Patent ID: 9685259
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H01B

Claim:
1. A shielded electrical cable, comprising: a plurality of conductor sets arranged generally in a single plane, each conductor set comprising two jointly insulated conductors, wherein joint insulations of the plurality of conductor sets are formed directly on and making direct contact with the two jointly insulated conductors; a shield disposed around each conductor set such as to substantially conform to and maintain a cross-sectional shape of the conductor set; two non-conductive polymeric layers disposed around the plurality of conductor sets; a conformable adhesive disposed between the two non-conductive polymeric layers and bonding the two non-conductive polymeric layers on both sides of the plurality of conductor sets wherein at least one jointly insulated conductor in the plurality of conductor sets has a first cross-sectional area, and wherein a transition portion is defined by the two non-conductive polymeric layers and the plurality of conductor sets, the transition portion providing a gradual transition between a conforming portion of the two-nonconductive polymeric layers where the two non-conductive polymeric layers substantially conform to the joint insulations of the plurality of conductor sets and a parallel and bonded portion of the two non-conductive polymeric layers where the two non-conductive polymeric layers are parallel and bonded to each other on both sides of the plurality of conductors, the transition portion having a second-cross-sectional area defined as an area between first transition points where the two non-conductive polymeric layers deviate from being substantially conforming to the joint insulations of the plurality of conductor sets and second transition points where the two non-conductive polymeric layers deviate from being parallel and bonded to one another, the second cross-sectional area being equal to or smaller than the first cross-sectional area.