US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on Aug. 25 for "Wire conductor, insulated wire, and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,969, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Wire conductor, insulated wire, and wire harness" was invented by Shingo Yasuno (Mie, Japan), Hayato Ooi (Mie, Japan) and Akira Kitabata (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire conductor is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and is not likely to, when it is ultrasonically welded to a connection terminal, cause a welding defect in a welded portion. A wire conductor includes: a lower strand layer in which a plurality of strands formed by twisting together a plurality of bare wires 1a made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy are bundled and tw...