Vehicle protection system

• US 20100319524A1
• Filed: 08/19/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Christopher Moeller, Loren Howard, Michael D. Farinella, Scott Lavalley, Thomas F. Hafer
• Original Assignee: Christopher Moeller, Loren Howard, Michael D. Farinella, Scott Lavalley, Thomas F. Hafer
• Inventors: LaValley, Scott, Howard, Loren, Farinella, Michael D., Hafer, Thomas F., Moeller, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 8,042,449 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 89/36.02
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/02 Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile or anti-torpedo defence installations or systems cartridges or missiles for producing smoke or for dispensing radar chaff or infrared material F42B5/15, F42B12/48, F42B12/70; informative reference: details of radar or sonar systems G01S7/00; jamming or electronic countermeasures G01S7/38, G01S7/495, H04K3/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/026 Slat armour; Nets

Abstract

A structure or vehicle protection system including a removable frame on the structure or vehicle, and a net within the frame and spaced from the structure or vehicle and having a mesh size designed to disarm an incoming threat.

Claims

1. A structure or vehicle protection system comprising:

a removable frame on the structure or vehicle; and

a net within the frame and spaced from the structure or vehicle and having a mesh size designed to disarm an incoming threat.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the net mesh size between 30-60 mm.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the net has a knotless “

ultracross”

weave.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the net is made of PBO material.

5. The system of claim 1 in which the net has a line diameter of 0.5-3 mm.

6. The system of claim 1 in which there are two or more nets on the frame.

7. The system of claim 6 in which the nets do not have their mesh aligned.

8. The system of claim 1 in which the net includes at least a first layer of smaller diameter line material and a layer of larger diameter line material.

9. The system of claim 8 in which there are between 2-4 layers of smaller diameter line material over a single layer of larger diameter line material.

10. A protection system for a threat having a nose diameter less than its body diameter, the system comprising:

a mobile vehicle;

a frame releasably attached to the vehicle; and

a net within the frame spaced from the vehicle and having a mesh size between the nose diameter and the body diameter of the threat to disarm the threat.

11. The system of claim 10 in which the net includes at least a first layer of smaller diameter line material and a layer of larger diameter line material.

12. The system of claim 11 in which there are between 2-4 layers of smaller diameter line material over a single layer of larger diameter line material.

13. A protection system comprising:

a flexible packaged net including at least two layers of a small line diameter net over at least one layer of a larger line diameter net; and

a deployment subsystem for deploying the net.

14. The system of claim 13 in which the deployment subsystem includes a static frame for the net.

15. The system of claim 13 in which the deployment subsystem includes actuator members.