Cable guide and method of cable termination
AssigneeOhio Associated Enterprises, LLC
InventorsAlan L. Roath, Corinne W. Baumann
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Abstract
A cable guide is used to constrain and locate wires or cables for preparation for and for connection to a circuit board or connector, for termination. The cable guide has openings that receive and secure wires during the termination process. A shaft of the cable guide may be used to secure, in a repeatable manner, a predetermined length of the wires with ends offset from a cable jacket, or other reference on or near the end of the cable. The cable guide and the cable/wires may be secured in a fixture that allows the wire ends to be repeatably scored to remove insulation.
Claims17
A cable guide in combination with a cable, the combination comprising:
- the cable guide, wherein the cable guide includes:
- a body having first and second wire-receiving openings therein;
- and
- a shaft extending from the body;
- and
- the cable, wherein the cable is a twinax cable includes:
- a first pair of wires;
- a second pair of wires;
- and
- a cable jacket that surrounds at least portions of the pairs of wires;
- wherein the cable guide is mechanically coupled to the cable such that the shaft is between the pairs of wires;
- wherein ends of the first pair of wires are secured in the first wire-receiving opening;
- wherein ends of the second pair of wires are secured in the second wire-receiving opening;
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- wherein the ends of the pairs of wires a predetermined distance away from where the pairs of wires separate from the cable jacket.
A method of terminating a twinax cable having a first pair of wires and a second pair of wires, the method comprising:
- mechanically coupling the pairs of wires to a cable guide, wherein the cable guide includes a body having a first wire-receiving opening and a second wire-receiving opening, and a shaft extending from the body, and wherein the mechanically coupling includes securing the pairs of wires in respective of the wire-receiving openings, with the shaft maintaining the ends of the wires at least a predetermined distance away from a jacket of the cable, and with the shaft between the first pair of wires and the second pair of wires;
- preparing the ends of the wires for connection to a printed circuit board;
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- mechanically coupling the cable to the printed circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.