A foamed thermoplastic material includes a thermoplastic material exhibiting, in its unfoamed state, a particular flammability index, flame growth rate, and specific extinction area. The foamed thermoplastic material further includes a plurality of cells having a number average mean diameter of 5 to 150 micrometers present in an amount effective to provide the foamed thermoplastic material with a density that is 10 to 90 percent of the density of the unfoamed thermoplastic material. The foamed thermoplastic material exhibits a desirable tensile elongation and dielectric constant. A process for forming the foamed thermoplastic material, articles including the foamed thermoplastic material, and an article-forming process are also described.

An insulated wire, having: a single conductor or multiple conductors; an insulating layer on the outer periphery of the single conductor or each of the multiple conductors; and an adhesion layer on the outer periphery of the insulating layer, wherein the thickness of the adhesion layer is 2 to 200 m, wherein a resin constituting the adhesion layer does not have a melting point, wherein the resin constituting the adhesion layer has a tensile modulus of 0.610.sup.7 to 1010.sup.7 Pa at 250 C., and wherein a substance having 2 or more amino groups exists on the surface of the adhesion layer; a coil containing the insulated wire; and an electrical or electronic equipment using the coil.

A cable separator comprising a preshaped article having a longitudinal length, wherein said preshaped article is substantially entirely formed of a foamed polymer material having a glass transition temperature greater than 160 C. and being halogen-free is provided. A data communications cable comprising a plurality of conductors and the cable separator of the present invention, wherein said cable separator separates the plurality of conductors is provided. A method of manufacturing a cable comprising the separator of the invention is also provided.

Adhesive compositions are described that significantly improve the adhesion of polymer overmold compositions to metal substrates in polymer-metal junctions. The adhesive compositions include one or more poly(aryl ether) polymers, where each of the poly(aryl ether) polymers is, independently, a poly(aryl ether sulfone) polymer or a poly(aryl ether ketone) polymer. The overmold composition includes at least one poly(aryl ether ketone) polymer. Polymer-Metal junctions can be formed by, for example, dip-coating, spin-coating, extruding, or injection molding the adhesive composition and/or the overmold composition onto the metal substrate. Desirable applications settings for the polymer-metal junctions described include, but are not limited to electrical wiring.

An insulated wire, containing a conductor, an adhesion layer provided in direct contact with the conductor, and an insulating layer composed of a polyimide resin, which is provided on the adhesion layer, in which, in the adhesion layer, the content rate of a total formula weight of an imide structure represented by Formula (a) in a polyimide resin skeleton is 27% or more and 33% or less; and, in the polyimide resin of the insulating layer, the content rate of a total formula weight of the imide structure in a polyimide resin skeleton is more than 27% and 37% or less: ##STR00001## a coil; and an electric or electronic equipment.

An insulated wire, having at least one thermosetting resin layer and at least one thermoplastic resin layer in this order, as covering layers, on a conductor having a quadrilateral cross-section, wherein, in a coating thickness of the covering layers, in each side to be formed on 4 sides of the quadrilateral cross-section of said insulated wire, a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value is each 20 m or less, and a value of the maximum value divided by the minimum value of the whole sides is 1.3 or more; a motor coil; and an electrical or electronic equipment.

A resin composition according to an embodiment of the present invention for a flat cable-reinforcing tape contains a polyester, a polyurethane, and a polycarbodiimide, in which the mass ratio of the polyurethane to the polyester is 40/60 or more and 80/20 or less. A flat cable-reinforcing tape according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base layer containing a resin as a main component and an adhesive layer stacked on the base layer, the adhesive layer containing the resin composition. A flat cable according to an embodiment of the present invention includes one or a plurality of conductors, a pair of covering materials that hold the one or plurality of conductors therebetween, and the flat cable-reinforcing tape.

In an embodiment, a thermoplastic composite comprises a thermoplastic polymer; and a dielectric filler having a multimodal particle size distribution; wherein a peak of a first mode of the multimodal particle size distribution is at least seven times that of a peak of a second mode of the multimodal particle size distribution; and a flow modifier.

The invention provides a polymer composition comprising a) a low density polyethylene (LDPE); and b) a conjugated aromatic polymer. The invention also relates to cables comprising said polymer composition and the use of the polymer composition in the manufacture of an insulation layer of cable.

An insulated wire having a thermosetting resin layer on the outer periphery of a conductor and a thermoplastic resin layer on the outer periphery of the thermosetting resin layer, wherein a total thickness of the thermosetting resin layer and the thermoplastic resin layer is 100 m or more and 250 m or less, and a degree of orientation of a thermoplastic resin in said thermoplastic resin layer, that is calculated by the following Formula 1, is 20% or more and 90% or less; a coil and an electric and electronic equipment each having the insulated wire. Formula 1 Degree of orientation H (%)=[(360W.sub.n)/360]100 W.sub.n: A half width of orientation peak in the azimuth angle intensity distribution curve by X-ray diffraction n: the number of orientation peak at a angle of 0 or more and 360 or less.