US 12,000,680 B2
Ceramic tile design improvement for conformal personal armor
Samuel Shackelford, Atlanta, GA (US); John Shupe, Atlanta, GA (US); Gabriel Todd, Atlanta, GA (US); and Robert F. Speyer, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to VERCO MATERIALS, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Verco Materials, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/096,664.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/299,584, filed on Jan. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0228535 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. F41H 5/04 (2006.01); F41H 5/013 (2006.01)
CPC F41H 5/0492 (2013.01) [F41H 5/013 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tile comprising:
an obverse face;
a reverse face opposite the obverse face; and
an endless edge between the obverse face and the reverse face, the endless edge being defined by a plurality of peripheral boundaries connected by curved sections, wherein the obverse face includes a first region and a second region each configured to be overlapped by a corresponding region of a reverse face of another tile, and a strike face region that is not overlapped by another tile, the first region and the second region being adjacent to the non-overlapped strike face region, the strike face region including a Y-shaped raised portion and no other raised portion or recessed portion, and the reverse face including a Y-shaped depression at a location corresponding to the location of the Y-shaped raised portion, and no other depression or raised portion.