JP2007318945A - Connector for power cable - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent water invasion into a connector of a power cable when a ground line is provided at the connector for the power cable, while facilitating assembly. <P>SOLUTION: The cable conductors 5, 5 exposed at the terminal of the power cable are connected by a conductor connector 3 having conductivity. An insulation rubber block 110 coats a cable insulator 12 coating the cable conductors 5 and the conductor connector 3 connected to the cable conductors 5, and a metal shield layer 124 connected to a wire shield 14 for coating the cable insulation body 12 is disposed at an outer-periphery of the insulation rubber block 110. The connector as constituted above is coated by a thermal contraction impervious tube 140 which is contracted by heating, and a drawer bar 151 extended from the inner portion to the outer portion of the thermal contraction impervious tube 140 to be disposed connects the wire shield 14, the metal shield layer 124 in the thermal contraction impervious tube 140 with the ground line 150 outside the thermal contraction impervious tube 140. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a power cable connecting portion for connecting a power cable such as a CV cable.

  Conventionally, connection between power cables such as CV cables used as underground power transmission lines is performed by first connecting the ends of power cables with exposed conductors (hereinafter simply referred to as “cable conductors”) to conductor connection pipes. Connect using (conductor connection sleeve). The connecting portion is formed by winding a rubber tape or the like, for example, covering a room temperature shrink insulating block made of a rubber elastic body as shown in Patent Document 1.

  The power cable connecting portion is generally installed in a cave or the like, and is formed on the assumption that it is submerged by rainwater or the like.

  FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a conventional power cable connecting portion 2 using an insulating rubber block 1 which is a cold shrinkable insulating block. As shown in the figure, the power cable connecting portion 2 connects the cable conductors 5 and 5 exposed at both ends 4a and 4a of the pair of power cables 4 and 4 with the conductor connecting tube 3, and the conductor connecting tube 3 Is covered with an insulating rubber block 1, and the rubber block 1 is covered with a metal protective tube 6. The inside of the metal protective tube 6 is filled with a waterproof mixture 7, and the waterproof mixture 7 and the metal protective tube 6 prevent water from entering the power cable connecting portion 2 body.

  The metal protective tube 6 has a grounding terminal seat 8, and when a grounding wire is required at the connecting portion of the power cable, the grounding wire is connected to the grounding terminal seat 8.

  In recent years, in order to reduce the cost and shorten the construction time in the connection portion of the power cable, instead of the metal protective tube 6 and the waterproofing mixture 7, a water shielding shrinkable tube that shrinks by heating is used. So, what covers the connection part of electric power cables is developed (refer nonpatent literature 1).

In the case of providing a grounding wire made of IV wire or the like in this configuration, the grounding wire is drawn into the water shielding shrinkage tube, waterproofing is performed between the grounding wire and the water shielding shrinkage tube, and a pair of water shielding shrinkage tubes are provided. A ground line is connected to one of the shielding layers of the power cable.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-332079 2005 Annual Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, "Development of a straight connection section (time-short RBJ) with reduced working time for 66.77k VCV cable"

  By the way, in the configuration in which the ground wire is attached at the connection portion of the power cable, it is conceivable that the ground wire may infiltrate the conductor due to damage to the covering portion covering the conductor. At this time, in contrast to the configuration in which the grounding wire is connected to the grounding terminal seat 8 on the outer periphery of the metal protective tube 6, in the connection portion of the power cable using the water shielding shrinkage tube, the water that has entered the conductor of the grounding wire is not The water pressure may reach the connection body inside the impermeable tube, which may reduce the electrical insulation performance.

  Therefore, at the power cable connection using a water-shrinkable shrink tube, waterproofing of the end of the ground wire in the water-shrink shrink tube must be done with great care so that it can withstand internal pressure. There is also a problem that the necessity of skilled workers arises and the construction takes time.

  This invention is made in view of this point, and it aims at providing the connection part for electric power cables which can prevent the penetration | invasion of the water to the connection part of the electric power cable via a grounding wire, and is easy to assemble. To do.

  The power cable connecting portion of the present invention includes a connecting portion formed by connecting a cable conductor exposed at the end of the power cable and a member to be connected, and covering the connecting portion with an insulating layer and a metal shielding layer. And a heat-shrinkable water shielding tube that covers and shields the heat-shrinkage tube, and includes a ground wire for grounding the shielding layer, and the heat-shrinkage shielding tube from the inside to the outside of the heat-shrinkable water-shielding tube. It is arranged extending along the axial direction of the water tube, and one end thereof is connected to the shielding layer in the heat-shrinkable impermeable tube, and on the other end side outside the heat-shrinkable impermeable tube, A structure is provided that includes a lead bar having conductivity to which a ground line is connected. The connected member may be any member as long as it is connected to the cable conductor, regardless of whether it has conductivity. For example, when this power cable connection portion is a termination connection portion, it may be a conductor lead bar inserted into the insulator, and when the power cable connection portion is an intermediate connection portion, It may be a cable conductor of a power cable.

