WO1999007002A1 - Electrically optimized hybrid 'last mile' telecommunications cable system - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to telecommunications cabling, and more particularly to the cabling employed for the so-called "last mile" connection of users to external networks.
- the invention especially relates to improvements in cabling structures and connections.
- Past communication networks have been almost entirely based on a "call” or “message” type of traffic where users were connected only transiently to the network while “calling” or being “called.”
- Such connection based architecture established a temporary connecting path between caller and receiver.
- communications will be based on the "packet” switching principle.
- a packet message carries address information so that the sender gets the message to the receiver and vice-versa. All users may be continuously connected to such a new network. Users will elect to actively participate and produce information "messages” only when they wish. The majority of activity in such a network will exist with data flowing, if only intermittently yet with great frequency to and from the user in a fashion not requiring the presence or active participation of the user.
- WDM wavelength division multiplexing
- the present invention addresses the manufacture and design of novel cable systems and related systems equipment for providing the last leg of a cable system linking users to a wired communication network capable of providing any user with greatly increased capacity and versatility over that presently available from common carriers.
- the subjects addressed herein relate to the actual physical link that must be employed to connect a user to a network system.
- the present invention allows for future growth.
- the cost of installing any last mile cable system to individual users is so substantial that any such new installation should provide for future growth.
- the inco oration of optical fibers into such local drop cables is essential to provide a true future growth option.
- the cost of the optical fiber itself is relatively low adding little to the overall initial cost.
- a well-engineered cable system design capable of combining both wide bandwidth electrical and optical signal paths in a hybrid configuration thus becomes of exceptional value in the rapidly evolving communications field. If all local drops could be so constructed, present needs would be fulfilled and easy future expansion to optical use would be available when needed. With the advances provided by the invention, it is feasible to view this kind of new network construction as an infrastructure investment of long term worth — it can provide info ⁇ nation highways as solid and durable as were the Roman roads.
- the invention addresses physical and functional telecommunications delivery requirements by achieving a hybrid electrical/optical signal transmission cable system having broad electrical bandwidth appropriate for current and near-term foreseeable communications needs, along with a capability to accommodate optical fibers for the future.
- this invention's cable system design there may be a number of optical fibers present in each user's connection to the system. Anywhere from a few to possibly sixteen or more fibers may be readily accommodated without disturbing the cable system's electrical signal performance.
- the electrical signals contemplated range in frequency from DC to about one Gigahertz (GHz) or even more.
- This novel cable system possesses two independent electrical paths, one for sending, the other for receiving. Both the sending and receiving signal paths have equal performance and accomplish their equivalent signal performance without interference of one with the other.
- the conceptual architecture of this new system emphasizes the maintenance of "four wire” connection, i.e., separation of the sending and receiving paths. Such architecture eliminates many problems of echo, return loss and "singing" that complicate present distribution systems.
- This new cable system is intended to service the full range of current and future needs.
- the invention may accommodate Internet users, digital TV, high definition television (HDTV), multi-channel video-on- demand, high-capacity digital information exchange, work-at-home and telecommuting communications, myriad home and office services via "agents” and “avatars,” automated manufacturing control, video "telephony,” commercial and private video conferencing, high volume library file transfer and search, as well as multiple voice frequency "phone” service channels.
- Number portability (as in a transportable individual "phone number” which goes with a user wherever they go), now so highly sought, becomes a simple derivative of the nature of the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy / Synchronous Optical Network (SDH/SONET) signaling basis employed by the disclosed last mile system.
- SDH/SONET Synchronous Digital Hierarchy / Synchronous Optical Network
- the hybrid cable system design may serve all classes of users from the few who demand optical broad bandwidths here and now to the vast majority of currently much less demanding users. For the latter, a high quality electrical signal path with a Gigahertz or less bandwidth, far exceeding the capability of existing telephone wire pairs, will be adequate until they embrace, in the future, the more demanding applications.
- Fig. 2 shows in a schematic form a local node-to-user interface.
- a local node 51 is shown with inputs from two-way optical fiber paths 53. These may conveniently be links of optical paths using SDH/SONET format. Additionally, through the use of wavelength division multiplexing a single fiber path may serve hundreds to thousands of drops.
- Another input 55 is shown for a possible Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) path.
- POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
- a power source 57 is connected to the local node. This may be a battery backup source within the node or coming from another place in the system.
- a node interface device (“NID") 59 couples the sending and the receiving channels to the fibers.
- NID node interface device
- the basic channel of an NID includes an optical receiver connected to the receiver fiber path and an optical transmitter connected to the transmitter fiber path. Each of these opto-electric elements provide a number of user channels (typically 16 to 32).
- the node interface device can accommodate both an electrical mode 61 and an optical mode 63.
- a similar user interface device 65 is connected at the user end.
- a hybrid cable according to the present invention is connected between the node interface device 63 and the user interface device 65 and is denoted here with the numeral 67.
- the user interface device may have outputs to a computer, a television, telephones, data inputs, etc. Numerous other drops may also be provided, these represented schematically by the numeral 69.
- Fig. 2a shows a regional ring architecture which may employ the present invention.
- the backbone 41 1 is typically fiber optics but may also employ electrical cabling.
- the switching and transfer point 401 is connected to a plurality of local nodes 51.
- One exemplary local node is 51'.
- local node 51 ' is connected to a plurality of networks.
- One network serves the business district 403.
- Another network serves the shopping mall 405.
- Another network serves an industrial park 409.
- Still another network serves a plurality of neighborhoods 407.
- Each of these networks may connect to the local node 51' via cables 413. Cables 413 may employ the cable of the present invention.
- a node interface device 415 is shown.
- a user interface device 417 is shown.
- the regional ring architecture according to Fig. 2a may take many forms.
- a cable 413 services a single house
- each room may be equipped with a local mini -node that services the appliances or devices witliin. Moving a device from one room to another may only require resetting of dip switches or moving jumper cables.
- nodes or mini-nodes may be located by addresses inserted in signal headers by the user interface device.
- cables of the type described below may be employed, but with less shielding and strengthening materials, such as stainless steel braid. In this fashion, the cables may be made more compact, which is desirable for in-housc applications.
- a typical distance from a node to a user will be generally less than 2000 feet and in dense urban areas commonly less than 1000 feet.
- the hybrid cable system design of the subject invention may even be operated so as to allow its two pairs of electrical conductors to be used for two POTS lines, which may be used concurrently with wideband electrical operation.
- the fiber channels remain independent of the manner used for any electrical mode.
- These electrical lines may also serve to carry the very modest amounts of power needed to operate various last mile in-line signal regenerators and possible network devices for user terminal equipment, yet may still function without interfering with the ringing and "battery" voltage functions in a POTS operation.
- POTS functions may be better served by using the digital paths to provide one or even a multiple number of "phone” lines via a digital to voice interface "line card" in the user interface device.
- the node system above would likely best employ the signal format of SONET or SDH standards now widely employed by the existing interoffice and long haul optical networks.
- This new cable system is thus highly forward and backward compatible. This again addresses an important cost/investment issue.
- the existing telephone copper-wire network (“outside plant”) comprises more than three-quarters of the total present investment in existing local telephone network systems.
- Reviewing the foregoing technical analysis of objectives and principles concerning the last mile cable system has led the inventors to a new form of shielded quad electrical conductor configuration and system elements, as well as the architecture to utilize it.
- This new cable also readily accommodates a number and variety of optical fibers in novel ways.
- the quad principle fully realized, provides the dual (two) independent non-interfering sending and receiving electrical signal paths so essential for the last mile local drop.
- a quad cable concept is not new of itself, but this disclosure addresses many other factors which, by improving the realization of its potentials and extending the flexibility of the configuration, allows achievement of all the other characteristics required of last mile cable systems including optical
- the present invention also discloses new structure, particularly suited to achieving the precision required in a quad geometry chosen for low cross-talk (XTLK) across the objective wideband electrical performance spectrum.
- the invention's cable system structure provides novel methods for inclusion of diverse optical fibers.
- the present invention also discloses new techniques for enhancing the effectiveness of protection from electromagnetic interference within the invention's cable systems.
- Unique performance advantages emerge from the novel balanced electrical source and load termination devices disclosed and which may readily be incorporated into in-line digital signal regenerator modules.
