Integrated cable packaging, deployment and strumming mitigation system
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorJoseph M. Misulia
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Abstract
A cable package for a line array and a method thereof including a first sheet of material, a cable wound in a serpentine shape, where a portion of the cable contacts the first sheet of material, and a second sheet of material attached to the cable and areas of the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable, wherein areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable comprises scoring lines to enable separation under tension to form a plurality of strumming mitigation fairings, and wherein the cable with scoring lines in the areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable is folded onto itself.
Claims20
A cable package for a line array, comprising:
- a first sheet of material;
- a cable wound in a serpentine shape, where a portion of the cable contacts the first sheet of material;
- and
- a second sheet of material attached to the cable and areas of the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable,
- wherein the areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable comprise scoring lines to enable separation under tension to form a plurality of strumming mitigation fairings;
- and
- wherein the cable with scoring lines in the areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable is folded onto itself.
A method of packaging a cable for a line array, comprising:
- placing a first sheet of material on a winding tool;
- winding a cable in a serpentine shape on the winding tool, where a portion of the cable contacts the first sheet of material;
- attaching a second sheet of material attached to the cable and areas of the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable;
- scoring lines into areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable to enable separation under tension to form a plurality of strumming mitigation fairings;
- and
- folding the cable with scoring lines in areas of the second sheet of material attached to the first sheet of material not occupied by the cable onto itself.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.