US 12,228,378 B2
Wearable communications and ballistic protection system
John Lettow, Washington, DC (US); Keren Espina, Randallstown, MD (US); Jennifer Pinkos, Hanover, MD (US); James A Turney, Silver Spring, MD (US); Can Gun Yaprak, Halethorpe, MD (US); and Sandy Spence, Westminster, MD (US)
Filed by Vorbeck Materials Corp., Jessup, MD (US)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,052.
Prior Publication US 2024/0167791 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. F41H 1/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/27 (2006.01)
CPC F41H 1/02 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/273 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A wearable communications and ballistics protection system comprising:
a carrier;
a communications hub;
an antenna element;
wherein
the communications hub
is affixed to the carrier;
comprises an antenna port;
the antenna element is affixed to the carrier;
the antenna port
is conductively coupled to the antenna element;
demountably and conductively couples to a portable radio;
the carrier
demountably receives a ballistic plate;
configured to be worn on the torso of a user and provide ballistic protection thereto;
the antenna element comprises a conductive composition;
the conductive composition comprises:
fully exfoliated single sheets of graphene;
a polymer; and
the fully exfoliated sheets of graphene form a three-dimensional percolated network within the polymer.