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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
Federal-mogul Powertrain, Llc, Southfield, MI (US);
Zhong Huai Zhang, Pottstown, PA (US);
Xiaodan Qiu, Exton, PA (US);
Linwood Ludy, Pottstown, PA (US);
Ali Khosroshahi, Cary, NC (US);
Leigh Krauser, Coatesville, PA (US);
Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC, Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
A knitted sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve includes an elongate, knitted wall having a circumferentially continuous, tubular outer periphery extending along a central axis between opposite open ends. The wall includes knitted shrinkable yarn and knitted non-shrinkable yarn. The shrinkable yarn provides the wall with an ability to be radially constricted from a first, diametrically enlarged state to a second, diametrically shrunken state, wherein said shrinkable yarn and said non-shrinkable yarn are knit in alternating groups of courses with one another.