Composite Or Noncircular Strand Section Patents (Class 174/119R)
  • Patent number: 6068917
    Abstract: A composite metallic wire includes: an inner layer having a cross-sectional shape of a rough circle; and a metal outer layer having a cross-sectional shape of a rough ring; wherein the composite metallic wire has a diameter of 15 .mu.m or less and an electric resistance of 300 .OMEGA./m or less. A composite type magnetic head using as a coil wire a composite wire comprising: (1) a composite metallic wire comprising: an inner layer having a cross-sectional shape of a rough circle; and a metal outer layer having a cross-sectional shape of a rough ring; wherein the composite metallic wire has a diameter of 15 .mu.m or less and an electric resistance of 300 .OMEGA./m or less, and (2) an insulating coat provided in the outer periphery of the outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Tsuno, Soichiro Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 6054224
    Abstract: An electrical insulating polyester film has an apparent density of 1.37 to 0.85 g/cm.sup.3 and a tensile modulus of 2.0 to 4.5 GPa.A film having low oligomer content, low cost, high heat resistance, high impact resistance, superior machinability and processability, assembling stability, and superior visibility is obtained. Furthermore, leakage of current is reduced when it is used for motor insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Itsuo Nagai, Seizo Aoki, Yukichi Deguchi
  • Patent number: 6023025
    Abstract: An electric wire in which a carbon film having abrasion resistance and lubricity is formed on the outer surface of an insulation cover made from at least one kind of material selected from rubber and resin, and covering an electric wire body, and a manufacturing method of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahigashi, Akira Doi
  • Patent number: 5843567
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electrical component having an axial direction and two ends for making electrical contact with another component comprising a plurality of electrically conductive fibers in a matrix, the plurality of the fibers being oriented in the matrix in a direction substantially parallel in the axial direction of the component and being continuous from one end of the component to the other end to provide a plurality of electrical point contacts at each end of the component, wherein the component further includes magnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Swift, Ronald F. Ziolo, Stanley J. Wallace
  • Patent number: 5483022
    Abstract: An implantable lead conductor comprises at least one helical coil formed from at least one electrical cable. Each cable is formed from several wires twisted in a ropelike configuration with at least some of the wires being helically wound around a central axis of the cable. Each wire is a composite comprising a core of a first material and a coveting of a second material, with all adjacent wires belonging to the same cable in uninsulated contact with each other. Preferably, the core material is highly conductive, and the covering material is strong and biocompatible. The helical coil has a lumen for insertion of a stylet to facilitate insertion through a vein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Ventritex, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig E. Mar
  • Patent number: 5414216
    Abstract: An electrostatographic reproduction machine wherein at least a portion of the wiring is formed from partially carbonized polyacrylonitrile filaments having a resistivity of between 1.times.10.sup.2 and 1.times.10.sup.10 ohm-cm. Preferably, the interconnects from the power source to the corona generating means are partially carbonized polyarylonitrile wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Swift, Stanley J. Wallace, Wilbur M. Peck
  • Patent number: 5254806
    Abstract: A magnet wire of modified cross-section is electrically insulated by adhering thereto an insulation tape which does not require a high temperature adherance step. The insulation tape has a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating which, prior to application to the magnet wire, is covered by a release strip. Just prior to application of the insulation tape to the magnet wire, the release strip is removed from the tape to uncover the adhesive coating and allow pressure-sensitive bonding of the insulation tape to the magnet wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Steven Gross, John Hessler
  • Patent number: 5250756
    Abstract: A high voltage connector is formed of a composite pultruded member that has an inner core including a plurality of high resistance electroconductive strands carried in a resin binder. The inner core is surrounded by an outer nonconductive shell, and extends from a laser cut end of the outer shell to a contact face. During formation of the contact using laser techniques, portions of the outer shell are removed to expose the inner core, the resin binder of the inner core may be removed, and the strands of the inner core may be fibrillated and patterned as desired. In one embodiment, the resistance of the strands of the inner core of the high voltage connector provide a load resistor for a circuit to which the connector may be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Swift, Thomas E. Orlowski, Alan J. Werner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5214244
    Abstract: An underwater cable has a flexible, elongated core surrounded by a flexible, elongated jacket. A distributed jacket includes a helically displaced phase shifter to decouple the cable from strumming produced by shedding of von Karman vortex streets from the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Cummings, Douglas E. Brown
  • Patent number: 5170015
