A method of extending the usable length of a power-over-ethernet cable includes the steps of providing twisted pairs of wires with the conductor of each wire being a 20 AWG or 22 AWG conductor and terminating the cable at an RJ-45 style connector. The connector for the 20 AWG conductors has an insert therein with holes that can accommodate 20 AWG conductors. FEP, PVC or PP insulation may surround each conductor.

Proposed is a method of forming an electrode on a surface of an object by using inkjet printing, the method including forming a buffer on an outer edge of an electrode formation position, and forming the electrode by filling electrode ink inside the buffer, wherein the buffer formation is performed by stacking buffer layers formed by inkjet printing of buffer ink, and hydrophilicity of a surface of each of the buffer layers is lower than hydrophilicity of the object surface. According to an electrode forming apparatus, the buffer constituting the outer edge of the electrode is formed high and the electrode ink is filled inside the buffer to form the electrode, thereby enabling the formation of the electrode having an increased sectional area.

An HV busbar configured to connect a plurality of battery modules to each other, has a conductor including a first metal plate and a second metal plate and an insulative resin coating layer on the outer circumferential surface of the conductor, wherein a first metal constituting the first metal plate and second metals having a lower melting temperature than the first metal are mixed in the second metal plate in the state in which the second metals are dispersed.

A production method for a headline sonar cable characterized by steps of: a. providing a first strength member (14); b. coupling to strength member (14) a conductor (122); c. forming a layer of polymeric material about the combination of strength member (14) and conductor (122) while ensuring that the conductor remains slack; d. forming a flow shield around the layer of polymeric material, thus forming an elongatable internally located conductive structure; and e. braiding a strength-member jacket layer (52) of polymeric material around the elongatable internally located conductive structure while ensuring that the conductor is slack when surrounded by the jacket layer (52). For another embodiment, an optical fibre is wrapped around the exterior of the layer of polymeric material within which is enclosed a braided conductor formed about the first strength member (14). Other embodiments employ further thermo-plastic layers and further sheaths and further conductors.

The present invention relates to a coating process and a process system for a cable, and a cable manufactured thereby. The process includes: (1) providing the cable; (2) transporting the cable into immersion device, the cable immerged in first solution to form first coating layer thereon; (3) transporting the cable out of the immersion; (4) transporting the cable into coating device through third wire die, the cable immerged in second solution to form second coating layer thereon, the second layer is attached to the cable through the first layer; (5) transporting the cable out of the coating device through fourth wire die, fourth aperture diameter of the fourth wire die is larger than third aperture diameter of the third wire die; and (6) heating the cable to cure the second coating layer. The system includes: a cable providing device; an immersion device; a coating device; and a heating device.

The present invention relates generally to a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire thereby, more particularly, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire manufactured thereby, in which electric power is supplied with a predetermined resistance value. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire comprise steps of: making microfine wire that emits far-infrared radiation as it generates heat according to the resistance value when electricity is flowed in; making one strand of thermal wire by bundling many strands of the microfine wire that are in contact of each other; and making two or more groups each of the groups having different resistance value and comprising one or more microfine wires that have identical resistance value in order to make the bundle into an effective geometric structure that well radiates electric dipole radiation while emitting far-infrared radiation.

Disclosed is a preparation method of an all-weather self-healing stretchable conductive material, which uses acrylic acid and modified polyglutamic acid as a substrate, adds Fe.sup.3+ to form coordination, adjusts the volume ratio of water and glycerin, and heats to generate radical polymerization, so as to obtain a uniform double-layer three-dimensional network structure. The obtained polyacrylic acid and polyglutamic acid composite hydrogel has good mechanical properties and characteristics of rapid self-healing. A composite carbon film is prepared by depositing a metal layer of 20 nm to 80 nm thick on a single-layer aligned carbon film by magnetron sputtering, and then the composite hydrogel is adhered to each of the upper and lower sides of the composite carbon film respectively to form an all-weather self-healing stretchable conductive material of a sandwich structure. The preparation method of the invention is simple, the source of raw materials is plenty, and the obtained materials have good electrical and mechanical properties and have broad application prospects in the fields of flexible stretchable devices, wearable devices, and soft-bodied robots and the like.

A ribbon cable includes a plurality of cable groups arranged side by side with a gap between each pair of adjacent cable groups, a first covering film arranged on a first side of the cable groups, and a second covering film arranged on a second side of the cable groups opposite the first covering film. The first covering film has a first bonding portion and a first spacing portion. The second covering film has a second bonding portion and a second spacing portion. The first bonding portion and the second bonding portion are bonded to each of the cable groups. The first spacing portion and the second spacing portion are located at the gap and are separated from each other.

Provided is an aluminum alloy for a cable conductor. Specifically, the present invention relates to an aluminum alloy for a cable conductor, which is excellent in both mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, at room temperature and high temperatures and elongation, and electrical conductivity, is simple to manufacture at low costs, and is eco-friendly.

A multi-core cable core aligning device is composed of a temporary holding mechanism, which is configured to arrange tips of a plurality of cores exposed at one end of a multi-core cable in a row along a predetermined arranging direction, and temporarily hold each one of the plurality of cores in such a manner as to be movable along the predetermined arranging direction, a transferring mechanism, which is configured to transfer the plurality of cores one by one while separating the plurality of cores held by the temporary holding mechanism one by one from other ones of the plurality of cores, and an aligning mechanism, which is configured to align and hold the plurality of cores with a predetermined space between adjacent ones of the plurality of cores while holding the plurality of cores transferred by the transferring mechanism one by one at spaced intervals.