JP2005318767A - Grip for locking wiring harness to vehicle body - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the attachment/detachment work of a grip, and improve the reusability of the grip. <P>SOLUTION: The grip is constituted such that: the grip is provided with a base material 11 attached to a wiring harness and an locking material 31 having a vehicle body locking part 33; positioning parts 17 are protrusively arranged so as to protrude from both ends of the base material 11; an attachment/detachment part 21 is formed on the surface of the grip; flexible frames 24 of feather shapes are formed at both right and left sides of the attachment/detachment part 21; the flexible 24 frame has locking recesses 26 at its external side, and a pair of operation pieces 25 formed by making both ends of the base side of the feather-shaped frame protrude; the locking material 31 has both sidewalls 34 at parts lower than both sides of the a base plate 32; locking protrusions 35 are arranged on the internal faces of the both sidewalls 34 so as to protrude therefrom, and engaging protrusions 36 are formed at lower ends of the walls to be slidably outwardly fitted in the positioning parts 17; the locking protrusions 35 of the locking material 31 are locked to the locking recesses 26 of the attachment/detachment part 21; the locking recesses 26 are disengaged form the locking protrusions 35 when the right and left operating pieces 25 are operated in poximate directions; and the base material 11 and the locking material 31 can be connected and separated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clip for locking a wire harness body, and in particular, enables the wire harness to be easily detached from the vehicle body when the vehicle is scrapped after the wire harness is fixed to the vehicle body via the clip.

The clip for wire harness vehicle body locking is used for positioning and fixing a wire harness routed in an automobile at a predetermined position of the vehicle body, and generally, a band clip having a band portion wound around a group of wires, There is a board-type clip provided with a board portion to be wound around a wire group.
In these conventional clips, like the band clip 1 shown in FIG. 8, the wire harness attaching portion 2 and the vehicle body engaging portion 3 are integrally formed. The vehicle body engaging portion 3 is the upper surface of the wire harness attaching portion 2. A shaft portion 3a is erected, and a vane portion 3b for locking the vehicle body is folded back and formed, and a plate portion 3c is formed at the base end portion of the shaft portion 3a.

However, when the band clip 1 is fixed to the through hole H of the vehicle body, the blade portion 3b is inserted into the through hole H and locked, so that the band clip 1 is in a state of being killed. Therefore, when it is necessary to remove the clip at the time of installation mistake, maintenance, scrapped vehicle, etc., it is necessary to remove it while pushing the engaging part of the blade part 3b using a jig. An excessive force is applied to 3b, and in most cases, the blade portion 3b is damaged and the clip 1 cannot be reused.
In addition, it is sufficient to remove only the wire harness part containing copper material in recycling at the time of scrapped cars, and in most cases it is sufficient to remove or replace the wire harness part for incorrect installation or maintenance, but the conventional band clip 1 is Since the wire harness attachment portion 2 and the vehicle body locking portion 3 are integrally formed, it is necessary to remove the blade portion 3b from the through hole H using a jig or the like as described above.

  Regarding this problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-298736 (Patent Document 1) proposes a band clip 5 capable of separating the wire harness attachment portion 6 and the vehicle body locking portion 7 as shown in FIG. The vehicle body locking portion 7 of the band clip 5 folds the tip of the shaft portion 7a to form a blade portion 7b, and has a plate portion 7c protruding substantially at the middle portion of the shaft portion 7a. Is provided with a through hole 7d. The wire harness mounting portion 6 includes a frame-shaped portion 6a that houses and supports the lower portion of the shaft portion 7a of the vehicle body locking portion 7, and a band portion 6b that extends from one end of the frame-shaped portion 6a. The frame-shaped portion 6a has through holes 6c communicating with the through holes 7d of the shaft portion 7a stored and held, and the pin member 9 is passed through the through holes 6c and 7d so that the wire harness mounting portion 6 and the vehicle body The band clip 5 is assembled so as to be disassembled by connecting the locking portion 7.

