Abstract: A plug connector is joined to a shielded flat ribbon cable including a plurality of insulated leads disposed laterally adjacent to one another, the cable further including an electrically conducting shielding enveloping the leads. The shielding is severed along the lateral edges of the cable to form a first shielding layer on one side of the cable, the first layer being additionally severed along a zone extending substantially transversely to the leads and peeled back to enable insertion of the plug connector. The second layer is separated from the insulated leads and a first portion of the plug connector is inserted from the side between the separated second layer and the insulated leads. A second portion of the plug connector is disposed in juxtaposition to the insulated leads on the one side of the cable upon completion of the step of peeling. The first portion and the second portion of the plug connector are then pressed against the cable.

Abstract: A flat cable for use with a mass termination connector having a plurality of regularly spaced terminal elements. The flat cable includes a laminated carrier film and a plurality of discrete conductors held in regularly spaced parallel relationship by the carrier film to match the terminal element spacing of the connector. Each conductor has an insulating jacket made of a thermoplastic material. The carrier film includes an attachment layer of thermoplastic insulatioln having a melting temperature similar to that of the jacket material, and a dimensional stabilization layer made of an insulative material having a melting temperature higher than those of the attachment layer and the jacket material and displaying dimensional stability at the melting temperatures of the attachment layer and jacket material. The jackets of the conductor are fused to the attachment layer, and the attachment layer is held by the stabilization layer.

Abstract: An aerial service wire (20) includes a jacket (40) having a generally rectangularly shaped cross section and comprising a polyvinyl chloride plastic material. Enclosed by the jacket are two strength members (36--36) each of which includes a plurality of filaments and each of which is impregnated with a material which is compatable with that of the jacket. The strength members are disposed along an axis (42) of the cross section which passes through a geometric center through which a longitudinal axis (50) of the jacket passes. Conductors (30--30) which are individually insulated are disposed adjacent to the longitudinal axis with each strength member being disposed between the conductors and the outer surface of the jacket.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a thin flexible circuit (48) comprising one or more films of polyimide with a plurality of conductive tracks deposited directly thereon for establishing electrical connection between a multi-pin lead through (45) passing through the wall of the tube's envelope (31) and terminals of electrically operable components within the envelope, e.g. electron gun (35) and beam-deflection electrodes (36,39 and 40). A number of track-carrying films may be stacked together to form a laminate structure. Such a flexible circuit avoids outgassing problems and, being thin and flexible, occupies minimal space and is easily routed around internal components to ease assembly.

Abstract: An elongated cable structure of rigid and flat transverse cross-section for protecting conduits of various types includes interior axial lines of high tensile strength which may be used to suspend equipment from one cable end and to force the equipment axially past obstructions in a well hole. The structure may be raised and lowered in the well hole by means of exterior teeth which are firmly secured to the underlying tensile lines project from the surface of the structure to mesh with traction drives.

Abstract: A cable in which a dielectric core is surrounded by a plurality of bundles of wire strands with the wire strands forming each bundle being twisted in a first direction and the bundles being twisted around the solid conductor in a direction opposite the first direction. Insulation means extend around the bundles of wire strands. A pair of cables configured in the above manner are provided to carry the positive and negative signals between a power source and a load.

Abstract: A signal cable assembly comprising a pair of cables adapted to respectively carry the positive and negative audio signals between a power source and a load. Each cable consists of a first conductor formed by a plurality of bundles of wire strands twisted together to form a single conductor, and a second conductor in the form of a solid conductor having a diameter larger than the diameter of each wire strand. Insulation sleeves extend around the conductors for at least a portion of the length thereof.

Abstract: A high speed electrical transmission line is provided comprising a signal conductor having an open cell, continuously porous, polymeric insulating material surrounding the conductor, the insulating material having a plurality of openings fused therein, the walls of the openings being solid, fused polymer which provide compressive strength for the otherwise highly compressible porous insulating material. The preferred polymer is expanded, porous polytetrafluoroethylene. The openings may be formed by a laser or by other means.

Abstract: A fiber optic dropwire having a fiber optic transmission member between two strength members. The optical fiber has an outer coating having a higher melting point than the outer dropwire covering.

