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US 11,367,541 B2Granted
Fire resistant data communication cable
AssigneeGeneral Cable Technologies Corporation
InventorsGregg Raymond Szylakowski, Scott M. Brown
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Abstract
Data communication cables include twisted wire pairs, a fire retardant tape, a metallized tape shield, a braided metallic shield, and a jacket layer. The fire retardant tape surrounds the twisted wire pairs has an overlap of about 15% to about 25%. The data communication cables are also halogen-free and may pass the fire retardant standards of National Fire Protection Agency (“NFPA”) 130.
Claims20
A data communication cable comprising:
- a plurality of twisted wire pairs;
- a fire retardant tape surrounding the plurality of twisted wire pairs, the fire retardant tape having an about 15% to about 25% overlap;
- a metallized tape shield surrounding the fire retardant tape;
- a braided metallic shield surrounding the metallized tape shield;
- and
- a jacket layer;
- and
- wherein the entire data communication cable is halogen-free.
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A data communication cable comprising:
- a plurality of twisted wire pairs;
- a fire retardant tape surrounding the plurality of twisted wire pairs, the fire retardant tape having an about 15% to about 25% overlap;
- a cable shield comprising a metallized tape shield and a braided metallic shield;
- and
- a jacket layer, wherein the jacket layer comprises a crosslinked low-smoke, zero halogen polyolefin;
- and
- wherein the entire data communication cable is halogen-free.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.