Jumper cable
AssigneeAdvanced Circuit Technology
InventorsBarry I. Ostman, Joseph A. Roberts
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Abstract
An electrical jumper cable comprising a plurality of spaced metallic conductors, each conductor having a flexible area and integrally formed rigid terminal ends, is provided. Starting with a metallic sheet having a thickness approximating that required for the conductor flexible areas, one or more mesas of thickness approximating that required for the terminal ends are formed on the edge regions of the sheet. The mesas may be formed by plating or casting so that the thickened edge regions are integral with the sheet central region. The resulting substrate is then chemically or mechanically milled so as to define the conductor patterns and terminal ends, and the metallic conductors laminated to flexible films so as to support and maintain the metallic conductors in spaced relation to one another.
Claims14
A method of forming a jumper cable having a plurality of spaced metallic conductors, each of said conductors including a pair of spaced, relatively rigid ends, and at least one region of relative flexibility between said ends and integral therewith, said method comprising the steps of:
- (A) providing a flexible metallic sheet;
- (B) forming mesas of thickness approximating that desired for said rigid ends on edge regions of said sheet;
- (C) milling said sheet so as to define said conductors and integral ends;
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- (D) covering said spaced conductors at least in part with a flexible insulating material while maintaining said conductors in spaced relation to one another.
A method of forming a jumper cable having a plurality of spaced metallic conductors, each of said conductors including a pair of spaced, relatively rigid terminal ends of a first thickness, and at least one region of relative flexibility of a second thickness between said ends and integral therewith, said method comprising the steps of:
- (A) providing a metallic sheet of said second thickness;
- (B) forming mesas of thickness approximating said first thickness on edge regions of said sheet;
- (C) milling said sheet so as to define said conductors and integral ends;
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- (D) laminating said conductors between a pair of flexible insulating films so as to support and maintain said conductors in spaced relation to one another.
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