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US 6,723,925 B2Granted
Flat cable and laminated cable harness
AssigneeFurukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsutaka Ohara, Hajime Watanabe
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Abstract
A flat cable includes a strip having lead wires therein, and projecting portions formed on the strip as branch joints and projecting in the width direction of the strip. The branch joint allows a connection between the lead wires or between the lead wire and an electric connection line. A laminated cable harness includes the flat cables laminated one on top of the other, and connecting terminals or wires for electrically connecting between the lead wire of one flat cable and the lead wire of the other flat cable so that the branch joint is completed.
Claims10
A laminated cable harness comprising:
- at least three flat cables laminated one on top of the other, each of said flat cables includes:
- a flat strip including a plurality of lead wires extending in parallel with each other along said strip;
- an insulating sheath covering said lead wires;
- and
- a lap section as a branch joint formed between ends of said strip, said lap section being formed by folding a part of said strip such that two adjacent portions of the folded part are lapped one over the other and project in a width direction of said strip in a plane parallel with a remaining portion of said strip,
- wherein said lap sections of said at least three flat cables are located in tandem along a longitudinal direction of said harness, and
- said harness further comprises a connecting member for electrically connecting at least two lead wires selected from those of said lap sections, respectively.
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