Combined reactive and passive armor

US5070764A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The State of Israel, Ministry of Defense, Rafael Armament · IL

Inventors

• Haim Shevach · Kiryat Bialik, IL
• Gideon Rosenberg · Kiryat Tivon, IL
• Yehuda Partom · Haifa, IL
• Samuel Friling · Kiryat Ata, IL
• Moshe Benyami · Haifa, IL
• Yoav Erlich · Yuvalim, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 1991
• Grant date: Dec 10, 1991
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41H5/007
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Reactive armor elements each holding at least one reactive assembly of the kind in which an explosive layer is sandwiched between two metal plates, which is paired with a passive assembly comprising a layer of swellable material sandwiched between two metal plates. In each such pair the reactive assembly is outermost.