Classifications

• • 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
• • 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
  • H01B7/02—Disposition of insulation
  • H01B7/0266—Disposition of insulation comprising one or more braided layers of insulation
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
  • D04C—BRAIDING OR MANUFACTURE OF LACE, INCLUDING BOBBIN-NET OR CARBONISED LACE; BRAIDING MACHINES; BRAID; LACE
  • D04C1/00—Braid or lace, e.g. pillow-lace; Processes for the manufacture thereof
  • D04C1/02—Braid or lace, e.g. pillow-lace; Processes for the manufacture thereof made from particular materials
• • 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
  • H01B7/0009—Details relating to the conductive cores
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
  • A41D1/00—Garments
  • A41D1/002—Garments adapted to accommodate electronic equipment
  • A41D1/005—Garments adapted to accommodate electronic equipment with embedded cable or connector
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D10—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B2401/00—Physical properties
  • D10B2401/16—Physical properties antistatic; conductive

Definitions

• the Levi's ICD+ jacket range were designed to carry a mobile telecommunications device, portable audio device (an MP3 player), user headphones and a microphone.
• the jackets were also provided with wiring to connect these devices together and a user keypad for controlling the devices and providing added functionality in terms of synchronising device operation.
• the Levi's ICD+ jackets are an example of non-rigid items which require a component part, in this case an electrical cable, more generally associated with the electrical or electronics industry than with the clothing industry.
• textile electrical insulator includes fibre or filament insulative material.
• the fibre or filament insulative material may be provided in the form of one or more yarns.
• Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a first embodiment of a portion of cable made in accordance with the present invention.
• Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a second embodiment of a portion of cable made in accordance with the present invention.
• cable 10 includes a first electrical conductor 11 in the form of a single core of textile material made from Lurex ® thread.
• Lurex is the trade name for a commercially available material established in the garment construction industry. Lurex is composed of a nylon thread that is coated with a conductor, in this case coated with copper. The first electrical conductor could also be of carbon fibre.
• a first electrical insulator 12 Surrounding the core 11 is a first electrical insulator 12 having a braided construction. This is electrically insulative due to the insulating properties of the material or materials used in the braiding process. Suitable materials include nylon, polyamide, acetate, cotton, wool.
• Suitable materials include coated textiles such as Lurex or any other electrically conductive textile yarn.
• the braided conductor 12 may be produced from just one type of yarn or a number of different yarns and by varying the proportions of such yarns with respect to each other and the braiding pattern used, the characteristics of the braiding may be adjusted as will be appreciated by the person skilled in the art. The characteristics of the braiding may be adjusted to suit the intended application of the cable.
• the yarns selected for the braiding process and the braiding pattern used may be selected to tailor the required feel and look of the cable. This is especially important where the cables are included in an item such as a garment or soft furnishing if the cable can be seen or handled.
• yarn materials used for the outermost braiding can be chosen to give the cable a particular colour or texture.
• a material which is capable of accepting a surface coating such as a dye
• the cable may be dyed along with other parts of the article it is incorporated in. Thus, it is not necessarily to produce a number of cables having a different colour where the cable is to form part of an item which is to undergo a dying process.
• the materials used for the first conductors 11 may be mono filament or multi filament or arranged to form a braid.
• the yarns used in the braiding process to form any one of the conducting or insulating braids may be mono filament or multi filament and each yarn may comprise more than one material.
• Each braid may comprise more than one yarn type.
• Suitable conducting materials include carbon fibre conductive polymers, or polymers otherwise having a conductive property due to their composition.
• Other suitable conducting materials include insulators such as polyamide coated with conductors, for example coatings of nickel, copper, aluminium, gold and slivers Plating techniques include electroless plating.
• Suitable insulating materials include nylon, polyamide, acetate, cotton and wool. In fact any suitable textile materials may be used irrespective of whether they are natural or man made providing they can be processed to form the cables of the present invention.
• the cables can be extremely soft and flexible and fastened to cloth by stitching, piping or even woven into a base cloth. Electromagnetic shielding can be achieved. Cables made in accordance with the present invention are very robust, since the braided construction allows them to extend in length when tension is applied to them. Such extension is more readily permitted when all components of the cable are of a braided construction.
• the cores may alternatively be insulators in certain arrangements.
• Optical fibre elements may be included in the cable.
• the cable of the present invention may themselves be used as 'yarn' in a knitting or weaving process. From reading the present disclosure, other modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art. Such modifications may involve other features which are already known in the design, manufacture and use of cables, garments, upholstered articles and other soft furnishings and applications thereof and which may be used instead of or in addition to features already described herein.

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