Battery wire lead management

• US 6,489,561 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2001
• Issued: 12/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Manganese, Michael, Ziegler, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinkins, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): WALKENHORST, DAVID W
• Application Number:
  US09/772,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20020100603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 174/72.A, 174/68.1, 174/71.R, 174/72.C, 174/65.R, 174/65.G, 174/50.6, 174/96, 174/135, 138/177, 138/178
• US Class Current: 174/72.00A
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/062 for AC powered loads

Abstract

Embodiment of the present invention relates to a wire harness assembly that includes a guide housing and a plurality of battery wires that pass through the guide housing, wherein the guide housing is contained and reciprocates within a tunnel formed on a chassis of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

Claims

1. An assembly to provide battery wire lead management in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprising:

a chassis having a tunnel;

a wire harness assembly that includes

a guide housing constructed and arranged to reciprocate in the tunnel, the guide housing having a body with a cavity that opens at each end of the body to receive at least one battery wire; and

a plurality of battery wires passing through the cavity of the body of the guide housing.

2. The assembly as in claim 1, further comprising at least one latch located at one end of the body.

3. The assembly as in claim 1, further comprising a stopper located at one end of the body.

4. The assembly as in claim 3, wherein a portion of the stopper is formed as a handle.

5. The assembly as in claim 1, wherein:

the chassis has a channel; and

the guide housing has at least one protrusion formed on the body of the guide housing to facilitate travel of the guide housing through the channel of the chassis.

6. The assembly as in claim 1, wherein the guide housing is molded onto the wires.

7. The assembly as in claim 1, wherein the guide housing snaplocks over the wires.

8. The assembly as in claim 1, wherein the battery wires are immobile within the guide housing.

9. The assembly as in claim 1, further comprising:

a first connector attached to one end of a first battery wire of the plurality of battery wires; and

a second connector attached to one end of a second battery wire of the plurality of battery wires.

10. The assembly as in claim 9, wherein the guide housing includes the first connector and the second connector.

11. The assembly as in claim 9 further comprising:

a battery connected to the first and second connector.

12. The assembly as in claim 1, wherein the tunnel is adjacent to a battery compartment.

13. An assembly to provide battery wire lead management in a chassis of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprising:

a wire harness assembly that includes

a guide housing having a body with a cavity and having a plurality of battery wires passing through the cavity of the body of the guide housing; and

means for receiving and allowing the guide housing to reciprocate in the chassis.

14. The assembly as in claim 13, further comprising:

means for latching the guide housing onto the receiving means.

15. A method for providing a battery wire lead management in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) having a chassis comprising:

providing a wire harness assembly that includes

a guide housing having a body with a cavity that opens at each end of the body to receive at least one battery wire, and

a plurality of battery wires passing through the cavity of the body of the guide housing; and

forming a tunnel in the chassis, the tunnel being configured to receive the guide housing and allow the guide housing to reciprocate within the tunnel.

16. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

latching the guide housing to the tunnel using at least one latch on one end of the body; and

forming a stopper at another end of the body of the guide housing.

17. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

forming a channel in the chassis; and

forming at least one protrusion on the body of the guide housing to facilitate the guide housing in traveling through the channel of the chassis.

18. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

molding the guide housing onto the battery wires.

19. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

providing snaplocks on the guide housing to snaplock the guide housing onto the battery wires.

20. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

immobilizing the battery wires within the guide housing.

21. The method as in claim 15, further comprising:

attaching a first connector to one end of a first battery wire; and

attaching a second connector to one end of a second battery wire.

22. The method as in claim 21 further comprising:

connecting a battery to the first and second connectors.

23. The method as in claim 22, further comprising:

forming a handle on the guide housing that is used as a leverage to connect the battery to at least one of the first and second connectors.