EP2575518A1 - Protection garment with an airbag - Google Patents
Protection garment with an airbagInfo
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- EP2575518A1 EP2575518A1 EP11730750.4A EP11730750A EP2575518A1 EP 2575518 A1 EP2575518 A1 EP 2575518A1 EP 11730750 A EP11730750 A EP 11730750A EP 2575518 A1 EP2575518 A1 EP 2575518A1
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- garment
- airbag
- interspace
- neck
- user
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A41—WEARING APPAREL
- A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
- A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
- A41D13/015—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with shock-absorbing means
- A41D13/018—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with shock-absorbing means inflatable automatically
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A41—WEARING APPAREL
- A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
- A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
- A41D13/05—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches protecting only a particular body part
- A41D13/0512—Neck or shoulders area
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A41—WEARING APPAREL
- A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
- A41D2600/00—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes
- A41D2600/10—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes for sport activities
- A41D2600/102—Motorcycling
Abstract
A garment extraordinarily capable of efficiently protecting the chest comprises: - an outer part (2) opposite to the user of the garment, - an inner part (3) or lining of the garment facing the user, - said outer part (2) of the garment and said inner part (3) of the garment defining an interspace (4) therebetween, said garment further comprising, an airbag device (5) housed in said interspace (4), - said garment further comprising a trunk portion (6) and a neck portion (7), wherein said interspace (4) of the garment is in communication with a neck interspace (10) where the neck portion (7) of the garment is connected to the trunk portion (6) of the garment leaving the airbag device (5) to inflate in the neck interspace (10) of the neck portion (7) of the garment, - wherein said airbag device (5) comprises at least one portion for protecting the chest (18) received in the interspace (4) in the front trunk portion (19) of the garment and wherein said chest portion (18) extends substantially from the waist or hips (15) of the garment to the shoulder (17) of the garment and wherein the transverse dimensions - upon the extension of said chest portion (18) - are increasing passing from the waist or hips (15) to the shoulder (17) of the garment so that the inflation volume of said portion is mainly in the upper part of the trunk of the garment for protecting the upper part of the front trunk of the user.
Description
DESCRIPTION
"Protection garment with an airbag" The present invention refers to a protection garment with an airbag suitable for the personal protection of a user should the latter impact or fall from a vehicle or from a pack animal, such as for example a motor-vehicle, whether a road or water motor-vehicle, or a horse, but also suitable for the personal protection of a user who performs sports or work activities, such as for example a labourer who works on a scaffolding.
Personal protection devices comprising airbags which can be activated should the user move away from a predefined position for using means, such as for example a vehicle or motorcycle are known.
These known devices, comprise inflation means containing an activation mechanism, usually activated by a particular event which detects the danger of an impact or a fall of the user, such as the pulling action of a chord constrained to the vehicle, which opens a tank for pressurised fluid which is fluidically connected with an inflation chamber of the airbag for a rapid filling thereof, typically within a shorter time with respect to the time required between the activation and the impact or the
fall of the user.
Typically, a cable actuates an airbag system within a few hundredths of a second, indicatively ten hundredths of a second, completely inflating the air chambers within the airbag ending up protecting some parts of the body.
However, these devices are particularly efficient when the speed of the vehicle, and in particular of the motor-vehicle, is quite low.
In practice a protection garment with an airbag performs at maximum efficiency when used systematically and for all the movements, even minor movements, typically urban movements. This determines the need for using a protection device with an airbag for daily use wherein the garment is worn for a long period without requiring activating the protection thereof and solely occasionally with the airbag charged and ready to be activated.
This implies that one of the main objects of the protection garment with an airbag is the particular comfort and practical use thereof.
However, use thereof in urban environments, mainly for short distances and using - as a vehicle - a moped or a scooter implies a higher risk of impact or fall of the user involving the chest, particularly
the upper part of the chest, particularly straining the neck due to the high probability of impacting the head against obstacles, such impact implying a flexure or torsion of the neck with respect to the trunk also determining considerable lesions particularly to the cervix.
Particularly it is suitable to limit the stresses that the user is subjected to on the chest and neck thereof, in that for example in the case of use of a motor-vehicle the interaction between the obstacle and the user implies sudden impacts and sudden movements of the neck leading to stresses known as whiplash.
Documents disclosing garments provided with devices with an airbag are known.
For example, document JP 2004/162224 shows a jacket provided with pockets which can be opened outwards with respect to the garment and containing an airbag device provided scarf-like around the neck and then descend with two substantially parallel portions on the chest at the front part on the user with lower end portions folded backwards upwards, as well as a further V-shaped portion arranged on the back beneath the portion around the neck of the user. When activated this airbag is released from the
pockets of the garment in which it was housed and it is inflated freely outside the garment around the neck of the user particularly protecting the front and low portion of the trunk.
Though satisfactory from various points of view, this known solution does not prevent - during the impact between the user and the obstacle - the airbag from moving from the theoretical position thereof leaving the trunk and the head exposed to considerable impacts and deformations on the neck of the user.
