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Flexible electric control cable

US7495176B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NEXANS · FR

Inventors

Walter Winkelbauer · Duisburg, DE
Frank Muller · Feucht, DE
Heinz-Willi Hamacher · Bocholt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 10, 2007
Grant date	Feb 24, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 10, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01B7/04
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A description is given of a flexible electric control cable in which one or more layers of control wires are stranded on a central element and the at least one layer of control wires is surrounded by an outer jacket, the central element (1) comprising at least one pair of wires (1a, 1b) and each wire (1a, 1b) of the pair of wires comprising a core element (10) of a tension-resistant plastic, a layer of metal wires (11) stranded on the core element (10) and a layer (12) of a compressible insulating material sheathing the stranded layer, and the wires (1a, 1b) of the pair of wires being stranded with one another with a length of lay of 20 to 40 D, where D is the diameter of the pair of wires.

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