A shielded cable includes adjacent first and second conductor sets, each conductor set includes a pair of insulated conductors. At least 90% of a periphery of each conductor set is encompassed by a shielding film. The cable also includes first and second non-conductive polymeric films disposed on opposite sides of the cable. The polymeric films include cover portions and pinched portions. In transverse cross section, the cover portions of the polymeric films in combination surround the conductor sets, and the pinched portions of the polymeric films in combination form pinched portions of the cable on each side of the cable. When the cable is laid flat, a center-to-center spacing of the pair of insulated conductors for the first conductor set is ?1 and a center-to-center spacing of the first and second conductor sets is ?. ?/?1 is less than 4.

A high speed cable assembly includes a ribbon cable and a high speed connector. The ribbon cable includes a number of wires and a jacket enclosing the wires. Each wire has a central conductor and a shielding layer covering the conductor. The ribbon cable provides differential pairs of wires and drain wires, each drain wire positioned next to one differential pair of wire. The high speed connector has an insulating housing, and a printed circuit board assembled within the insulating housing. The printed circuit board is provided with first group of golden fingers on one end thereof, which are formed to electrically connect to the wires of the ribbon cable, respectively, and second group of golden fingers on the other end thereof, which are configured to form an I/O interface for transmitting high speed signals to a complementary connector.

An edge insulated electrical cable includes an electrical cable and an edge insulation structure applied to the electrical cable at the location. An apparatus for applying edge coating to a film is also disclosed.

A crimp ferrule includes an assembly portion assembled on a non-circular internal cross section of a multi-core cable and a diameter compensation portion forming a circular external cross section of the crimp ferrule on the multi-core cable. The assembly portion and the diameter compensation portion are arranged successively in an axial direction of the crimp ferrule.

A flexible flat cable and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The flexible flat cable includes a plurality of ground parts comprising a conductive material disposed at intervals, a plurality of signal transmission parts comprising a conductive material disposed between the plurality of ground parts, an outer skin covering the signal transmission parts and the ground parts, and a conductive adhesive layer disposed between the ground parts and the signal transmission parts and the outer skin part, the signal transmission part comprising an insulating member and a strip line disposed within the insulating member and the ground part comprising a ground member having the same cross section as the strip line and a conductive adhesive block coupled to the ground member with the conductive adhesive layer.

An electrical cable includes a conductor extending lengthwise along the cable, and a reservoir extending lengthwise along the cable at a first lateral location in the cable. The reservoir contains a dielectric material that is adapted to be transferred to a different second lateral location in the cable.

A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes a plurality of conductor sets. Each conductor set is surrounded by a shield and includes two insulated conductors. First and second non-conductive polymeric layers are disposed on opposite sides of the cable. The polymeric layers include cover portions and pinched portions. The cover portions surround the plurality of conductor sets, and the pinched portions form pinched portions on each side of the cable. The cable includes a transition portion on each side of the cable. At least one of the polymeric layers has a radius of curvature of at least 50 microns across an entire width of the cable. For at least one of the polymeric layers, the ratio of the minimum radius of curvature in the cover portions to the minimum radius of curvature in the transition portions is from 2 to 15.

A two-core flat cable includes a pair of metal wires, an insulating covering that bundles and covers the pair of metal wires along a longitudinal direction thereof, the insulating covering having an oval cross-sectional shape, an electrically conductive shield that is in direct contact with the covering along an entire perimeter of the covering so as to cover the covering, and an insulating sheath that covers the shield.

A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes a plurality of conductor sets. Each conductor set is surrounded by a shield and includes two insulated conductors. First and second non-conductive polymeric layers are disposed on opposite sides of the cable. The polymeric layers include cover portions and pinched portions. The cover portions surround the plurality of conductor sets, and the pinched portions form pinched portions on each side of the cable. The cable includes a transition portion on each side of the cable. At least one of the polymeric layers has a radius of curvature of at least 50 microns across an entire width of the cable. For at least one of the polymeric layers, the ratio of the minimum radius of curvature in the cover portions to the minimum radius of curvature in the transition portions is from 2 to 15.

A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes adjacent first and second longitudinal conductor sets where each conductor set includes two or more insulated conductors. The first conductor set also includes a ground conductor that generally lies in the plane of the insulated conductors of the first conductor set. At least 90% of the periphery of each conductor set is encompassed by a shielding film. First and second non-conductive polymeric films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and form cover portions substantially surrounding each conductor set, and pinched portions on each side of each conductor set. When the cable is laid flat, the distance between the center of the ground conductor of the first conductor set and the center of the nearest insulated conductor of the second conductor set is 1, the center-to-center spacing of the insulated conductors of the second conductor set is 2, and 1/2 is greater than 0.7.