Methods of manufacturing electric cable for transporting very high current at low voltage
AssigneeLes Cables de Lyon
InventorsMichel Alloin, Charles Flamand
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Abstract
An electric cable (1) for transporting very high current at low voltage, in particular a welding cable for use in robot welders, comprises at least one multi-strand conductor (2) and an outer sheath (4), cooling water circulates inside the cable, and the water gains access to the conductor strands to be cooled by virtue of the conductor being covered by a perforated envelope (3).
Claims7
In a method of manufacturing an electric cable for transporting very high current at low voltage and including the step of
- covering at least one multi-strand conductor with an outer sheath facilitating water circulation, the improvement comprising, prior to placing said sheath around
- said at least one multi-strand conductor, the steps of separately inserting said at least one multi-strand conductor into the center of an extruder, and extruding simultaneously two layers of material onto said at least one multi-strand conductor in the form of at least one strip for each layer, with the strips defining said two layers being non-aligned, such that said strips of respective layers are fixed to each other at the areas of strip crossovers, and wherein said inner layer at least one strip is extruded by means of a punch, and said outer layer at least one strip is extruded by means of a die.
In a method of manufacturing an electric cable for transporting very high current at low voltage including the step of covering at least one multi-strand conductor with an outer sheath facilitating water circulation, the improvement comprising, prior to placing the sheath around said at least one multi-strand conductor, the steps of winding a first tape layer helically around said at least one multi-strand conductor, inserting said at least one multi-strand conductor in a device for impregnating or for hot gluing, and placing a second tape layer thereon with the tape of said second layer non-aligned with the tape of the first layer, and impregnating and hot gluing said second layer to the first layer at areas of tape crossover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.