Patent ID: 7550666

Claim:
A method of providing an electrical-cable transition in which a shielded bundle of cables of a cabling run is divided into at least two branch bundles from a main bundle, each of the branch bundles and the main bundle having shielding means for shielding against electromagnetic interference, and continuity of shielding of the cabling run against electromagnetic interference is maintained through the electrical-cable transition by the method comprising: a step of wrapping a flexible shielding element around the branch bundles and the main bundle to envelop them all together at the electrical-cable transition, the flexible shielding element being wrapped around each of the branch bundles in an overlapping relationship with the shielding means of the branch bundles, the overlapping relationship in respect of each the branch bundles comprising one of overlapping the shielding means of the respective branch bundles and being overlapped by individual shielding means of the respective branch bundles; and the step of establishing an electrical interconnection of the flexible shielding element with the individual shielding means of each of the branch bundles to interconnect the shielding means of each of the branch bundles with the shielding means of the main bundle; and the flexible shielding element is an elongate flexible tape that is wrapped widthwise round the branch bundles at the electrical-cable transition with longitudinal margins of the tape overlapping one another, the tape comprising a mesh of electrically-conductive strands with some of those strands running longitudinally of the tape, and retaining the tape wrapped around the branch bundles as aforesaid with the mesh providing a closed electrical-circuit encirclement of the branch bundles via the overlapping margins of the tape.