Dissimilar Or Auxiliary Conducting Elements Patents (Class 174/115)
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Patent number: 9537294Abstract: An integrated shielding protector and a wire harness are provided so that the man-hours concerning the wiring operation can be reduced, and the number of components also can be reduced. A conductive integrated shielding protector, including a first high voltage accommodating part, a second high voltage accommodating part and a low voltage accommodating part, is used when first high voltage wires the voltage of which is high, second high voltage wires the voltage of which is high but lower than that of the first high voltage wires, and low voltage wires the voltage of which is low are wired in parallel in the same course. A wire harness, including the integrated shielding protector, the first high voltage wires, the second high voltage wires and the low voltage wires, is wired inside a vehicle compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Kato, Tatsuya Oga
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Patent number: 9525927Abstract: The disclosure provides an earphone and a fabrication method thereof. The earphone includes: an earphone wire, wherein the earphone wire includes flexible wire parts and hard wire parts which are arranged alternately. The technical scheme provided in the disclosure solves the problem existing in the related technologies that earphone wires entwine easily and cannot be untangled readily and therefore effectively avoids the entwining of earphone wires and improves user experience.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yimu Hu, Xiaoming Yang
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Patent number: 9435953Abstract: A method of forming an optical communication cable is provided. The cable includes a core element located in a cable jacket. The core element includes a buffer tube having an outer surface, an inner surface and a channel defined by the inner surface of the first tube. The core element includes an optical fiber located within the channel of the buffer tube and a color layer formed from a surface-deposited colorant material applied to the outer surface of the buffer tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Adra Smith Baca, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Timothy Leonard Hunt, Michael Anthony Lockee, Eric John Mozdy
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Patent number: 9413087Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a power and data connector comprising a magnet, a film adhered to a surface of the magnet, and a stage extending away from the film. The power and data connector further comprises a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on the stage, the plurality of electrical contacts having a mirrored signal pin-out.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Farah Shariff, Vinod L. Hingorani, Stephen John Minarsch, Scott Dallmeyer, Thomas E. McCue, Jr.
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Patent number: 9373236Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securing handheld electronic devices. To provide an optimal shopping experience for consumers, handheld electronic devices must be made accessible to users, while simultaneously being secured to prevent theft. A security system can include a coupler connected to an electronic device. The coupler can include a connector operative to provide power and/or data to the electronic device. A cable transferring the power and data can also include an alarm path and a security cable for providing security. The security cable may be difficult to cut, and the alarm path can direct an alarm to sound if the cable is cut or if the electronic device is disconnected from the coupler.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wilhelm Oehl, Erik Anderson, Edmond Kuan, Joe Nobles, Kambiz Ahmadi, Isao Takezawa
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Patent number: 9336929Abstract: A power cable for artificial lift equipment can include one or more conductor assemblies, each including a copper conductor, a conductor shield with resistivity less than about 5000 ohm-m surrounding the conductor, insulation, an insulation shield having a resistivity less than about 5000 ohm-m surrounding the insulation, a metallic shield surrounding the insulation shield, and a polymer barrier surrounding the metallic shield. Such a cable may include a jacket molded about the one or more conductor assemblies and optionally armor surrounding the jacket. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Jason Holzmueller, Patrick Zhiyuan Ma, Gregory H. Manke, Mark A. Metzger, Melissa Ver Meer, Sayak Datta
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Patent number: 9322704Abstract: Composite active optical cables are provided. An active optical cable may include a plurality of optical fibers and one or more insulated electrical conductors. In some instances, the optical fibers may be positioned within a microtube. Additionally, in some instances, the electrical conductors may include stranded conductors. A jacket may also be formed around the optical fibers and the electrical conductors. A first optical to electrical converter may be positioned at a first end of the cable, and a second optical to electrical converter may be positioned at a distal end of the cable. Further, the conductors may be configured to carry a power signal from the first end of the cable to the distal end of the cable to power the second optical to electrical converter.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Superior Essex International LPInventor: Paul E. Neveux, Jr.
