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Standard cables used in cable carriers may risk 'corkscrewing'
Flexible cables, or 'continuous-flex' cables, are electrical cables specially designed to cope with the tight bending radii and physical stress associated with moving applications, such as inside cable carriers.
Due to increasing demands within the field of automation technology in the 1980s, such as increasing loads, moving cables guided inside cable carriers often failed, although the cable carriers themselves did not. In extreme cases, failures caused by "corkscrews" and core ruptures brought entire production lines to a standstill, at high cost. As a result, specialized, highly flexible cables were developed with unique characteristics to differentiate them from standard designs. These are sometimes called “chain-suitable,” “high-flex,” or “continuous flex” cables.
A higher level of flexibility means the service life of a cable inside a cable carrier can be greatly extended. A normal cable typically manages 50,000 cycles, but a dynamic cable can complete between one and three million cycles.
Flexiblecables, or 'continuous-flex' cables, are electrical cables specially designed to cope with the tight bending radii and physical stress associated...
Flat FlexibleCable (FFC) refers to any variety of electrical cable that is both flat and flexible, with flat solid conductors. A flexible flat cable is...
using trunking, cable trays, cable ties or cable lacing. Continuous-flex or flexiblecables used in moving applications within cable carriers can be secured...
A Bowden cable (/ˈboʊdən/ BOH-dən) is a type of flexiblecable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable relative...
a building are known as NM-B (nonmetallic sheathed building cable). Flexible power cables are used for portable devices, mobile tools, and machinery....
up flexible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flexible may refer to: Power cord, a flexible electrical cable. Flexiblecable, an Electrical cable as...
like rigid conduit rather than flexiblecables. The environment of the installed wires determine how much current a cable is permitted to carry. Because...
uses a thick coaxial cable as a shared medium. This was largely superseded by 10BASE2, which used a thinner and more flexiblecable that was both cheaper...
shield. Many conventional coaxial cables use braided copper wire forming the shield. This allows the cable to be flexible, but it also means there are gaps...
Commercialization efforts for flexible lithium-ion and zinc-carbon systems are ongoing. LG is proposing to mass-produce a flexiblecable battery. The global market...
common cable clamps which are normally designed for holding one single line. Furthermore, most of the available cable clamps are not very flexible when...
metal frames with double or triple bridges and bayonet earpieces or flexiblecable temples that hook more securely behind the ears. The large lenses are...
metallic conductor cables into multiple channels for smaller optical cables. Innerducts are typically small-diameter, semi-flexible subducts. According...
rotating flexiblecable driven by gearing linked to the vehicle's transmission. The early Volkswagen Beetle and many motorcycles, however, use a cable driven...
made of high-performance plastics, including plastic plain bearings, flexiblecables, energy chains, connectors, robotic components, 3D-printed products...
guide flexible electrical cables and hydraulic or pneumatic hoses connected to moving automated machinery. They reduce wear and stress on cables and hoses...
strip is a block of electrical sockets that attaches to the end of a flexiblecable (typically with a mains plug on the other end), allowing multiple electrical...
applications. Cable ties were first manufactured by Thomas & Betts under the brand name Ty-Rap. The common cable tie, normally made of nylon, has a flexible tape...
cards. Adding plasticizers makes PVC softer and more flexible. It is used in plumbing, electrical cable insulation, flooring, signage, phonograph records...
appliance's power lead. This may be in the form of a single socket on a flexiblecable or a power strip with multiple sockets. A power strip may also have...
electrical power or signals Coaxial cable, an electrical cable comprising an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, coated...
The springy, flexiblecable of a handheld drain auger is pushed into a drain while the operator rotates a drum that anchors the cable. Similar to handheld...
unlocked position. Less common designs include a straight, circular, or flexible (cable) shackle. Some shackles split apart and come together to lock and unlock...
linear position and velocity using a flexiblecable and spring-loaded spool. Other common names include string pot, cable-extension transducer, draw wire sensor...
structural wires bracing their wings. Turnbuckles are also widely used on flexiblecables in flight control systems. In both cases they are secured with lockwire...
A wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various...
are a type of parallel manipulators in which flexiblecables are used as actuators. One end of each cable is reeled around a rotor twisted by a motor,...
The ribbon cable allowed companies like IBM and Sperry / Univac to replace bulky, stiff round cables with sleek, flexible ribbon cables.[citation needed]...
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