ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR.

Abstract

An electrical conductor comprising a flat conductor formed from a solid metallic material, the flat conductor having at least two opposite wide sides, two opposite narrow sides and two opposite end sides and having a cross-sectional profile of at least square, and a flexible conductor formed from a plurality of strands, the strands of the flexible conductor being joined together, at least partially, in a materially adherent manner in the region of at least one end of the flexible conductor, characterized in that the flexible conductor, at its end with the joined strands, is materially adherent with its end face to an end face, a narrow side or a wide side of the flat conductor.

Claims

CLAIMS 1. An electrical conductor characterized in that it comprises: - two flat conductors formed from a solid metallic material, wherein - the flat conductors each have at least two mutually opposite wide sides, two mutually opposite narrow sides and two mutually opposite end sides and a cross-sectional profile of at least quadrangular, and - a flexible conductor formed from a plurality of strands, - wherein the strands of the flexible conductor are joined together, at least partially, in the region of at least one end of the flexible conductor by a material bond, wherein - the strands of the flexible conductor are at least partially joined together by a material bond at their two distal ends and with their end faces of their two distal ends butted to the flat conductor providing a hinge between the two flat conductors.

2. The electrical conductor according to claim 1, further characterized in that the flexible conductor is a braid of conductors, in particular a braid of flat conductors.

3. The electrical conductor according to claim 1, further characterized in that the strands of the flexible conductor are joined together, at least partially, in the region of at least one of its ends by ultrasonic welding or resistance welding, in particular resistance pressure butt welding or flash butt welding.

4. The electrical conductor according to claim 1, further characterized in that the flexible conductors are attached to the end face or narrow side of the flat conductor by resistance welding or laser welding.

5. The electrical conductor according to claim 1, further characterized in that a plate-shaped fixing is arranged on the strands of at least one wide side of the flexible conductor in the region of at least one of its ends.

6. The electrical conductor according to claim 5, further characterized in that the fixing is arranged on opposite wide sides of the flexible conductor.

7. The electrical conductor according to claim 5, further characterized in that the fixing is formed by at least two plate-shaped components.

8. The electrical conductor according to claim 6, further characterized in that the fixing is materially attached to the braided conductors.

9. The electrical conductor according to claim 5, further characterized in that the strands are cut to length in the region of the end face of the flexible conductor so that they are flat with an end face of the attachment by means of a trimming cut.

10. The electrical conductor according to claim 5, further characterized in that the wires together with the fixing are materially attached to the narrow side or end face of the flat conductor.

11. The electrical conductor according to claim 5, further characterized in that the wires together with the fixing are materially attached at least partially circumferentially to the narrow side or to an end side of the flat conductor.

12. A method for manufacturing an electrical conductor characterized in that: - two flat conductors formed from a solid metallic material are provided, wherein the flat conductors have at least two opposite wide sides, two opposite narrow sides and two opposite end sides and a cross-sectional profile of at least quadrangular, and - a flexible conductor formed from a plurality of strands is provided, and - the strands of the flexible conductor are joined together, at least partially, in the region of at least one end of the flexible conductor by a material bond, wherein - the strands of the flexible conductor are first joined, at least partially, to each other by a material bond at their two distal ends and then, with their end faces of their two distal ends, are butted together with the flat conductor, providing a hinge between the two flat conductors.

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