Patent Application
20180339179
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The present invention particularly relates to the technical field of backpack body controlling the clutching of an energy absorption band.
There are prior art patents, including Taiwan Pat. No. 105212408-“Parallel Falling Protection Buffer Device,” Taiwan Pat. No. 105204339-“Compensated Falling Protection Buffer Device,” and etc. However, because the thickness of the folded energy absorption band cannot be reduced, when the device is carried on the back of the user, it not only looks odd, but also causes interference and improper bumping sometimes when the user is working at heights in a limited space, which somehow renders the user's falling or remains the risk of losing the balance.
Therefore, there is a U.S. patent application, application Ser. No. 13/826,876 “Energy Absorber Assembly and Components Thereof” invented for dealing with the above drawbacks. It discloses a connector configured to operatively connect to a safety harness, a restricting structure arranged on the connector, a bracket coupled with the restricting structure, and an upside down V-shaped energy absorption band arranged between the connector and the bracket, so that the restricting structure can upwardly assemble the bracket and the energy absorption band on the connector on the back of the safety harness. T herefore, when the user is moving, the thickness reduced energy absorption band will less likely to interfere his/her movement. Besides, when the user accidentally falls, the restricting structure will break first and release the bracket. Then the tearing of the energy absorption band will absorb the falling impact and safely hang the user in the air.
Unfortunately, because this prior art utilizes a restricting structure to couple the bracket with the connector, it has to firstly drill holes on the bracket and connector, so as to arrange the restricting structure with these holes. Such structural arrangement further has drawbacks including high processing cost, long assembling time, poor appearance, and etc.
Accordingly, the inventor of the present invention has elaborately conducted his research and development and eventually comes up with the present invention that is able to improve on the drawbacks of the prior arts.
The present invention provides a buffering backpack device for falling protection, comprising:
a backpack body, having and defining an accommodation chamber, wherein the accommodation chamber has an opening on a top thereof for the communication of the inside and outside thereof;
an energy absorption band arranged in the accommodation chamber and formed by a first layer and a second layer coincidingly bound with each other, wherein a top end of the first layer has a first connecting portion extended therefrom, wherein a top end of the second layer has a second connecting portion extended therefrom, wherein the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion divergently protrude from the backpack body via the opening, wherein the first connecting portion is for coupling with a safety harness, wherein the second connecting portion is for coupling with an anti-falling device; and
a restricting structure, controlling and positioning the first layer and the second layer of the energy absorption band in the accommodation chamber, wherein when the user falls, the restricting structure will release the first layer and the second layer, such that the first layer and the second layer will leave the accommodation chamber via the opening for anti-falling buffering.
Accordingly, the present invention utilizes the restricting structure to accommodate the energy absorption band in the backpack body, so as to achieve a better overall appearance. It has actual improvement and provides a more economically efficient overall arrangement than the prior art, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/826,876.
Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
The following description is disclosed to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. Preferred embodiments are provided in the following description only as examples and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the following description would be applied to other embodiments, alternatives, modifications, equivalents, and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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The backpack body 10, referring to
The energy absorption band 20, referring to
The restricting structure is formed of a first arrangement 30 and a second arrangement 40 thereof. The first arrangement 30 attaches and affixes the first connecting portion 23 and the backpack body 10. The first arrangement 30 can be a tie, wherein, referring to
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According to the above structure and descriptions of the embodiment, the present invention comprises the following advantages:
First, the present invention utilizes the first arrangement 30 and the second arrangement 40 of the restricting structure to accommodate the energy absorption band 20 in the backpack body 10, so as to provide a better appearance. Besides, the insertion portions 16 of the backpack body 10 can certainly greatly reduce the folding thickness of the energy absorption band 20, so that interference and improper bumping are less likely to occur when the user is working in a limited space, that decreases the risk of the user's falling or imbalance.
Second, the overall structure of the present invention can be easily finished by just arranging the second arrangement 40 on the top edge of the energy absorption band 20 before arranging into the backpack body 10 and coordinating with the arranging of the first arrangement 30, which is indeed more economically efficient than the prior art of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/826,876.
In short, the present invention makes a complete breakthrough on the overall structural features of the prior art of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/826,876 and provides a new structure that is different from prior art, which is non-obvious and is qualify for patent application. However, the above descriptions are only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but not intend to be used to confine the scope of embodying the present invention, which means all equivalent varieties and modifications based on the appended claims of the present invention are within the scope of the present invention.
One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