- a novel annular conductor construction is also disclosed which enhances electrical signal performance and improves EMIR performance.
- Novel and economic methods of manufacture for the new quad configuration are further disclosed which also achieve exceptional accuracy and stability of the mechanical structure.
- Fig. la is a diagrammatic view showing a quad annular conductor center support which maintains precision in conductor location within a cable and in relation to the outer shield.
- Fig lb is a diagrammatic view of one fo ⁇ n of a composite cable including fiber optic members.
- Fig lc is a schematic cross-section of a section of the cable wall as located in Fig. l b.
- Fig. Id is a perspective section of a cable according to the present invention employing an outer impedance-matching housing.
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an organization of a local node serving multiple users via the novel cable design with two way full bandwidth electrical or optical paths. Shown also is the possible use with POTS service.
- Fig. 2a is a diagram of the organization of a regional communications ring employing the novel cable design for the "last mile" connection to the end users.
- Fig. 2b is a schematic block diagram of a fiber interface device and of a node interface device.
- Fig. 2c is a schematic block diagram of a user interface device.
- Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic cross-sectional view of one form of the novel interlocking positioner.
- Fig. 3 a is a view of the form of the unlocked extrusion of Fig. 3.
- Fig. 4 is a schematic further detail of the positioner.
- Fig. 5 is a schematic exploded view of one embodiment of the positioner, illustrating separated interlocking elements.
- Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic enlarged cross-section of a form of snap-locking portions of a positioner which may be employed with the present invention.
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- Fig. 8 is a schematic cross-section of a full circular form of the four section extruded positioner.
- Fig. 9a is a schematic cross-sectional view of an extruder die head and body which may be used to form a positioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 9b shows a pressure versus time profile which may be followed in the extruder of Fig.
- Fig. 9c shows a schematic arrangement of extrudate treatment baths which may be used immediately following the extrusion step.
- Fig. 10a shows a schematic diagram of an alternative die which may be used to form the positioner of the present invention.
- Fig. 10b shows a pressure versus time profile which may be used in the device of Fig. 10a to form the positioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 10c shows a flow chart of the process which may be used to fomi the positioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 1 la shows a cross-section of a form of the novel annular conductor, showing the novel wave guiding wires and the center core available for optical fibers.
- Fig. 1 lb shows a cross section of one wire within the annular conductor of Fig. 1 la.
- Fig. 1 lc shows a form of a unitary tubular annular conductor ("UTAc") having a surface wave guiding function and with a center core available for containing optical fibers and protectant.
- Fig. 1 Id shows a schematic cross-section of the unitary tubular annular conductor of Fig 1 1 c.
- Fig. 12 shows a schematic form of the cross-section of an individual conductor within the annular conductor assembly shown in Fig. 1 1a.
- Fig. 13 shows a schematic form of a possible drive and terminating means to achieve a balanced operating condition for a quad cable.
- Fig. 14 shows a schematic form of an alternative embodiment of a possible drive and te ⁇ ninating means to achieve a balanced operating condition for a quad cable.
- Fig. 15 shows a schematic form of the basic time frame of SONET or SDH transport time division multiplex.
- Fig. 16 shows a twinaxial cable employing an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 17 shows a dual coaxial cable employing an embodiment of the present invention.
- the fiber optic ring contains the many fibers of the regional system. Each such fiber path should follow a ring topology so that it physically goes in two directions from each node, ultimately connecting with the regional STP (Switch Transfer Point) 401 shown schematically in Fig. 2a.
- the system may be a duplex path design so that there are separate transmitting and receiving paths throughout. At least two of the fibers in the bundle of fibers shown schematically would interface with any particular node 51.
- the Fiber Interface Device (FID) 60 couples its optical receiver 61 and its optical transmitter 62 to their respective receiving and transmitting optical fibers 53.
- FID FID-Fi Protected Access
- Any one of the FID's in a node may serve from 16 to 64 dual data paths.
- the node may contain as many FID's as needed for the number of users to be served.
- the number of users per FID depends upon the level of multiplexing of the SDH transport carrier used. For example, STS -384 (20 Gbs) provides 32 channels of STS-12 (622 Mbs).
- a single node might serve 3200 users within its economic range, if its "last mile" runs were economically short.
- the FID 60 and NID 63 elements can be modular in physical character and a node housing can be designed to accommodate substantial capacity additions where that seems desirable.
- the regional fiber bundle ring runs can also be specified to contain additional uncommitted fiber for further expansion of the users served by the system.
- a single node site may, in this way, be accommodating of expansion of users by connecting more of the fiber bundles of the ring to added FLD and NLD elements.
- Fig 2b is a non-limiting case showing just one possible FID with just one typical user path NID connected to it.
- the receive optical/electrical serial interface 61 may be a fiber optic SDH wideband optical receiver of only limited sensitivity since the fiber cable runs will, in general, be fairly short — just around the regional ring.
- the demux and mux circuits may use one the variety of chips or chip sets now generally available for SDH.
- the Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. chip set VS8021/8022 is an example that may be used for fiber data rates up to OC-48, and Triquint Semiconductor can supply a demux mux chip set package that operates at the 10 Gbs rate.
- the NID contains those elements of the system that are responsible for coupling the physical cable to the FID and hence to the overall network system.
- the two separate paths are shown in Fig 2b NID 63 includes those portions that couple the serial receive path from a demux output to the receive pair of cable 67 and also couple the transmit pair of the cable 67 to one of the serial transmit inputs of a mux circuit.
- the drive boost circuit of the receiver portion of the NID and the receiver aperture boost circuit of the transmit path are adjusted by the installer to give the clearest "eye" pattern and optimum BER (bit error rate) when the system is installed.
- the termination resistors on both transmit and receive pair terminals are impedance matching devices to minimize the reflections at those points.
- the current source driver appears to the system as an infinite impedance in all states of driving (i.e., bit high, bit low and transitions).
- the HPF and LPF elements help to isolate the DC power from the active signals. Perfection of the cable balance is complemented by having the current source driver phase balanced to the drivers and by having the balanced input amplifier highly rejecting of any common mode signals at the respective pairs.
- the optical fibers contained in the "Last Mile" cable are not utilized in either of these schematic figures 2b or 2c. They are shown in both figures as available fiber ends for future applications.
- Tl e ULD is shown schematically in Fig 2c.
- the cable 67 in this figure, represents the same cable 67 (the opposite end) shown in figure 2b.
- the example signal envisioned for each of the dual paths is a 622 Mbs SDH-like bit stream.
- the receiving and transmitting paths, processed at the cable wire pairs, end in a manner similar to the circuit function of figure 2b. Those elements operate similarly up to the buffers 71, 72 of demux and mux elements.
- the UID controller may be a microprocessor or a computer.
- the UID controller also may put software headers on signals routed to various devices attached to the node or mini-node. Similarly, headers may be placed by the UID on signals sent upstream to the NID and FID to indicate where the signals should be sent as well as the nature of the signals.
- Each of the two are available as baseband video or as an RF signal suitable for existing TV receivers. These outputs may be connected via BNC jacks or the TV RG-59 cable connectors commonly used on TV sets.
- a digital UID to an analog television requires a video interface 81 (Fig. 2c) which may employ a digital-to-analog converter 82.
- Converter 82 may convert digital television signals to a form appropriate for analog televisions.
- Converter 82 may be, e.g., a separate line card.
- the assignment of the digital data rate for this function may be any desired level of use of the channel capacity; however, about 100 Mbs for each may be optimal for the system, permitting quite high resolution video to be transferred.
- the program choice in such a system is made by transmitting to the network instructions for the source and the program desired. Additionally, sources may also permit the user to specify the duration wanted. Such instructions would be sent on one of the sending interfaces by means of a simple keypad entry system. Were it desired to only receive a "broadcast" type of video transmission, the user would simply enter the "channel" number of the program desired. This operates as what has been called video-on-demand.
- the STP of figure 2a is the point in the system at which these functions of switching and selection may be executed. The system allows many service providers to deliver their offerings via the system. The number of possible selections is as large as the number of possible addresses.
- each of wideband capacity which may be 10 Mbs, 45
- This bandwidth would use only a few percent of the available capacity of a dual 622 Mbs system and is typically 400 times more capacity than the current best telephone modems.
- the interface mechanical connection may be one of the standard computer formats such as a 1394 serial buss.
