Patents Assigned to Whitewater Research & Safety Institute
  • Protective headgear for whitewater use
    Patent number: 6854133
    Abstract: Protective headgear configured for protection of a portion of a wearer's head, including a resilient outer shell, a layered composite liner including a multiplicity of deformable layers, each layer having a different stiffness than adjacent layers, and wherein a layer has a higher stiffness than that of adjacent layers on either side, and a retention system configured to resist upward/rearward rotation of the headgear with respect to the wearer's head to expose the forehead, due to hydrodynamic or aerodynamic forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Whitewater Research and Safety Institute
    Inventors: Chang Lee, Michael C. Cordeiro, Andrew F. Conn
  • Protective headgear for whitewater use
    Publication number: 20030221245
    Abstract: Protective headgear configured for protection of a portion of a wearer's head, including a resilient outer shell, a layered composite liner including a multiplicity of deformable layers, each layer having a different stiffness than adjacent layers, and wherein a layer has a higher stiffness than that of adjacent layers on either side, and a retention system configured to resist upward/rearward rotation of the headgear with respect to the wearer's head to expose the forehead, due to hydrodynamic or aerodynamic forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: Whitewater Research & Safety Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Lee, Michael C. Cordeiro, Andrew F. Conn
  • Whitewater helmet
    Patent number: D541480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Whitewater Research & Safety Institute
    Inventor: Nicholas B. Turner