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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Fortified Composites, Llc, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Inventors:
John Edmund Christoph, Flower Mound, TX (US);
David Abram Jack, Waco, TX (US);
Jordan Robert Raney, Watertown, MA (US);
Assignee:
Fortified Composites LLC, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/00 (2019.01); F41H 5/04 (2006.01); B32B 3/26 (2006.01); B32B 9/00 (2006.01); B32B 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 5/0471 (2013.01); B32B 3/26 (2013.01); B32B 9/007 (2013.01); B32B 9/047 (2013.01); B32B 2262/0269 (2013.01); B32B 2262/101 (2013.01); B32B 2307/558 (2013.01); B32B 2571/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Laminated composite structures, or laminates, may utilize vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), also termed a nanotube forest, as a layer/ply within a fiber/matrix laminate used as a protection system to mitigate and eliminate penetrating and blunt force damage posterior as a result of impacts with an unknown velocity on the laminated structure. Moreover, a composite may incorporate vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) for ballistic and low velocity impact protection.