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Patent number: 9293842Abstract: An electrical device and/or a connected component is grounded utilizing a dedicated listed grounding conductor that permanently connects to a chassis of the electrical device and a grounded receptacle. The grounding conductor is dedicated to and listed for grounding the electrical device and/or connected components. The grounding conductor includes a first portion that is permanently connectible to a chassis of the electrical device, a second portion that is permanently connectible to the grounding receptacle, and a conductor portion that connects the first portion and second portion. In some implementations, the first portion may include a terminal lug that connects to a port of the chassis and may be secured by a nut that may require mechanical assistance to remove. In various implementations, the second portion may include a ring that is operable to receive a screw that mates with a screw hole of the grounding receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.Inventor: David Michael Lettkeman
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Patent number: 9259197Abstract: An intraoral x-ray sensor with embedded standard computer interface. The sensor includes a data transfer cable. In one embodiment, the cable is quad-twisted USB cable and includes two data lines, a ground line, and fillers twisted within a metallic sheath. The cable is symmetrically organized about a centerline. The symmetric cable has an improved life due to the ability to withstand mechanical stress (e.g., rotational stress). The sensor includes a processor and a housing with an inner metallization layer. The sheath is coupled to the inner metallization layer to transfer heat generated by the processor from the inner metallization layer to the sheath.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Uwe Zeller, Doug Golay
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Patent number: 9176295Abstract: The stranded optical cable 10 includes a plurality of stranded multicore optical cables 12 and a cable sheath 16 covering the multicore optical cables 12, each multicore optical cable 12 including at least two of optical units 13 as a pair and a unit sheath 14 covering the optical units 13, each optical unit 13 being formed by bundling a plurality of optical fibers. And, parts of the cable sheath corresponding to both ends of the stranded optical cable 10 are removed to expose the multicore optical cables 12 certain lengths so that the optical connectors 21 are connected to the multicore optical cables 12, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Itaru Sakabe, Kazuyuki Soma, Tomoyuki Hattori, Kenichiro Ohtsuka, Masakazu Shigehara
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Patent number: 9111661Abstract: A cable for high-voltage electronic devices including an inner semiconductive layer, a high-voltage insulator, an outer semiconductive layer, a shielding layer, and a sheath which are provided on an outer periphery of a cable core part in the order mentioned, wherein the high-voltage insulator is made of an insulating composition whose temperature dependence parameter DR found by the following expression is 1.0 or less: DR=log R23° C.?log R90° C. (where R23° C. is volume resistivity (?·cm) at 23° C. and R90° C. is volume resistivity (?·cm) at 90° C.). The cable for high-voltage electronic devices is small in diameter and has an excellent withstand voltage characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Mariko Saito, Masahiro Minowa, Masamitsu Yamaguchi, Kazuaki Noguti
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Publication number: 20150137861Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may reduce the number of connector receptacles that are needed on an electronic device. One example may provide a unified connector and circuitry that may be capable of communicating with more than one interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: William P. Cornelius, Paul A. Baker, William O. Ferry, Min Chul Kim, Nathan N. Ng
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Publication number: 20150101844Abstract: In an embodiment, one or more conductive cable cords are twisted with the sensitive signal carrying cables. The cords may advantageously comprise dummy wires, or very flexible hollow cables without an inner conductor. As the conductive cords do not carry and inner conductor, the conductive cords are individually flexible and small, resulting in a twisted bundle that more is flexible while potentially having a smaller outer diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, John Schmidt, Kevin Forrest
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Patent number: 8987598Abstract: An improved corrosion-resistant magnetic influence minesweeping cable is provided. The cable produces a magnetic field that simulates a ship's magnetic signature as the ship passes through the sea. It has an outer anode conductor made of titanium-clad copper with mixed metal oxide at its aft end, an outer cathode conductor made of nickel-clad copper at its forward end, an inner conductor made of aluminum that runs the length of the cable, and a steel core strength member that also runs the length of the cable. The outer anode conductor is in electrical contact with the inner conductor. The outer cathode conductor is insulated from the inner conductor. The outer cathode conductor and the inner conductor can be connected to an electrical power source onboard a towing vessel.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Meir Gershenson, Leslie Y. Lugo
