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TECHNOLOGY
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EL Wire is a flexible copper wire core coated with phosphorescent like material. Two hair-thin wires, on top of a transparent-thin-metallic-layer, are wrapped around the core and a waterproof sheath is then applied before the colored translucent plastic layer encapsulates it all. When a high frequency electrical voltage is applied, it gives off a fluorescent glow, like neon.
Development efforts to create LyTec® required the invention of advanced methodologies two areas: coating of wires and development of specialized polymer creation.
Elam has developed unique, patent-protected expertise in a coating method known as sputtering, which allows the coating of wires in layers of thickness ranging from several angstroms to several microns. In the area of polymer creation, the company has developed state-of-the-art binders and unique pigments, for ensuring the uniformity and durability of the wire coating, and creation of a variety of colors respectively. The polymer layers are highly hydrophobic, very adhesive, transparent, and possess excellent dielectric characteristics.
Powered by battery-operated drivers or by a household outlet LyTec® wire emits light along its entire length as well as its circumference. LyTec® comes in a wide variety of colors, and is cool to the touch. The innovative electroluminescent (EL) lighting wire is flexible, available in a wide range of diameters and can be cut to any length, from centimeters to hundreds of meters.
All LyTec® products are protected by U.S. patent No. 5,869,930, China patent No. 97121158.2 as well as other relevant patents in other countries.
Please see also LyTec® Advantage
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