Flat data transmission cable

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10772201-B2
Application number	US-201916408316-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2019
Priority date	Jun 1, 2018
Publication date	Sep 8, 2020
Grant date	Sep 8, 2020

Abstract

A flat data transmission cable includes a plurality of juxtaposed wires and a plastic layer enclosing on the wires integrally, each wire has a conductor. Central axes of the conductors are located on a same plane, and the plastic layer defines a top surface and a bottom surface parallel to the plane in which the central axes of the conductors located, the wires define at least two grounding wires and at least a signal wire between the two grounding wires.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flat data transmission cable, comprising:
a plurality of juxtaposed wires, and each wire having a conductor;
a plastic layer enclosing on the wires integrally;
wherein central axes of the conductors are located on a same plane, and the plastic layer defines a top surface and a bottom surface parallel to the plane in which the central axes of the conductors located, the wires comprise at least two grounding wires and at least a signal wire between the two grounding wires, the flat data transmission cable further comprises a metallic layer formed by a metal material belt arranged on an outer side of the plastic layer in a spiral winding way, the metallic layer has at least an aluminum foil layer and a bonding layer arranged on the side of the aluminum foil layer facing to the plastic layer, the metallic layer is bonded to the outer side of the plastic layer after the bonding layer hot melting, the metal belt has a width W, in a length direction of the data transmission cable, the metal belt is wound with N rings, the data transmission cable has a length L, and the requirement of L<N*W is satisfied.

2. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least signal wire comprising two signal wires neighboring to each other constitute a signal wire group for transmitting differential signals, and the ratio of the center distance between said two wires in each signal wire group to the outer diameter of the conductor is in the range of 1.4 to 2.8, the differential impedance of the signal wire group is in the range of 79 to 106 Ohm.

3. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the ratio of the center distance between said two wires in a same signal wire group to the outer diameter of the conductor is in the range of 1.55 to 2.31, the differential impedance of the wires in each signal wire group can be controlled in the range of 79 to 91 Ohm.

4. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the conductor has an outer diameter in the range of 31 to 33 AWG, the center distance between said two wires in each signal wire group is defined in the range of 0.28 mm to 0.52 mm, the differential impedance of the wires in each signal wire group in the range of 79 to 91 Ohm.

5. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the ratio of the center distance between said two wires in a same signal wire group to the outer diameter of the conductor is in the range of 2.18 to 2.8, the differential impedance of the wires in each signal wire group is controlled in the range of 94 to 106 Ohm.

6. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 5 , wherein while the outer diameter of the conductor is 33 AWG or 34 AWG, the center distance between said two wires in each signal wire group is defined in the range of 0.35 mm to 0.51 mm, to guarantee the differential impedance of the wires in each signal wire group in the range of 94 to 106 Ohm.

7. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each wire has an insulative cladding layer enclosing on the conductor, and the outer diameter of each cladding layer is equal to the center distance between every two of said cladding layers neighboring to each other.

8. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the cladding layer is made of same kind material as the plastic layer.

9. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least signal wire comprising two signal wires neighboring to each other constitute a signal wire group for transmitting differential signals, and the wires only comprise a plurality of grounding wires including said at least two grounding wires and several signal wire groups including said at least signal wire, and the number of said grounding wires is one more than that of the signal wire groups.

10. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 9 , wherein in the arrangement direction of the wires, two of said grounding wires are on both sides of the arrangement, and one signal wire group is arranged between every two of said grounding wires.

11. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the number of signal wires including said at least signal wire is twice as that of grounding wires including said at least two grounding wires.

12. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 11 , wherein two of said signal wires are defined on outer sides of the arrangement direction of the wires.

13. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the number of grounding wires including said at least two grounding wires is one more than that of the signal wires including said at least signal wire.

14. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 13 , wherein in the arrangement direction of the wires, two of said grounding wires are on both sides of the arrangement.

15. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the metallic layer further has an insulating layer arranged on the side of the aluminum foil layer deviating from the plastic layer.

16. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an overlapping coating area is formed between every two adjacent rings of the metal belt, and the overlapping coating area has a width w along the width direction of the metal belt, the proportion of the width w of the overlapping coating area occupying the width W of the metal belt is 5% to 50%.

17. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the width W of the metal belt is defined not less than half of the whole width of the data transmission cable.

18. The flat data transmission cable as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the data transmission cable further includes a mylar layer coated on the outside of the metallic layer in a spiral winding way, and the mylar layer and the metallic layer are defined in a cross-winding way.

Assignees

• Alltop Electronics Suzhou Ltd

Inventors

• Ni Mindi
• Chen Yichang

Classifications

• H05K2201/10356

  Cables · CPC title

• H01B7/17

  Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring · CPC title

• H01B7/205

  composed of aluminium · CPC title

• H01B7/02

  Disposition of insulation · CPC title

• H01B7/0225

  Three or more layers · CPC title