Granted Patent B2

US 12,205,733 · App. 18/389,362 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Inventor: Douglas B. Gundel (Cedar Park, TX)

Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY

H01B11/08G08B25/004H01B7/0823H01B7/0838H01B7/0861H01B7/0876H01B9/02H01B11/00H01B11/002H01B11/04H01B11/10H01B11/203H01R9/0515H01R12/598H01R13/5845H04L41/28H04W4/70H04W24/04H04W84/18H01R12/53H04L43/0811H04L43/0817

Abstract

Claims (8)

1. A shielded electrical cable, comprising:

a plurality of conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and arranged and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable, each conductor set including two or more insulated conductors and at least one uninsulated conductor, at least 90% of a periphery of each conductor set encompassed by, and bonded to, a shielding film; and

a non-conductive polymeric layer covering opposite sides of the plurality of differential pairs and including cover portions and at least one pinched portion arranged such that, in a transverse cross section, the cover portions of the polymeric layer substantially surrounds each of the differential pairs; and

an adhesive layer bonding the non-conductive polymeric layer to the shielding film;

wherein a transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of 90 degrees over an inner radius of at most 5 mm causes an insertion loss of the insulated conductors proximate the cable location to vary by no more than about 0.5 dB from an initial insertion loss measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration, wherein for a frequency range from about 2 GHz to about 20 GHz, a far end cross talk (FEXT) between adjacent conductor sets is less than about −35 dB, and wherein the cable has a skew of less than about 20 psec/meter.

2. The shielded electrical cable of claim 1 , wherein the insulated conductors have wire diameters not greater than 24 American Wire Gauge (AWG).

3. The shielded electrical cable of claim 1 further comprising a bend of at least 45 degrees around a fold line that extends across a width of the cable, wherein the bend has an inner radius of at most 5 mm.

4. The shielded electrical cable of claim 3 , wherein the bend is at least 90 degrees and conforms to geometry of a structure that encloses the cable.

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