Patent ID: 9214262
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H01B

Abstract:
1. A star-quad cable for transmitting electrical signals comprising: at least two pairs of electrical conductors, each conductor having a core made of an electrically conductive material and a conductor sheath made of an electrically insulating material which surrounds the core in a radial position, the conductors being arranged at the corners of a square in a cross-section of the star-quad cable, the conductors making up a pair being arranged at diagonally opposed corners of the square, four conductors at a time being twisted together in a star-quad arrangement with a predetermined lay factor; a shield including an electrically conductive material which surrounds the at least two pairs of conductors on the outside radially being placed in position, and the shield being constructed from a mesh of individual shield cores, wherein at least one shield core or at least one bundle of shield cores being twisted to surround the conductors in a radial position in such a way that at least one of the twisted shield cores or at least one of the bundles of shield cores extends substantially parallel to a respective core of a conductor in the axial direction; the at least one shield core or the at least one bundle of shield cores and a respective core extending in parallel to one another in the axial direction in such a way that the at least one shield core or the at least one bundle of shield cores and the respective core lie on the same diagonal of the square at all points along the cross-section of the star-quad cable and the at least one shield core or the at least one bundle of shield cores is arranged on a side of the respective core which is remote from the square.