Electric wire conductor, covered electric wire, and wiring harness
AssigneesAutonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsHayato Ooi, Yasuyuki Ootsuka, Kinji Taguchi, Toru Tanji
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Abstract
An electric wire conductor capable of achieving both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire and a wiring harness including such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a wire strand containing a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, and has a flat portion where a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. A covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductors and an insulator covering the electric wire conductors. A wiring harness contains such covered electric wires.
Claims13
A wiring harness comprising:
- a first covered electric wire comprising:
- an electric wire conductor comprising a wire strand comprising a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, the electric wire conductor being made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy;
- and
- an insulator covering the electric wire conductor,
- wherein:
- the wire strand is compressed from a first direction and a second direction opposing to each other, and from a third direction and a fourth direction opposing to each other and intersecting the first direction and the second direction,
- the electric wire conductor has a flat portion where a cross-section of the wire strand intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape, and
- the elemental wires comprise first elemental wires which have non-circular shapes in the cross-section of the wire strand intersecting the axial direction of the wire strand, and second elemental wires which have a circular shape in the cross-section;
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- a second covered electric wire, the second covered electric wire comprising a second electric wire conductor made of copper or a copper alloy having a lower flatness and a smaller conductor cross-sectional area than the electric wire conductor of the first covered electric wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.