Also document DE 20311097 shows a jacket containing an airbag.
Document US 7,328,464 also shows a jacket containing an airbag device of the tubular type and arranged around the neck of the user and then descended with two ends on the chest and folded thus forming a belt along the hips of the user. A branch of the airbag departs from this belt to form a life buoy-like element arranged on the back of the user. Though satisfactory from various points of view, also this solution does not provide a particular protection in the movements of the neck in case of impact, given that the airbag portion wound around the neck of the user is free to flex and move for
example towards the back and above all laterally, thus leaving the neck of the user exposed to flexure and twisting.
The solution described in document US 2008178370 shows a garment in which there is contained an airbag formed by a single front portion which opens to cover the shoulders before being enclosed in a single chamber on the back of the user. Such shape of the airbag seems adapted to protect the trunk however leaving the neck of the user completely exposed. In a particular variant embodiment the need of protecting the stomach and the hips instead of the upper part of the trunk and the neck is emphasised.
An object of the present invention is that of providing a protection garment with an airbag for personal use capable of overcoming the prior art drawbacks and simultaneously being comfortable for use without reducing the safety of the user and suitably protecting the trunk, particularly the upper part of the trunk of the user and the neck thereof.
These and other objects are attained by means of a protection garment as described in claim 1 attached herein .
According to a general embodiment, such objects are attained by means of a garment comprising
an outer part opposite to the user of the garment, an inner part, or lining of the garment, facing the user, said outer part of the garment and said inner part of the garment defining an interspace therebetween. Said garment further comprises an airbag device housed in said interspace. Said garment further comprises a trunk portion and a neck portion, wherein said interspace of the garment is in communication with a neck interspace where the neck portion of the garment is connected to the trunk portion of the garment, leaving the airbag device to inflate in the neck interspace of the neck portion of the garment .
Advantageously, said airbag device comprises at least one portion for protecting the chest received in the interspace in the front trunk portion of the garment and wherein said chest portion extends substantially from the waist or hips of the garment to the shoulder of the garment and wherein the transverse dimensions at the extension of said chest portion are increasing passing from the waist or hips to the shoulder of the garment so that the inflation volume of said portion is mainly in the upper part of the trunk of the garment for protecting the upper part of the front trunk of the user.
The construction and functional characteristics of the protection garment of the present invention can be better understood from the description outlined hereinafter in which reference is made to the attached drawings which represent some preferred exemplifying but non-limiting embodiments thereof, wherein :
figure 1 represents a front axonometric view of a protection garment, for example for a motorcyclist; figure 2 illustrates a front view of the garment of figure 1 in which the overall dimensions of an airbag device received in an interspace of said garment are outlined with a dashed line;
figure 3 illustrates the garment of figure 1 worn by a user, still in a front view, in which the garment is represented with a dashed line and the contained airbag device with a continuous line;
figure 4 illustrates a user represented in a view from the left side thereof in which the contours of the airbag device received in the interspace of the garment are outlined represented by a discontinuous section, according to an embodiment; figure 5 illustrates a rear view of a user wearing the garment in which the overall dimensions of the airbag contained in the interspace of the
garment are outlined represented by a discontinuous section, according to a further embodiment;
figure 6 represents a front axonometric view of an airbag device according to a further embodiment adapted to be received in an interspace of a garment; figure 7 represents a rear axonometric view of the airbag device of figure 6 open so as to further outline the parts thereof;
figure 8 illustrates according to a further embodiment - in front view - a further garment in which the overall dimensions of an airbag device received in the interspace of the garment are outlined;
figure 9 represents a rear view of a further embodiment of a garment comprising - in the interspace thereof - an airbag device;
figure 10 represents a section according to the line 10-10 of figure 9 a detail of the garment outlining the closed edges of the interspace at the shoulder sleeve-hole of the. garment;
figures 11, 12 illustrate a front rear view of a further embodiment of a garment containing an airbag in the interspace thereof in which the elements for fixing the airbag device within the interspace of the garment are outlined;
figure 13 illustrates a transverse section according to a median vertical plane on the user, which substantially divides the back and chest portion of the garment of the airbag device into two parts so as to outline the arrangement thereof within the interspace;
figure 14 illustrates the section of figure 13 in which the airbag device is in the active or inflated state thereof;
figures 15, 16, 17 illustrate three different phases of an impact between a motor-vehicle and a car in lateral views, wherein there are emphasised three moments of the occurrence of the impact, particularly regarding the activation of the airbag device;
figure 18 illustrates - in axonometric view - three portions of the overall dimensions, or pattern, of the bag adapted to contain the inflation chamber of the airbag device;
figure 19 represents a detail of an airbag device according to a further embodiment, in which an inflation device and an activation device are outlined;
figures 20 and 21 illustrate - in axonometric views - a particular embodiment of an activation device containing male and female quick coupling and
decoupling buckles, suitable for maintaining a solid connection in case of pull-activation of the activation device;
figures 22 and 23 illustrate - in axonometric views - the female buckle adapted to be connected through a micro-chord to the activation device;
figures 24 and 25 illustrate - in axonometric views - the male buckle integrated with a winding device of the inertial type adapted to wind and correctly stretch a strip for connection to the vehicle ;
figure 26 illustrates - in axonometric view with parts separated - the male buckle of figure 24 and 25;
figure 27 illustrates - in axonometric view - a detail of the garment from which the female buckle projects and to which it is about to be associated using only one hand the male buckle.
