JP2003082521A - Helmet for riding on vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent pickup of a wind noise and surely pick up a voice of a helmet wearer with a microphone. SOLUTION: This helmet for riding on the vehicle comprises a holding band 26 made of an elastic material and covering a chin strap 22 in an endless state and a bone conductive microphone 17. The holding band 26 is mounted on the chin strap 22 connected to the hat body 11 and the bone conductive microphone 17 is held by the holding band 26.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a riding helmet, and more particularly to improvement of a riding helmet equipped with a microphone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, such a riding helmet is disclosed in, for example, US Pat. It is already known in Japanese Patent Publication No. 34525.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional device, the microphone is placed at the mouth of the helmet wearer by being attached to the tip of the boom supported by the holder attached to the cap body. , The wind noise is picked up while the motorcycle is running.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a riding helmet in which a microphone of a helmet wearer is reliably picked up by a microphone without picking up wind noise. To aim.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that a chin strap connected to a cap body is provided with a holding band made of an elastic material for endlessly covering the chin strap. It is mounted and the bone conduction microphone is held by the holding band.

According to the configuration of the invention described in claim 1, the bone conduction microphone held by the holding band comes into contact with the throat of the helmet wearer so that wind noise is not picked up. Since the voice of the wearer can be reliably picked up and the holding band is made of an elastic material, the bone conduction microphone can be positioned and held at an appropriate position of the chin strap.

The invention according to claim 2 is the above-mentioned claim 1.
In addition to the features of the described invention, the bone conduction microphone comprises:
A microphone main body sandwiched between the holding band and the chin strap, and a vibration detection unit that protrudes from the microphone main body and comes into contact with the throat of the helmet wearer, and is formed on the holding band with a diameter smaller than that of the vibration detection unit Characterized in that the vibration detection unit penetrates the holding hole,
According to this configuration, the inner periphery of the holding hole provided in the holding band is elastically intimately contacted with the outer periphery of the vibration detection unit, so that the bone conduction microphone is prevented from falling off and the bone conduction microphone is reliably held by the holding band. be able to.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the second aspect of the invention, the holding band around the vibration detecting portion protruding from the holding hole holds the vibration detecting portion in a natural state. A pad made of an elastic material having a thickness larger than the protruding length from the band is compressed so that when the chin strap is hung on the chin of the helmet wearer, the vibration detection unit is contacted with the throat of the helmet wearer. According to such a configuration, the vibration detecting unit of the bone conduction microphone reduces the contact surface pressure when the helmet wearer's throat comes into contact, and the bone conduction microphone makes contact with the throat. It is possible to reduce the discomfort caused by.

Further, in addition to the structure of the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 3, the invention described in claim 4 is characterized in that a lead wire connected to the bone conduction microphone is pulled out from a lead-out hole provided in a holding band. It is characterized by being extended to the rear side of the cap body, and according to this configuration, it is possible to prevent the conducting wire from being entangled in the chin strap or caught in the chin strap.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on an embodiment of the present invention shown in the accompanying drawings.

1 to 3 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a side view of a main part of a riding helmet, FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG.

First, in FIG. 1, a riding helmet for a motorcycle rider, for example, is of a jet type, and a shell 12 constituting an outer shell of a cap body 11 is formed of a hard synthetic resin. Moreover, the cap body 11 has a rotation between a position where the face of the helmet wearer wearing the cap body 11 is covered from the front side (position of FIG. 1) and an upper position where the face of the helmet wearer is exposed. A transparent shield plate 13 is attached to enable movement.

The helmet for riding has a headset 14
The headset 14 is equipped with a pair of left and right speakers 15 built into the cap body 11, a holder 16 attached to the lower edge of the shell 12, and a headset wearer. And a plurality of connection terminals 1 connected to the headset 14
The first connector 19 having 8 is fixed to the holder 16,
A second connector 20 connected to an external conductor 21 connected to a communication device or an audio device (not shown) is detachably connected to the first connector 19.

In FIG. 2, the shell 1 in the cap body 11
2, a chin strap 22 is connected by a rivet 23, and the chin strap 22 is moved downward along the inner surface of a cheek pad 24 attached to the lower inner surface of the shell 12 so as to contact the cheek of the helmet wearer. Be extended to.

A clip 25 attached to the outer conductor 21 is removably attached to the chin cord 22, so that when the helmet wearer takes off the helmet while maintaining the connection with the outer conductor 21. , The first and second connectors 19, 20 even if the external conductor 21 is undesirably strained
It is possible to prevent an unreasonable load from being applied to the joint portion of.

Referring also to FIG. 3, the chin strap 22 has
A holding band 2 made of an elastic material for endlessly covering the chin strap 22
6 is attached, and the bone conduction microphone 17 is held by the holding band 26.

The holding band 26 is formed so as to have a width smaller than that of the holding band 26 in a natural state where the holding band 26 is not attached to the jaw band 22.
When it is attached to the holding band 26, the holding band 26 is elastically contacted with the holding band 26 to maintain the attachment position to the holding band 26.