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Publication number: 20150034381Abstract: A cable reduces loop inductance by changing the cross-sectional shape of the conductive elements of power supply and return conductors to something other than the traditional circular cross sectional shape, e.g., to a thin generally rectangular shape. The power supply and return conductors are also controlled in placement along the length of the cable, so that mutual inductance is maximized within a given power supply circuit, and minimized between the given power supply circuit and other power supply circuits within the cable. The return power supply conductor may optionally be sized for multiple power supply circuits, which may further reduce loop inductance and reduce crosstalk noise between different power supply circuits within a common cable. The power supply and return conductors may be part of a hybrid cable used to power and communicate with plural remote radio units proximate a top of a tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Frank A. HARWATH, Scott M. ADAMS, Ronald A. VACCARO
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Publication number: 20140345906Abstract: An insulated composite power cable having a wire core defining a common longitudinal axis, a multiplicity of composite wires around the wire core, and an insulative sheath surrounding the composite wires. In some embodiments, a first multiplicity of composite wires is helically stranded around the wire core in a first lay direction at a first lay angle defined relative to a center longitudinal axis over a first lay length, and a second multiplicity of composite wires is helically stranded around the first multiplicity of composite wires in the first lay direction at a second lay angle over a second lay length, the relative difference between the first lay angle and the second lay angle being no greater than about 4°. The insulated composite cables may be used for underground or underwater electrical power transmission. Methods of making and using the insulated composite cables are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Collin McCullough, Herve E. Deve, Michael F. Grether
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Patent number: 8878068Abstract: An electric wire contains a conductive wire having at least a groove structured on the surface of the conductive wire, and an additional wire to be filled into the groove. The groove is provided on an outer surface of the conductive wire along a longitudinal direction of the conductive wire. The additional wire is inserted in the groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Goto Denshi Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihide Goto, Taiki Goto, Youichi Miura
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Publication number: 20140284073Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable including reinforcement elements. The cable according to the present invention includes at least one power conductors, at least one ground conductors, a semi-conducting layer configure to surround at least part of the power conductors and the ground conductors, and at least one ground check conductor insulated from the ground conductors and configured to check the ground state of the ground conductors. The ground check conductor includes a plurality of conductors, at least one reinforcement elements provided along the outer circumference of the conductors, and an insulator configured to surround the conductors and the reinforcement elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: LS Cable & System Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Woong KIM, Chan-Yong Park, Soo-Jung Yang
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Publication number: 20140238722Abstract: One embodiment provides a multi-core cable including: first insulated wires; second insulated wires; coaxial wire pairs; and a sheath. The second insulated wires are smaller in diameter than the first insulated wires. The coaxial wire pairs are provided in an even number of pairs. The first insulated wires and the coaxial wire pairs are arranged close to each other on a single circle in a cross section, and the second insulated wires are disposed thereinside. The first insulated wires, the second insulated wires and the coaxial wire pairs are wholly twisted, and then, wholly covered by the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsunori HAYASHISHITA, Yuuki ISOYA
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Patent number: 8791396Abstract: A heating system for a subsurface formation includes a conduit located in a first opening in the subsurface formation. Three electrical conductors are located in the conduit. A return conductor is located inside the conduit. The return conductor is electrically coupled to the ends of the electrical conductors distal from the surface of the formation. Insulation is located inside the conduit. The insulation electrically insulates the three electrical conductors, the return conductor, and the conduit from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: David Burns, Charles R. Goodwin
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Publication number: 20140182890Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an electrical cable can be configured to electrically connect to contact pads that are carried by a substrate. The electrical cable can include at least one, such as a pair, of electrical signal conductors and at least one, for instance a pair, of electrically conductive drain wires. A drain wire in the electrical cable can define a first surface that is configured to face the signal conductors and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The drain wire can define a width that is greater than 0.12 mm as measured from the first surface to the second surface along a straight line. At least one auxiliary wire can be attached to at least one drain wire. The auxiliary wire can be configured to attach to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventors: Charles M. Gross, Joshua A. Garman
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Publication number: 20140144671Abstract: A multi-phase cable, the cable including a plurality of conductors for conducting currents of two or more different phases, each phase being associated with one or more conductors and each conductor being associated with one respective phase. Each conductor has a cross-section with at least one dimension that is sized to decrease a skin effect of the conductor at a maximum or nominal operation frequency of the conductor. The conductors are arranged to permit free air cooling of the cable on at least two sides of each conductor, and such that each conductor of a given phase has, as immediate neighbors, only conductors of one or more different phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Antwan SHENOUDA
