US 5,950,244 AGranted

Protective device for impact management

AssigneeSport Maska Inc.

InventorsEric Fournier, Evangelos Spyrou, T. Blaine Hoshizaki

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Abstract

A protective device comprising a shell and a liner. The shell includes an interior surface. The liner is associated with the interior surface of the shell. The liner includes a member for enabling control displacement of the preselected regions of the liner upon various degrees of impact of the protective device. The control displacement member comprises a first member and a second member. Each of the first and second members having a top surface, a bottom surface and a different impact absorbing characteristic. The top surface of at least one of the first and second members is associated with the interior surface of the shell. At least a portion of the bottom surface of the first member extends further from the interior surface of the shell and the bottom surface of the second member.

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Dependent claims

A protective device comprising:

a shell including an interior surface;
and
a liner associated with at least a portion of the interior surface of the shell, the liner including means for enabling controlled displacement of preselected regions of the liner upon various degrees of impact to the protective device, the controlled displacement means comprising:
at least two first members and at least one second member, each having a top surface and a bottom surface, each of the at least two first members having a different impact absorbing characteristic than the at least one second member, the bottom surfaces of each of the at least two first members being independently movable relative to each other and in mating engagement with the at least one second member,
the top surface of at least one of the at least one first and second member, being associated with the interior surface of the shell, and
at least a portion of the bottom surface of the at least two first members extending further from the interior surface of the shell than the bottom surface of the at least one second member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.