Plastic helmet mounting assembly

Abstract

A helmet mounting assembly for attaching helmet accessories to a helmet, comprising a front-to-back mounting unit comprising at least one rail, grip of connector configured for connecting at least one helmet accessory to the first mounting unit; and at least one elastic friction pad attached to a bottom side of the front-to-back mounting unit; and at least two clipping elements for attaching a front and back edges of the front-to-back mounting unit to a front and back edge of the helmet, respectively, and pulling front-to-back mounting unit forcefully onto the helmet to squeeze the pad between the mounting unit and the helmet.

1 . A helmet mounting assembly for attaching helmet accessories to a helmet, comprising:
 a front-to-back mounting unit comprising at least one rail, grip or connector configured for connecting at least one helmet accessory to the first mounting unit;   at least one elastic friction pads attached to a bottom side of the front-to-back mounting unit; and   at least one clipping elements for attaching a front and back edges of the front-to-back mounting unit to a front and back edges of the helmet, respectively, and pulling the front-to-back mounting unit forcefully onto the helmet to squeeze the pad between the mounting unit and the helmet.   
     
     
         2 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the front-to-back mounting unit comprises on its bottom side a plurality of ribs or pits, and wherein the elastic friction pad comprises a protrusion designed in size and shape to fit snuggly between the ribs or in the pits of the mounting unit. 
     
     
         3 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one elastic pads of the front-to-back mounting unit are attached to the mounting unit by adhesive or glue material. 
     
     
         4 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , wherein a height of the pad is between 0.01 and 100 millimeter. 
     
     
         5 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the pad has a varying height along its length or width. 
     
     
         6 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one pad, when attached to the bottom side of the mounting unit, leaves uncovered between 0.5 and 10 centimeters. 
     
     
         7 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 1 , comprising a side-to-side mounting unit configured to be placed and connected across the front-to-back mounting unit. 
     
     
         8 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit is a partial side-to-side mounting unit, which doesn't reach the side edges of the helmet when connected to the front-to-back mounting unit and the helmet. 
     
     
         9 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit is crossed by the back-to-front mounting unit in the middle of the side-to-side unit. 
     
     
         10 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein on each side of the front-to-back mounting unit, the side-to-side mounting unit has a length of between 1 and 5 centimeters, when connected onto the surface of the helmet. 
     
     
         11 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein on each side of the front-to-back mounting unit, the side-to-side mounting unit has a length of between 5 and 15 centimeters, when connected onto the surface of the helmet. 
     
     
         12 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein on each side of the front-to-back mounting unit, the side-to-side mounting unit has a length of between 15 and 45 centimeters, when connected onto the surface of the helmet. 
     
     
         13 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit is directly attached to the front-to-back mounting unit and indirectly attached to the helmet via the front-to-back mounting unit. 
     
     
         14 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit and the front-to-back mounting unit comprise matching connection surfaces, the matching connection surfaces have matching shapes that facilitate positioning of the side-to-side mounting unit in a determined angle across the front-to-back mounting unit and prevent horizontal motion of the side-to-side mounting unit relative to the front-to-back mounting unit, when placed one on top of and across the other. 
     
     
         15 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit and the front-to-back mounting unit comprise matching connection surfaces, each comprising at least one hole in matching positions that coincide with each other when the side-to-side mounting unit is positioned across the front-to-back mounting unit with the connection surfaces one on top of the other. 
     
     
         16 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit comprises at least one elastic friction pads attached to a bottom side of the side-to-side mounting unit. 
     
     
         17 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 16 , wherein the at least one elastic pad of the side-to-side mounting unit comprises at least one protrusion designed in size and shape to fit snuggly between corresponding ribs or into a pit on the bottom side of the side-to-side mounting unit. 
     
     
         18 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 16 , wherein the at least one elastic pads of the side-to-side mounting unit are attached to the mounting unit by adhesive or glue material. 
     
     
         19 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the height of the at least one elastic pad of the side-to-side mounting unit is between about 0.01 and 100 millimeter and is thicker towards the edges of the side-to-side mounting unit than towards the middle of side-to-side mounting unit. 
     
     
         20 . The helmet mounting assembly of  claim 7 , wherein the side-to-side mounting unit is a full side-to-side mounting unit, reaching side edges of the helmet when connected to the front-to-back mounting unit and adapted to be connected to the side edges of the helmet by side clipping elements.