US20080201813A1

US20080201813A1 - Ventilating hood and a helmet with the ventilating hood

Info

Publication number: US20080201813A1
Application number: US11/709,091
Authority: US
Inventors: Po-Chou Yang
Original assignee: BO CAI ENTERPRISE Co Ltd
Current assignee: BO CAI ENTERPRISE Co Ltd
Priority date: 2007-02-22
Filing date: 2007-02-22
Publication date: 2008-08-28

Abstract

A ventilating hood and a helmet with the ventilating hood consist of a helmet, a ventilating hood fixed on the top of the helmet and a warning light. The helmet has an air vent and an air exit on its top. The air guiding hood has an air entrance and an air exit respectively opened at its front side and rear side, and an accommodating chamber formed in its bottom to guide air current, able to keep a user free from closeness and discomfort. Also, the warning light installed behind the air-guiding hood can not only attract more attention, but also keep the helmet remained intact without damaging its structure.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the invention
This invention relates to a ventilating hood and a helmet with the ventilating hood, particularly to one fixed together with a helmet for reducing the temperature and the sultriness in the helmet, and a warning light set behind the ventilating hood to shine as a warning light, with the structure of the helmet kept intact not to be damaged.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As Taiwan is densely populated and crowded, traffic is always heavy all over it, especially jam-packed during the rush hour. Moreover, parking is another problem troubling most of all drivers. Therefore, motorcycles become a dominant vehicle because of its good mobility and convenience. Nowadays, although a brake light is assembled at the rear of a motorcycle, lit up to warn the drivers coming behind it while braking the motorcycle or turning on the head light, but it is always located too low to be ignored by the drivers coming behind, especially if the rider wears dark clothes in the nighttime, apt to pose an accident of successive collision. In order to have a better warning effect, a helmet with a warning device has been provided to improve security of a motorcyclist.
As shown in FIG. 6, a first conventional helmet with a warning device includes a main body 9, which is provided with a slot 91 and a warning light 92 installed in the slot 91 for shining a warning signal to ensure a rider's security. But, such a helmet has the following disadvantages in using.
1. Although the helmet can protect a user's head well, but it makes the user feel sweltering and uncomfortable while wearing it, especially in hot summer. So, the users are of course unwilling to wear such a helmet owing to the uncomfortable sultriness.
2. The slot 91 cut in the main body 9 for fitting the warning light 92 may lessen the strength of the main body 9 to cause reduced protection to the user.
A second conventional helmet with a warning light, shown in FIG. 7, includes a main body 9, which is provided with a brake light 94 attached on its rear side or a proper location via an adhesive element 93, such as a twin adhesive tape. The brake light 94 is connected with a receiver 95 for receiving a signal sent by an emitter 7 that is installed at a random location of a motorcycle to connect with a power line 8 of a rear brake light. Therefore, when the rear braking light is lit up by the rider, the emitter 7 is to simultaneously send out a signal that is to be received by the receiver 95 to keep the brake light 93 lit up. But, such a helmet also has the following disadvantages in using.
1. Like the first conventional helmet, the second known helmet also makes a user feel sweltering and uncomfortable while wearing it, especially in hot summer.
2. The adhesive tape 93, a twin adhesive tape, used to keep the brake light 94 attached on the rear of the helmet or a proper location is very insecure because it is apt to lose its adhesion in a certain period of time, causing the brake light to fall off the adhesive tape 93 losing adhesion. In addition, adhering the braking light 94 with such an adhesive tape 93 makes the helmet look graceless.
Therefore, the invention has been devised to overcome the defects, making a user feel close and improper adhesion of a braking light, existing in the two known helmets mentioned above.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objective of this invention is to offer a ventilating hood and a helmet with the ventilating hood.
The main characteristics of the invention are a helmet, a ventilating hood and a warning light. The helmet is provided with an air vent and an air exit opened on its top. The ventilating hood is connected to the top of the helmet, provided with an air entrance and an air exit respectively opened at its front side and rear side, and an accommodating chamber formed in its bottom to guide air current, able to keep a user free from closeness and discomfort. In addition, the air guiding hood is provided with a wireless receiver set at its bottom side to control the warning light turned on or off and an emitter is installed at a random location of a motorcycle to connect with a light line of a rear brake light of the motorcycle, so that the wireless receiver can receive a signal sent by the emitter to activate the warning light to be lit up, attracting more attention from other drivers. Moreover, the warning light installed behind the ventilating hood can keep the helmet remained intact without damaging its structure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

