Jig for assembling wire harness

• US 5,338,014 A
• Filed: 08/13/1993
• Issued: 08/16/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitamura, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Watson, Robert C.
• Application Number:
  US08/105,943
• Time in Patent Office: 368 Days
• Field of Search: 140/92.1, 29/755, 29/850, 29/760, 324/158 F, 269/47, 269/303-305, 269/315, 269/316, 269/309, 269/310, 269/903, 269/266, 269/254 R, 269/254 CS
• US Class Current: 269/47
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01209 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0418 Covers or lids; Their fastenings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 269/903 Work holder for electrical circuit assemblages or wiring systems

Abstract

A wiring guide bar extending vertically through a protector case and projecting from the upper end thereof is vertically movably supported by an elastic member. In installing a protector cover on the protector case, the elastic member is compressed to locate the upper end of the wiring guide bar below the upper end of the protector case.

Claims

1. A jig combination for assembling a wire harness comprising a wiring guide rod and protector-fixing jig being disposed on a wiring base, said protector-fixing jig supporting a protector case, said wiring guide rod being inserted into the protector case from an opening formed in the protector case, said protector case being removably held by the protector-fixing jig, the wiring guide rod being elastically supported to project an upper end portion of the wiring guide rod from an upper surface of the protector case, said wiring guide rod being moved downward to locate the upper end of the wiring guide rod below an upper surface of the protector case when the wiring guide rod is pressed downward by a protector cover in installing the protector cover on the protector case in which electric wires of the wiring harness have been assembled.

2. The jig combination as defined in claim 1, wherein a guide cylinder and the wiring guide rod are integrated with each other, the guide cylinder being on a supporting rod so that the guide cylinder moves in sliding contact with the supporting rod, an elastic member being interposed between the wiring guide rod integrated with the guide cylinder and the supporting rod so that the elastic member urges the wiring guide rod integrated with the guide cylinder, the wiring guide rod integrated with the guide cylinder being moved downward when the wiring guide rod is pressed downward by the protector cover in installing the protector cover on the protector case.

3. The jig combination as defined in claim 2, wherein the elastic member urges the wiring guide rod upward, thus disposing the upper end of the wiring guide rod above an upper end surface of the protector case, and when the wiring guide rod is moved downward by a force applied to a protector cover in installing the protector cover on the protector case, the upper end of the wiring guide rod is positioned below an upper end surface of the protector case.

4. The jig combination as defined in claim 1, wherein a sliding guide portion is formed on the lower end of the wiring guide rod, the provision of the sliding guide portion allowing the wiring guide rod to move downward without being inclined in sliding contact with the inner peripheral surface of the guide cylinder.

5. The jig combination as defined in claim 4, wherein the upper portion of the guide cylinder includes two vertically spaced openings, said sliding guide portion of said wiring guide rod extending through the two openings, and wherein the two openings and the sliding guide portion prevent the wiring guide rod from inclining in a downward movement thereof in sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the two openings.

6. The jig combination as defined in claim 1, wherein the wiring guide rod projecting from an upper end surface of the protector case is designed to move downward by the force applied to the protector cover in installing the protector cover on the protector case, and the protector cover is installed on the protector case without removing the protector case from the protector-fixing jig.

7. A jig combination for assembling a wire harness comprising a wiring guide rod and protector-fixing jig being disposed on a wiring base, said wiring guide rod being inserted into a protector case from an opening formed in the protector case, said protector case being removably held by the protector-fixing jig, wherein the wiring guide rod is elastically supported to project an upper end portion of the wiring guide rod from an upper surface of the protector case, said wiring guide rod being moved downward to locate the upper end of the wiring guide rod below an upper surface of the protector case when the wiring guide rod is moved downward by a force applied to a protector cover in installing a protector cover on the protector case in which electric wires of the wiring harness have been assembled.