Patent ID: 9622533
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A41D,A42B

Claim:
1. A helmet-and-padding assembly, comprising: a rigid shell ( a padding system ( a front pad ( a crown pad ( a pair of side pads ( a back pad ( each pad being made of thermoplastic urethane, and comprising: a sheet ( a plurality of spaced, impact-absorbing projections ( a plurality of flat support ribs ( wherein at least some of the impact-absorbing projections ( wherein the padding system ( wherein the rigidity is the greatest at a region of the impact-absorbing unit which is arranged proximate to a bottom region of the front portion of the inner surface of the helmet, wherein the rigidity is least at a region of the impact-absorbing unit which is arranged proximate to the crown portion of the inner surface of the helmet, wherein the height and number of the plurality of flat support ribs ( wherein, at a region of the impact-absorbing unit which is arranged proximate to an upper region of the front portion of the inner surface of the helmet, the rigidity is less than the rigidity at the region of the impact-absorbing unit which is arranged proximate to a bottom region of the front portion of the inner surface of the helmet and greater than the rigidity at the region of the impact-absorbing unit which is arranged proximate to the crown portion of the inner surface of the helmet, wherein the variable rigidity is due at least in part to a variation in the plurality of flat support ribs ( wherein the side pads (