Method of connecting wire harness for automobile vehicle

• US 4,800,648 A
• Filed: 11/30/1987
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Shinichi, Nakayama, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Arbes, Carl J.
• Application Number:
  US07/126,718
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 29/854, 29/857, 29/869, 29/858, 49/502, 174/72 A, 296/196, 439/34, 439/209, 439/210, 439/213, 439/214
• US Class Current: 29/854
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0413 Inner panel, e.g. characterised by carrying components
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0207 Wire harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49169 Assembling electrical component directly to terminal or elongated conductor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49174 Assembling terminal to elongated conductor

Abstract

To facilitate wiring work of electric devices housed within an automotive vehicle door via a wire harness, connector windows are formed in the trim cover; the wire harness is fixed to the inside of the trim cover by inserting the harness connectors into the connector windows; electric device connectors are fixed to the door frame at positions corresponding to the connector windows; the trim cover is fixed to the door frame by inserting the electric device connectors into the connector windows side by side with the harness connectors; and the electric device connectors and the harness connectors are connected, respectively, from outside the trim cover.

Claims

1. A method of connecting a wire harness disposed between a door frame and a trim cover to at least one electric device housed in an automotive vehicle door, which comprises the following steps of:

(a) forming at least one connector window in the trim cover;

(b) fixing the wire harness to inside the trim cover by inserting at least one harness connector connected to the wire harness into the connector window;

(c) fixing at least one electric device connector connected to the electric device to the door frame at a position corresponding to the connector window;

(d) fixing the trim cover to the door frame by inserting the electric device connector into the connector window side by side with the harness connector; and

(e) connecting the electric device connector with the harness connector from outside the trim cover.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electric device connector is flexibly fixed to the door frame and bendable after having been inserted into the connector window formed in the trim cover.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the electric device connector is bent 90 degrees and connected with the wire harness connector with a connection direction perpendicular to a surface of the trim cover.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the electric device connector is bent 90 degrees and connected with the wire harness connector with a connection direction parallel to a surface of the trim cover.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the electric device connector is bent 90 degrees and slidably connected with printed circuit board conductors of the wire harness connector with a connection direction parallel to a surface of the trim cover.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the electric device connector is fixedly secured to the door frame in a connection direction perpendicular to a surface of the trim cover and the harness connector is inserted into the connector window in a connection direction also perpendicular to the surface of the trim cover.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the electric device connector and the harness connector are connected by a shorting connector cover having two connector boxes fittable to each of the electric device connector and the harness connector, and shorting conductors.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the electric device connector and the harness connector are connected by wires.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the electric device connector and the harness connector are connected by a flat wire harness.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the electric device connector and the harness connector are connected by bus bars.