A cable and methods of making cables are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a method for making a cable includes introducing a conductive material onto a sheet including a heat-shrink material. The method includes compressing a first portion of the sheet onto a second portion of the sheet to form a sheath having an interior volume, where the conductive material is disposed in the interior volume. In at least one embodiment, a cable includes a sheath including a heat-shrink material. The cable includes an interior volume including a conductive material including a conductive carbon material.

A differential signal transmission cable includes an insulation layer extending in a longitudinal direction of the differential signal transmission cable, a pair of signal lines extending in the longitudinal direction and buried inside the insulation layer, an intermediate layer covering an outer circumferential surface of the insulation layer, a shield, and catalyst particles. The shield includes an electroless plating layer covering an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate layer. The catalyst particles are dispersed between the intermediate layer and the electroless plating layer.

A redundant network system includes a compute node having a network interface card includes a node port. The redundant network system includes a primary switch having a primary switch component and a primary switch port coupled to the primary switch component. The redundant network system includes a secondary switch having a secondary switch component and a secondary switch port coupled to the secondary switch component. The redundant network system includes a cable assembly having a node connector coupled to the node port, a primary connector coupled to the primary switch port, and a secondary connector coupled to the secondary switch port. The cable assembly includes a signal splitting circuit between the node connector and the primary and secondary connectors. The cable assembly includes a first cable between the signal splitting circuit and the primary connector and a second cable between the signal splitting circuit and the secondary connector.

It is aimed to provide a communication cable which includes a solid sheath on an outer periphery of a signal cable having a plurality of insulated wires and in which transmission characteristics hardly decrease due to a pressure in extrusion-molding a sheath. A communication cable 1 is provided with a signal cable 10 including a plurality of insulated wires 11 each having a conductor 12 and an insulation coating 13 covering an outer periphery of the conductor 12, and a solid sheath 20 covering an outer periphery of the signal cable 10. A melt flow rate of a constituent material of the sheath 20 measured at 200° and with a load of 2.16 kg is 0.25 g/10 min. or more.

A data connector adapter includes a plug body having first and second plug connection ends, an electrically conductive plug shield and a contact carrier. The first and second plug connection ends respectively have first and second plug contact connection patterns for connecting first and second data connectors. The contact carrier is arranged between the plug connection ends and carries two first contacts and two second contacts respectively forming the first and second plug contact connection patterns. One of the first contacts in each case is electrically conductively connected to one of the second contacts via a contact connection section. The first and second contacts are surrounded at least in sections respectively by electrically insulating first and second carrier bodies having first and second dielectric constants ε.sub.R1, ε.sub.R2. Outer circumferential surfaces of the carrier bodies bear against an inner wall surface of the plug shield at least in sections.

A flexible flat cable includes a highly reflective member having a plate shape, light-transmitting signal transmission members spaced apart from each other on a first surface of the highly reflective member, conductive signal transmission members spaced apart from each other on the first surface of the highly reflective member, a highly reflective adhesive member that fixes the light-transmitting signal transmission members and the conductive signal transmission members to the highly reflective member, and couples the highly reflective member to a non-conductive member, the non-conductive member including a first surface in contact with the highly reflective adhesive member, and a second surface opposite to the first surface of the non-conductive member, an adhesive member that is disposed on the second surface of the non-conductive member, and couples an electrical shield member to the non-conductive member, and the electrical shield member coupled to the non-conductive member by the adhesive member.

A data transmission cable includes a plurality of juxtaposed wires, a plastic layer enclosing on the wires integrally and a metallic shielding layer arranged on an outer side of the plastic layer. The metallic shielding layer defines a first shielding layer and a second shielding layer separated from each other and opposite to each other, the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer cover opposite sides of the plastic layer in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the wires, and both lateral edges of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer in a width direction do not extend beyond the plastic layer.

A cable assembly may include a first end and a second end. The first end may include a first breakout including a plurality of transmissive conduits implementing a plurality of communications channels and a second breakout including a plurality of conduits implementing a plurality of communications channels. The second end may include a third breakout including a plurality of conduits implementing a plurality of communications channels and a fourth breakout including a plurality of conduits implementing a plurality of communications channels. Communication channels of the first breakout, second breakout, third breakout, and fourth breakout may be arranged such that the first breakout shares a first communications channel with the third breakout, the first breakout shares a second communications channel with the fourth breakout, the second breakout shares a third communications channel with the third breakout, and the second breakout shares a fourth communications channel with the fourth breakout.

Electrical cables and optical waveguides are disclosed as including an electrically insulative foam. The electrically insulative foam can coat at least one electrical conductor of the electrical cable. The electrically insulative foam can coat the optical fiber of the waveguide. The electrically insulative foam can also define a waveguide.

A cable includes: plural cable sets each including a pair of core wires, a shielding layer covering the pair of core wires, and an outer layer covering the shielding layer; and plural fixing wires cross-braided outside the cable sets to keep the cable sets in a row position along a lateral direction.