US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER on July 15 for "Heat-shrinkable tube, heat-shrinkable sheet, connector, and method for manufacturing heat-shrinkable tube" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,552, issued on July 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Heat-shrinkable tube, heat-shrinkable sheet, connector, and method for manufacturing heat-shrinkable tube" was invented by Yasutaka Emoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-shrinkable tube according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a base layer that is tubular and that covers outer peripheries of a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of ridges that are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the base layer and that extend in an axial direction of the base layer."

The patent was filed on July 2, 2019,...