Wire harness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9824792-B2
Application number	US-201515518750-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 9, 2015
Priority date	Oct 30, 2014
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A wiring harness has a waterproof structure in which a waterproof agent covers a conductor exposed portion-and outer peripheral surfaces of end portions of wire covering members of a plurality of insulated wires in succession, the portion including a splice portion where portions of the members of the insulated wires are removed and the exposed conductors are spliced together and a bundle of the exposed conductors of the insulated wires, the end portions being adjacent to the portion, whereby the portion is sealed with the waterproof agent, wherein the waterproof agent is a cured product of an ultraviolet curable adhesive agent that contains (A) an ester acrylate having a linear or branched C2-C12 alkyl group, (B) a (meth)acrylate compound comprising at least two urethane bonds in one molecule, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wiring harness comprising a waterproof structure in which a waterproof agent covers a conductor exposed portion and outer peripheral surfaces of end portions of wire covering members of a plurality of insulated wires in succession in a conductor portion where portions of the wire covering members of the plurality of insulated wires are removed to expose the conductors, the conductor exposed portion comprising a bundle of the exposed conductors of the plurality of insulated wires and a splice portion where the conductors of the plurality of insulated wires are spliced, the end portions of the wire covering members being adjacent to the conductor exposed portion, whereby the conductor exposed portion is sealed with the waterproof agent,
wherein the waterproof agent comprises a cured product of an ultraviolet curable adhesive agent that comprises (A) an ester acrylate having a linear or branched C2-C12 alkyl group, (B) a (meth)acrylate compound comprising at least two urethane bonds in one molecule, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator,
wherein the content of (A) the ester acrylate having the linear or branched C2-C12 alkyl group is 20 to 70 mass % with respect to the total mass of curable compounds in the ultraviolet curable adhesive agent, and
wherein the cured product has stickiness.

2. The wiring harness according to claim 1 , wherein (A) the ester acrylate having the linear or branched C2-C12 alkyl group in the ultraviolet curable adhesive agent of the waterproof agent comprises at least one kind selected from the group consisting of ethyl acrylate, isopropyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, isobutyl acrylate, n-pentyl acrylate, isopentyl acrylate, t-pentyl acrylate, n-octyl acrylate, isooctyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, n-nonyl acrylate, isononyl acrylate, n-decyl acrylate, isodecyl acrylate, 2-propyl heptyl acrylate, and n-lauryl acrylate.

3. The wiring harness according to claim 2 , wherein the ultraviolet curable adhesive agent of the waterproof agent has a viscosity before cured within the range of 0.1 Pa·s to 30 Pa·s.

4. The wiring harness according to claim 3 ,
wherein the wire covering member of at least one insulated wire among the plurality of insulated wires comprises a semi-hard or soft vinyl chloride resin comprising a polyvinyl chloride and a plasticizer.

5. The wiring harness according to claim 2 ,
wherein the wire covering member of at least one insulated wire among the plurality of insulated wires comprises a semi-hard or soft vinyl chloride resin comprising a polyvinyl chloride and a plasticizer.

6. The wiring harness according to claim 1 , wherein the ultraviolet curable adhesive agent of the waterproof agent has a viscosity before cured within the range of 0.1 Pa·s to 30 Pa·s.

7. The wiring harness according to claim 1 ,
wherein the wire covering member of at least one insulated wire among the plurality of insulated wires comprises a semi-hard or soft vinyl chloride resin comprising a polyvinyl chloride and a plasticizer.

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Nakashima Kazuo
• Hosokawa Takehiro
• Hase Tatsuya
• Ito Kenji
• Mizoguchi Makoto

Classifications

• C09J133/08

  Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters · CPC title

• C09J133/14

  of esters containing halogen, nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen atoms in addition to the carboxy oxygen · CPC title

• H01R4/70

  Insulation of connections (end caps H01R4/22) · CPC title

• H01B3/447

  from acrylic compounds · CPC title

• C09D151/08

  grafted on to macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title