Wire harness with a reference mark for an attachment orientation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11600406-B2
Application number	US-202117482654-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2021
Priority date	Sep 24, 2020
Publication date	Mar 7, 2023
Grant date	Mar 7, 2023

Abstract

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique that can prevent, in a wire harness including a fixing member, the fixing member from being attached in a deviated orientation. A wire harness includes: a wiring member; a fixing member provided on the wiring member; and a first reference mark and a second reference mark that are each provided at a position of the wiring member that corresponds to the fixing member. The first reference mark and the second reference mark each have a distinctive external appearance in a circumferential direction of the wiring member. The first reference mark indicates a reference position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, and the second reference mark indicates a position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, the position serving as a reference for an attachment orientation of the fixing member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wire harness comprising:
a wiring member;
a fixing member provided on the wiring member; and
a first reference mark and a second reference mark that are each provided at a position of the wiring member that corresponds to the fixing member,
wherein the first reference mark and the second reference mark each have a distinctive external appearance in a circumferential direction of the wiring member,
the first reference mark indicates a reference position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, and
the second reference mark indicates a position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, the position serving as a reference for an attachment orientation of the fixing member.

2. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first reference mark and the second reference mark also has a distinctive external appearance in a longitudinal direction of the wiring member.

3. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein the fixing members are provided at a plurality of positions spaced apart along a longitudinal direction of the wiring member, and
both the first reference mark and the second reference mark are provided at positions respectively corresponding to the plurality of the fixing members.

4. The wire harness according to claim 3 , wherein the plurality of the first reference marks are provided at positions in the same phase along the circumferential direction of the wiring member.

5. The wire harness according to claim 4 , wherein a reference line mark extending along the longitudinal direction of the wiring member is provided on the wiring member at a position in the same phase as the plurality of the first reference marks.

6. The wire harness according to claim 3 , wherein the plurality of the fixing members are attached in the same orientation relative to the respective corresponding second reference marks.

7. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein a reference plane is set on the wiring member, and
the first reference mark is provided at a position that is based on the reference plane.

8. The wire harness according to claim 7 , wherein the wiring member includes a branching portion that branches into two branch line portions from an end portion of a main line portion, and
a plane including an extension direction of the main line portion and extension directions of the two branch line portions at the branching portion is set as the reference plane.

9. The wire harness according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a clip fixed to the wiring member,
wherein the clip is formed so as to be able to be inserted into and locked to a hole formed in an attachment target, and
a plane orthogonal to an insertion direction of the clip is set as the reference plane.

10. The wire harness according to claim 7 , wherein the wiring member includes a bent path restriction portion restricted so as to form a path that is planarly bent from a first direction toward a second direction, and
a plane including the first direction and the second direction is set as the reference plane.

11. The wire harness according to claim 7 , wherein the first reference mark is provided at a position of an intersection point between a plane passing through a center of the wiring member and parallel or orthogonal to the reference plane, and an outer surface of the wiring member.

12. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein the first reference mark and the second reference mark have colors different from each other.

13. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring member includes a first wire for an ABS sensor, a second wire for an EPB, and a sheath provided around the first wire and the second wire, and
the first reference mark and the second reference mark are provided on an outer surface of the sheath.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• Nakamura Yoshinori
• Kim Kyungwoo
• Kobayashi Toshinari
• Asano Futa
• Terasaka Yukitoshi
• Iwashita Takaki

Classifications

• H01B7/361 Primary

  being the colour of the insulation or conductor · CPC title

• B60R16/0207 Primary

  Wire harnesses · CPC title

• B60R16/0215

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title

• H02G3/30 Primary

  Installations of cables or lines on walls, floors or ceilings · CPC title

• H01B7/40

  with arrangements for facilitating mounting or securing · CPC title