JP2005071894A - Wire evaluation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an evaluation method capable of determining quality of wiring workability of a wire harness in a short time. <P>SOLUTION: By discovering a relationship that the longer a time required for detangling of the tangle of wires produced in carrying out wiring work of a wire harness comprising wires, terminals and connectors is, the longer a damping time until the lower ends of the wires come to rest since the wires constituting the wire harness are suspended in the vertical direction, and the lower ends thereof are released from a predetermined height on the side of the wires is, and by using correlation data thereof, the quality of workability can be estimated even if evaluation by actual wiring work is not executed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for evaluating the wiring workability of a wire harness, and more particularly to an electric wire evaluation method capable of estimating whether the workability is good or bad without performing an evaluation by an actual wiring work.

  Conventionally, wire harnesses that are routed in automobiles have multiple temporary binding harnesses formed by connecting terminals to scaled wire terminals and inserting these terminals into connectors, etc., and assembling these temporary binding harnesses in sequence. By laying on the drawing board and then binding it together, it is assembled into a form that is routed to the automobile.

  For example, the wire harness 10 having the form as shown in FIG. 1 is arranged by temporarily binding the temporary binding harnesses 11, 12, and 13 divided into three parts on the assembly drawing board 14 as shown in FIG. 2. It will be completed. Usually, the temporary binding harnesses 11, 12, and 13 before the wiring work are individually carried in a ring shape as shown in FIG.

  In this case, the wiring operator first picks up the temporary binding harness 11 bundled in a ring shape, removes the band 15 and unfolds the ring, and deploys the connector 1 to the left center connector support of the assembly drawing board 14. The connector 2 is placed on the upper right connector support portion 2a by placing the wire on the portion 1a and passing the wires through the wire support portions A, B, C, D.

  Next, the temporary binding harness 12 bundled in a ring shape is picked up, the band 15 is removed, the ring is unwound and deployed, the connector 3 is placed on the connector support portion 3a, and the electric wire from the connector 3 is connected to the wire support portion. The connector 5 is placed on the connector support portion 5a by being turned through A and B, and the connector 4 is placed on the connector support portion 4a by being turned through the wire support portions A, B, C and E.

  Then, the temporary binding harness 13 bundled in a ring shape is picked up, the band 15 is removed, the ring is unrolled and deployed. First, the connector 6 is placed on the connector support portion 6a, and the electric wire from the connector 6 is supported by the electric wire. The connector 7 is placed on the connector support portion 7a while being turned through the portions B and C, and further the connector 9 is placed on the connector support portion 9a by being turned through the wire support portion E. Furthermore, the electric wire from the connector 7 is put through the electric wire support portions C and D, and the connector 8 is placed on the connector support portion 8a. The terminal 16 from the connector 6 is inserted into the connector 5 through the electric wire support B, and the terminal 17 is inserted into the connector 1 through the electric wire support B, A. Finally, the terminal 18 from the connector 7 is inserted into the connector 2 through the wire support portions C and D, and the assembly of the wire harness 10 by the wiring is completed.

JP 2001-250439 A

  The wire harness 10 is assembled in this way. However, when the operator removes and unfolds the band 15 of the temporary binding harness that is in the form of a ring, the connector or terminal of the electric wire terminal is normally provided as shown in FIG. Oscillates and the wires become tangled. In particular, unlike a simple configuration such as the temporary binding harness 11, a configuration having a large number of electric wires, terminals, and connectors as in the temporary binding harness 13 is held by holding the connector of one of the electric wire terminals in the hand. Then, the connectors and terminals of other electric wire terminals are swayed due to reaction or dropping during deployment, and the electric wires tend to be wound around each other. Moreover, the entanglement of the electric wire by this winding may occur also during the wiring work.

