Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cable assembly, an apparatus for the manufacture of a cable assembly, as well as a preassembled cable assembly comprising a cable having at least two cable wires running inside a cable jacket, and at least one connector arranged at each end of the cable. For an improved method and apparatus providing a simplified supply chain and with an increased flexibility and short lead times, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a cable assembly comprising the steps of connecting at least one end of cable wires with terminal elements, and thereafter providing a cable jacket around the cable wires and an apparatus for the manufacture of a cable assembly, comprising a termination unit for connecting an end of a cable wire with a terminal element and a jacketing unit for providing a cable jacket around cable wires.

Abstract: A cable assembly is provided that includes a plurality of conductor strands and a flexible support having a textile material into which the plurality of conductor strands are integrated and secured.

Abstract: The present invention related to a method for mechanically and electrically connecting an electric wire to a terminal element and to a terminal assembly comprising a terminal element and at least one electric wire that is mechanically and electrically connected to the terminal element. For improving such method and terminal assembly, the method comprises the steps of arranging a connecting portion of the electric wire substantially parallel to the an entrance surface of the contact opening; and connecting a joining section of the connecting portion with the contact opening by plastically deforming a lateral cut of the joining section.

Abstract: An electrical component having at least one cable element, at least one solder joint, at least one hotmelt element and at least one substrate element, a method of manufacturing such an electrical component, and a tool for manufacturing the electrical component. The cable element is connected with the substrate element by the solder joint. The at least one solder joint is not embedded in the hotmelt element. Preferably, the solder joint is free from the hotmelt material of the hotmelt element. Wherein a flow of hotmelt material is stopped before it reaches the solder joint. A hotmelt cavity for forming the hotmelt element from hotmelt material is separated from a substrate cavity adapted to receive the substrate element by a compressible solder sealing.

Abstract: An electrical component having at least one cable element, at least one solder joint, at least one hotmelt element and at least one substrate element. The cable element is connected with the substrate element by the solder joint. The at least one solder joint is not embedded in the hotmelt element. Preferably, the solder joint is free from the hotmelt material of the hotmelt element.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical component comprising at least one cable element, at least one solder joint, at least one hotmelt element and at least one substrate element. The cable element is connected with the substrate element by the solder joint. To improve the data transmission rate, the at least one solder joint is not embedded in the hotmelt element. Preferably, the solder joint is not covered the hotmelt material of the hotmelt element.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical component having at least one cable element, at least one solder joint, at least one hotmelt element and at least one substrate element. The cable element is connected with the substrate element by the solder joint. To improve the data transmission rate, the at least one solder joint is not embedded in the hotmelt element. Preferably, the solder joint is free from the hotmelt material of the hotmelt element. The invention is also concerned with a method of manufacturing such an electrical component. According to the inventive method, a flow of hotmelt material is stopped before it reaches the solder joint. Finally, the invention is concerned with providing a tool for manufacturing the electrical component. Here, a hotmelt cavity for forming the hotmelt element from hotmelt material is separated from a substrate cavity adapted to receive the substrate element by a compressible solder sealing.

Abstract: A bus-bar having a prismatic housing, an elongate conductor extending along a length of the housing, and a resilient retainer which extends along a length of the housing and retains the conductor in the housing is disclosed.

Abstract: A bus-bar having a prismatic housing, an elongate conductor extending along a length of the housing, and a resilient retainer which extends along a length of the housing and retains the conductor in the housing is disclosed.

Abstract: A creping machine comprising a driven rotary carrier roll; a stationary blade assembly which is positioned to press sheet material into entrained engagement with the circumferential surface of the carrier roll and which includes a resilient spring blade projecting downstream from the immediately adjacent portion of the assembly; and a stationary retarder extending downstream from the circumferential surface of the carrier roll adjacent to the projecting resilient spring blade and over which the sheet material passes on disengagement from the said surface; the retarder having a transverse upstream facing wall extending downwardly from its upper surface whereby a cavity constituting a creping zone is defined upstream of the said wall and beneath the projecting resilient spring blade. Operation of the machine, which can in some cases be effected without a projecting blade causes a true creping action at wall.

Abstract: A method for the longitudinal compressive treatment of a flexible web, e.g. of paper or textile material, in which the web is continuously driven longitudinally into and through a retarding treatment zone defined by and between a pair of opposed surfaces at least one of which is stationary and rough and retardingly engages the web, the value of the retarding force applied to the web over at least a part of the length of the retarding treatment zone varying in oscillatory fashion across the width of the zone so that the treatment improves or provides a directional property (e.g. stretch) of the web in both the longitudinal and transverse directions. In machines for obtaining this effect, the degree of roughness of retarder surface to which the web is subjected in the zone suitably so varies across the zone.

Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter having at least one directly ventilated cavity which provides for the formation, over a region of the filter extending inwardly of its peripheral region, of a mixture of at least the major proportion of the smoke and at least a major proportion of the ventilating air entering the said cavity or cavities. The extensive and uniform mixing of smoke and ventilation air gives a satisfying smoke with a low tar count and high nicotine/tar ratio, and can be obtained with the invention due to appropriate shaping of the cavity, or asymmetric positioning of the air ventilating vents, or by means of a flow-disturbing insert mounted in the filter, or a combination of two or more of these factors. Preferably a major part of the smoke is constrained to enter the cavity at an upstream peripheral extremity thereof and air vents are also concentrated at this extremity.