Wire harness mounting structure for motor vehicle door

• US 5,092,647 A
• Filed: 01/03/1990
• Issued: 03/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Shinichi, Shinba, Hiroaki, Ohtaka, Michihiro, Ichikawa, Hiroshi, Nakayama, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pedder, Dennis H.
• Application Number:
  US07/433,692
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 296/146, 296/152, 296/208, 49/167, 49/502, 174/65 G, 174/65 R, 174/153 G, 439/34
• US Class Current: 296/146.9
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0416 Assembly panels to be installed in doors as a module with components, e.g. lock or window lifter, attached thereto
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/02 Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners B60R13/01 takes precedence ; padded linings for the vehicle interior B60R21/04; arrangements or adaptations of floor mats or carpets in vehicles B60N3/04; internal lining for trains B61D17/18
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0207 Wire harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0222 Grommets

Abstract

A wire harness mounting structure for a motor vehicle door comprising a door frame and planar mounting means, detachably attached to said door frame at an internal side of its motor vehicle, having a wire harness mounted thereon and extending in a plane generally parallel to the door frame. The mounting means is either in the form of a covering board, or a combination of the covering board and an internal side board mounted between the vehicle door frame and the covering board, and, is either integrally formed with the covering board or independently, rigidly formed as in the case of an internal side board. The wire harness is terminated at the hinge mounting end of the door frame in a bundled leading-out portion which in one embodiment is fixed to the door frame by a waterproof grommet which surrounds the leading-out portion and is supported in a groove formed in the hinge mounting end of the frame at a corner portion defined by the inner side surface of the door frame and the hinge mounting end of the frame.

Claims

1. In a wiring system including a wire harness mountable on the frame of a hinge-mounted motor vehicle door and terminating at the hinge mounting end of the door frame in a bundled leading-out portion, said door frame having an inner side surface joined to a hinge mounting end which has internal and external side surfaces which with said inner side surface defines a corner portion, structure for fixing the leading-out portion of the wire harness to the hinge mounting end of said door frame comprising:

an opening formed in said inner side surface of said door frame which communicates with a groove formed in said hinge mounting end at said corner portion of said door frame, and

a waterproof grommet having first and second external flanges and an integral groove portion between said flanges dimensioned to be received in the groove formed in said hinge mounting end, said grommet surrounding said leading-out portion of the wire harness and being supported on its groove portion in the groove formed in said hinge mounting end and by said first and second flanges engaging said internal and external side surfaces, respectively, of said hinge mounting end thereby to fix the leading-out portion of the wire harness to the door frame at its hinge mounting end.