Patent ID: 8375572

Claim:
A method for creating a silicone encased flexible cable using manufacturing machinery, comprising: automatically arranging plural individual conduits, into a custom grouped arrangement, the individual conduits include electrical wiring, pneumatic tubing and fluid tubing; inserting the custom grouped arrangement into an extrusion apparatus configured to create a shaped silicone encasement of the custom grouped arrangement; depositing a mixture of silicone and additives to the custom grouped arrangement; customizing the mixture of silicone and additives to create differing characteristics of the individual conduits; using the extrusion apparatus to create a singular encasement and to cure the singular encasement to a desired shape of the custom grouped arrangement; and integrating a flexible junction box to the custom grouped arrangement, wherein the flexible junction box contains at least one incoming and one outgoing conduit connection and one or more functional devices connected to the junction box.