JP2003301316A - Attaching structure of fixed-side hook hemisphere of helmet - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an attaching structure of a fixed-side hook hemisphere of a helmet, having a simple structure and enabling easy attaching of the hook. <P>SOLUTION: A 1st flange 21 is formed on one end of the fixed-side hook hemisphere 17 and a 2nd flange 22 having a plurality of notches 23 on the circumference is formed on the other end. A pasty or liquid adhesive 26 is filled up on the inner face of an impact-absorbing liner 3 and hardened after embedding the 2nd flange 22 in the adhesive 26. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hook used for connecting interior parts such as a head pad and a cheek pad to the inner wall of a shock absorbing liner of a helmet, and more particularly to a hook fixed to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner. The present invention relates to improvement of a side hook half mounting structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the mounting structure of the fixed side hook half body in such a helmet, the fixed side hook half body arranged on the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner is integrally formed with a mounting rod penetrating the shock absorbing liner. However, a retaining piece placed on the outer peripheral surface of the shock absorbing liner is attached to the tip of this taking rod, or a fixed side hook half body is fixed to the supporting plate adhered to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner with eyelets. Is known (see, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 4-69418).

[0003]

The fixing structure of the fixed side hook half in the conventional helmet as described above is as follows.
Not only is the structure complicated, but it also takes a lot of time and effort to attach it, making it difficult to reduce costs.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an attachment structure for the fixed side hook half body in the helmet, which has a simple structure and is easy to attach.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a fixed side hook half body attached to an inner wall of a shock absorbing liner of a helmet. A first flange is formed on the outer circumference of one end of the hook half body, and a second flange is formed on the outer circumference of the other end, and a paste or liquid adhesive is applied to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner.
The first feature is that the second flange is solidified in a state of being embedded therein.

According to the first feature, in order to embed the second flange of the fixed side hook half body in the adhesive on the inner wall of the shock absorbing lining, the second side flange is simply pushed into the adhesive to fix the fixed side hook. It is possible to easily attach the half body to the shock absorbing liner.

In addition to the first feature, the present invention has a second feature that a plurality of notches are formed on the outer circumference of the second flange.

According to this second feature, a part of the adhesive will wrap around to the base end portion of the flange through the plurality of notches in the second flange. It can be securely embedded in the hook, and the large number of notches makes the bonding area of the second flange relatively large, which ensures that the fixed side hook half is bonded to the shock absorbing liner. Can be done.

Further, in addition to the first or second feature, the present invention provides a synthetic resin support plate that supports a cloth cover covering the lower end of the shock absorbing liner and is adhered to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner. A third feature is that the adhesive is covered, the second flange is embedded in the adhesive through a through hole provided in the support plate, and the through hole is closed by the first flange.

According to the first or second feature of the present invention, the adhesive also adheres to the back surface of the support plate to contribute to the adhesion of the support plate to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner, and further to the support plate. Since the through hole of will be closed by the second flange,
The adhesive does not leak from the through holes, and it is possible to maintain a good appearance.

[0011]

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.

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of a riding helmet equipped with a fixed-side hook half mounting structure in the helmet of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. 1, and FIG.
-3 line expanded sectional view, FIG. 4 is a plan view of the fixed side hook half body of the hook in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the fixed side hook half body,
FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the mounting procedure of the fixed side hook half body.

First, in FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral H
Indicates a motorcycle riding helmet, and its cap body 1
Is composed of a shell 2 made of fiber reinforced resin and a shock absorbing liner 3 made of foamed styrene fitted on the inner surface of the shell 2, and the lower end of the shock absorbing liner 3 is covered with a cloth cover 4. . The outer end of the cover 4 is bonded to the outer peripheral surface of the shock absorbing liner 3 so as to be hidden by the shell 2, and the inner end thereof is sewn to the support plate 5 bonded to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner 3.

An inner pad 6 is provided on the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner 3.
Is detachably attached. The interior pad 6 is composed of a head pad 7 for receiving the head of the user and a pair of left and right cheek pads 8 for receiving the left and right cheeks of the user, both of which are mainly made of a cushion material such as urethane foam. . The head pad 7 is provided with synthetic resin flexible mounting pieces 10 and 11 on the front and rear sides thereof, and the mounting piece 10 at the front end is detachable from a support plate 12 attached to the front end portion of the shock absorbing liner 3. , And the mounting piece 11 at the rear end has a plurality of hooks 13, 13, ...
Only the individual is shown. ), It is removably attached to the inner wall of the rear end of the shock absorbing liner 3. Therefore, when the head pad 7 is soiled by sweat or the like, it can be removed from the cap body 1 and washed.

A mounting piece 15 is sewn on the back surface of the cheek pad 8, and the mounting piece 15 is detachably mounted on the inner side wall of the shock absorbing liner 3 through a plurality of hooks 16, 16. . Therefore, when the cheek pad 8 is also soiled by sweat or the like, it can be removed from the cap body 1 and washed.

Since the hooks 13 and 16 have the same structure, only the hook 13 on the head pad 7 side will be described.

The hook 13 is composed of a fixed side hook half body 17 made of synthetic resin which is adhered to the shock absorbing liner 3 and a movable side hook half body 18 made of synthetic resin by heat staking to the mounting piece 11. In the illustrated example, the fixed side hook half body 17 is female and the movable side hook half body 18 is male.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the fixed side hook half body 17 has a first flange 21 on the outer periphery of one end thereof and a second flange 22 having a smaller diameter than the first flange 21 on the outer periphery of the other end thereof. It is provided, and on the front surface of the first flange 21,
The engaging projections 18a of the movable side hook half body 18 are provided so as to open the engaging recesses 17a with which the engaging projections 18a can elastically engage. Further, on the outer periphery of the second flange 22, a large number of notches 23, 23, ... Arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction are provided.