  By pulling out the pin member 9, the band clip 5 can be separated and removed only from the wire harness attaching portion 6 and the wire harness without removing the vehicle body locking portion 7 from the vehicle body. However, the pin member 9 may fall off due to vibration during traveling of the vehicle and the like, and since it is a separate member, it is easily lost, and there is a problem in that it is a two-handed operation when removing it.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-298736

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is possible to separate and connect a base material attached to a wire harness and a locking material attached to the vehicle body with one touch without using a separate member. The issue is to provide a clip for stopping.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention comprises a base material attached to a wire harness routed in an automobile, and a locking material that is detachably locked to the base material. A positioning part projecting from both sides of the base material, and a detachable part in the shape of an arrow blade arranged parallel to the surface of the base material is provided at the tip of the shaft part projecting from the surface of the base material. The center plate portion is connected to the longitudinal end portion of the shaft portion on the front end surface of the shaft portion, and the flexible frame portion is formed on both the left and right sides connected to both ends in the length direction of the center plate portion. The flexible frame portions on both sides are provided with locking recesses on the outer surface, and are provided with a pair of operation pieces by projecting end portions corresponding to both ends of the arrow blade on the base side. Is bent downward from both sides of the board part, a blade-like body locking part protruding from the surface of the board part, and the board part. And both side walls are provided with locking projections protruding from the inner surfaces of the both side walls, and the lower ends of the side walls are refracted outward and then refracted downward. Further, a fitting recess having a U-shaped cross section refracted inward is formed oppositely, and the fitting recess of the locking material is slidably fitted on the positioning portion of the base material, The base plate portion is disposed so as to cover the detachable portion, and the locking convex portion of the locking material is locked to the locking concave portion of the detachable portion, so that the base material and the locking material are locked and fixed. On the other hand, when the pair of operating pieces of the base material are operated in the proximity direction, the left and right flexible frame portions are bent in the proximity direction, and the locking recesses on the outer surface are engaged with the locking material. For wire harness vehicle body locking in which the base material is detached from the locking material in a state where the locking material is detached from the locking projection and the locking material is locked to the vehicle body side. It provides a clip.

  The wire harness vehicle body locking clip having the above-described configuration has flexible frame portions formed on both sides of the base material detachment portion when the base material positioning portion is inserted into the engaging recess of the base material. Since it bends inward by the contact of the locking projections protruding from both side walls of the locking material, the locking material and the base material can be smoothly fitted and connected. In addition, when the engaging concave portion formed outside the flexible frame portion reaches the position of the engaging convex portion of the engaging member by this insertion, the flexible frame portion bent inwardly returns to its original shape and is engaged. Since the locking recess and the locking projection are engaged, the base material and the locking material can be locked and fixed vertically and horizontally. Therefore, the operator can easily connect the both in one touch only by inserting the positioning portion of the base material into the fitting recess of the locking member.

  In addition, the separation of the base material and the locking material is performed by operating the operation pieces of the detachable portion in the proximity direction to each other and removing the locking recess from the locking projection. This can be easily realized by pulling out from the fitting recess. Therefore, at the time of maintenance and replacement of the wire harness or recycling of the vehicle body panel, the operator can separate the base material attached to the wire harness and the locking material attached to the vehicle body with one touch. The wire harness can be easily detached from the vehicle body panel. Further, when removing the wire harness, it is not necessary to remove the locking member attached to the vehicle body panel from the through hole, so that the locking member can be prevented from being damaged and the clip can be reused.

  Furthermore, the clip having the above-described configuration can separate and connect the base material and the locking material without using separate parts, so that the quality of the parts can be improved without any loss or dropping of the parts.

  The base material attached to the wire harness includes a binding band, and a band portion extending from one side end of the band locking portion of the binding band is wound around the wire harness and then tightened through the band locking portion. In addition, a positioning portion projects from both sides of the upper surface of the band locking portion, and the detachable portion is integrally formed on the upper surface, or the shaft portion integrally formed on the detachable portion side is the band locking portion. It is inserted and fixed in the mounting hole on the upper surface of the.

  Alternatively, the clip may be a board clip, in which case the detachable part is formed on the upper surface of the board part of the board clip, and the positioning parts protruding from both sides of the board part are fitted into the fitting recesses of the locking material. Thus, a configuration in which the components are separably connected is preferable.

  As described above, according to the present invention, since the locking material attached to the vehicle body and the base material attached to the wire harness can be easily separated and connected with one touch, the wire harness in recycling, maintenance, etc. It is possible to improve the workability of the removal and replacement. In addition, since no separate parts are used for separation and connection between the locking member and the base material, there is no problem of loss or dropout of the parts, and quality can be improved. In addition, since the locked locking material can be left attached to the through hole without forcibly removing it from the through hole of the vehicle body panel and damaging it, the clip can be reconnected by reconnecting to the base material. Can be used.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIGS. 1 to 5 show a clip 10 for locking a wire harness body according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The clip 10 includes a base material 11 made of a binding band attached to a wire harness W / H, And a locking member 31 inserted and locked into a through hole H provided in the vehicle body panel P.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the base material 11 extends from a band locking portion 12 provided with a band insertion hole 13 and a band locking piece 14 and from one end of the band locking portion 12. And a band unit 15. When attaching this base material 11 to the wire harness W / H, the band portion 15 wound around the wire harness W / H is passed through the band insertion hole 13 and the engagement groove row 16 formed on the surface of the band portion 15. The locking piece 14 is engaged at the required position, and the rewinding is restricted and fastened.

