Appeal 2006-3264
Application 10/685,377
1. A modular armored vehicle system comprising an armored
combat vehicle chassis having a plurality of openings and a plurality
of composite armor plates for absorbing and dissipating kinetic energy
from high velocity, armor-piercing projectiles, each of said plates
being adapted for attachment to said chassis and sized to cover at least
one of said openings wherein each of said plates comprises a single
layer of bodies which are directly bound and retained in plate form by
a solidified material wherein a majority of each of said bodies is in
direct contact with at least four adjacent bodies, wherein the solidified
material and the plate are elastic and wherein said bodies have a
specific gravity of at least 2.4 and are made of a ceramic material.
THE REFERENCES
Ferguson US 4,131,053 Dec. 26, 1978
Middione US 6,082,240 Jul. 4, 2000
Cohen (Cohen ‘781) US 6,289,781 B1 Sep. 18, 2001
Cohen (Cohen ‘075) US 6,575,075 B2 Jun. 10, 2003
Slater GB 2 277 141 A Oct. 19, 1994
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-9 over Cohen ‘781 in view of Middione; claims 10, 13, and 14 over
Cohen ‘781 in view of Middione and Cohen ‘075; and claims 10-12 over
Cohen ‘781 in view of Middione and either Ferguson or Slator.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
The Appellant separately argues only the broadest independent claim,
i.e., claim 1, and its dependent claim 5 (Br. 14-26). Although additional
references are applied to dependent claims 10-13 and independent claim 14,
the Appellant does not provide a substantive argument as to the separate
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