Curved woven cable and method
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1. A curved woven electrical cable having a generally flat configuration comprising:
- a plurality of conductors;
a woven cable portion including a plurality of warp binder strands and a fill strand interwoven with said conductors to bind said conductors together; and
a curved cable portion including at least one void area wherein said conductors are present but are not interwoven with said warp strands and said fill strand leaving said conductors relatively unbound in said void areas.
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Abstract
A curved woven cable having a plurality of conductors and a method for constructing the same is disclosed wherein warp binder strands and a fill strand are interwoven with the conductors with at least one void area being formed in which the conductors are not interwoven with the warp strands and fill strands so that the cable may be curved. In a preferred method, the void area is formed by weaving the warp strands and fill strands with the conductors removed from the weave to form a weave portion floated outside of the conductors but which remains an important structural portion of the cable in maintaining its curved configuration.
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1. A curved woven electrical cable having a generally flat configuration comprising:
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a plurality of conductors; a woven cable portion including a plurality of warp binder strands and a fill strand interwoven with said conductors to bind said conductors together; and a curved cable portion including at least one void area wherein said conductors are present but are not interwoven with said warp strands and said fill strand leaving said conductors relatively unbound in said void areas. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for forming a curved portion in a woven electrical cable of the type formed from a plurality of conductors arranged in a side-by-side generally flat configuration and a plurality of warp binder strands and a fill strand interwoven with said conductors to define a woven cable portion in which said conductors are bound comprising the steps of:
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providing at least one void area in said cable in which said conductors are present but are not interwoven with said warp strands and said fill strand so that said conductors are relatively unbound in said void area; bending said cable about said void area so as to assume a desired curved configuration. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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