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Publication number: 20140138153Abstract: A high-voltage conduction path includes one conductor of a positive electrode conductor and a negative electrode conductor, a first insulator that is provided on the outside of the one conductor, the other conductor of the positive electrode conductor and the negative electrode conductor, the other conductor being provided on the outside of the first insulator, and a second insulator that is provided on the outside of the other conductor. The other conductor is made of a metal wire material and formed into a cylindrical shape by spirally winding the metal wire material, and portions of the metal wire material positioned to be adjacent to each other contact with each other at side end faces opposed to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Eiichi TOYAMA, Shigemi HASHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20140124237Abstract: A process for a continuous production of an encapsulated component web by conveying at least two continuous encapsulation films along a longitudinal axis of a production line with at least one of the two continuous encapsulation films having an adhesive layer on an inner face thereof; inserting at least one encapsulatable component between the two continuous encapsulation films; conveying an assembly including the two continuous encapsulation films with the at least one encapsulatable component extending therebetween in a nip defined in between at least two contiguous rolls; and laminating the assembly to encapsulate the at least one encapsulatable component between the two continuous encapsulation films. There is also provided an apparatus for carrying out the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: adidas AGInventor: Gaétan Demers
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Publication number: 20140102756Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable includes first and second signal lines arranged parallel to each other, a conductive layer made of a conductor in which a current is induced when signals propagate through the first and second signal lines, and a dielectric disposed between the first and second signal lines and the conductive layer. The conductive layer has a signal attenuating structure including a non-continuous section in which the conductor is non-continuous, the non-continuous section being located such that, among differential signal components and common-mode signal components included in the signals propagating through the first and second signal lines, the common-mode signal components are attenuated by an attenuation factor greater than an attenuation factor of the differential signal components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Takahiro Sugiyama, Takashi Kumakura
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Publication number: 20140102757Abstract: A shielded power feeder system may include at least one unshielded power feeder conductor, and at least one grounded guard wire conductor positioned adjacent to the at least one unshielded power feeder conductor, the at least one unshielded power feeder conductor and the at least one grounded guard wire forming a bundle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Phillip S. Trifeletti, John Kemp Erdelyan, Michael C. Dosch
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Patent number: 8697997Abstract: A cable has an integrated cable management system for organizing multiple cables. The body of the cable has a first mating surface with a first interlocking element disposed thereon and a second mating surface with a second interlocking element disposed thereon the second mating surface, where the first interlocking element is configured as a complementary interlocking element for the second interlocking element, so that multiple cables may be joined without the use of additional cable-organizing devices. The first interlocking element may include at least one coupling recess formed in the first mating surface and configured to engage with an interlocking element having the same configuration as the second interlocking element.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Cisco Systems, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Thomas Kelly, Ariel Braunstein, Kyle Nathen Swen, Greg P. McNamara, Brian Patrick Bjelovuk
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Publication number: 20140096996Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide a combined power and communications cable for use with a motor and drive unit in an industrial control system. By grouping, electrically shielding and jacketing particular conductors, and applying certain fillers, noise and interference onto low voltage communication conductors caused by high voltage power conductors is minimized. The cable may comprise first, second and third insulated conductors twisted together and covered by a cable jacket (first group); fourth and fifth insulated conductors twisted together and covered by an electrical shield (second group); and a sixth insulated conductor for delivering a protective ground (third group). The first, second and third groups are twisted together, covered by an electrical shield and covered by a cable jacket. Filler may be formed around the fourth and fifth insulated conductors, and may be formed around the first, second and third groups, to substantially maintain round geometric shapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Timothy P. Sidlyarevich