On the upper surface 12a of the band locking portion 12, a detachable portion 21 is integrally formed in parallel with the upper surface 12a, and a positioning portion 17 is projected from both sides. As shown in FIG. 1, the detachable portion 21 includes a shaft portion 22 protruding from the upper surface 12 a of the band locking portion 12, and a central plate in which a substantially intermediate portion in the length direction is connected to the tip of the shaft portion 22. And a flexible frame portion 24 formed on both the left and right sides connected to both sides of the central plate portion 23 in the length direction. The left and right flexible frame portions 24 are formed in an arrow-blade shape as a whole. Specifically, the flexible frame portions 24 are connected in close proximity to each other at one end 23a in the length direction of the central plate portion 23, and the like. On the end 23b side, a pair of left and right operation piece portions 25 project in an M shape from the left and right end portions separated from each other, and a spring portion 25b inside each operation piece portion 25 is connected to the other end 23b of the central plate portion 23. doing. The operation piece portion 25 includes an outer finger contact portion 25a and an inner spring portion 25b that separates the finger contact portion 25a from the central plate portion 23 by a certain distance.
Further, a locking recess 26 that engages with a locking projection 35 of a locking material 31 described later is formed on the outer surface of the flexible frame portion 24.

  The locking member 31 includes a substrate portion 32, a vehicle body locking portion 33 projecting from the surface of the substrate portion 32, and both side wall portions 34 formed by bending downward from both sides of the substrate portion 32. ing. The vehicle body locking portion 33 includes a shaft portion 33a erected at the center portion of the substrate portion 32, a locking blade portion 33b protruding from the tip of the shaft portion 33a, and a dish on the base portion of the shaft portion 33a. And a pressing portion 33c protruding in a shape.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 (A) and 4 (B), locking protrusions 35 facing each other are provided on the inner surfaces of the side wall portions 34. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, a fitting recess 36 having a U-shaped cross section that is refracted outward, refracted downward, and further refracted inward is opposed to the lower ends of the side walls 34. Formed.

  When assembling the clip 10 having the above-described configuration, first, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the positioning portion 17 of the base material 11 is fitted into the fitting recess 36 of the locking member 31, and the fitting recess 36 is slidably fitted to the positioning portion 17 and disposed so that the substrate portion 32 of the locking member 31 covers the detachable portion 21. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4A, the locking projection 35 of the locking material 31 comes into contact with the flexible frame portion 24 of the detachable portion 21, but the flexible frame portion 24 bends inward. The base material 11 can be inserted smoothly. When the locking concave portion 26 of the flexible frame portion 24 comes to the position of the locking convex portion 35, as shown in FIG. 35 and the locking recess 26 are engaged, and the base material 11 and the locking material 31 can be locked and fixed to each other.

  On the other hand, when the base material 11 and the locking material 31 are separated, as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B, the finger contact portions 25a of the pair of left and right operation piece portions 25 of the detachable portion 21 are sandwiched from the outside. By operating in the proximity direction to each other, the entire left and right flexible frame portions 24 bend in the proximity direction, and the engagement between the locking recess 26 and the locking projection 35 can be released. In this state, the base material 11 and the locking material 31 can be separated by pulling out the positioning portion 17 of the base material 11 from the fitting recess 36 of the locking material 31.

  Thus, since the base material 11 and the locking member 31 constituting the clip 10 can be easily separated and connected with one touch, the workability of collecting and replacing the wire harness is improved in recycling and maintenance. . Further, when it is necessary to remove the wire harness from the vehicle body panel, it is sufficient to separate and connect the base material 11 with the locking member 31 inserted and locked in the through hole H of the vehicle body panel P. The breakage of the stopper 31 is prevented, and the clip 10 can be used repeatedly. Furthermore, since separate parts such as pins are not used for separating and connecting the base material 11 and the locking material 31, problems such as loss or dropout of parts do not occur.

