Patents Assigned to Nexans
  • Patent number: 8781279
    Abstract: A fiber optic arrangement includes a primary strand, a plurality of secondary connection strands, each of which is coupled to the primary strand at a notch. Tight buffer optical fibers are attached, one at the end of each of the secondary connection strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventor: David Keller
  • Patent number: 8755853
    Abstract: A contact element (4) provided with an electrical connection element (4A), and intended for a superconducting cable unit arranged in a refrigerant, has an electrically conductive plate intended to be borne mechanically by the unit and to be electrically connected to the cable. The plate has through slots (4E, 4E?, 4E?) intended to form thermal conduction baffles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Nicolas Lallouet, Sébastien Delplace
  • Patent number: 8754637
    Abstract: An arrangement is proposed for electrically conductively connecting an electrical component which is mounted in a housing containing oil, to an electrical unit, and mounted in which between the component and the unit at least two cores are arranged which consist of an electrical conductor and an insulation surrounding the conductor. The housing includes an opening which in the position of use is closed in an oil-tight moisture-tight manner which has at least one passage hole (9) for passing the cores (4,5) therethrough. For the cores (4,5) is provided a core for each in which material impermeable to oil is mounted between the conductor and its insulation, in such a way that all hollow spaces existing within the space surrounded by the insulation. The cores (4,5) are guided through at least one sealing plug which tightly surrounds the cores, and the sealing plug is in the position of use mounted in a passage hole (9) of the passage (7) in an oil-tight and moisture-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Otto Nachbauer, Dietmar Voelkl
  • Patent number: 8748747
    Abstract: An arrangement with at least one superconductive cable (1) is indicated which is arranged in a cryostat (KR) serving for guiding a cooling agent, wherein the cryostat (KR) includes at least one thermally insulated metal pipe. To the outside of the cryostat (KR) is applied an electrically well conductive material that is composed of at least two strands (6, 7) which are wound one around the other with oppositely pitched direction around the cryostat (KR). The strands are connected fixedly and immovably to the cryostat (KR) at fixed points (8) mounted longitudinally spaced along an axial length of said cryostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Rainer Soika, Beate West, Ing Mark Stemmle
  • Patent number: 8737788
    Abstract: A multi-tight buffer fiber optic cable includes a first layer of tight buffer optical fibers and at least one second layer of tight buffer optical fibers surrounding the first layer of tight buffer optical fibers. A jacket surrounds the at least one second layer of tight buffer optical fibers, where the first layer of tight buffer optical fibers and the at least one second layer of tight buffer optical fibers are helically wound, and where the at least one second layer of tight buffer optical fibers are helically wound in the same direction as the first layer of tight buffer optical fibers and at substantially the same lay length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: David Keller, Randie Yoder, Dan Rouse, Chris Raynor, Woody Rhodes
  • Patent number: 8727388
    Abstract: A coupling arrangement has a coupling body and a helically shaped undulated metal pipe which has an end face extending along a screw thread of its undulation. A metal holding ring is mounted on the connecting part resting against the latter, where the outer diameter of the holding ring corresponds approximately to the outer diameter of the pipe, where the end face of the holding ring facing the pipe extends along a screw thread corresponding to the screw thread of the pipe, and where the holding ring is connected in the mounted position, fixedly to the connecting part by resting fixedly and tightly against the end face of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Michele Di Palma, Stephan Lange, Klaus Schippl, Christian Frohne
  • Publication number: 20140115859
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided for a helically undulated pipe made of metal, which has an end face extending along a turn of the thread of its undulation and a connecting element to be fastened to the pipe. The connecting element includes a pipe piece which has a helically extending inner surface corresponding to the turn of the thread of the undulation of the pipe. The pipe piece is mounted on the pipe in the undulation of the pipe. A metal ring is arranged on the pipe piece, where the pipe piece has sections with different inner diameters arranged one behind the other in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Nexans
    Inventor: Nexans
  • Patent number: 8712490
    Abstract: A conductor for transmitting electrical power having a cylindrical core (1) clad with a strip of metallic material (2), possibly comprising a superconductor, placed, in the shape of a tube, longitudinally around said core (I), its longitudinal edges being welded to each other along a weld seam (3). The core (1) has a slot (4, 4?) placed under said weld seam (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Christian-Eric Bruzek, Arnaud Allais, Claus-Friedrich Theune
  • Patent number: 8693146
    Abstract: A quench detection system for a fault current limiter (1), in particular, a high temperature superconductor fault current limiter, making use of a differential protection relay wherein in fault event the differential protection relay operates a triggering mechanism of a circuit breaker (2), thereby opening the electrical circuit and interrupting power supply to downstream components, and a method for quench detection wherein the magnitude of voltage drop during quench is converted to a current signal being proportional to the voltage and which is monitored by the differential protection relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventor: Robert Dommerque
  • Patent number: 8692120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical control cable of the type comprising a core having a plurality of polymer filaments, a plurality of strands of conductor material extending in the longitudinal direction of said core, an outer insulating sheath. According to the invention, said strands are distributed uniformly and concentrically over the periphery of said core, in contact with one another in pairs and in contact with said core, and the filaments of said core are secured to one another to form a non-metallic unitary structure that is obtained by organizing said filaments into a plurality of subassemblies, the filaments in any one subassembly being twisted together helically, the subassemblies in turn being twisted with one another to form an overall helix. Advantage: the cable uses a limited number of copper strands while guaranteeing that crimping operations are reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Francis Debladis, Laurent Tribut, Stéphane Morice
