Patent ID: 7161085

Claim:
A thin flat twisted-pair gap cable, comprising: small-diameter conductors each having an outer diameter not greater than 0.4 mm; twisted-pair wires, each formed by twisting two core wires respectively constituted of said small-diameter conductors covered by insulating covering having thickness not greater than 0.8 mm, said twisted-pair wires being aligned side by side; and two plies of plastic tape having inside surfaces coated with thermoplastic adhesive and fused together such that said twisted-pair wires are aligned side by side between said two plies of plastic tape in the middle portion of a tape width-wise, to form the thin flat twisted-pair gap cable having a thickness not greater than 2 mm; wherein a thickness of one of said two plies of plastic tape is not greater than 5 μm, and a thickness of the other of said two plies of plastic tape is 100–200 μm.