  Therefore, the operator performs the wiring work while untangling the electric wire due to the winding, but the time required for unraveling the entanglement is such that the connector is placed on the assembly drawing board or the electric wire is twisted. Therefore, it has been taken to the extent that it corresponds to a substantial time for performing the wiring, and it has been difficult to reduce the man-hours of the wiring work.

  In general, there are standards and evaluation tests for the evaluation of electric resistance of electric wires prototyped for development, so the performance can be quantitatively evaluated. Regarding the evaluation of whether the wiring workability of the harness is good or bad, there was no method other than performing the wiring work by actually configuring the harness using the electric wire.

  In other words, in the assembly of the wire harness, it is necessary to be able to work without tangling the wires during wiring, but until now there was no indicator of the ease of tangling of the wires and it was not possible to quantitatively evaluate the wiring. We were unable to efficiently develop a prototype of an electric wire that considered workability.

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an electric wire evaluation method capable of inferring whether workability is good or bad without performing evaluation by actual wiring work.

  The present inventor has come to the idea that entanglement due to wrapping of electric wires may occur because the electric wires of the wire harness move freely (oscillate), so various changes are made to the electric wires of the wire harness. However, the time required to unwind the wire entangled during wiring of the harness, and the time required to stand still after hanging the wire alone in the vertical direction and releasing the lower end of the wire from the predetermined height on the side of the wire. As a result of measuring and examining, a correlation was found between these two times. That is, the electric wire evaluation method according to the present invention is an evaluation method for evaluating the degree of entanglement of an electric wire that occurs when performing a wiring operation of a wire harness composed of an electric wire, a terminal, and a connector. Assess based on correlation data between the time required and the attenuation time until the lower end is released from the predetermined height on the side of the electric wire and the lower end is stopped while the electric wire used for the configuration of the wire harness is suspended in the vertical direction. Is a summary.

  According to the electric wire evaluation method having the above configuration, for example, the wiring work performance of the prototype electric wire can be obtained in advance for various electric wires without performing an evaluation by the actual wiring work of the harness using the prototype electric wire. By using the correlation data, it is possible to estimate the degree of entanglement of the wire that occurs when the harness is constructed and wired, that is, whether the wiring work is good or bad simply by measuring the decay time of the prototype wire. can do. As a result, it is possible to efficiently perform trial development of an electric wire in consideration of the wiring workability, and also to reduce the man-hours of the wiring work.

Embodiments of an electric wire evaluation method according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, the wiring work is actually performed, and the time required to release the electric wire entanglement that occurs during the wiring of the harness is measured. The form of the harness for performing the wiring work is the same as that of the temporary binding harness 13 described above, and the assembly drawing board 14 used for the wiring is also the same. For the electric wires, we used five types of electric wires with different diameters of “conductor cross-sectional areas (names) of 0.30, 0.50, 0.85, 1.25, and 2.00 mmsq (mm ² )” that have been used in the past. 13 was prepared and the wiring work on the assembly drawing board 14 was performed. The same connector and terminal were used regardless of the type of electric wire.

Next, in order to quantitatively measure the degree of ease of movement and swinging of the electric wire, the electric wire is suspended in the vertical direction and the lower end thereof is released from a predetermined height on the side of the electric wire until it is stationary ( Measure vibration time and time until shaking converges). As the electric wires to be measured, five types of electric wires having different conductor cross-sectional areas of 0.30, 0.50, 0.85, 1.25, and 2.00 mm ² as described above were used. As shown in FIG. 5, at the time of measurement, each electric wire is cut into a predetermined length (350 mm in this case), and one end 19 of the cut electric wire is sandwiched between chucks 21 and suspended in the vertical direction. Then, with the chuck portion 21a as a fulcrum, the other end 20 of the electric wire is lifted to the side of the fulcrum, and the time from when the other end 20 is released until the other end 20 completely stops at the lower position is measured. did.

