US 8,347,997 B2 · System and method for armoring vehicles using a hull having a blast vent

Abstract

A modular, wheeled vehicle suitable for military use, includes a driver module having a width for seating one person and having length for seating a second (and optional third) person therebehind, and an engine module disposed behind the driver module containing an engine for powering the modular vehicle. The engine module has a rear surface adapted to receive a storage module. The driver module and the engine module form a central element having a pair of sides, a bottom, and a top. The central element is adapted to receive the modules on both of the central element sides. The central element has air inlet for personnel and for the engine disposed atop the central element. The bottom of the central element and troop side pods generally are V-shaped with slanted, upward extending sides.

Claims22

Dependent claims

An armored vehicle hull, comprising:

a first hull portion having a generally v-shaped cross section when viewed from a first direction;
and
a second hull portion having a generally v-shaped cross section when viewed from a first direction;
said first and second hull portions spaced from each other in a second direction, approximately orthogonal to said first direction, to define at least one blast vent;
wherein said hull is configured to engage with an armored land vehicle.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/461,841Filed 2 May 2012 · continuation

Priority

29 Dec 2008

Published

US 2012/0240759 A127 Sep 2012

Granted

8 Jan 2013

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

F41H 7/048
Armour construction: vehicles having separate armoured compartments, e.g. modular armoured vehicles
B62D 63/025
Motor vehicles: modular vehicles
F41H 7/042
Armour construction: floors or base plates for increased land mine protection
F41H 7/044
Armour construction: hull or cab construction other than floors or base plates for increased land mine protection

Family

Application12/344,630Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Dec 2008

US 2012/0240759 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Sep 2012

US 8,205,703 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2010/0163330 A1Published application

US 8,347,997 B2This patent

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System and method for armoring vehicles using a hull having a blast vent

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System and method for armoring vehicles using a hull having a blast vent

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Abstract

Claims22