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- Patent Title: Ceramic tile design improvement for conformal personal armor
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Application No.: US18096664Application Date: 2023-01-13
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Publication No.: US12000680B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Samuel Shackelford , John Shupe , Gabriel Todd , Robert F. Speyer
- Applicant: Verco Materials, LLC
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: VERCO MATERIALS, LLC
- Current Assignee: VERCO MATERIALS, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: OSTROLENK FABER LLP
- Main IPC: F41H5/04
- IPC: F41H5/04 ; F41H5/013

Abstract:
A tile to be used in an arrangement of identical tiles of an armor, the tile including an obverse face, a reverse face opposite the obverse face, and an endless edge between the obverse face and the reverse face, the endless edge being defined by a plurality of peripheral boundaries connected by curved sections, wherein the obverse face includes a first region and a second region each configured to be overlapped by a corresponding region of a reverse face of another tile, and a strike face region that is not overlapped by another tile, the first region and the second region being adjacent to the non-overlapped strike face region, the strike face region including a Y-shaped raised portion and no other raised portion or recessed portion, and the reverse face including a Y-shaped depression at a location corresponding to the location of the Y-shaped raised portion, and no other depression or raised portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230228535A1 CERAMIC TILE DESIGN IMPROVEMENT FOR CONFORMAL PERSONAL ARMOR Public/Granted day:2023-07-20
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