Claims
- 1. An armor panel comprising:a plurality of discus-shaped disks; a plurality of wraps, each wrap encasing a disk; and an adhesive impregnated substrate coupled to the encased disks to retain them in an imbricated pattern.
- 2. The armor panel of claim 1 wherein the imbricated pattern has an arbitrary shape.
- 3. The armor panel of claim 1 wherein the disks each have a diameter in the range of 1.75″ to 4.5″.
- 4. The armor panel of claim 1 wherein the adhesive impregnated substrate comprises:a fibrous layer.
- 5. The armor panel of claim 4 wherein the fibrous layer comprises at least one of aramid fibers, e-glass fibers, S2 glass fibers and carbon fibers.
- 6. The armor panel of claim 1 further comprising:an elastomeric layer forming an outermost layer of the panel.
- 7. The armor panel of claim 1 wherein the wrap is titanium.
- 8. The armor panel of claim 7 wherein the wrap has a thickness in the range of 0.020″ and 0.080″.
- 9. The armor panel of claim 1 wherein the disks are comprised of one of:powdered titanium; an alumina oxide; a barium titanate; a strotium titanate; a calcium zirconate; a magnesium zirconate; a silicon carbide and a boron carbide.
- 10. A method of making an armor panel comprising:encasing a plurality of discus-shaped disks each individually in a wrap; laying out the plurality of disks in an imbricated pattern; and adhering a substrate to each of a first side and a second side of the imbricated pattern.
- 11. The method of claim 10 wherein encasing comprises:adhering a first portion of the wrap to a first side of a disk; adhering a second portion of the wrap to a second side of the disk; and welding the first portion of the wrap to the second portion of the wrap.
- 12. The method of claim 11 wherein the wrap is titanium.
- 13. The method of claim 10 wherein the wrap is a fibrous material covering all surfaces of the wrapped disk.
- 14. The method of claim 10 wherein the substrate comprises a fibrous layer.
- 15. The method of claim 10 further comprising:applying an elastomeric layer as an outermost layer of the armor panel.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/302,734, filed Apr. 30, 1999, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,035,438 on Mar. 14, 2000 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/513,563, filed Feb. 25, 2000 pending.
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