As observable from the attached figures, according to an embodiment a protection garment 1 comprises an outer garment part 2 thereof and an inner garment part 3 thereof or lining of the garment. For example, the outer part 2 of the garment is made using material adapted to resist against water and abrasions and, according to embodiments, it
may have a multilayer structure, for example suitable for several functions such as non-permeability, resistance to abrasion, heat insulation or, on the contrary, a transpiring capacity. The inner part 3 of the garment is the part to be faced towards the user and, according to an embodiment, it may be made so as to be . comfortable and easy to wear, for example guaranteeing an easy wearability due to the slidable and/or transpirablity characteristics thereof.
According to an embodiment, said garment 1 has a trunk 6 and neck 7 portion. According to an embodiment, said trunk of the garment 6 has a hip portion of the garment 15 and a rear or back portion of the garment 16 adapted to cover the back of the user, as well as a shoulder portion of the garment 17 and a front trunk portion of the garment 19 adapted to cover the front part of the trunk of a user, for example divided into a front half-portion, a left front half-portion 61 and a right front half-portion 62.
According to an embodiment, the outer part 2 of the garment and the inner part 3 of the garment are firmly connected to form an upper edge of the neck of the garment 24 and/or a lower edge of the back of the trunk or abutment element 25, as well as a lower edge
front of the trunk or lower edge 26 of the front half-portions 61 and 62. According to an embodiment said left . and right front half-portions 61, 62, delimit an upper edge - faced therebetween - defining the collar 27 of the garment.
Said half-portions or left and right front half- portions 61, 62 of the garment are suitable to be mutually closed for example by means of a zipper, so as to open and close the garment and allow wearing thereof by the user.
According to an embodiment, said trunk portion 6 of the garment has openings for the introduction of the arms or shoulder sleeve-holes 45.
According to an embodiment, preferably the outer part 2 and the inner part 3 of the garment are firmly connected also at the shoulder sleeve-holes 45 to form a shoulder sleeve-hole closure 9.
According to an embodiment, to said shoulder sleeve-holes there are connected sleeves of the garment indicated in the figures with references 8.
Said outer part 2 of the garment and inner part 3 of the garment mutually delimit a space or a chamber, hereinafter referred to as interspace 4.
According to an embodiment, said interspace is delimited by the edges for connecting the outer part
2 with the inner part 3 of the garment delimiting a partly closed chamber, or preferably substantially closed .
According to an embodiment, the outer part 2 and the inner part 3 of the trunk portion of the garment delimit a trunk interspace 71 divided into a back interspace 30, delimited by the outer part and by the inner part of the garment adapted to cover the back of the user, and chest interspace/s 31, delimited by the outer part and inner part of the half front- portion of the garment 61, 62.
Said trunk interspace 71 is - according to an embodiment - completely closed by the edge for connecting the outer part 2 and inner 3 of the garment. For example, the lower edge of the trunk portion 46 alongside the shoulder sleeve-hole 45 and on the upper edge of the neck 24, delimit the trunk interspaces creating a closed chamber.
According to an embodiment, the base or lower edge of the back of the garment 46 is delimited by a lower edge of back of the trunk, or abutment element 25, and a lower edge front of trunk, or lower edge of the half-front-portions 26, and said edges delimit the trunk interspaces creating a closed chamber.
According to an embodiment, a portion of said
interspace chamber 4 is defined by the neck of the garment 7, which has an outer surface of neck 28 and a surface or inner portion of the neck 29, firmly connected to each other to form an upper edge of neck of the garment 24 and opened to be connected with the trunk interspace 71 forming a neck interspace 10, preferably without interruptions with a trunk interspace 71.
According to an embodiment, said trunk interspace 71 communicates without interruption with the neck interspace 10 forming a single chamber.
According to an embodiment, said protection garment 1 comprises an airbag device 5.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 or airbag 103 has an airbag portion for protecting the neck 13 and in particular for protecting the cervix .
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 has an airbag portion for protecting the chest 18 and preferably two airbag portions to protect the chest 18 arranged adjacent to each other and descending from the neck to the shoulders up to reaching the waist and hips of the garment to protect the chest of the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5
has an airbag portion for protecting the back 20 or airbag portion parallel to the backbone. Preferably, according to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the back 20 of the airbag are two portions adjacent to each other.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises an airbag portion for protecting the shoulders or, preferably airbag portions to protect the shoulders 22.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises an airbag portion for protecting the hips 23 o, preferably, airbag portions for protecting the hips 23 of the user.