Abstract: A folded electroluminescent lamp assembly (37,65, 87) including an electroluminescent lamp panel (10,41,74, 89) joined to a flexible circuit panel (4,42,73, 88) folded over and joined to the lamp panel. A tail (5,43,79, 90) extends from the circuit panel. Conductive tracks (30-35,56-58,78) extend across the circuit panel and the tail and are connected to the electrodes of the lamp panel. An electrical power source for activation of the electroluminescent lamp panel is to be connected to the tail (5,43,79, 90).

Abstract: A coaxial cable 1 comprises, parallel and coplanar conductors 5 each surrounded concentrically by a separate corresponding dielectric sheath 6, each said dielectric sheath 6 being concentrically encircled by a separate and conductive outer conductor 7, a dielectric jacket 4 surrounding and containing each outer conductor 7, the jacket 4 being helically wrapped along the length of an elongated cord 9, a flexible and conductive film 11 helically wrapped and surrounding the jacket 4, a conductive tubular sheath 14 surrounding the conductive film 11, and an insulative outer jacket 15 surrounding the conductive sheath 14.

Abstract: An armored cable structure which converts a plurality of stranded flexible wire ropes for suspending and retrieving the cable structure in a bore hole into members which are also rigid in longitudinal compression and constrained against birdcaging. The converted ropes serve as positively drivable members for forcing the cable structure and any equipment attached to the down-hole end thereof down-hole.

Abstract: A twist capsule includes a rotor and a stator which are rotatable relative to one another. Two portions of a flexible cable are fixed to the rotor and the stator with an intermediate cable portion therebetween. The intermediate cable portion is arranged in either a "Z" configuration or a helical wrap to prevent coiling and sliding of the cable on itself as the twist capsule rotates. The ends of the cable extend from the capsule for connection to external wiring.

Abstract: An elongated, reinforced power cable for use in adverse environments. The cable is provided with internal structural members to resist crushing and other mechanical forces. The cable includes at least two power conductor assemblies which extend along the longitudinal axis of the cable. A protective metallic layer is provided for each conductor assembly and completely encases each conductor assembly. The conductor assemblies and protective metallic layers are aligned in a row within the cable, the row having a left end, a right end, a top plane and a bottom plane. A rigid support member is positioned at each end of the row of conductor assemblies. The support members have a height at least equal to the height of the protective layers to prevent compression of the protective layers and conductor assemblies. An armored covering is provided which fully encloses the support members, the protective layers and the conductor assemblies.

Abstract: An electrical transmission unit line is provided comprising a porous dielectric layer having positioned on one side thereof a pair of narrow, parallel elongated electrical conductors and on the other side thereof, opposite the pair of conductors and extending transversely across both wires of the pair and parallel thereto, a wide ground conductor. An electrical transmission line having a plurality of such unit lines is also provided. The porous dielectric is preferably porous, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The transmission lines are covered with an electrically insulating material, preferably a nonporous plastic.

Abstract: An electrical transmission line of the twisted pair of coaxial cable type is provided. One line has a center conductor, a porous plastic dielectric disposed around the outer periphery of the conductor, the dielectric having specific gravity of 0.5 or less, and having a plastic dielectric sheath disposed around the outer periphery of the porous dielectric, the outer sheath having a melting temperature which is 60% or less than the melting temperature of the porous plastic dielectric. The porous plastic dielectric may be in tape form helically wrapped around the conductor, preferably at a wrap angle of 20 degrees or less. The preferred porous dielectric is expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: A flat multiconductor electrical cable assembly is disclosed. The cable assembly includes a plurality of electrical conductors surrounded in an insulative casing. An insulative sheet overlies the insulative casing and separates a wire mesh ground shield therefrom. An outer cover encloses the entire cable assembly. The insulative sheet is easily strippable from the insulative casing by use of a release strip along one longitudinal edge thereof. This facilitates stripping of the cable by providing non-adhesived area between the insulative sheet to the casing.

Abstract: An improved ribbon cable comprising a plurality of insulated wires in a fixed relationship to each other. The conductors have an axis in a common plane, and extend the full length of the cable. The conductors are bonded to a ribbon of flexible insulation material in a spaced apart relation with the longitudinal axes of the ribbon material and the conductors generally parallel to each other. In specific embodiments, the conductors may be foil, strips or depositions of conductive material. In other specific embodiments, a coating of flexible insulation material is superimposed on the ribbon material between the conductors and/or the conductors are overcoated with a continuous and uniform coat of flexible insulation or bonding material. An improved transposed ribbon cable is also provided.

