Increasing production yield of coated wire elements
AssigneeHeraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAndreas Reisinger, Jörg-Martin Gebert
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Abstract
One aspect is a method for producing a plurality of wire elements, including providing a metal wire, coating the metal wire with a first layer to obtain a first coated wire, subjecting the first coated wire to a first quality control process, marking any first defects identified in the first quality control process, coating the first coated wire with a further layer to obtain a further coated wire, and cutting the further coated wire to obtain a plurality of wire elements. Prior to cutting the further coated wire to obtain the plurality of wire elements, a first length of the first coated wire is less than 10% longer than a further length of the further coated wire.
Claims13
A method for producing a plurality of wire elements, comprising:
- a. providing a metal wire, wherein the metal wire comprises an inner metal core layer;
- b. coating the metal wire with a first layer to obtain a first coated wire, wherein the first layer has a first thickness;
- c. subjecting the first coated wire to a first quality control process;
- d. marking any first defects identified in the first quality control process;
- e. coating the first coated wire with a further layer to obtain a further coated wire, wherein the further layer has a further thickness;
- f. introducing two or more repeating units along the further coated wire by reducing the first thickness, the further thickness, or both;
- g. cutting the further coated wire between at least one pair of neighbouring repeating units to obtain the plurality of wire elements;
- wherein prior to cutting the further coated wire in g to obtain the plurality of wire elements, a first length of the first coated wire is less than 10% longer than a further length of the further coated wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.