Tagged cable

• US 9,236,647 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC (BT Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC (BT Group PLC)
• Inventors: Longhurst, Philip James, Barker, Philip Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Minskey, Jacob T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Vishal I
• Application Number:
  US12/934,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20110025468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,510 Days
• Field of Search: 156/196, 156/187, 156/184, 156/188, 156/213, 156/500, 156/459, 156/53, 340/10.1, 340/10.51, 340/10.4, 174/70.R, 174/72.C, 385/101
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 15/00 Tags attached to, or associated with, an object, in order to enable detection of the object record carriers for use with machines having a detectable tag or marker G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/562 locatable, e.g. using magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/288 using hygroscopic material or material swelling in the presence of liquid
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/04 Adaptation for subterranean or subaqueous use
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00

Abstract

A method of forming a cable having an elongate core, including positioning a records component proximate to the elongate core, and covering the records component with a cable covering which directly or indirectly urges the records component against the elongate core.

Claims

1. A method of forming a cable comprising an elongate core, comprising:

wrapping the elongate core in a flexible material;

incorporating a records component between lavers of the flexible material such that the records component is partially but not completely sandwiched by overlapping layers of the flexible material, the records component configured to hold information related to the cable and readable by an electronic device; and

covering the records component, after the wrapping of the elongate cork, with a cable covering which directly or indirectly urges the records component against the elongate core.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the records component is pre-embedded in the flexible material used in the wrapping of the core.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein incorporating the records component comprises attaching the records component using at least one of either adhesive, an air jet, or mechanical means.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein incorporating the records component comprises temporarily or permanently attaching the records component onto the elongate core.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein incorporating the records component comprises temporarily or permanently attaching the records component onto the flexible material wrapping the elongate core.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein incorporating the records component comprises incorporating a plurality of rigid records components.

7. A method according to claim 1 wherein covering the records component comprises applying a continuous sheath along the elongate core.

8. A method according to claim 1 wherein covering the records component comprises applying a layer of a semi-molten plastic at high temperature and high pressure.

9. A method according to claim 1 further comprising reading and/or writing to the records component.