Helmet system and safety device for use with a helmet
AssigneeJ. Nolan Group LLC
InventorTim M. Pocatko
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Abstract
A helmet system has a restraint feature for deterring neck injuries that includes a helmet having an attachment member at the rear of the helmet and a tether coupled to the attachment member at the rear of the helmet. The tether couples the helmet to a part of the body of a user in order to limit movement of the helmet. A safety feature for use with a helmet in order to deter neck injuries includes a tether having a first connector at one end for fixedly mating with a helmet and a second connector at the other end for mating with a part of a body of a user. The tether is positionable in the rear neck area of a user.
Claims20
A helmet system having a restraint feature for deterring injuries to the user comprising:
- a helmet having a movable attachment member at the rear of the helmet;
- and
- a flexible, bendable tether coupled to the movable attachment member at the rear of the helmet, the tether coupling the helmet to a part of the body of a user in order to restrain movement of the helmet in a vertical, up and down, direction,
- wherein the movable attachment member is movable only horizontally and not vertically relative to a fixed position on a surface of the helmet, and includes a slider mechanism that is a plate-like member or a recess defined in the helmet to permit the attachment member to slidably move inside the plate-like member or inside the recess, with the slider mechanism conforming to the shape of the helmet, wherein the plate-like attachment member comprises at least one plate with a slot in the plate for receiving the movable attachment member, and the recess is accessible to receive the movable attachment member into the recess.
A helmet system comprising:
- a helmet having an outer shell with a slot formed in a rear surface thereof, with the slot being provided adjacent a slide track that is positioned inside of the helmet's outer shell in order to provide lateral, side-to-side movement but deter vertical, up and down, movement of the helmet;
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- a slide member positioned in the slide track, said slide member having an attachment member connected to with a bendable, flexible, non-stretchy tether.
A helmet system having a restraint feature for deterring injuries to the user comprising:
- a helmet having a movable attachment member coupled to the helmet;
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- a flexible, bendable tether coupled to the movable attachment member, the tether coupling the helmet to a part of the body of a user to restrain movement of the helmet in a vertical, up and down, direction,
- wherein the movable attachment member is movable only horizontally and not vertically relative to a fixed position on a surface of the helmet, with the movable attachment member including one of:
- a slider mechanism that is a plate-like member coupled to the helmet to permit the attachment member to slidably move inside the plate-like member, with the slider mechanism conforming to the shape of the helmet, wherein the plate-like member comprises at least one plate with a slot for receiving the movable attachment member;
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- a slider mechanism that is a recess defined in the helmet to permit the attachment member to slidably move inside the recess, and the recess is accessible to receive the movable attachment member into the recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.