Abstract: A copper alloy wire has a composition composed of no less than 0.01% by weight of Ag and balance Cu and unavoidable impurities. The copper alloy wire has been prepared by drawing a wire stock having the composition at a reduction ratio of no lower than 40% and subjecting the wire stock to heat treatment for half annealing to have a tensile strength of no lower than 27 kg.multidot.f/mm.sup.2 and an elongateion of 5%. An insulated elecric wire includes the copper alloy wire as a conductor and an insulation layer covering the wire. Also, a multiple core parallel bonded wire includes two or more such insulated electric wires bonded parallel to each other.

Abstract: A stranded insulated wire and a method of producing the same. The stranded insulated wire is produced by applying a coating material containing polyvinyl butyral and a stabilized polyisocyanate to an enameled strands assembly and then by baking the assembly. The coating material contains about 1 to about 1000 parts by weight of the stabilized polyisocyanate per 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl butyral.

Abstract: The self-bonding enameled wire has an electric insulation layer coated thereon and a bonding layer coated over the insulation layer. The bonding layer is prepared with a mixture including: (a) 100 parts by weight of a phenoxy resin and/or an epoxy resin, both the resins containing not larger than 5 ppm of sodium chloride and having a limiting viscosity of not less than 0.440 as measured in tetrahydrofuran solvent at 25.degree. C.; and (b) 20 to 100 weight parts of a n-butylated melamine resin. In place of this n-butylated melamine resin, there is, according to another aspect of the present invention, used 20 to 50 parts by weight of a mixture of a stabilized polyisocyanate and one of a n-butylated melamine resin and a benzoguanamine resin is used. These self-bonding enameled wire are excellent in refrigerant resistance and may be suitably used for windings of a stator coil in hermetic compressor motors.