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US 6,962,739 B1Granted
Supple penetration resistant fabric and method of making
AssigneeHigher Dimension Medical, Inc.
InventorsYoung-Hwa Kim, Hong Ji, Nicole Dawn Renneberg, Seong-Gi Baek
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Abstract
A punture, pierce, and cut resistant fabric comprised of a plurality of sheets of plates arranged in a repeating pattern. A material interconnects the plates. The fabric is twistable, bendable, and flexible. It is constructed of substances that will withstand cutting, puncture, and piercing forces encountered in medical or other environments.
Claims13
A fabric assembly comprising;
- a flexible substrate having a top surface;
- a plurality of polymeric resin plates having substantially uniform thickness of approximately, 5 to 20 mils;
- the plurality of plates affixed to the top surface of the flexible substrate and arrayed in a pattern such that a plurality of continuous gaps are defined between adjacent plates, wherein the gaps are approximately uniform in width;
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- a wire mesh embedded in each plate and completely covered by the top surface by each plate.
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A fabric assembly comprising:
- a first flexible substrate having a first plurality of continuous, non-overlapping plates affixed to a top surface of the first flexible substrate;
- a second flexible substrate having a second plurality of continuous, non-overlapping plates affixed to a top surface of the second flexible substrate;
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- a third flexible substrate having a third plurality of continuous, non-overlapping plates affixed to a top surface of the third flexible substrate, wherein the flexible substrates are arranged in a stack, and wherein each plurality of plates is arrayed in a pattern such that a plurality of gaps are defined between adjacent affixed plates, wherein each plate is an equilateral hexagon made of polymeric resin, wherein each plurality of gaps is approximately uniform in width in the range of about 5 mils to 20 mils, and wherein each equilateral hexagon has an approximately uniform thickness in the range of about 5 mils to 20 mils, and wherein one of the pluralities of plates have a larger gap width and plate diameter than the other two pluralities of plates.
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