Patent 7201970 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on April, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An insulated wire for an automobile coated with an insulating material which is a fire retardant polypropylene-based resin composition,wherein the fire retardant polypropylene-based resin composition comprises a polypropylene-based resin and an inorganic fire retardant at a ratio of from 80 to 20% by weight and from 20 to 80% by weight, respectively,wherein the ratio Λ(=λ/λa) of the elongation percentage at a yield point λ of the fire retardant polypropylene-based resin in the resin composition to the elongation percentage at a tensile yield point λa of the polypropylene-based resin alone satisfies the following equation (1):Λ=1−αW (1)wherein α represents a number of 0.6 or less; and W is the weight fraction of the inorganic fire retardant.