As clearly shown in FIG. 3, a recess 24 is provided in the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner 3 and a through hole 25 is provided in the support plate 5 corresponding to the fixed-side hook half body 17. The through hole 25 has a smaller diameter than the first flange 21 and a larger diameter than the second flange 22, so that only the second flange 22 can pass through the through hole 25. The second flange 22 passing through the through hole 25 is
The shock absorbing liner 3 is bonded to the shock absorbing liner 3 with an appropriate amount of the adhesive 26 injected into the recess 24.

In the bonding, first, as shown in FIG. 6, an adhesive agent 26 in the form of paste or liquid, for example, hot melt in the form of paste by heating is applied to the support plate 5 in the recess 24 of the shock absorbing liner 3. A proper amount is injected from the through hole 25 with a syringe, and then the second flange 22 of the fixed side hook half body 17 penetrating through the through hole 25 is pushed into the adhesive 26 and embedded in the adhesive 26 as shown in FIG. After that, the adhesive 26 is allowed to cool and solidify to complete the adhesion of the fixed side hook half body 17 to the shock absorbing liner 3.

As described above, the second flange 22 can be embedded in the adhesive 26 by an extremely simple operation of pushing the second flange 22 into the adhesive 26 in the recess 24, and the fixed side hook half The body 17 can be easily attached to the shock absorbing liner 3. In particular, the second flange 2
When 2 is pushed into the adhesive 26, a part of the adhesive 26 is formed on the outer periphery of the second flange 22 and a large number of notches 23, 2
Since it wraps around to the base end portion of the second flange 22 through 3 ..., the second flange 22 can be securely embedded in the adhesive 26, and a large number of notches 23, 23 ...
Due to the fact that the adhesion area of the flange 22 becomes relatively large, the fixed side hook half body 17 can be reliably adhered to the shock absorbing liner 3.

Moreover, the adhesive 26 also adheres to the back surface of the support plate 5 and contributes to the adhesion of the support plate 5 to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner 3. Further, since the through hole 25 of the support plate 5 is closed by the second flange 22, the adhesive 2
6 does not leak from the through hole 25, and a good appearance can be maintained.

In the above embodiment, various design changes can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, contrary to the above embodiment, the fixed side hook half body 17 can be made male and the movable side hook half body 18 can be made female. As the adhesive 26, a two-component adhesive or a UV curable adhesive can be used.

[0024]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in the mounting structure of the fixed side hook half body in the helmet, the fixed side hook half body is attached to the impact absorbing liner inner wall of the helmet. A first flange is formed on the outer periphery of one end of the half body, and a second flange is formed on the outer periphery of the other end, and a paste-like or liquid adhesive is applied to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner. Since the two flanges are solidified in the embedded state, the fixed side hook can be pushed into the adhesive so that the second flange of the fixed side hook half body is embedded in the adhesive on the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner. It is possible to easily attach the half body to the shock absorbing liner.

According to the second feature of the present invention, in addition to the first feature, a plurality of notches are formed on the outer periphery of the second flange, so that a part of the adhesive agent is applied to the second flange. Through the plurality of notches, it will wrap around to the base end portion of the flange, so that it is possible to ensure that the flange is embedded in the adhesive, and due to the large number of notches, the bonding area of the second flange Because of the relatively large size, the fixed side hook half can be more reliably bonded to the shock absorbing liner.

Further, according to the third feature of the present invention, the first
Or, in addition to the second feature, the adhesive is covered with a synthetic resin support plate that supports a cloth cover that covers the lower end of the shock absorbing liner and is adhered to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner,
Since the second flange is embedded in the adhesive through the through hole provided in the support plate and the through hole is closed by the first flange, the adhesive also adheres to the back surface of the support plate. This also contributes to the adhesion of the support plate to the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner, and since the through hole of the support plate is closed by the second flange, the adhesive does not leak from the through hole and is excellent. The appearance can be retained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional side view of a riding helmet equipped with a fixed-side hook half attachment structure in a helmet of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG.

3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 3-3 of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a fixed side hook half body of the hook in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the fixed side hook half body.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a mounting procedure of the fixed side hook half body.

[Explanation of symbols]

H ... helmet 3 ... Shock absorption liner 4 ... Cloth cover 5 ... Support plate 17 ... Hook half on fixed side 21 ... First flange 22 ... Second flange 23 ... Notches 24 ... Recess 25 ... 26 ... Adhesive

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A fixed side hook half body (17) is attached to an inner wall of a shock absorbing liner (3) of a helmet (H),
In the mounting structure of the fixed side hook half body in the helmet, the first side is attached to the outer periphery of one end of the fixed side hook half body (17).
A flange (21) and a second flange (22) on the outer periphery of the other end are formed, and a paste or liquid adhesive (26) is laid on the inner wall of the shock absorbing liner (3). ) To the second flange (22)
Mounting structure for fixed side hook half in helmet, characterized by being solidified in the embedded state. 2. The helmet mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of notches (23) are formed on an outer circumference of the second flange (22). Fixed side hook half mounting structure. 3. The mounting structure for a fixed-side hook half body according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a shock absorbing liner (3) is supported by supporting a cloth cover (4) covering a lower end portion of the shock absorbing liner (3). ) Covering the adhesive (26) with a synthetic resin support plate (5) adhered to the inner wall of
The second flange (22) is embedded in the adhesive (26) through a through hole (25) provided in the support plate (5), and the through hole (25) is formed by the first flange (21). Attachment structure for the fixed side hook half of the helmet, which is characterized by closing.