A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an electrically insulating member provided over a periphery of the conductor, a shielding layer composed of served shields formed by helically wrapping a plurality of metal wires around the electrically insulating member, and a sheath provided around the shielding layer. The electrically insulating member includes indentations on portions of its surface to be brought into contact with and mated to the metal wires respectively. The shielding layer includes portions in respective circumferential directions of the plurality of metal wires being brought into contact with the electrically insulating member are mated to the indentations, respectively, on the electrically insulating member, and adjacent ones of the metal wires in a circumferential direction of the shielding layer are in surface contact with each other.

A cable with a wave wire flexible shield includes a cable core having an outer surface, and a plurality of wires surrounding the cable core, each of the wires having a wave shape as applied around the cable core.

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 panel to enhance telecommunication signal range includes a base sheet. A reflector on a side of the base sheet reflects a telecommunication signal that is of a predetermined wavelength and that is incident on the base sheet. A reflected telecommunication signal is reflected in a predetermined direction, and the attenuation loss in the reflected telecommunication signal is less than a predetermined threshold. Methods to manufacture such panels are also described.

A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator around the conductor, a shield layer around the insulator, and a sheath around the shield layer. The shield layer includes a lateral winding shielding portion with metal wires helically wrapped around the insulator, and a batch plating portion covering the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where adjacent metal wires are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a gap between the adjacent metal wires, and inner peripheral portions where the metal wires are not being covered with the batch plating portion and plating layers are exposed. The joining portion is provided between adjacent inner peripheral portions. When an elemental analysis is performed in any analysis region having an area of 0.015 mm.sup.2 or more and 0.300 mm.sup.2 or less in an insulator-side surface of the shield layer which is stripped from the insulator, an area of a chlorine present region where chlorine is present in the analysis region is 5% or less of an area of the analysis region.

A coaxial cable according to the present disclosure is characterized by including a metal layer (5), inside an outer conductor (8), being bonded to the outer conductor (8) by means of an adhesive (6) in such a manner that the metal layer (5) is in contact with a part of the outer conductor (8).

A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator around the conductor, a shield layer around the insulator, and a sheath around the shield layer. The shield layer includes a lateral winding shielding portion with metal wires helically wrapped around the insulator, and a batch plating portion covering the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where adjacent metal wires are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a gap between the adjacent metal wires, and inner peripheral portions where the metal wires are not being covered with the batch plating portion and plating layers are exposed. The joining portion is provided between adjacent inner peripheral portions. When an elemental analysis is performed in any analysis region having an area of 0.015 mm.sup.2 or more and 0.300 mm.sup.2 or less in an insulator-side surface of the shield layer which is stripped from the insulator, an area of a chlorine present region where chlorine is present in the analysis region is 5% or less of an area of the analysis region.

A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the insulator, and a sheath covering a periphery of the shield layer. The shield layer is configured to include a lateral winding shielding portion with a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the insulator, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a spaced portion where the adjacent metal wires are spaced apart from each other, and the non-joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are not joined with each other with the batch plating portion at the spaced portion. A length of the non-joining portion along a cable longitudinal direction is shorter than a winding pitch of the lateral winding shielding portion.

A coaxial cable according to the present disclosure is characterized by including a metal layer (5), inside an outer conductor (8), being bonded to the outer conductor (8) by means of an adhesive (6) in such a manner that the metal layer (5) is in contact with a part of the outer conductor (8).

A coaxial cable includes an inner conductor; an insulator covering a circumference of the inner conductor; a shield layer covering a circumference of the insulator; and a sheath covering a circumference of the shield layer. The inner conductor is composed of first metal strands that are twisted each other in such a manner that a cross-sectional shape of the inner conductor is circular. The shield layer includes a winding shield layer including second metal strands spirally wound around the insulator, and a shield tape layer including a shield tape including a resin tape and a metal layer provided on one side of the resin tape, the shield tape being spirally wound around the winding shield layer with the metal layer being located inwardly radially in such a manner that the metal layer is being in contact with the winding shield layer. The winding shield layer has a gap in at least one location between the second metal strands adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction, and a sum of distances w between the second metal strands adjacent to each other via the gap is not more than an outer diameter d of the second metal strand in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction.