Line element with damping element
AssigneeWestfalia Metal Hoses GmbH
InventorsStefan Hauk, Oliver Selter, Dietmar Baumhoff, Karl-Heinz Münker, Andreas Gerhard, Michael Henkelmann, David Christopher Siebels, Sascha Jan Sckudlarek, Matthias Weiss, Karsten Schenk
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Abstract
A line element includes an inner element, an outer element surrounding the inner element, and a damping element arranged between the inner element and the outer element. The damping element can be made, for example, of knitted wire fabric or a stripwound hose. The damping element can be made in particular of a more easily wearing material than the outer element and/or the inner element, for example of copper.
Claims16
A line element, comprising:
- an inner element made of a flexible stripwound hose;
- an outer element arranged in surrounding relation to the inner element and made of a corrugated bellows, a membrane bellows structure or a wound bellows structure;
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- a damping element arranged between the inner element and the outer element, said damping element comprising or made of a wound corrugated winding strip having laterally overlapping or interlocking sides formed between adjacent strips to form a flexible stripwound hose.
A line element, comprising:
- an inner element made of a flexible stripwound hose;
- an outer element arranged in surrounding relation to the inner element and made of a corrugated bellows, a membrane bellows structure or a wound bellows structure;
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- a damping element arranged between the inner element and the outer element, said damping element comprising or made of a corrugated bellows, a membrane bellows structure or a wound bellows structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.