Ski goggles with lightining device

• US 20060007671A1
• Filed: 08/24/2004
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Lavoie
• Original Assignee: David Lavoie
• Inventors: Lavoie, David
• Application Number:
  US10/924,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20060007671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/103
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/029 Additional functions or features, e.g. protection for other parts of the face such as ears, nose or mouth; Screen wipers or cleaning devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/04 Illuminating means

Abstract

Ski goggles were always used to protect skiers eyes, to improve their sight and to add an element of esthetism to the skier'"'"'s apparel. Ski goggles are often used during the winter season. As it is known, winter days are usually shorter, therefore it gets dark outside much earlier. This is why in the present invention, the ski goggles are provided with L.E.D. (light emitting diode) which optimizes the vision of the skier enormously. From now on, ski goggles are not passive anymore, they become active and modify the environment of its user. They light up all, the obstacles that are in front of skier. Not only he sees better the other skiers who surround him, but they also noticed his presence right away and that causes to avoid painful collisions and falls. Moreover, with the multitude of lights and colors available, there are numbers of ways of placing them on the goggles; that accentuates the differences between the clothes of the skiers. Even within a kilometer, it is possible for you to distinguish your friend from other skiers. The concept of goggles explained here is made up of a wire which has a function of bringing the electricity of the battery to the goggles. This wire can also be used as a bond between the coat of the skier and the goggles, therefore they are never out of reach of the skier.

Claims

1. Ski goggles with lightning device made up with:

(Those goggles are known as ski goggles, but they are used in several other sports;

snowboarding, snowmobile, paint-ball . . . Sometimes, goggles include parts that turn them into masks.)

(a) some elements usually used in a pair of goggles of this type;

a mounting, a lens and an elastic band;

(b) one or more sources of light of all kinds, all the colors, all twinkling forms or not, covered with retractable transparent decorative objects or not, placed anywhere on the goggles or maintained around this one by one or more stems, tubes or springs;

(c) one or more sources of electricity of any kind and of all intensities that can be made to be more or less close to the aforementioned goggles, and can be connected with the lights with a wire provided with a switch, a connector and a resistance.