A fire resistant cable, the cable includes an electrical conductor surrounded by an insulation layer. The insulation layer is a composite material including ceramic particles embedded in a polymer matrix. The ceramic particles and polymers are chosen such that the ceramic particles start to sinter together at a temperature lower than the complete decomposition of the polymer chains. When the cable is exposed to heat and flame the polymer degrades, the ceramic particles sinter together and the insulation layer becomes a continuous sintered ceramic layer that both insulates and supports the conductor for improved circuit integrity.

A polymeric coating can be applied to an overhead conductor. The overhead conductor includes one or more conductive wires, and the polymeric coating layer surrounds the one or more conductive wires. The overhead conductor can operate at a lower temperature than a bare overhead conductor with no polymeric coating layer when tested in accordance with ANSI C119.4 method. Methods of applying a polymeric coating layer to an overhead conductor are also described herein.

A cable has an outer sheath made from fluoropolymer and a conductor core having several individual elements which are surrounded by an inner sheath which penetrates into an intermediate chamber between the individual elements. A heat resistant film is disposed between the inner sheath and the outer sheath and is formed of a metal layer and a support layer.

Provided are an electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness containing such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a plurality of elemental wires, and has a flat portion in which a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. Deformation ratios of the elemental wires at peripheral end parts in a width direction are 70% or lower of deformation ratios of the elemental wires at center parts. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor.

Data communication cables include twisted wire pairs, a fire retardant tape, and a jacket layer. The fire retardant tape surrounds the twisted wire pairs has an overlap of about 15% to about 25%. The data communication cables are also halogen-free and may pass the fire retardant standards of National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 130.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a sheath closure for a dual-wall mineral insulated thermocouple cable. The new closure and methods are required to maintain the integrity of both the inner and outer sheaths or inner and outer walls of a dual-walled thermocouple design. As the inner and outer sheaths are different materials, they may require closure separately with no mixing of the sheathing materials during welding.

A method of manufacturing hybrid cable applicable in oil wells provides an FIMT, a conductor layer formed by continuous laser welding and cylindrically covered the outer surface of the FIMT, the outer cylindrical surface of the conductor layer being covered with a high temperature resistant insulating layer by a continuous extrusion method or by wrapped helically with insulating tapes around the outer surface of the conductor layer and the external steel tube cylindrically covered the outer surface of the insulating layer. The conductor layer is coaxial with the FIMT, the inner space of the hybrid cable to accommodating excess length of the optical fiber to allow for thermal expansions and tensile stress on the optical cable. The thickness of the insulating layer cylindrically covering the outer surface of the conductor layer is able to be increased, improving the insulating property.

Disclosed herein is a patterning formation method including printing on a film base, a manufacturing method of an electrical device using the same, and a vehicular electrical device. More particularly, disclosed herein is a patterning formation method including arranging a poly cyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate (PCT) film as a base film or as an upper part film such as a coverlay film, and patterning a material such as a metal by a printing method or connecting printing electronic technologies on at least a part of the PCT film. Also disclosed herein is a manufacturing method of an electrical device using the same and a vehicular electrical device.

An insulated electric wire is composed of a conductor, and an insulating layer disposed around an outer circumference of the conductor. The insulating layer is formed from a fluorine-containing elastomer composition, and the fluorine-containing elastomer composition includes a base polymer (A) including 70% by mass or more and 98% by mass or less of a copolymer (a1) of tetrafluoroethylene and an -olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and 2% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of an ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer (a2) (excluding an ethylene-ethyl acrylate-maleic anhydride ternary copolymer), and a flame retardant (B) including an antimony compound (b1) and a bromine-based flame retardant (b2), and including 1 part by mass or more and 9 parts by mass or less of the antimony compound (b1), and 0.3 parts by mass or more and 15 parts by mass or less of the bromine-based flame retardant (b2) per 100 parts by mass of the base polymer (A).

A thermal sleeve for protecting an electronic member connected to a wiring harness against exposure to heat, combination thereof, and method of construction thereof is provided. The thermal sleeve has a tubular member including a circumferentially continuous wall with an insulative inner layer bounding an inner cavity extending along a central longitudinal axis between open opposite ends and a reflective outer layer. The sleeve further includes a positioning member constructed of resilient, reflective metal material. The positioning member has a tubular portion and at least one resilient finger extending radially inwardly from the tubular portion for abutment with the wiring harness. The tubular portion is fixedly attached to one of the opposite ends of the wall of the tubular member.