CABLE

• US 20100166374A1
• Filed: 10/05/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LAPP Engineering & Co.
• Original Assignee: LAPP Engineering & Co.
• Inventors: Lapp, Siegbert
• Application Number:
  US12/587,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20100166374A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 385/101
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/366 being a tape, thread or wire extending the full length of the conductor or cable
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/368 being a sleeve, ferrule, tag, clip, label or short length strip

Abstract

In order to improve a cable that comprises an inner cable body, in which at least one conductor strand of an optical and/or electrical conductor runs in the longitudinal direction of the cable, a cable sheath, enclosing the inner cable body and lying between an outer surface of the cable and the inner cable body, and at least one information carrier unit, disposed within the outer surface of the cable, in such a way that, while being easy to produce, the information carrier unit is reliably disposed at suitable points in the cable, it is proposed that a carrier strand is associated with the inner cable body, the carrier strand running over the length of the inner cable body, that at least one information carrier unit that can be read by electromagnetic field coupling is disposed on the carrier strand and that the carrier strand is covered over by the cable sheath.

Claims

1-52. -52. (canceled)

53. Cable, comprising an inner cable body, in which at least one conductor strand of an optical and/or electrical conductor runs in the longitudinal direction of the cable, a cable sheath, enclosing the inner cable body and lying between an outer surface of the cable and the inner cable body, a carrier strand associated with the inner cable body, the carrier strand running over the length of the inner cable body, and at least one information carrier unit, disposed within the outer surface of the cable, the at least one information carrier unit being adapted to be read by electromagnetic field coupling and being disposed on the carrier strand, and the carrier strand being covered over by the cable sheath.

54. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the carrier strand runs such that it wraps around the at least one conductor strand of the inner cable body.

55. Cable according to claim 54, wherein the carrier strand is formed such that it winds around the inner cable body.

56. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the carrier strand runs in the form of an interstitial cord of the inner cable body.

57. Cable according to claim 56, wherein the carrier strand lies directly on the inner cable body.

58. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the carrier strand is at least part of a separating layer between the inner cable body and the cable sheath.

59. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the carrier strand is a non-woven strip which is wound around the inner cable body over its complete area.

60. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the carrier strand lies on a separating layer between the inner cable body and the cable sheath.

61. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the information carrier unit is disposed on a side of the carrier strand that is facing away from the inner cable body and covered over directly by the cable sheath.

62. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the information carrier unit is embedded in the carrier strand.

63. Cable according to claim 53, wherein a multiplicity of information carrier units is disposed at defined regular intervals in the longitudinal direction of the cable and the defined regular intervals for the information carrier units determine a uniform distance between the information carrier units in the longitudinal direction of the cable.

64. Cable according to claim 63, wherein the information carrier units are disposed at the defined regular intervals in relation to one another in such a way that the distances between the information carrier units correspond to at least 2 times a reading/writing range of the information carrier units in the direction of each of the nearest information carrier units.

65. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the information carrier unit has at least one memory.

66. Cable according to claim 64, wherein the memory has a memory area in which items of information once written are stored such that they are write-protected.

67. Cable according to claim 64, wherein the memory has a memory area in which items of information are stored such that they are write-protected by an access code.

68. Cable according to claim 64, wherein the memory has a memory area to which information can be freely written.

69. Cable according to claim 53, wherein a multiplicity of information carrier units is provided and wherein each of the information carrier units can be individually addressed.

70. Cable according to claim 68, wherein each of the information carrier units can be individually addressed by an access code.

71. Cable according to claim 53, wherein the at least one information carrier unit of the cable picks up measured values of an associated sensor.

72. Cable according to claim 71, wherein the sensor picks up at least one of the state variables such as radiation, temperature, tension, pressure, elongation or moisture.