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US 10,734,130 B2Granted
Electrical cable with improved resistance to galvanic corrosion
AssigneeNexans
InventorsSébastien Dablement, Stéphane Morice
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Abstract
The invention relates to an elongated electrically conductive copper-aluminum bimetal element, a cable comprising at least one such elongated electrically conductive element, a process for preparing said elongated electrically conductive element and said cable, and a device comprising such an electric cable and at least one metal connector.
Claims17
An elongated electrically conductive element comprising:
- an aluminum or aluminum alloy core;
- and
- a copper or copper alloy layer surrounding said aluminum or aluminum alloy core,
- wherein the copper or copper alloy layer represents a volume greater than 30% of the volume of the elongated electrically conductive element, and
- wherein said element is capable of being obtained according to a process comprising at least one step i) of forming a copper of copper alloy layer around an aluminum or aluminum alloy core by continuous casting.
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An elongated electrically conductive element comprising:
- an aluminum or aluminum alloy core;
- and
- a copper or copper alloy layer surrounding said aluminum or aluminum alloy core,
- wherein the copper or copper alloy layer represents from 45% to 70% by volume of the volume of the elongated electrically conductive element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.