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Meta patents method for making insulated wire with separate channels

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Meta describes a manufacturing process that pushes metal and plastic materials through a mold at the same time. This creates a single wire where the metal core and the plastic coating are formed together in separate paths.

Why it mattersThis filing details a specific industrial technique for producing electrical components, which is standard practice in hardware manufacturing.

In the filing’s own words

A method of the subject technology includes loading a conductive material to at least one extruder component connected to a die configured to produce a shape of a filament, and loading an insulative material to at least one additional extruder component connected to the die. The method further includes simultaneously extruding the conductive material and the insulative material through the separate channels of the die and curing the insulative material of the filament. The die comprises separate channels for conductive segments and insulative segments of the filament.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: loading a conductive material to at least one extruder component connected to a die configured to produce a shape of a filament, wherein the die comprises separate channels for conductive segments and insulative segments of the filament; loading an insulative material to at least one additional extruder component connected to the die; simultaneously extruding the conductive material and the insulative material through the separate channels of the die; and curing the insulative material of the filament.

Facts

Company: Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
Official title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING INSULATED FILAMENTS
Publication number: US20260301998A1
Application number: 19631977
Filed: Mar 27, 2026
Published: Oct 1, 2026
Inventors: 11
Claims: 20

Classified under

H01B 13/145 Electricity & electronicsH01B 7/0275 Electricity & electronicsH01B 7/041 Electricity & electronics

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