Advantageously, according to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 forms a single airbag chamber 21 distributed so as to have airbag portions to protect the neck and the cervix 13, airbag portions to protect the chest 18, airbag portions for protecting the back 20, airbag portions to protect the shoulders 22 and airbag portions for protecting the hips 23.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 has portions adjacent to each other to protect the chest 18 extended from the portions of the garment covering the shoulders to the portions of the garment covering the waist.
Advantageously, according to an embodiment, said airbag portions to protect the chest 18 have a dimension transverse to the longitudinal extension thereof from the shoulders to the waist which increases passing from the waist until it reaches the shoulders, so as to have an inflation volume of the airbag portion for protecting the chest which is greater at the top part of the chest proximal to the shoulders and lower at the bottom part of the chest near the waist.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises an inflation chamber, preferably elastic, indicated in the figures with reference 35. According to an embodiment said inflation chamber 35 is made using elastic material, for example made of polyurethane . According to an embodiment, said chamber - when inflated with pressurised fluid - is dilated forming a cushion adapted to absorb the impacts the user is subjected to.
According to an embodiment, said inflation chamber 35 has an opening adapted to be sealingly connected with an inflation device 12.
According to an embodiment, said inflation chamber 35 has one or more further openings suitable for a gradually controlled deflation of the chamber
35 as a result of the absorption of the impact. Said openings 81 are closed by vent valves 82 specially calibrated for determining a controlled chamber 35 deflation time.
According to an embodiment, said inner chamber of the airbag 35 is received in a bag for containing the airbag 36. Advantageously, according to an embodiment, said bag 36 has a predefined shape or form, which defines the dimensions of the different airbag portions in the active or inflated state thereof. According to an embodiment, said containment bag 36 is made using material having a considerably lower elastic characteristic with respect to the elastic characteristic of the inner chamber 35. For example, according to an embodiment said containment bag 36 is made of nylon. According to an embodiment, said containment bag 36 is made using material that can be easily integrally connected with portions of the garment, for example with the edges for connecting the outer part 2 and the inner part 3 of the garment so as to position the airbag 5 as desired within the interspace 4 covering portions predefined of the body of the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 has different portions separated from each other by
distribution means for distributing the fluid within the device.
According to an embodiment, said inner chamber of the airbag 35 has closure means 37 which can be opened at a predefined pressure threshold of the fluid supplied thereinto.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device comprises an inflation device operatively connected to an activation device. Said device for inflating the airbag 100 comprises a device body 101 constrained to an airbag 103 to which there is fluidically connected pressurised vessel 104 containing a pressurised gas adapted to inflating the airbag 103.
In particular, such device body 101 comprises an inner chamber in which there is slidably received a percussor adapted to open the pressurised vessel 104 so as to allow the inflow of the pressurised gas into the airbag 103.
The device 100 comprises an elastic element 108 received in the inner chamber and which allows preloading the percussor, so that it can transfer the elastic energy thereof to the percussor when the activation of the airbag 103 is required and thus push the percussor towards the pressurised vessel 104
so as to determine the opening thereof.
In particular said percussor comprises a stem which operates as means for locking the percussor to hold it in a loaded position by preloading said elastic element.
The stem is constrained to an undercut in a lever 110 which allows in - case of imminent impact - to exert traction on the stem 109. Actually, such lever it is connected to a chord constrained to a vehicle, for example to a motorbike, so that in case of a relative strong acceleration between the user of the airbag and the vehicle the chord is driven and in turn driving the lever 110.
According to an embodiment, to the inflation device 12 there is associated an activation device 11, for example, but not necessarily, a pulling device .
According to an embodiment to said pulling device there is associated a cable or micro-strap 32 to which there is constrained - at the opposite end - a female coupling buckle 39.
According to an embodiment, said female coupling buckle 39 comprises a body 201 to which there is associated a release button 202 adapted to elastically snap-hold a portion 33 for hooking a male
coupling buckle 40 which can be inserted into a seat 204 provided in the body female buckle 201.
According to an embodiment to the female buckle 39 there can be associated - through releasable snap- coupling - a male coupling buckle 40.
According to an embodiment, said male coupling buckle 40 comprises a male buckle body 205 which defines at an end facing the body female buckle the coupling portion of the male buckle 203 and, on the opposite part, according to an embodiment, integrated in a single piece, a winding device of the inertial type 41.
According to an embodiment, said male buckle body 205 comprises, at the end opposite to the coupling portion of the male buckle 203, a fissure for the entrance of a belt adapted to be connected to the end opposite to a vehicle, for example to a motor-vehicle .
According to an embodiment, said male buckle body 205 defines a cylindrical housing 206 within which there is inserted a drum 208 for winding the strip adapted to rotate on two bearings, made for example in the bottom end walls and cylindrical housing head, one of which, for example, can be separated cap-like 209 for disassembling the
mechanism.
According to an embodiment, said drum 208 for winding the strip is elastically influenced with respect to the cylindrical housing 207 for winding the strip exerting a predefined tension thereon.
According to an embodiment, said predefined action for tensioning the strip is obtained by using a spiral spring 210 constrained to the cylindrical housing 207 and at the end opposite the drum 208 for winding the strip.
