Motorcycle Helmet Gaze Corrector for Cornering Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Motorcycle helmets do not effectively improve driving technique and skill, particularly during cornering, as they fail to stabilize the rider's gaze and weight shift, leading to increased risk of accidents.
Innovation Solution
A motorcycle helmet with a gaze corrector, featuring angular columnar bodies with differently colored right and left side surfaces, positioned centrally within the frame or on the shield, helps stabilize the rider's gaze and weight shift during turns, ensuring smooth cornering by guiding the dominant eye to the correct side view.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional motorcycle helmet is used, then the rider's head is protected, but the rider's driving technique and skill cannot be improved
Solution Approach 1:
The helmet provides visual feedback through the gaze corrector by displaying different colors on the right and left side surfaces. When the rider's head position deviates from the correct orientation during cornering, the color distribution changes, providing immediate visual feedback that guides the rider to adjust their head position and weight shift, thereby improving driving technique while maintaining safety
Solution Approach 2:
The gaze corrector acts as an intermediary between the rider's natural gaze and the required correct gaze direction during cornering. It mediates the rider's vision by providing color-coded visual cues that guide the rider's head orientation and weight distribution, enabling technique improvement without compromising the protective function
2Ease of operation
If the rider shifts weight to turn the vehicle body during cornering, then smooth cornering is achieved, but the rider's gaze becomes unstable
Solution Approach 1:
The gaze corrector provides real-time visual feedback through color-coded side surfaces that indicate whether the rider's head position and gaze are correctly aligned during weight-shifting cornering. This feedback stabilizes the rider's gaze by providing continuous visual guidance, allowing the rider to maintain both smooth cornering through weight shift and stable gaze through corrected head orientation
3Ease of operation
If the rider uses a dominant eye to turn around a curve, then the turning action is simplified, but the driving technique remains flawed
Solution Approach 1:
The gaze corrector provides visual feedback through differently colored right and left side surfaces that guide the rider to use both eyes properly during cornering. The color distribution changes based on head position, providing feedback that corrects the flawed dominant-eye technique while maintaining the simplicity of weight-shifting cornering, thereby improving driving technique precision without excessive complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The gaze corrector uses color changes on its right and left side surfaces to provide visual guidance. The different colors create a visual gradient that guides the rider's head orientation and eye usage during cornering, transforming the flawed dominant-eye approach into a balanced binocular technique while preserving the simplicity of the turning action
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AI summary
A motorcycle helmet (1) is provided which can drastically improve motorcycle driving technique and skill. A motorcycle helmet (1) of the present invention is provided with a helmet body (11) configured to partially or entirely cover a head of a wearer and having an opening (14) in front of a face surface of the wearer, and a gaze corrector (13) provided in a center of a frame (15) forming the opening (14) in the helmet body to divide the opening (14) and being an angular columnar body and enabling correction of a gaze of the wearer. The gaze corrector (13) has mutually different colors on a facing surface (13a) facing the wearer, a right side surface (13b) located to the right of the facing surface (13a) and a left side surface (13c) located to the left of the facing surface (13a), and the gaze corrector (13) divides a field of view of the wearer into a right field of view and a left field of view.