Body Armor Patents
What the industry has filed and been granted, from fiber chemistry to plate geometry. Each record links to the published patent, so the source is always one click away.
Context-based programmable safety rules for personal protective equipment
Devices and methods for repairing damage to a tissue
From the perspective of battlefield medicine, advancements in body armor have improved soldier survival rates while exposing the extremities to levels of violence that would have previously been considered fatal. Amputation rates have increased, but enhancements in medical care and treatment …
Rapid aerial extraction systems
A system and method is provided for controlling a suspended load comprising an aircraft, an apparatus at the aircraft comprising a winch adapted to deploy and retrieve a tether attached to the load. A stabilizer may be connected to the tether, the tether stabilizer including at least lateral …
Context-based programmable safety rules for personal protective equipment
In some examples, a system includes: an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE, wherein the computing device: receives context data that is based on one or more of the article of PPE, …
Method and system for industrial ergonomics risk root-cause analysis and …
A system for identifying industrial ergonomics risk root-causes and providing risk control actions, comprising: a computing device configured to obtain textual information describing a series of tasks of a job and forces being exerted during the series of tasks; and a computing server system …
Touchless glove application systems
A glove application system includes a glove application module providing a housing that defines an install cavity and an access aperture providing access into the install cavity, a pressure system that generates negative and positive pressures in the install cavity, and a glove cartridge 5 …
Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from …
Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from …
In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication component; and a computing device communicatively coupled …
Bi-polymer thermoplastic
A method for forming a thermoplastic prepreg is disclosed. The method includes supplying continuous fibers to a first extrusion device, supplying a first thermoplastic feedstock to the first extrusion device, wherein the feedstock comprises a first thermoplastic polymer, pre-heating, tensioning, …
Load bearing cover for integrating a bolt free bullet proof protective shield …
Energy absorbing systems
56 . A body armor comprising: a flexible energy absorbing system comprising a body, the body comprising: an inner cell and an outer cell, wherein the inner cell is within the outer cell, wherein the inner cell is retained within the outer cell by a web, and wherein at least one of the inner cell and …
Multispectral Camouflage Material
A fabric includes a first flexible fabric layer, having fabric emissivity properties in a visible radiation range that are selected so as to mimic ambient emissivity properties of a deployment environment of the fabric, and at least one second flexible fabric layer, which is joined to the first …
Load bearing cover for integrating a bolt free bullet proof protective shield …
. A portable bullet-proof shield comprising a load bearing shield cover for integrating a resistant ballistic protective shield; said bullet resistant ballistic protective shield has no bolts, screws, or holes drilled into the ballistic protective shield, thereby not compromising the integrity of …
Information Management System and Method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: monitoring one or more operations within a medical environment; generating an operations management report based, at least in part, upon the one or more operations monitored within the medical environment; and …
Information Management System and Method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: interfacing with a bedside monitoring device to receive data signals, wherein the data signals have monitoring criteria; enabling adjustment of one or more of the monitoring criteria; receiving a proposed change from …
Apparatus, system, and method for reducing head or neck trauma
Apparatus, system, and method for reducing head or neck trauma
PCT Patent No. WO 2009053946 A2 relates to the method to process composite structures with adaptive stiffness integrating shear thickening fluids. U.S. Patent No. U.S. Pat. No. 7,498,276 B2 relates to the use of shear thickening fluids in body armor and protective devices. U.S. Patent Application …