  As described above, according to the present invention, water can be prevented from entering the connecting portion of the power cable via the ground wire and can be easily assembled.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a partial cross-sectional view showing a configuration of a power cable connecting portion 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The power cable connecting portion 100 shown in FIG. 1 is formed by covering a connecting portion where the conductors 5 and 5 of a pair of power cables 4 and 4 are connected with a heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140. Water intrusion into the heat-shrinkable and water-impervious tube 140 is prevented by waterproofing the heat-shrinkable and water-impervious tube 140 and the anticorrosion portions 128 and 129 disposed at both ends of the heat-shrinkable and water-impervious tube 140.

As a result, even if the power cable connection portion 100 is buried in, for example, a tunnel that is buried in 10 m of water and may be subjected to water pressure of 98 kpa (= 1 kgf / cm ² ), Do not flood.

  In FIG. 1, a pair of power cables 4 connected to each other (in FIG. 1, indicated by 4-1 and 4-2 for convenience) are rubber plastic insulated power cables using a rubber plastic material as an electrical insulating material. It is.

  The power cable 4 is configured by covering the periphery of the cable conductor 5 with an internal semiconductive layer (not shown), a cable insulator 12, an external semiconductive layer 9, a wire shield (cable shielding layer) 14, and a sheath 17 in order from the inside. Has been. In the power cable 4, the external semiconductive layer 9 has an external semiconductive tape 9 a disposed inside the wire shield 14 on the outer peripheral surface thereof.

  In the power cable connecting portion 100 shown in FIG. 1, a pair of power cables 4-1 and 4-2 are arranged in a straight line with their ends abutted, and the cable conductors 5 and 5 exposed at both ends thereof are The conductor connection pipe 3 is connected. Here, the cable conductor 5 of the power cable 4-2 is a connected member connected to the power cable 4-1.

  The ends of the power cables 4 to be connected are cable conductors 5 in order from the tip by stripping the cable insulator 12, the external semiconductive layer 9, the external semiconductive tape 9a, and the wire shield 14 from the terminal side. The cable insulator 12, the external semiconductive layer 9, the external semiconductive tape 9a, the wire shield 14, and the cable sheath 17 are exposed. The wire shield 14 is disposed in a state of being folded back on the external semiconductive tape 9a. In FIG. 1, in order to show the folded state of the wire shield 14, each component on the cable external semiconductive tape 9a is shown in cross section.

  A semiconductive tape 15 is wound around the outer periphery of the conductor connection tube 3 so that the outer peripheral surface is substantially flush with the outer diameter of the cable insulator 12 of the power cable connected by the conductor connection tube 3.

  A connection portion connected by the conductor connection tube 3 and wound with the semiconductive tape 15 is covered with an insulating rubber block 110 that shrinks at room temperature.

  The insulating rubber block 110 is configured as one unit with an inner electrode 112 having electrical conductivity in contact with the outer surface of the conductor connecting tube 3, an insulating reinforcing layer 114 having insulating properties, and an outer shielding layer 116 having electrical conductivity. Yes.

  The internal electrode 112 is used to relieve the electric field in the vicinity of the corner of the conductor connecting tube 3 that contacts the surface of the conductor connecting tube where the electric field concentrates or the cable insulator, and covers the conductor connecting tube 3 on the conductor connecting tube 3 Is provided. That is, both end portions of the internal electrode 112 extend longer than the tip of the conductor connection tube 3 and abut against the cable insulator 12. The internal electrode 112 is made of a conductive material such as ethylene propylene rubber, silicone rubber, ethylene vinyl acetate or the like mixed with a conductive material such as carbon.

  Further, the reinforcing insulating layer 114 is made of an insulating material, preferably a rubber plastic material, for example, an elastomer such as ethylene propylene rubber or silicone rubber, on the connecting portion of the power cables 4-1, 4-2. Both end portions are in contact with the cable insulator 12.

  The external shielding layer 116 is provided on the reinforcing insulating layer 114, and includes a cylindrical outer peripheral portion 116a and a bell mouth-shaped end portion (hereinafter referred to as a “bell mouth portion”) 116b that relaxes the electric field on the low voltage side. Have. Note that the bell mouth portion 116 b is in contact with the cable insulator 12.

