Patent ID: 7910503

Claim:
A ballistic-resistant laminate assembly, comprising: a first thin and flexible film; a pair of first and second substantially linear arrays of unidirectionally-oriented bundles of high strength filaments with filament bundles of the first array being laterally spaced apart, and each filament bundle of the first array being interleaved in substantially parallel fashion with adjacent filament bundles of the second array, wherein: respective first surfaces the filament bundles of the first array are arranged in close proximity to the first film with substantially continuous linear thin strips of the first film positioned between adjacent spaced apart filament bundles of the first array, and respective second surfaces of the filament bundles of the first array opposite the respective first surfaces thereof are arranged facing away from the first film, a deposit of a bonding agent on respective second surfaces of the filament bundles of the first array opposite from the first film, and a deposit of the bonding agent on the substantially continuous linear thin strips of the first film positioned between adjacent spaced apart filament bundles of the first array, and the filament bundles of the second array being interleaved with the filament bundles of the first array having respective first surfaces thereof arranged facing away from the first film, and respective second surfaces of the filament bundles of the second array are arranged facing there toward with the bonding agent therebetween, whereby the respective second surfaces of the filament bundles of the second array are bonded to the substantially continuous linear strips of the first film; and a deposit of the bonding agent on respective second surfaces of the filament bundles of the first array bonding at least intermittent portions of one or more of the filament bundles of the first array to one of: the respective adjacent filament bundles of the second array, and the substantially continuous linear strips of the first film.