Abstract: An assembly for attenuating shock waves is made of two flexible sheets arranged one over the other and joined by a plurality of seams, the flexible sheets being confined to form cells or recessed when joined together. The seams are arranged so as to surround the cells or recesses in the sheets, and the cells or recesses are filled with a shock attenuating material.
Abstract: A container, such as a standard aircraft unit load device, a truck trailer, a ship's cargo compartment, or the like, is fitted with a blast mitigating material located within the container. The blast mitigating material can be fitted to the container during manufacture, or an existing container can be retrofitted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 29, 2004
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2009
Assignee:
Blastgard Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Kevin John Sharpe, Jack Waddell, James F. Gordon