ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,464, issued on May 27, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electric wire manufacturing method and electric wire manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Kei Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric wire manufacturing method includes a step of placing a core wire having a plurality of strands inside a tubular member capable of transmitting laser light, and a step of forming a joined portion where the strands are joined together by emitting laser light along a direction intersecting an axial direction of the tubular member onto an outer circumferential surface of the core wire placed inside the tubular member...