US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Terminal-equipped electric wire, wiring harness, terminal, terminal crimper, and method for producing terminal-equipped electric wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,059, issued on May 27, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Terminal-equipped electric wire, wiring harness, terminal, terminal crimper, and method for producing terminal-equipped electric wire" was invented by Hirofumi Kawanaka (Tokyo), Tetsuya Hiraiwa (Inukami-gun, Japan), Junya Takeshita (Tokyo), Hirokazu Takahashi (Tokyo), Kengo Mitose (Tokyo) and Yoshinari Motoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal-equipped electric wire includes a terminal and a coated conductive wire, which are electrically connected to each other. A crimp part of the term...