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US 7,547,843 B2Granted
Overhead electrical power transmission line
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsHerve E. Deve, Douglas E. Johnson
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Abstract
Dead-end-to-dead-end overhead electrical power transmission line with composite (e.g., aluminum matrix composite) core overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection and another, different core overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection.
Claims17
A dead-end-to-dead-end overhead electrical power transmission line tension section comprising:
- first and second dead-end towers;
- and an overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension section having a first end attached to the first dead-end tower and a second end attached to the second dead-end tower, and being comprised of at least a first and a second sequential overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection, wherein at least the first sequential overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection has at least one of a composite core or an INVAR core, wherein the first and second overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsections each have a sag value, wherein the first overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection has a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a first density, wherein the second overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection has a second coefficient of thermal expansion and a second density, wherein at least one of the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion or the first and second densities, at temperatures in the range from 20° C. to 75° C., are different, wherein the first and second overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsections each have a cross-sectional area, and wherein the cross-sectional areas are the same, and wherein the first and second overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsections each independently have calculated tensions over a range from 20° C. to 75° C. that are the same.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.