The Kodiak brush does not cause words when the football helmet designs. “Today, the most helmets are designed to win the laboratory tests and protect the players in the field,” he said. Brush, MIT Training Mechanical Engineer and former Middle Linebacker, Carlsbad, California Carlsbad is a manufacturing engineering manager Light helmet. Its latest creation, only 3.5 pounds, the lightest and still the highest security score registered by Virginia Tech’s independent casuality test laboratory is a helmet.
Apache is a direct problem for decades for decades to ensure the safety of football helmets. It is not only a lightweight, brush claims, but a player-first philosophy that prioritizes real world performance over 3D printing and obsolete assumptions, which are easier to use. And the number of common concussions in the NFL 17% decreased There are many things to do in 2024.
To revolutionize the helmet design, the brush’s journey combines directly with its core. As a medium linebacker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has never been the largest or fastest player in the field, he said. “I could be very rarely. One of my favorite work has been introduced in the space, and” How do you think a little like me? ‘ ‘The helmet was an extension of a vehicle trusted by the protection and performance. But it was not perfect. “The pain points I live with helmet are personal,” he says.
After completing the MIT and working in the design of the accident and product design, it was combined with a mission with a mission with a mission with a mission to create a helmet solving the borders of security technology.
Weight myth
The most striking feature of Apache is his weight or absence. In 3.5 pound, 40% lighter than a large number of competition helics. This is not just about comfort; This is about physics. “The low helmet mass means energy that needs to be eased,” he says. “It also reduces the neck fatigue that allows players to control the heads for a better and longer term.”
Although people beat the sedations in the sediments of the SUVs, it tells me that your head is not a machine. Body 10% of your crowd, attached to a neck berry to be busy. Therefore, it is not a good idea to add weight. Is less better.
This philosophy opposes a industrial trend to add weight to helmets to improve performance in laboratory tests. As used by Virginia Tech and NFL, the standardized testing protocols focus on static head forms with sarculum or pneumatic rams. More heavy helmets absorb more energy than the masses because these tests give better results. “(This) Laboratory test game,” he says.
However, the players are not static, more dynamically, the heavier helmets can hurt more than good. “The growing helmet mass causes higher energy effects,” he said. “This game is safer for everyone.”
How does it work
Aesthetically, the helmet seems familiar, but certain details are very different from its typical predecessor. It seems very lean and reminds the lines to a test of a test bike more aggressive and angular. It also offers a wider view area. The front of the traditional helmets is small and as the players are medieval soldiers in the battlefield, but the Apache Front is surprising and pastry. This is the result of a brush of shock absorption technologies used.
First, there is a flexible outer bark made of an effective nylon, more than the football gears, more common in the race helmets. Unlike traditional hard shells, the forces are spread over the impact, a larger area and reduce pressure peaks on the skull by about 20%.
Inside the shell, many cylindrical pods with variable stiffness have a 3D printed liner with a thermoplastic polyurethanous network. This means that they avoid absorbing energy before returning to its original form. This design is more effectively more effectively than energy from traditional foam liners to linear and restore after heavy effects.
It was developed by a company that developed through the 3D design and printing technology, 3D’s impact technology “3D printing to protect people in action.” Light helmets simulated thousands of effect scenarios using K3D and simulated fast-iterated designs in ways where traditional production does not match. “We have broken 47 prototypes before gaining a collision example,” says the brush. “But every failure has taught us something new.”
The company allows you to shave about 40% of the weight of the titanium alloy mask, which is available for professional teams only for professional teams, generally the comparable traditional face mask weight. Again, the steel has the same stiffness and sustainability.
The helmet comes in two models: Apache designed for NFL and college football teams and developed for APACHE lightning designed for youth programs. The main difference between the models is in the interior lining material. 3.5 pounds Apache, the engineer uses an effective material (thermoplastic polyurethane) to absorb the effects and return to the original situation after shocks after blows.
Apache Yildirim, EPP (expanded polypropylene) foam, uses a aerospace grade material known to effectively disseminate effectively. Also, less than 3 pounds. To all Helmets can be made specialPlayers allow you to choose the design of color and different mask. Apache is valuable from $ 649 to $ 849; The lightning option sells $ 449 to $ 649.
Test Realities
Despite the light design, which brush puts it in an inconvenient way in the standard test – the unprecedented 0.46 in the Virginia Tech-in star rating system (low scores better performance). The test protocol consists of calculating a violence scorer in many places and a rapidly scored helmet, then these effects will result in traumatic brain injuries. “Virginia Tech, the helmet test ‘turned into consumer reports’ says the brush. “Their public consequences manage the update by reporting manufacturers.”
Again, it believes the room to improve the assessment of helmets. “Both Virginia Tech and NFL protocols reward more severe helmets,” he says. The light offers the renovations that make up the weight or drop tower tests for weight, or the weight of the weight category proportional to a mass change that can substantiate the industry.
However, the actual test of any helmets is not in the laboratory. According to the brush, it is in this area. At each level players’ reviews were very positive. NFL players using more faster and more flexible feelings compared to Apache, Riddell or Comparison than competitors like Vicis. High school athletes praised the comfort and vision, and they thought they were more likely to wear more than extra weight.
A Linebacker cuts the brush that wears apache wore: “I can see my goals now.” Another player said the game game without ordinary neck tension, the future to wait for heavy helmets, it is a small change that can expand the career over time.
The future
The brush tells me that Apache design is the future of the football helmets. He believes that such as the used in Apache will be standard for the next ten years, proves that evidence has reduced energy more effectively. It also forecasts more adoption for the liners adapted for the individual needs-barrier padding for liners who visited more than light configurations for quarter configurations in need of mobility and peripheral vision.
Despite the integration of technologies, integration technologies such as impact sensors, communication facilities, communication facilities, communication devices, communication devices, communication facilities, but not in the expense of technologies.
So far, Apache has already seems to be the future of football helmets. Light helmets were sold in 2024 in 2024, and this is the forecast of 50,000 sales of 50,000 helmets, which are produced from the society. As a AFC North Aries noted: “It’s not a helmet. This is an unfair advantage.”
However, success for the brush is not measured by sales figures or axolates – it is due to the change in how people think about football safety and avoid traumatic brain injuries. “We did not leave to revolutionize something,” he said. “We lied because we are working.”
