US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on Oct. 28 for "Aluminum wire, aluminum stranded wire, coated electric wire, coated electric wire with crimp-style terminal, and CVT cable or CVT cable with crimp-style terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,560, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Aluminum wire, aluminum stranded wire, coated electric wire, coated electric wire with crimp-style terminal, and CVT cable or CVT cable with crimp-style terminal" was invented by Shigeki Sekiya (Tokyo) and Sho Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum wire rod has a composition which contains 3.00% by mass or less of Fe and 0.20% by mass or less of Si, and additionally contains a total of from 0.010% by mass to 0.500% by mass of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cu, Mn, Mg, Zn, Ti, B, V and Ni, with the balance being ...