Abstract: Probe assembly includes an ultrasound probe and a cable assembly configured to communicatively couple the ultrasound probe to a control system and transmit signals therethrough. The cable assembly includes a cable jacket surrounding a channel of the cable assembly. The cable assembly also includes a plurality of wire pairs extending through the channel. The channel being sized and shaped to permit the wire pairs to move relative to one another within the channel when the probe assembly is moved. The wire pairs and the channel are configured to have a designated pack ratio (AreaWPS/AreaC). The AreaWPS includes a collective cross-sectional area of the wire pairs, and the AreaC is equal to a cross-sectional area of the channel.

Abstract: Probe assembly includes an ultrasound probe and a cable assembly configured to communicatively couple the ultrasound probe to a control system and transmit signals therethrough. The cable assembly includes a cable jacket surrounding a channel of the cable assembly. The cable assembly also includes a plurality of wire pairs extending through the channel. The channel being sized and shaped to permit the wire pairs to move relative to one another within the channel when the probe assembly is moved. The wire pairs and the channel are configured to have a designated pack ratio (AreaWPS/AreaC). The AreaWPS includes a collective cross-sectional area of the wire pairs, and the AreaC is equal to a cross-sectional area of the channel.

Abstract: Probe assembly includes an ultrasound probe and a cable assembly configured to communicatively couple the ultrasound probe to a control system and transmit signals therethrough. The cable assembly includes a cable jacket surrounding a channel of the cable assembly. The cable assembly also includes a plurality of wire pairs extending through the channel. The channel being sized and shaped to permit the wire pairs to move relative to one another within the channel when the probe assembly is moved. The wire pairs and the channel are configured to have a designated pack ratio (AreaWPS/AreaC). The AreaWPS includes a collective cross-sectional area of the wire pairs, and the AreaC is equal to a cross-sectional area of the channel.

Abstract: A cable (210) includes a center conductor (220). An insulating material in the form of a layer (225) surrounds the center conductor. A sparse shield (232) partially surrounds the insulating material. The sparse shield may include a plurality of conductors, which are grouped adjacent to one another within a space around the insulating layer that has a length that is less than 25% of the total circumference of the insulating layer. An insulating jacket (227) covers the sparse shield and the remainder of the cable. The cable may be used in a cable assembly (10).

Abstract: A cable (210) includes a center conductor (220). An insulating material in the form of a layer (225) surrounds the center conductor. A sparse shield (232) partially surrounds the insulating material. The sparse shield may include a plurality of conductors, which are grouped adjacent to one another within a space around the insulating layer that has a length that is less than 25% of the total circumference of the insulating layer. An insulating jacket (227) covers the sparse shield and the remainder of the cable. The cable may be used in a cable assembly (10).

Abstract: A connector for electrically and mechanically interconnecting multiple pairs of small coaxial conductor pairs includes a shield bus layer and signal conductor traces on opposite sides of a flexible dielectric substrate. Terminal portions of the signal conductor traces span an opening through the connector giving access to each signal conductor trace for soldering the traces to arrayed terminals on a circuit assembly, and are located accurately, so that mass soldering techniques can be utilized, with the connector located with respect to the circuit assembly by registration pins and holes. Portions of the shield bus are exposed to be soldered to a respective terminal on a circuit assembly, and to allow the shield conductors of the coaxial pairs to be soldered to the shield bus layer. Thermal breaks are defined in the shield bus layer to protect soldered junctions between the signal conductor traces and the signal conductors of coaxial pairs and the terminals of the circuit assembly.

Abstract: An assembly of wear element for installation on the wearable part of a structure engageable with abrasive material including a relatively elongated base element adapted to be secured to the wearable part and a relatively elongated wear element releasably, reversibly mounted on the base element, each of the elements having longitudinally spaced apart dovetail surfaces in one outstanding wall portion and at least one surface in a second opposed outstanding wall portion positioned between the spaced art dovetail surfaces. A method of designing the dovetail connection through a repeating pattern is also disclosed.

Abstract: A locked connection for structures engageable with abrasive material and the like including a pair of relatively elongated elements at least one of which is subject to abrasive wear, the elements having parallel longitudinally extending centerlines and spaced apart generally planar surfaces arranged at an angle to the centerlines and between which a bi-stress lock is positioned.

Abstract: An assembly of wear elements for installation on the wearable part of a structure engageable with abrasive material including a relatively elongated base element adapted to be secured to the wearable part and a relatively elongated wear element releasably, reversibly mounted on the base element, each of the elements having first and second pair of longitudinally spaced apart dovetail surfaces with one of the elements having third and fourth pairs of longitudinally spaced apart dovetail surfaces.

Abstract: An assembly of wear element for installation on the wearable part of a structure engageable with abrasive material including a relatively elongated base element adpated to be secured to the wearable part and a relatively elongated wear element releasably, reversibly mounted on the base element, each of the elements having longitudinally spaced apart dovetail surfaces in one outstanding wall portion and a single surface in an opposed outstanding wall portion.