Surfaced cable filler

• US 20030230427A1
• Filed: 04/29/2003
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Belden Technologies, LLC (Belden Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Belden Technologies, LLC (Belden Inc.)
• Inventors: Gareis, Galen Mark
• Application Number:
  US10/425,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20030230427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/113.00C
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 11/04 with pairs or quads mutually positioned to reduce cross-talk
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 11/06 with means for reducing effects of electromagnetic or electrostatic disturbances, e.g. screens

Abstract

Cables, methods of constructing cable, and other related systems, methods, and structures for forming cables such as category (e.g. CAT6) or other data cables which include a surfaced filler to keep the component cables in a predetermined arrangement during use. Further, these cables can be crushed and deformed from the predetermined arrangement, while still being able to return to it when the force is removed.

Claims

1. A multi-part cable comprising:

a number of component cables, said number of component cables being equal to or greater than two; and

a surfaced filler having a longitudinal axis;

wherein said filler has a number of separate surfaces extending down said longitudinal axis, said number of separate surfaces being equal to or greater than said number of component cables; and

wherein each of said component cables rests against a different one of said separate surfaces.

2. The cable of claim 1 wherein each of said component cables comprises a twisted pair of conductors.

3. The cable of claim 2 wherein each of said twisted pair of conductors is twisted into a double helix.

4. The cable of claim 1 wherein said surfaced filler has a cross-sectional shape of a polygon.

5. The cable of claim 4 wherein said polygon is a square.

6. The cable of claim 1 wherein said number of component cables comprises four component cables.

7. The cable of claim 1 wherein said cable is a category data cable.

8. The cable of claim 7 wherein said cable comprises one of:

a CAT5 cable, a CAT5e cable, a CAT6 cable, a CAT7 cable, and a CAT8 cable.

9. The cable of claim 1 wherein each of said separate surfaces has a width less than the diameter of at least one of said component cables.

10. The cable of claim 1 wherein at least one of said surfaces is flat.

11. The cable of claim 1 wherein at least one of said surfaces is concave.

12. The cable of claim 1 further comprising a jacket enclosing said surfaced filler and said at least two component cables.

13. The cable of claim 12 further comprising a shield enclosing said surfaced filler and said at least two component cables, said shield being enclosed by said jacket.

14. The cable of claim 1 further comprising a shield enclosing said surfaced filler and said at least two component cables.

15. A multi-part cable comprising:

four component cables;

a surfaced filler with a cross-sectional shape comprising a four-sided polygon; and

a jacket enclosing said at least four component cables and said surfaced filler.

16. The cable of claim 15 further comprising a shield.