US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Sept. 29 for "Foamed electric wire, communication cable, and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,594, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Foamed electric wire, communication cable, and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kosuke Tashiro (Shizuoka, Japan) and Maki Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foamed electric wire includes a conductor, and a covering layer that covers the conductor and is constituted by one or more layers. At least one layer of the covering layer is a foamed covering layer made of a resin composition containing a polypropylene resin, that is formed by foam extrusion molding. An average foam diameter of the foamed covering layer is 30 micro metre or l...