REACTIVE ARMOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120031260A1
• Filed: 09/20/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Armor Dynamics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Warren David
• Inventors: Warren, David
• Granted Patent: US 8,387,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 89/36.02
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/007 Reactive armour; Dynamic armour
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/0414 Layered armour containing ceramic material
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/0421 Ceramic layers in combination with metal layers
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/0428 Ceramic layers in combination with additional layers made of fibres, fabrics or plastics
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/0492 Layered armour containing hard elements, e.g. plates, spheres, rods, separated from each other, the elements being connected to a further flexible layer or being embedded in a plastics or an elastomer matrix

Abstract

A reactive armor that may include multiple layers. The reactive armor may include a self-healing outer layer, a ceramic tile layer and a backing layer. The ceramic tile layer may include a plurality of ceramic tiles and explosive material. The ceramic tiles may be hexagonal. The ceramic tiles may each define a hollow space in which the explosive material is deposited. The reactive armor may be combined with non-reactive armor.

Claims

1. A reactive armor comprising:

a self-healing outer layer;

a disruptive layer that includes a plurality of tiles each defining at least one hollow space and explosive material, wherein the explosive material is deposited in the at least one hollow space; and

a backing layer.

2. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the ceramic tiles are hexagonal.

3. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the explosive material is deposited along the inside of walls of the at least one hollow space, wherein the walls contain explosions of the explosive material to direct or shape the explosions towards an opposite direction of a projectile.

4. The reactive armor of claim 3 wherein the walls prevent a horizontal spread of explosive effects to adjacent ceramic tiles.

5. The reactive armor of claim 1 further including a layer of explosive material on top of the ceramic tile layer.

6. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the ceramic tile layer includes multiple layers of ceramic tiles.

7. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the self-healing outer layer encapsulates the ceramic tile layer.

8. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the self-healing outer layer is a polymer.

9. The reactive armor of claim 1 wherein the ceramic tiles each define a plurality of hollow spaces.

10. The reactive armor of claim 9 wherein the explosive material fills one of the plurality of hollow spaces in each tile.

11. A reactive armor comprising:

a disruptive portion comprising a plurality of explosive-filled spheres, wherein the spheres each define a hollow space and the hollow space is filled with explosive material and the plurality of explosive-filled spheres are tightly packed; and

an encapsulating portion that encapsulates the disruptive portion of the reactive armor.

12. The reactive armor of claim 11 wherein the spheres are ceramic spheres.

13. The reactive armor of claim 11 wherein the encapsulating portion includes a self-healing layer.

14. The reactive armor of claim 13 wherein the self-healing layer is a self-healing polymer skin.

15. The reactive armor of claim 11 further comprising additional explosive in the disruptive portion between explosive-filled spheres.

16. The reactive armor of claim 11 further comprising a backing portion.

17. The reactive armor of claim 16 wherein the backing portion includes a passive armor layer.

18. A reactive armor comprising

a disruptive portion comprising a plurality of spheres, wherein the spheres each define a hollow space, the plurality of spheres are tightly packed and explosive material surrounds the spheres;

and

an encapsulating portion that encapsulates the disruptive portion of the reactive armor.

19. The reactive armor of claim 19 wherein the encapsulating portion includes a self-healing polymer, the spheres include explosive material filling the hollow spaces and the reactive armor further comprises a passive-armor backing layer.

20. A reactive armor comprising:

a disruptive portion comprising a plurality of spherical-shaped tiles, wherein the tiles each define at least one hollow space on one side of the tile, the plurality of tiles are tightly packed and explosive material surrounds the tiles; and

an encapsulating portion that encapsulates the disruptive portion of the reactive armor.