Tinsel Wire
Silver-Plated Tinsel Wire
Silver surface for demanding termination and contact requirements.
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Industry application
Medical Devices And Cables
Conductors for patient cables, sensor leads and medical wires that flex daily and stay in service for years.
Context
What This Industry Asks Of A Conductor
Medical wires are one of the main application areas for our conductors. A patient cable gets coiled, dropped, wiped down and flexed hundreds of times a week, and the failure that matters is not a dramatic one: it is a conductor that slowly opens at the flex point or a termination whose resistance has drifted. Medical care is one of the fields where we help customers design differentiated conductors, and the levers are the same ones that govern the rest of the range, foil material, fiber core, twist and plating, set against a service life rather than against a price point.
Requirements
The Constraints That Actually Govern
Industry pain points
- Cables flex daily for years and fail at the same point every time.
- Contact and conductor resistance drift over a long service life.
- Sensor leads have to stay very fine without losing breaking load.
- Corrosion at the termination is a slow, hard-to-trace failure.
What the conductor has to deliver
- Long flex life at very fine outer diameters.
- Stable surface conductivity over years in service.
- Plating specified for the cleaning and handling the cable will see.
- Documented resistance, tensile and elongation data with the lot.
Recommended
Conductors We Supply Into Medical Devices And Cables
Copper Stranded Wire
Silver Stranded Wire
Silver surface for stable contact and termination resistance over a long service life.
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Tinsel Wire
Tin-Plated Tinsel Wire
Tin layer protects the copper foil surface from oxidation through storage and handling.
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Precision Copper Foil
Braided Shielding Sleeve
Shielding and mechanical protection without stiffening the cable.
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Delivery
Scenarios And Supply
Typical application scenarios
- Patient monitoring cable
- Sensor leads
- Fine medical wires
- Shielded medical cable assemblies
What we deliver alongside the conductor
- Sample testing on both conventional and customized products, with no minimum order quantity.
- Two production shifts running without interruption so orders leave on time.
- Technical staff available 24/7 for immediate support and engineering advice.
- A comprehensive loading report supplied with every shipment.
Process
From Your Targets To Repeat Production
1
Requirement
You send the conductor resistance, outer diameter, tensile strength, swing life and soldering method. All five are treated as one problem.
2
Material selection
Foil and base metal chosen from bare copper, oxygen-free copper and the tin-copper, iron-copper, silver-copper, nickel-chromium, nickel-iron and copper-nickel alloys.
3
Core and plating
Fiber core picked for working temperature and abrasion; tin, silver or nickel plating specified at 0.3 um to 2 um.
4
Sampling
We build and test a sample. No minimum order quantity applies to conventional or customized sampling.
5
Verification
Resistance, tensile strength and elongation are measured on our own equipment, with salt spray where corrosion matters.
6
Production and shipment
Two shifts keep delivery on schedule, and a comprehensive loading report goes out with every shipment.
Reference
Related Engineering Guides
quality guide
How We Test A Conductor Before It Ships
The four instruments behind our inspection, what each one measures, and what leaves with the shipment.
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process guide
Plating Fine Conductors: Tin, Silver, Nickel And Why Thickness Is A Decision
What plating does for a fine conductor, how thickness is chosen between 0.3 and 2 microns, and what a good coating looks like.
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Questions
Medical Devices And Cables: Frequently Asked Questions
How fine can a medical sensor conductor go?
The outer diameter of a single tinsel wire runs from 0.04 mm to 0.40 mm, in single or multi-layer foil structure, and can be stranded from there.
What test data comes with the conductor?
DC resistance, tensile strength and elongation are measured on our own equipment, and salt spray testing is available where corrosion resistance matters. A comprehensive loading report is provided with every shipment.
Building Cable For Medical Devices And Cables?
Send the performance targets your conductor has to meet. We will propose a construction and sample it with no minimum order quantity.