Wire-harness routing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9381876-B2
Application number	US-201013810017-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2010
Priority date	Jul 16, 2010
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

The wiring-harness routing device 1 includes two wiring harness 10 , a support body 3 mounted slidably at a rail 2 and supporting a seat, and a protector 4 sliding interlockingly with the support body 3 and leading the two wiring harnesses 10 to the seat. The protector 4 includes a pair of wiring-harness hold portion 43 holding the two wiring harnesses 10 led through an opening 20 into the rail 2 to be arranged in parallel; a lead portion arranged between the pair of wiring-harness hold portions 43 , and passing the two wiring harnesses 10 therethrough, and extending with a cylindrical shape so as to go through the slit and be led to an outside of the rail 2 ; and a mount portion 68 attached at the support body 3 so as to have a gap allowing motion in the widthwise direction of the rail 2.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wiring-harness routing device, which routes a wiring harness between a car body and a slide body, comprising:
a long-cylindrical rail fixed at the car body and having an opening provided at one end in a lengthwise direction of the rail;
a support body provided slidably at the rail and supporting the slide body;
a slit opening at a top surface of the rail;
a protector sliding interlockingly with the support body, and holding the wiring harness led from the opening into the rail and leading the wiring harness through the slit toward an outside of the rail; and
a receiving section receiving an extra length of the wiring harness led out from the opening, wherein two wiring harnesses are arranged as the wiring harness, and the protector comprises:
a pair of wiring-harness hold members positioned in the rail and holding the two wiring harnesses to be arranged in parallel to each other along a widthwise direction of the rail;
a lead member arranged between the pair of wiring-harness hold members, and passing electric wires of the two wiring harnesses therethrough, and extending with a cylindrical shape along a height direction of the rail so as to go through the slit and be led to an outside of the rail; and
a mount member coupling the support body to the protector with a gap therebetween to allow motion of the protector in the widthwise direction of the rail relative to the support body.

2. The wiring-harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein the support body comprises a pair of projections arranged at an interval to each other along the widthwise direction of the rail, and projecting along the height direction of the rail; and the mount member comprises a pair of U-shape hooks arranged at an interval to each other along the widthwise direction of the rail so as to make openings of the hooks face each other, wherein a distance between each surface of the pair of hooks facing each other is formed larger than a distance between outer surfaces of the pair of projections; and each of the pair of projections is positioned inside each of the pair of hooks so as to arrange the protector at the support body movably in the widthwise direction of the rail.

3. The wiring-harness routing device according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving section is provided with a first receiving section curving the two wiring harnesses led from the opening of the rail into a U-shape to keep it in parallel, and a second receiving section curving furthermore the two wiring harnesses, which are curved into a U-shape by the first receiving section, into a U-shape to keep them in parallel.

4. The wiring-harness routing device according to claim 3 , wherein the first receiving section includes a partition wall arranged between the two wiring harnesses.

Assignees

• Terada Tomoyasu
• Sekino Tsukasa
• Iwahara Seiji
• Yokoyama Masaki
• Kato Shinji
• Sato Fumiaki
• Sakakibara Yasuhiro
• Takenaka Yasunori
• Araki Toshio
• Ishimaru Ryuya
• Kaisaku Tetsuya
• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Terada Tomoyasu
• Sekino Tsukasa
• Iwahara Seiji
• Yokoyama Masaki
• Kato Shinji
• Sato Fumiaki
• Sakakibara Yasuhiro
• Takenaka Yasunori
• Araki Toshio
• Ishimaru Ryuya
• Kaisaku Tetsuya

Classifications

• B60R16/0215 Primary

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · 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

• H02G11/00

  Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts · CPC title