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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2011
Robert Erb, Plandome, NY (US);
Raymond J. Drake, Jr., Salem, IL (US);
Cortney Warmouth, Edwardsville, IL (US);
Louis Anthony Vanhoutin, Luka, IL (US);
Vincent R. Long, St. Peters, MO (US);
Robert Erb, Plandome, NY (US);
Raymond J. Drake, Jr., Salem, IL (US);
Cortney Warmouth, Edwardsville, IL (US);
Louis Anthony VanHoutin, Luka, IL (US);
Vincent R. Long, St. Peters, MO (US);
Kranos IP Corporation, Litchfield, IL (US);
Abstract
A helmet has a ventilated shell, ventilated padding and a ventilated liner of plural cells mounted to the padding for engaging a wearer's head. The liner has top and bottom flexible sheets fused around their perimeter, the bottom sheet having plural round or oval toroidal cells and plural round or oval closed cells, the openings in the toroidal cells extending through the top sheet. Foam at least partly fills each cell. Cells under a crown of the shell are connected in a first circuit with a valve for inflating these cells and a other cells under temporal and occipital portions of the shell are connected in a second inflation circuit with a valve for inflating the second plurality of the cells. Cells under the frontal portion not being inflatable and being substantially filled with foam padding.