    Abstract: An electric wire conductor for use in automobiles made by twisting together a plurality of strands. Each of the strands has a surface layer made of copper or a copper alloy and a core made of steel containing 0.05-0.85 percent of carbon and other elements such as Si, Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo, Nb, V, B, Be, Al, or Ti and P, S and Cu. Each strand has a tensile strength of 80-160 kgf/mm.sup.2 before being twisted and a conductivity of 25% IACS or more. The conductor has a total sectional area of 0.05-0.30 mm.sup.2, a breaking load of more than 6 kgf, and an elongation at break not less than 2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunao Kudo, Kazuo Yamazaki, Fukuma Sakamoto, Kazunori Tsuji
  • Patent number: 5091610
    Abstract: An electrical cable assembly includes a plurality of electrical conductors supported within an insulative casing. The conductors are arranged in side-by-side transversely spaced position and the casing surrounds and electrically isolates each of the conductors. The casing includes a major planar surface permitting mass termination to a connector. One of the conductors includes a flat surface portion which faces an adjacent one of the side-by-side conductors and also includes a curved surface portion which faces the major planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts Corporation
    Inventor: Richard F. Strauss
  • Patent number: 5049215
    Abstract: A method of forming an electrical cable assembly includes providing a plurality of round electrical conductors. One of the conductors is flattened along a longitudinal surface portion. The conductors are arranged in side-by-side transversely spaced position with the flattened portion of the one conductor facing an adjacent conductor. An insulative casing is extruded about the conductors and includes a major planar surface permitting mass termination to a connector. The one conductor includes a curved surface portion which faces the major planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts Corporation
    Inventor: Richard F. Strauss
  • Patent number: 5038002
    Abstract: A cable which is easily strippable by a transversely-acting pincer. Its sheath has a cross-section including at least two pairs of ribs delimiting longitudinal grooves which face one another in planes intersecting the inside surface of the sheath, but outside the conductors and the earthing leads of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Filotex
    Inventor: Andre Viaud
  • Patent number: 5020741
    Abstract: A multiple blade aircraft propeller hub has a bulkhead supporting concentric slip rings connected by slide blocks to the aircraft electrical system. Electrical conducting flexible leads connect the slip rings to electrical heating elements or de-icing boots carried by the propeller blades. Each of the leads includes an elongated flexible braided copper tube for conducting electricity and which loosely surrounds a flexible multiple strand stainless steel cable, and an extruded flexible vinyl insulating tube loosely surrounds the braided tube. The leads provide for minimizing stresses and metal fatigue in the electrical conducting braided tube with changes in blade pitch and thereby provide for a substantially extended service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Hartzell Propeller Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Ziegler, Arthur J. Bowser
  • Patent number: 4945342
    Abstract: The cable comprises one or more fiber bundles having 100 or more fibers per bundle, the diameter of the fibers having a value smaller than 20 micrometers, and the fibers preferably consisting of an alloy containing titanium as base metal and, in addition, at least one metal from the group including niobium, tantalum, zirconium, chromium, molybdenum, iron and aluminum. The bundle may be wound around the longitudinal axis of the cable and/or plaited with other bundles. Furthermore, the fibers of a bundle may be twisted (snaked), circumstances permitting. Each bundle and its fibers should, however, run to advantage in a way to have the length of the bundle as well as the length of each fiber of the bundle preferably be not more than 50% and, for example, not more than 30% longer than the cable. The fibers may be bent down to very small radii of curvature, without any fatigue failures taking place, while a relatively low electrical resistance of the cable may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Instit Straumann
    Inventor: Samuel G. Steinemann
  • Patent number: 4864266
    Abstract: A high-voltage winding for core-form power transformers is disclosed that uses two different conductor configurations within a single coil to minimize eddy current losses. The winding includes a first elongated conductor bundle formed from a plurality of thin enamel coated conductor ribbons arranged in side by side relation. A plurality of second elongated conductor bundles are each formed from at least one bundle section having a multiplicity of elongated insulated conductor strands arranged in side by side relation. Each of the conductor strands is less than 40 mils thick. The coil includes a top end section, a body section and a bottom end section. The body section is spirally wound with the first conductor bundle. The top and bottom end sections are wound with the second conductor bundles. In windings that include tap connectors, the tap section is also wound with one of the second conductor bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Landis E. Feather, Paul W. Martincic, Richard D. Holm, Richard E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4859978
