Patent ID: 7170004

Claim:
A body for surrounding an end, a branching or a connecting point of a high-voltage cable section having a cable conductor, an electrically conductive cable shielding, a cable insulation and an offset edge separating a shielded and an unshielded area of the cable insulation, which the body includes: a first field control element comprising: an expandable or shrinkable polymer; a filler embedded in the polymer and comprising a plurality of microvaristors; and at least one section designed as a hollow truncated cone with an inner surface, which is designed differently than an outer surface of the cable section, wherein the inner surface of the hollow truncated cone is designed in such a way that after guiding the body on the outer surface of the cable section and fastening the body by expansion or shrinkage, the number of microvaristors per surface unit is smaller in a first section of the field control element surrounding the unshielded area of the cable insulation than in a second section of the field control element surrounding the shielded area of the cable insulation.