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US 7,468,489 B2Granted
Cable having internal identifying indicia and associated methods
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorMark E Alrutz
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Abstract
A cable for ensuring the authenticity thereof and discouraging the unauthorized counterfeiting of the cable may include a cable core and an opaque outer jacket surrounding the cable core. The jacket may include identifying indicia visible on an inner surface of the opaque outer jacket when opened, but visually obscured from viewing from outside the opaque outer jacket when unopened. The indicia may be integrally molded plastic stripes, for example.
Claims17
A cable comprising:
- a cable core;
- a plastic opaque outer jacket surrounding said cable core;
- and
- identifying indicia comprising at least one plastic portion integrally molded with said plastic opaque outer jacket and being visible on an inner surface of said plastic opaque outer jacket when opened, but being visually obscured from viewing from outside said plastic opaque outer jacket when unopened;
- said at least one integrally molded plastic portion comprising a plurality of different colored stripes.
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A cable comprising:
- a cable core;
- a plastic opaque outer jacket surrounding said cable core;
- and
- a plurality of integrally molded plastic color-coded stripes being visible on an inner surface of said plastic opaque outer jacket when opened, but being visually obscured from viewing from outside said plastic opaque outer jacket when unopened, each plastic color-coded stripe being integrally molded with said plastic opaque outer jacket and having a different color than a color of said plastic opaque outer jacket.
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A cable comprising:
- a cable core;
- and
- a plastic opaque outer jacket surrounding said cable core;
- and
- identifying indicia comprising visible ink on said plastic opaque outer jacket and being visible on an inner surface of said plastic opaque outer jacket when opened, but being visually obscured from viewing from outside said plastic opaque outer jacket when unopened;
- said visible ink having an emission spectrum in at least one of an infrared region and an ultraviolet region.
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