| US 7,482,539 B2 | ||
| Electric wire | ||
| Makoto Katsumata, Shizuoka (Japan); Takeshi Kamata, Shizuoka (Japan); Shigeharu Suzuki, Shizuoka (Japan); Keigo Sugimura, Shizuoka (Japan); and Kiyoshi Yagi, Shizuoka (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/540,143 PCT Filed Dec. 25, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/16710 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 21, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/061867, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 22, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2002-381680 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0070766 A1, Apr. 06, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01B 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 174—110R [174/112] | 2 Claims |
| 1. An electrical cable having a conductor core and a sheathing layer covering the core, the sheathing layer made of a synthetic
resin material and having an outer surface with a mono-color, the cable comprising:
a first mark having a first color and provided on a first outer surface portion of an outer surface of the sheathing layer,
and
a second mark having a second color and provided on a second outer surface portion of the outer surface of the sheathing layer,
wherein the second color is different from the first color, and the second outer surface portion is positioned opposite the
first outer surface porton in a circumferential direction of the cable, the first and second marks positioned at an end of
the cable so as to be opposite to each other in relation to an axial center af the cable,
wherein the sheathing layer of the cable has the first and second outer surface portions each extending in a longitudinal
direction of the cable, at least one of the first and second outer surface portions is provided with a plurality of the first
and second marks that are alternately positioned in the longitudinal direction of the cable, and the first mark is longer
than the second mark in the longitudinal direction of the cable.
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