An electrical device includes a molded interconnect substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, the substrate having a mold component and a laser direct structuring component. A conductive circuit is formed along the top surface having one or more signal contacts and one or more ground contacts. The electrical device includes a communication cable having a differential pair of signal conductors and a grounding element. The communication cable has a cable jacket surrounding the signal conductors and the grounding element. Each signal conductor has a wire-terminating end that is coupled to a corresponding signal contact, the wire-terminating end projecting beyond a jacket edge of the cable jacket.

An electric-wire-equipped connection member includes: an electric wire including a center conductor, an insulating layer covering the center conductor, and a shield layer made of metal and covering the insulating layer; and an insulating substrate including a first surface and a second surface and having a through hole which has openings in the first surface and the second surface and in which a portion of the electric wire where the shield layer is exposed is inserted. The center conductor is exposed from the first surface of the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate includes a metal plating layer formed continuously on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole and at least one of the first surface and the second surface. The shield layer is electrically connected to the metal plating layer.

A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.

A connector assembly includes first and second connectors. Each connector includes a plurality of terminals A1 through An, n is an integer2, sequentially arranged in a row. The connector assembly also includes a flat cable that includes a plurality of electrical conductors electrically connecting the terminals of the first and second connectors. For each i from 1 to n, terminal Ai of the first connector is electrically connected, via a different electrical conductor of the cable, to the terminal Ai of the second connector. The cable includes a bend greater than about 150 around at least two fold lines that extend across the entire width of the cable. Each of the first and second connectors is configured to mate with the same mating connector, such that when each of the first and second connectors mates with the same mating connector in a same plan view, the An terminals are both either on a left or a right side of the A1 terminals.

A cable connection structure includes a substrate and a coaxial cable connected to the substrate. The coaxial cable has: a conductor; an inner insulator that coats an outer periphery of the conductor; a shield that coats an outer periphery of the inner insulator; and an outer insulator that coats an outer periphery of the shield. The substrate has: a plate-shaped insulating base material; a conductor connection electrode to which the conductor is connected; and a shield connection electrode to which the shield is connected. A ground is provided on a back surface of the base material opposite to where the conductor connection electrode is formed. The shield connection electrode is an exposed portion of the ground. At a connection part of the substrate to which the coaxial cable is connected, the shield connection electrode, the base material, and the conductor connection electrode are bared in a stepwise fashion.

In an electronic device having a compact form factor, a space-saving harness using bundled or ribbonized strands of micro-coaxial (micro-coax) cable may be utilized to provide signal and/or power interconnects between EMI-generating peripheral components and other components in the device such as those populated on circuit boards. Discrete wires are included in the harness to provide shielding to adjacent micro-coax conductors which may carry high speed signals such as MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) differential signal pairs and provide power and ground return paths. The discrete wires are subjected to fabrication processes during assembly of the micro-coax harness so that their outer diameters substantially match that of components in the micro-coax cable to thereby facilitate connectorization or termination to the circuit boards and/or other components in the device. The matching outer diameters can also provide a consistent pitch that may facilitate space-saving geometries for the harness, connector, and/or terminations.

A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.

A cable connection structure for connecting a plurality of cables to an electrode provided on a substrate includes an extended portion that is provided integrally with the plurality of cables, extends from the plurality of cables, and covers at least a connection part between the plurality of cables and the electrode.

A wire tracing system includes a voltage output source having a director circuit with a plurality of output channels. Each of the output channels outputs a unique voltage signature. A voltage reader/data recorder includes a conductive probe and a data memory that is partitioned into a plurality of data bins. Each of the data bins in the voltage reader/data recorder is associated with one of the voltage signatures output via the output channels of the director circuit, and each of the data bins is configured to store information associated with each of a plurality of wires to which the output channels are respectively connectable. The system and method permit a single individual to rapidly discover the identities of individual wires and cables without having to repeatedly travel back and forth between those extremities.

A FFC structure includes transmission line units and a second insulating jacket. The adjacent transmission line units are spaced. Each of the plurality of transmission line units includes one or more signal lines, a first shield layer, a first ground conductor, and a second shield layer. Each of the signal lines includes a signal conductor to transmit a data signal or a power, and a first insulating jacket enclosing the signal conductor. The first shield layer surrounds the signal line and is connected to the first insulating jacket of each of the signal lines. The first ground conductor transmits a ground voltage. The second shield layer surrounds and is connected to the first ground conductor and the first shield layer. The second insulating jacket encloses the second shield layer of the plurality of transmission line units.