- the digital paths may be addressed to any Internet Service Provider that connects with the system.
- the reach of such sources is considerably extended by the SDH based format which enables communication with sources at any point in the global network irrespective of distance, since the digital format does not deteriorate with distance to any significant extent.
- the system is shown with six phone lines that connect with the digital network via the SDH signals paths.
- the "line card” elements supply the common 48 volt DC current loop to the standard telephone and also provide the 20 Hz ringing function and the voice digitizing receive and transmit paths.
- the line card outputs may be RJ-11 type standard telephone hardware.
- the first factor to be considered is the minimum internal noise that a system may have.
- the internal noise power in excess of the irreducible thermal noise at the receiver input terminals sets the lower limit on any system's noise level.
- This measure can be expressed in a form independent of the system's working bandwidth by an "Equivalent Input Noise Temperature Figure".
- Equivalent Input Noise Temperature Figure As a good way to quantify this parameter, one first measures the system noise energy output when fed at the input from a known hot temperature source resistor, then in a second measurement connects that input to a known much colder temperature (electrically equivalent) resistor.
- EMIR and XTLK In real world working systems, local drop cable system design should only allow the level of corrupting energy from EMIR and XTLK to add relatively little to the system noise floor. For example, a very good cable system performance in EMIR and XTLK may hold such signal corruption to a value not over 10 dB more than the proposed system noise floor of +10 dB.
- the required power for the signals can then be calculated by defining the working bandwidth and the minimum system S/N:
- a desired S/N may be, e.g., 50 dB which would provide a very low bit error rate for even the most demanding uses.
- the bandwidth may be 1 Gigahertz.
- the required power may then be computed as follows:
- the total noise power is the sum of the Noise Figure, EMIR feedthrough and XTLK.
- the exemplaiy value assumed was 20 dB ovci themial noise.
- For a 50 dB S N, signal power must be raised above this value by 50 dB (1E5 times 1.65 E -4 watts of signal power).
- needed signal power is only a very moderate 0.165 milliwatts ( - 7.8 dBm).
- Such older analog systems often used a standard of operation of -8 dBm signal power (about 0.16 milliwatt) in a 10 kilohertz bandwidth. If such a low power efficacy were used for the above example's 1 Gigahertz bandwidth, then signal power needs would leap to +42 dBm or about 16 watts (a power density of 16 nanowatts per Hertz bandwidth). Even the noisier digital system example (+30 dB interference) operates with a thousand times more effective use of signal power (only 16 picowatts per Hertz). These cable system examples did not account for any losses in the cable system nor for any high frequency response roll off.
- the HFTL of small diameter cables is primarily controlled by the cable conductor losses, which at high frequencies are dominantly the result of "Skin-Effect" in the conductors.
- Skin-effect has long been known to the art.
- the apparent resistance seen by alternating current flowing on (or in) a conductor rises substantially above a conductor's DC resistance.
- the describing equations show that for frequencies above a value inversely related to the diameter of such a conductor, the effect becomes significant. It appears to cause current to flow more and more only within a shallow depth at the conductor surface as the frequency employed increases. For conductors of very large size such effects are apparent even at power frequencies (50 Hz).
- Skin effect has been analyzed in various ways but prior art analyses share an important fundamental flaw. They lack a causal basis, failing when considering an AC current rapidly initiating from a zero current condition.
- a different approach, on which some aspects of this invention rely, begins by considering the skin effect as arising from a process of propagation of electromagnetic energy into the highly conductive medium of the conductor. An initial current must propagate into the conductor in order to be conducted.
- thermoplastics which do not show significant loss in the range of interest here, (below 1GHz).
- the kind of thermoplastics available permit economic fabrication methods and have sufficiently low dielectric losses as to allow the loss picture to remain largely the result of the resistive losses in the conductive elements of the path.
- the present invention avoids the problem by its approach of putting both electrical paths within the same cable system (inside the same shield). This new approach unifies provision of cable system shielding function (EMIR) and XTLK by perfecting the symmetry of the novel quad configuration of the invention and by the novel role of the surrounding "shield-like" structure.
- EMIR cable system shielding function
- the role of the shield is then to keep to a satisfactory level the ingress of EMIR, the disclosed system benefiting from the exceptional rejection of the ingressing energy due to the balance with which the true orthogonality of the two paths in the quad configuration is developed. Uniformity of the penetrating fields is provided by the novel jacketing of the cable.
- the line codes used by SDH/SONET systems readily allow a clock signal to be recovered within such a detector system, which further enhances the reliability of the digital signal detection.
- Placing such a regenerator system at a point some distance down the length of a cable completely regenerates the weakened signal restoring a large signal to noise ratio. Having such a "fresh start,” with much more energy than the attenuated signal at that point, raising the signal's level well above both system noise and the crosstalk (XTLK).
- Such a regeneration scheme may be employed because, for S/N greater than only 20 to 30 dB, error rates can become negligible in practical systems.
- This ability may be used in both directions of transmission effectively nullifying a large portion of any signal deterioration at cable lengths where the corruption is manageably small, since the moderate amount of power required for the "clean" new regenerated signal is readily available.
- Designers may choose the point at which to make this restoration.
- Integrated circuits are known to the art and are available in performance suitable for the signal speeds considered.
- Such devices contain differential mode threshold triggering detectors (having some useful hysteresis) and clocked positioning of the decision threshold to synchronize it with the so-called "center of the eye".
- a dual regenerator system serving each of the two paths may be fabricated in a very small package even considering the need to protect it from static and electrical discharges.
- Such a package can be incorporated into the Last Mile cable in a small pod hardly larger that the cable itself.
- the DC power required for such regenerator system modules can be easily conveyed by the conductors in the cable allowing this regeneration operation to be earned out repetitively even in a lengthy cable run.
- the use of the cable's electrical conductors to convey system power for other system needs such as keeping the User Interface Device (UID) operational is considered a part of the function of the last mile cable system design.
- UID User Interface Device
- the invention provides the "last mile" connecting cable system equipping users of networked communication systems with two-way independent electrical paths of equivalent wideband perfomiance as well as providing optical fiber for present and future needs.
- the quad configuration was chosen because, fundamentally, the two electrical paths can be completely non-interacting.
- Symmetry is the attribute that plays a veiy important role in both the orthogonality of the two paths (rejection of XTLK) and in each of the path's ability to reject electromagnetic interference.
- Figs, la and lb show in cross-section a general form which such a four conductor novel quad arrangement might take.
- substantially exact electrical positions should be achieved for each of four conductors 71, 73, 75, 77 and, if a surrounding "shield" conductor 79 is centered and uniform in its electromagnetic properties around the circumference (over the frequencies of interest), then the two pairs will be precisely at a null of induction of one into the other. Since it is the electromagnetic fields of each of the pairs that are of interest, the degree of balance or symmetry achieved can be assessed by measuring the capacitance from each conductor to the shield and to each of the other conductors.
- Fig. lb shows a cross-sectional view of a quad annular hybrid cable.
- the four conductors 71, 73, 75, and 77 are shown as in Fig. la.
- Surrounding shield conductor 79 is also shown, symmetric with the four conductors.
- a positioner or annular conductor support insulator 89 provides the structure through which conductors 71 , 73, 75, and 77 pass. The construction of the positioner 89 is described below.
- a filler gel 91 may be employed surrounding each buffer channel 81.
- the types of filler gels which may be appropriate include superabsorbent compounds such as petroleum-based gels. Such compounds serve at least two purposes. One is to keep the glass fibers contained therein from being corroded by air. Another purpose is to provide lubrication for pulling wires through the cable. Other advantages accrue with the addition of a twist to the quad internal conductor structure, such that the lengthwise lines of the center insulating and positioning structure and the conductors form a helix down the running length of the cable, say, of one to two turns per foot of cable length.
- Such a configuration has the useful property that when properly fed from a balanced source and terminated in a balanced receiver, any fields penetrating uniformly to the interior conductors will cause no net current to flow in either pair.
- the use of twisted pairs is known.
- one advantage to the invention's helical configuration is that the invention's EMIR is enhanced to the same degree that its XTLK is minimized.
- reducing XTLK also lowers unwanted noise ingress of the electromagnetic pollution ubiquitous in modem environments.
