US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on Sept. 16 for "Electrical wire with path restricting member attached and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,469, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Electrical wire with path restricting member attached and wire harness" was invented by Ryuta Saito (Yokkaichi, Japan), Katsutoshi Izawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kosuke Tanaka (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Masashi Fujiki (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical wire structure including: an electrical wire; an exterior tube covering an outer periphery of the electrical wire; and a path restrictor covering a range spanning more than half of an outer periphery of the exterior tube in a circumferential direction of the exterior tube, extending...