ES292829U - Modular and portable security equipment for miners (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Modular and portable safety equipment for miners, which being constituted by two independent units electrically linked together, one of them intended to be carried, on the user's waist and the other constituent of a classic safety helmet, is characterized essentially because the unit intended to be carried on the user's waist, is formed by a plurality of modules called function modules articulated with each other by means of respective hinge means, together determining a kind of belt or cartridge with conventional extreme fastening means, each module formed by a box with closing lid inside which are housed two electric batteries properly insulated and electrically connected by a connection element, each housing also housing a block called "application block" in which an electronic circuit is integrated to execute a series of functions that ue correspond to many other elements provided in the helmet, such as the "miner's lamp"; gas detectors and other types of lines or parameters, these elements being mounted on the aforementioned helmet so that they form with it a compact and unique assembly; it being provided that all the function modules are crossed by a flexible strip or plate determinative of a power and control bus, in order to establish a communication, at the level of information signals, between each and every one of the function modules. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)