JP2010195155A - Wire harness for vehicle, and wiring method for the wire harness - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wire harness for a vehicle retaining a connector connected to a wire harness terminal so as not to generate hanging down until it is fitted/connected to a partner connector. <P>SOLUTION: The wire harness for the vehicle is constituted such that a bracket for fixing a vehicle body is mounted to a position neighborhood to the connector connected to the terminal, a connector retaining part for retaining the connector is projectedly provided on the bracket, a lock part is provided on the connector retaining part, whereas a part to be retained in which a part to be locked lock-bonded with the lock part of the bracket is provided is projectedly provided on a housing of the connector, and the connector positioned/retained by the bracket fixed to the vehicle body is fitted/connected to the partner connector. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a wire harness routed in an automobile and a method of routing the same, and more particularly, in a wire harness routed between a door and a vehicle body, a connector connected to a terminal of the wire harness is connected to a through-hole on the vehicle body side. It is preferably used when fitting and connecting to the mating connector.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a power supply for electrical components such as a power window mounted on a door of an automobile, a wire harness is routed inside the door, and a connector connected to a terminal of the wire harness is routed on the vehicle body side. Connected to the connector to supply power to the door.
The wire harness has a connector connected to the terminal of the door harness and a connector of the terminal of the wire harness on the vehicle body side through the through hole provided on the vehicle body side after the vehicle body side connection portion is pulled out from the through hole provided in the door panel. Often connected. (See JP 2002-247737 A)

  Further, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-267004, a door pocket is mounted on a door trim, a mating connector is provided in the door pocket and connected to a connector of a door harness terminal, and the mating connector is connected to the terminal. The door harness may be pulled out to the vehicle body side.

JP 2002-247737 A JP-A-2-2677044

As mentioned above, when connecting the connector of the wire harness terminal arranged between the door and the vehicle body through the through hole provided in the vehicle body and connecting to the connector of the wire harness terminal on the vehicle body side, the connector was passed through the through hole of the vehicle body Since the connector is only supported by the wire harness, the support strength of the connector is low, and it is difficult to insert the connector into the through hole. In addition, there is a problem that workability is poor since it is necessary to hold both the connector of the door-side wire harness and the connector of the vehicle-body-side wire harness in the hand after the insertion work.
Furthermore, since the connector of the door side wire harness after passing through the through hole of the vehicle body is in a state of being simply supported by the wire harness until connected to the mating connector, the connector, There is a possibility that the portion of the wire harness connected to the connector hits the vehicle body and damages the vehicle body.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problem, and improves the insertion workability by increasing the support strength when inserting the connector of the terminal of the wire harness routed on the door side or the like into the through hole of the vehicle body. In addition, the connector and the wire harness connected to the connector are held without being dangled even after the insertion work into the through hole, and the fitting work with the counterpart connector connected to the terminal such as the body-side wire harness is performed. The challenge is to make it easier.

In order to solve the above problems, as a first invention, a bracket for fixing a vehicle body is attached at a position close to a connector connected to a terminal,
A connector holding portion for holding the connector is projected from the bracket, and the connector holding portion is provided with a lock portion, while the housing of the connector is provided with a locked portion that is locked to the lock portion of the bracket. Project part,
There is provided a vehicle wire harness characterized in that a connector positioned and held by the bracket fixed to a vehicle body is configured to be fitted and connected to a mating connector.

  The bracket has a horizontally long shape, the connector holding portion protrudes laterally on the outer surface of one end side in the horizontal direction of the bracket, and the protruding dimension of the connector holding portion is smaller than the horizontal dimension of the bracket. Is preferred.

As a second invention, there is provided a wiring method for the vehicle wire harness.
In this routing method, the bracket is rotated 90 degrees in a through hole provided in the vehicle body, and the bracket is rotated 90 degrees after the connector and the connector holding portion holding the connector are sequentially inserted. In this case, the connector is held in the horizontally long direction, and after fixing the bracket to the vehicle body, the connector held by the bracket is fitted and connected to the mating connector.

  As described above, when a bracket for fixing a vehicle body is attached to the wire harness at a position close to the connector of the terminal, and the connector is held by the connector holding portion protruding from the bracket, the wire harness is supported. Compared to a simple connector, the connector can be held firmly, the connector's through-hole insertion work can be easily performed, and the connector and the wire harness are tumbled before mating with the mating connector. Can be prevented from being damaged. Furthermore, since the connector is held by a bracket fixed to the vehicle body when mated and connected to the mating connector, the mating connector can be fitted with one hand by simply mating the mating connector with the fixed connector. Connection work is also easy.