- the "shield's" function in the invention's configuration is not only to attenuate the interference energy but also to symmetrize the electromagnetic transmission of the ingressing fields by distributing that leaked energy symmetrically to the well-balanced interior quad structure.
- shield refers to the behavior of the surrounding structure, not to the common usage which implies simply an energy barrier. Such barriers are always imperfect and some energy always permeates them. This approach of symmetrizing the shield to enhance EMIR is a novel method to defeat the presently growing levels of EMI which arc difficult to manage otherwise. The degree of such rejection made possible by the precision structure of the present invention has not been achieved by the prior art known to the inventors which pursued substantial interference rejection even after making extensive use of rather heavy shields in their cable designs.
- the invention uses an inner symmetrizer which surrounds the quad cable.
- the structures disclosed as surrounding the cables may be employed for dual quad cables, coaxial cables, etc.
- the inner symmetrizer's structure is shown in cross section in Fig. le in one embodiment for a local drop cable system and may be utilized similarly in all the other example drawings.
- the design of Fig. 1 c creates a high degree of symmetry in the attenuated electromagnetic fields that manage to penetrate to the interior of the cable, thereby developing substantially increased rejection over what would previously be accomplished by a brute force shield and without symmetry of the conductors.
- Fig. lc shows a schematic cross section of an inner symmetrizer seen through a section of the cable wall as located in the dotted section shown in Fig. lb.
- the layers are described starting from the layer closest to the conductors 71, 73, 75, and 77. The function of each of these layers is described following this short reference list. Of course, the following list is merely exemplaiy. In fact, it is highly specific and variations of these materials may be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
- the composite jacket may add about 0.210 inches to the diameter of the basic quad OD (without the optional outer corrugated vapor barrier). This yields an overall diameter of about 5/8 inch for a quad employing a 0.042" finished diameter tubular annular quad conductor which does not require the vapor barrier to protect the optical fibers which the conductors may contain.
- the constitutive layers are further described below.
- the aluminum foil material 101 may be backed by a suitable plastic carrier which may be "Mylar" or some other durable material known in the art, suitable for the temperature range and preferably substantially non-hygroscopic.
- the paired foil wraps should be wound in opposite directions, with each wrap fully contacting metal to metal for about one half turn and folded once on itself.
- Each of the two different paired layers (101 & 105) may require somewhat different spiraling of the wrap to realize suitable flexing properties.
- Layers 101 and 105 may, of course, be replaced with alternative forms of conducting materials.
- the colloidal carbon or secondary artificial carbon powder material 102 is available from Asbury Graphite Mills, Asbury, NJ, in a particle size under 325 mesh or finer which is sufficiently small to allow complete mixing of the materials with the chosen binder prior to processing it as a covering for the cable.
- the surface DC resistivity of the mix in the solidified binder should be under 500 ohms per square.
- Other materials which may be used for this layer include materials with similar conductive properties.
- An appropriate carbonyl iron powder material 103 is available from OMG America, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The purest and finest particle size currently offered is K291 A and is suitable for this use. In all cases, uniform and thorough mixing with the binder is essential.
- the pliant urethane materials are available from a variety of sources, for example, a wide variety being offered by the B.F Goodrich Company. Other materials which may be used for this layer include materials with similar magnetic properties.
- the high frequency Ni-Zn ferrite material 104 is produced by crushing and then "ball milling" the material in several steps to produce an average particle such that 98% by weight of the resulting particles classify as under 5 microns in size. Suitable materials may have complex permeability suitable for the 100 MHz to 1000 MHz frequency range.
- Milled Philips Ferroxcube fabricated type 4 materials may be satisfactory for the purpose. It is important to consider the anisotropy in high frequency material pem ittivity that results from the strong magnetizing field in the range of 0.25 to 0.60 Tesla. Other materials which may be used for this purpose include materials with similar magnetic properties, e.g., remanence, permittivity, and permeability.
- the stainless steel braid 106 may be selected from those materials in the strand thickness of 4 to 6 mils which display high tensile strength and little creep for the tension levels typical in outdoor suspended cable use. Other materials which may be used for this purpose include materials with high tensile strength.
- the outer jacket 108 may be of a tough polyurethane material extruded at a typical thickness of 32 to 40 mils. Other materials which may be used for this purpose include materials with similar strength properties.
- the layers of Fig. lc distribute the penetrating fields within the cable so that they produce a balanced effect on the signal paths.
- Layer 101 of this non-limiting example of the technique is present for several reasons. Firstly to act as a field mirror for the internal fields of the quad signal pairs. Layer 101 also operates on the external penetrating fields by presenting a conductive field short circuit to the penetrating fields, from layer 102, so that the surface current becomes more equally distributed as exiting 102. Layer 102 has a relatively high resistance compared to the aluminum metal surface of layer 101 which creates a large spreading effect on the field coming from the relatively lossey and resistive material of layer 102.
- EM wave velocity is relatively high in the material of layer 102 and it is proportioned to a thickness that allows significant field redistribution.
- Layer 102 adjoins a layer region 103 above it which has relatively high permeability (5 to 50 within the frequency range of interest) and a medium conductivity which has a rather low EM wave velocity. The junction with layer 102 creates a further spreading effect.
- the layer above, layer 104 is chosen to have relatively high permeability in the high frequency region (50 - 500 MHz) where its EM velocity will be fairly low. As a consequence, it is somewhat thicker than layer 103. Layer 104 has a significant EM velocity difference at the boundary with layer 103 and the field spreading is thus enhanced.
- Layer 105 is a thin high conductivity layer that produces the typical field current short as a "shield" but its primary value is in the magnetic coupling to the sub layers for the benefits described, as it will only have a small shielding effect against the external fields.
- the tensile layer 106 is for strength while at the same time providing some electrical current capture in the braid.
- Layer 107 (not shown) may also be used instead.
- the vapor barrier properties of the stainless steel also provide a shielding effect and some tensile advantages.
- the outer jacket 108 is for weathering protection and other environmental and handling protection.
- Each of the foregoing layers may be varied or another layering combination utilized. The principles of the varying of the EM properties in abrupt junctions with differing EM propagation accomplishes a significant symmetrizing effect which is a desired feature. Attenuation, per se, is not a main object of the constructions described.
- a second form of outer covering develops some properties rather different from the classical shielding means for the purpose of reducing the effective antenna-like gathering of electromagnetic energy which any conductor line set out in a typical outdoor environment will exhibit. Since it is impossible to make a physically realizable "shield" that is not penetrable by electromagnetic fields, the inventors have found another way to achieve reduction in vulnerability to such electromagnetic interference. The symmetry and balance features of the subject cable system design have been discussed. The second approach allows a different factor to be utilized. Space itself has a characteristic impedance which characterizes electromagnetic field propagation.
- the resistive component of this radiation impedance is about 377 ohms, a value derived from the ratio of the permittivity of space to the permeability of space (or the inductance and capacitance of space).
- This design for a surface or exterior apparent resistance matching the radiation of space is realized using an outer impedance-matching housing according to the invention and is shown in Fig. Id.
- This outer housing has an apparent radiation resistance matching the radiation characteristics of space and may be realized for a reasonably wide range of frequencies using dissipative loadings in a polyurethane jacket material.
- Loading with a mixture of artificial graphite carbon particles such as Asbury Graphite Mills (cited above) A99 material (or finer size grades) and metallic powders such as OMG Americas (cited above) AN325 (or finger grades) of ASTM NO2200 class atomized pure nickle powder can provide the requisite radiation dissipative properties.
- a cable 301 is shown with a quad conductor configuration 303.
- An outer impedance-matching housing 305 is incorporated surrounding quad conductor 303.
- the inner shield layers surrounding the quad configuration serve yet another purpose in acting as an electromagnetic mirror to confine the internal fields of the quad conductors, thus preventing tlie loss of signal energy.
- the conductor structure also reduces signal energy loss by virtue of its more confined propagation.
- the conductive layer 101 proximate to the outer surface of the quad's dielectric positioner 89 is designed to minimize such loss. This surface is best proportioned so that the space between it and the quad conductors is substantial in relation to the spacing of the conductor pairs, aiding in the preservation of the precision symmetry and minimizing the influence of the shield ("mirror"). This would be a diameter perhaps as much or more than double the space between a conductor pair. (See Bell System Technical Journal Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 248 - 283 by Estel I. Green, F. A. Leibe and H. E. Curtis)
- baluns balanced-to-unbalanced couplers
- Figs. 13 and 14 Some examples of novel balanced-to-unbalanced couplers (“baluns") and cable driving circuits baluns are shown in Figs. 13 and 14 and form an important part of the regenerators, the node interface devices and user interface devices as shown in the systems diagram of Fig. 2. They are further discussed in the section on Driving and Terminating for Good Balance.
- the present invention avoids all such problems by providing a precision insulating and positioning structure (as show in Fig. 3) which locks the conductor array 71, 73, 75, and 77 into a precise position within an electromagnetically enclosed final form.
- the positioner 89 is fabricated as four linked longitudinal sections using an especially high stability extmsion process disclosed below under Extrusion Methods. This process ensures that the as-fabricated shapes of the four parts remain identical and stable not only during manufacture but subsequently during extended use and during aging in the field.
- the inventive method releases stresses normally associated with the pressure and temperature gradients present in standard extrusion methods (even when using mixing as with screw plasticizing means).
- the lifetime performance of the present invention's cable system may be, whether indoors or outdoors, even greater than one hundred years. Selected modem materials, along with the fabrication methods of the invention, make this desirable objective economically attainable.
- these novel insulating and positioning parts interlock around precise annular signal conductors also of a special form further disclosed below.
- Some examples of the general form of tliese four positioner parts is further illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. These figures illustrate how a typical interlocking set of projections and recesses may be configured to capture and hold the relative locations of the elements of a positioner structure for the four quad conductors.
- positioner 89 is shown in four separate sections. These sections are numbered 305, 307, 309, and 311. Each of the sections is generally L-shaped and includes a male member 313 which fits in slot 315. These elements are further shown in Fig. 3a.
- FIG. 3a further shows a number of hinge points 317 which allow the sections to be conveniently extruded. Once the extrusion is formed as in Fig. 3a, each section can be rotated with respect to its adjoining sections in order to form the complete positioner 89'.
- Fig. 4 shows a more detailed view of the molded-in hinge 317. As may be seen, in a four- section extrusion, typically three junctions or hinges 317b would be appropriate.
- Fig. 5 shows the embodiment where they are separated. Fig. 5 also shows the male member 313 of each positioner in a position to enter the slot 315.
- FIG. 6 shows an example of a possible snap locking configuration.
- An annular ring around male member 313 fits in a corresponding section of slot 315 to more securely hold the sections of the positioner 89' together.
- the perimeter may be of any convenient shape as in Fig. 8, where it is circular.
- Fig. 8 also shows optional perimeter slots 319 for holding fibers or other conductors.
- the slots 319 may not be present, the perimeter being just some circularly symmetric surface. Any fibers or conductors other than the four quad conductors may, in this example of structure, be entirely within the interiors of the four quad conductors.
- the positioner shape 89' may be formed to accommodate whatever cable shape is desired.
- the positioning and the dielectric properties of these four regions must however, preserve the quad's internal electrical symmetry.
- the four regions must be uniform in their electrical behavior even though that aspect may have nothing to do with their function as optical fiber holders.
- the inventors have further found yet another way to include optical fiber in the new quad structure.
- the cores 90 of the four annular conductors 71', 73', 75', and 77' may be used to contain fibers 321 in each one or any combination without disturbing the electrical balance.
- one to sixteen or more fibers may be provided inside each of the four annular conductors allowing electrical performance to be independent of the fiber's dielectric properties.
- This advantage is considerable since the desired helical twist of the quad array (a non-limiting example uses approximately two turns to the foot) will also provide significant margin for elastic relief of the fiber, freeing it from thermal expansion movement or mechanical strain from cable movements.
- the helix suggested in the example develops about 1 10% length of conductor and fiber within the cable relative to its overall exterior cable length.
- Fig. 1 la shows in cross section one possible type of annular conductor of the invention, here exemplified as 71', the center region 92 of which allows fibers to be installed during manufacture or even to be blown into place later after a cable is installed.
- One way in which fibers may be installed after the cable is laid includes the technique of fiber blowing. In this technique, a mushroom-shaped device is attached to the end of the fiber, and the tip of the fiber is placed within a cable. A high pressure air source engages the mushroom-shaped device, pulling the fiber through the cable. Other techniques, as are known in the art, may also be employed.
- Fig. 1 la shows a cross section of one example of such an annular conductor of the innovative design.
- the center annular support sheath 94 need only be of such thickness as will adequately support the woven braided special electrical conductor 110.
- the surface of the interior fiber conduit 94 may be of a low friction material such as one of the fluoropolymers. This allows a wide range of possible choices for accommodating the optical fibers.
- the structure of each of the, e.g., 36 individual wires which may be employed in this example derives from a new approach to minimizing the skin effect and the proximity losses found in braided multi wire conductor configurations. Discussion of the skin effect was introduced above in the section entitled Energy Losses and HFTL. In considering the behavior of electromagnetic waves propagating into a conductive medium, the group velocity of the actual physical energy moving into the material becomes remarkably small considering that it is an electric field effect.
- That velocity is but a very tiny fraction of the velocity of light propagating in free space.
- this group velocity is 47 meters/sec at 1MHz and rises to only 470 m/s at 100 MHZ.
- the space and shape of the annular conductor may be selected to suit the requirements of the fibers without compromising the qualities of the annular conductor.
- optical fibers may be susceptible to damage by corrosion from water vapor.
- Superabsorbent compounds may be used to fill the space about the plastic coated optical fibers within the center region 92 carrying them. These materials absorb and immobilize what little water enters the otherwise well enclosed relatively water resistant cable structure.
- the outer sheath 94 of such a cable must also be relatively impermeable to water.
- Figure 1 lb shows an annular conductor utilizing the invention's structure for improving the perfonnance of the 36 strands (shown as ends in the figure) of #39 size magnetic material wire, 50% conduction coated with copper as described below in relation to figure 12.
- Each wire of the 36 as shown in Fig. 1 lb, has a first conductive layer of copper material 353 coating a steel tensile core 351. This is followed next with a high frequency magnetic material matrix 355 having a high degree of permittivity anisotropy as described below and further coated with a fluoropolymer insulation 357.
- annular conductor these wires are woven in a 2x18 weave braid filling the surrounding portion of the .042 inch OD hollow sheath which is suitable for containing optical fibers or other conductors.
- the braid is a tight weave to closely hold the design outer diameter to the value needed to maintain the nominal design impedance value.
- FIG. 1 lc is inherently water vapor proof by virtue of a solid metallic tube 102 giving even better protection for its enclosed optical fibers.
- Fig 1 lc a center region 96 for fibers is shown. The wall surrounding this region should be thick enough to support flexing and the magnetic field strengths encountered.
- Coating 102 may have three layers as shown in Fig. l id.
- the first coating 104 is formed of a conductive layer.
- first coating 104 may be copper about 28 microns thick.
- a second layer 106 is provided of a magnetic matrix, having anisotropic ⁇ and e.
- second layer 106 is about 10 - 20 microns thick.
- a third layer 108 may be formed of a dielectric coating, in this example being 4 - 8 microns thick. A schematic description of these layers is shown in Fig l id.
- Annular Conductors Annular Conductors
- annular conductors of this disclosure have elements and structure complementing the several functions that these four conductors perform in the invention.
- the annular conductors may be chosen according to specific criteria. Appropriate annular conductors may perform at least some of these six functions:
- Fig. 12 shows a cross-section of such a kind of individual wire as discussed above with respect to Fig. 1 lb. Its design differs from the prior art in a number of significant ways that may utilize the less well known properties of wave propagation effects in and on conductive media.
- a high conductivity metallic coating 353 which is applied to the surface of such a wire core.
- the DC resistance selected for the copper coated finished wire is 50% of the conductance of an equal (coated) diameter made entirely of copper. With copper used as the conductive material, just a fairly thin layer of copper on the ferromagnetic material is required.
- This conductor layer is further covered with a thin coating of a special high frequency magnetic material 355, having moderate permeability which also displays the following other properties.
- This coating material 355 is selected from among materials and methods of forming so that when in place on the clad wire, both its permeability ( ⁇ r ) and permittivity (e r ) are substantially alterable by the strength and by the direction of a practical value of a biasing magnetic field.
