Patent ID: 7975594
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: F41H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A device for the defense and protection of a vehicle from projectiles in combination with the vehicle, comprising: at least one grille-type protective barrier comprising a netting forming meshes having openings into which the projectiles can enter and positionable alongside the vehicle to reduce the possibility of projectiles impacting the vehicle, wherein the netting is woven from a plurality of individual members extending generally in a common direction, the members being wires, steel wires, cables, cords and/or synthetic materials or produced from plastic, at least one of the members linking with a first, laterally adjacent one of the members on one side at a plurality of spaced apart locations and linking with a second, laterally adjacent one of the members on an opposite side at a plurality of spaced apart locations to thereby form the woven netting, and wherein the netting forms a plurality of protective barriers for the vehicle and is attached to the vehicle, and wherein the individual protective barriers are formed by netting sections that are bordered by a respective frame such that each of the plurality of protective barriers is bordered by a respective frame and one of the protective barriers is bordered by a first frame of one shape on one side of the vehicle and another one of the protective barriers is bordered by a second, differently shaped frame on another side of the vehicle.