It is most preferably used when the wire harness is a wire harness routed to a door. That is,
After the connector of the wire harness on the door side is passed through the through hole provided in the vehicle body, the bracket is fixed to the vehicle body, and the connector held by the bracket is connected to the counterpart connector of the vehicle body side wire harness. Connected.
The door can be applied to either a sliding door or a side door hinged to a vehicle body.
Further, as in Patent Document 2, another flat harness or the like provided with a through hole in the door frame, a connector of the door harness terminal passed through the through hole, and connected to the vehicle body side wire harness between the door frame and the door trim. The wire harness which consists of this may be wired, and the connector of this wire harness terminal and the said connector may be fitted and connected. In this case, the door frame corresponds to the vehicle body.
A portion of the wire harness that is routed between the door and the vehicle body is covered with a corrugated tube or a caterpillar type exterior material.
In addition, it is not limited to a door harness, It can apply when fitting and connecting with the other party connector after inserting the connector of the terminal of the wire harness routed in a vehicle through the through-hole of a vehicle body.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the wire harness routed in the vehicle is firmly attached to the connector and the wire harness connected to the connector with the bracket while the connector of the terminal is connected to the mating connector. Since it can hold | maintain, it can prevent that a connector and a wire harness contact a vehicle body and give a damage. And since the connector is hold | maintained at the bracket fixed to the vehicle body at the time of the fitting connection of connectors, a fitting connection can be carried out only by inserting a mating connector, and workability | operativity can be improved.

(A) (B) is a perspective view which shows the wire harness of embodiment of this invention. It is drawing which shows the principal part by the side of a vehicle body. (A)-(D) are drawings which show the wiring procedure of a wire harness.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
A wire harness 1 according to this embodiment shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B is a wire harness that is routed inside a slide door of an automobile, and then pulled out from the slide door and routed to a vehicle body. After the connector 2 connected to the terminal of the wire harness is passed through a through hole provided in the vehicle body, the connector is connected to the wire harness that is routed on the vehicle body side.

  A bracket 3 made of a resin molded product for fixing the vehicle body is attached to the wire harness 1 at a position close to the connector 2 connected to the terminal on the vehicle body connection side. The wire harness 1 is passed through the bracket 3. The wire harness 1 drawn out from the bracket 3 is covered with a caterpillar-shaped exterior material (not shown).

  The bracket 3 has a horizontally long and substantially rectangular shape as shown in the figure, and the wire harness 1 is inserted from the side surface 3a on one end side in the lateral direction of the bracket 3 and pulled out from the front surface 3c adjacent to the side surface 3b on the other end side. A fixing bolt 4 projects from the center of the front surface 3c of the bracket 3 and a positioning boss 5 projects from the side.

  On the side surface 3b in the lateral direction of the bracket 3, a connector holding portion 6 is projected from the front end by integral molding. The connector holding portion 6 is formed in a plate shape that is bent in a V shape forward from the protruding position of the bracket 3 and then protruded in the lateral direction, and a lock claw 6a is provided at the protruding end.

A held portion 7 protrudes from the rear end of the left and right outer end surface of the housing 2a of the connector 2 connected to the end of the wire harness 1, and a lock frame 7a that locks and connects with the lock claw 6a is provided at the tip. Yes. The held portion 7 may be provided only on the side corresponding to the connector holding portion 6 projecting from the bracket 3, but in this case, since the mounting direction of the connector 2 to the wire harness 1 is restricted, It is preferable to provide the holding part 7 on both sides.
A dimension L1 between the connector 2 and the bracket 3 is 100 to 200 mm.

As shown in FIG. 1B, the wire harness 1 is held on the corresponding side of the held portion 7 protruding from the connector 2 with the lock claw 6a of the connector holding portion 6 protruding from the bracket 3. The lock frame 7a of the portion 7 is locked. In this state, the wire harness 1a between the bracket 3 and the connector 2 is bent laterally to one side.
As described above, when the connector 2 connected to the terminal of the wire harness 1 is held by the bracket 3 via the held portion 7 and the connector holding portion 6 that are locked together, the connector 2 of the terminal of the wire harness 1 is positioned without being dangled. Can hold.

