Foster-miller, Inc.

Velcro Industries B.v.

Martin E Smirlock

Robert C Sykes

William A Ribich

Paul J Marinaccio

Bernard E Sawaf

Thomas H Mann

Denise Mahnken

Michael E McCormack, Ii

Jonathan Edmund Ludlow

Richard Madden

Michael D Coltrane

Ronald E Lundin

Rick Scheer

Anthony L Alesi

Joseph J Prifti

A spall liner including a first plurality of flexible fabric plies of a first dimension secured together and secured to a first tie layer of a second, larger dimension. At least a second plurality of flexible fabric plies are secured together and secured to a second tie layer. The first and second tie layers are secured together. A cover includes separable fastener structure of a first type for removeably securing the liner to the inside hull of a vehicle equipped with separable fastener structure of a second type.

Spall liner

An armor system and method for the interior of a structure to be protected wherein releasable fastener material is secured to an inside wall of the structure and at least a first armor panel includes, in one example, a spacer layer, a ceramic hard face layer behind the spacer layer, a ballistic material behind the ceramic energy absorber layer, an encapsulant about the spacer layer, the ceramic energy absorber layer, and the ballistic material. Releasable fastener material is on the encapsulant adjacent the spacer layer for mating the panel to the inside wall of the structure.

Armor system

A survivability enhancement system includes first separable fastener structure fixed on the surface of the vehicle or system whose survivability is to be enhanced, and an array of armor tiles. The armor tiles provide a composite supplementary layer of armor that maintains attachment at effective levels even as armor tiles are subjected to large shear forces (for example, upon ballistic impact and shattering of an adjacent tile) and that has effective force dissipation characteristics. Each armor tile has opposed surfaces with second separable fastener structure complementary to the first separable fastener structure secured to one of its surfaces, one of the separable fastener structures having a multiplicity of projecting hooking elements and the cooperating fastener structure having complementary structure that is releasably interengageable with the hooking elements.

Survivability enhancement

An applique armor system includes a plurality of armor tiles, each armor tile being a composite armor member with a sheet ceramic armor component, an impedance match enhancing sheet member of material such of metal or polymer material adhered to the surface of the ceramic sheet member remote from the anticipated direction of attack, and a compliant separable fastener component of extended area type secured to a surface of the composite armor tile, the ceramic sheet member preferably having a thickness at least ten times the thickness of the impedance match enhancing sheet member.

Silent touch fastener material adapted to releasably engage a mating surface and adapted to produce reduced sound during rapid separation of the touch fastener material from the mating surface. The material comprises a planar backing material having an engaging surface thereon contacting the backing material at discrete points and adapted to releasably engage the mating surface and means for reducing the coupling of noise-producing vibration from the backing material into the surrounding air. Various embodiments disclose the backing material as having a high mass relative to the mass of the engaging surface; a planar high mass supplemental backing material bonded to the backing material; a flexible, high mass material incorporated into the backing material; means disposed at the discrete points of attachment of the engaging surface to the backing material for suppressing the coupling of vibrations produced in the engaging surface into the backing material; and, the backing material comprising a lattice structure having low ability for transferring vibrations induced therein into the air surrounding it.

Quiet touch fastener material

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Concord, MA, United States of America

Martin E Smirlock