Patent ID: 7104177
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: F41H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A component of a ballistic armor, said component comprising at least one projectile-processing layer and at least one backing layer placed behind and bonded to said projectile-processing layer; said backing layer comprising at least one fiber-reinforced plastic material; said projectile-processing layer comprising at least one ceramic-rich composite body comprising said ceramic-rich composite body is characterized by a fine-grained microstructure (i) exhibiting no more than a small or slight degree of interconnectivity of the bodies making up the at least one filler material, and (ii) made up of morphological features, wherein no more than about 10 percent by volume of said morphological features are larger than about 300 microns in size, and further wherein said ceramic-rich composite body has a hardness of at least about 1100 kg/mm