Patent ID: 7665149

Claim:
A body armor article for resisting ballistic objects, comprising: a plurality of woven fabric layers woven from yarns having a tenacity of at least 7.3 grams per dtex and a modulus of at least 100 grams per dtex; a plurality of sheet layers comprising nonwoven random oriented fibrous sheets, each of the sheet layers comprising a uniform mixture of 3 to 60 weight percent polymeric binder and 40 to 97 weight percent non-fibrillated fibers, the non-fibrillated fibers having a yarn tenacity of at least 1.8 grams per dtex and a modulus of at least 75 grams per dtex, and wherein each of the sheet layers has a thickness of at least 0.013 mm; the woven fabric layers and the sheet layers stacked together comprising a first core section which includes at least two repeating units of, in order, at least one of the woven fabric layers then at least one of the sheet layers; and the sheet layers comprising 0.5 to 30 wt % of the total weight of the article.