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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[0029]Such sequence allows an effect that is too slight for cushioning protection; it would be nearly the same as if the head were to be directly struck, without any cushioning at all since both the padding and cushioning would then “not” be pliable but hardened solid due to condensing physical depressions against them. The dilemma with most of the protective helmets examined, presently on the market, th

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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 conseque

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