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Protected vehicle or ship

  • US 7,836,810 B2
  • Filed: 04/11/2006
  • Issued: 11/23/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Vehicle equipped with seats and/or equipment for use in regions, in which detonations by mines or the like are to be feared, wherein a vehicle housing comprising walls, floor and ceiling is provided with means, which can withdraw energy from the blast wave of a detonation by means of deformation, and an additional floor within the vehicle housing is suspended only through ropes, rods or chains by means of separable connections, characterised in that at least one pressure sensor and/or acceleration sensor is provided, which reacts to a blast wave, outputs a signal and ignites explosive charges thereby, and that the explosive charges (11) are arranged at said separable connections (8) of said additional floor, the explosive charges breaking said separable connections (8) before the blast wave of a detonation has reached the additional floor (10).

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