Shielded wire harness and method for manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10020096-B2
Application number	US-201715452900-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2017
Priority date	Jun 17, 2011
Publication date	Jul 10, 2018
Grant date	Jul 10, 2018

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness, includes: wrapping a conductive sheet around a wire harness in a parallel state to the wire harness, the conductive sheet having a long belt shape along a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, and cutting the conductive sheet in matching with a desired electric wire length; allowing an adhesive surface formed on a back surface side of the protection tape to fix the conductive sheet to the wire harness by spirally winding a long protection tape around an outer circumference of the conductive sheet wrapped around the wire harness; and cutting the protection tape in matching with the desired electric wire length.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness, comprising:
wrapping a conductive sheet around a wire harness in a parallel state to the wire harness, the conductive sheet having a long belt shape along a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, overlapping both side portions of the conductive sheet each other by a first wrapping hook and a second wrapping hook of a wrapper, the first wrapping hook and the second wrapping hook arranged in order along the longitudinal direction, and cutting the conductive sheet to match with a desired electric wire length with a cutting blade;
allowing an adhesive surface formed on a back surface side of a protection tape to fix the conductive sheet to the wire harness by spirally winding the protection tape around an outer circumference of the conductive sheet wrapped around the wire harness; and
cutting the protection tape to match with the desired electric wire length with the cutting blade,
wherein wrapping the conductive sheet around the wire harness further comprises inserting the wire harness and the conductive sheet through a wrapping groove on an upper portion of a device body of the wrapper, and
the first wrapping hook and the second wrapping hook are arranged in the device body of the wrapper and arranged in the order along a longitudinal direction of the wrapping groove such that the first wrapping hook is arranged on an upstream side in the wrapping groove and the second wrapping hook is arranged on a downstream side of the wrapping groove.

2. The method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein
the protection tape is set at a predetermined width, and
in spirally winding the protection tape around the outer circumference of the conductive sheet, the protection tape is wound in a state of being inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to an axis in the longitudinal direction of the wire harness so that side portions of adjacent wound portions of the protection tape overlap one another.

3. The shielded wire harness to be manufactured by the method according to claim 1 , wherein
the shielded wire harness is a shielded wire harness for a vehicle, the shielded wire harness being obtained by cutting the wire harness to a desired length, treating a terminal end of the wire harness and crimping a terminal to the terminal end, and thereafter, wrapping the conductive sheet and the protection tape around the wire harness.

4. The method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein:
each of the first wrapping hook and the second wrapping hook is formed into a hook shape having circular-arc wrapping recessed portions formed on a wrapping groove side thereof, and
the first wrapping hook and the second wrapping hook rotationally move with respect to a longitudinal axis of the device body individually in a falling direction, whereby the wrapping recessed portions face the wrapping groove, and press the conductive sheet in the wrapping groove from above.

5. The method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness according to claim 4 , wherein:
from a state in which an upper side of the wrapping groove is made open such that both the first wrapping hook and the second wrapping hook rotationally move in a rising direction, the conductive sheet is inserted into the wrapping groove, and
the wire harness is inserted into an inside of the conductive sheet.

6. The method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness according to claim 5 , wherein, after insertion of the wire harness into the inside of the conductive sheet:
the first wrapping hook rotationally moves in the falling direction, whereby, the wrapping recessed portion of the first wrapping hook abuts against the conductive sheet in the wrapping groove, and a first sheet side portion of the conductive sheet is bent in a direction of the wire harness such that the first wrapping hook wraps the first sheet side portion of the conductive sheet to fold over the wire harness, and
the second wrapping hook rotationally moves in the falling direction, whereby, the wrapping recessed portion of the second wrapping hook abuts against the conductive sheet in the wrapping groove, and a second sheet side portion of the conductive sheet is bent in the direction of the wire harness such that the second wrapping hook wraps the second sheet side portion of the conductive sheet to fold over the first sheet side portion of the conductive sheet and the wire harness.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Iwasaki Takahiro
• Sugiyama Takuya
• Akiha Yoshinobu

Classifications

• Y10T29/49194

  Assembling elongated conductors, e.g., splicing, etc. · CPC title

• H01B7/0045

  Cable-harnesses · CPC title

• B60R16/0215

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title

• H01B13/01263 Primary

  Tying, wrapping, binding, lacing, strapping or sheathing harnesses · CPC title

• H01B7/1855

  Sheaths comprising helical wrapped non-metallic layers · CPC title