High density electrical interconnect system for photon emission tomography scanner

Patent 6870105 Issued on March 22, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 15, 2024. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 10757881 filed on 01/15/2004

US Classes:

174/72TR, Ribbon type174/117FFlat or ribbon type

Examiners

Primary: Reichard, Dean A.
Assistant: Nino, Adolfo

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Quarles & Brady LLp

International Class

H01B011/06

Abstract

A high density of electrical interconnection together with well controlled electrical transmission characteristics, low emissivity from the cable and low susceptibility to external electromagnetic interference are obtained in a PET machine with an interconnection harness formed of a ribbon cable with an inner and outer shield. The inner shield together with alternate conductors of the ribbon cable provide a signal return and the outer shield provides an earth ground reducing the susceptibility of the conductors to external electrical noise and reducing emissions from the cable.