Wire harness routing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021151966-A1
Application number	US-201816611905-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 20, 2018
Priority date	May 10, 2017
Publication date	May 20, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A wire harness routing device has a wire harness, one end of which is connected to a slider that is slidably attached to a rail and the other end of which is drawn out from the rail, a folding guide part that curves the wire harness that is drawn out from the rail and folds it in the direction along the rail, and an accommodation part that has a bottom wall and a side wall that rises up from the side edges of the bottom wall. The wire harness has a straight line-shaped linear part that is disposed along the rail, and a curved part that is further folded back to conform to the opposed side of the folding guide part of the linear part, a slidable holding member, and a separation guide part that separates the linear part from the side wall is provided on the slidable holding member.

First claim

1 . A wire harness routing device, comprising:
a wire harness, one end of which is coupled to a slider that is slidably attached to a rail, and the other end of which is drawn out from the rail, a folding guide part, which curves the wire harness that is drawn out from the rail and folds it back in a direction along the rail, and an accommodation part, which has a bottom wall and a side wall that rises up from the side edge of said bottom wall, and accommodates the wire harness that is folded back by the folding guide part, wherein the wire harness has, inside the accommodation part, a straight line-shaped linear part that is disposed along the rail, and a curved part that is further folded in such a manner that the wire harness runs along the rail, the curved part being disposed on that side of the linear part that is opposite of the folding guide part, the accommodation part is provided with a slidable holding member that can move along the extension direction of the linear part while holding the curved part slidably along the curve direction of the curved part, and the slidable holding member is provided with a separation guide member that separates the linear part from the side wall.

2 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the slidable holding member has an outside guide wall that guides the wire harness in the curve direction, and the separation guide part is a spacer wall that extends from the outside guide wall and is positioned between the linear part of the wire harness and the side wall.

3 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a movement guide part that guides the movement of the slidable holding member in the direction along the extension direction of the linear part.

4 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein the separation guide part is disposed at a distance from the side wall.

5 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , further comprising an inclination restricting part that restricts the inclination in the direction that intersects with the bottom wall of the slidable holding member.

6 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the folding guide part has an outside curved wall that curves the wire harness in the direction along the rail, and the side wall of the accommodation part is disposed further outward than that region of the outside curved wall that is adjacent to the side wall, creating a step shape with the outside curved wall.

7 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein in the wire harness the area around the plurality of electrical wires is covered by an outer covering, and bending of the outer covering is allowed in only one direction.

8 . The wire harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein a soundproofing material is provided between the wire harness and the side wall.

Assignees

• Autonetworks Technologies Ltd
• Sumitomo Wiring Systems
• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Yamamoto Satoshi
• Higashikozono Makoto
• Sawada Hisashi
• Ohara Kazuyoshi

Classifications

• B60N2/0715

  C or U-shaped · CPC title

• H02G3/0475 Primary

  formed by a succession of articulated units · CPC title

• H02G3/0462

  Tubings, i.e. having a closed section · CPC title

• H02G11/006

  using extensible carrier for the cable, e.g. self-coiling spring (extensible conductors or cables H01B7/06) · CPC title

• B60R16/027 Primary

  between relatively movable parts of the vehicle, e.g. between steering wheel and column {(devices for measuring, signalling or controlling tyre pressure or temperature specially adapted for mounting on vehicles B60C23/00)} · CPC title