Electric cable

• US 9,349,505 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Tozawa, Masahiro, Shinomiya, Atsuko, Fujita, Taro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau N
• Application Number:
  US14/373,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20140367141A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 174/128.2, 174/121.A, 174/128.1, 174/110.R
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 3/441 from alkenes
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 3/446 from vinylacetals
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 3/447 from acrylic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 3/448 from other vinyl compounds
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 5/08 Several wires or the like stranded in the form of a rope
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/0275 comprising one or more extruded layers of insulation
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/04 Flexible cables, conductors, or cords, e.g. trailing cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/17 Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/295 using material resistant to flame

Abstract

An electric cable for improving flexibility of an insulating resin portion of the electric cable expressed by a secant modulus value is provided. In an electric cable 10a in which an outer periphery of a conductor 11 made of wires with diameters from 0.15 to 0.5 mm and having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm² or more is covered with an insulating resin 12 including a flame retardant, a ratio of an electric cable diameter to a conductor diameter is from 1.15 to 1.40, and a secant modulus of the insulating resin 12 is from 10 to 50 MPa.

Claims

1. An electric cable, including:

a conductor being made of wires a diameter of each of which is from 0.15 to 0.5 mm and having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm² or more; and

an insulating resin including a flame retardant and covering an outer periphery of the conductor,

wherein the insulating resin includes one or more resins selected from a group consisting of an ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer (EEA), an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), an ethylene-methyl acrylate copolymer (EMA), and an EP rubber,

wherein a ratio of a diameter of the electric cable to a diameter of the conductor is from 1.15 to 1.40, and

wherein the insulating resin is cross-linked, and has a secant modulus of 10 to 50 MPa.

2. The electric cable of claim 1,

wherein the insulating resin with the secant modulus of 10 to 50 MPa is a copolymer A consisting of a comonomer having polarity and olefin, or a mixture of the copolymer A and a copolymer B consisting of α

-olefin and olefin.

3. The electric cable of claim 1,

wherein the insulating resin with the secant modulus of 10 to 50 MPa is an olefin resin including a comonomer having polarity, and an amount of the comonomer is 23% or more by weight.

4. An electric cable, including:

a conductor having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm² or more; and

an inside insulating resin including a flame retardant and covering the conductor;

a shielding conductor covering an outer periphery of the inside insulating resin; and

an outside insulating resin covering an outer periphery of the shielding conductor,

wherein each of the inside insulatin resin and the outside insulatin resin includes one or more resins selected from the group consisting ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer (EEA), an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), an ethylene-methyl acrylate copolymer (EMA), and an EP rubber,

wherein a ratio of a diameter of the electric cable to a diameter of the conductor is from 1.40 to 1.77, and

wherein at least one of the inside insulating resin and the outside insulatin resin is cross-linked, and has a secant modulus of 10 to 50 MPa.

5. The electric cable of claim 4,

wherein the inside insulating resin and the outside insulating resin are made of a same resin.