INSTALLING STRUCTURE OF WIRE HARNESS

• US 20080035800A1
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: YAMAMOTO, Masataka
• Granted Patent: US 8,201,778 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/70
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/015 using articulated- or supple-guiding elements

Abstract

An installing structure of a wire harness on a link includes a link which pivotally connects a movable structural body to a fixed structural body, a wire harness which is installed along the link so as to extend from the fixed structural body to the movable structural body, a singular first flexible protective tube through which the wire harness is slidably passed, and a fixing member which fixes the flexible protective tube to the link.

Claims

1. An installing structure of a wire harness, comprising:

a link which pivotally connects a movable structural body to a fixed structural body;

a singular first flexible protective tube through which the wire harness is slidably passed; and

a fixing member which fixes the first flexible protective tube to the link,

wherein the wire harness is installed along the link so as to extend from the fixed structural body to the movable structural body.

2. The installing structure according to claim 1, wherein at least two of the fixing members are provided on the link;

and

wherein opposite end portions of the first flexible protective tube project from the fixing members.

3. The installing structure according to claim 1, wherein a part of the wire harness derived from the first flexible protective tube is passed through a second flexible protective tube disposed at the movable structural body.

4. The installing structure according to claim 1, wherein the first flexible protective tube has a bent portion formed at an intermediate part of the first flexible protective tube in a longitudinal direction thereof;

and

wherein the wire harness is bent along a bending inner-side surface of the bent portion with a bending radius larger than that of the bent portion.

5. The installing structure according to claim 4, wherein the two bent portions which are bended in opposite directions to each other are formed at the intermediate part of the first flexible protective tube;

and

wherein drain holes are formed respectively in bending outer-side surfaces of the two bent portions.

6. The installing structure according to claim 1, wherein the first flexible protective tube is a corrugated tube made of a synthetic resin.