  The outer shielding layer 116 is made of a conductive material, for example, an elastomer such as ethylene propylene rubber, silicone rubber, or ethylene vinyl acetate mixed with a conductive substance such as carbon.

  A semiconductive tape 122 is wound around the outer periphery of the insulating rubber block 110.

  The semiconductive tape 122 is wound around the outer semiconductive layer 9 and the external semiconductive tape 9a of the power cables 4 and 4 together with the insulating rubber block 110 to cover them.

  That is, the semiconductive tape 122 connects the cable external semiconductive tapes 9a and 9a apart from each other across the end portions of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2, that is, the external semiconductive layers 9 and 9. .

  On the outer periphery of the layer formed by the semiconductive tape 122, a metal shielding layer 124 made of a metal conductive member that electrically connects the wire shields 14 and 14 of the power cables 4 and 4 is provided.

  Here, the metal shielding layer 124 is formed of a conductive and flexible member, for example, a flat knitted wire, and the wire shield of the power cable 4 at one end (the left end shown in FIG. 1) 124a. 14.

  Further, the metal shielding layer 124 is grounded at the other end (the right end shown in FIG. 1) 124b together with the wire shield 14 of the power cable 4 and the outside of the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube 140 via the draw bar 151. Connected to line 150.

  FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view of a connecting portion of the power cable shown in FIG.

  The other end portion 124b of the metal shielding layer 124 extends and is connected to a wire shield (cable shielding layer) 14 arranged in a folded state on the cable external semiconductive tape 9a. A ground connection portion 130 is disposed on the other end portion 124 b on the wire shield 14, and one end portion 152 of the lead bar 151 is connected to the ground connection portion 130.

  The ground connection part 130 has conductivity, and here, it is constituted by a ground connection main body part 132 made of a flat knitted plated wire, a crimping cylinder part 136 joined to the ground connection main body part 132, and the like. Yes. The ground connection portion 130 is disposed on the wire shield 14 of the other power cable 4-2 along the axial direction of the power cable 4-2.

  The ground connection main body part 132 is bent so as to be folded and disposed on the other end part 124 b of the metal shielding layer 124 on the wire shield 14, and a part thereof is fitted to the other end part 124 b so that the wire shield is formed. 14 is electrically connected.

  The crimping cylinder part 136 is disposed so as to open in a direction away from the outer side in the axial direction with respect to the connecting portion of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2. ing. Thereby, the metal shielding layer 124 and the drawing bar 151 are connected in a conductive state.

  The lead bar 151 is disposed along the axial direction of the power cable 4, and the other end 153 is led out of the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube 140.

  The lead bar 151 is formed by covering a rod-shaped conductive main body 155 made of a conductive member such as copper with an insulating covering material 156.

Here, the covering material 156 is formed of a heat-shrinkable tube having flame retardance that contracts when heated, and one end 155a of the conductive main body 155 is equivalent to one end 155a of the conductive main body 155 (corresponding to one end 152 of the drawer bar 151). The opening end side of the inserted compression cylinder part 136 is covered. For example, when the power cable 4 is of 66 kv class and the grounding wire is 38 mm ² , the drawing bar 151 is formed by covering a φ8 mm copper bar with a heat shrinkable tube. The cross-sectional shape of the conductive main body portion 155 may be any shape such as a round shape or a rectangular shape such as a square shape. More specifically, the conductive main body portion 155 includes a round bar, a square bar, a flat plate, or the like. It is comprised with the shape of a copper member.

  Note that an insulating layer 126 covering the metal shielding layer 124 is formed on the metal shielding layer 124. Here, the insulating layer 126 is covered with an insulating tape wrapped around the end of the cable sheath 17 in each of the power cables 4 and 4 and the metal shielding layer 124 between the ends of the cable sheaths 17 and 17. It is formed by doing.

  On the insulating layer 126, a heat-shrink water-impervious tube 140 is disposed.

  This heat-shrink water-impervious tube 140 covers the entire connection portion of the power cables 4-1, 4-2.

  The heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube 140 is made of a sheet-like member that is formed with an adhesive layer on the inside and shrinks when heated. The sheet-like member is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the insulating layer 126 and heated. It is attached in close contact.

  Both end portions 141 and 142 of the heat shrink and water shielding tube 140 are waterproofed. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, one end portion 141 is attached in close contact with the outer surface of the cable sheath 17 of the power cable 4-1, and is waterproofed by the anticorrosion portion 128. As a result, water intrusion into the heat-shrinkage / water-insulating tube 140 that encloses the connecting portion of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2 from between the one end 141 of the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140 and the power cable 4-1 is performed. It is prevented.

