ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,368, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Wire harness" was invented by Hiroki Uno (Mie, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsuo (Mie, Japan) and Kazuya Takahashi (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness includes: a protector including an accommodating portion and an attachment portion; an electric wire passing through the accommodating portion; a corrugated tube covering the electric wire and including a small-diameter tube portion and a large-diameter tube portion that are alternately continuous with each other; and a fastening member fastening the corrugated tube and the attachment porti...