Abstract: A high performance controlled impedance low loss low attenuation cable having the characteristics of a shielded twisted pair cable is disclosed. The cable contains a plurality of pairs of associated conductors located in a single plane to give a low profile flat cable suitable for use in undercarpet wiring installations. The cable comprises a plurality of layers of extruded insulating material with a metal foil shield surrounding only associated pairs of conductors. Insulating material having different dielectric constants is employed in conjunction with the encircling foil shield to give the cable the characteristics of a conventional shielded twisted pair cable.

Abstract: A flat cable assembly for use with a mass termination connector. The cable assembly includes a main cable having a plurality of conductors held in regularly spaced parallel relationship in a sheet of insulation to match the terminal element spacing of the connector. The main cable has a first surface, a second surface and lateral ends with the surfaces extending between the ends. A plastic covering having an interior surface facing the main cable second surface is provided. A release agent is printed on either or both of the interior surface of the plastic covering and the second surface of the main cable so that portions of the printed upon surface are coated by the release agent and other portions of that surface are uncoated. A metallic ground plane is positioned between the main cable and the covering with the plastic covering being bonded to the second surface at the uncoated portions so that the plastic covering can be readily separated from the main cable to expose the ground plane.

Abstract: The flat multiconductor cable contains live, neutral and ground conductors lying generally parallel to each other and in side by side, single-plane relation. The live and neutral conductors are sealably surrounded by a relatively hard, polyetherimide material that is substantially free from attack from calcium hydroxide. An outer jacket or casing of polyvinylchloride (PVC) sealably surrounds the polyetherimide layers and contacts the ground conductor. The PVC is substantially free from attack in an alkaline environment. The polyetherimide layers are extruded over the live and neutral conductors providing a seal therearound and thereby a barrier to moisture. The PVC layer is then extruded over the conductors providing a further seal around the polyetherimide layers.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing high performance cable having a low profile configuration is disclosed. The method includes the steps of drawing, through an extrusion press, conductor subassemblies each including spaced, parallel, insulated wire pairs surrounded by an intermediate insulator. Prior to extrusion, conductive EMI shields are formed in-line around the subassemblies. The method also includes the step of extruding an insulating body around spaced, parallel pairs of shielded subassemblies with the wires in a common plane.

Abstract: A flat electrical cable for power distribution is designed for undercarpet use and has two side-by-side live and neutral conductors 12,14 formed into a package 15 by insulation 16,18 around them. In a three-phase construction there are four conductors (FIG. 5). A conductive earthing screen 26 forming the sole earthing conductor overlies the package 15 and is of the same width as the package but is not bonded or only lightly bonded to it. An outer insulating layer 28 tightly surrounds the screen 26 and package 24 and holds them together at the edges, as well as providing protection along the cable edge. The layer 28 is formed of strips 30,32 which can be cut away at X to remove the edges 34 when a connection is to be made, the edge of the screen 26 providing a cutting guide. An insulating plate can be slid between the screen 26 and package 24 so that insulation displacement connections can be made from opposed sides of the cable.

Abstract: An improved ribbon cable comprising a plurality of insulated wires juxtaposed in fixed relationship to each other. An improved transposed cable in which each conductor of the cable of the invention is in the form of a continuous helix. An electromagnetic device having the ribbon cable of the invention as its magnetic windings, and methods and apparatus for manufacturing both the ribbon cable and the transposed cable of the invention.

Abstract: An electrical transmission line is provided comprising at least one elongate signal conductor, one or more other conductors placed away from and substantially parallel to said signal conductor, all conductors encased in an outer insulating resin covering having a rectangular cross-section, the signal conductor(s) being further encased in an inner insulating porous resin covering, the porous resin covering having an electrical shielding layer thereover.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed in which an elongate strip of multi-conductor flat flexible cable is fed by feeding means along a predetermined path of travel where it intersects with a pair of spaced apart, elongate strips of terminals. The strips of terminals are arranged with the terminals facing in opposite directions and predetermined lengths thereof are fed by feeding means such that the predetermined lengths of the stripes and the flexible cable are in a superposed relation. Rows of terminals are separated from the strips of terminals and fastened by terminal applicator means to the flexible cable in electrical conductive relation to the conductors therein. This procedure is repeated at predetermined, spaced apart locations along the length of the elongate strip of flexible cable to form interconnected cable harnesses of the cable and terminals.