    Abstract: A high voltage electrical winding for shell form transformers is disclosed that reduces eddy current and circulating current losses within the winding. The winding is fabricated from an elongated conductor bundle that is spirally wound into a plurality of turns. The conductor bundle is formed from a multiplicity of enamel coated elongated conductor strands arranged in side by side relation. Each of the conductor strands has a rectangular cross section with a thickness of less than approximately 40 mils between contacting surfaces. The strand's cross sectional height is preferably less than 120 mils. The conductor strands are mounted side by side such that their respective contact surfaces abut. The conductor bundle is preferably wrapped in an adhesive tape to give the bundle some structural support and to provide insulation between winding turns. The disclosed winding also has very good mechanical strength and impulse distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Landis E. Feather, Ramsis S. Girgis, Leach S. McCormick, Andreas M. Sletten
  • Patent number: 4835340
    Abstract: A cable which can be exposed to moisture, especially for medical apparatus, has at least one electric tinsel conductor. The material of the metal foil has a high portion of nickel to prevent corrosion caused by moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Nicolay GmbH
    Inventor: Edwin Muz
  • Patent number: 4785138
    Abstract: An electric cable to be used as phase winding of a three-phase alternating current winding for linear motors. The cable has a compacted, soft-annealed stranded conductor (5) on which a conductive layer (7) is firmly anchored. The insulation (8) and the outer conductive layer (9) are applied in the same operation as the extruded inner conductive layer (7) and are firmly attached to the latter. A sheathing (10) which is of good electrical conductivity and mechanically stable is applied over the outer conductive layer (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Kabel Electro Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Otto Breitenbach, Ferdinand Hanisch, Peter Madry
  • Patent number: 4780157
    Abstract: Improved method and apparatus for manufacturing transposed ribbon cable, an improved ribbon cable in which a plurality of insulated wires are juxtaposed in fixed relationship to each other, and an improved transposed ribbon cable in which each conductor of the cable of the invention is in the form of a continuous helix. The transposed ribbon cable is manufactured by the method and apparatus of the invention by folding a ribbon cable angularly with respect to the longitudinal axis repeatedly while advancing the ribbon cable incrementally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Jessie H. Coon
  • Patent number: 4769515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to single and twisted pair transmission line wires wherein the effective electrical diameter of the primary conductor is increased. This is accomplished by wrapping conductive foil or conductive foil laminated to a substrate layer onto a primary conductor with a diameter less than 20 mils wherein the foil is in contact with the conductor and has an outer insulating cover.This may be done by either spiral wrapping or by longitudinal wrapping around the electrical conductor. This invention provides a desired characteristic impedance along the length of the wire(s) and allows easy removal for standard termination and increased cut-through resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates
    Inventors: Paul E. Hubis, James G. Vana, Stephen C. Miller
  • Patent number: 4658090
    Abstract: Improved method and apparatus for manufacturing transposed ribbon cable, an improved ribbon cable, and an improved transposed ribbon cable. The transposed ribbon cable is manufactured by the method and apparatus of the invention by folding a ribbon cable angularly with respect to the longitudinal axis repeatedly while advancing the ribbon cable incrementally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Jessie H. Coon
  • Patent number: 4640983
    Abstract: A conductor device having at least one spiral which is formed from at least one conductor, each conductor consisting of wires which are stranded together to form a bundle. In addition, the wires belonging to a conductor can all consist of the same material or of different materials, one of which has a large breaking strength and the other one having high electric conductivity. The conductor device can connect, for example, in a heart pacemaker, the contact electrode inserted in the heart with an electric pulse generator. The conductor device provides a relatively high electric conductance with great flexibility, expandability, breaking strength and, in particular, fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Institut Straumann AG
    Inventor: Pierre-Andre Comte
  • Patent number: 4568797
    Abstract: A readily connectable and directly soldered multiwire electric conductor comprises a conducting core of assembled elementary wires each provided with a coating of metal or fusible alloy which can be employed as a solder. The conductor further comprises a binder which performs two functions, namely the function of retaining the elementary wires in their assembled state in order to facilitate the connection of the conductor and the function of soldering flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Thomson-Cuivre
    Inventors: Germaine Binder, Albert Joye
  • Patent number: 4552990
    Abstract: A conductor, provided with insulation for forming windings for transformers and other inductive apparatus comprises two substantially rectangular uninsulated conductor strands, which are arranged with a flat side of one conductor strand facing a flat side of the other conductor strand and with an insulating layer arranged between the flat conductor sides, of a material which forms a glued joint between the conductor strands and which contains a spacer of insulating material to ensure that the conductor strands are held at a distance from each other. The glued joint may be provided either before or after the forming of the conductor into a winding. After the glued joint has been achieved, a winding manufactured from the conductor has a high breaking strength and low additional losses. The conductor is suitable for the manufacture of complicated windings as well, such as interleaved disc windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Asea Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Bo G. Persson, Erich Spicar
