Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Reexamination Certificate
2002-02-08
2004-05-11
Lindsey, Rodney M. (Department: 3765)
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
C002S422000, C224S181000, C455S575200, C381S376000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06732381
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to sports helmets and more particularly pertains to a new sports helmet for providing a user with a protective sports helmet that would include features such as an mp3 player, a radio, and a cellular telephone.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of sports helmets is known in the prior art. More specifically, sports helmets heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,009,563; 6,157,298; 5,953,434; 5,689,558; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 401,018; U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,061,306; and 4,607,395.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new sports helmet. The inventive device includes a body member that is adapted for receiving a portion of the head of the user. The body member is adapted for protecting the head of the user from impacts. A strap assembly is coupled to the body member. The strap assembly is adapted for extending around a chin of the user for securing the body member to the head of the user. A communication assembly is coupled within the body member. The communication assembly is adapted for providing audio signals to the user when the body member is positioned on the head of the user.
In these respects, the sports helmet according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a user with a protective sports helmet that would include features such as an mp3 player, a radio, and a cellular telephone.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of sports helmets now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new sports helmet construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a user with a protective sports helmet that would include features such as an mp3 player, a radio, and a cellular telephone.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new sports helmet apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the sports helmets mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new sports helmet which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art sports helmets, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a body member that is adapted for receiving a portion of the head of the user. The body member is adapted for protecting the head of the user from impacts. A strap assembly is coupled to the body member. The strap assembly is adapted for extending around a chin of the user for securing the body member to the head of the user. A communication assembly is coupled within the body member. The communication assembly is adapted for providing audio signals to the user when the body member is positioned on the head of the user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new sports helmet apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the sports helmets mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new sports helmet which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art sports helmets, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new sports helmet, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new sports helmet, which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such sports helmet economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet, which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet for providing a user with a protective sports helmet that would include features such as an mp3 player, a radio, and a cellular telephone.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet, which includes a body member that is adapted for receiving a portion of the head of the user. The body member is adapted for protecting the head of the user from impacts. A strap assembly is coupled to the body member. The strap assembly is adapted for extending around a chin of the user for securing the body member to the head of the user. A communication assembly is coupled within the body member. The communication assembly is adapted for providing audio signals to the user when the body member is positioned on the head of the user.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet that would eliminate the need to carry a separate sound system and wear a pair of loose headphones. The present invention would also prevent the user from forgetting to take their sound system along when he goes biking or skating.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new sports helmet that would prevent the user from dropping an expensive sound system.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
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