- the wire is magnetized spatial anisotropy results in both ⁇ r and e r
- the magnetic material is further selected so that it has a desired appropriate variation of permeability with frequency over that range and a desired limited amount of energy dissipative losses.
- the magnetic coating 355 may be a mixture of very fine particulate material (e.g., even nano-phase) with a matrix binder which is selected to allow the permittivity and penneability to be substantially permanently oriented and aligned by a magnetic field during manufacture of the composite wire such that there is thereby produced the substantial and desired spatial anisotropy in both tliese parameters (e and ⁇ ).
- This provides magnetic permeability in the circumferential region about the conductor that is substantially different from the axial direction and, likewise, a related anisotropy in the circumferential and axial permittivities.
- the magnetic material may be one of the class of high frequency ferrites such as one of the Philips Ferroxcube type 4 Nickel Zinc materials, crushed after being fired and then finely milled, to a particle size giving 98% by weight less than 5 microns.
- the biasing magnetic field be applied so that the field polarity is reversed in a manner that will cause the anisotropy to be present continuously down the length of the wire, but with the remanent magnetization of the ferromagnetic material wire core and the related polarization of the magnetic molecules being reversed spatially periodically down the length of the wire.
- the spatial periodicity is chosen in relation to the demagnetizing effects in the ferromagnetic material wire core and also in relation to the wavelength of the highest frequency spectrum to be transmitted in the cable system and the propagation properties desired for that spectrum.
- Patent examples of this are: 1,586,887 Elmen, "Inductively Loading Signaling Conductors”; 1,672,979 Fondiller “Loaded Conductor”; 2,669,603 Prache “Transmission Line With Magnetic Loading”; 2,787,656 Raisbeck; 4,079,192 Josse “Conductor For Reducing Leakage At High Frequencies” and in a different class of effects are: 3,668,574 Barlow “Hybrid Mode Electric Transmission Line Using Accentuated Asymmetrical Dual Surface Waves"; 4,017,344 Lorber et al. , “Magnetically Enhanced Coaxial Cable With Improved Time Delay Characteristics"; 5,574,260 Broomall et al.
- the earlier Fondiller 1 ,672,979 June 12,1928 U. S. Patent coats a wire with a magnetic material in an extrusion method which he also magnetizes by sending a "strong DC current" down the wire.
- the coating material described was iron powder in a binder.
- the patent explains that the DC current magnetizing was performed to raise the coating's permeability and thereby increase the inductance per unit length following the established approach of lowering losses by raising a transmission line's impedance level. No asymmetry properties or other magnetic or dielectric effects were disclosed.
- Josse coats the wire with magnetic material mainly to reduce losses from eddy currents in adjacent wires applying this principle to Litz wire applications. He also applies the process to superconductive cables and to very high current power line frequency applications, the focus there seemingly being eddy current effects.
- Fie relates a family of experiments which he finds to be demonstrations of a novel mode of propagation which he calls non-TEM modes. Fie employs a dielectric layer to develop the novel modes and gives a wide range of thicknesses to be deployed covering the frequency range of 1 MFIZ to 10 GFIz. His journal papers and the curve given in the patent show a substantial alteration in attenuation as a function of the added thin dielectric layer.
- the composite wire may be further coated with an insulating outer layer 357.
- the insulated construction then completes the separation of the component composite wires into a woven or spirally wrapped annular conductor configured on a support core as shown in Fig. 11a.
- Fig. 1 1 c illustrates yet another non-limiting embodiment of an annular conductor that may be used for the quad cable.
- this hollow core annular conductor may be formed as a single tube of magnetic material 98, coated with a conductive (metallic) layer 104, followed by a thin magnetic matrix layer 106, and overcoated with a very thin insulating layer 108.
- This structure resembles the layer structure of the individual wires described above.
- this unitary tubular magnetic core form is advantageous. For example, it allows each of the four annular conductors to enclose optical fibers in a vapor proof barrier tube without requiring that the entire cable be thoroughly vapor proofed.
- Such a tube also affords the opportunity to increase the diameter of the central void space available for the optical fibers and superabsorbent protective filling.
- the remanence in the magnetizable tube, the scaling of the conductive layer, and the anisotropic properties of the matrix layer may be adjusted to provide effective low loss and uniform propagation behavior resulting in substantially the same or potentially better perfomiance than the woven wire form described above. This simplifies the cable construction and reduces costs, yielding a ligliter and somewhat smaller cable.
- This cable example's tensile strength member would likely be a corrosion resistant high strength braid incorporated into the cable just below the outer jacket covering.
- the outer covering layers should employ the EMI symmetrizer and the outer impedance-matching housing layer having the resistive spatial impedance design, both as described above.
- These annular conductors have at least the following unique and novel properties, and they differ in many fundamental ways from the prior art known to the inventors.
- Magnetically "loaded” structures and systems of the prior art have generally focused on simply raising the impedance level of a transmission line propagating electromagnetic energy in relation to the lossey behavior of the conductor systems used to launch and convey the energy.
- the magnitude of the resistance of such conductor losses becomes a smaller part of the impedance of the transmission system, thus reducing the portion of energy lost to that cause.
- These efforts do not materially affect propagation properties, nor do they reduce the skin effect resistance which dominates the conductor AC resistance ⁇ especially at high frequency.
- These approaches have a disadvantage in that they reduce available bandwidth as the price paid for such reduction of losses.
- a few exceptions have dealt with eddy currents and proximity effects as discussed above.
- Most of that art has been in power transmission applications with narrowband or fixed frequency strategies that are not applicable to, nor suitable for, the transmission of wideband signal energy. (See US Patent Nos.: 3,160,702, Lapsley; and 3,594,492, Bader.)
- the present invention modifies the skin effect in the conductor and alters the manner of propagation of energy along the transmission line path. Such an approach need not raise the impedance of the structure to accomplish improvement and bandwidth is not compromised.
- Prudent choice of the configuration of conductors require that other objectives be served along with keeping transmission energy losses appropriate for the needs of any given application.
- Such balancing of choices is exemplified by the advanced quad structure's system objectives that heavily weight signal-to-noise ratio, thus emphasizing high performance in XTLK and EMIR behavior.
- novel anisotropic nature of the electromagnetic propagating conditions according to the invention allows the use of spatial propagation non-linearities (i.e., relatively abrupt and also spatially periodically varying ⁇ and e) for launching and receiving energy in soliton like mode, having very low dispersion and hence very good high speed waveform fidelity.
- Soliton propagation presents advantages of lower energy loss, longer runs, and larger effective signal bandwidth because of the character of the soliton's group velocity to carry signal energy over a considerable distance while preserving both its energy and its form in space and time.
- the signal source and load coupling means for accomplishing this may be somewhat more complex and costly but can likely be justified when needed.
- the inventors have not found any prior art that employed such methods for soliton propagation of electromagnetic waves in the sub-optical wavelength range for substantially an all electrical energy transmission mode.
- the three patents cited above (Barlow, Lorber, and Broomall) all suggest non-classical propagation but do not explain nor teach a method to achieve an optimum such as this.
- This embodiment of the invention contemplating such anisotropy arrangements as described, will facilitate low loss modes of signal transmission in addition to displaying low dispersion of the higher speed elements of digital signals.
- Other anisotropic wave propagation effects, described in the foregoing section on the special annular conductor structure may be varied by the choice of magnetic field, observing the optimum for any given signals.
- thermoplastic extruded shapes contain significant internal stresses which result in shape and dimensional changes that occur after forming, and especially during aging when used for outdoor service. To substantially overcome such problems, the inventors have developed techniques to reduce the production of such stresses during the forming process.
- Vibration of the thermoplastic melt, the mold walls, and the extruder can be employed to improve flow rate and to improve the quality of the finished product. Vibrational frequencies ranging between 0.7 and 20,000 Hz, have been used in the prior art to accomplish a variety of goals in the production of a variety of thermoplastic products.
- the inventors introduce a novel technique in processing thermoplastic materials.
- the inventors have found that abrupt pressure reduction and return to pressure, repeated frequently during the extrusion process, results in a substantially smoother flow and substantially lower internal stresses in the resulting extrudate form.
- This high-low-high pressure cycling shown in Fig. 9b and 10b, is rapid enough to be adiabatic.
- the cycling is, in effect, a kind of anti-forging process by which the induced expansion waves encourage the snagged and interlocked chains of polymers to release and unsnag.
