RPG defeat method and system

• US 9,052,167 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foster-Miller Incorporated (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Foster-Miller Incorporated (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Inventors: Farinella, Michael D., Cardenas, Robert Lee, Lawson, William R., LaBrecque, Brendan, Rush, Frances, Hoadley, David, Wheaton, Michael, Anderson, Mike, Mann, Thomas, Kanaan, Abed, Callahan, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Hayes, Bret
• Assistant Examiner(s): FREEMAN, JOSHUA E
• Application Number:
  US14/227,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: 89/360.2, 89/360.4, 89/360.7, 89/360.8, 89/360.9, 899/30
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/013 Mounting or securing armour plates
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/023 Armour plate, or auxiliary armour plate mounted at a distance of the main armour plate, having cavities at its outer impact surface, or holes, for deflecting the projectile
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/026 Slat armour; Nets
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/00 Armoured or armed vehicles general vehicle aspects B60; armoured or armed ships B63G; armoured or armed aircraft B64D; mounting guns, e.g. machine guns, on vehicles F41A23/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/04 Armour construction in general F41H5/00

Abstract

A rocket propelled grenade shield including a flexible net and a frame secured to the flexible net supporting the flexible net. Spaced hard points are attached to the net, the hard points including a base portion with a cavity therein and a plug received in said cavity locking each hard point to the flexible net.

Claims

1. A rocket propelled grenade shield comprising:

a flexible net;

a frame secured to the flexible net supporting the flexible net; and

spaced hard points attached to the net, said hard points including a base portion with a cavity therein and a plug received in said cavity configured to lock each hard point to the flexible net.

2. The shield of claim of claim 1 in which said hard points are multi-sided with sharp corners.

3. The shield of claim 2 in which there are six sides and six sharp corners.

4. The shield of claim 2 in which said hard points include slots therein for the net.

5. The shield of claim 1 in which said frame includes telescoping members.

6. The shield of claim 1 in which said frame includes a releasable fastener subsystem and said net includes a border portion with a releasable fastener subsystem thereon for releasably securing the flexible net to the frame.

7. The shield of claim 1 in which the net has a mesh size of between 110 and 180 mm.

8. The shield of claim 1 in which each hard point weighs between 10 and 40 grams.

9. The shield of claim 1 in which each hard point is between ½

to 1 inches tall.

10. The shield of claim 1 in which each hard point is ½

inch to ¾

inches across.

11. A rocket propelled grenade shield comprising:

a flexible net including cords, and nodes at intersections of cords of the net;

a frame secured to the flexible net supporting the flexible net; and

spaced hard points attached to the net, said hard points including a base portion with a cavity receiving a net node therein, and a plug also received in said cavity configured to lock the net node in the cavity and lock the hard point to the flexible net.