EP2698792B1 - Système intégré de conduits et pièces associées pour la protection antibactérienne et anti-rongeurs de câbles dans un réseau de distribution électrique - Google Patents

Système intégré de conduits et pièces associées pour la protection antibactérienne et anti-rongeurs de câbles dans un réseau de distribution électrique Download PDF

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EP2698792B1
EP2698792B1 EP12386019.9A EP12386019A EP2698792B1 EP 2698792 B1 EP2698792 B1 EP 2698792B1 EP 12386019 A EP12386019 A EP 12386019A EP 2698792 B1 EP2698792 B1 EP 2698792B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B7/00—Insulated conductors or cables characterised by their form
    • H01B7/17—Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring
    • H01B7/28—Protection against damage caused by moisture, corrosion, chemical attack or weather
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  • the invention relates to the antimicrobial and/or anti-rodent protection provided in plastic pipes and accessories employed in covering power supply lines in installations of electrical distribution networks exposed to the ambient environment.
  • An electric power distribution network within a residence, an industrial or a commercial environment comprises appropriately arranged power supply lines providing power for a variety of uses at a plurality of locations within the building, such locations having been determined during the stage of designing the functioning of the building.
  • a thermoplastic composition incorporating an antimicrobial additive in association with compatible physical property modifying agents, such as plasticizers, stabilizers, flame retardants and the like has been employed in various circumstances in association with such electrical power supply installations with a scope of offering protection against attack from a variety of biologically destructive sources, such as fungal growth and microbial attack, thereby diminishing fungal and microbial growth in the surroundings.
  • Antimicrobial additives have been commonly employed in a variety of applications, such as in the production of sanitary articles, of dyes, etc.
  • US 2009/0101387 discloses a multiple conductor electrical cord, the cord being insulated within a jacket being manufactured with a thermoplastic composition that contains an agent inhibiting biological contamination.
  • This invention is related in particular to wire or cable having at least two conductive electrical wires (core) and having a sheath on this core comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer layer which contains the antimicrobial properties.
  • EP 0749128 discloses a filling compound for use in cables and spliced cable connectors, particularly applicable in the field of telecommunication industry, wherein the filling compound comprises amongst other materials an anti-fungal and anti-corrosive ingredient.
  • EP 0417713 discloses an electric cable having an outer sheath based on a polymer mixture containing a repellant and insecticide with a scope of providing protection to the cable from the attack of insects, viz-z-viz termites.
  • WO 2006/016899 discloses an NBC resistant composition for use in hazardous environments containing nuclear, biological or chemical agents, the composition comprising a terpolymer of an ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM), a flame retardant and an antimicrobial agent, that may be applied in cables.
  • EPDM ethylene-propylene-diene monomer
  • an antimicrobial agent that may be applied in cables.
  • a typical electricity distribution network including such in a hygienically sensitive environment comprises a variety of power supply conductors that have different dimensions, especially in relation to the number and thickness of the wires employed in each particular case to serve by way of example lighting requirements or motive requirements of operating machinery and further they may include low voltage conductors, such as those employed in the distribution of lines of telephony or of audio and/or visual signal reception lines.
  • the object of the invention is to provide protection from microbial growth and/or rodent attack in the overall electrical distribution network in hygienically sensitive facilities, such as in industries processing food or pharmaceutical products including storage facilities for such products, or in clinics and hospitals, etc.
  • hygienically sensitive facilities such as in industries processing food or pharmaceutical products including storage facilities for such products, or in clinics and hospitals, etc.
  • the electrical distribution network is exposed to ambient conditions and is not embedded within the wall structure of the building as is the case with electrical installations in a domestic environment, the conductors are enclosed within appropriately sized and formed conduits and a plurality of supplementary items, such as bends, clips, couplers, spouts, adaptors and junction boxes being employed to implement an integrated electrical distribution network.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an integrated system of conduits and associated supplementary items, such as bends, clips, couplers, spouts, adaptors and junction boxes employed to thoroughly cover the variety of power supply cables in electrical installations exposed to ambient conditions, such integrated system of conduits and associated supplementary items acting so as to eliminate microbial growth and/or rodent attack thereby adequately protecting electrical conductor cables being guided therein and advantageously diminishing microbial growth in the surrounding environment, this integrated system comprising rigid and pliable conduits covering the power supply conductors all along the length of the same, as well as bends, clips, couplers, spouts, adaptors and watertight junction boxes provided at predetermined designed locations along the lengths of such rigid or pliable conduits with a scope of connecting and fixedly supporting sequential lengths of the abovementioned rigid and pliable conduits, including underground conduits used to transfer electric power and/or telecommunication cables to the site of the electrical installation, wherein manufacturing of the aforementioned conduits and associated items is made
  • thermoplastic material that comprises an anti-microbial and an anti-rodent additive
  • the entire system comprising the rigid or pliable conduits and the supplementary connecting and supporting items, as well as the cables being guided within such conduits are safely protected from either microbial growth or rodent attack and thereby advantageously prevent microbial growth in the surrounding environment.
