Wire harness protector with cover and adjacent U-shaped grooves

• US 5,739,470 A
• Filed: 10/19/1995
• Issued: 04/14/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Takeda, Ikuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Kristine L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cuneo, Kamand
• Application Number:
  US08/545,176
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: 174/95, 174/96, 174/97, 174/101, 174/68.1, 174/68.3, 174/98, 174/135
• US Class Current: 174/97
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0487 with a non-circular cross-section H02G3/0468, H02G3/0475 take precedence

Abstract

A wire harness protector includes a protector body having a wire harness accommodating groove which is extended along a wire harness laying line to fixedly accommodate a wire harness; and a protector cover which is engaged with the protector body in such a manner as to cover the opening of the wire harness accommodating groove. In the protector, a wire-like part accommodating groove is formed outside a side wall of the protector body which defines the wire harness accommodating groove, in such a manner that the wire-like part accommodating groove is opened towards the mounting surface of the wire harness protector to accommodate a wire-like part which is laid along the wire harness laying line.

Claims

1. A wire harness protector, to be laid along a wire harness laying line of a mounting surface while fixedly accommodating a wire harness, comprising:

a protector body having a wire harness accommodating groove, extendible along said wire harness laying line, to accommodate said wire harness;

a one-piece protector cover removably engageable with said protector body to cover an opening of said wire harness accommodating groove; and

a wire-like part accommodating groove disposed adjacent to and outside of a side wall of said protector body which defines said wire harness accommodating groove, wherein said wire-like part accommodating groove is opened towards said mounting surface to accommodate a wire-like part which is to be laid along said wire harness laying line,

wherein said wire-like part accommodating groove has locking pieces for holding said wire-like part in said wire-like part accommodating groove and

said locking pieces are disposed on said protector cover, and said protector cover has locking protrusions engageable with said protector body to retain said protector cover on said protector body, said locking protrusions being integrally formed with said locking pieces.

2. A wire harness protector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said wire-like part accommodating groove is a space which is defined by said side wall of said protector body which defines said wire harness accommodating groove and a side wall of said protector cover which covers said protector body.

3. A wire harness protector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a clamp member for fixedly securing said wire harness protector to said mounting surface, said clamp member being integrally formed with a bottom wall of said protector body.

4. A wire harness protector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said opening of said wire-harness accommodating groove is disposed opposite said side wall of said protector body.

5. A wire harness protector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protector body is substantially U-shaped in cross section.

6. A wire harness protector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protector body is substantially S-shaped in cross section, and said wire harness accommodating groove and said wire-like part accommodating groove open in opposite directions.