A hybrid cable for use with sensitive detectors may include a central power delivery component, a data delivery component positioned around the power delivery component, and a jacket formed around the power delivery component and the data delivery component. The power delivery component may include a plurality of shielded first individually insulated conductors. The data delivery component may include four twisted pairs of second individually insulated conductors and respective shield layers formed around each of the four pairs. An outer diameter of the cable may be less than 8.5 mm, and the cable may be capable of transmitting data within an operating frequency range of up to 2.5 GHz over a distance of at least 100 m.

Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.

A copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene unit, and a perfluoro(propyl vinyl ether) unit, wherein the copolymer has a content of the perfluoro(propyl vinyl ether) unit of 2.0 to 2.8% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, and a melt flow rate of 23 to 30 g/10 min.

A resin composition, including the following components (A) and (B); and at least one kind of the following components (C) and (D): (A) a low density polyethylene resin; (B) an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin; (C) a thioether compound; and (D) fluororubber, in which:

a content of the component (A) is 5 to 40 parts by mass and a content of the component (B) is 60 to 95 parts by mass in 100 parts by mass of a total content of the components (A) and (B), a total content of the components (C) and (D) is 0.05 to 1 part by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total content of the components (A) and (B), and a proportion of a vinyl acetate component in the component (B) is 40 mass % or less.

To provide a film which is excellent in heat resistance, which is less likely to be warped and which has high adhesion, a method for producing it, and a metal-clad laminate and a coated metal conductor, using the film.

The film of the present invention comprises an aromatic polyimide base film, and a layer containing a polymer having units based on tetrafluoroethylene and units based on a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) and an aromatic polymer, formed on each side of the base film.

The present disclosure relates to a porous polymer actuator which maintains the porous structure of the polymer actuator by forming a conductive polymer layer on a commercially available porous polymer separation membrane by vapor-phase polymerization and is capable of improving fast responsiveness to organic solvents and durability by ensuring structural anisotropy, and a method for fabricating the same. The porous polymer actuator according to the present disclosure includes: a porous polymer separation membrane having pores; and a conductive polymer layer coated on one surface and in the pores of the porous polymer separation membrane, wherein the porous polymer actuator has a gradient wherein the amount of the conductive polymer coated in the pores decreases from the one surface of the porous polymer separation membrane toward the other surface.

An electric wire uses a thermoplastic fluororesin composition as an insulating layer covering a periphery of a conductor. The thermoplastic fluororesin composition includes a fluororubber, a fluororesin and a compatibilizer. The fluororesin includes a first fluororesin constituted by perfluoroalkoxy alkane having a melting point of 280° C. or more and 290° C. or less, and the compatibilizer is a terpolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene and vinylidene fluoride. A weight ratio (%) of the fluororubber to the fluororesin ranges from 20:80 to 60:40, and the fluororubbers are crosslinked to one another by dynamic crosslinking.

A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at a vehicle and a camera having a CMOS imaging sensor operable to capture image data. Image data captured by the imaging sensor of the camera is conveyed from the camera to the ECU via a single core coaxial cable. The camera is in bidirectional communication with the ECU over the single core coaxial cable. The single core coaxial cable commonly carries (i) image data captured by the imaging sensor for processing at a data processor of the ECU and (ii) power from a DC power supply of the ECU to the camera. Image data captured by the imaging sensor is serialized at a data serializer of the camera and is conveyed to the ECU via the single core coaxial cable and is deserialized at the ECU by a data deserializer of the ECU.

An insulated wire including a conductor (A) and an insulating layer (B) around the conductor (A). The insulating layer (B) contains an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and has a melt viscosity at 60 sec.sup.−1 and 390° C. of 0.40 to 0.75 kPa.Math.s. The aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) has a melt viscosity at 60 sec.sup.−1 and 390° C. of 0.30 kPa.Math.s or lower. The insulating layer (B) has a thickness of 30 to 300 μm.

Coating compositions including a binder agent are disclosed. The binder agent is formed of a fluorocopolymer and a non-fluorinated film-forming polymer. Methods of coating cables with the coating compositions are also described herein.