Patent ID: 8829345

Claim:
A covered conductor for an automotive wire harness, the covered conductor having a covering layer composed of a covering resin composition obtained by blending from 50 to 100 parts by weight of a metal hydrate and from 1 to 5 parts by weight of an external lubricant with 100 parts by weight of a base resin composition comprising from 50 to 75 parts by weight of a polypropylene-based resin, from 20 to 40 parts by weight of a propylene-α-olefin copolymer, and the balance of a low-density polyethylene, wherein said external lubricant is polyethylene wax, wherein the covered conductor is a plurality of covered conductors, the plurality of covered conductors being bundled into the automotive wire harness, a surface frictional resistance between adjacent ones of the covering layers is less than 15 N, as measured by a push-pull gauge, when two covered conductors formed using the same resin are cross-wise intersected at angles of 90 degrees, while applying a load of 300 gf (2.94 N) to a cross-point of the intersected covered conductors.