FIXING CABLE TIE

• US 20190277429A1
• Filed: 03/07/2019
• Published: 09/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: SHINBA, Minoru, SUGIYAMA, Yuichi, KYOGOKU, Masanori
• Granted Patent: US 10,641,416 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/137 and consisting of a flexible band
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/233 by means of a flexible band
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/32 using mounting clamps

Abstract

A fixing cable tie binds electric cables and fixes the electric cables to a mounting plate. The fixing cable tie includes a pair of elastic pieces and a pair of cable ties. The elastic pieces serve as a locking section for fixing the electric cables to the mounting plate, and elastically deform inward by external urging to shrink in diameter. The pair of cable ties binds the electric cables. The pair of cable ties (first cable tie section and second cable tie section) is joined respectively to the pair of elastic pieces.

Claims

1. A fixing cable tie for binding an electric cables and fixing the electric cables to a mounting plate, the fixing cable tie comprising:

a pair of elastic pieces serving as a locking section for fixing the electric cables to the mounting plate and configured to elastically deform inward by external urging to shrink in diameter; and

a pair of cable ties configured to bind the electric cables, wherein

the pair of cable ties is joined respectively to the pair of elastic pieces.

2. The fixing cable tie according to claim 1, wherein

the pair of cable ties is joined respectively to the pair of elastic pieces such that a wiring direction of the bound electric cables is orthogonal to a direction in which the pair of elastic pieces elastically deforms.

3. The fixing cable tie according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pair of joining pieces configured to join the pair of cable ties respectively to the pair of elastic pieces; and

a pair of contact pieces on the pair of joining pieces, wherein

the pair of joining pieces is in contact with each other,

each of the pair of joining pieces is extended from an end of each of the pair of elastic pieces in a direction away from a point of contact between one of the pair of elastic pieces and another of the pair of elastic pieces, and

the pair of contact pieces on the pair of joining pieces is elastically brought into contact with an obverse surface of the mounting plate in a state where the locking section is mounted to the mounting plate.

4. The fixing cable tie according to claim 1, wherein

the pair of cable ties includes a pair of ties,

each of the pair of ties includes an engagement groove,

the pair of ties are joined respectively to the pair of elastic pieces, and

a direction in which the engagement groove on one of the pair of ties protrudes is opposite to a direction in which the engagement groove on another of the pair of ties protrudes.

5. The fixing cable tie according to claim 1, further comprising:

a shaft section; and

a pushing piece on an upper portion of the shaft section, wherein

the pair of elastic pieces is joined to a lower portion of the shaft section so as to be elastically deformable, and is arranged so as to flank the shaft section from both sides with a space therebetween.

6. The fixing cable tie according to claim 5, wherein

an upper surface of the pushing piece serves as a pushing surface that is perpendicular to the shaft section.

7. The fixing cable tie according to claim 5, further comprising

one or more cable ties joined to the pushing piece and configured to bind other electric cables.

8. The fixing cable tie according to claim 7, wherein

the cable ties joined to the elastic pieces and the cable ties joined to the pushing piece are extended in directions according to respective directions of intersecting electric cable bundles to be bound by the cable ties.

9. The fixing cable tie according to claim 1, wherein

each of the pair of elastic pieces has a step section,

the step sections are on respective ends of the pair of elastic pieces,

the pair of elastic pieces is in contact with each other, and

a cross-sectional shape of the locking section gradually expands in diameter from a point of contact between one and another of the pair of elastic pieces and shrinks in diameter at each of the pair of step sections.