Abstract: A high speed electrical transmission line is provided comprising a plurality of elongate conductor wires arranged in parallel relationship and encased in an outer insulating covering jacket having generally a rectangular cross-section and wherein each conductor is further encased within the outer jacket in an insulating covering of a porous resin material.

Abstract: An undercarpet cable comprises a signal-carrying core surrounded by a jacket having a rectangular cross section. Adjoining the jacket on opposite sides are two tapered side members that are easily peeled from the jacket to facilitate attaching a connector to the jacketed core.

Abstract: A reinforced cable having hauling, electrical and hydraulic lines. The cable has a substantially rectangular cross section and includes at least one internal support to protect these lines by resisting external compressive forces, and yet is bendable about one of its transverse axes for easy storage on and deployment from a drum. The internal support also protects the hauling lines from compressive forces applied longitudinally thereof by resisting radial displacement of the hauling lines. In one embodiment, the cable comprises an armor layer, a pair of engaged channels inside the armor layer, and a pair of corrugated supports inside the channels and fixedly spaced apart. The hauling lines, in the form of wire ropes, are located inside the corrugated supports, while the electrical lines are located inside the channels between the corrugated supports. The hydraulic lines can alternatively be located inside the channels between the corrugated supports, or inside the wire ropes.

Abstract: A low profile cable capable of undercarpet transmission of electrical signals is disclosed. The body of the cable includes an essentially flat central region and tapered wings extending outwardly from the central region. It is fabricated of a flexible polymer for positioning around curves. The wings may include cut out sections and opposing slits to facilitate bending of the cable around such curves. The transverse section of the body is symmetric about both its central vertical axis and its central horizontal axis.

Abstract: An improved strip line cable for transmission of electromagnetic waves in the millimeter wave length range is provided. The cable has a plurality of face to face conductors in pairs, the conductors being separated from their paired counterparts by a porous plastic dielectric insulation material. The cable is jacketed. The improvement comprises the porous plastic dielectric material being, in addition, placed between each conductor and the jacketing material, thereby resulting in each conductor being effectively surrounded by porous plastic dielectric insulating material.

Abstract: An electrical cable, for communication purposes, having spaced-apart, insulated electrical conductors, between each two of which is disposed a portion having a block-shaped cross section, with a plurality of tension-absorbing elements of high-strength fibers being disposed in this portion. The problem in the past has been that the flexibility of the cable is limited by the specific breaking elongation of the fibers. To resolve this problem, and to improve the flexibility primarily for termination and connection purposes, the cable has an arbitrary number of tension-absorbing elements which are arbitrarily distributed, even in an unsymmetrical manner, in the tension-absorbing block of the cable. The electrical conductors are placed on the bending axis of the cable, which is determined by the tension-absorbing elements, the effect of the conductors on the bending properties, and the casing material.

Abstract: A series-parallel lighting string having a cord with three wires separated by insulation and a series of cutouts severing the center wire of the cord, and lampholders positioned at each of the cutouts to hold a miniature push-in type light bulb. Each of the lampholders has a pair of contact plates between which a bulb is inserted with its lead wires in contact with the plates. The contact plates are positioned within a husk of the lampholder, and the husk has a snap-fitting cap hingedly attached thereto to define a wireway. The wireway is formed by corresponding semicircular grooves in each of the husk and the cap sized to receive the cord. Each of the contact plates has an insulation-piercing contact finger positioned to engage one of the end portions of the severed wire to each side of the cutout in the cord. The first and last lampholders in each series set has a second cord-piercing contact finger which contacts one or the other of the outer non-severed wires.

Abstract: An optical fibre ribbon structure suitable for use in an optical cable or other application where there is a risk that optical fibres will be subjected to a tensile force comprises a plurality of optical fibres and flexible reinforcing elements of resilient material arranged side by side and embedded in an elongate plastics body. Each resilient reinforcing element is set in such a form that the ribbon structure follows a path of smoothly curved undulations whose axes of curvature lie parallel to one another and normal to the longitudinal axis of the ribbon structure. When the undulting ribbon stucture is subjected to a tensile force, the ribbon structure straightens in a lengthwise direction against the action of the resilient reinforcing elements thereby reducing the tensile force otherwise applied to the optical fibres. When the tensile force is removed, the ribbon structure returns towards its original undulating form.

