EP0106518A2 - Flat cable - Google Patents

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EP0106518A2
EP0106518A2 EP19830305300 EP83305300A EP0106518A2 EP 0106518 A2 EP0106518 A2 EP 0106518A2 EP 19830305300 EP19830305300 EP 19830305300 EP 83305300 A EP83305300 A EP 83305300A EP 0106518 A2 EP0106518 A2 EP 0106518A2
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cable
flat cable
conductors
insulated
webs
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Paul Eugene Dougherty
Jack Douglas Leiby
George Howard Snyder
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TE Connectivity Corp
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AMP Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B7/00—Insulated conductors or cables characterised by their form
    • H01B7/08—Flat or ribbon cables
    • H01B7/0853—Juxtaposed parallel wires, fixed to each other without a support layer

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  • the invention relates to flat cable.
  • Flat cable comprising a series of insulated conductors located to extend side by side in parallel coplanar relation is well known and in increasing demand for various applications as a result of the increasing complexity and compactness of electrical hardware.
  • the resulting cable still does not lie entirely flush with a floor or wall panel on which it is routed and the overlapping technique is even less suitable for relatively thick flat cable for higher currents such as those encountered in office and domestic use.
  • the webs isolate between them groups of insulated conductors located in laterally spaced apart relation, each group of insulated conductors being stiffly flexible in transverse directions in the plane of the cable such that each group can be deformed for routing around obstacles from a rectangular profile to the profile of a parallelogram independently of an adjacent group and will maintain such deformation when the flat cable is located against both a horizontal and vertical support.
  • Deforming successive groups of insulated conductors in the plane of the cable and in the same direction enables a substantial change in cable direction to be built up incrementally, the flat cable adopting a stepped configuration, while remaining completely planar.
  • the webs remain substantially parallel to each other after deformation and the conductor portions joined to the web remain undeformed extending in the original direction of the cable.
  • the longitudinal separation of the webs is reduced by the deformation while the lateral spacing of the individual conductors of the groups is also reduced, central portions of the conductors remaining straight with their opposite ends being curved in mutually opposite senses adjacent the webs obviating any net curvature in one direction.
  • a ribbon cable having a perforated web to permit twisting is disclosed in U.S. 2,626,303 and a ribbon cable having slits in plastics web joining adjacent insulated conductors is disclosed in U.S. Patent 2,361,374.
  • a means for providing strain-relief holes in tape cable is described in U.S. Patent No. 3,243,846.
  • Apertured cable is also disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3,239,916 and U.S. Patent No. 3,818,117.
  • the flat cable comprises a series of insulated conductors 11 located side by side in parallel coplanar relation by a series of longitudinally spaced transverse webs 12 integrally joining adjacent insulated conductor portions 13.
  • the webs 12 isolate between them groups 14 of insulated conductors located in laterally spaced apart relation.
  • the cable may be deformed in the field from the configuration shown in Figure 1 to the configuration shown in Figure 2, for example, for routing around an obstacle by manually moving successive webs transversely of the longitudinal direction of the undeformed cable.
  • the separation both of the webs from each other (D) and of the conductors from each other is reduced although they remain in generally parallel relation.
  • the individual groups of conductors 14 are deformed from a generally rectangular profile to the general profile of a parallelogram.
  • the cable will largely maintain the deformation even when located in a vertical plane, for example, against a wall board enabling routing of the cable around obstacles to be carried out easily during, for example, the wiring of buildings.
  • the conductor insulation and the webs are polyvinyl chloride and the stranded conductors are 26 gauge.
  • the thickness of the webs is .024 inches.
  • primed reference numerals designate similar parts.
  • the insulation is polyvinyl chloride and the stranded conductors are 22 gauge.
  • the thickness of the webs 12' is the same as in the first example but their lengths, relative to the lengths of the groups of conductors 14', is much greater providing a cable of greater stiffness, more able to sustain the deformed configuration.
  • wires sized between 18 and 28 gauge may be suitable for the flat cable and may be solid or stranded.
  • Both examples of flat cable may be manufactured by extruding a longitudinally continuous web around the conductors and subsequently punching out the web to define the isolated groups of insulated conductors.

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EP19830305300 1982-09-20 1983-09-09 Flat cable Withdrawn EP0106518A2 (en)

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US42054282A 1982-09-20 1982-09-20
US420542 1995-04-12

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Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2156603A (en) * 1984-03-26 1985-10-09 Itt Flat cable
EP0297297A1 (en) * 1987-06-08 1989-01-04 Burndy Corporation Multi-conductor transmission cable having converted conductor pitch for termination and method for making the same
GB2237442A (en) * 1989-09-27 1991-05-01 Vactite Ltd Flat cable
DE102012203316A1 (de) * 2012-03-02 2013-09-05 Homeway Gmbh Kabelanordnung
JP2015053262A (ja) * 2013-08-06 2015-03-19 住友電気工業株式会社 フラットケーブルおよびその製造方法
CN112509740A (zh) * 2020-12-08 2021-03-16 芜湖市恒鑫电缆有限责任公司 一种低温防爆型伴热电缆
US12033770B2 (en) 2019-11-20 2024-07-09 Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. Arrangement structure of wiring member, and wiring member

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JPH064496Y2 (ja) * 1987-02-16 1994-02-02 矢崎総業株式会社 ワイヤ−ハ−ネス用回路構成体

Cited By (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2156603A (en) * 1984-03-26 1985-10-09 Itt Flat cable
EP0297297A1 (en) * 1987-06-08 1989-01-04 Burndy Corporation Multi-conductor transmission cable having converted conductor pitch for termination and method for making the same
GB2237442A (en) * 1989-09-27 1991-05-01 Vactite Ltd Flat cable
DE102012203316A1 (de) * 2012-03-02 2013-09-05 Homeway Gmbh Kabelanordnung
AT512553A3 (de) * 2012-03-02 2015-10-15 Homeway Gmbh Kabelanordnung
AT512553B1 (de) * 2012-03-02 2015-12-15 Homeway Gmbh Kabelanordnung
DE102012203316B4 (de) 2012-03-02 2022-05-05 Homeway Gmbh Kabelanordnung
JP2015053262A (ja) * 2013-08-06 2015-03-19 住友電気工業株式会社 フラットケーブルおよびその製造方法
US12033770B2 (en) 2019-11-20 2024-07-09 Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. Arrangement structure of wiring member, and wiring member
CN112509740A (zh) * 2020-12-08 2021-03-16 芜湖市恒鑫电缆有限责任公司 一种低温防爆型伴热电缆
CN112509740B (zh) * 2020-12-08 2022-03-25 湖南力通恒裕电缆科技有限公司 一种低温防爆型伴热电缆

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ES274400Y (es) 1984-08-16

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