US 12,293,860 B2
Flat conductors connected by a flexible conductor and method for manufacturing same
Oliver Scharkowski, Guben (DE); Marie Redder, Ebnat-Kappel (CH); and Kabelo Sebetlela, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Auto-Kabel Management GmbH, Hausen i. W. (DE)
Appl. No. 17/913,117
Filed by Auto-Kabel Management GmbH, Hausen i.W. (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 10, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/056025
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/190926, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 108 150.2 (DE), filed on Mar. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0207153 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H01B 7/08 (2006.01); H01R 12/61 (2011.01); H01R 43/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 7/0807 (2013.01) [H01R 12/61 (2013.01); H01R 43/0207 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical conductor comprising:
two flat conductors formed from a solid metallic material, wherein the flat conductors each have at least two mutually opposite broad sides, two mutually opposite narrow sides and two mutually opposite end sides and an at least quadrangular cross-sectional profile, and
a flexible conductor formed from a plurality of strands, wherein the strands of the flexible conductor are at least partially joined to one another in the region of two distal ends of the flexible conductor by material bonding prior to butt joining end faces of the two distal ends to the flat conductors,
wherein the end faces of its two distal ends are butt joined to the flat conductor, wherein the end faces of the two distal ends are joined to the end sides or the narrow sides of the flat conductors providing a hinge between the two flat conductors.