Impact indicator for athletic helmets
CA 2250541 A1 · Owner: Rush, Gus A. Iii · Inventors: Rush, Gus A. Iii
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A helmet includes an outer shell and an inner liner. The inner liner includes a visual indicator to indicate when the helmet has experienced an impact of sufficient force to permanently deform a portion of the inner liner. The visual indicator thus indicates when the helmet no longer offers it's peak level of protection to the wearer and should be repaired or replaced.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 28, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 28, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 28, 2020.
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Sources & verification
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