IP Library Granted Patent US 12685361
Granted Patent B2
US 12685361 · App. 19/059,714 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Safety helmet

Inventor: Edwin Busch (Guetersloh, DE)
Assignee: Busch PROtective Germany GmbH & Co. KG
A42B3/127
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Patent No.
US 12685361
App. No.
19/059,714
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A safety helmet including a helmet shell and a carrying frame. The carrying frame including an annular fastening crown. Wherein the fastening crown is one of fixed to the interior of the helmet shell or is configured as a component of the interior of the helmet shell and the carrying frame includes at least one stiffened leg element extending free-standing from the fastening crown in a direction of a helmet shell lower edge of the safety helmet.

Claims (28)

1 . A safety helmet comprising:

a helmet shell having an upper dome section and a lower edge extending from the upper dome section; and a carrying frame comprising an annular fastening crown;

wherein the fastening crown is one of fixed to the interior of the upper dome section of the helmet shell or is configured fixed to the upper dome section of the helmet shell as a component of the interior of the upper dome section of the helmet shell; and

the carrying frame comprises at least one stiffened leg element extending free-standing from the fastening crown in a direction of a helmet shell toward the lower edge of the safety helmet, wherein a fixed end of the at least one stiffened leg element is fixed to a portion of the fastening crown that is fixed to the upper dome section of the helmet and a free end of the at least one stiffened leg element extends toward the lower edge;

the free end is unattached to the helmet shell; and

the free end of the at least one stiffened leg element comprises a holder configured to fix a helmet accessory.

2 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the fastening crown is fixed directly to a textile layer, wherein the textile layer is fixed to the interior of the helmet shell.

3 . The safety helmet according to claim 2 , wherein the fastening crown is sewn onto the textile layer.

4 . The safety helmet according to claim 2 , wherein the textile layer is pressed into the interior of the helmet shell.

5 . The safety helmet according claim 1 , further comprising a shock-absorbing pad fixed to the at least one stiffened leg element.

6 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one stiffened leg element comprises a holder configured to fix a helmet accessory by one or more of a form fit, latching and clamping.

7 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one stiffened leg element comprises at least two stiffened leg elements, wherein the at least two stiffened leg elements stretch a flexible head contact element between them, wherein the flexible head contact element is arranged between the fastening crown and the helmet shell lower edge.

8 . The safety helmet according to claim 7 , wherein the flexible head contact element is a central inner net.

9 . The safety helmet according to claim 7 , wherein the fastening crown is arranged offset from the head contact element such that the fastening crown does not directly touch the head contact element.

10 . The safety helmet according to claim 7 , wherein

the at least two stiffened leg elements each have a fastening point at which the head contact element is fastened to the at least two stiffened leg elements,

the fastening point is arranged below the fastening crown, and

the fastening point is arranged in the at least two stiffened leg elements.

11 . The safety helmet according to claim 10 , wherein the fastening point is arranged a lower half of the at least two stiffened leg elements.

12 . The safety helmet according to claim 10 , wherein at least one of the at least two stiffened leg elements has a plurality of fastening points which are arranged one behind the other along a longitudinal direction of the leg element.

13 . The safety helmet according to claim 10 , wherein the head contact element is fixed exclusively to the fastening points of the at least two stiffened leg elements.

14 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one stiffened leg element has a flat shape, a length of the at least one stiffened leg element is greater than a width of the at least one stiffened leg element, and the width is greater than a thickness of the at least one stiffened leg element.

15 . The safety helmet according to claim 14 , wherein the width is at least ten times as large as the thickness of the at least one stiffened leg element.

16 . The safety helmet according to claim 14 , wherein the at least one stiffened leg element is rigid in the direction of the width and has greater flexibility in the direction of the thickness than in the direction of the width.

17 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one stiffened leg element is curved, wherein a curvature of the leg element follows a curvature of the helmet shell.

18 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein the fastening crown is fixed, exclusively, to one of an upper hemisphere third or an upper hemisphere quarter of the helmet shell.

19 . The safety helmet according to claim 1 , wherein one or more of the at least one stiffened leg element, and the fastening crown comprises a pressed plastic.

20 . The safety helmet according to claim 19 , wherein the pressed plastic is a polypropylene fabric pressed into a flat matrix.