The bone conduction microphone 17 is provided with a microphone body 17a which is sandwiched between the holding band 26 and the chin strap 22, and a vibration detecting portion 17b which projects from the microphone body 17a and comes into contact with the throat of the helmet wearer. The holding band 26 has a vibration detector 17
A holding hole 27 that penetrates b is provided. Moreover, the inner diameter of the holding hole 27 is formed to be smaller than that of the vibration detecting portion 17b.

Vibration detecting portion 1 protruding from the holding hole 27
A pad 28 made of an elastic material is attached to the holding band 26 around 7b, and the pad 28 has a thickness larger than the protruding length of the vibration detecting portion 17b from the holding band 26 in a natural state. However, when the chin strap 22 is hung on the chin of a helmet wearer, the vibration detection unit 1
It will be compressed to bring 7b into contact with the throat of the helmet wearer.

Further, the lead wire 29 connected to the bone conduction microphone 17 is pulled out to the outside from the lead-out hole 30 provided in the holding band 26 and extended to the rear side of the cap body 11.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. A holding band 26 made of an elastic material is attached to the chin strap 22 to cover the chin strap 22 in an endless manner.
In addition, since the bone conduction microphone 17 is held, the bone conduction microphone 17 does not pick up wind noise by contacting the throat of the helmet wearer with the bone conduction microphone 17, and the bone conduction microphone 17 ensures the voice of the helmet wearer. You can pick it up. Moreover, since the holding band 26 is made of an elastic material, the bone conduction microphone 17 can be positioned and held at an appropriate position on the chin strap 22.

Further, the bone conduction microphone 17 is provided with a microphone body 17a sandwiched between the holding band 26 and the chin strap 22, and a vibration detecting portion 17b protruding from the microphone body 17a and contacting the throat of the helmet wearer, Since the vibration detecting portion penetrates the holding hole 27 formed in the holding band 26 and having a diameter smaller than that of the vibration detecting portion 17b, the inner circumference of the holding hole 27 should elastically come into close contact with the outer circumference of the vibration detecting portion 17b. Therefore, the bone conduction microphone 17 can be reliably held by the holding band 26 while preventing the bone conduction microphone 17 from falling off.

Further, the vibration detecting portion 1 protruding from the holding hole 27
Around the 7b, the holding band 26 is provided with a pad 28 made of an elastic material, which has a thickness larger than the protruding length of the vibration detecting portion 17b from the holding band 26 in the natural state.
The vibration detector 17b of the bone conduction microphone 17 is mounted on the helmet wearer's chin so that the vibration detector 17b can be compressed so as to come into contact with the helmet wearer's throat. It is possible to reduce the contact surface pressure at the time of contacting the throat and reduce the discomfort caused by the bone conduction microphone 17 contacting the throat.

Further, the lead wire 29 connected to the bone conduction microphone 17 is pulled out from the lead-out hole 30 provided in the holding band 26 and extended to the rear side of the cap body 11, so that the lead wire 29 is entangled with the chin cord 22. It is possible to prevent the chin strap 22 from being caught.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various design changes can be made without departing from the present invention described in the claims. It is possible.

[0026]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to position and hold the bone conduction microphone at an appropriate position of the chin strap and to prevent wind noise from being picked up by a helmet wearer. The sound of can be reliably picked up by the bone conduction microphone.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the bone conduction microphone can be reliably held by the holding band.

According to the third aspect of the invention, it is possible to reduce the discomfort caused by the bone conduction microphone coming into contact with the throat.

Further, according to the invention of claim 4, it is possible to prevent the conducting wire from being entangled in the chin strap or caught in the chin strap.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a main part of a riding helmet.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view on arrow 3 of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Hat body 17 ... Bone conduction microphone 17a: Microphone body 17b ... Vibration detector 22 ... Chin string 26 ... Retaining band 27 ... Retaining hole 28 ... Pad 29 ... Conductor 30 ... Outlet hole

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Tsuneaki Sakamoto             No. 18-18 Nobidome, Niiza-shi, Saitama Stock             Within the company Honda Access F-term (reference) 3B107 CA02 DA17 EA06

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A chin strap (2) connected to a cap body (11)
A holding band (26) made of an elastic material that covers the chin string (22) endlessly is attached to 2), and the bone conduction microphone (17) is held by the holding band (26). Riding helmet. 2. The bone conduction microphone (17) comprises a microphone body (17a) sandwiched between the holding band (26) and the chin strap (22), and a throat of a helmet wearer protruding from the microphone body (17). And a vibration detector (17b) that comes into contact with the
The vibration detecting section (17b) has a holding hole (27) formed in the holding band (26) and having a smaller diameter than that of the holding band (26).
2. The riding helmet according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The holding band (26) around the vibration detecting portion (17b) protruding from the holding hole (27) has a holding band (26) of the vibration detecting portion (17b) in a natural state.
A pad (28) made of an elastic material having a thickness larger than the protruding length from the contact part of the vibration detecting section (17b) with the throat of the helmet wearer when the chin strap (22) is hung on the chin of the helmet wearer. The riding helmet according to claim 2, wherein the helmet is mounted so that it can be compressed so as to be compressed. 4. A lead wire (29) connected to the bone conduction microphone (17) is drawn out from a lead-out hole (30) provided in a holding band (26) and extends to the rear side of the cap body (11). The riding helmet according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is characterized in that.