HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATIONS CABLES SUPPORTING LOW VOLTAGE AND WIRELESS FIDELITY APPLICATIONS PROVIDING REDUCED SMOKE AND FLAME SPREAD
First Claim
1. A composition comprising a combination of inorganic fillers or additives including inorganic polymers and organic polymers which are halogenated;
- said organic polymers of said composition including any combination of;
polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), ethylchlorotetrafluoroethylene (ECTFE), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), and MFA (copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoromethylvinyl ether), wherein said fillers include nano-composites of clay and other inorganic fillers including any combination of ZnO, TiO2, CaCO3, MgCO3, talc, ammonium octyl molybdates (AOM), magnesium hydroxide, molbdate complexes including calcium molybdate, molybdenum oxide, and zinc molybdate, and phosphate complexes including ammonium phosphate and melamine phosphate, wherein said fillers are added either individually or in combination with said composition.
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Abstract
The present invention provides conductive and/or insulative compositions comprising polymer blends that include olefin and/or fluoropolymer and/or chlorofluoropolymer based resins with and without inorganic additives. These compositions reduce flammability and smoke generation and are used primarily for insulation materials and for high performance communications cables. In addition, support-separators using these same compositions, to be used within the communications cables, and normally within the cable core, are described. These unique compositions include polymer blends that offer both flame and smoke suppression while maintaining the characteristics necessary to improve electrical performance and allow for severe cost reduction over conventional separators. These polymers blends can also be utilized for fabricating shielding materials. The specially shaped core support-separators can be either interior to the cable jacket or be employed singularly without the benefit of a jacket and extend along the longitudinal length of the communications cable. Alternatively, if no jacket is used for cable completion, a portion of the separator with a thin layer of material surrounding the separator core can act as a type of skin for mechanical protection. Specially shaped core support-separators have both a central region as well as a plurality of shaped sections that extend outward from the central region for which the materials of construction are either solid or partially solid, foamed or foamed with a solid skin surface.
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56 Claims
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1. A composition comprising a combination of inorganic fillers or additives including inorganic polymers and organic polymers which are halogenated;
- said organic polymers of said composition including any combination of;
polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), ethylchlorotetrafluoroethylene (ECTFE), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), and MFA (copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoromethylvinyl ether), wherein said fillers include nano-composites of clay and other inorganic fillers including any combination of ZnO, TiO2, CaCO3, MgCO3, talc, ammonium octyl molybdates (AOM), magnesium hydroxide, molbdate complexes including calcium molybdate, molybdenum oxide, and zinc molybdate, and phosphate complexes including ammonium phosphate and melamine phosphate, wherein said fillers are added either individually or in combination with said composition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
- said organic polymers of said composition including any combination of;
- 28. A high performance communications cable with an interior support, a central region, and outwardly extended portions comprising conductive inorganic fillers or additives or alternatively metallic additives and including shielding around individual conductor pairs or around said interior support such that said cable and associated support, central region and extended portions are capable of lowering to the point of eliminating crosstalk and more specifically lowering alien near end crosstalk (anext) and/or far end crosstalk (FEXT) and wherein said cable is capable of transmission speeds greater than 600 MHz reaching at least 2 GHz.
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30. An article comprising a composition with the combination of inorganic fillers or additives including inorganic polymers and organic polymers which are halogenated;
- said organic polymers of said composition including any combination of polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), ethylchlorotetrafluoroethylene (ECTFE), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), and MFA (copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoromethylvinyl ether), wherein said fillers include nano-composites of clay and other inorganic fillers including any combination of ZnO, TiO2, CaCO3, MgCO3, talc, ammonium octyl molybdates (AOM), magnesium hydroxide, molbdate complexes including calcium molybdate, molybdenum oxide, and zinc molybdate, and phosphate complexes including ammonium phosphate and melamine phosphate, wherein said fillers are added either individually or in combination with said composition.
- View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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