Flexible interconnect cable with ribbonized ends
OwnerLarry Daane, Arthur Buckinventors
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Abstract
A cable assembly has a number of wires each having a central conductor and a surrounding insulating layer. Each wire is unshielded from the other wires, so that the conductor is the only conductive portion of the wire. Each wire has a first end and an opposed second end. The first ends of the wires are secured to each other in a flat ribbon portion in a first sequential arrangement, and the second ends of the wires are secured to each other in the same sequence as the first arrangement, with indicia identifying a selected wire in the sequence. The intermediate portions of the wires are detached from each other, and a sheath having a braided conductive shield may loosely encompass the wires, permitting significant flexibility of the cable.
Claims17
A cable assembly comprising:
- a plurality of wires, each having a first end and an opposed second end;
- the wires having intermediate portions between the first and second ends, the intermediate portions being detached from each other;
- a sheath containing a conductive shield loosely encompassing all the wires;
- the shield being flexible in cross section, such that the wires adopt a flattened configuration when the cable is flexed;
- wherein the intermediate portions of the wires are loosely received within the sheath;
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- wherein the wires are free to move about with respect to each other within the shield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.