  • Patent number: 8688182
    Abstract: A superconductive electric cable is provided in which a cable core is arranged in a cryostat, where the cable core is composed of three phase conductors arranged concentrically around an inner cooling duct, with an electric insulation arranged between the phase conductors, and where the cryostat is surrounded by an electric insulation, which is surrounded by a neutral conductor of normally conductive materials. In this cable, a neutral conductor or a screening is arranged only outside of the cryostat, and is formed by normally conductive material which surrounds the cryostat as a common neutral conductor, where an insulating material is arranged between this neutral conductor and the cryostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Rainer Soika, Mark Stemmle
  • Patent number: 8673821
    Abstract: A coated conductor comprising an improved buffer layer architecture where the buffer layers are obtainable by chemical solution deposition and where the buffer layers essentially adopt the degree of texture of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Joachim Bock, Jürgen Ehrenberg, Mark O. Rikel
  • Patent number: 8668419
    Abstract: A shearable fastening device (1) has a shearable fastener (2) having a plurality of screwthreaded portions (3), a head portion (4) which is connected to the screws threaded portions (3) via a first predetermined weakening (5) and further predetermined weakenings (6) in the form of cross-section constrictions are provided between the screwthreaded portions (3), as well as an internal recess (7), wherein the internal recess (7) extends from the head portion (4) at least into the region of the predetermined weakenings (6). At least one stepped predetermined weakening (8) is formed by its shear-off torque (aNm) being smaller than that of the next predetermined weakening further away from the head portion (4) and the shear-off torque (aNm+1) at the next predetermined weakening closer to the head portion (4) rising again with respect to the shear-off torque (aNm) of the stepped predetermined weakening (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Falk Hardt, Volker Markgraf, Gert Stauch
  • Patent number: 8655424
    Abstract: A superconductive electric cable is provided at least one superconductive conductor having strips or wires, which are wound in at least one layer around a carrier constructed as a pipe. The pipe is elastically deformable in a radial direction with changeable diameters and has a gap extending in a straight line along a circumferential line of the pipe over its entire length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Rainer Soika, Frank Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8646490
    Abstract: A pipeline for the transport of a pressurized flowable medium, consisting of a metal tube corrugated transversely to its longitudinal direction and of a hose which is arranged in the same and consists of plastic. In the position of use the hose bears against the inwardly pointing wave troughs of the metal tube, which hose has a multiplicity of holes separated from one another in the wall of the same over its entire axial length. The wave troughs of the metal tube penetrate slightly into the surface of the hose so as to fix the latter with respect to axial loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Christian Frohne, Dipl.-Ing Klaus Schippl
  • Patent number: 8644899
    Abstract: A coated conductor with a substantially round cross section has a high temperature superconductor layer which is sandwiched between an inner substrate layer and an outer substrate layer to place the high temperature superconductor layer in the region of neutral strain axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Arnaud Allais, Mark O. Rikel, Jürgen Ehrenberg, Christian-Eric Bruzek
  • Patent number: 8639076
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable is provided with a plurality of buffer tubes each with one or more optical fibers, a plurality of strength members and a jacket. The fibers within the cable meet maximum attenuation of substantially 0.07 db increase when decreasing from ?23° C. to ?60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: David Keller, Paul Kroushl, Randie Yoder, Dan Rouse
  • Patent number: 8633381
    Abstract: A termination unit for a multi-phase superconductor cable has, for each phase, a cylindrical modular element (1, 2, 3) having a thermally insulating external envelope (1A, 2A, 3A) containing a superconductor cable portion (7, 8, 9) contained in an internal envelope (1B, 2B, 3B) containing a cooling fluid. A branch element (4, 5, 6) of each phase, provided with an electrical connection element (4A, 5A, 6A), is arranged at the end of each said modular element, where each branch element (4, 5, 6) is directly connected to the corresponding cable portion (7, 8, 9) and only the electrical connection element (4A, 5A, 6A) projecting from the modular elements (1, 2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventor: Nicolas Lallouet
  • Patent number: 8631672
    Abstract: An apparatus is specified for continuous corrugation of a metallic tube (1) which apparatus has a tool holder (13), which can rotate about the initially smooth tube and has a tool (14) which is mounted eccentrically with respect to the tube and forces a corrugation into the tube during operation of the apparatus, which corrugation runs transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tube. A first hollow shaft (12) is attached to the tool holder (13), projects in the pulling-off direction from it, surrounds the tube after the corrugation process and can be rotated about its axis with the tool holder (13) by an electric motor. A second hollow shaft (16) is arranged at a distance from the first hollow shaft (12) and coaxially about the end, facing away from the tool holder (13), of the first hollow shaft (12), which second hollow shaft (16) is mounted such that it can rotate about its axis and can be driven by the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Wilhelm Unger, Volker Zummach, Claus Friedrich Theune
  • Patent number: 8598457
    Abstract: A flexible electrical line has at least one sensor element with two leads in a core, the leads made from insulated electrical conductors which are surrounded by a common outer casing of insulation material. The core is three phase leads of a conductor and insulation which are stranded together for energy transmission. The conductors of the leads are copper wires which surround a tension-proof central element in two layers with oppositely directed threading direction. The insulation of the leads is a cross-linked elastomer material applied by extrusion with a dielectricity number of at least 6.0 at room temperature. The unit, composed of leads and filler strands of the sensor element, is surrounded by a casing of an electrically conductive polymer material, and the core of the line is surrounded by a common inner casing produced by extrusion over which is arranged the outer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Judith Schramm, Walter Winkelbauer, Christian Cornelissen, Smaeil Basiry, Heinz-Willi Hamacher