US 7,495,176 B2
Flexible electric control cable
Walter Winkelbauer, Duisburg (Germany); Frank Müller, Frechen (Germany); and Heinz Willi Hamacher, Mönchengladbach (Germany)
Assigned to Nexans, (France)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/786,048.
Prior Publication US 2008/0251272 A1, Oct. 16, 2008
Int. Cl. H01B 11/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 174—113C  [174/116] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Flexible electric control cable comprising:
one or more layers of control wires stranded on a central element surrounded by an outer jacket,
wherein said central element includes at least one pair of wires each wire of the pair of wires having a core element of a tension-resistant plastic, a layer of metal wires stranded on the core element, a layer of a compressible insulating material sheathing the stranded metal wires layer, where the wires of the pair of wires are stranded with one another with a length of lay of 20 to 40 D, where D is the outside diameter of the pair of wires, and where said central element is sheathed by a jacket of plastic.