Visor assembly with unique plate
AssigneeKimpex Inc.
InventorsJean-Simon Levesque, Frederic Rene-Laforest, Charles Blouin, Stephane Dion, Philippe Pages
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Abstract
A helmet is provided which includes a helmet shell defining a cavity. The helmet shell has left and right helmet mounting sections defined on left and right sides thereof, and the helmet includes a visor mounting system comprising a primary visor connector made of a single piece and adapted for connection with the left and right helmet mounting sections. The helmet further has a primary visor removably and pivotally connected to the primary visor connector and adapted to pivot about a primary pivot axis.
Claims18
A mounting base for a visor mounting system of a helmet having helmet mounting sections provided on either side of a helmet shell, the mounting base comprising:
- a unitary body comprising:
- an inner surface adapted to face the helmet shell;
- an outer surface opposite the inner surface;
- a front section and a rear section provided opposite one another along a longitudinal axis of the unitary body;
- the unitary body being removably connectable to a first one of the helmet mounting sections in a first configuration, and being further removably connectable to a second one of the helmet mounting sections in a second configuration, where the second configuration corresponds to a rotation of the unitary body about the longitudinal axis.
A mounting base in combination with a helmet shell having left and right helmet mounting sections provided on left and right sides of the helmet shell, respectively, and a visor having left and right visor mounting sections, the mounting base comprising:
- a unitary body removably connectable to any one of the left and right helmet mounting sections and being interchangeable therebetween, the unitary body comprising:
- an inner surface adapted to face the helmet shell;
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- an outer surface opposite the inner surface and comprising:
- a visor connector configured to enable pivotable connection of the left and right visor mounting sections thereto for pivotally connecting the visor to the helmet shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.