  • the integrated system of antimicrobial and anti-rodent protective plastic items of the invention comprises all necessary items for providing a full coverage of the cables in a typical electrical installation that is not inbuilt in the wall and is exposed to ambient conditions, namely the following items used in accordance to the designed functioning of the electrical installation: the appropriate lengths of rigid linear conduit portions 11 and lengths of pliable conduit portions 12 being depicted in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 respectively; a plurality of couplers 13 adapted to connect linearly oriented sequential lengths of the abovementioned rigid linear conduit portions 11 and/or lengths of pliable conduit portions 12 ( Fig.
  • a plurality of bends 14 adapted to connect perpendicularly oriented sequential lengths of the abovementioned rigid linear conduit portions 11 and/or lengths of pliable conduit portions 12 ( Fig. 4 ); a plurality of junction boxes 16 covered with appropriately configured cover plates 16a ( Fig. 6 ) and provided with a plurality of outlets arranged at the lateral sides thereof, these outlets being provisionally covered with plug-in seals 16b and adapted to receive spout adaptor members 15 in selected ones of these outlets after removal of the plug-in seals 16b; a plurality of spout adaptor members 15 ( Fig.
  • the abovementioned clips 17 are appropriately sequentially spaced at distances of the order of 50 cm for vertically oriented conduit portions and of the order of 40 cm for horizontally oriented conduit portions.
  • Fig. 9 illustratively shows two portions of a special make of an underground conduit 19 intermediately connected by means of a coupler 18, such underground conduits being employed to transfer electric power or telecommunication signals with cables being guided therein at the site of the electrical distribution network and being manufactured in a co-extrusion process with a double wall structure with a corrugated exterior wall surface and an inner smooth wall surface, either in the depicted pliable mode of conduits following desired curved paths or in a rigid mode of conduits extending in a linear direction.
  • thermoplastic material that advantageously contains an anti-microbial additive at a percentage by weight of about 1-8%.
  • the thermoplastic material contains an anti-rodent additive at a percentage by weight of about 1-8% as well.
  • the thermoplastic material advantageously contains both an antimicrobial additive and an anti-rodent additive, each at a percentage by weight of about 1-8% and when both additives being used the added percentages by weight of the two constituent additives will not exceed 8%.
  • the antimicrobial additive can be selected to be silver ion commercially available by Biocote Ltd, whilst the anti-rodent additive is a non-hazardous and non-toxic animal and bird repellent and can be selected to be based on a quaternary ammonium adduct of Benzyl diethyl [(2,6-Xylylcarbamolyl Methyl)] Ammonium Benzoate, N-[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-8-methyl-, (E)-; 8-Methyl-N-vanillyl-6- and capsaicin derivatives.
  • thermoplastic raw material comprising an antimicrobial additive has an illustrative composition of 96% HDPE (High density polyethylene), 2% master batch pigment and 2% master batch of the anti-microbial additive.
  • HDPE High density polyethylene
  • thermoplastic raw material comprising an anti-rodent additive has an illustrative composition of 96% HDPE (High density polyethylene), 2% master batch pigment and 2% master batch of the anti-rodent additive.
  • HDPE High density polyethylene
  • thermoplastic raw material comprising an antimicrobial and an anti-rodent additive has an illustrative composition of 94% HDPE (High density polyethylene), 2% master batch pigment, 2% master batch of the anti-rodent additive and 2% master batch of the anti-microbial additive.
  • HDPE High density polyethylene
  • the thermoplastic raw material can be selected from the group comprising polyethylene (PE), high density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polycarbonate (PC), polycarbonate / Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (PC/ABS).
  • PE polyethylene
  • HDPE high density polyethylene
  • PP polypropylene
  • PVC polyvinylchloride
  • PC polycarbonate
  • PC/ABS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
  • the various constituent parts of the integrated system of antimicrobial protective plastic items of the invention are made in a variety of sizes and dimensions of each part to fit applications of varying requirements.
