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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
May. 24, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christopher A Tarry, Natick, MA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Products Corporation, Danvers, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H / ; F41H / ; C04B / ; C04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428545 ; 428546 ; 428547 ; 501 96 ; 501103 ; 296188 ; 2-25 ; 75228 ; 75245 ; 75249 ; 75950 ;
Abstract
A densified ceramic or cermet armor material comprises greater than fifty percent by weight titanium nitride or greater than eight percent by weight of a mixture of titanium nitride and aluminum nitride to impart low compressive strength to said armor material and may additionally comprise components suitable for densification with said titanium nitride or titanium nitride-aluminum nitride mixture where the resulting armor material has high density and low porosity with a Young's modulus greater than 200 GPa and a compressive strength of less than 5.5 GPa.