Wide band high frequency compatible electrical coaxial cable

• US 5,500,488 A
• Filed: 07/21/1994
• Issued: 03/19/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Konrad Buckel
• Original Assignee: Konrad Buckel
• Inventors: Buckel, Konrad
• Primary Examiner(s): NIMMO, MORRIS
• Application Number:
  US08/278,731
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 174/102 R, 174/36, 174/107, 174/113 C, 174/131 A, 174/106 R, 174/126.2
• US Class Current: 174/102.00R
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 11/1808 Construction of the conductors

Abstract

A wide-band high frequency compatible electrical coaxial cable is provided with an outer conductor, a dielectric, and an inner conductor that is arranged about a plastic core and includes an inner layer of film that is surrounded by and in electrical contact with a plurality of twisted round conductors.

Claims

1. A wide-band high frequency compatible electrical coaxial cable comprising:

a. an outer conductor;

b. a dielectric located between the outer conductor and an inner conductor; and

c. the inner conductor disposed concentrically within the outer conductor wherein the inner conductor is arranged around a plastic core and wherein the inner conductor further comprises two layers with an inner layer in the form of an overlappingly and helically wrapped electrical conductive film and an outer layer in the form of a plurality of twisted round conductors that are in electrical contact with the inner layer.

2. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the film is selected from a group consisting of copper films, silver-plated films, and silver-plated copper films.

3. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the outer layer of the inner conductor is comprised of twisted wires.

4. A coaxial cable of claim 3, wherein the wires of the outer layer are selected from a group consisting of copper wires, silver-plated wires, and silver-plated copper wires.

5. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the plastic core incorporates fluoroethylenepropylene.

6. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the plastic core is hollow.

7. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the outer conductor is surrounded by a plastic jacket.

8. A coaxial cable of claim 7, wherein the plastic jacket is constructed from a material selected from a group consisting of thermoplastics, fluorothermo-plastics, and elastomers.

9. A coaxial cable of claim 1, wherein the dielectric is comprised of microporous polytetrafluoroethylene.