Patent ID: 8997317
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A62B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fall protection connector for connecting a strap to a load-fastening point for a person to be protected against falling, wherein the fall protection connector comprises: a tubular band having ends in which respective connecting load suspension elements are attached, wherein a first fall damping element, in the form of a length-variable element, is arranged in the tubular band, wherein the tubular band includes an elastic material, said first fall damping element connected at each end to said load suspension element; and a second fall damping element not within, nor in direct contact with, said tubular band, and in an initial unextended position which, in the event of a fall becomes extendable, reducing the forces acting on a person when the fall is arrested, said second fall damping element attached on one end to at least one of the connecting load suspension elements of the fall protection connector, said second fall damping element having at an opposite end thereof, a connecting element.