A wire cable comprising a ground conductor and an insulated conductor wherein the insulated conductor comprises a metal conductor, an insulated material surrounding the metal conductor, and a nylon jacket surrounding the insulated material. A binder surrounds the ground conductor and the insulated conductor and a jacket surrounds the binder.

A submarine power cable having: a power core including a conductor, wherein the conductor has a conductor joint in a joint region of the power core, a main armor layer including a plurality of main armor wires arranged around the power core and extending in the axial direction of the power core, and a joint reinforcement armor layer including a plurality of joint reinforcement armor wires axially locked relative to the main armor wires, wherein the joint reinforcement armor layer is provided only in the joint region and arranged layered with the main armor layer, the joint reinforcement armor layer and the main armor layer thereby forming a dual-layer armor only in the joint region.

Electric power transmission cables containing a first portion provided with first armouring wires having a first tensile strength, the first armouring wires being made of a first metallic material coated with a first metallic protection coating with a thickness more than 100 g/m.sup.2, the first metallic material having a first magnetic permeability 1, a second portion provided with second armouring wires having a second tensile strength, the second armouring wires being made of a second metallic material coated with a second metallic protection coating with a thickness more than 100 g/m.sup.2, the second metallic material having a second magnetic permeability 2, and 21, the first armouring wires being longitudinally joined to the second armouring wires at a joint, the joint having a third tensile strength that is at least more than 80% of the lower tensile strength of the first tensile strength and the second tensile strength.

A guarded coaxial cable assembly including at least a pair of conductors, one or more rails, and a jacket covering these parts such as a first rail extending alongside two nearby conductors, the rail and the conductors embedded in an outer electrically insulating jacket, the outer jacket having a pair of generally opposed bearing surfaces for bearing transverse loads, the rail operative to reduce outer jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces; and, the orientation of the rail and the conductors within the outer jacket operative to limit conductor or conductor jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces.

A subsea umbilical comprising a plurality of longitudinal strength members, wherein at least one longitudinal strength member is a steel longitudinal strength member and has a semi-conductive coating. The invention can be used both in static, deepwater applications when substantial loading is to be applied to the umbilical, and in dynamic applications when the umbilical is too light and ballast is needed.

The invention provides an ultra-flexible indoor accompanying photoelectric composite cable, and the cable comprises a plurality of power transmission components, optical fiber transmission components and structural strengthening components, which are covered by a highly flame-retardant outer protective layer. The power transmission component comprises a cable core which is a soft conductor and an insulating material layer wrapped around the cable core. The optical fiber transmission component is a tight tube optical fiber, and the power transmission components and the optical fiber transmission components are arranged in parallel inside the highly flame-retardant outer protective layer. The composite cable of the invention has very strong pressure resistance, stress resistance, and reciprocating resistance, good electrical and physical properties and more excellent environment resistant performance. Furthermore, the composite cable can simplify construction procedures, improve working efficiency and reduce construction cost.

An endoscope cable includes a plurality of individual cables, and is provided with an entire shield portion including a metal wire group having an electric shield function to surround entirety of the plurality of individual cables, and a cable core wire including a metal wire group in each of the individual cables. The metal wire group in at least one of the entire shield portion and the cable core wires is configured by combining a plurality of types of metal wires having different compositions from each other.

A cable includes a plurality of wires, an wrapping tape covering the outside of the wires, a shielding layer coated on the outside of the wrapping tape and an insulating cover coated on the outside of the shielding layer, the shielding layer includes a plurality of conductors, wherein the shielding layer includes fibers mixed with the conductors.

The present invention discloses a metal wire armored optoelectronic hybrid cable, which comprises an optoelectronic hybrid unit, a metal wire armoring and an outer protection casing. The optoelectronic hybrid unit comprises an electrical unit and an optical unit which are mixed. The metal wire armoring wraps the optoelectronic hybrid unit. The outer protection casing wraps the metal wire armoring. In the present invention, due to the use of the metal wire armoring, the bending performance is favorable, the production and processing processes are simple, and the production cost of the hybrid cable is greatly reduced.

A shield including: a plurality of insulating filaments that extend in an X direction; and a plurality of conductive filaments that extend in a Y direction intersecting the X direction and are interknitted with the plurality of insulating filaments, wherein the plurality of insulating filaments includes: a first pair of insulating filaments that are adjacent to each other in the Y direction at a first interval, and a second pair of insulating filaments that are adjacent to each other in the Y direction at a second interval that is larger than the first interval.