Translucent Visor Brim with Chroma Enhancement Filters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional opaque visor brims for headgear limit the wearer's field of view and range of movement, especially in head-down positions, due to their design which blocks sunlight and environmental debris but restricts visibility.
Innovation Solution
The use of translucent visor brims with integrated chroma enhancement filters that allow the wearer to see through while providing protection, offering enhanced visibility and aerodynamic benefits by controlling airflow and reducing air drag.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If opaque visor brims are used to block sunlight and environmental debris, then protection from harmful factors is improved, but the wearer's field of view and visibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The visor brim incorporates a translucent material with an optical filter that selectively transmits certain wavelengths of light while blocking others. This allows the visor to maintain protection from harmful UV radiation and debris while transmitting visible light wavelengths that provide enhanced color perception and visibility for the wearer.
Solution Approach 2:
The visor brim is constructed from a composite structure combining translucent material with integrated optical filtering properties. This composite approach enables simultaneous achievement of protection functionality and optical transmission, resolving the contradiction between blocking harmful factors and maintaining visibility.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If larger visor brims are designed to provide better protection, then protection coverage is improved, but the wearer's field of view is impeded
Solution Approach 1:
By making the visor material translucent with chroma enhancement properties, larger visor designs no longer automatically obstruct the wearer's view. The optical filtering allows light transmission that enhances color perception, enabling extended protection coverage without sacrificing field of view.
3Loss of information
If translucent visor brims are used to improve visibility, then field of view is improved, but protection from sunlight may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The optical filter in the translucent visor selectively transmits visible light wavelengths that enhance color perception while blocking harmful UV wavelengths. This wavelength-selective transmission resolves the contradiction by allowing visibility improvement without compromising sunlight protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated optical filter within the translucent visor material creates a composite structure that simultaneously provides visibility enhancement and UV protection, resolving the apparent trade-off between these two functions.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Translucent visor brims with chroma enhancement filters enhance the vividness of colors, improve visual acuity, and provide unobstructed visibility, allowing for larger and more varied designs without impeding the field of view, thus optimizing performance and safety during sporting activities.
Implementation Method 1
an optical filter configured to preferentially transmit or attenuate light in a selected wavelength range corresponding to a chroma enhancement window
Data Source
AI summary
Some embodiments provide a visor brim including a visor brim body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, headgear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the headgear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes. In some embodiments, a wearer can combine chroma-enhancing headgear and chroma-enhancing eyewear to view complementary chroma enhancement.