Patent ID: 8549671

Claim:
A helmet, comprising: an outer and inner protective layer, the protective layers configured to cover at least a portion of a user's head; a helmet back plate coupled to the inner protective layer, the helmet back plate comprising a helmet-back-plate riser having a ramped side and an embedded magnetic material; and a cheek pad comprising a padding layer and a pad back plate, the pad back plate comprising a pad-back-plate riser having a ramped side and an embedded magnetic material corresponding to the ramped side and the embedded magnetic material of the helmet-back-plate riser; wherein the pad-back-plate riser is designed to: magnetically couple to the helmet-back-plate riser and self-center with the helmet-back-plate riser when coupled to the helmet-back-plate riser; wherein the ramped side of the pad-back-plate riser is designed to decouple the pad-back-plate riser from the helmet-back-plate riser when the cheek pad is pulled in a direction toward a bottom helmet opening at an angle steeper than a ramp angle of the ramped side of the helmet-back-plate riser; and wherein the cheek pad is designed to be removed from the inner protective layer of the helmet while the protective layers cover at least the portion of the user's head.