Superior shield cable
AssigneeBelden Wire & Cable Company
InventorsThomas G. Tash, William A. King
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Abstract
A braided cable having outwardly successive layers including: a core having a transmission medium, the transmission medium being an insulated conductor; a shielding tape surrounding the core and extending longitudinally within and parallel to the length of the cable, the shielding tape having a first edge and an oppositely located second edge, the first and second edge overlapping by inwardly curving towards one another, the shielding tape further having at least one layer of aluminum material and a second layer of polyolefin or polyester material; a cable braid longitudinally surrounding the shielding tape; and an outer jacket longitudinally surrounding the cable braid.
Claims10
A braided cable having outwardly successive layers comprising:
- a core comprising a transmission medium, said transmission medium being an insulated conductor;
- a shielding tape surrounding said core and extending concentrically within and parallel to the length of said cable, said shielding tape having a first edge and an oppositely located second edge, said first and second edge overlapping by inwardly curving towards one another, said shielding tape further comprising at least one layer of aluminum material and a second layer of polyolefin or polyester material;
- a cable braid longitudinally surrounding said shielding tape;
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- an outer jacket longitudinally surrounding said cable braid.
A braided cable comprising:
- a core which comprises a transmission medium, said transmission medium being an insulated metallic conductor;
- a laterally applied shielding tape surrounding said core and extending longitudinally within and parallel to the length of said cable, said shielding tape having a first edge and an oppositely located second edge, said first and second edge overlapping by inwardly curving towards one another, said shielding tape comprising a first layers of aluminum material, a second or middle layer of polyolefin or polyester material, and a third layer of aluminum material, said first and third layer of aluminum material being bonded to opposite sides of said middle layer of polyolefin or polyester material, said overlapping and said inwardly curved first and second edges forming a shorting fold which provides metal-to-metal contact between said first and third layers of aluminum on said shielding tape, said shielding tape further comprising an isolation fold for preventing adjacent shields from shorting one another;
- a cable braid which encloses and longitudinally surrounds said laterally applied shielding tape;
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- an outer jacket which longitudinally surrounds said braid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.