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US 2022/0015489 A1Published application
Concussion resistent smart helmet
OwnerPeter L. Levyinventor
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Abstract
A concussion resistant smart helmet is disclosed having outer construction to redirect all tangential component force impacts to the helmet edges and away from user, reduce, redistribute and absorb normal component force impact. The absorbing layer is recyclable and contains sensor and logic for recording impact forces transmitted to helmet interior boundary.
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A concussion resistant smart helmet comprising:
- a helmet with a perforated outer hard shell on an outer helmet layer with perforated regions or openings, hard shell the exterior of an outer layer and coupled to helmet edges adjacent to a neck or shoulders;
- an inner layer snuggly fitting within the outer layer, layers coupled to the helmet edges adjacent to a neck or shoulders and replaceably coupled to the helmet;
- a layer of independently slidable freely in all direction tiles snuggly fitted in the outer layer between the outer hard shell and outer layer shell base, tiles protruding the outer shell perforated regions and having polygonal shape commensurate with margins to each tile accommodating outer hard base shell protrusion region;
- the slidable tiles with spring-like material spacers for transferring any tangential component forces from impacted tile to tile to edge helmet tangential force component transfer, and
- a removable-replaceable energy absorbing layer between an inner shell liner and a helmet wearer's head,
- whereby external force impacts to the helmet are decoupled to normal and tangential components in the helmet layers, tangential component forces are redirected to the helmet edges and the normal component forces are distributed and absorbed by the absorbing layer.
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A method for a concussion resistant smart helmet comprising the steps of:
- providing a helmet with a perforated outer hard shell on an outer helmet layer with perforated regions or openings, hard shell the exterior of an outer layer and coupled to helmet edges adjacent to a neck or shoulders;
- providing the helmet with an inner layer snuggly fitting within the outer layer, layers coupled to the helmet edges adjacent to a neck or shoulders and replaceably coupled to the helmet;
- placing a layer of independently slidable freely in all direction tiles snuggly fitted in the outer layer between the outer hard shell and outer layer shell base, tiles protruding the outer shell perforated regions and having polygonal shape commensurate with margins to each tile accommodating outer hard base shell protrusion region;
- spacing the slidable tiles with spring-like material spacers for transferring any tangential component forces from impacted tile to tile to edge helmet tangential force component transfer, and
- inserting removable-replaceable energy absorbing layer between an inner shell liner and a helmet wearer's head,
- whereby external force impacts to the helmet are decoupled to normal and tangential components in the helmet layers, tangential component forces are redirected to the helmet edges and the normal component forces are distributed and absorbed by the absorbing layer.
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