- One key feature of the invention is the relaxation of pressure, during the final forming, to substantially atmospheric pressure, and the maintenance of such low pressure during cooling from just above the glass transition temperature to the essentially solidified state. Because of small material and process variability on a moment by moment basis all segments of the positioner may be formed in a simultaneous process using a common flow of molding material. For thermoplastic materials whose glass transition temperatures arc low enough to provide sufficient plasticity at melt temperatures below 600 °F a procedure such as that shown in Example A, below, is preferred.
- Example A For other thermoplastic materials, like polytetrafluoroethylcne (PFTE), which does not actually fully melt but rather requires a sintering process, the embodiment of Example B may be more appropriate. These examples are noted are described below and illustrated in figures 9 and 10.
- PFTE polytetrafluoroethylcne
- Fig. 9a shows an extmsion die head 201 connected to an extruder body 203.
- An extrusion screw 205 is located within extruder body 203.
- One or more hydraulic piston assemblies 207 are used, with pistons 209, to adjust the volume change and thus the pressure. The amount of volume change required for the pressure to drop substantially may be small.
- the small hydraulic pistons, surrounding the final mix chamber just before the extrusion shape die need move only a very short stroke, which is sufficient to allow the rapid pressure change to be produced with much less inertia than might occur from efforts to move the screw plasticizer or main pressure piston.
- the inventors have found that the extrusion die should have a small taper along the bore in order to avoid turbulent mixing in the approach to the final form aperture.
- appropriate pressures may range from about 0 psi to about 2000 psi, and this pressure may cycle about every 1 to 10 milliseconds.
- the cycling pressure may act on the hot extmdate while it cools to, e.g., the glass transition temperature of from -50°C to +50 Q C.
- a controlled slow cool annealing in baths 21 1 whose purpose is to prevent significant cooling gradients from developing in the extmdate which would induce stresses.
- a cooling annealing flow diagram is shown in Fig. 9c.
- Fig. 9c indicates a schematic arrangement of extmdate (at about 100°C-300°C) treatment baths immediately following extmsion.
- step 213 the hot extmdate emerges from the die head.
- the hot extmdate is exposed to the first bath which is held at a temperature of about 20-50° below the extrudate temperature.
- step 217 the hot extmdate, somewhat cooled, is exposed to the second bath, which is held at a temperature of about 20-50° below that of step 215.
- step 219 the extrudate is exposed to the third bath, which is held at a temperature of between 20-70° below that of step 217.
- step 221 the extmdate is exposed to a cleaner bath, held at approximately 145-150°F.
- a warm rinse step 223 is provided to clean the extmdate, which is then warm air-dried. The duration of each step is set to provide temperature equilibrium through the extmdate prior to entering the next stage of the anneal.
- the time for each step will vary with the cross-sectional shape and size of the extmdate.
- extmded lengths of fully cooled and aged samples have been immersed in a uniformly heated bath to determine if any defomiations could be observed.
- the processed parts show little or no shape or dimensional changes. The improvements observed are believed to result from the interlocked and stressed molecular chains which uncoil and relax during the brief low pressure portions of the pulse.
- the final forming phase of the extmsion may be performed during a low pressure condition under which the flow properties are substantially enhanced.
- the solidification phase should be at as low a pressure as will provide contact with the die form, typically near 1 bar.
- the pulsed relief process enhances the fluidity of the extmdate.
- the taper used depends on the shape and the size of the cross section being produced. Tapers from 2 to 15 degrees may include encompass the optimum range for most relatively small shapes and for materials like polyethylene, polypropylene, high molecular weight polyethylene, and some copolymer mixes.
- One important parameter that the taper controls is the proportion of sectional volume reduction which produces a pressure increase to expel the extmsion along with an adiabatic temperature rise.
- the amount of taper needed will vary with the melt properties (viscosity and non-Newtonian behavior).
- the choice of angle can be directly related to the sectional volume and, in the ideal case, will vary with the sectional thickness in complex shapes. For many melt behaviors, the effective volume reduction may be in the range of about 1 to 7 percent.
- the initial exit of the extmdate has a very short air cool section before entering the first anneal bath.
- Choice of the temperature of this first bath is selected by experiment to just stabilize the particular material with minimal stress with respect to its shape, section thickness and the volumetric exit velocity. This can be anywhere from 20 ° F to 10(3 F below the extmdate exit temperature, taking into account that there is always some adiabatic cooling from the pressure drop upon exiting the die form. The inventors have found that three stages of successive bath temperature drops may be sufficient to stress-relieve and stabilize most fo ⁇ ns.
- the length of extmdate that engages each bath, and thus the time it spends therein, are determined by the stability of the temperature of the extmdate as it emerges from the bath.
- a cleaner bath removes any residues of the anneal bath materials.
- the initial bath (or baths) may be one of the low acid purified mineral oils suited to the operating temperatures.
- the cleaner bath removes such residues and any other significant surface contaminants.
- the fluoropolymers which are highly desirable for their low dielectric constant and very low loss properties in the 10 MHZ to 1 GHz range, have rather more difficult forming properties. These materials do not really melt like the thermoplastics discussed in Example A.
- the fluoropolymer material which starts in particulate fomi, is processed in a manner that is somewhat akin to powder metallurgy. It is pressed into a shape, possibly with a binder, as a "green" fomi and then sintered into a final solid form and shape. The inventors have found that, during the pressure forming of such green shapes, similar pulsed pressure releases have a beneficial effect on the uniformity and results from the post-forming sintering process. Figs.
- an inert atmospheric chamber 251 is shown in which a continuous feed of sintered material in ribbon form 253 is entering.
- a ribbon heather chamber 255 is shown within inert atmospheric chamber 251 to heat ribbon 253.
- a tapered forming die set 257 accepts ribbon 253.
- a pulsating pressure piston 259 applies an annealing pressure wave to the heated sintered ribbon 253, thereby reducing internal stress and improving the form stability.
- the pulsating pressure piston 259 may employ pulsations having a time pattern similar to that shown in Fig. 10b.
- the percent compression is set by die stops.
- Step 263 shows the entrance of the ribbon into a sintering chamber at low pressure.
- Step 265 shows the feed of the hot sintered ribbon into the insert atmospheric pulsating die set as shown in Fig. 10a.
- Step 267 is the final step where the hot ribbon is sent to a cooling chamber at low pressure.
- the final forming step for the present quad cable invention involves imparting an appropriate twist to the positioner.
- the desired helical twist is produced in a process which assembles only the center positioner without conductors and then in a heated phase imparts, by way of a forming die system which is held at a temperature below the glass transition temperature (T g ) , the desired helical twist to the assembly.
- T g glass transition temperature
- the cooled assembly is subsequently partially opened during a next stage in which the conductors are installed in their notches.
- the assembly is pressed closed as it enters the following stage whereby the internal shield (or min-or) materials are assembled to the cable preform. This assembly is then ready for the final covering with the shield section, tensile member and outer jacket.
- the positioner may be ready to install.
- Appropriate thermoplastic materials for the positioner may be such that the resistivity of the positioner material is between about 10 5 to 10 18 ohm-sec, its dielectric constant is between about 1.05 to 4.0, and its low dielectric losses have a tangent of loss less than 0.1 over the target frequency range, generally up to or greater than a GHz.
- the positioner material should have aging and weathering properties such that, for a temperature range of -50 ° C to +50 ° C and a humidity range of 0 to 100%, less than 1% variation of electromagnetic functionality should result.
- the flexural modulii of acceptable plastic materials for the positioner span a range of about a minimum of 0.07E+9 Pascals (0.01E+6 psi, typical of soft polyethylene and probably PTFE) to a maximum of 6.89E+9 Pascals (1.00E+6 psi, typical of PAEK).
- These types of materials are variously moldable or need to be "sintered" so they span the range of types.
- a glass filled polypropylene may also be a candidate material. Various mixtures of these materials may also be used.
- the driver means and the terminating means contemplated can separate these three ranges effectively so as to isolate any interaction between them.
- the type of digital data format which seems most desirable in light of existing world standards is the SONET or SDFI fomiat which arc
- a basic frame or "time box-car" of this time division multiplexing scheme was set to 125 micro-seconds in duration, i.e., one group every 1/8000 of a second.
