Method for creating a silicone encased flexible cable
View Patent ↗The embodiments disclose a method for creating a silicone encased flexible cable using manufacturing machinery including automatically arranging plural individual conduits, into custom grouped arrangements including electrical wiring, pneumatic tubing and fluid tubing, inserting the custom grouped arrangements including connectors and flexible silicone junction devices into a shaped silicone encasement extrusion apparatus, depositing a mixture of silicone and additives to the custom grouped arrangements encasement using the extrusion apparatus, customizing the mixture of silicone and additives to create differing characteristics of the custom grouped arrangements, using the extrusion apparatus to create a singular encasement and to cure the singular encasement to a desired shape of the custom grouped arrangements and integrating one or more encased flexible junction box to the custom grouped arrangements, wherein the one or more flexible junction box contains at least one incoming and two outgoing conduit connections and one or more functional devices.
1. A method for creating a silicone encased flexible cable using manufacturing machinery, comprising:
automatically arranging plural individual conduits, into a custom grouped arrangement, the individual conduits include electrical wiring, pneumatic tubing and fluid tubing;
inserting the custom grouped arrangement into an extrusion apparatus configured to create a shaped silicone encasement of the custom grouped arrangement;
depositing a mixture of silicone and additives to the custom grouped arrangement;
customizing the mixture of silicone and additives to create differing characteristics of the individual conduits;
using the extrusion apparatus to create a singular encasement and to cure the singular encasement to a desired shape of the custom grouped arrangement; and
integrating a flexible junction box to the custom grouped arrangement, wherein the flexible junction box contains at least one incoming and one outgoing conduit connection and one or more functional devices connected to the junction box.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the extrusion process using the shaped silicone encasement extrusion apparatus can produce silicone encased flexible shaped cables in continuous lengths or as assemblies, complete with connectors and flexible silicone junction devices.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the assemblies of flexible silicone shaped cables and flexible silicone junction boxes includes at least communication cables, electrical conductors and pneumatic tubes routed into a flexible junction box and two branch cables are routed outgoing from the flexible junction box.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the integrated flexible junction box is formed in a user defined custom shape to conform to a specific purpose.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the integrated flexible junction box is formed in a user defined custom shape to conform to a specific purpose.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically arranging plural individual conduits into a custom grouped arrangement further includes using at least one fluid communication conduit for transferring fluid through the cable and at least one electrical conduit for transferring electrical signals through the cable.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the silicone encased custom grouped arrangements includes a hybrid round flexible cable and U shaped self-supporting cable.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the depositing a mixture of silicone and additives wherein predetermined mixtures of silicon and graphite changes the encasement characteristics wherein the silicone encasement has a predetermined electrical conductivity.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plural individual conduits comprise at least pneumatic tubing, fluid tubing, gaseous tubing, multiple twisted conductors, shielded conductors, single conductor, fiber optics or coax.