US3829603A - Power cable with grounding conductors - Google Patents
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- H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
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- H01B9/02—Power cables with screens or conductive layers, e.g. for avoiding large potential gradients
- H01B9/025—Power cables with screens or conductive layers, e.g. for avoiding large potential gradients composed of helicoidally wound wire-conductors
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- H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
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- H01B9/02—Power cables with screens or conductive layers, e.g. for avoiding large potential gradients
- H01B9/028—Power cables with screens or conductive layers, e.g. for avoiding large potential gradients with screen grounding means, e.g. drain wires
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- a grounding conductor in an interstice may open at one or more points, and still function to carry grounding current.
- all the grounding conductors may be open at some points without ungrounding the present cable which comprises a plurality, such as but not limited to, three, of insulated power current conductors, stranded together; a plurality of strands of resilient filler material, which may comprise outwardly facing grooves, laid in interstices between the insulated conductors; and a plurality of uninsulated grounding conductors laid in the interstices over the strands. These are supported in the grooves when the strands comprise grooves.
- Our cable also comprises at least one uninsulated grounding wire wound helically around the insulated and the grounding conductors which latter are urged outwardly by the filler strands against the grounding wire, and an abrasion-resistant jacket surrounding the grounding wire.
- FIG. 1 shows a section of a cable of our invention.
- FIG. 2 shows a partial section of the cable of FIG. 1 comprising an alternative filler strand.
- the cable has 3 flexible-stranded 4/0 Awg tinned-copper conductors 11, 12, 13 with respective 80-mil walls of insulation 14, 15, 16 to comprise insulated power current conductors designated 17, 18, 19.
- the insulated conductors 17-19 are triplexed together with a left hand lay providing interstices 21, 22, 23 and a central opening 24 containing an insulated ground check strand 26.
- resilient filler strands 27, 28, 29 which are conveniently formed by extruding rods of neoprene or rubber.
- Other materials such as twisted fibers can be used for the strands 27-29 so long as they have sufficient nerve or resiliency to continue to recover from compression for indefinite periods of time.
- Pasty materials or materials that are plastic in the sense that they are subject to permanent compressive deformation are not suitable for the strands '27-29.
- Over the strands 27-29 within the interstices 21-23 we have laid three 3 Awg grounding conductors 31, 32, 33 stranded from tinned copper wires.
- the size of the strands 27-29 is selected sufficiently large to project the surfaces of the conductors 31-33 radially outwardly of the circle inscribing the conductors 17-19.
- the illustrated cable It is constructed to have a cylindrical outer surface. Where circularity of the cable section is not required it is at least necessary that the surfaces of the conductors 31-33 project beyond the tangent lines connecting the surfaces of the insulated conductors so that these surfaces will be urged against any wrappings that are applied around the assembled conductors. Where, as in the present cable 10, it is desired to produce a cylindrical cable, additional filler material, not necessarily resilient, may be added such as filler strands 34.
- a grounding wire 36 is helically wrapped over the insulated conductors 17-19 and grounding conductors 31-33 making permanent electrical contact with the latter.
- the wire 36 is one of seven 28 Awg wires wound in parallel with a right hand lay. It might, however, within the scope of our invention be comprised in a braided tape, or take the form of a flat wire of substantial width.
- the essential feature of the wires 36 is that they comprise a large plurality of electrically conducting members connecting the conductors 31-33 circumferentially at many points along the cable 10.
- a resilient filler strand 42 has been extruded in a shape providing a lengthwise groove 43 to support the grounding conductor 31.
- the strand 42 has a restricted section 44 that nests into the base of the interstice 21 and comprises more positive means of securing the continued proper positioning of the grounding conductor against the grounding wires 36.
- the number of strands 42 used in any cable will equal the number of interstices bearing grounding conductors.
- the grounding wires 36 In the manufacture of the cable 10 it is economical to apply the grounding wires 36 with the same length of lay and in the same operation as that for the application of the tape 37 and, indeed, the wires 36 may first have been bonded against the underside of the binder tape.
- a power cable comprising:
- grounding conductors is three.
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| US4533790A (en) * | 1983-02-16 | 1985-08-06 | Akzona Incorporated | Electrical conductor assembly |
| US4552432A (en) * | 1983-04-21 | 1985-11-12 | Cooper Industries, Inc. | Hybrid cable |
| US4588852A (en) * | 1984-12-21 | 1986-05-13 | Amp Incorporated | Stable impedance ribbon coax cable |
| US4707569A (en) * | 1985-06-03 | 1987-11-17 | Japan Styrene Paper Corporation | Multi-conductor cable |
| US4719319A (en) * | 1986-03-11 | 1988-01-12 | Amp Incorporated | Spiral configuration ribbon coaxial cable |
| US5218167A (en) * | 1986-11-28 | 1993-06-08 | Gasque Jr Samuel N | Cable assembly with lightning protection |
| US4866842A (en) * | 1988-09-30 | 1989-09-19 | Amp Incorporated | Method of making a shielded cable harness |
| US4958333A (en) * | 1989-01-12 | 1990-09-18 | Southwest Research Institute | Shielding for seismic cables |
| US5113040A (en) * | 1990-02-13 | 1992-05-12 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Flexible electrical cable having two stranded conductors |
| US5110999A (en) * | 1990-12-04 | 1992-05-05 | Todd Barbera | Audiophile cable transferring power substantially free from phase delays |
| US5416269A (en) * | 1993-11-01 | 1995-05-16 | Raychem Corporation | Insulated cable and method of making same |
| US5834699A (en) * | 1996-02-21 | 1998-11-10 | The Whitaker Corporation | Cable with spaced helices |
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Owner name: ANACONDA-ERICSSON INC., A CORP. OF DE Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:ANACONDA COMPANY, THE A CORP. OF DE;REEL/FRAME:003846/0822 Effective date: 19800728 Owner name: ANACONDA-ERICSSON INC., A CORP. OF, DELAWARE Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:ANACONDA COMPANY, THE A CORP. OF DE;REEL/FRAME:003846/0822 Effective date: 19800728 |
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