Swedish company MIPS continues to expand
their platform, bringing rotational force-dampening technology to hard shell helmets in law
enforcement and the armed forces.
MIPS has developed a new product
designed especially for the ballistic helmets
used by law enforcement and military personnel,
as well as those in snow sports. Like all
MIPS products, the core technology addresses
the rotational forces that are linked to brain
injuries, with the decades of research and study
that went into the flagship MIPS system. This
new product design, however, is refined to
specifically meet the safety needs within the
law enforcement and armed forces community.
The MIPS:F2 system, is built on the standard
MIPS low-friction layer that provides the crucial
10-15 millimeters of omnidirectional movement
in the three to ten milliseconds following an
impact. Unlike the MIPS system seen to date in
active sports helmets, the low-friction layer in
the MIPS:F2 is situated between the outer shell
of the helmet and the foam liner on the interior.
A series of Flexible Retention Organisms
(elastomers) and nylon brackets that are
molded into the helmet allow the foam liner to
move independent of the low-friction layer and
the outer shell, resulting in at least a 10% reduction
in the damaging rotational motion resulting
from oblique impacts.
The first helmet launched within LEAF will be
SAFE4U Security of Sweden AB, a ballistic
helmet model S4U SOG MIPS System. SAFE4U
is a Swedish company driven by a constant
desire for innovation. Development and design
of protective body armour is their core business.
This is done with high technology, experience,
knowledge and innovation. Models featuring
the MIPS:F2 will come to market in Spring
of 2018.
