reduce the noise generated by vortices which generate in this area during normal use of the helmet, especially when used with motorcycles or other locomotive means without full covered chassis.
  • the mask 1 also includes some lateral protuberances 9a, 9b which constitute hooking, or constraining, means, of the said mask 1 to appropriate complementary regions 91 a, 91 b, placed within the chin guard 102, formed to hold, by geometric fit coupling, the aforementioned protuberances 9a, 9b.
  • These hooking means 9a, 9b, 91 a, 91 b of the mask 1 to the inner surface of the chin guard 102 may be alternatively, according to the known art, of the restraining type, or of the juxtaposition/contrasting type or of the elastic coupling of complementary parts type, or even of the type with screwing of screw-threaded parts.
  • those hooking means can also be formed by one or more layers of glue binding the mask 1 to the chin guard 102, or to the remaining part of the shell 101, directly or by the sandwiching of the shock absorbing layer 10.
  • the hollow space between the seal of the lower edge 109 of the chin guard portion 102 of the shell and the lower edge 3 of the mask 1 may act as a seat in which to insert, for example, a shaped tab to which can conveniently be fixed an aerodynamic appendage or a wind screen flap or any other accessories that can be housed in the lower region of the helmet.
  • the mask 1 comprises, corresponding to its inner wall 7, i.e. the wall destined to face the user's chin, means 6a, 8a, 61 a, 6b, 8b, 61 b destined to temporary or reversible fixing of at least one of the aforesaid paddings 105, 106.
  • These means of temporary coupling are composed of a through-slot 61A, 61 b at the center of which is a flange 6a, 6b which protrudes towards the inside of the helmet, a pin, or a striker, 8a, 8b intended to engage with a complementary hook, or fork, 108a (see Figures 8 and 9 ) presented by at least one corresponding paddings 106.
  • said fork 108a may consist of a plastic tab fixed at the front portion of the padding 106, which is likely to be inserted within the through-slot 61 a, to be engaged, achieving a stable mechanical fastening or in a way to achieve a loose coupling, with the corresponding pin 8a.
  • each fork 108a with its corresponding pin 8a may for example be of an elastic type, so as to directly facilitate the mechanical fixing between padding 106 and support mask 1, or it can be of a loose type, such as a hook for example in which the fork 108a is extractable in a given direction.
  • the temporary or reversible coupling means, for at least one padding 106 may be of the elastic coupling of complementary parts type, such as snap buttons, clips, etc.., or be of the counterpart hooking type, such as buttons and buttonholes, or even of the type comprising male and female Velcro® strips placed respectively on mask 1 and on corresponding portions of the padding 106.
  • these coupling means can consist of guides and engaging slides within said guides, or other known types of loose coupling, i.e. with at least a certain degree of freedom, not discussed here.
  • the helmet 100 shown herein may include a plurality of paddings 105, 106 flanking each other, in such a way that at least a padding 106, or a pair of said paddings, is arranged so as to cover at least part of the sides of the opening 103 for the visor, substantially engaging the user's cheeks when the helmet 100 is worn, until reaching the chin guard 102, or more precisely its corresponding support mask 1 for the shock absorbing layer 10.
  • the temporary coupling means 6a, 8a, 61 a, 6b, 8b, 61 b of mask 1 to support the shock absorbing layer 10 of the chin guard 102 are designed to hold said side padding 106 suitable to engage the user's cheeks.
  • the mask 1 may be made of polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP), or even polyurethane (TPU)) by way of injection molding.
  • PE polyethylene
  • PP polypropylene
  • TPU polyurethane
  • the assembly of the support mask 1 for a shock absorbing layer 10 of the chin guard 102 After inserting the inner shock absorbing layer 104 of the user's cranial area within the outer shell 101, the assembly of the support mask 1 for a shock absorbing layer 10 of the chin guard 102, according to the particular embodiment of the present invention shown here, first provides that the shock absorbing layer 10 is supported and held onto the mask by holding means 3, 4, and in particular thanks to the tabs 2a, 2b intended to retain by contrasting parts the layer 10, and therefore mask 1, with the layer 10, is hooked to the chin guard 102, by way of the protuberances 9a, 9b coupling with the aforesaid complementary internal regions 91a, 91 b of said chin guard 102;
  • the assembly of the helmet provides that the shock absorbing layers 107 intended to protect the user's cheeks are inserted between mask 1 and the shock absorbing layer 104, by way of force fit coupling (forced restraining) achieved between the rear support surfaces, against the inner shell 101, and frontal surfaces, against the mask 1, as well as the inner shape of the shell 100, resulting in the final locking of the shock absorbing layers within the helmet.
  • force fit coupling force restraining
  • such a solution facilitates in any case the installation of said padding 106 and reduces the number of traditional fixing elements, such as elastic clips or Velcro® strips between the shock absorbing layer 107 and the inner walls of the padding 106.

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ES10425314T ES2427447T3 (es) 2010-09-27 2010-09-27 Casco de seguridad
EP10425314.1A EP2433513B1 (en) 2010-09-27 2010-09-27 Safety helmet
US13/222,762 US20120073034A1 (en) 2010-09-27 2011-08-31 Safety helmet
AU2011221353A AU2011221353B2 (en) 2010-09-27 2011-09-07 Safety helmet
BRPI1104842-5A BRPI1104842B1 (pt) 2010-09-27 2011-09-27 Capacete protetor
JP2011210601A JP2012072540A (ja) 2010-09-27 2011-09-27 保護ヘルメット

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AU2011221353A1 (en) 2012-04-12
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