  FIG. 6 shows a main part of a modified example of the clip 10 according to the first embodiment, wherein the detachable part 21 is formed separately from the band locking part 12 of the base material 11, and the base band locking part 12 is formed. The shaft portion 22 of the attachment / detachment portion 21 is inserted and fixed in the attachment hole 18 formed in the upper surface 12a of the attachment.

  7 (A) and 7 (B) show a clip 10 'according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The clip 10' is a substrate clip, and includes a base material 41 and the locking member 31 having the above-described configuration. The substrate portion 42 of the base material 41 is placed along the wire harness W / H, and both front and rear end portions of the substrate portion 42 are integrally wound and fixed to the wire harness W / H with a tape T. Since it is the same structure as said 1st embodiment in another point, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and description is abbreviate | omitted.

A positioning portion 43 protrudes from the both sides in the width direction at a substantially intermediate portion in the length direction of the substrate portion 42, and the detachable portion 21 having the above configuration is integrally formed on the surface in parallel with the substrate portion 42. Yes.
The positioning portion 43 of the base plate portion 42 is fitted into the fitting recess 36 of the locking member 31, and the locking protrusion 35 of the locking member 31 is engaged with the locking recess 26 of the detachable portion 21, so that the base 41 The structure for locking and fixing the locking material 31 is the same as that of the first embodiment. In addition, the left and right operation piece portions 25 of the detachable portion 21 are brought close to each other to release the engagement of the locking convex portion 35 and the locking concave portion 26 so that the base material 41 and the locking material 31 are separated. This is the same as the first embodiment.

It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the clip concerning 1st embodiment of this invention. It is a whole perspective view of the state which attached and connected the clip shown in FIG. 1 to a wire harness. It is sectional drawing which shows the state which attached the clip shown in FIG. 1 to the vehicle body. (A) (B) is sectional drawing which shows the connection method of the base material of a clip shown in FIG. 1, and a latching material. (A) (B) is sectional drawing which shows the isolation | separation method of the base material and locking material of a clip shown in FIG. It is sectional drawing which shows the principal part of the modification of 1st embodiment. The clip which concerns on 2nd embodiment of this invention is shown, (A) is a disassembled perspective view, (B) is a perspective view of the state attached and connected to the wire harness. It is a figure of a prior art example. It is a figure of another prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

10, 10 'Clip 11, 41 Base material 17, 43 Positioning part 21 Detachment part 24 Flexible frame part 25 Operation piece part 26 Locking recessed part 31 Locking material 33 Vehicle body locking part 35 Locking convex part 36 Fitting recessed part

Claims (2)

A base material attached to a wire harness routed in an automobile, and a locking material detachably locked to the base material,
Protruding positioning portions from both sides of the upper surface of the base material, and providing a detachable portion in the shape of an arrow blade arranged parallel to the surface of the base material at the tip of the shaft projecting from the surface of the base material, The detachable portion includes a central plate portion having a longitudinal intermediate portion connected to the tip end surface of the shaft portion, and a flexible frame portion formed on both left and right sides connected to both ends of the central plate portion in the length direction. Consists of
The left and right flexible frame portions are provided with a locking recess on the outer surface, and are provided with a pair of operation piece portions by projecting end portions corresponding to both ends of the arrow blade base side,
The locking member includes a substrate portion, a blade-shaped vehicle body locking portion protruding from the surface of the substrate portion, and both side wall portions refracted downward from both sides of the substrate portion. An engaging projection protrudes from the inner surface of the side wall, and the lower end of each side wall portion is refracted outwardly, then refracted downward, and further refracted inward to form a U-shaped fitting. A recess is formed oppositely,
The engaging recess of the locking material is slidably fitted on the positioning portion of the base material so that the substrate portion of the locking material covers the detachable portion. While the stop projection is locked to the locking recess of the detachable portion, the base material and the locking material are locked and fixed,
When the pair of operation piece portions of the base material are operated in the proximity direction, the left and right flexible frame portions bend in the proximity direction, and the locking recesses on the outer side face the locking projections of the locking material. A clip for locking a wire harness vehicle body, wherein the base material is detached from the locking material in a state where the locking material is released and locked to the vehicle body side.   The base material attached to the wire harness includes a binding band, and a band portion extending from one side end of the band locking portion of the binding band is wound around the wire harness and then tightened through the band locking portion. In addition, the positioning portion protrudes from both sides of the upper surface of the band locking portion, and the detachable portion is integrally formed on the upper surface, or the shaft portion is integrally formed on the detachable portion side. The wire harness vehicle body locking clip according to claim 1, wherein the clip is inserted and fixed in a mounting hole on the upper surface of the band locking portion.

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