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Gore Boosts Cable Production for Semicon Manufacturing

[2008-7-28]

Tag : Flat Flexible Cable

W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has now doubled its manufacturingcapacity for flat cables to keep pace with customer demand forcables capable of reducing particles and outgassing insemiconductor manufacturing steps such as lithography, ionimplantation, and inspection. The additional capacity includes theability to make flat cables up to 300 mm wide so multiple cablescan be replaced with a single, self-supporting cable perfect forstroke lengths of 500 mm or less.

Gore designs high flex cables that survive the extreme conditionsfound in clean room environments. These cables can be used inISO14644-1 Class 3 (FS 209E Class 1) environments. The key toGore's high flex and low particulation performance is its ePTFEcomposite jacket. This material has a low coefficient of frictionand excellent tear resistance. It is also very flexible and enablesflat cables to be stacked on top of each other and slide smoothlywithout generating particles. Alternative flat cable options useextruded jackets, such as silicone and polyurethane. These cablescreate particles as they wear because their coefficient of frictionis much greater than Gore's ePTFE composite jacket.

Gore offers several high flex, clean (low particulation andoutgassing) cable solutions including GORE High Flex Flat Cable,GORE Trackless Cable, and GORE High Flex Round Cable. GORE HighFlex Flat Cable provides excellent cable management because they donot require cable dividers within cable track. This reducesparticulation and results in extended cable life. GORE TracklessCable eliminates the need for cable track and many of the problemsassociated with cable track, such as particulation, vibration,size, weight and noise. Additionally, a low particulation jacket isavailable for GORE High Flex Round Cable.

These cables are available on Gore's on-line design tool, wheredesign engineers can choose from standard cable cores andcomponents to design high flex cables and/or assemblies. The GOREHigh Flex Cable Configurator can be accessed atgore.com/designacable. Gore's on-line cable offerings include allof the components necessary to drive and control a motion systemincluding shielded/unshielded power and signal, video, Ethernet,IEEE 1394, fiber optic and pneumatic lines.


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