JP3184505U - Head protection - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a head protector that protects the head from impact without causing a sense of incongruity during wearing such as snowboarding and skiing and during normal times.
A high-performance shock absorber 2 is built in a knit hat 1. This gives a head protecting effect. High-performance shock absorbers are built in various shapes that do not affect the appearance and design, such as sheet and fiber.
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Description

The present invention relates to a knit hat incorporating a high-performance shock absorber in a head protector.

Examples of head protectors used during exercise such as snowboarding and skiing include hats, hair bands, and helmets.

However, hats and hairbands are handy and have little pressure on the head, but from the viewpoint of shock absorption to the head, almost no head protection effect can be expected. Some of the so-called sponges described in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-214320) and the like, and what are called inner caps on the inner side of the caps are also available. It is hard to say that it is popular because of its small number. Moreover, although the helmet has a high protective effect on the head, the flexibility of adapting to the difference in head shape between individuals cannot be expected due to the high hardness of the composition. For this reason, depending on the person, the internal shape of the helmet does not match, and the head and ears are painful and uncomfortable. Moreover, the problem of the design property by the weight of a helmet and an external appearance has also become the obstruction of use. For these reasons, most snowboarders and skiers wear knitted hats.

When carrying out snowboarding, it often falls backwards due to an exercise posture in which the body is not facing the front with respect to the traveling direction peculiar to snowboarding and is almost directly sideways. Often. This can cause severe pain or, in severe cases, concussion or brain damage. These often occur especially for technical beginners, and are a factor in preventing the spread of snowboards.

JP 2001-214320 A

The problem to be solved is that knit hats used during exercise such as snowboarding and skiing have almost no protective effect against impacts.

The present invention seeks to solve the above-mentioned problems by providing a head protector having high shock absorption and a head protection effect by incorporating a high-performance shock absorber in a knit hat. Further, since the appearance of the knit hat is hardly affected by the built-in high-performance shock absorber, there is no problem from the viewpoint of design at the time of wearing.

A knit hat incorporating a high-performance shock absorber has a high level of shock absorption and a head protecting effect that a conventional knit hat does not have.

It is an external view of a general knit hat. It is a side view of the knit hat concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is AA sectional drawing of the knit hat shown in FIG. 2 at the time of arrange | positioning a high performance impact-absorbing material to the inner surface of a knit hat. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of the knit hat shown in FIG. 2 when the main body structure of the knit hat is a double structure and a high-performance shock absorber is disposed inside the double structure.

By incorporating a high-performance shock absorber in the knit hat, it provides high shock absorption and head protection.

Examples of the high-performance shock absorber include Alpha Gel (registered trademark: Taika Corporation), NP Gel (registered trademark: Taika Corporation), and sorbosein (registered trademark: Sanshin Kosan Co., Ltd.).

As a method for incorporating the high-performance shock absorber, there is an arrangement of a sheet-type high-performance shock absorber inside the cap as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 or a braid of a fibrous high-performance shock absorber.

The built-in high-performance shock absorber may be integrally molded in the same shape as the inside of the hat. Moreover, you may cut | disconnect to a suitable magnitude | size and shape, and may arrange | position inside the partition structure provided in the hat main body.

When fixing the built-in high-performance shock absorber, it is sewn with a flexible adhesive or fiber after bonding.

The built-in high-performance shock absorber may have adhesiveness on the surface, which may cause excessive friction and damage the human body such as the head skin and hair. In order to prevent this, the surface of the shock absorbing material covered with a material having a lower friction coefficient may be used.

The sheet-like high-performance shock absorbing material may have a multilayer structure composed of thin sheets, and a low friction material such as a polytetrafluoroethylene sheet may be disposed between the sheets. This suppresses a decrease in the moving speed in the horizontal direction with the snow surface of the head when the head is hit against the snow surface, and as a result, the rotational movement of the head is suppressed. The rotational movement of the head causes a movement difference from the brain existing inside the head due to inertial force, and causes damage to blood vessels in the brain.

The present invention makes it possible to provide a knit hat having high shock absorption and a head protecting effect.

1 hat body 2 high performance shock absorber

Claims (2)

A head protector with a high-performance shock absorber incorporated in a knit hat. The head protection device, wherein the high performance shock absorber is incorporated in various shapes such as a sheet shape and a fiber shape.