US Patent Issued to HJC on June 30 for "Chin guard pivoting mechanism" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,157, issued on June 30, was assigned to HJC CORP. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Chin guard pivoting mechanism" was invented by Sung Kwang Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jung Hyun Jo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a chin guard pivoting mechanism. The chin guard pivoting mechanism according to the present disclosure is provided in a helmet including a helmet body (10) and a chin guard (20) pivotally coupled to the helmet body (10), wherein while two connectors (100, 200) provided in the chin guard (20) move along two guide parts (300, 400), the chin guard (20) is pivoted, and at ...