Patent ID: 8333140
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
1. A self-diagnostic armor module, comprising: a box-like shell made from ballistic protection material, the shell enclosed so as to exclude external light from an interior of the armor module; plates of transparent armor material within the shell oriented parallel to one another; lights within the shell disposed adjacently along a first edge of each of said plates; light responsive receptors disposed within the shell adjacently along a second, opposed edge of each of said plates; circuitry connected to the lights and the receptors for controlling the lights and receptors such that the receptors produce signals indicating the health of the plates; and a transparent matrix of elastomeric, adhesive material completely encapsulating the plates, the light and the receptors, the matrix filling cavities within the shell, whereby the armor module is a voidless, solid structure.