- the stmcture of the time slots of either of these two formats is shown in Fig. 15.
- the organization of each frame is represented by 810 time slots or "pigeon holes" which are shown arranged in a matrix 283 of 9 rows by 90 columns.
- 15 281 contains one eight bit word or byte.
- the bytes flow row by row in sequence starting at 1 and ending at 810 for each 125 ⁇ s frame. There are then 6480 bits per frame which at 8000 times per second gives the basic bit rate of 51.84 Megabits per second. This is only the basic or minimum bit rate or the STS-1 fomiat when in electrical form. When used to produce an optical signal for, say, a fiber optic path, this format is then called OC-1 optical carrier.
- the SONET and SDH standards are then used to produce an optical signal for, say, a fiber optic path.
- B3ZS 8 bit coding scheme
- the basic STS-1 frame is used as the framework for further time division by placing up to 192 times the data in this fundamental format. That is, each 125 microsecond frame subdivides each of the 810 cells into as many as 192 words, each just 8 bits long. This multiplies the bit rate as well by up to 192 times, resulting in a current maximum 9.9456 GHz bit data rate. Current standards commonly use multiples of 3, 12, 24, 48, 96, and 192 times the base rate in the working communication systems used throughout the world.
- the electrical signal mode contemplated for some of the types of last mile cable system disclosed herein is typically either STS-3 (155.52 MFIZ) or STS- 12 (622.08 MHZ). In these cases, there need be only veiy limited low frequency response in that portion of the balanced drive or temiinating means employed by the present invention.
- Quasi- transmission line devices using multi- apcrtured ferrite cores have also been used to make baluns but these have difficulty achieving CMR better than 25 to 30 dB over a wide bandwidth.
- Two example U.S. Patents are Nos: 5,220,297, to Crowhurst, "Transmission Line Transformer Device”; and 5,379,006, to McCorkle, "Wideband (DC To GHz) Balun”.
- Figs. 13 and 14 detail driver and terminating devices which may be employed in the present invention.
- temiinating impedances are controlled essentially by the "delta" configured resistors.
- these small film resistor arrays isolate the DC and low frequency components on the lines by means of the high pass filters 501 shown and the physically small capacitors integrated into each delta resistor array.
- the balanced driver shown in Fig. 13, includes push-pull signal current sources 503 and 505, which drive the cable, plus source and tenninating resistor arrays thereby minimizing impedance changes in transitions or in either "one" or “zero” states.
- Fig. 13 shows a STS-formatted data stream entering a drive high frequency boost circuit 507.
- the high frequency boost circuit 507 compensates for losses.
- the high frequency boost circuit 507 is adjusted with the receiver aperture boost circuit 509 (Fig. 14) to meet BER specifications.
- the output of the high frequency boost circuit is sent to a phase splitter 508.
- the output of the phase splitter 508 is two signals 180° out of phase.
- the first signal shown by line 511 enters one broadband current source driver 503.
- the other signal shown by line 513 enters the broadband current source driver 505.
- a balanced high pass filter 501 receives both signals. These pass through the resistor array 515 into the quad cable 517.
- a low pass filter 519 which accepts inputs from auxiliary low frequency services, as well as DC power sources. These low frequency signals are sent into cable 517 as well, to provide, for example, lines 55 and 57 of Fig. 2.
- the receiving end of the balanced line terminates in the passive resistor array 515' coupled to the push-pull cascode long-tailed input amplifier. This stage couples the signal to the system or to a digital clocked comparator with very good CMR over the full bandwidth.
- Fig. 14 shows in more detail the balanced cable receiver system.
- the receiving end of cable 517 is received in a passive resistor array 515'.
- the low frequency components of the signal pass through low pass filter 519' to auxiliary low frequency services and provide DC power.
- the high frequency components pass through the high pass filter 501'.
- the high frequency components pass to a balanced input amplifier 521.
- the balanced input amplifier 521 may have a differential cascode long-tailed pair architecture.
- the CMR of the balanced input amplifier may be greater than 40dB across the bandwidth.
- the output of the balanced input amplifier may be passed through a DC restorer synchronous clamp system 523.
- the output of the clamp system is sent to a receiver aperture boost circuit 509.
- the receiver aperture boost circuit 509 may be used to trim the so-called "eye pattern" to meet BER specifications.
- the output of the receiver aperture boost circuit 509 is the data stream.
- driver and receiver stages have demonstrated performance of better than 50 dB CMR. In a fully integrated design, this level of performance should be closely approached at relatively low cost.
- the types of input and output stages discussed herein are easily incorporated into the regenerator modules for use in the cable system as previously disclosed above.
- transient voltage clamping devices to avoid high voltage pulses from a variety of possible sources, (e.g., electrostatic discharges, nearby lightning or EMP, or connection or service transients).
- electrostatic discharges e.g., nearby lightning or EMP, or connection or service transients.
- the form of the cable of the present invention readily lends itself to that objective.
- the cable may be easily modified to include within it two power leads.
- a reduced size version can certainly be designed for interior environments.
- the unique advantages of this fomi of cable can be exploited for such uses and at a substantial savings for this more limited application.
- This example utilizes a positioner of the form of Fig. 8 but in which the radial locator spaces for fibers are omitted.
- the material selected for this example is PTFE.
- the diameter of the assembled core is 0.420 inches. It is fomied by the "green" extrusion, sintering and final forging operation as described above. It is preassemblcd and then formed in an inert atmosphere heated tunnel to give a helical twist of 1.8 turns per foot.
- the Unitaiy Tubular Annular conductors (UTAc) are spaced 0.200 inches apart on centers and the orthogonal quad array is centered in the 0.420 inch diameter of the core support.
- the UTAc's are fabricated of 0.0384 inch OD tubing, soft annealed and fomied from one of the high nickel iron alloys (18-30% Ni) which are axially magnetizable to greater than 0.6 Tesla.
- the ID of the tube is approximately 0.026 inches.
- This tube is fabricated as a continuous length of formed, rolled and fused material yielding a "seamless" constmction with a smooth inner surface. It is plated with copper and electropolished to a smooth bright finish and to a thickness of 28 microns. This surface is then coated by extmding the magnetic matrix of urethane enamel containing the Ni-Zn ferrite powder as described above to a finished additional thickness of 1 1 -
- the next process step for the conductors is to draw into the selected tube or tubes the required number of optical fibers using appropriate lengths selected for the ran lengths of the intended finished cable (from, say, 4000 ft to the shortest lengths to be used, typically 400 ft).
- optical fibers are single mode, plastic coated and color coded for identification. They are drawn by a fine steel wire leader into the tube, in a generally straight path, along with the superabsorbent compound which also then acts as a lubricant for the fiber drawing operation. Depending on the application fibers may be inserted in only one or a few of the UTAc's. A minimum suggested fiber content is one per UTAc in each of the two electrical signal pairs.
- the outer covering layers should employ the EMI "symmetricizing" first shield layer (symmetrizer) and the second (outermost) shield layer having the resistive spatial impedance design described above (outer impedance-matching housing). These shielding steps complete the assembly of the finished cable.
- the finished cable should be stored on reels of four foot minimum diameter.
- the termination of the ends are performed in a different environment wherein the cable ends are cut back to an appropriate length to allow the optical fibers to be tailored to an appropriate service length of fiber buffered by some supporting plastic buffer tube.
- the fibers may be left in this state for future use or terminated in selected connectors.
- the tubular annular conductors are electrically connected by a shrink sleeve splice to provide the very short electrical connections to the source driver and receiver temiinating devices.
- This cable example may be used in the Node system at, e.g., STS-3 or 155 Megabit/sec, or for data at 622 Megabits/sec (STS- 12).
- the symmetry and outer impedance-matching housing may advantageously be employed in coaxial cables. It may further be employed in twin-axial cables (Fig. 16) in which two coaxial cables 1601 and 1603 are located within a single jacket 1609. Dual concentric annular conductors 1605 and 1607 are provided in this embodiment.
- Fig. 17 some cable formats, such as Super VFIS or Y/C, employ two coaxial cables where the returns are not coaxial. These may similarly benefit from an outer housing 1707 which is impedance-matching.
- any of the cables may further benefit from a symmetrizing layer as well.
- each cable e.g., 1701 and 1703, may also be a quad cable, for example.
- Triaxial cables are also contemplated by the invention.
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