Harness routing structure

• US 7,284,785 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2006
• Issued: 10/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Adachi, Masatoshi, Gotou, Jouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Kiran B.
• Application Number:
  US11/432,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20060267380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 296/155, 493/60, 491/20, 174/72.A, 174/135, 174/72.C, 174/69
• US Class Current: 296/155
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0475 formed by a succession of articulated units

Abstract

A harness routing structure for a sliding door includes harnesses that are routed between a vehicle body and a sliding door, and a guiding device that is provided along the harnesses and that guides the harnesses, wherein the guiding device has at the ends thereof installation portions that are respectively installed on the vehicle body and the sliding door, and a torsion-permitting portion for permitting twisting of the harnesses is provided along the harnesses in the installation portions.

Claims

1. A harness routing structure for a sliding door, comprising:

harnesses that are routed between a vehicle body and a sliding door; and

a guiding device that is provided along the harnesses and that guides the harnesses, wherein

the guiding device has at the ends thereof installation portions that are respectively installed on the vehicle body and the sliding door, and

a torsion-permitting portion for permitting twisting of the harnesses is provided along the harnesses in the installation portions.

2. The harness routing structure according to claim 1, wherein the guiding device comprises at one end a first installation portion installed on the vehicle body and at the other end a second installation portion installed on the sliding door.

3. The harness routing structure according to claim 1, wherein the torsion-permitting portion is formed in a vertical direction.

4. The harness routing structure according to claim 1, wherein the torsion-permitting portion is molded by dies in such a manner that an extraction direction of the dies is set along the harnesses.