Wire harness manufacturing device

• US 9,396,844 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2013
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Masataka, Uehara, Takehiko, Murakami, Yoshihiro, Sora, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): ARBES, CARL J
• Application Number:
  US13/912,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20130269182A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0207 Wire harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/012 for manufacturing wire harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01227 using a layout board
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53243 Multiple, independent conductors

Abstract

To reduce the total stock of external parts in an assembling factory of a wire harness and to provide a wire harness manufacturing device including a wiring board that wires a plurality of electric wires and a molding machine that forms external parts attached to the plurality of electric wires in the assembling factory of the wire harness, a wire harness manufacturing device 1 includes a molding machine 2 that forms external parts 31, 32, 33, 35 and 44 attached to a wire harness 20 and a wiring board 3 having a binding device that wires a plurality of electric wires 40 to a prescribed form.

Claims

1. A wire harness manufacturing method that manufactures a wire harness by a wire harness manufacturing device, wherein the wire harness manufacturing device comprises a molding machine that forms an external part to be attached to the wire harness and a wiring board that wires a plurality of electric wires to a prescribed form, the wire harness manufacturing method comprising:

forming an external part to be attached to the wire harness by the molding machine;

wiring a plurality of electric wires to a prescribed form, in the wiring board.

2. The wire harness manufacturing method according to claim 1, further comprising attaching the external part to the wire harness.

3. The wire harness manufacturing method according to claim 1, further comprising integrally forming the external part with an electric wire of the wire harness by the molding machine;

and

wherein the plurality of electric wires along with the electric wire integrally formed with external part are wired to the prescribed form, in the wiring board.

4. The wire harness manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein

the wiring board travels on a travel passage, and

the molding machine is provided along the travel passage.