FLEXIBLE BODY ARMOR
Assignee
ARA, INC.
Filed
Aug 24, 1992
Granted
Dec 7, 1999
Location
WEST COVINA CA US
Abstract
An articulated body armor garment has a single layer of ceramic tiles adhesively attached to a flexible fragment-trapping blanket. A foam spacer layer behind the blanket at least partially contains deformation of the blanket in a ballistic attack. The blanket preferably includes at least forty plies of a ballistic cloth stitched together in a quilt pattern. Edge areas of the ceramic tiles are beveled so that edges of adjacent tiles overlap, thus enabling the array of tiles to present an essentially continuous unbroken surface to a projectile.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Mar 1, 1993
Rescinded
Jul 30, 1998
Duration
5 years, 5 months
Inventor
- 1BERNARD MAZELSKY
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 5996115
- Application
- 07934406
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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