Flat circuit member-installing structure

• US 6,846,990 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2003
• Issued: 01/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Mori, Toshiaki, Ishikawa, Akihiro, Kisu, Naomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Reichard, Dean A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE, JINHEE J
• Application Number:
  US10/378,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20030169576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 174/138.E, 174/68.1, 174/72.A, 174/135, 174/255, 174/98, 174/97
• US Class Current: 174/138.00E
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0215 Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0487 with a non-circular cross-section H02G3/0468, H02G3/0475 take precedence

Abstract

An installation vertical groove (13) is formed in a circuit member-installing surface (12) of a resin-molded panel (11). Then, a flat circuit member (14) is inserted into the installation vertical groove, so that the flat circuit member is installed in such a manner that this flat circuit member stands in a direction perpendicular to the circuit member-installing surface. The installation vertical groove has opposed surfaces which are spaced from each other by a distance, corresponding to a thickness of the flat circuit member and are disposed perpendicularly to the circuit member-installing surface, and this installation vertical groove is formed to be disposed below the circuit member-installing surface.

Claims

1. A flat circuit member-installing structure for installing a flat circuit member at a resin-molded panel comprising:

the resin-mold panel defining a circuit member-installing surface; and

vertical installation means formed at the circuit member-installing surface for installing the flat circuit member therein in such a manner that the flat circuit member stands in a direction perpendicular to the circuit member-installing surface.

2. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 1, wherein the vertical installation means is an installation vertical groove having-opposed surfaces which are spaced from each other by a distance substantially corresponding to a thickness of the flat circuit member and are disposed perpendicularly to the circuit member-installing surface.

3. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 2, wherein a retaining projection for preventing the withdrawal of the flat circuit member from the installation vertical groove is formed integrally on the installation vertical groove.

4. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 2, wherein a holding projection for reducing a gap between the opposed surface of the installation vertical groove and the flat circuit member is formed integrally on the installation vertical groove portion.

5. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 2, wherein a path formed by the installation vertical groove is meandering when viewed from the top.

6. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 1, wherein the flat circuit member kept standing in the perpendicular direction has a generally straight shape or a generally V-shape when viewed in a transverse cross-section of the flat circuit member.

7. A flat circuit member-installing structure for installing a flat circuit member at a resin-molded panel comprising:

the flat circuit member including a plurality of wires juxtaposed in a row in an integral manner;

the resin-molded panel defining a circuit member-installing surface; and

a groove defined by opposed side surfaces substantially perpendicular to the circuit member-installing surface, and a groove bottom portion, wherein depth from the circuit member-installing surface to the groove bottom portion is equal to or larger than a width of the flat circuit member defined by the plurality of wires, and gap between the opposed side surfaces is smaller than the width of the flat circuit member so that when the flat circuit member is installed in the groove, the flat circuit member stands on the groove bottom portion.

8. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 7, wherein the gap between the opposed side surfaces is set substantially equal to thickness of the flat circuit member.

9. A flat circuit member-installing structure for installing a flat circuit member at a resin-molded panel comprising:

the flat circuit member including a plurality of wires juxtaposed in a row in an integral manner;

the resin-molded panel defining a circuit member-installing surface;

a groove defined by opposed side surfaces substantially perpendicular to the circuit member-installing surface, and a groove bottom portion,

wherein the flat circuit member is installed in the groove in such a manner that the flat circuit member is bent along the wires in V-shape in the cross section, and a bent portion of the flat circuit member is disposed at a side of the groove bottom portion.

10. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 9, wherein depth from the circuit member-installing surface to the groove bottom portion is equal to or larger than a half of width of the flat circuit member defined by the plurality of wires.

11. The flat circuit member-installing structure according to claim 9, wherein opposite side edge portions of the flat circuit member in width direction act on the opposed side surfaces, respectively, thereby preventing the withdrawal of the flat circuit member from the groove.