Integrated Head and Neck Tandem-Bracing Device for Protective Helmets

Abstract

An Integrated Head and Neck Tandem-Bracing Device for Protective Helmets is introduced for hazardous activities such as hockey, American football, and others which require safety helmet protections against head impact trauma. The default vulnerability in such hazardous events is the lack of solid securitization of the neck of helmet wearers during such activities. The novel art is designed to protect the wearer against external impact injuries to the head but essentially to the extent the neck is solidly braced, in-tandem, between helmet and torso, at instance of an impinging impact. The novel device presumes optimal protections based upon safeguarding the integrity of the central nervous system: head, neck, and all vertebrae, the torso. This standard of care and the novel technology are integral for maintaining vital safety measures which have been unanticipated by conventional equipment.

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[0001]This is a Continuation-In-Part application referencing Application No. 14 / 679,001 Filed Apr. 5, 2015 further referencing International Application PCT / US2014 / 036261 with Filing Date: Apr. 30, 2014, further claiming benefit of Provisional Application 61 / 817,484 Filed Apr. 30, 2013BACKGROUND[0002]Field of the Invention[0003]The invention presented herein relates generally to requirements for a head, neck, and torso bracing framework component as protective gear against bodily injury which would be needed in the fields of often hazardous sports and competitive events. More specifically, it is relevant to a component which affords a wearer relative optimal protections against injurious impacts to the head, relevant to neck vulnerabilities, and the torso thus inhibiting and delimiting these often traumatic impacts in the fields of both athletic tackle sports such as hockey and American football, in addition to motor vehicle race course competitions and others.BACKGROUND[0004]Descri...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a new design for a protective helmet that helps to prevent head injuries in sports. The helmet uses a unique structure called an "exo-skeletal firewall" to absorb the force of impact and distribute it between two objects. This design is superior to other protective equipment because it offers a counterbalance of mass weight to the head and torso, reducing the risk of injury. The helmet also includes cushioning and padding materials that are designed to protect the head and torso from whiplash and other impacts. The patent explains the physical principles behind the design and how it works to protect the player's body.

Problems solved by technology

The foam stiffens more under a harsher impact; this, in itself, is counterintuitive since compressed cushioning, as compacted by the head at moment of an impact, will alter its state into a hardened material against the inner wall of a helmet.

There is no structurally superior novelty in these designs as far as achievable protections are concerned.

Thick padding behind the movable area doesn't allow it to move much, but just enough in an area where players “can take big hits.” Solutions such as these are ineffective upon comparison with scientific fact and logical implementation for total protections of the CNS which necessarily entail a tandem bracing relationship between head and torso at moment of any force of impact, whether moderate or massive.

None of the manufacturers claim an intuitive design structure that focuses on the tandem relationship between the head and torso.

The default vulnerability of all protective helmets is the lack of this bio-mechanical relationship; it continues to exist as a fatal design flaw.

The disastrous oversight has proven itself as a deadly consequence to ignorance of, or dismissive evasion of, good and excellent medical science with respect to the integral position of the neck in field tackle sports injuries.

This new technology presumes all the objective solutions of prior art as may be determined by their design focus; of course, their earlier design objectives had novel attempts at protections for overall safety of those on the fields of play; however, without the new standards for safety, with acknowledgement to the vulnerability of the neck, and further the CNS, debilitating injuries are likely to continue.

“alone,” is not adequate for safety; it requires a connection with an anchoring apparatus, a tandem neck-spanning, bracing, device.2. Solves Rotational Forces: IHNTBD braces against rotational accelerations.

The dilemma with most of the protective helmets examined, presently on the market, that, since padding and cushioning presently entail the “primary” component, per se, against head impact injuries with respect to sports protective helmets, such injuries, now widely reported in the news media will likely continue.

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