Patent ID: 11875913
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. An electrical conductor comprising an electrically conductive material comprising graphene and/or carbon nanotubes and a joint, the electrically conductive material of the electrical conductor having thereon, at the joint, a metallic coating configured to cohesively connect the electrical conductor to a metallic conductor element, the metallic coating being in direct contact with the electrically conductive material, wherein the metallic coating of the joint a metal which forms carbides in a boundary layer of the coating through reaction of the metal of the metallic coating with the carbon of the electrically conductive material,
wherein the metallic coating comprises titanium and/or zirconium and/or iron and/or vanadium and/or niobium and/or molybdenum and/or hafnium and/or tantalum and/or tungsten,
wherein nitrides are formed in the boundary layer of the metallic coating, and
wherein the metallic coating is a plasma coating.