Wire harness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9511724-B2
Application number	US-201214125682-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2012
Priority date	Sep 22, 2011
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A purpose is, in the case where a nonwoven member is hot pressed around a wire harness to form a protective member, to inhibit rotation of a vehicle body fixing component attached to the protective member while making a cross-sectional shape of the protective member as circular as possible. The wire harness includes a wire harness body containing at least one electric wire and a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness body. The protective member has a protective member that is formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape and a flat surface forming part that has a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery.

First claim

Scope of the claims:

1. A wire harness, comprising:
a wire harness body that contains at least one electric wire;
a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member covering at least a portion of the wire harness body, the protective member including a protective body and a flat surface forming part, the protective body being formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape, the flat surface forming part having a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery of the flat surface forming part, wherein
a diameter of the protective member is equal to a width of the flat surface in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the wire harness body;
a vehicle body fixing component having a long and thin attachment plate, and the vehicle body fixing component including a vehicle body fixing part, wherein the vehicle body fixing component is attached in a condition in which the attachment plate is brought into surface-contact with the flat surface; and
the vehicle body fixing part being attached to the flat surface, the vehicle body fixing part including an engaging lock part having a free end and configured to be inserted into an attaching hole of a vehicle body, and the vehicle body fixing part including a dish-shaped part positioned vertically between the flat surface and the engaging lock part,
wherein the engaging lock part is centered on the longitudinal axis of the wire harness,
wherein, in a direction extending towards the free end of the engaging lock part, the dish-shaped part is tapered outwardly; and
wherein the width of the flat surface is equal to a width of the attachment plate.

2. The wire harness according claim 1 , wherein
a length dimension of the flat surface in a longitudinal direction of the protective member corresponds to a length of the attachment plate.

3. The wire harness according claim 1 , wherein
the flat surface is formed in a shape that indicates an attachment orientation of the vehicle body fixing component that is attached to the flat surface forming part.

4. A wire harness, comprising:
a wire harness body that contains at least one electric wire; and
a protective member that is formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member covering at least a portion of the wire harness body, the protective member including a protective body and a flat surface forming part, the protective body being formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape, the flat surface forming part having a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery of the flat surface forming part, wherein
the flat surface has two ends in a longitudinal direction formed in a non-symmetrical shape so as to indicate an attachment posture of a vehicle body fixing component to be attached to the flat surface forming part,
the vehicle body fixing component having a long and thin attachment plate and including a vehicle body fixing part, wherein the vehicle body fixing component is attached in a condition in which the attachment plate is brought into surface-contact with the flat surface, and wherein
a width of the flat surface, in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the wire harness body, is equal to a width of the attachment plate.

5. The wire harness according claim 4 , wherein
a length dimension of the flat surface in a longitudinal direction of the protective member corresponds to a length of the attachment plate.

Assignees

• Mizuhira Takeshi
• Shirafuji Yukihiro
• Hamamoto Isamu
• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• Mizuhira Takeshi
• Shirafuji Yukihiro
• Hamamoto Isamu

Classifications

• B60R16/0215 Primary

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title

• H02G3/0462

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

• H02G3/34

  using separate protective tubing · CPC title

• H02G3/30

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