Abstract: A lightweight pliable flat conductor cable comprises a plurality of round wire conductors supported within generally parallel channels defined cooperatively by preformed and bonded plies of a polyimide insulation sheet material, particularly such as Kapton film. The Kapton film is highly resistant to degradation from exposure to ultraviolet radiation and further provides the conductor cable with a high degree of pliability throughout a broad range of temperature extremes, as encountered, for example, in an outer space environment. A method of forming the flat conductor cable is also disclosed.

Abstract: A flat cable for use with a mass termination connector having a plurality of regularly spaced terminal elements. The flat cable includes a laminated carrier film and a plurality of discrete conductors held in regularly spaced parallel relationship by the carrier film to match the terminal element spacing of the connector. Each conductor has an insulating jacket made of a thermoplastic material. The carrier film includes an attachment layer of thermoplastic insulation having a melting temperature similar to that of the jacket material, and a dimensional stabilization layer made of an insulative material having a melting temperature higher than those of the attachment layer and the jacket material and displaying dimensional stability at the melting temperatures of the attachment layer and jacket material. The jackets of the conductor are fused to the attachment layer, and the attachment layer is held by the stabilization layer. A method of manufacturing this cable is also disclosed.

Abstract: Flexible wire cable and the flexible wire cable by the steps of the process for manufacturing the flexible wire cable. The flexible wire cable interconnects between two spaced plurality of terminals. The terminals can be equally centered at opposing ends or can be spaced on different centers at opposing ends. A plurality of wire conductors are laminated between two sheets of insulation, each sheet having a thermosetting polyester adhesive coating, which partially and fully cures as a function of time-temperature-pressure. Each of the plurality of wire conductors are substantially surrounded internally one hundred and eighty degrees by each sheet of the insulation. The insulation is offset to provide an overlap at opposing ends or at only one end to provide a solder stop and controlled flexings of the wire conductors.

Abstract: A technique for interconnecting a plurality of stacked printed circuit boards, each board having a plurality of spaced contact areas at an edge thereof, utilizes a multiconductor cable having a plurality of insulation-stripped window regions therein at predetermined intervals. The cable is continuous through a plurality of the window regions which are positioned, respectively, adjacent the edges of the printed circuit boards so that, at each window region, each stripped wire is aligned with a different contact area. The stripped wires are soldered in bulk to their respective contact areas.

Abstract: An electrical shielding tape comprises a polyester backing layer, and a metallic layer having an adhesive on the exposed surface thereof, the adhesive being disposed in an interrupted layer which defines both exposed open patches, or contact pads, and coated bonding areas thereon. The tape is constructed for use in a shielded cable of the type having at least one conductor wire and an uninsulated drain wire, wherein the tape is wrapped around the conductor and drain wires with the metallic surface of the tape facing inwardly and with the tape adhesively secured to the conductor and drain wires by means of the adhesive on the metallic surface thereof. Effective electrical contact between the tape and the drain wire is achieved in the open patches, or contact pads, which contact the drain wire, and therefore the tape can be grounded to achieve the desired shielding effects simply by connecting the drain wire to a ground terminal.

Abstract: A ribbon coax cable comprises a plurality of parallel and coplanar center conductors each surrounded by a dielectric sheath, a conductive member surrounding each dielectric sheath, a plurality of coplanar drain conductors each of which extends parallel to a respective center conductor and in electrical engagement with the conductive member, an elastomeric material surrounding the conductive members and the drain conductors which maintains the drain conductors and the conductive members in electrical engagement along the entire length of the cable.

Abstract: The individual conductors in each layer of a layered cable are located and connected by first joining each of the conductors in the layer and thereafter separating the conjoined conductors along a predetermined path defined by reference to a predetermined indicia carried by one of the conductors in the layer.

Abstract: An armored electrical cable which is especially useful in oil wells and provides resistance to corrosion, explosive decompression and transverse compressive forces. The cable comprises an insulated conductor, a barrier layer enclosing the insulation, a filler layer enclosing the barrier layer, and a square compression-resistant layer enclosing the filler layer. The barrier layer is a lead sheath having a closed cross section with an exterior including four right angle corners oriented in a square and four convex areas, each interconnecting a pair of adjacent right angle corners. The filler layer comprises a thermosetting tape, an open-mesh fabric tape, and a polymeric tape of low frictional coefficient.

