US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Aug. 19 for "Exterior material, exterior material connecting body, wire harness, and method of manufacturing wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,537, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Exterior material, exterior material connecting body, wire harness, and method of manufacturing wire harness" was invented by Tomokazu Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Satoshi Enomoto (Tochigi, Japan), Naoki Ishizuka (Tochigi, Japan) and Shinichi Tadokoro (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior material includes a bellows part that includes ridge parts annularly formed around a center axis along an axial direction and project toward one side in a radial direction intersecting the axial direction, and groove parts annularly formed around the center axis and are re...