Patent ID: 7517927

Claim:
A flexible coated wire comprising a conductive wire and a flexible thermoplastic composition coating or sheath wherein the flexible thermoplastic composition comprises: poly(arylene ether); a plasticizer having an affinity for polyolefin; a polyolefin; and a hydrogenated block copolymer of an alkenyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene, wherein the polyolefin comprises (i) an ethylene/C 7 -C 20 alpha olefin copolymer having an alpha olefin content greater than or equal to about 10%, (ii) a thermoplastic vulcanizate; (iii) a combination of linear low density polyethylene and a thermoplastic vulcanizate, (iv) a combination of an ethylene/C 7 -C 20 alpha olefin copolymer having an alpha olefin content greater than or equal to about 10%, a linear low density polyethylene, and a thermoplastic vulcanizate, (v) a combination of an ethylene/C 7 -C 20 alpha olefin copolymer having an alpha olefin content greater than or equal to about 10% and a thermoplastic vulcanizate or (vi) a combination of an ethylene/C 7 -C 20 alpha olefin copolymer having an alpha olefin content greater than or equal to about 10% and linear low density polyethylene.