According to an embodiment, said drum 208 for winding the strip has - at an end thereof - a cam 211 adapted to influence a yielding rotating cylinder 212 coaxial with the drum 208 for winding the strip. Said cam follower has a ratchet gear coupling toothing 213 at an axial face thereof facing towards a ratchet gear counter-toothing 214 fixed to the cylindrical housing 207. Between said rotary ratchet gear toothing and said fixed ratchet gear toothing 214 there is interposed an elastic means which maintains the cam follower 212 provided with rotary ratchet gear toothing 213 on the bottom of the cam 211 rotating with the toothing disengaged from the fixed ratchet gear 214 as long as the angular acceleration exerted by the drum 208 for winding the strip does
not push, through an action greater than that of the spring 215, said cam follower 212 coupled with the ratchet gear toothing 213 of the fixed ratchet gear toothing 214, blocking the sudden locking of the unwinding and exerting the desired traction action due to activation of the activation device 11 of the inflation device 12 of the airbag 5.
According to an embodiment, said winder has a support plate 218. According to an embodiment, the body of the winder has windows useful for assembly thereof or maintenance thereof closed by covers 221. According to an embodiment, the decoupling of the female buckle 201 is facilitated by a button 202 operating on springs 220 which open a stop element 219.
According to a general embodiment, a protection garment 1 of a user through a device with a personal airbag, comprises an outer part 2 opposite to the user of the garment. Advantageously, said garment further comprises an inner part 3, or lining of the garment, arranged facing the user.
Said outer part 2 of the garment and said inner part 3 of the garment define an interspace 4 therebetween .
Advantageously, said garment 1 comprises an
airbag device 5 arranged housed in said interspace 5.
According to an embodiment, said garment 1 comprises a trunk portion 6, a neck portion 7 and, advantageously, sleeves 8 connected to said trunk portion 6.
Preferably, according to an embodiment, said interspace 4 is closed where the sleeves 8 are connected to the trunk portion 6, forming a closure of the interspace in the sleeve-hole portion of the shoulder or closure of the shoulder sleeve-hole 9, capable of reducing lateral movements of said airbag device 5 from a deflated or deactivated state to an inflated or activated state so as to keep it as close as possible to the neck of the user.
According to an embodiment, said interspace 4 of the garment is in communication with a neck interspace 10 where the neck portion 7 of the garment is connected to the trunk portion 6 of the garment, leaving the airbag device 5 to inflate in the neck interspace 10 of the neck portion 7 of the garment.
According to an embodiment, said interspace 4 of the garment is substantially closed with respect to the exterior or interior of the garment. Advantageously, said airbag device 5 is entirely contained in said interspace 4, so as to remain
within the interspace 4 when it passes from a deactivated or deflated configuration to an activated or inflated configuration, except for an activation portion 11 thereof which exits from the garment by itself due to activation through means 12 for inflating the airbag device 5.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises a first portion for protecting the neck 13, and in particular for protecting the cervix, which continues rotating around the neck portion 7 of the garment in the front part of the trunk portion 6 of the garment to protect the shoulder's of the user and then descend to protect the chest of the user remaining between the shoulder sleeve-hole and a device for closing or opening the garment 14, such as for example a zipper.
According to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the neck 13 forms folds 56 which extend to the inflation of the airbag.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 continues folding on one side 15 of the garment passing beneath the shoulder sleeve-hole closure 9 to protect the hip of the user, and then ascending in the trunk portion 6 of the garment defining the rear part of the garment 16, for protecting the back of
the user, forming an airbag portion device 5 substantially parallel to the backbone of the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag portion for protecting the neck 13 continues on both ends thereof rotating around the neck of the garment and passing through the shoulders of the garment 17, descending with two portions arranged substantially adjacent to each other to protect the chest of the user 18, leaving - therebetween - a device for closing the garment 14.
According to an embodiment, each chest portion folds backwards on the hips substantially reaching the base of the interspace 4, at the lower part of the garment 1 opposite the neck, continuing rotating beneath the sleeve-hole closures of the shoulders 9 up to reaching the portion of the garment that is suitable for covering the back of the user 16.
According to an embodiment, each portion continues ascending along the portion for protecting the back 16 of the user forming two airbag portions for protecting the back 20 arranged substantially parallel to the backbone of the user.
According to an embodiment, preferably, all these airbag portions form a single airbag chamber 21 and are fluidically connected to each other.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 has an airbag portion for protecting the neck 13, an airbag portion for protecting the back 20, an airbag portion for protecting the shoulders 22, an airbag portion for protecting the chest 18, an airbag portion for protecting the hips 23. According to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the neck 13 is connected so as to remain firmly fixed also in deactivated condition or deflated and also in activated or inflated condition on the upper edge 24 of the neck portion 7 of the garment.
According to an embodiment, said airbag portion for protecting the back 20 is connected so as to remain firmly fixed in deactivated condition or deflated and also active or inflated on the lower edge of the trunk portion 25 of the garment defining the back protection.
