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Power cable

Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd
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Filing: 1997-09-22
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Granted: 1998-06-30
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Expires: 2017-09-22
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Abstract

Abstract A power cable is disclosed, which comprises a conductor having thereon an insulating layer which comprises a composition comprising from 25 to 35% by weight based on the total amount of the composition of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin having a vinyl acetate content of from 25 to 33% by weight, and from 65 to 75% by weight based on the total amount of the composition of polyethylene, the polyethylene containing in the molecule thereof vinyltrimethoxysilane by copolymerization or graft polymerization, the composition containing an organo heavy metal compound as a cross-linking catalyst, the insulating layer is cross-linked by the cross-linking reaction of trimethoxysilane groups in the polyethylene in the presence of water.

Inventors

  • 👤 Yoshiyuki Inoue
  • 👤 Mineya Kuno
  • 👤 Takeshi Fukui
  • 👤 Shigeki Ohsawa

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01B; H01B3/00; H01B3/18; H01B3/30; H01B3/44; H01B3/441; C; C08; C08F; C08F255/00; C08F255/02; C08F255/026; C08F275/00; C08L; C08L23/00; C08L23/02; C08L23/04; C08L23/08; C08L51/00; C08L51/06; C08L23/0846; C08L23/0853; C08L23/0892; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2913; Y10T428/2933; Y10T428/294; Y10T428/2958; Y10T428/2962

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 108 words
A power cable comprising a conductor having thereon an insulating layer which comprises a composition comprising from 25 to 35% by weight based on the total amount of said composition of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin having a vinyl acetate content of from 25 to 33% by weight, and from 65 to 75% by weight based on the total amount of said composition of polyethylene, said polyethylene containing in the molecule thereof vinyltrimethoxysilane by copolymerization or graft polymerization, said composition containing an organotin compound as a cross-linking catalyst, said insulating layer is cross-linked by the cross-linking reaction of trimethoxysilane groups in said polyethylene in the presence of water.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 108 words
A power cable comprising a conductor having thereon an insulating layer which comprises a composition comprising from 25 to 35% by weight based on the total amount of said composition of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin having a vinyl acetate content of from 25 to 33% by weight, and from 65 to 75% by weight based on the total amount of said composition of polyethylene, said polyethylene containing in the molecule thereof vinyltrimethoxysilane by copolymerization or graft polymerization, said composition containing an organotin compound as a cross-linking catalyst, said insulating layer is cross-linked by the cross-linking reaction of trimethoxysilane groups in said polyethylene in the presence of water.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 32 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 1, wherein said polyethylene contains said vinyltrimethoxysilane in an amount of from 0.1 to 5% by weight based on the total amount of said polyethylene.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 32 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 2, wherein said polyethylene contains said vinyltrimethoxysilane in an amount of from 0.5 to 3% by weight based on the total amount of said polyethylene.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 36 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer has a melt flow rate of from 0.1 to 30, and said polyethylene has a melt flow rate of from 0.1 to 30.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 36 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 4, wherein said ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer has a melt flow rate of from 0.3 to 5, and said polyethylene has a melt flow rate of from 0.3 to 5.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 25 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer has a vinyl acetate content of from 25 to 30% by weight.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 28 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 1, wherein said organo heavy metal compound is selected from the group consisting of dibutyltin dilaurate, dibutyltin diacetate and dibutyltin dioctanate.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 33 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 1, wherein said composition contains said organotin compound in an amount of from 0.005 to 1% by weight based on the total amount of said composition.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 33 words
A power cable as claimed in claim 8, wherein said composition contains said organotin compound in an amount of from 0.02 to 0.2% by weight based on the total amount of said composition.

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