FOLDABLE WOVEN MULTISTRAND ELECTRICAL CABLE

摘要

A longitudinally foldable woven multiconductor cable includes side-by-side sections joined along a longitudinal fold line, each section including single or multiple insulator sheathed conductor warps with or without alternating nonconducting yarn warps. The warps are interwoven by a weft in a common pattern which is altered or shifted at the fold lines to provide hinges between the sections. The weave pattern alteration may be accomplished with a box weave where the warps include alternate conductor and yarn warps by omitting the yarn warp between a pair of successive conductor warps at the fold line or it may be accomplished with a twill weave by reversing the weave pattern at the fold lines.