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US 5,750,930 AGranted
Electrical cable for use in a medical surgery environment
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorsArthur Glen Buck, Doris Arlene Beck, Sokha Chy
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Abstract
An electrical cable with, multiple conductors, a dense braid encircling the conductors, a sealant sheath encircling the dense braid, an open braid encircling the sealant sheath, and a sealant layer covering the open braid and entering interstices in the open braid to bond to the sealant sheath.
Claims5
An electrical cable comprising:
- multiple elongated electrical conductors being linked between a patient monitoring transducer and a medical instrument, said conductors being in a core of the cable, a hollow conducting electrical shield encircling the conductors, a flexible and limp sealant sheath encircling the shield and sealing the core against infectious contaminants, a flexible and limp armor enclosing the sheath in the form of an open braid of wire strands, and a flexible and limp sealant coating covering the armor and entering interstices between the wire strands to bond to the sealant sheath, the armor isolating the sealant sheath from a cut in the cable caused by a sharp surgical tool so that the sealant sheath remains capable of sterilization in an autoclave, and the cable having flexibility and limpness and being linked between said patient monitoring transducer and said medical instrument.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.