Unit 4, 7th Floor, Standard Factory B, Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, Tan Thuan Street
District 7, HCM City, Vietnam
Here, the servo cables are highly flexible motor connection cables with a complete copper shield and an integrated, shielded pair of control cores. This cable type was selected due to the fact that here the problematic case of an outof- round braid form due to the different core cross sections is a significant factor and that the various bending behaviors of the production methods are therefore emphasized.
Sample A: CF27.100.10.02.01.D (4x10 mm2 + (2x1,0 mm2) of igus® GmbH
Sample B: experimental (4x10 mm2 + (2x1,0 mm2)
Both cables are provided with identical nominal cross sections
and insulation materials. Cable A is equipped with an internal
jacket and cable B with a fleece taping and fillers.
The experimental production (sample B) already shows the
formation of a corkscrew after 145,000 double strokes. In
the case of a cable, the so-called corkscrew refers to a
wave-shaped deformation like the one that can be seen
in the following picture on sample B.
Whereas, in the case of cable A, the internal jacket fills up
the gussets and a round braid structure is created as a
result, cable B requires fillers in the gussets. Like the core,
the fillers also consist of filbrated polyethylene. They are
easy to compress and are therefore hardly capable of taking
over any supporting effects. Whereas the internal jacket,
which is made of TPE, and the cable A center, which
consists of cordage, hold the cores in a defined position,
the cores of cable B are able to move about uncontrolled.
During the bending process, a core has detached itself
from the composite braid structure and has been shifted
in the inner bending radius with respect to the center and
on the outer bending radius with respect to the jacket. This
results in corkscrew-type deformations that repeat themselves
periodically with the pitch length.