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US 11,443,872 B2Granted
Automotive communications cable
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsGuido Woeste, Christian Schäfer
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Abstract
An automotive communications cable includes a cable jacket, a pair of twisted conductors disposed within the cable jacket, and two or more insulating strands disposed within the cable jacket. The two or more insulating strands include a central insulating strand disposed between a first conductor in the pair of twisted conductors and a second conductor in the pair of twisted conductors.
Claims20
A communications cable, comprising:
- a cable jacket;
- a pair of twisted conductors disposed within the cable jacket;
- and
- a plurality of insulating strands disposed within the cable jacket, wherein the plurality of insulating strands includes a central insulating strand disposed between a first conductor in the pair of twisted conductors, a second conductor in the pair of twisted conductors, and the other insulating strands in the plurality of insulating strands, wherein the cable jacket and all the plurality of insulating strands except the central insulating strand are configured to be stripped in one stripping process to expose the pair of twisted conductors when the cable jacket and the insulating strands other than the central insulating strand are stripped from the communications cable, and wherein the central insulating strand holds the first and second conductors in place relative to each other.
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A method for attaching a communications cable to a connector, the communications cable comprising:
- a cable jacket;
- a pair of twisted conductors disposed within the cable jacket, and
- a plurality of insulating strands disposed within the cable jacket, wherein the plurality of insulating strands includes a central insulating strand disposed between a first conductor in the pair of twisted conductors, a second conductor in the pair of twisted conductors and the other insulating strands in the plurality of insulating strands, the method comprising:
- exposing the pair of twisted conductors by stripping the cable jacket and each insulating strand in the plurality of insulating strands except for the central insulating strand in a single stripping process;
- and
- attaching the exposed pair of twisted conductors to the connector while the central insulated strand holds the exposed pair of twisted conductors in place relative to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.