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Publication number: 20140000934Abstract: An electrical cable (100) is provided. The cable has an electrically insulating outer jacket (101), and a number of phase conductors (102) arranged within the outer jacket (101). The phase conductors (102) extend along the longitudinal extension of the cable (100), and the phase conductors (102) are individually provided with an outer electrically insulating sheath (104). The phase conductors (102) are arranged within the outer jacket (101) such that a central space (105) is formed between the phase conductors (102), and an earth conductor (106) is arranged in the central space. The earth conductor has electrically conducting twinned strands.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventor: Per Bexell
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Patent number: 8598460Abstract: An interleaved conductor structure for electrically connecting the read/write electronics to a read/write head in a hard disk drive is provided. The interleaved conductor structure may allow for an increased characteristic-impedance range, greater interference shielding and a reduction of signal loss that is contributed by a lossy conductive substrate. The electrical traces may have different widths, be offset, or even wrap around each other at the via connections.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: John T. Contreras, Nobumasa Nishiyama, Edgar D. Rothenberg, Rehan A. Zakai, Yiduo Zhang
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Patent number: 8575489Abstract: A three-conductor cable includes three cables disposed in a triangular form in a cross sectional view thereof, and a first refrigerant path at a cable center portion surrounded by the three cables along a longitudinal direction of the three cables for flowing a refrigerant for cooling the three cables therethrough. The first refrigerant path is formed along a part of each of the three cables in a cross sectional view thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventors: Fumihito Oka, Hirotaka Eshima
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Publication number: 20130284494Abstract: A cable comprising at least one center conductor, an insulation layer surrounding the at least one center conductor, at least one substantially flat conductor running substantially parallel to the at least one center conductor and surrounding at least a portion of the insulation layer, and an outer jacket surrounding the at least one substantially flat conductor and the insulation layer, wherein no braid is disposed within the outer jacket, is provided. A method for making a cable is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Gary R. GEPPERT
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Patent number: 8569624Abstract: A conducting path includes three cables, and a cable clamp for fixing the three cables. The cable clamp includes a metal plate formed along an outer periphery of the three cables that are triangularly arranged when viewed in cross-section and a mounting flange portion formed with both end portions of the metal plate overlapped each other, and two of the three cables are integrated to form an integral cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventor: Hirotaka Eshima
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Patent number: 8569627Abstract: A transmission line cable that utilizes a plurality of substantially flat insulated conductors, each consisting of two or more solid metallic strands laid side by side in a parallel configuration within an extruded insulator. The plurality of insulated conductors are stacked into groups of two or more and may be utilized as signal conductors or shield conductors. Once the insulated conductors are stacked, the stack is twisted together, and either wrapped in a conductive insulator, placed in an extruded non-conductive insulator, or both, creating a cable that is stable, flexible, and has improved transmission characteristics, including reduced attenuation, noise and signal skew.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Wireworld by David Salz, Inc.Inventor: David Salz
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Publication number: 20130248223Abstract: A high conductivity wire and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The high conductivity wire includes three or more conducting wires. In the method, conducting wires cross each other and are coiled regularly and three dimensionally. The conducting wires are coated with an insulating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Young Il Mok, Yeon Ho Choe, Chan-soo Choi
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Patent number: 8536455Abstract: A high performance data cable which has an interior support or star separator. The star separator or interior support extends along the longitudinal length of the data cable. The star separator or interior support has a central region. A plurality of prongs or splines extend outward from the central region along the length of the central region. Each prong or spline is adjacent with at least two other prongs or splines. The prongs or splines may be helixed or S-Z shaped as they extend along the length of the star separator or interior support. Each pair of adjacent prongs or splines defines grooves which extend along the longitudinal length of the interior support. At least two of the grooves have disposed therein an insulated conductor. The interior support can have a first material and a different second material. The different second material forms an outer surface of the interior support.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Belden Inc.Inventors: Galen Mark Gareis, Paul Z Vanderlaan
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Publication number: 20130220664Abstract: A flat-type cable suitable for use in high frequency communications. The cable has a plurality of longitudinally extending and substantially parallel passageways, each housing a twisted pair conductor. The twisted pair conductors are disposed in the cable in a manner that the twisted pair conductors with the longest lay lengths are disposed in the passageways closest to the edges of the cable, and the passageways farther away from the edges of the cable house twisted pair conductors with progressively shorter lay lengths.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: BELDEN INC.Inventor: BELDEN INC.