Abstract: An improved, highly flexible flat multi-conductor electrical cable is provided, useful for example in robots wherein such cables may be flexed many times, comprising a plurality of conductor assemblies held in parallel relationship between layers of insulating coverings, the improvement comprising conductor assemblies having an elongate, non-conductive center core filament helically overwrapped along its longitudinal dimension by a first conductor in foil or tape form, such as copper foil, this first tape conductor having an outer covering of a conductive, low-friction material, the conductive covering being helically overwrapped along its longitudinal dimension by a second conductor in foil or tape form, such as copper foil, the second foil conductor being wrapped in a lay opposite to that of the first conductor, i.e. if one foil conductor is "S" wrapped, the other foil conductor is "Z" wrapped.

Abstract: A reinforced insulated electrical cable and a method of forming the cable, which is especially useful in oil wells. The reinforcement comprises a thin tape of thermosetting material imbedded with an open-mesh fabric, the tape being spirally wrapped directly around the cable's insulation. The tape is wrapped in unvulcanized form and is then vulcanized in place over the insulation. The layer of open-mesh fabric is spaced from the outer surface of the insulation so that, during vulcanization, the insulation can radially outwardly expand without contacting and thus deforming the fabric, and at the same time the insulation can push part of the thermosetting material through the spaces in the fabric.

Abstract: A shielded ribbon cable is formed either by trimming a conventional ribbon cable to expose one or both edge conductors, and coating the cable by painting it with a conductive paint or covering it with an extruded conductive plastic layer, or by forming a ribbon cable of individually-coated wires, one or both edge conductors having a conductive coating, and subsequently painting it with a conductive paint or covering it with an extruded conductive plastic layer. One or both edge conductors thus serve as drain wires for the shield formed by the external covering of conductive paint or conductive extruded plastic.

Abstract: A flat embedded-shield multiconductor signal transmission cable includes an embedded conformal shield interposed between adjacent conductors to significantly reduce cross-talk by as much as several orders of magnitude over conventional techniques. The shield is forced to a shape in which it is interposed between adjacent conductors by pinch rolling a sandwich of the conductors, insulation and shield between heated rollers, in which the top and bottom sets of conductors are forced inwardly to lie one beside the other with the shield in between. Uniform termination impedance is achieved because the embedded shield is protected during cable stripping. In an alternative embodiment, external shielding may be utilized to completely circumferentially surround the conductors. For improved pitch control, both heated pinch rollers are identical and are provided with resilient surfaces.

Abstract: A multiconductor flat cable incorporates an approximately right angle turn in its conductor runs. The right angle turn is provided by first securing the conductor runs in a desired spacing through a first lamination of insulation cover and base sheets while leaving portions of the conductor runs exposed through a window in the first lamination. The first lamination is then severed at the lateral edges of the window so that an end portion of the first lamination may be moved ninety degrees relative to a remaining body portion thereto. The right angle turn is then secured by forming a second lamination with cover and base layers so as to overlap the first lamination and the turn in the conductor runs.

Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing ribbon cable having a plurality of filamentous elements comprises a wheel having a circumferential surface interrupted by a plurality of parallel grooves in which the elements are seated over a common arc. Elements are supplied tangentially toward the wheel as the wheel is rotated and plastic is extruded at a point on the common arc to form a ribbon cable with elements exposed where they lay in the grooves. Elements are entrapped in cable by plastic bridges formed in lateral channels or recesses which interrupt the grooves and permit plastic to flow around elements, by fiber mat which the plastic impregnates, by melt-bonding to plastic insulated wire, by adhesive, or by nearly complete entrapment of elements resulting from a shallow groove profile. An additional layer of plastic may be extruded onto the cable so produced to yield a conventional fully insulated ribbon cable, or for some cable profiles the cable may be mated to like cable for a close centerline spacing of elements.

Abstract: An armored cable having a plurality of individually insulated conductors and force-resisting members formed with an arcuate cross-sectional shape which substantially conforms to the curvature of the surface on which it is mounted. Opposite surfaces of each force-resisting member in the cable have different widths in cross-section to provide the desired enclosure of the underlying insulation on a conductor after the formation of the arcuate bend in the cable.

Abstract: A cable structure includes a plurality of insulated conductors, an exterior jacket and at least one support member within the jacket and between the insulated conductors. Each support member is made of a material which has good thermal conductivity and which is rigid to resist crushing of the cable and damage to the conductors or their insulation. Variously shaped support members are disclosed.