Electric wire, cable harness and flying object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11289239-B2
Application number	US-201916970476-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2019
Priority date	Feb 20, 2018
Publication date	Mar 29, 2022
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022

Abstract

There is provided an electric wire having a conductor total cross-sectional area of 2 mm 2 or less and high reliability. The electric wire includes: a twisted wire conductor ( 2 ) including a plurality of strand conductors ( 21 to 27 ) twisted together with each other and having a total cross-sectional area of the plurality of strand conductors of 2 mm 2 or less; and a covering member ( 3 ) made from a resin material having a flexural modulus of 0.6 GPa or more and covering the twisted wire conductor so that an inner wall thereof is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the twisted wire conductor, wherein the twisted wire conductor ( 2 ) has, on an outer peripheral surface thereof, recesses having a maximum depth of 5% or less of a maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor in a cross section perpendicular to a length direction of the twisted wire conductor and containing boundaries of the plurality of strand conductors.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric wire comprising:
a twisted wire conductor comprising a plurality of strand conductors twisted together with each other and having a total cross-sectional area of the plurality of strand conductors of 2 mm2 or less; and
a covering member made from a resin material having a flexural modulus of 0.6 GPa or more and covering the twisted wire conductor so that an inner wall of the covering member is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the twisted wire conductor,
wherein the twisted wire conductor has, on an outer peripheral surface thereof, recesses having a depth of 5% or less of a maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor in a cross section perpendicular to a length direction of the twisted wire conductor and containing boundaries of the plurality of strand conductors.

2. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the depth of the recesses is 3% or less of the maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor.

3. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the depth of the recesses is 0.5% or more of the maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor.

4. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the depth of the recesses is 0.2 mm or less.

5. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein, in the recesses, an outer peripheral surface of the twisted wire conductor is separated from the covering member.

6. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of strands is made from seven strands.

7. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the twisted wire conductor is a compressed twisted wire conductor.

8. The electric wire according to claim 7 , wherein a compression ratio of the compressed twisted wire conductor is 90% or more.

9. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor is 30% or more and 85% or less of an outer diameter of the covering member.

10. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein an outer diameter of the covering member is 0.4 mm or more and 3 mm or less.

11. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the covering member contains one or more of resins selected from a group consisting of polyether ether ketone, thermoplastic fluorine resin, crosslinking thermoplastic fluorine resin, and polyimide.

12. A cable harness comprising:
the electric wire according to claim 1 ; and
a connector that is connected to the electric wire and has an engagement portion engageable with another electrical apparatus.

13. A flying object comprising:
the cable harness according to claim 12 ; and
the electrical apparatus.

14. The electric wire according to any one of claim 5 , wherein the twisted wire conductor is a compressed twisted wire conductor.

15. The electric wire according to claim 5 , wherein the maximum diameter of the twisted wire conductor is 30% or more and 85% or less of an outer diameter of the covering member.

16. The electric wire according to claim 5 , wherein an outer diameter of the covering member is 0.4 mm or more and 3 mm or less.

17. The electric wire according to claim 5 , wherein the covering member contains one or more of resins selected from a group consisting of polyether ether ketone, thermoplastic fluorine resin, crosslinking thermoplastic fluorine resin, and polyimide.

18. The electric wire according to claim 15 , wherein an outer diameter of the covering member is 0.4 mm or more and 3 mm or less.

19. A cable harness comprising:
the electric wire according to claim 18 ; and
a connector that is connected to the electric wire and has an engagement portion engageable with another electrical apparatus.

20. A flying object comprising:
the cable harness according to claim 19 ; and
the electrical apparatus.

21. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the flexural modulus of the resin material is 1.5 GPa or more.

22. The electric wire according to claim 11 , wherein the covering member contains polyether ether ketone.

23. The electric wire according to claim 11 , wherein the covering member contains one or more of resins selected from a group consisting of thermoplastic fluorine resin and crosslinking thermoplastic fluorine resin.

24. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of strand conductors twisted together with each other is a plurality of copper wires twisted together with each other, and each of the plurality of copper wires has a surface layer plated with a metal selected from a group consisting of tin, nickel and silver.

25. The electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the recesses is not filled with the covering member.

26. The electric wire according to claim 5 , wherein the flexural modulus of the resin material is 1.5 GPa or more.

27. The electric wire according to claim 17 , wherein the covering member contains polyether ether ketone.

28. The electric wire according to claim 17 , wherein the covering member contains one or more of resins selected from a group consisting of thermoplastic fluorine resin and crosslinking thermoplastic fluorine resin.

Assignees

• Junkosha Inc

Inventors

• Furuta Hidenori

Classifications

• H01B3/445

  from vinylfluorides or other fluoroethylenic compounds · CPC title

• H01B3/36

  condensation products of phenols with aldehydes or ketones · CPC title

• H01B3/306

  Polyimides or polyesterimides · CPC title

• H01B7/0045 Primary

  Cable-harnesses · CPC title

• H01B7/0009 Primary

  Details relating to the conductive cores · CPC title