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Patent number: 8507796Abstract: The invention provides a system of components, methods for assembly, and a hand tool, for adding a male connector to a standard and modified ribbon high definition multimedia (HDMI) cable for field termination or factory installation. The invention also provides a locking plug which can mate with female HDMI connectors with great retaining force. Features of the connector system including the locking top shell, bottom shell, wire holders and the connector core make possible and efficient the addition of a solderless male connector. Features of the modified ribbon type HDMI cable facilitate threading of the wire holders significantly improving the time it takes to assemble a male connector on the cable. The hand tool disclosed is designed to accomplish all steps of assembly for field termination.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Luxi Electronics Corp.Inventors: Xiaozheng Lu, Ming-Chang Hong
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Publication number: 20130182190Abstract: A method includes transporting audio/video data using at least one signal line in a cable. The method also includes concurrently transporting at least about 100 W of power for operating an audio/video device using at least one electrical conductor in the cable, the audio/video device coupled to the cable. The cable could include multiple electrical conductors, and the at least one signal line in the cable could include one or more of the electrical conductors in the cable. The data and the power can be transported using at least one common electrical conductor in the cable. The audio/video data could have a data rate of at least about 7 Gbps, and the power could be at least about 200 W of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Richard I. McCartney
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Patent number: 8440910Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable has two conductor wires disposed to be parallel with each other, a flat insulating member collectively covering the two conductor wires, the insulating member having flat portions facing to each other in a direction perpendicular to an alignment direction of the two conductor wires to sandwich the two conductor wires, a shield conductor including a metal foil tape and being wound around an outer periphery of the insulating member, a drain wire provided to contact with the shield conductor at a position corresponding to the flat portion, and a jacket jacketing the drain wire and the shield conductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Nonen, Takahiro Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8404976Abstract: A method for fusing a pair of insulated wires to one another, and a fused wire made by such method, in which the combined or major diameter of the fused wire equals, or very closely matches, the sum of the diameters of the individual wires prior to fusion. In the present method, a pair of wires, each having a coating of insulation that is substantially fully cured, are brought into close abutting contact with one another along a line contact, and thereafter pass through a heating device which heats the coatings above their a thermal transition point of at least one of the pair of wires to fuse the coatings of the wires together along the line contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Fort Wayne Metals Research Products CorporationInventors: Sean P. Telley, Christian W. Stacey
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Patent number: 8399763Abstract: An electric wire including a core wire having element wires consisting of aluminum or aluminum alloy is provided, by which stable electrical connection between the core wire of the electric wire and the terminal fitting can be attained. The electric wire 1 includes: a core wire 3 including a plurality of element wires 5a, 5b, 5c bundled up, each element wire consisting of aluminum or aluminum alloy; and an electrically insulating coating 4 which coats the core wire 3. At least one element wire 5b, situated inside the element wires 5a situated on a most outer periphery of the core wire 3, is provided with an unevenness 14 on an outer surface of at least one element wire 5b. Concave parts 14a and convex parts 14b are arranged on the outer surface of at least one element wire 5b in a circumferential direction of at least one element wire 5b.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Tsuneyuki Horiike, Hideki Kato, Takayuki Matsuno
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Patent number: 8378217Abstract: A differential signal cable for transmitting high-speed digital differential signals of several Gbit/s or more is provided to minimize characteristic impedance mismatch and to repress increase in the skew, or increase in disturbance due to differential-mode to common-mode conversion. A differential signal cable comprises two insulated wires arranged parallelly in a contact, each of said two insulated wires comprising a conductor and an insulator jacketing the conductor; a fusion layer provided on the surface of each of said two insulated wires; a drain wire placed longitudinally in a recess created in the interstice between said two insulated wires; and a shield tape lapping around said two insulated wires and said drain wire together, wherein a surface of said insulator of each of said two insulated wires is partially deformed so as to have a flat portion and said two insulated wires are fused each other at said flat portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignees: Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Hitachi Cable Fine-Tech, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Sugiyama, Hideki Nonen, Yoshinori Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20130037320Abstract: A hybrid stripline RF transmission cable has a generally flat inner conductor surrounded by a dielectric layer that is surrounded by an outer conductor. Additional conductors may be applied within the dielectric layer and/or within a jacket surrounding the outer conductor. The additional conductors may be, for example, power, data and/or optical conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: ANDREW LLCInventors: Frank A. Harwath, Ronald Alan Vaccaro, Alan Neal Moe, Jeffrey D. Paynter, Kendrick Van Swearingen