  • Patent number: 4524241
    Abstract: Insulated multiwire electric cable formed of solderable electric conductors protected by a lead alloy, remaining individually separate even after an operation for the electric insulation of their ply with electric conductors individually coated with a layer of an alloy which comprises for 100% by weight of alloy, a lead content greater than 90% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Thomson-Brandt
    Inventors: Germaine Binder, Bernard Kremer
  • Patent number: 4514589
    Abstract: A cable for connecting a cardiac pacemaker to an electrode inserted in the heart through the blood stream utilizes a die-clad conductor or a number ofthem, especially several die-clad strands forming a twisted conductor of the stranded type, enclosed in a covering tube of a synthetic elastomer. The core of each die-clad strand is of a highly conducting metal, such as copper or a high-copper alloy. The outer cladding is a metal selected from the group consisting of tantalum, titanium, zirconium, niobium, titanium-base alloys, platinum, platinum-iridium alloys, platinum-palladium alloys and platinum-rhodium alloys. The cladding thickness is in the range from 0.0025 to 0.035 mm, while the cord diameter is between 0.04 to 0.3 mm. When tantalum, titanium, zirconium, niobium or titanium-alloy cladding is used, the outer surface can be made electrically insulating, preferably by anodizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Assignee: Heraeus Quarschmelze GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Aldinger, Albrecht Bischoff, Richard Keilberth, Franz Sperner
  • Patent number: 4341923
    Abstract: An electrically insulating coating for transformer wire consists of an asbestos paper coated with a plurality of strips of resin material. The resin material provides strength and toughness to the asbestos as well as abrasion resistance to the coated wire to protect the asbestos material during the coil winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Benjamin F. Allen
  • Patent number: 4329538
    Abstract: A conductor bar for an electric machine is disclosed. At least one strip-like insert is provided on a surface of the conductor which forms an angle with an insulating sleeve enclosing the insert and conductor. Voids are produced at the edges of the insert which form impregnating canals for an impregnating medium to thereby improve the impregnability of the insulating sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hartmut Meyer
  • Patent number: 4317955
    Abstract: A barbed wire construction. The construction includes an iron wire having a longitudinally extending groove therein. A copper wire, coated with insulation, is inserted into the groove and extends along the groove. The iron and copper wires are coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1982
    Inventor: Oh Y. Choi
  • Patent number: 4311979
    Abstract: A transformer winding, made as a layered winding with striplike conductor insulated with at least one strip of insulation folded about the conductor, and a process for making the same, are disclosed. To make possible a fully automatic manufacture of the winding with sufficient mechanical strength and uniform impregnation, the insulation strip, in addition to insulation of the conductor, constitutes likewise the insulation of the layers. At the periphery of a winding layer there are punctate bonding places at predetermined distances only on the outside of the conductor insulation. The cross section of the layered winding may be essentially trapezoidal with the transition to the free outer end comprising one or more circular arcs with different radii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Assignee: Messwandler-Bau GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Graul
  • Patent number: 4230899
    Abstract: A hose for cleaners comprising a bellows-shaped hose main body and two reinforcing synthetic resin elements arranged side by side axially of the hose and helically wound on and attached to the inner surface of the hose main body. Each of the reinforcing helical elements has embedded therein a conductor comprising a hard steel wire and a plurality of thin copper wires provided on the outer periphery of the hard steel wire and extending longitudinally thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Inventor: Shiro Kanao
  • Patent number: 4204087
    Abstract: An electrical conductor having a plurality of sides which define a generally rectangular cross-sectional configuration is coated with an electrical insulating material on all sides. An adhesive coating having a predetermined thickness and width dimension is applied to only a selected side of the conductor. The thickness of the adhesive is reduced, and the width of the adhesive coating is increased, when the conductor is wound into a coil having a plurality of turns, and the coil is heated to fuse the adhesive coating and provide an adhesive bond between the turns of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Kou C. Lin, Edmund E. Woods
  • Patent number: 4109375
    Abstract: An electrical conductor having a plurality of sides which define a generally rectangular cross-sectional configuration is coated with an electrical insulating material on all sides. An adhesive coating having a predetermined thickness and width dimension is applied to only a selected side of the conductor. The thickness of the adhesive is reduced, and the width of the adhesive coating is increased, when the conductor is wound into a coil having a plurality of turns, and the coil is heated to fuse the adhesive coating and provide an adhesive bond between the turns of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Kou C. Lin, Edmund E. Woods