Patent ID: 8759692

Claim:
An aircraft EMI shielding and lightning strike protection gasket for compressible placement between a first external aircraft surface and a second external aircraft surface for providing improved electrical conductivity and deflection characteristics therebetween, the gasket comprising: a polymer elastomer gel layer, said gel layer having a gel layer outer margin extending along an x-axis and a y-axis, said y-axis disposed generally normal to the x-axis, at least a portion of the gel layer outer margin extending beyond a mesh outer margin, and extending beyond at least one of the first or second aircraft surfaces when the gasket is compressed, to define an edge portion tapered in an outwardly extended direction with a triangular profile at the end thereof, a resilient, electrically-conductive mesh sheet embedded in the elastomer gel layer, the mesh having the mesh outer margin extending along the x-axis and y-axis, and having a thickness dimension extending along a z-axis, said z-axis disposed generally normal to the x-axis and the y-axis, the mesh sheet being corrugated to form a series of waveforms having amplitudes extending generally along the z-axis; whereby when the gasket is compressed between the first and the second external aircraft surfaces, the mesh sheet provides electrical conductivity across the direction of the x-axis and the y-axis, and electrical contact and improved force deflection between the first and the second external aircraft surface in the direction of the z-axis.