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Publication number: 20130037300Abstract: A stripline RF transmission cable has a flat inner conductor surrounded by a dielectric layer that is surrounded by an outer conductor. The outer conductor has a top section and a bottom section which transition to a pair of edge sections that interconnect the top section with the bottom section. The top section, bottom section and the inner conductor may be provided with generally equal widths. An average dielectric constant of the dielectric layer may be lower between the inner conductor edges and the edge sections than between a mid section of the inner conductor and the top and the bottom sections and/or spacing between the inner conductor and the dielectric layer may be reduced proximate a mid section of the inner conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: ANDREW LLCInventor: Frank A Harwath
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Publication number: 20130037301Abstract: A stripline RF transmission cable has a plurality of generally planar inner conductors surrounded by a dielectric layer that is surrounded by an outer conductor. The inner conductors may be aligned coplanar, inner conductor edge to inner conductor edge, separated by the dielectric layer. Alternatively, the inner conductors may be provided in a vertical stack. A shield element may be applied between the inner conductors. The shield element may be electrically coupled to the outer conductor to entirely isolate the inner conductors from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: ANDREW LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Paynter, Frank A. Harwath, Ronald Alan Vaccaro, Kendrick Van Swearingen, Alan Neal Moe
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Publication number: 20130037299Abstract: A stripline RF transmission cable has a flat inner conductor surrounded by a dielectric layer that is surrounded by an outer conductor. The outer conductor has a flat top section and a flat bottom section which transition to a pair of edge sections that interconnect the top section with the bottom section. The top section, bottom section and the inner conductor may be provided with generally equal widths.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: ANDREW LLCInventor: Frank A. Harwath
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Publication number: 20130009068Abstract: The present invention discloses a radiation detector, an imaging device and an electrode structure thereof, and a method for acquiring an image. The radiation detector comprises: a radiation sensitive film, a top electrode on the radiation sensitive film, and an array of pixel units electrically coupled to the radiation sensitive film. Each pixel unit comprises: a pixel electrode (which is configured to collect a charge signal in a pixel area of the radiation sensitive film), a storage capacitor, a reset transistor, a buffer transistor, a column strobe transistor, and a row strobe transistor. The column strobe transistor and the row strobe transistor are connected in series between the buffer transistor and the signal line, and transfer the voltage signal of the corresponding pixel unit in response to a column strobe signal and a row strobe signal. The radiation detector may be used for, for example, X-ray digital imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Lan Zhang, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Wanlong Wu, Yuanjing Li, Zhi Deng, Xiaocui Zheng
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Publication number: 20120181059Abstract: A coaxial cable capable of transmitting high load electrical power, such as three phase electrical power, or a single phase high voltage DC, while minimizing the amount of electromagnetic noise emitted from the cable. The coaxial cable consists of at least three conducting layers with each conducting layer surrounded by an insulation layer. Additionally the disclosure relates to a coaxial cable with two conducting layers used for DC power transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: J. Axel Radermacher, Andrew Shune
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Publication number: 20120160538Abstract: An interleaved conductor structure for electrically connecting the read/write electronics to a read/write head in a hard disk drive is provided. The interleaved conductor structure may allow for an increased characteristic-impedance range, greater interference shielding and a reduction of signal loss that is contributed by a lossy conductive substrate. The electrical traces may have different widths, be offset, or even wrap around each other at the via connections.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: John T. Contreras, Nobumasa Nishiyama, Edgar D. Rothenberg, Rehan A. Zakai, Yiduo Zhang