Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics Corp.

Andrew T Tirums

Charles D Evans

Eric W Larkin

James E Melzer

A helmet system includes a helmet shell and an energy-absorbing helmet liner that is constructed from an open-cell urethane foam impregnated with a room-temperature curable thermoset epoxy. The impregnated foam liner is inserted in the helmet shell, heated until the liner becomes deformably plastic, and placed on the head of a user, permitting custom-fitting of the helmet system that conforms to the contours of the user's head. When cured by cooling, the liner assumes a rigid construction that, by custom-fitting, repeatably aligns the helmet shell to the head of the user, and is crushable to absorb energy.

Form-fitting, energy-absorbing material and method for making the same

A display apparatus for use with headgear, includes in combination visor means adapted to attach to the headgear and having a visor viewing area segment positioned in the line-of-sight of a wearer of the headgear. Optical display generating means are adapted to be attached to the headgear. Parabolic mirror means are interposed in the optical path from the optical display generating means to the visor viewing area segment. Fold mirror means, including at least one fold mirror positioned to receive the image from the parabolic mirror means for directing the image to the visor viewing area segment, is provided, whereby the size and curvature of the visor can be minimized without affecting transmission of the image.

Compact helmet mounted display

A visor for mounting on a helmet adapted to be worn by an individual, includes a substantially transparent visor having an inner concave surface, and, with reference to an orthogonal, right-handed xyz Cartesian coordinate system of spatial reference having its origin located on the inner concave surface and its z-axis parallel to the line of sight of the individual wearing the helmet, the inner concave surface being defined by a cross-section of the visor in the x-axis of reference, which is symmetrical about both the origin and the y-z plane of reference, having one-half of the cross-section of the visor in the x-axis of reference being a first circular segment containing the origin at one end and connected to its opposite end to one end of a first paraboloid segment which is connected at its opposite end to one end of an elliptic segment whose opposite end forms a side boundary of the visor, and by a cross-section of the visor in the y-axis of reference having a second circular segment, one end of which forms an upper boundary of the visor and an opposite end connected to one end of a third circular segment having its opposite end connected to one end of a second paraboloid segment whose opposite end forms a lower boundary of the visor.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Andrew T Tirums