Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
133 words
A water-cooled resistance welding cable with an uninterrupted copper welding current path, said cable comprising an elongated welding cable conductor assembly including a plurality of laterally-spaced flexible elongated stranded copper wire conductors of intended opposite electric polarities with an elongated separator of insulating material disposed therebetween and a flexible elongated tubular insulating casing surrounding said conductors, a terminal connected to each of the opposite ends of said conductor assembly, said terminal comprising a pair of copper terminal components disposed adjacent one another in laterally-spaced relationship and adapted to carry electric current of opposite polarities and connected to said conductors of the same intended electric polarities, and an insulator disposed in the space between said components, and copper-welded electrical connections disposed between the opposite end portions of said conductors and their respective terminal components.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
133 words
A water-cooled resistance welding cable with an uninterrupted copper welding current path, said cable comprising an elongated welding cable conductor assembly including a plurality of laterally-spaced flexible elongated stranded copper wire conductors of intended opposite electric polarities with an elongated separator of insulating material disposed therebetween and a flexible elongated tubular insulating casing surrounding said conductors, a terminal connected to each of the opposite ends of said conductor assembly, said terminal comprising a pair of copper terminal components disposed adjacent one another in laterally-spaced relationship and adapted to carry electric current of opposite polarities and connected to said conductors of the same intended electric polarities, and an insulator disposed in the space between said components, and copper-welded electrical connections disposed between the opposite end portions of said conductors and their respective terminal components.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
98 words
A welding cable, according to claim 1, wherein each of said terminal components is of generally semi-cylindrical configuration with substantially flat sides facing one another, wherein said insulator member is a member of insulating material disposed in the space between said flat sides, and wherein each of said terminal components at one end thereof has a pair of welding cable conductor attachment portions with one pair of said attachment portions disposed between the other pair of attachment portions, said copper-welded connections being disposed between the ends of said conductors and the respective attachment portions of said terminal components.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
31 words
A welding cable, according to claim 2, wherein said attachment portions comprise bosses disposed in coplanar pairs with the centers of said pairs disposed in planes approximately perpendicular to one another.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
A welding cable, according to claim 2, wherein said attachment portions are of approximately sector-shaped cross-section.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
A welding cable, according to claim 3, wherein said bosses contain sockets, and wherein said welded connections are disposed between the bottoms of said sockets and the end portions of their respective welding cable conductors.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
A welding cable, according to claim 5, wherein said welded connections are also disposed between the side walls of said sockets and the end portions of their respective welding cable conductors.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
A welding cable, according to claim 5, wherein the side walls of said bosses contain apertures therethrough disposed near said bottoms.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
58 words
A welding cable, according to claim 1, wherein each of said terminal components includes an elongated copper body with a recess in one end portion thereof and also includes a copper adapter having a tongue thereon disposed in mating engagement with said recess, and wherein certain of said copper-welded connections are disposed between said tongue and said recess.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
51 words
A welding cable, according to claim 1, wherein there are two pairs of said conductors, and wherein said separator is of cruciform cross-section with a central tubular core and with four ribs radiating therefrom and with concave side surfaces forming circularly-arcuate longitudinal grooves therealong, said conductors being seated in said grooves.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
23 words
A welding cable, according to claim 9, wherein said core has a multiplicity of cooling liquid passageways extending transversely thereto into said grooves.