Flexible cable
US4396797A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 1981 |
| Grant date | Aug 2, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 21, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH02G3/0475
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A flexible cable suitably used as a jacket or cover for an inner conduit member such as a gas conduit or a liquid conduit, a signal transmission line, or an energy transmission line, or the like, which can provide safe use of the conduit inserted thereinto by limiting the bending radius thereof. The cable includes a plurality of axially symmetrical pipe members having large and small diameter ends which are assembled with the small ends of each pipe member fitted into the large end of an adjacent pipe member and loosely fitting flexible ring members fitted over the small ends of the pipe members.
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