According to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the chest 18 is firmly fixed so as to remain anchored' also in deactivated or deflated conditions and also active or inflated at the edge of the interspace defining the lower edge 26 of the trunk portion of the front garment.
According to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the chest 18 and said portion for
protecting the shoulders 22 are firmly anchored, so as to remain connected also in deactivated or deflated conditions and also active or inflated at the edge portion of the interspace defining the collar of the garment 27.
According to an embodiment, said garment comprises a neck portion 7 adapted to surround the neck of the user, comprising an outer neck portion 28 and an inner neck portion 29, or a neck lining of the garment, said outer and inner neck portions of the garment mutually delimiting a neck interspace 10 which is connected without interruption to form a single interspace chamber in communication with an interspace arranged on the back 30 of the user as well as in communication with two chest interspaces 31 arranged on the chest of the user so as to leave a portion for closing and opening the garment 14 central to the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag portion for protecting the neck 13 is housed in said neck interspace 10 formed in the neck portion of the garment .
According to an embodiment, said portion for protecting the neck 13 of the airbag and housed in the neck interspace 10 is folded bellow-like, forming
pleatings 56, so as to leave an outer edge thereof 32, opposite to the back portion of the garment 16, free and accessible for a stable connection thereof in deactivated condition or deflated and also active or inflated of the airbag on an upper edge 24 of the neck portion of the garment.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 has a hip portion 23 arranged beneath the shoulder sleeve-hole closure 9 between the outer part 2 and inner 3 of the garment to which there is associated an inflation and activation device 12, 11 connected to said airbag device 5 and arranged externally with respect to the interspace 4, so as to be accessible for the activation thereof, for example of the pulling type, when the user is separated from the means to which he/she is associated.
According to an embodiment, preferably, said airbag device 5 comprises at least one portion for protecting the chest 18 received in the chest interspace 31 of the trunk of the garment 6 in the front portion thereof. According to an embodiment, said portion extends substantially from the waist or hips 15 to the shoulder 17 of the garment.
Advantageously, according to an embodiment, the transverse dimensions 33 at the extension of said
portion for protecting the chest 18 are increasing passing from the waist or hips 15 to the shoulder 17 of the garment, so that the inflation volume of said portion 18 is mainly in the upper part of the trunk of the garment for protecting the upper part of the front trunk of the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises different portions fluidically connected to each other. Advantageously, between at least two of these portions there is substantially provided for a narrowing 34 of an inflation chamber 35 of the airbag 5 which determines a complete inflation of the airbag portions at separate times with respect to each other .
For example, according to an embodiment, said substantial narrowing 34 allows an initial inflation of an airbag portion arranged to protect the chest 18 and a subsequent inflation of airbag portion arranged for protecting the back 20.
According to an embodiment, said substantial narrowing 34 in the chamber 35 of the airbag are obtained by folding the inflation chamber 35 of the airbag so that the inflation pressure of the fluid determines the unfolding thereof solely upon exceeding a pressure threshold.
Alternatively, said airbag device comprises an inflation chamber 35 inner and an outer containment bag 36. According to an embodiment, said inner inflation chamber 35 is folded and said containment bag 36 is constrained determining a small section thereof through means suitable to break, or open, upon reaching a predefined pressure in the chamber folded, so as to determine a subsequent enlargement of the section of the inflation chamber for a free flow of the inflation fluid at separate times for different airbag portions.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 is received in the interspace 4 so as to lie on the edge 25, 26, 9 of the interspace to reduce the movements thereof during the inflation thereof.
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 is fixed to the garment, for example to the edges of the interspace through strips 54 and 57
According to an embodiment, said airbag device 5 comprises a device for inflating the airbag 12 and activation means 11 connected to a micro-strap 38 provided with a female coupling buckle 39 adapted to be connected to a male coupling buckle 40 provided with an inertial winder 41 on which there is wound a belt 42 connectable to the vehicle, so that the
winder 41 returns the belt 42 and the latter always remains stretched, leaving the user free to move during low acceleration and then block in case of sudden accelerations, for example due to impacts of the vehicle or falls, determining the activation of the airbag.
According to an embodiment, to the airbag device 5 there is associated an inflation device 12 activated through an activation device 11 connected to a micro-strap 38 for a pull-activation provided with a female coupling buckle 39. Said female coupling buckle 39 has an ergonomic body and adapted to be gripped using only one hand, for coupling and decoupling the buckle using only one hand.
According to an embodiment, the body of the female buckle 39 has a housing 43, 216, 217 for the thumb which, contrasting with the index finger and middle finger operating on the male buckle component 40 allows nearing and coupling the buckle using only one hand.
The aforementioned embodiments may be subjected - by a man skilled in the art with the aim meeting contingent requirements- to modifications, adaptations and replacement of elements with other functionally equivalent elements, without departing
from the scope of protection of the following claims.
