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Tate Technology, LLCTate Technology is a sports-safety technology licensing company developing impact-mitigation concepts for helmets, protective equipment, and footwear. Its work includes structural impact-energy dissipation, magnetic helmet suspension, fluid-based impact mitigation, and testing of protective equipment.
Tate Technology is a sports-safety technology licensing company developing impact-mitigation concepts for helmets, protective equipment, and footwear. Its work includes structural impact-energy dissipation, magnetic helmet suspension, fluid-based impact mitigation, and testing of protective equipment.
Publication Number
US-11812808-B2
Publication Date
2023-11-14
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Abstract
A helmet configured to be worn by a wearer that includes an outer shell, an inner liner positioned inside the outer shell, a data collection assembly that includes a first data collection member for measuring impact data, and a second data collection member for measuring vital signs data.
Core Innovation
The impact monitoring system includes a helmet with an outer shell and an inner liner containing a pocket and bracket recess, and a data collection assembly that measures impact data and vital signs data. The assembly is releasably received in the recess, with its housing inner surface exposed to the liner interior, and communicates with a mobile electronic device that generates threshold-based impact and vital-signs safety alerts.
The system compares current vital signs data with previously collected resting vital signs data and generates a vital signs safety alert when their difference reaches a predetermined threshold. The description emphasizes measuring impact at or near compression and using impact and biometric data to support timely assessment of potential injury. The background section is not included in the partial content; therefore, the problem being solved is not explicitly described in patent.
Claims Coverage
The claim coverage includes two inventive features across two independent claims, claims 1 and 8, covering a helmet-based system and a football-helmet system, respectively, with impact and vital-signs data collection and threshold-based safety alerts.
Helmet-based impact and vital-signs monitoring
Claim 1 recites a helmet with an inner-liner pocket containing a bracket recess and a releasably received housing for impact and vital-signs data collection members. The housing inner surface is exposed to the liner interior, and its thickness is less than the pad thickness. A mobile electronic device generates an impact safety alert when impact data reaches a predetermined threshold and a vital signs safety alert when the difference between current and previously collected resting vital signs data reaches a predetermined threshold.
Football-helmet impact and vital-signs monitoring
Claim 8 recites a football helmet with an inner-liner pocket and bracket recess that releasably receives a housing containing impact and current vital-signs data collection members. The housing inner surface is exposed to the liner interior, and its thickness is less than the pad thickness. A mobile electronic device generates impact and vital signs safety alerts when the respective predetermined thresholds are met.
Both independent claims cover a helmet-integrated, releasable data collection assembly that measures impact and vital signs, together with mobile-device alerts based on impact thresholds and changes from resting vital signs data. Claim 1 recites a helmet generally, while claim 8 specifies a football helmet.
Stated Advantages
Using impact and biometric data supports timely assessment of potential injury.
Documented Applications
Monitoring impact and vital signs of a helmet wearer, including a football helmet wearer, and generating safety alerts through a mobile electronic device.
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