  FIG. 6 is a graph of these measurement results, with the vertical axis representing the time required for solving and the horizontal axis representing the attenuation time (vibration time). A rising correlation curve 22 is shown. As can be seen from the fact that the correlation curve 22 is rising to the right, the longer the attenuation time of the electric wire used in the harness, the more the electric wire is entangled when wiring the harness composed of the electric wire. It can be seen that it takes a long time to solve. In other words, the longer the decay time, which indicates the degree of ease of movement and swinging of the wire (free movement, excessive swinging), the greater the entanglement between the wires, and as a result, It can be said that the time required for unraveling becomes longer and the wiring workability becomes worse.

  Next, the use of the correlation curve 22 in FIG. 6 will be described. When estimating the good / bad wiring workability of an electric wire whose wiring workability is unknown, for example, a prototype electric wire under development, the attenuation time G is measured by the method described above for the experimental electric wire, and the measurement is performed. By plotting the decay time G of the result on the correlation curve 22a, the time H required for solving from the point 22a is obtained.

  The time H required for the unraveling is a time corresponding to the time required for untangling when the temporary binding harness 13 is actually constructed using the prototype electric wire and the wiring work is performed. Can be guessed. That is, it is possible to estimate in a short time whether the wiring workability of the electric wire is good or bad by a simple method of measuring the attenuation time without actually carrying out the wiring work. Therefore, if this method is used, it is possible to efficiently carry out the trial development of the electric wire in consideration of the wiring workability, so that the development period of the experimental electric wire can be shortened, and as a result, This will also lead to a reduction in man-hours for wiring work at the assembly site.

  As mentioned above, although one Example of the electric wire evaluation method which concerns on this invention was described, this invention is not limited to such an Example at all, and in the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention, it can implement in various aspects. Of course. For example, the form of the harness used for the time measurement required for unraveling, the length of the wire for measuring the decay time, the position to be released, etc. are not limited to the above-described embodiments. In this case, it is possible to increase the number of wires, the number of connectors, the number of terminals, etc., and to change the length of the wire so that the length of time required for the solution is remarkably shown for each wire type. Measurements can also be changed by increasing the number of wires and shaking the lower end together, or by adding a weight to the lower end of the wire and shaking it so that the difference in attenuation time for each wire type becomes clear. It is.

It is the figure which showed schematic structure of the wire harness 10 wired on the assembly drawing board. It is the figure which showed the temporary binding harnesses 11, 12, and 13 which divided | segmented the wire harness 10 into three. It is the figure which showed the state before the wiring of the three temporary binding harnesses 11, 12, and 13 of FIG. It is the figure which showed a mode that electric wires became entangled when removing the band 15 of the temporary binding harness 13, and in the middle of performing wiring. It is the figure which showed the method of measuring the attenuation | damping time until a lower end is released from the predetermined height of the side of this electric wire, and this lower end rests while suspending an electric wire in the perpendicular direction. When the temporary binding harness 13 is laid out on the assembly drawing board 14 of FIG. 1, the time required for untangling of the electric wires and the electric wires used for the configuration of the temporary binding harness 13 are reduced by the method of FIG. It is the graph which showed the correlation with the decay time which measured until time stopped.

Explanation of symbols

1-9 Connector 1a-9a Connector support part 10 Wire harness 11, 12, 13 Temporary binding harness 14 Assembly drawing board 15 Band 16, 17, 18 Terminal 19 One end of the suspended electric wire 20 The other end of the suspended electric wire 21 Chuck 21a Chuck Part 22 Correlation curves A to E Wire support part G Prototype electric wire decay time H Prototype electric wire entanglement time

Claims (1)

An evaluation method for evaluating the degree of entanglement of an electric wire that occurs when performing wiring work of a wire harness composed of an electric wire, a terminal, and a connector, and is used for the time required for untangling the electric wire and the configuration of the wire harness An electric wire evaluation method characterized in that the electric wire is suspended in a vertical direction and evaluated based on correlation data with an attenuation time until the lower end is released from a predetermined height on the side of the electric wire and the lower end becomes stationary.

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