According to an embodiment, a garment 1 comprises an outer part 2 and an inner part 3 of the garment, connected to each other fixedly during the inflation of the airbag 5 at least at the rear part of the garment on the base 46 of the portion of the garment which covers the back of the user, or also alternatively or combined in the portion around the shoulders or sleeve-hole, so as to form an abutment element 25, for example on the base of the interspace in the bottom portion which covers the back of the user or around the shoulders and beneath the armpits.
According to an embodiment, said further portion parallel to the backbone 20 of the airbag extends from the abutment element 25, obtained with the connection of the outer part 2 and the inner part 3 of the garment, until they are partly superimposed on the airbag portion for protecting the cervix 13 of the user.
According to an embodiment, said airbag portion substantially parallel to the backbone 20 and arranged at least partly superimposed on the airbag portion for protecting the neck or cervix 13 has an inflation chamber 35 locally, in the partly superimposed portion, fluidically separated from the
inflation chamber 51 defining the airbag portion for protecting the neck or cervix 13.
Any characteristic described as belonging to a possible embodiment, can be obtained independently from the other described embodiments.
Claims
1. Garment for protecting a user (1) through a device with a personal airbag, comprising:
- an outer part (2) opposite to the user of the garment ,
- an inner part (3) or lining of the garment facing the user,
- said outer part (2) of the garment and said inner part (3) of the garment defining an interspace (4) therebetween,
said garment further comprising, an airbag device (5) housed in said interspace (4),
said garment further comprising a trunk portion (6) and a neck portion (7), wherein
said interspace (4) of the garment is in communication with a neck interspace (10) where the neck portion (7) of the garment is connected to the trunk portion (6) of the garment leaving the airbag device (5) to inflate in the neck interspace (10) of the neck portion (7) of the garment,
- wherein said airbag device (5) comprises at least one portion for protecting the chest (18) received in the interspace (4) in the front trunk portion (19) of the garment and wherein said chest portion (18) substantially extends from the waist or hips (15) of the garment to the shoulder (17) of the garment and wherein the transverse dimensions - upon the extension of said chest portion (18) - are increasing passing from the waist or hips (15) to the shoulder (17) of the garment so that the inflation volume of said portion is mainly in the upper part of the trunk of the garment for protecting the upper part of the front trunk of the user.
2. Garment (1) according to claim 1, wherein
- said garment comprises shoulder sleeve-holes ( 5), and wherein
- said interspace (4) is closed along the entire edge of the garment and at the shoulder sleeve-holes to form a closure of the shoulder sleeve-holes (9), so as to fully contain the airbag device (5) in said interspace (4) both when deactivated or deflated and when it is activated and inflated.
3. Garment (1) according to claim 1 or 2, comprising
- said garment (1) comprising a trunk portion (6), a neck portion (7) and sleeves (8) connected to said trunk portion (6), wherein
said interspace (4) is closed where the sleeves (8) are connected to the trunk portion (6), forming a closure of the interspace in the sleeve- hole portion of the shoulder or closure of the shoulder sleeve-hole (9), capable of reducing lateral movements of said airbag device (5) from a deflated or deactivated state to an inflated or activated state so as to keep it as close as possible to the neck of the user.
4. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said interspace (4) of the garment is in communication with a neck interspace (10) where the neck portion (7) of the garment is connected to the trunk portion (6) of the garment, leaving the airbag device (5) to inflate in the neck interspace (10) of the neck portion (7) of the garment .
5. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said interspace (4) of the garment is substantially closed with respect to the outside or inside of the garment and said airbag device (5) is entirely contained in said interspace (4), so as to remain within the interspace (4) when it passes from a deactivated or deflated configuration to an activated or inflated configuration, except for an activation portion (11) thereof which exits from the garment by itself due to activation through means (12) for inflating the airbag device (5).
6. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) comprises a first portion for protecting the neck (13), and in particular the cervix, which continues rotating around the neck portion (7) of the garment in the front part of the trunk portion (6) of the garment to protect the shoulders of the user and then descend to protect the chest of the user remaining between the shoulder sleeve-hole and a device for closing or opening the garment (14), such as for example a zipper, said airbag device (5) continues folding on one side (15) of the garment passing beneath the shoulder sleeve-hole closure (9) to protect the hip of the user and then ascending in the trunk portion (6) of the garment defining the rear part of the garment (16) for protecting the back of the user forming an airbag portion device (5) substantially parallel to the backbone of the user, preferably wherein said airbag portion for protecting the neck (13) continues on both ends thereof rotating around the neck of the garment and passing through the shoulders of the garment (17) and descending with two portions arranged substantially adjacent to each other to protect the chest of the user (18) leaving - therebetween - a device for closing the garment (14), each chest portion folds backwards on the hips substantially reaching the base of the interspace (4) at the lower part of the garment (1) rotating beneath the sleeve-hole closures of the shoulders (9) up to reaching the portion of the garment that is suitable for covering the back of the user (16), each portion continuing ascending along the portion for protecting the back (16) of the user forming two airbag portions for protecting the back (20) arranged substantially parallel to the backbone of the user, preferably wherein all these airbag portions form a single airbag chamber (21) and are fluidically connected to each other.
7. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) has an airbag portion for protecting the neck (13), an airbag portion for protecting the back (20), an airbag portion for protecting the shoulders (22), an airbag portion for protecting the chest (18), an airbag portion for protecting the hips (23) , wherein said portion for protecting the neck (13) is connected so as to remain firmly fixed even in deactivated or deflated and activated or inflated condition on the upper edge (24) of the neck portion (7)· of the garment,
wherein said airbag portion for protecting the back (20) is connected so as to remain firmly fixed in deactivated or deflated and activated or inflated condition to the lower edge of the trunk portion (25) of the garment defining the back protection,
wherein said portion for protecting the chest
(18) is firmly fixed so as to remain anchored also in deactivated or deflated and activated or inflated conditions to the edge of the interspace defining the lower edge (26) of the trunk portion of the front garment
and wherein said portion for protecting the chest (18) and said portion for protecting the shoulders (22) are firmly anchored, so as to remain connected also in deactivated or deflated and activated or inflated conditions to the edge portion of the interspace defining the collar of the garment (27) .
8. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said garment comprises a neck portion (7) adapted to surround the neck of the user, comprising an outer neck portion (28) and an inner neck portion (29) or a neck lining of the garment, said outer and inner neck portions of the garment constituting - therebetween - a neck interspace (10) which is connected without interruption to form a single interspace chamber in communication with an interspace arranged on the back (30) of the user as well as in communication with two chest interspaces (31) arranged on the chest of the user so as to leave a portion for closing and opening the garment (14) central to the user, wherein said airbag portion for protecting the neck (13) is housed in said neck interspace (10) formed in the neck portion of the garment, and wherein said portion for protecting the neck (13) of the airbag housed in the neck interspace (10), is folded bellow-like, forming pleatings so as to leave an outer edge (32) thereof opposite to the back portion of the garment (16) free and accessible for a stable connection thereof in deactivated or deflated and activated or inflated condition of the airbag on an upper edge (24) of the neck portion of the garment.
9. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) has a hip portion (23) arranged beneath the shoulder sleeve-hole closure (9) between the outer (2) and inner (3) parts of the garment to which an inflation and activation device (12, 11) is associated connected to said airbag device (5) and arranged externally with respect to the interspace (4) so as to be accessible for the activation thereof, for example of the pulling type when the user is separated from the means to which he/she is associated .
10. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) comprises different portions fluidically connected to each other and wherein between at least two of these portions there is substantially provided for a narrowing (34) of an inflation chamber (35) of the airbag (5) which determines a complete inflation of the airbag portions at separate times with respect to each other, for example to allow an initial inflation of an airbag portion arranged to protect the chest (18) and a subsequent inflation of an airbag portion arranged for protecting the back (20).
11. Garment according to claim 10, wherein said substantial narrowings (34) in the chamber (35) of the airbag are obtained by folding the inflation chamber (35) of the airbag so that the inflation pressure of the fluid determines the unfolding thereof solely upon exceeding a pressure threshold or, alternatively, said airbag device comprising an inner inflation chamber (35) and an outer containment bag (36), wherein said inner inflation chamber (35) is folded and said containment bag (36) is constrained determining a small section thereof through means (37) suitable to break or open upon reaching a predefined pressure in the chamber folded so as to determine a subsequent enlargement of the section of the inflation chamber for a free flow of the inflation fluid at separate times in different airbag portions.
12. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) is received in the interspace (4) so as to lie on the edge (25, 26, 9, 32) of the interspace to reduce the movements thereof during the inflation thereof.
13. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said airbag device (5) comprises a device for inflating the airbag (12) and activation means (11) connected to a micro-strap (38) provided with a female coupling buckle (39) adapted to be connected to a male coupling buckle (40) provided with an inertial winder (41) on which there is wound a micro-strap (42) connectable to the vehicle so that the winder (41) returns the micro- strap (42) and the latter always remains stretched leaving the user free to move during low acceleration and then blocks in case of sudden accelerations due to impacts of the vehicle or falls which determine the activation of the airbag.
14. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein to the airbag device (5) an inflation device (12) is associated, activated through an activation device (11) connected to a micro-strap (38) for a pull-activation provided with a female coupling buckle (39) having an ergonomic body and adapted to be gripped using only one hand for coupling and decoupling the buckle using only one hand, wherein the body of the buckle has a housing (43) for the thumb which - contrasting with the index and middle fingers operating on the male buckle component (40) - allows nearing and coupling the buckle using only one hand.
15. Garment (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein
said outer part (2) and said inner part (3) of the garment are connected fixedly, during the inflation of the airbag (5) at least at the rear part of the garment on the base (46) of the portion of the garment which covers the back of the user, so as to form an abutment element (25) , to the base of the interspace in the bottom portion which covers the back of the user
and/or wherein
said further portion parallel to the backbone (20) extends from the abutment element (25), obtained with the connection of the outer part (2) and inner part (3) of the garment, until they are partly superimposed on the airbag portion for protecting the cervix (13) of the user.
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