Patents Assigned to Nexans
  • Patent number: 11961641
    Abstract: A deep sea lifting cable having a cable core (36) surrounded by armouring (32), wherein the armouring is surrounded by an outer jacket (33), wherein the cable core comprises at least one power cable (10) is disclosed. The armouring (32) comprises synthetic stiff ropes and interstices (35) between the stiff ropes are filed with a high viscous filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Andreas Gabrielsen
  • Patent number: 11958670
    Abstract: A cable tie has a band and having a tensioning device which is integrated in the band and which divides the band into a first and a second region, each of which regions has a toothed portion. A cable channel, or a component, to which an object, such as for example a cable harness, is to be fastened can remain in the fitting position because both ends of the cable tie can be plugged into cable locks from one side. No tools are required for the fitting of the cable tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Gerhard Lindner
  • Patent number: 11948705
    Abstract: An insulated electrically conductive element (1) for the aerospace field, has an elongate electrically conductive element surrounded by at least two layers. The two layers are being an electrically insulating layer (4) surrounding the elongate electrically conductive element (2) and a first semiconductor layer (5) surrounding the electrically insulating layer (4). At least one of the layers has having at least one fluoropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Thomas Hahner, Patrick Rybski, Dimitri Charrier, Adrien Charmetant, Clara Lagomarsini, Nabil Mellouky, Marcelo Paixao Dantas
  • Patent number: 11940077
    Abstract: An extended Direct Electric Heating system includes a conduit arrangement for transporting fluid from at least one subsea well apparatus to a topside or onshore location/The conduit arrangement has at least one Direct Electric Heating conduit section arranged adjacent to at least one heat traced conduit section in a longitudinal direction of the conduit sections between a subsea connection point and the at least one subsea well apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Oyvind Iversen, Torunn Lund Clasen
  • Patent number: 11936152
    Abstract: A method is provided for electrically conductively connecting a contact part to a conductor having a multiplicity of individual wires includes inserting the conductor into a cavity in the contact part and lowering a tool for friction stir welding onto the contact part. The tool for friction stir welding is moved on the contact part in a plane, thus giving rise to a planar cohesive connection between the contact part and the conductor. In this way, a direct cohesive connection of a stranded conductor and a contact part is produced without the need for an additional part such as a sleeve, for example, to prevent the stranded conductor from “sticking out”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Helmut Steinberg
  • Patent number: 11927824
    Abstract: An assembly having a tube and at least one optical cable with the optical cable being placed inside the tube. The tube has an inner diameter D and in that the optical cable has an outer diameter d, the ratio d/D ranging from 0.10 to 0.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Eloïse Dubuet, Thomas Hähner
  • Patent number: 11892348
    Abstract: A system for stiffening a structure has at least one pair of tie rods (3), each tie rod (3) of the pair of tie rods (3) having a first end (4) fastened to the structure (2) and a second end (5), and at least one device (6) for tensioning the tie rods (3) having a deformable linking element (7) fastened to the second end (5) of each tie rod (3) so as to connect the tie rods (3). An actuator (10) is configured to deform the linking element (7) so as to make it pass from an inactive configuration in which the tie rods (3) are in a first state of tension to an active configuration in which the tie rods (3) are in a second state of tension, different than the first state of tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Emilie Chartier, Jérémy Amar, Morgan Printemps, Ludovic Quevillier, Aymeric Richard, Lucas Gillet, Emile Soulie
  • Patent number: 11876358
    Abstract: A method for creating a flexible transition joint between HVDC-MI cables having different diameters. The central wires of the conductors are thermally joined by a conical connection piece. The strands of the layers of stranded wires surrounding the central wires are rewound, cut and thermally joined along their respective lay lengths. The stranded are sanded/ground along the lay length of the strands to form a smooth uniform transition having the same slope as the conical connection piece. A paper lapping machine is used to form an insulation patch over the transition joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Gard Nielsen, Ben Kristian Johansen
  • Patent number: 11848118
    Abstract: An aluminium based conductor made of an alloy has at least 98 wt % aluminium, from 0.25 to 0.45 wt % iron, from 0.07 to 0.25 wt % copper and from 0.001 to 0.10 wt % boron, having high strength and conductivity. The present arrangement also includes a method for obtaining such conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Audun Johanson
  • Patent number: 11837381
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cable includes at least one elongated electrically conducting element and at least one composite layer surrounding the elongated electrically conducting element. The composite layer is obtained from at least one step of impregnation of a non-woven fibrous material with a geopolymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Franck Gyppaz, Thierry Auvray, Nicolas Estreboou
  • Patent number: 11837820
    Abstract: This interconnection module (10) between a connection cord and a connection panel comprises a pair of spring-loaded conductive pins (12) and a molded body (14) in which a portion of said pair of pins (12) is embedded. At least one of the ends (121, 122) of each pin (12) projects from the body (14) and the body (14) forms a hollow volume making the module (10) clippable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Alan Brown, Rahul Rathod, John Maddocks, Colin Statham, Martin Rossbach
  • Patent number: 11837386
