Patent ID: 7478438

Claim:
A protective device, comprising: a protective construction having a first inner side portion and an opposing second outer side portion; said first inner side portion having a first and second side, said first side facing proximate a surface to be protected; said first inner side portion being at least a substantially elastic, self-supporting, and repetitive geometrical structure forming a plurality of honeycomb air chambers closed from one another by respective pluralities of side walls and open at opposing ends along respective first and second sides of said first inner side portion; said first inner side portion of substantially elastic honeycomb air chambers comprising at least one of a thermosynthetic elastomer and a synthetic material mixture containing an elastomer; said opposing second outer side portion further comprising: non-tear waterproof material on an inner portion of said second outer side portion and continuously closing open ends of said first inner side portion along said second side; an elastomeric layer continuously joined to said non-tear material; each of said open ends of said first inner side portion along said first side proximate said surface to be protected remaining open and whereby said protective construction enables an elastic absorption of kinetic energy applied against said outer side and a protection of said surface to be protected.