IP Library Granted Patent US 7,987,659
Granted Patent B2
US 7,987,659 · App. 12/092,546 · Granted Aug 2, 2011

Twisted electric heating cables and method for manufacturing thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,987,659
App. No.
12/092,546
Granted
Aug 2, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an electric heating cable which is used in an electric heating apparatus and minimizes an electromagnetic field effect. The electric heating cable is manufactured by twisting first and second electric heating strands in three axial directions. Each electric heating strand includes a core wire comprising a stranded wire of a resistor, and an insulating sheath made of fluorine resin. According to the invention, the electric heating cable is resistive to untwisting in a free state even if no adhering means is used, and is compactly twisted, so that the electric heating cable maintains a secured state and has superior flexibility, while reducing leakage flux, and the electric heating cable has a reduced outer diameter and is light, so that it is useful for a thin electric heating apparatus, and incurs a low manufacturing cost.

Claims (12)

1. A method for manufacturing a twisted electric heating cable, comprising:

inputting and twisting first and second electric heating strands in angled arrangement,

wherein an angle between a first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted and a second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input is equal to an angle between the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted and a third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and

wherein the second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input, the third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted are simultaneously rotated in the same direction such that the twisted first and second electric heating strands are resistive to untwisting so as to maintain the twisted state without loosening.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a rotating speed of the second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input is equal to a rotating speed of the third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and the rotating speed of the second and third axial lines along which each of the first and second electric heating strands is input is faster than a rotating speed of the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and second electric heating strands are provided from one strand, with the strand being folded at a center thereof and then twisted.

4. A method for manufacturing a twisted electric heating cable, comprising:

twisting first and second electric heating strands, each of the first and second electric heating strands comprising a core wire made of a material for a stranded wire of a resistor, and an insulating sheath covering an outer circumference of the core wire and made of fluorine resin,

wherein an angle between a first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted and a second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input is equal to an angle between the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted and a third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and

wherein the second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input, the third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted are simultaneously rotated in the same direction.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a rotating speed of the second axial line along which the first electric heating strand is input is equal to a rotating speed of the third axial line along which the second electric heating strand is input, and the rotating speed of the second and third axial lines along which each of the first and second electric heating strands is input is faster than a rotating speed of the first axial line along which the first and second electric heating strands are twisted.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first and second electric heating strands are provided from one strand, with the strand being folded at a center thereof and then twisted.

Continuity (1)
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