US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 8 for "Multicore cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,704, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multicore cable" was invented by Kenji Hori (Tochigi, Japan), Takumi Ooshima (Tochigi, Japan), Takashi Yabe (Tochigi, Japan), Ryota Fukumoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yutaka Matsumura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore cable includes an oil absorptive interposition, and a core disposed to surround the oil absorptive interposition and including electrical wires. The electrical wires are twisted together. In a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the core, the core has layers in which the electrical wires are ...