Individual protective device, in particular against nbc attacks

• US 20020134381A1
• Filed: 02/19/2002
• Published: 09/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intertechnique SA (Safran SA)
• Original Assignee: Intertechnique SA (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Lemasson, Dominique, Bonhomme, Jean-Philippe, Fauveau, Jean-Claude
• Application Number:
  US09/979,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20020134381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/201.24
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 18/084 Means for fastening gas-masks to heads or helmets

Abstract

A device for breathing and possibly providing NBC protection, the device comprising a mouth-and-nose mask with a breathing gas admission and a breathe-out outlet provided with a breathe-out check valve and with a breathing gas coupling piece carried by an element which is distinct from the mask and worn directly on the head. The coupling piece includes a passage that is connectable in airtight manner to the mouth-and-nose mask feed and a lateral pipe (34) taking the connection with the breathing gas feed (32) rearwards.

Claims

1. A device for breathing and possibly for providing NBC protection, the device having a mouth-and-nose mask with a breathing gas admission and a breathe-out outlet provided with a breathe-out check valve and with a breathing gas coupling piece carried by an element which is distinct from the mask and worn directly on the head,

the device being characterized in that the coupling piece includes a passage that is connectable in leaktight manner to the mouth-and-nose mask feed and a lateral pipe (34) taking the connection with the breathing gas feed (32) rearwards.

2. Equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the connection with the outside includes a check valve.

3. Equipment according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the element distinct from the mask is constituted by a hoop provided with airtight coupling means that are permanent or releasable for closing and opening in an NBC protection hood that leaves the eyes, the nose, and the mouth disengaged.

4. Equipment according to claim 1, 2, or 3, characterized in that the breathe-out connection also includes a lateral pipe taking the connection rearwards.

5. Equipment according to any preceding claim, characterized in that it further comprises a face cover constituting a one-piece assembly with a mouth-and-nose mask provided with a demand regulator or connected thereto.

6. Equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the coupling piece is designed to be connected by a hose (32) to a seat regulator delivering a breathing mixture, and in that a fraction of said mixture is diverted into the face cover in order to ventilate it.

7. A device for protecting an individual, the device comprising a hoop secured to a hood (42) or a helmet, and optionally a face cover provided with fastenings enabling it to be pressed in airtight manner against the hoop, said hoop being provided with a hose for feeding breathing gas to the face cover or directly to a mouth-and-nose mask contained in the face cover or connectable thereto, the device being characterized in that an element worn directly on the head is provided with a duct connecting a socket for receiving an inlet in the face cover or the mouth-and-nose mask to a lateral coupling for supplying breathing gas and placed behind said socket.

8. A device according to claim 7, characterized in that said element also carries a socket for receiving a breathe-out air outlet leading to a lateral exhaust provided with a breathe-out valve.

9. A device according to claim 7 or claim 8, characterized in that a coupling piece is provided on the hoop having, on either side of a midplane, two superposed openings that are closable independently of each other, that communicate with each other and with a respective passage, one of the passages communicating with the feed and the other with the exhaust, the openings at one of the levels corresponding to the outlet from the face cover or the mask and the openings at the other level corresponding to the feed for the face cover or the mask.

10. A device according to claim 7, characterized in that with the hoop secured to a helmet, said feed pipe is connected firstly to a seat regulator and secondly directly to the mask.

11. A device according to claim 7 without an oxygen feed, the device being characterized in that the breathing gas feed, where the breathing gas is constituted by filtered air provided by a blower, is connected to switch means enabling it to be delivered either to the mouth-and-nose mask or to the face cover and via the face cover to the mask.