A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a circumferentially closed manner around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product output from a printer; a print signal interface for acquiring a control signal related to the printed product output; at least one sensor for acquiring a control signal related to providing of the marking; and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the object in a circumferentially closed manner or to provide the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement depending on the control signal related to the printed product output and the control signal related to the providing of the marking using the printed product output by the printer.

A wire harness electric wire length correcting device, which corrects a design value of an electric wire length of an electric wire included in a wire harness, includes an electric wire identifying means including an identification mark, which is attached to an end portion of the electric wire, and which is to be cut off from the electric wire when the wire harness is installed on an installation target object, so as to use the identification mark to identify which electric wire an end cut off from the electric wire has been cut off from, a measuring means for measuring a length of the cut off end, and a correcting means for, for the electric wire identified by the electric wire identifying means, correcting the design value of the electric wire length of that electric wire, based on the length of the cut off end measured by the measuring means.

A device for marking a conductor includes: a gripper for gripping the conductor extending in a longitudinal direction; a heating jaw assembly having two jaws spaced from each other in an open position in a first transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal direction; and a transport mechanism for dispensing a foil tape extending along the first transverse direction on a first side of the heating jaw assembly, a foil side of the foil tape facing away from the heating jaw assembly being weldable by heat and a foil side of the foil tape facing the heating jaw assembly including a marking of the conductor; and a gripper mechanism for moving the gripper along a second transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal direction and transverse to the first transverse direction when the heating jaw assembly is in the open position. The gripper moves the gripped conductor.

A method according to the teachings of the present disclosure may include disposing a sheath around a conductor assembly, with an outer surface of the sheath defining spaced apart crowns and valleys. An outlet of at least one ink jet print head may be positioned adjacent the sheath at an angle of 60 degrees to 120 degrees with respect to a longitudinal axis of the sheath. The method may also include using at least one ink jet print head to print marking indicia on the sheath, the marking indicia indicating at least characteristic of the electrical cable assembly.

The present invention relates to a composition for forming a conductive pattern by irradiation of electromagnetic waves capable of allowing excellent formation of a conductive micro-pattern on various polymer resin products comprising a polycarbonate resin or on resin layers by a simple method such as irradiation of electromagnetic waves and plating, and capable of reducing the degradation of the physical properties of the resin products or resin layers caused by the irradiation of electromagnetic waves, a method for forming a conductive pattern using the same, and a resin structure having a conductive pattern. The composition for forming a conductive pattern by irradiation of electromagnetic waves comprises: a polymer resin comprising a polycarbonate resin; and an electromagnetic wave-absorbing inorganic additive which absorbs an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength in the infrared region and satisfies the characteristic that a laser sensitivity Ls defined by a predetermined relational expression is 1.6<−log(Ls)<6.0.

Laser-markable cable layers for a cable are provided. The laser-markable cable layers include an inner layer formed of a first polymer material and an outer layer formed of a second polymer material and a laser-marking compound. The outer layer is about 0.5% to about 50% of the thickness of the inner layer. The laser-markable cable layers surround a wire or cable core. Methods of marking a cable having laser-markable cable layers are also provided.

It is an objective of the invention to provide a high-power supply cable characterized in that even when mounted in a narrow space where the cable undergoes a repetitive bending motion, any undesirable deformation out of the bending plane is small. There is provided a power-supply cable including: an electric wire including an electrical conductor and a resin sheath covering the electrical conductor, the electric wire having a tendency to generate a curl under a no-load condition, the curl having a curling direction, the curling direction being a normal to the curl, the electric wire having one or more longitudinal ends; a connecting terminal disposed at one of the longitudinal ends of the electric wire; and a curling tendency direction indicator showing the curling direction, the indicator being disposed along a normal line to the curl of the electric wire.

A covered wire includes a wire including a metal, a covering layer provided at a periphery of the wire, and inclusions including at least one of a metal and a metal oxide. The inclusions are provided between the wire and the covering layer or in the covering layer, and an average size of each of the inclusions is less than a thickness of the covering layer.

A covered wire includes a wire including a metal, a covering layer provided at a periphery of the wire, and inclusions including at least one of a metal and a metal oxide. The inclusions are provided between the wire and the covering layer or in the covering layer, and an average size of each of the inclusions is less than a thickness of the covering layer.

According to the present invention, there are provided processes for preparing a porous composite material comprising a metal and a two-dimensional nanomaterial. In one aspect, the processes comprise the steps of: providing a powder comprising metal particles; heating the powder such that the metal particles fuse to form a porous scaffold; and forming a two-dimensional nanomaterial on a surface of the porous scaffold by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Also provided are materials obtainable by the present processes, and products comprising said materials.