Patent ID: 8308505

Claim:
A guarded coaxial cable assembly comprising: a rail and a micro-coaxial cable extending in spaced apart relationship; a cableway formed from a length of the rail and the micro-coaxial cable encased in a substantially flat jacket; the rail having a cross-section and a location within the jacket chosen to guard the micro-coaxial cable by preferentially bearing transverse loads tending to further flatten the jacket; the rail, micro-coaxial cable and jacket materials being flexible and in combination operative to enable the cableway to substantially retain deformations consistent with bending a flat side of the cableway around window and door frame obstructions; the micro-coaxial cable extends between spaced apart rails; a micro-coaxial cable center line lying substantially between the rails; the jacket envelops the rails and the micro-coaxial cable and fills the spaces between them; an electrically conductive material incorporated into each of the rails; and, wherein the rails are operable to electrically interconnect a plurality of devices associated with one or more of capture, transport and utilization of a radio frequency signal.