Protective Headgear Integrating Helmet and Contaminant Blocker
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing protective headgear often fails to effectively combine impact protection with contaminant protection, particularly in sports and activities where both are necessary, as contaminant protection mechanisms can compromise impact protection or vice versa.
Innovation Solution
The development of protective headgear that integrates a helmet with a contaminant blocker, such as a clear shield or mask, which provides both impact protection and contaminant protection through a connector system, ensuring breathability, antifogging properties, and customization while maintaining performance attributes like spatter proofing and proper vision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a helmet with faceguard is used to protect against impacts, then impact protection is improved, but contaminant protection is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a helmet with faceguard (impact protection) and a contaminant blocker (contaminant protection) into a single integrated protective headgear system. The contaminant blocker is connected to the helmet structure, allowing both impact and contaminant protection to function simultaneously without compromising either capability.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a contaminant blocker is added to provide contaminant protection, then contaminant protection is improved, but breathability is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The contaminant blocker incorporates porous or permeable materials that allow air and moisture vapor to pass through while blocking contaminants. This enables breathability and fog prevention while maintaining contaminant protection, resolving the trade-off between filtration and air flow.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a contaminant blocker is integrated with the helmet, then contaminant protection is improved, but device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The helmet structure is designed to serve multiple functions: the faceguard provides impact protection while also serving as a mounting structure for the contaminant blocker. The chin member and other helmet components are configured to support both impact and contaminant protection functions, reducing overall system complexity through multi-functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
Protective headgear that is wearable on a head of a user and may be configured to provide impact protection and contaminant protection. The protective headgear may comprise a helmet configured to protect the user's head against impacts and a contaminant blocker configured to protect against contaminants (e.g., infectants), such as pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms) or other biohazards, chemical hazards, or other hazardous substances, transmittable to or from the user (e.g. as part of spatter, an aerosol, or other droplets). The helmet and the contaminant blocker may be configured to connect or otherwise interact with one another to be usable together. This may facilitate their use to enhance protection of the user and/or an environment of the user, while maintaining performance of the user, including by providing breathability, being spatter proof, ensuring proper vision, being antifogging, being customizable, and/or having other desirable attributes.