WOVEN RESISTOR UNIT AND ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC H05B3/36 

FIELD: electrothermy, electric heaters such as fiber-plastic ones for medicine, agriculture, liquid and gaseous media heating devices for various industries.

SUBSTANCE: proposed woven resistor unit has electricity conducting and heat liberating threads disposed in parallel with power electrodes made of tinsel threads and separated from them by insulating threads; uniformly distributed perpendicular to electricity conducting and heat liberating threads and tinsel threads of power electrodes throughout resistor unit length are additional and current-distributing electrodes made of tinsel threads. Manufacture of woven resistor unit involves cutting of resistor unit blank of desired geometry from current-conducting fabric followed by cutting peripheral zones of all current distributing electrodes and some of peripheral zones of additional electrodes in pack of insulating threads contacting power electrodes on one end and pack of electricity conducting and heat liberating threads, on other end; peripheral zones of additional electrodes are cut out of alternating sides of pack of electricity conducting and heat liberating threads for switching circuit of desired resistor unit; terminal current conductors made, for instance, from copper foil run over with tin and provided with power cord are attached to edges of power and additional electrodes of resistor unit.

EFFECT: enhanced electric safety and reliability of woven resistor unit.

2 cl, 7 dwg