  Further, the other end 142 side is attached in close contact with the outer surface of the cable sheath 17 of the power cable 4-2 and the ground connection portion 130 and the drawing bar 151 disposed on the cable sheath 17. In the other end 142, the other end 142a including a portion attached to the outer surface of the drawer bar 151 is waterproofed by the anticorrosion portion 129.

  The anticorrosion part 129 has a cylindrical occlusion cylinder part 129a that occludes the cable sheath 17 and the other end 142a that is in close contact with the draw bar 151, and an anticorrosion tape 129b wound around the occlusion cylinder part 129a. Furthermore, the anticorrosion part 129 has the obstruction | occlusion member 129c interposed between the power cable 4-2 and the drawer | drawing-out stick 151. FIG.

  The closing member 129 c closes and seals between the power cable 4-2 and the drawing bar 151 and the other end 142 a of the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube 140.

  By this anticorrosion part 129, the heat shrinkage-shielding that encloses the connecting portion of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2 from between the other end 142 a of the heat-shrinkage and water-impervious tube 140, the power cable 4-2, and the drawer rod 151. Inundation into the water tube 140 is prevented.

  The other end 153 led to the outside of the heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube 140 is electrically connected to one end 150 c of the ground wire 150 via the crimp sleeve 161.

The ground wire 150 is, for example, a vinyl insulated wire (IV wire), and is composed of a conductor 150a made of a stranded wire and an insulation coating material 150b that covers the conductor 150a. The diameter of the ground wire 150 is smaller than the diameter of the lead bar 151. For example, when the power cable 4 is a 66 kv class cable, the diameter is 38 mm ² .

  As shown in FIG. 2, the crimp sleeve 161 has both the other end portion 155b of the conductive main body portion 155 exposed at the other end portion 153 of the lead bar 151 and the conductor 150b exposed at one end portion 150c of the ground wire 150. Inserted and crimped each. In addition, although it was set as the crimping | compression-bonding sleep 161 as a component which electrically connects the other end part 153 of the drawer | drawing-out stick | rod 151, and the conductor 150b of the grounding wire 150, if the shape is not restricted to a cylinder shape and both conduct | electrically_connect, Any thing is acceptable. For example, the lead bar 151 and the ground wire 150 may be joined using solder or the like.

  Further, the connecting portion between the lead bar 151 including the crimping sleeve 161 and the ground wire 150 has an insulating property, and here is covered with a connection covering material 162 that is shrunk by heating and has flame retardancy. .

  The connection covering material 162 is disposed at a position away from the other end 142 of the heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube 140, and the connecting portion between the draw bar 151 and the ground wire 150 is disposed at the heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube 140. It is arrange | positioned away from.

  According to the present embodiment, the grounding wire 150 is a metal made up of wire shields (cable shielding layers) 14 and 14 of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2 in the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube 140 and a flat braided wire. A connection portion with the shielding layer 124 is connected to a conductive main body portion 155 that is a metal conducting rod via a lead bar 151 covered with an insulating coating material 156. That is, the grounding of the connection portion between the wire shields (cable shielding layers) 14 and 14 of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2 and the metal shielding layer 124 of the flat braided wire disposed around the connection portion main body is as follows. It is pulled out from the inside of the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140 from the drawing bar 151 and connected to the ground wire 150 outside the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140.

  Since the ground wire 150 uses a wire that covers the conductor 150a, which is a stranded wire conductor such as an IV wire, with the insulation coating material 150b, the insulation coating material 150b is damaged, and water penetrates along the conductor 150a inside the ground wire 150. It is assumed that

  In the present embodiment, the ground wire 150 is connected to the drawer bar 151 on the outside of the heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube 140, that is, on the outside of the anticorrosion part 129. For this reason, even when water intrudes into the grounding wire 150, the power cables 4-1 and 4- in the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140 do not enter the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube 140 through the conductor 150a. The connection portion between the two wire shields (cable shielding layers) 14 and 14 and the metal shielding layer 124 of the flat braided wire disposed around the connection portion main body can be grounded.

  As a result, even when the power cable connecting portion 100 is laid in the cave and submerged, the submersion into the ground wire 150 causes the inside of the connection portion between the conductors 5 and 5 of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2. It is possible to prevent the electrical insulation performance from being deteriorated due to water immersion in the connection portion 100.

