Harness wiring apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9308833-B2
Application number	US-99884909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2009
Priority date	Dec 16, 2008
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

A harness wiring apparatus wires a harness between a floor of a car and a seat, which is supported by a supporting member mounted at a long-tube-shaped support rail fixed at the floor. The harness wiring apparatus 1 A includes a slider 10 holding the harness 4 , which is led through an opening arranged at one end 7 a in a direction of lengthwise of the support rail 7 into the support rail 7 , and sliding interlockingly with the seat and the supporting member 11 , and leading the harness 4 out of the support rail 7 through a slit 75 arranged at the support rail to the seat; and a receiving section 8 arranged in parallel to the support rail 7 , and receiving an extra-length of the harness 4 , which is led to an outside of the support rail 7 and folded to U-shape.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A harness wiring apparatus wiring a harness between a car body and a slide body, comprising:
a long-tube-shaped support rail, fixed at the car body and provided with an opening at one end in a lengthwise direction thereof and a slit from the one end to the other end in the direction thereof;
a supporting body supporting the slide body; and arranged slidably at the support rail;
a holding member holding the harness and sliding interlockingly with the slide body and the supporting body,
wherein one end of the harness is led from the opening of the support rail into the support rail and further led from the support rail into the holding member to be terminated at the slide body;

an elongated receiving section receiving an extra-length of the harness,
wherein the receiving section is arranged along a widthwise direction of the support rail and in parallel to the support rail; and

a guide member disposed in a state being fixed to one end of the support rail between the opening of the support rail and the receiving section, and configured to guide the extra-length of the harness, the one end of the harness being made linearly moveable along the support rail in a state held by the holding member,
wherein the extra-length of the harness is bent into U-shape in conformity with a shape of the guiding member and is received in the receiving section which is bent into another U-shape with the extra-length of the harness led in a direction parallel to the harness disposed in the support rail, and
wherein a pair of spaces are provided at both sides of the slit in the support rail, and the harness is received in at least one of the pair of spaces.

2. The harness wiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving section is provided as a different part from the support rail.

3. The harness wiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the holding member includes a plurality of harness hold members holding the harness, and a plurality of harnesses is arranged in parallel to each other therein.

4. The harness wiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a slider mounted at the supporting body and arranged slidably at the support rail is provided as the holding member.

5. The harness wiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the support rail and the receiving section are separately formed, and spaced apart from each other.

6. The harness wiring apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving section comprises:
a parallel portion arranged in parallel to the support rail so as to receive the extra-length of the harness, which is led through the opening of the support rail toward the outside of the support rail; and
a connecting portion arranged continuously to the parallel portion so as to guide the extra-length of the harness, which is led through the opening of the support rail toward the outside of the support rail, to the parallel portion,
wherein the parallel portion and the connecting portion are made integrally of synthetic resin.

Assignees

• Sekino Tsukasa
• Terada Tomoyasu
• Katou Shinji
• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Sekino Tsukasa
• Terada Tomoyasu
• Katou Shinji

Classifications

• B60N2/0705 Primary

  omega-shaped · CPC title

• B60N2/071

  T-shaped · CPC title

• B60R16/027

  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

• B60N2002/0264

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60N2/0715

  C or U-shaped · CPC title