Mine-detonation-resistant understructure for a vehicle
AssigneeSteyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug AG & Co. KG
InventorsAnton Strassgürtl, Manfred Hermann, Gerhard Nittnaus, Gerhard Skoff
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Abstract
An inwardly bend bottom plate, having at least one bending line, is provided on the underside of an armored vehicle body as a protection against mine detonation and can be additionally armored by modular armor plates. Above the bottom plate is a floorboard so spaced therefrom that the dynamic inward buckling of the bottom plate can take place in a deformation space between the bottom plate and the floorboard without injury to an occupant of the vehicle.
Claims16
A mine-detonation-resistant understructure for a vehicle body, the understructure comprising:
- a generally horizontal floor;
- a downwardly concave one-piece armoring plate mounted on the body underneath the floor without a direct connection to the floor, concave toward and facing the ground, and spaced below the floor by a distance sufficient to avoid contact with the floor upon buckling of the plate caused by a mine blase underneath the plate, the bottom plate being formed with at least one longitudinally extending bending edge, the armoring plate being wholly formed by a plurality of substantially planar sections or panels interconnected at corners;
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- a deformation free space formed between the plate and the floor of a height sufficient to permit inward buckling of the plate under a mine detonation without contact of the plate with the floor and substantially free of any force-transmitting structure engaging the floor and plate.
A mine-detonation-resistant understructure for a vehicle body, the understructure comprising:
- a generally horizontal floor;
- a downwardly concave one-piece armoring plate mounted on the body underneath the floor without a direct connection to the floor, concave toward and facing the ground, and spaced below the floor by a distance sufficient to avoid contact with the floor upon buckling of the plate caused by a mine blase underneath the plate, the bottom plate being formed with at least one longitudinally extending bending edge;
- a deformation free space formed between the plate and the floor of a height sufficient to permit inward buckling of the plate under a mine detonation without contact of the plate with the floor and substantially free of any force-transmitting structure engaging the floor and plate;
- modular armor plate elements mounted along an underside of the plate;
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- guide rails provided along edges of the plate to receive the modular armoring plate elements.
A mine-detonation-resistant understructure for a vehicle body, the understructure comprising:
- a main armoring plate bent inward into the body, mounted on the body in juxtaposition with the ground and formed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle with at least one bending edge;
- a floor spaced above the main plate and mounted on the body without a direct connection with the main plate;
- a deformation free space formed between the main plate and the floor of a height sufficient to permit inward buckling of the main plate under a mine detonation without contact of the main plate with the floor;
- modular armor plates mounted along an underside of the main plate;
- guide rails being provided along edges of the main plate to receive the modular armoring plates;
- connecting strips in the form of rails between individual modular armor plates;
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- pins engaging into edge regions of the armor plates and into the connecting strips and the guide rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.