What is a flexible cable? What are its types and advantages?

11 Feb.,2025

Flexible cables are generally made into cable drag chain motion systems. As a kind of power transportation material with good performance, flexible cables are widely used in various fields.

 

Flexible cables are generally made into cable drag chain motion systems. As a kind of power transportation material with good performance, flexible cables are widely used in various fields.Due to its excellent flexibility, more functions of flexible cables have been explored by us. For example, today's flexible cables can not only be used for power transmission and distribution, but also for data signal transmission. Flexible cables are also called mobile cables, robot cables and flexible cables due to their excellent mobility.


In order to protect the flexible cable from wear during movement and maintain stable soft properties, the wire sheath is generally made of soft and wear-resistant material. This material has low viscosity, but high strength, softness, strong wear resistance, and can withstand the damage caused by movement. However, it should be noted that in daily use, in order to reduce damage, we must reduce the drag of flexible cables and extend the service life of flexible cables.


Flexible cables are generally divided into flexible frequency conversion cables, flexible power cables, flexible data cables, and flexible servo cables. It can be subdivided into sensor cables, encoding cables, AC servo motor cables, robot cables, cleaning cables, and cable drag chain system cables.

 

Soft variable frequency cables are a common type of flexible cables. Soft variable frequency cables refer to cables used to control flexible cable systems. The outer sheath of soft variable frequency cables mainly uses three materials: PVC, PUR, and PETP, among which PVC is the most common. These three materials are all high-density materials that can effectively prevent cable damage. The characteristics of this cable are flame retardancy, small bending radius, good performance of PUR and PETE materials, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance and UV resistance. Soft power cables are similar to soft variable frequency cables.

 

Soft data cables are also called soft bus cables. Like soft servo cables, they are all types of flexible cables used to transmit data. PUR and PETP materials are generally used as wire sheaths, which have excellent protection properties and good performance. In addition, because they are often laid in mechanical rooms, the flame retardancy can also be very good.

 

The above is the introduction of the relevant knowledge of flexible cables. In fact, flexible cables are around us. Whether it is the power lines in road engineering or the system bus in the main computer room of the enterprise, the shadow of flexible cables can be seen everywhere. Flexible cables really play an irreplaceable and important role in our daily production and manufacturing.