Patent ID: 7827897

Claim:
Protection for stopping objects comprising: an enclosure adapted so that the object can penetrate the enclosure within at least one area; and at least one intermediate layer comprising granules arranged within the enclosure, a plurality of the granules in the intermediate layer have a hardness that varies in different parts of the granule, which intermediate layer and enclosure are arranged to deaccelerate the object, wherein the granules are movable arranged with respect to each other, the space in the intermediate layer that is not occupied by granules is filled by a gas medium to enable contact between adjacent granules, the granules have mechanical properties so that a granule is crushed and spread in the intermediate layer when the granule is hit by the object, at the same time as adjacent granules are subjected to impulses with a subsequent energy dissipation so that the object and fragments thereof remains in the protection with a reduced risk for ricochets.