US 11,749,423 B2
Electric wire conductor, covered electric wire, wire harness, and method for manufacturing electric wire conductor
Hayato Ooi, Yokkaichi (JP); Yasuyuki Otsuka, Yokkaichi (JP); and Kinji Taguchi, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 16/975,155
Filed by AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 14, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/009907
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/176001, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0090757 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. H01B 5/08 (2006.01); H01B 7/00 (2006.01); H01B 7/282 (2006.01); H01B 13/02 (2006.01); H01B 7/42 (2006.01); H01B 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 5/08 (2013.01) [H01B 7/0009 (2013.01); H01B 7/0045 (2013.01); H01B 7/282 (2013.01); H01B 7/421 (2013.01); H01B 13/0207 (2013.01); H01B 13/0292 (2013.01); H01B 1/023 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric wire conductor, comprising:
a wire strand comprising:
a sector-shaped part in which a cross-section of the wire strand intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand comprises:
either a single edge or two edges touching each other at an apex;
an outward curve connecting ends of the single edge or the two edges;
an outer peripheral part facing an outer periphery of the sector-shaped part; and
a center part located inside the outer peripheral part in the cross-section; and
a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, elemental wires in the outer peripheral part having deformation ratios from a circle 75% or lower than deformation ratios from the circle of elemental wires in the center part.