This invention is better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a first preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial exploded perspective view of the first preferred embodiment of the ventilating hood in the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the first preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention, showing it being used;

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of a second preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of a third preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of a first conventional helmet with a warning device; and

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a second conventional helmet with a warning device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a first preferred embodiment of a ventilating hood and a helmet with the ventilating hood in the present invention is composed of a helmet 1, an air-guiding hood 2 and a warning light 3.
The helmet 1 is provided with an air vent 11 and an air exit 12 bored on its top for ventilation inside the helmet 1 to drop its temperature and its sultriness, and plural screw holes 13 for fixing the ventilating hood 2.
The ventilating hood 2 is provided with an air entrance 21 and an air exit 22 opened at its front side and its rear side respectively, and a recess 23 formed at its rear side for installing the warning light 3. The recess 23 is provided with plural locking members 231 formed around its edge close to the front side. The ventilating hood 2 is also provided with an accommodating chamber 24 formed in its bottom to guide air current, and plural threaded members 25 set inside the accommodating chamber 24 for fixing the ventilating hood with the helmet 1.
The warning light 3 used as a brake light or a turn signal is provided with a bottom board 31, a light panel 32 installed behind the bottom board 31, and a light lid 33 covered behind the light panel 32. The light panel 32 is provided with at least a light 321 positioned on its surface, such as a LED bulb, a switch 322 positioned at one side to respectively connect with the light 321 by a power line and with plural batteries 323 supplying power to the light 321, and a wireless receiver 324 linked with the light 321 through a line to control it turning on or off. The light lid 33 is provided with a slope 331 formed full of colorful diamond shapes around its outer surface so as to reflect brilliantly as real diamonds do, a through hole 332 bored at one side corresponding to the switch 322 of the light panel 32 so as to let it extend out, and plural locking projections 333 formed around its edge close to the front side.
In assembly, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the warning light 3 is first installed in the recess 23 of the air guiding hood 2, keeping the locking members 333 locked with the locking members 231 of the groove 23. Next, place the air-guiding hood 2 on the helmet 2 to keep the threaded members 25 of the ventilating hood 2 corresponding to the screw holes 13. By the time, employ plural screws 4 to keep the ventilating hood 2 fixed on the helmet 1.
In using, as shown in FIGS. 1˜3, when a user is wearing the helmet to ride on a motorcycle and run forward, the air is to flow into the accommodating chamber 24 of the ventilating hood 2 through the air entrance 21 and flow out from the air exit 22 located at the rear of the ventilating hood 2. It is to be noted that the air current is as well to run through the air vent 11 and the air exit 12 of the helmet 1 to ventilate in the helmet 2 while passing through the accommodating chamber 24, able to reduce the temperature and the closeness in the helmet 2. During the nighttime, the switch 322 of the warning light 3 can be pressed to turn on the light(s) 321 of the light panel 32, so that the drivers coming behind the user can clearly notice him to prevent any unfortunate accident from happening. Additionally, the slope 331 of the light lid 33 of the warning light 3 is full of colorful diamond shapes so as to reflect brilliantly as real diamonds do, obtaining a sparkly warning effect.
As shown in FIG. 4, a second preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention has some differences from the first one. The ventilating hood 5 of the second embodiment is provided with plural screw holes 51 bored at its rear side. And, the warning light 6 of the second embodiment is also provided with plural screw holes 61 bored at locations corresponding to the screw holes 51 of the ventilating hood 5. So, plural screws 4 can be used to get fixed in the screw holes 51 and 61, keeping the warning light 6 fixed at the rear of the air guiding hood 5.
FIG. 5 shows a third preferred embodiment of a helmet with a ventilating hood in the present invention. The third embodiment of the invention is provided with an emitter 7 installed at any location of a motorcycle connected with a light line 8 of a rear brake light of the motorcycle. In case that the rider brakes the motorcycle to keep the rear brake light lit up, the light line 8 is able to activate the emitter 7 to send a signal that is to be received by the wireless receiver 324 of the warning light 3 to enable the light 321 of the warning light 3 lit up, providing a shining warning to enhance security of the rider.
The invention has the following advantages as can be seen from the foresaid description.
1. The helmet 1 is installed with the ventilating hood 2 to keep the air flowing through its air vent 11 and its air exit 12, effective to lower the temperature and the closeness inside the helmet 1 so as to make a user feel comfortable while wearing the helmet of the invention.
2. As the warning light 3 is installed behind and fixed deadly with the ventilating hood 2 without damaging the structure of the helmet 1, the helmet of the invention is surely strong enough to protect a user wearing it.
3. With the wireless receiver 324 installed at the top of the helmet 1 to control the light 321 and the emitter 7 positioned on the motorcycle to connect with the light line 8 of the rear brake of the motorcycle, the is light 321 can be lit up to display a shining warning light to ensure security of the rider while the rider brakes the motorcycle to keep the rear brake light lit up.
While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A ventilating hood comprising an air entrance, an air exit and an accommodating chamber for guiding air current, said ventilating hood installed with a warning light.

2. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 1, wherein said warning light provided with a bottom board, a light panel installed behind said bottom board, and a light lid covered behind said light panel, said light panel provided with at least a light positioned on its surface, a switch that is positioned at one side to connect with said light by a power line and with plural batteries supplying power to said light, said light lid provided with a through hole bored at one side corresponding to said switch of said light panel so as to let said switch extend out.

3. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 2, wherein said light is a LED bulb.

4. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 2, wherein said light lid is provided with a slope formed full of colorful diamond shapes around its outer surface.

5. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 2, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with a recess formed at its rear side for installing said warning light and said recess is provided with plural locking members formed around its edge close to the front side for locking with plural locking projections formed near the front edge of said light lid of said warning light.

6. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 2, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with plural screw holes bored at its rear side and said warning light is also provided with plural screw holes bored at locations corresponding to said screw holes of said air guiding hood, keeping said warning light fixed with said air guiding hood via plural screws.

7. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 2, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with a wireless receiver set at its bottom side to link with said light of said warning light through a line to control said light turned on or off and an emitter is installed at a random location of a motorcycle to connect with a light line of a rear brake light of the motorcycle, so that when said emitter is activated by said light line to send out signal, said wireless receiver is to receive said signal to keep said light of said warning light lit up.

8. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 1, wherein said warning light is a brake light.

9. The ventilating hood as claimed in claim 1, wherein said warning light is a turn signal.

10. A helmet with a ventilating hood comprising a helmet and a ventilating hood connected with said helmet, said helmet provided with an air vent and an air exit, said ventilating hood provided with an entrance, an air exit, an accommodating chamber for guiding air current and a warning light.

11. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 10, wherein said helmet is provided with plural screw holes bored on its top and said accommodating chamber of said air guiding hood is provided with plural threaded members set inside it for fixing said air guiding hood together with said helmet.

12. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 10, wherein said warning light is provided with a bottom board, a light panel installed behind said bottom board and a light lid covered behind said light panel, said light panel provided with at least a light positioned on its surface and a switch positioned at one side to respectively connected with said light by a power line and with plural batteries supplying power to said light, said light lid provided with a through hole bored at one side corresponding to said switch of said light panel for said switch to extend out.

13. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 12, wherein said light is an LED bulb.

14. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 12, wherein said light lid is provided with a slope formed full of colorful diamond shapes around its outer surface.

15. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 12, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with a recess formed at its rear side for installing said warning light, and said recess is provided with plural locking members formed around its edge close to the front side for locking with plural locking projections formed near the front edge of said light lid of said warning light.

16. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 12, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with plural screw holes bored at its rear side, and said warning light is also provided with plural screw holes bored at locations corresponding to said screw holes of said ventilating hood, keeping said warning light fixed with said air guiding hood via plural screws.

17. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 12, wherein said ventilating hood is provided with a wireless receiver set at its bottom side to link with said light of said warning light through a line to control said light turned on or off, and an emitter is installed at a random location of a motorcycle to connect with a light line of a rear brake light of the motorcycle, so that when said emitter is activated by said light line to send out signal, said wireless receiver is to receive said signal to keep said light of said warning light lit up.

18. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 10, wherein said warning light is a brake light.

19. The helmet with a ventilating hood as claimed in claim 10, wherein said warning light is a turn signal.