Patent ID: 8528864

Claim:
A protection device for sensitive areas against impact of foreign objects, said device comprising: a flexible laminar body made of a material resistant to impacts, said body being arranged separately from an object to be protected and put in the way of a beam of possible trajectories with which a foreign object could impact over said object to be protected, wherein said body includes a plurality of energy absorption elements selected among textile, mechanical and hydraulic elements, such that the energy absorption elements of a textile nature, are strips, each one of which is constituted by segments superimposed in zigzag and clamped to a side of the flexible laminar body and towards its interior, said strips being provided with seals that are progressively broken when an impact of the foreign object on the flexible laminar body occurs; wherein said energy absorption elements include clamping elements on a support structure located outside the beam of possible trajectories with which the foreign object could impact the object to be protected, said energy absorption elements being configured to intercept an impact trajectory of the foreign object with the flexible laminar body, which results in a deformation of the flexible laminar body and a subsequent extension of the energy absorption elements.