  • the tests were carried out with a scope of establishing the antibacterial activity, i.e. the difference in the logarithm of the viable cell count found on an antibacterial-treated product and an untreated product after inoculation with and incubation of bacteria and the antibacterial effectiveness, i.e. the ability of an antibacterial agent to inhibit the growth of bacteria on the surface of a plastic treated with the agent, as determined by the value of the antibacterial activity.
  • the tests provided data showing the difference in the population of the specific bacteria (E Coli) and of the specific bacteria MRSA after contact thereof with the surface of the samples for 24 hours at 35°C under RH of 95% relative to the initial population of bacteria.
  • the integrated system of antimicrobial protective plastic items for electrical distribution networks of the invention has also been found effective against other microbes, such as salmonella, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococci, Enterococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumanii, Legionella, Lactobacilli and Clostridium difficile.

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  1. Système intégré de conduits et d'éléments supplémentaires associés utilisés pour recouvrir complètement une variété de câbles dans un réseau de distribution électrique, comprenant de longueurs appropriées de portions de conduit linéaire rigide (11) et de longueurs de portions de conduit souple (12), de clips (17) adaptés pour supporter lesdites longueurs de portions de conduit linéaire rigide (11) et de longueurs de portions de conduit souple (12) et pour les monter fixement sur une surface sur laquelle ledit réseau de distribution électrique est installé, de coupleurs (13) adaptés pour connecter de longueurs séquentielles linéairement orientées desdites portions de conduit linéaire rigide (11) et / ou de longueurs desdites portions de conduit souple (12), de coudes (14) adaptés pour connecter de longueurs séquentielles perpendiculairement orientées desdites portions de conduit linéaire rigide (11) et / ou de longueurs desdites portions de conduit souple (12), de boîtes de jonction (16) recouvertes de plaques de recouvrement (16a) configurées de manière appropriée et munies d'une pluuralité de sorties provisoirement recouvertes de joints d'étanchéité (16b), d'éléments d'adaptateur de bec (15) avec une extrémité (15b) adaptée pour s'insérer dans lesdites sorties desdites boîtes de jonction (16) après retrait des joints d'étanchéité (16b) recouvrant provisoirement ceux-ci et une extrémité (15a) adaptée pour recevoir une longueur appropriée d'une portion de conduit linéaire rigide (11) ou une longueur appropriée d'une portion de conduit souple (12) et de conduits souterrains souples ou rigides (19) structurés à double paroi avec une paroi extérieure ondulée et une paroi intérieure lisse connectés intermédiairement au moyen de coupleurs (18), lesdits conduits souterrains (19) étant utilisés pour transférer d'énergie électrique ou de signaux de télécommunication avec de câbles guidés sur le site du réseau de distribution électrique, caractérisé en ce que ledit système intégré de conduits et d'éléments supplémentaires associés utilisés dans le réseau de distribution électrique, y compris lesdits conduits souterrains souples ou rigides structurés à double paroi utilisés pour transférer d'énergie électrique ou de signaux de télécommunication avec de câbles guidés sur le site du réseau de distribution électrique sont fabriqués avec un matériau thermoplastique ayant une composition comprenant un additif antimicrobien à un pourcentage en poids d'environ 1-8% et / ou un additif anti-rongeur à un pourcentage en poids d'environ 1-8%.
  2. Le système intégré de conduits et d'éléments supplémentaires associés utilisés pour recouvrir complètement une variété de câbles dans un réseau de distribution électrique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit matériau thermoplastique a une composition comprenant à la fois un additif antimicrobien et un additif anti-rongeur, dans lequel les pourcentages ajoutés en poids dudit additif antimicrobien et dudit additif anti-rongeur se situent dans une gamme qui ne dépasse pas 8%.
  3. Le système intégré de conduits et d'éléments supplémentaires associés utilisés pour recouvrir complètement une variété de câbles dans un réseau de distribution électrique selon les revendications 1 et 2, dans lequel le matériau thermoplastique utilisé pour fabriquer ledit système de conduits et d'éléments supplémentaires associés du réseau de distribution électrique et lesdits conduits souterrains peut être choisi d'un groupe comprenant le polyéthylène (PE), le polyéthylène haute densité (HDPE), le polypropylène (PP), le polychlorure de vinyle (PVC), le polycarbonate (PC), le polycarbonate / Acrylonitrile butadiène styrène (PC/ABS).
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