Dispersing helmet safety system and method
OwnerRose Elizabeth Matteucci, Carlo Matteucciinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for a protection helmet which has exterior moveable tiles to move upon impact and then retract to their original placements. The system prolongs the impact time by de-accelerating it and minimizing its damaging effects by spreading out the impact force over a larger surface area. A system and method for a helmet's face mask to absorb impact and return back to its original state whether impacted on its bars, interior/exterior assembly, or any part of the face mask. A system and method for a football helmet's padding to be multi-layered and have multiple ancillary cavities that compress and retract back to their original state.
Claims16
A helmet comprising:
- a shell having a plurality of holes;
- a plurality of tiles mounted on an exterior of the shell tethered by elastic cords through the plurality of holes to an interior of the shell;
- and
- wherein the tiles are capable of moving from their original position to a second position upon impact and being retracted back to the original position by the elastic cords.
A method of providing progressive retractable padding for a helmet comprising:
- receive an impact at a plurality of tiles mounted on an exterior of a shell tethered by elastic cords through a plurality of holes to an interior of the shell causing a plurality of tiles to move out of a predetermined position and deform in shape from an original shape;
- and
- retract the plurality of tiles back through the elastic cords to the predetermined position and reform the plurality of tiles back to the original shape.
A helmet comprising:
- an exterior padding system comprising:
- a shell having a plurality of holes;
- a plurality of tiles mounted on an exterior of a shell tethered by elastic cords through a plurality of holes to an interior of the shell;
- and
- wherein the plurality of tiles are capable of moving from their original position to a second position upon impact and being retracted back to the original position by the elastic cords;
- a face mask assembly comprising:
- a face mask having a front section, two middle sections and two rear sections having protection bars forming a cage;
- wherein the front and middle sections are connected by a first set of springs inside a first set of the protection bars;
- wherein the middle and rear sections are connected by a second set of springs inside a second set of the protection bars;
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- the front section capable of collapsing upon the impact into the middle sections and the middle sections capable of collapsing into the rear sections;
- an interior padding system comprising:
- a first padding layer having head stabilizing components with a plurality of flexible compression components;
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- a second padding layer mounted on the interior of the shell and having a plurality of flexible mechanisms configured to correspondingly mate with each of the plurality of flexible compression components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.