Patent ID: 9693395
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A61F,H05B

Claim:
1. An anti-fog, interchangeable-lens goggle adapted for use with a battery comprising: a semi-flexible and resilient body having first and second ends, a flexible posterior portion adapted for engaging a user's face adjacent user's eyes and a bridge of a user's nose, and a semi-rigid anterior portion; a semi-flexible and resilient lens having first and second ends and having an anti-fog heating element thereon, said lens adapted for engaging the semi-rigid anterior portion of said body a distance from user's eyes so as to provide a shield to the eyes; an engagement mechanism comprising a plurality of semi-rigid loops, each said loop formed and defining a hole on each end of said lens, and a corresponding post on each end of said body, each loop and hole for releasably interconnecting said lens and said body upon flexing at least one of said lens and said body so as to position each loop around the corresponding post on each one of the first and second ends of said body; an interconnecting mechanism depending from said body adapted for detachably interconnecting the heating element of said lens and the battery, said interconnecting mechanism operable with said engagement mechanism such that interconnecting the heating element of said lens with the battery also reinforces interconnecting of said lens with the semi-rigid anterior portion of said body, and such that disconnecting the heating element and the battery also releases said lens for disengagement from the semi-rigid anterior portion of said body, wherein said interconnecting mechanism adapted for detachably interconnecting the heating element of said lens and the battery further comprises an electrical contact on at least one of the loops on one of the first and second ends of said lens and a corresponding electrical contact on the post corresponding with the at least one of the loops, wherein each loop is operable to a first position achieved by flexing at least one of said lens and said body to allow positioning of the loop around a corresponding post to bias a portion of the lens against said body, thus reinforcing attachment of said lens on said body and to interconnect the heating element of said lens and the battery, each loop also operable to a second position achieved by flexing at least one of said lens and said body to allow disconnecting of the loop from the corresponding post to release said lens for removal from said body and to disconnect the heating element of said lens from the battery; and a strap having first and second ends, the first end of said strap interconnected with the first end of said body, and the second end of said strap interconnected with the second end of said body, adapted for holding the goggle on a user's head.