Abstract: An electric discharge machining wire includes a brass containing 43 mass % or less of zinc (Zn) and having an ?-phase and a ?-phase, wherein a component ratio of the ?-phase in the brass is greater than 50 vol % and 55 vol % or less.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An electric discharge machining wire includes a core material composed of brass with zinc concentration of more than 40 mass %, and a coating layer provided around the core material. The zinc concentration of the coating layer is higher than the zinc concentration of the core material.

Abstract: A cable is provided with a cable core including one or more electric wires, a shield layer provided to cover around the cable core and composed of a laterally wound shield formed by winding metal wire strands helically, and a sheath provided to cover around the shield layer. The metal wire strands are semi-hard copper alloy wires, and P/PD, which is the ratio of the winding pitch P in the laterally wound shield to the pitch diameter PD of the shield layer, is less than 9.9.

Abstract: 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 mm2 or more and 0.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A signal transmission cable includes a conductor, an insulator covering a periphery of the conductor, and a shield layer covering a periphery of the insulator. The shield layer includes a lateral winding shield portion composed of a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the insulator to cover the periphery of the insulator, and a batch plating portion composed of a hot dip plating, which is covering a periphery of the lateral winding shield portion. Where a diameter of the metal wire is d and a thickness of the batch plating portion from an outer surface of the metal wire is t, a formula t<0.5d is met over an entire cable circumference. When the signal transmission cable is bent in a U-shape within a range of a bending strain of 35% or less, no cracks occur in the batch plating portion.

Abstract: Bendability of a copper alloy wire is improved without decrease in an electrical conductivity of the copper alloy wire made of copper alloy containing zirconium. A cable includes: a two-core stranded wire formed by intertwining two electrical wires made of a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor; a filler formed around the two-core stranded wire; and a sheath formed around the filler and the electrical wire. The conductor is a copper alloy wire in which a precipitate containing the zirconium disperses, and has a crystal gain diameter that is equal to or smaller than 1 ?m, an electrical conductivity that is equal to or higher than 87% IACS, and a tensile stress that is equal to or larger than 545 MPa.

Abstract: A cable in which decrease in a shield performance of a shield layer due to bending or twisting is difficult to occur is provided. A cable includes: a cable core including one or more electrical wires; a shield layer made of a metallic wire arranged on a periphery of the cable core; and a sheath arranged on a periphery of the shield layer, the metallic wire is made of a copper alloy wire made of a copper alloy containing indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.65 mass %, and the metallic wire has tensile strength that is equal to or higher than 350 MPa and elongation that is equal to or higher than 7%.

Abstract: An insulated electric wire is composed of a conductor composed of a copper material, and an electrical insulating layer provided on an outer periphery of the conductor. For the constituent conductor of the insulated electric wire, in an orientation intensity ratio obtained by X-ray diffraction of a transverse cross section of the conductor, an intensity in a [200] crystal orientation is higher than an intensity in a [111] crystal orientation.

Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an electrical insulating member covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the electrical insulating member, 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 electrical insulating member, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes an outer peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are covered with the batch plating portion, and an inner peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are not covered with the batch plating portion. The outer peripheral portion of the shield layer includes intermetallic compounds between the metal wires and the batch plating portion.

Abstract: A copper alloy wire is made of a copper alloy, and the copper alloy contains indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.45 mass %. A tensile strength of the copper alloy wire is equal to or higher than 800 MPa, and an electrical conductivity of the same is equal to or higher than 80% IACS.

Abstract: A copper alloy wire is composed of a copper alloy including indium. of 0.3 mass % or more and 0.65 mass % or less, and has 0.2% proof stress of 300 MPa or more, electrical conductivity of 80% IACS or more, and elongation of 7% or more.

Abstract: 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 mm2 or more and 0.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an electrical insulating member covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the electrical insulating member, 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 electrical insulating member, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes an outer peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are covered with the batch plating portion, and an inner peripheral portion, in which the metal wires are not covered with the batch plating portion. The outer peripheral portion of the shield layer includes intermetallic compounds between the metal wires and the batch plating portion.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An insulated wire includes a conductor including a copper material, and an insulation layer that is formed on an outer periphery of the conductor. A restoring temperature TB of the conductor is not more than 130° C. The restoring temperature TB is a temperature that is needed to restore a conductivity of the conductor after a coil processing to a conductivity of the conductor before the coil processing.

Abstract: Improvement of a strength of a copper alloy wire and improvement of an electrical conductivity of the same are both achieved. A copper alloy wire is made of a copper alloy, and the copper alloy contains indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.45 mass %. A tensile strength of the copper alloy wire is equal to or higher than 800 MPa, and an electrical conductivity of the same is equal to or higher than 80% IACS.

Abstract: An insulated electric wire is composed of a conductor composed of a copper material, and an electrical insulating layer provided on an outer periphery of the conductor. For the constituent conductor of the insulated electric wire, in an orientation intensity ratio obtained by X-ray diffraction of a transverse cross section of the conductor, an intensity in a [200] crystal orientation is higher than an intensity in a [111] crystal orientation.