Kathleen A Novak

US Patent:

8039078, Oct 18, 2011

Filed:

Aug 25, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/211315

Inventors:

Kathleen M. Novak - Cleveland OH, US

Assignee:

Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

B32B 3/00

US Classification:

428 76, 2412, 2418, 428 67, 428 68, 428 71, 428 98, 428138, 4283044, 4284111

Abstract:

An energy-absorbing pad structure includes an energy-absorbing pad that is encapsulated by a polymeric film. The polymeric film is sufficiently air-permeable to permit air to escape during rapid compression of the pad structure, such as from a high-speed dynamic impact, but nonetheless is water resistant under ordinary conditions. It is desirable that the polymeric film is made from an elastic polymer. The air-permeability can be provided from a series of perforations such that the film's elastic quality tends to contract the perforations thereby impeding the progress of water through them under normal conditions. The energy-absorbing pad can be a semi-rigid viscoelastic foam.

US Patent:

8399085, Mar 19, 2013

Filed:

Sep 16, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/234876

Inventors:

Kathleen M. Novak - Cleveland OH, US

Assignee:

Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

B32B 3/00

US Classification:

428 76, 2412, 2418, 428 67, 428 68, 428 71, 428 98, 428138, 4283044, 4284111

Abstract:

An energy-absorbing pad structure includes an energy-absorbing pad that is encapsulated by a polymeric film. The polymeric film is sufficiently air-permeable to permit air to escape during rapid compression of the pad structure, such as from a high-speed dynamic impact, but nonetheless is water resistant under ordinary conditions. It is desirable that the polymeric film is made from an elastic polymer. The air-permeability can be provided from a series of perforations such that the film's elastic quality tends to contract the perforations thereby impeding the progress of water through them under normal conditions. The energy-absorbing pad can be a semi-rigid viscoelastic foam.

US Patent:

20040139531, Jul 22, 2004

Filed:

Dec 4, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/727725

Inventors:

Dan Moore - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Kathleen Novak - Cleveland OH, US

International Classification:

A42B003/00

US Classification:

002/411000, 002/410000

Abstract:

A helmet that is custom-fitted to a wearer's head, and a method of making the helmet, are provided. The method includes the steps of positioning a shape-forming means over the wearer's head, and hardening the shape-forming means to provide a hardened headform that substantially conforms to the shape of the wearer's head. The shape-forming means can be a stretchable beanie cap that is coated or impregnated with a curable polymeric material, a heat-softenable plastic sheet, or a strip or plurality of strips of curable tape that are wrapped about the wearer's head to provide a headwrap. Once the hardened headform has been made, it can be used to cast a hardened plaster fixture for use as the “male” member in a mold for casting an energy absorbing foam liner for a helmet which has an inner surface substantially conforming to the shape of the wearer's head. Alternatively, the hardened headform can itself be used as the “male” member of the liner casting mold.

US Patent:

20050050617, Mar 10, 2005

Filed:

Sep 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/933580

Inventors:

Dan Moore - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Kathleen Novak - Cleveland OH, US

International Classification:

A42B001/06
A42B003/00

US Classification:

002410000

Abstract:

A helmet that is custom-fitted to a wearer's head, and methods of making the helmet, are provided A method includes the steps of positioning a shape-forming means over the wearer's head, and hardening the shape-forming means to provide a hardened headform that substantially conforms to the shape of the wearer's head. The shape-forming means can be a stretchable beanie cap that is coated or impregnated with a curable polymeric material, a heat-softenable plastic sheet, or a strip or plurality of strips of curable tape that are wrapped about the wearer's head to provide a headwrap. Once the hardened headform has been made, it can be used to cast a hardened plaster fixture for use as the “male” member in a mold for casting an energy absorbing foam liner for a helmet which has an inner surface substantially conforming to the shape of the wearer's head. Alternatively, the hardened headform can itself be used as the “male” member of the liner casting mold. In a further alternative, the hardened headform can be digitized to produce computer-readable data from which a suitable machine, such as a CNC router, can machine a pre-made energy absorbing liner “blank” so as to provide an inner surface thereof having a complementary contour to the wearer's head.

US Patent:

20060101559, May 18, 2006

Filed:

Oct 20, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/255415

Inventors:

Dan Moore - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Kathleen Novak - Cleveland OH, US

International Classification:

A42B 1/06

US Classification:

002410000, 002411000

Abstract:

A helmet liner that is custom-fitted to a wearer's head, and methods of making the liner, are provided. To make the liner, scanning equipment directly scans the person's head to generate computer-readable data containing a surface map of the head. This data then is used by suitable machining equipment to machine a custom-fitted liner from a universal liner blank, whose resulting convex surface will substantially conform to the shape and contour of the person's head. The scanning equipment desirably is or includes one or a plurality of lasers. A mobile platform including both the scanning and the machining equipment also is provided.