    Abstract: A reinforced water barrier over a joint between power cables is suited for subsea cables having different water barrier/sheathing designs. The reinforced water barrier has an intermediate water barrier made of lead or a lead alloy which stretches over the joint and is attached to the underlaying water barriers of the joined cables, and which is reinforced by being coated with a layer of polyethylene based adhesive followed by a layer of polymeric outer sheathing. The adhesive layer and the layer of polymeric outer sheathing are thermally set by a heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Massimiliano Mauri, Simon Jorgensen, Pal Braekke Gronberg
  • Patent number: 11810695
    Abstract: A cable, in particular a power and/or telecommunication cable, has at least one elongated electrically conductive element, and at least one fire-resistant layer surrounding said elongated electrically conductive element. The fire-resistant layer is a ceramic layer in direct physical contact with the elongated electrically conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Maxime Auvergne, Franck Gyppaz
  • Patent number: 11796118
    Abstract: A vacuum-insulated line (200) has an inner and an outer corrugated hose (101, 102) which are separated from one another by an evacuated intermediate space (103). One of the corrugated hoses is encased with a wound hose (201). The wound hose (201) prevents the line (200) from becoming elongated when it is charged with pressure during the transport of a medium. The wound hose (201) furthermore protects the line against external mechanical loads or damage. The wound hose simultaneously protects the corrugated hoses against excessive bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Holger Schulz, Jurgen Essler
  • Patent number: 11798709
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising a crosslinked layer obtained from a polymer composition, the polymer composition comprising: a polymer blend comprising an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, nitrile rubber (NBR), and an ethylene-methyl acrylate (EMA) copolymer; a crosslinking agent; and a flame-retardant filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Dae-Up Ahn, Jong-Chan Lim
  • Patent number: 11791065
    Abstract: A power cable has a cable core with at least one conductor with an insulating system and a water barrier surrounding the cable core. The water barrier has a helically wound strength bearing layer interconnected by a low melting point material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Audun Johanson, Robin Sangar
  • Patent number: 11788903
    Abstract: An optical temperature sensor head having an optical fibre and a sensor material, which is optically connected to a free end of the optical fibre. The free end of the optical fibre has an overmould made of a plastics material, which engages over a free end of the optical fibre and forms a protective body. A transparent window is arranged in the protective body. The window permits an optical connection with the free end of the optical fibre. Luminescence radiation from a sensor material can enter the optical fibre. The protective body has the effect that the temperature sensor head is mechanically stable and is insensitive to environmental influences. A temperature sensor device having such a temperature sensor head. An electric machine having a winding with a winding wire, which is connected to a proposed temperature sensor head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Helmut Steinberg, Dietmar Volkl
  • Patent number: 11788666
    Abstract: A plug-in coupling for connecting a first to a second double-walled, vacuum-insulated cryogenic line includes a coupling plug and a coupling socket. The coupling plug has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a first connecting flange and is connected to the first cryogenic line. The coupling socket has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a second connecting flange and is connected to the second cryogenic line. In an assembled state of the plug-in coupling, the coupling plug has been plugged into an open annular gap in the coupling socket. The annular gap is surrounded both at its inner circumference and at its outer circumference by an insulating vacuum, whereby the thermal insulation of the plug-in coupling is improved. This construction makes possible a shorter design of the plug-in coupling, which, while achieving good thermal insulation, is space-saving and easy to handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Holger Schulz, Christian Frohne
  • Patent number: 11772144
    Abstract: A process is provided for the continuous production of thin-walled, radially closed hollow profiles composed of nonferrous metals and having a small cross section comprises supply of a flat strip of the metal to a forming apparatus at a first supply speed, the thickness of the strip corresponding to the wall thickness of the hollow profile. The forming apparatus continuous forms the flat strip into a shape corresponding to the hollow profile. After forming, two opposite edges of the flat strip rest flush against one another in a contact region and are continuously welded by means of a laser which emits light having a wavelength of less than 600 nm. The laser heats an area in a welding region having a diameter of less than 20% of the cross-sectional dimension of the hollow profile. The welded hollow profile is taken off from the welding region and taken up in an uptake device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Ralf Egerer, Olaf Petersen, Steven Dinkel
  • Publication number: 20230268102
    Abstract: A system and method for degassing cables, such as e.g. High-Voltage Alternative Current (HVAC) or High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables, where the system has a reel having a perforated cylinder wall and sealing elements adapted to seal off the inner space of the reel, a gas duct in fluid connection with the inner space, and a source of pressurised and heated gas fluidly connected to the gas duct. The method incudes winding a cable onto the reel and blow heated and pressurised gas into the inner space of the reel/cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: NEXANS
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Erik Markus JARVID, Quentin EYSSAUTIER, Andreas NYBORG, Laurent JENART