  In addition, although the connection part 100 for electric power cables of this Embodiment was demonstrated as an intermediate | middle connection part which connects a pair of electric power cables 4-1 and 4-2 in a straight line, it is coat | covered with the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube 140. As long as the ground wire is drawn out from the end of the power cable, it may be a terminal portion of the power cable, a three-branch intermediate connection portion of the power cable, an intermediate connection portion bifurcated, or the like. For example, in addition to the power cables 4-1 and 4-2, a cable conductor of a power cable different from the cable conductors of the power cables 4-1 and 4-2 is added to the conductor connection pipe 3 in the power cable connection unit 100. You may comprise so that at least 1 or more may be inserted and connected. In addition, in the power cable connection portion 100, instead of the power cable 4-2, a member having no conductivity is connected to the cable conductor of the power cable 4-1, and the power cable connection portion is used as a termination connection portion. It may be configured.

  The power cable connecting portion according to the first aspect of the present invention includes a connecting portion formed by connecting a cable conductor exposed at a terminal of a power cable and a connected member and covering the connecting member with an insulating layer and a metal shielding layer. A connecting portion for a power cable having a heat-shrinkable and water-insulating tube that covers and shields the connecting portion by heat shrinkage, and a grounding wire for grounding the shielding layer, and an outside from the inside of the heat-shrinkable and water-insulating tube And extending along the axial direction of the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube, one end of which is connected to the shielding layer in the heat-shrinkable water-proofing tube, and On the end side, a configuration is adopted that comprises a conductive drawer rod body to which the ground wire is connected.

  According to this configuration, in the connection portion with the other conductor at the end of the power cable covered with the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube, the draw-out bar connected to the metal shielding layer at one end in the heat-shrinkable water shielding tube is provided. The heat shrinkable water shielding tube is extended to the outside and connected to the ground wire at the extended other end side.

  That is, the grounding of the connection portion in the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube is performed by being connected to the grounding wire outside the heat-shrinkable water-insulating tube through the drawer bar.

  Therefore, since the heat-shrinkable tube covers the connection portion of the power cable and shields it from water, it can be easily implemented as compared with the conventional structure in which the connection portion is covered by a metal protective tube, and water is supplied from inside the grounding wire. Does not penetrate into the heat-shrinkable tube.

  In the power cable connecting portion according to the second aspect of the present invention, in the above configuration, the connected member is connected to the cable conductor via a conductor connection tube, and is at least one different from the power cable. The structure which is a cable conductor of the above electric power cable is taken.

  According to this configuration, in the connection portion for the power cable in which the conductors of the plurality of power cables are connected to each other, the connection portion of each power cable is covered with the heat shrinkable tube so as to shield the water. Compared to the structure covering the connecting portion, it can be easily implemented, and water does not travel from the inside of the ground wire to enter the heat-shrinkable tube. Therefore, it is possible to prevent water from entering the connecting portions of the plurality of power cables via the grounding wire and easily assemble them.

  The power cable connecting portion according to the present invention has an effect that can prevent water from entering the connecting portion of the power cable via the grounding wire and can be easily assembled. It is useful as a connecting portion for a power cable to be connected.

The fragmentary sectional view which shows the structure of the connection part for electric power cables which concerns on one embodiment of this invention Partial enlarged view of the power cable connecting portion shown in FIG. Sectional view showing a conventional power cable connection

Explanation of symbols

4 Power cable 5 Cable conductor 9 External semiconductive layer 12 Cable insulator (insulating layer)
14 Wire shield (metal shielding layer)
17 Cable sheath 100 Power cable connection 110 Insulating rubber block (insulating layer)
124 Metal shielding layer 126 Insulating layer 130 Ground connection portion 132 Ground connection main body portion 136 Crimp cylinder portion 150 Ground wire 151 Lead bar 152 One end portion 153 Other end portion 155 Conductive main body portion 155a One end portion 156 Covering material

Claims (2)

Connect the cable conductor exposed at the end of the power cable to the connected member and cover it with an insulating layer and a metal shielding layer, and heat-shrink shielding that covers and shields the connection by heat shrinkage. A power cable connection having a water tube,
A ground wire for grounding the shielding layer;
From the inside of the heat-shrinkable impermeable tube, arranged to extend along the axial direction of the heat-shrinkable impermeable tube, one end is connected to the shielding layer in the heat-shrinkable impermeable tube, On the other end side outside the heat-shrinkable water-impervious tube, a lead bar having conductivity to which the ground wire is connected;
A connection portion for a power cable, comprising:   2. The electric power according to claim 1, wherein the connected member is a cable conductor of at least one electric power cable different from the electric power cable connected to the cable conductor via a conductor connecting pipe. Cable connection.

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