Grommet and wire harness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11538609-B2
Application number	US-202117172008-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 9, 2021
Priority date	Feb 17, 2020
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

A grommet includes a fitting body causing a fitting groove to be fitted to a circumferential edge of a through hole, and a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The fitting body includes a tubular portion, a rib rising from an outer circumferential wall surface of the tubular portion, and a locked portion disposed radially inside the rib, rising from the outer circumferential wall surface, and configured to be locked to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular body, to suppress elastic deformation of the tubular portion or reduce elastic deformation amount. The rib is elastically deformable in a circumferential direction, and the outer circumferential wall surface has a plurality of projection groups constituted by the locked portion and a plurality of ribs disposed radially outside the locked portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A grommet comprising:
a fitting body causing a circumferential edge of a through hole having a circular shape and provided in a wall body to be fitted into a fitting groove having an annular shape and provided in an outer wall, and causing a harness body routed along a hole axis of the through hole in a space inside the outer wall to be extracted from the space through a first extraction port having a circular shape and disposed at a first axial end and through a second extraction port having a circular shape and disposed at a second axial end;
a first tubular body having a cylinder axis coaxial with an axis of the fitting body, projecting outward from a circumferential edge of the first extraction port, and causing the harness body in the space to be extracted through the tubular body; and
a second tubular body having a cylinder axis coaxial with the axis of the fitting body, projecting outward from a circumferential edge of the second extraction port, and causing the harness body in the space to be extracted through the tubular body, wherein
the fitting body includes a tubular portion having an outer circumferential wall surface continuously connected to the fitting groove at a position closer to the first tubular body than the fitting groove in the outer wall, and gradually reduced in diameter as being away coaxially from the fitting groove, at least one rib rising from the outer circumferential wall surface of the tubular portion and extending on the outer circumferential wall surface at least from a position equal in diameter to the circumferential edge of the through hole to a radially outer end, and a locked portion disposed radially inside the rib, rising from the outer circumferential wall surface, and configured to be locked to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular body when the first tubular body is shifted relatively to the fitting body along the cylinder axis toward the second tubular body, to suppress elastic deformation of the tubular portion or reduce elastic deformation amount of the tubular portion, and
the rib is shaped to enable elastic deformation of the rib in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential wall surface, and
the outer circumferential wall surface has a plurality of projection groups disposed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, each projection group being constituted by the locked portion and a plurality of the ribs disposed radially outside the locked portion.

2. The grommet according to claim 1 , wherein
the projection groups each include the locked portion and the rib extending radially outward from each of both ends in the circumferential direction at the radially outer end of the locked portion.

3. The grommet according to claim 1 , wherein
elastic deformation in the circumferential direction of the rib indicates inclining deformation in the circumferential direction within an elastic region when an end surface on a rising side of the rib receives force along the cylinder axis, or deformation like shear deformation by displacement in the circumferential direction from the end surface side within the elastic region when the force along the cylinder axis is applied.

4. The grommet according to claim 2 , wherein
elastic deformation in the circumferential direction of the rib indicates inclining deformation in the circumferential direction within an elastic region when an end surface on a rising side of the rib receives force along the cylinder axis, or deformation like shear deformation by displacement in the circumferential direction from the end surface side within the elastic region when the force along the cylinder axis is applied.

5. A wire harness comprising:
a harness body; and
a grommet protecting the harness body, wherein
the grommet includes:
a fitting body causing a circumferential edge of a through hole having a circular shape and provided in a wall body to be fitted into a fitting groove having an annular shape and provided in an outer wall, and causing the harness body routed along a hole axis of the through hole in a space inside the outer wall to be extracted from the space through a first extraction port having a circular shape and disposed at a first axial end and through a second extraction port having a circular shape and disposed at a second axial end;
a first tubular body having a cylinder axis coaxial with an axis of the fitting body, projecting outward from a circumferential edge of the first extraction port, and causing the harness body in the space to be extracted through the tubular body; and
a second tubular body having a cylinder axis coaxial with the axis of the fitting body, projecting outward from a circumferential edge of the second extraction port, and causing the harness body in the space to be extracted through the tubular body,
the fitting body includes a tubular portion having an outer circumferential wall surface continuously connected to the fitting groove at a position closer to the first tubular body than the fitting groove in the outer wall, and gradually reduced in diameter as being away coaxially from the fitting groove, at least one rib rising from the outer circumferential wall surface of the tubular portion and extending on the outer circumferential wall surface at least from a position equal in diameter to the circumferential edge of the through hole to a radially outer end, and a locked portion disposed radially inside the rib, rising from the outer circumferential wall surface, and configured to be locked to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular body when the first tubular body is shifted relatively to the fitting body along the cylinder axis toward the second tubular body, to suppress elastic deformation of the tubular portion or reduce elastic deformation amount of the tubular portion,
the rib is shaped to enable elastic deformation of the rib in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential wall surface, and
the outer circumferential wall surface has a plurality of projection groups disposed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, each projection group being constituted by the locked portion and a plurality of the ribs disposed radially outside the locked portion.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Kiyota Hirotaka
• Kiuchi Masaru
• Onoda Takeshi

Classifications

• B60R16/0222 Primary

  Grommets · CPC title

• H01B17/583

  Grommets; Bushings · CPC title

• H01B17/586 Primary

  with strain relief arrangements · CPC title

• H02G3/22 Primary

  Installations of cables or lines through walls, floors or ceilings, e.g. into buildings · CPC title

• F16L5/00

  Devices for use where pipes, cables or protective tubing pass through walls or partitions (installations of electric cables or lines through walls, floors or ceilings H02G3/22) · CPC title