As shown in FIG. 2, a laterally long oval through hole 12 is provided in a vehicle body 11 for routing a vehicle body side wire harness 10 that supplies power to the wire harness 1.
The lateral dimension of the connector 2 connected to the end of the wire harness 1 is smaller than the lateral dimension of the through hole 12. The vehicle body 11 is provided with a bolt hole 11 a on the side of the through hole 12 and a positioning recess 11 b for fitting the positioning boss 5 of the bracket 3.

  As shown in FIGS. 3A to 3D, after the connector 2 of the wire harness 1 and the connector holding portion 6 of the bracket 3 are passed through the through hole 12 of the vehicle body 11, the bracket 3 is attached to the vehicle body 11. The terminal 2 of the vehicle body side wire harness 10 is fitted and connected to the connector 2 held by the bracket 3 fixed to the vehicle body 11.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3 (A), the horizontally long bracket 3 is rotated in the vertical direction, the operator holds the rear end of the bracket 3 by hand, and the connector 2 at the tip is passed through the hole. 12, and then the lock coupling portion between the connector holding portion 6 and the held portion 7 and the wire harness 1 a are passed through the through hole 12. Since the connector 2 is held by the bracket 3 at the time of this penetration work, the penetration work to the through hole 12 of the connector 2 becomes easy.

In this way, after the connector 2 and the connector holding portion 6 are passed through the through hole 12 and arranged on the vehicle body 11 side, the bracket 3 that does not pass through the through hole 12 as shown in FIG. It is rotated in parallel and arranged in parallel so as to close the through hole 12.
Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 3C, the positioning boss 5 of the bracket 3 positioned on the side of the through hole 12 is fitted into the positioning recess 11b of the vehicle body 11 to be positioned and held, and the bolt 4 is secured to the bolt hole 11a. And fasten with a nut.
Finally, as shown in FIG. 3D, the mating connector 20 of the end of the wire harness 10 is fitted and connected to the connector 2. At that time, the connector 2 is positioned and held by the connector holding portion 6 of the bracket 3 fixed to the vehicle body 11 so that the held portion 7 is locked and connected. Good.

As described above, since the connector 2 of the terminal of the wire harness 1 is held by the bracket 3, workability of penetrating the connector 2 into the through hole 12 of the vehicle body 11 is improved.
Further, in order to fix the bracket 3 to the vehicle body 11 after passing the connector 2 through the through hole 12 of the vehicle body 11, the connector 2 held by the bracket 3 and the wire harness 1a between the connector 2 and the bracket 3 are used. Can be held without bracing, and the connector 2 and the wire harness 1a can be prevented from hitting the vehicle body 11 and causing damage to the vehicle body.
Further, when the wire harness 1 arranged on the door side is connected to the vehicle body side wire harness 10 by connector, the connector 2 of the wire harness 1 is positioned and held by the bracket 3, so the connector 20 of the wire harness 10 is inserted. It is only necessary to connect, and the connector connection work can be performed stably.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and a wire harness composed of a flat harness is routed between the door and the vehicle body, and the distal end side of the flat harness is routed inside the door, so that the terminal of the flat harness is used. The present invention can also be applied to the case where the connected connector is connected to the connector of the terminal of the door harness routed inside the door.
In that case, while passing the door side connection part of the flat harness between the door frame of the door and the door trim, the connector of the terminal of the door harness is passed through the through hole provided in the door frame, and the bracket is fixed to the door frame. At the same time, the terminal connector of the door harness and the connector of the terminal of the flat harness are fitted and connected.

Furthermore, the present invention can also be applied to a door harness that is routed inside a side door in which a vehicle body and a door are hinged.
In that case, the through hole of the vehicle body is provided in the opposite surface of the vehicle body opposite the door, and after passing through the terminal connector of the door harness into the through hole, the bracket is fixed to the vehicle body, and then the door The terminal connector of the harness is fitted and connected to the connector of the vehicle body side wire harness.

1 Wire harness (door harness)
2 Connector 3 Bracket 4 Bolt 6 Connector holding part 7 Held part 10 Car body side wire harness 11 Car body body 12 Through hole

Claims (4)

Attach the bracket for fixing the car body at a position close to the connector connected to the terminal,
A connector holding portion for holding the connector is projected from the bracket, and the connector holding portion is provided with a lock portion, while the housing of the connector is provided with a locked portion that is locked to the lock portion of the bracket. Project part,
A wire harness for a vehicle, characterized in that a connector positioned and held by the bracket fixed to a vehicle body is configured to be fitted and connected to a mating connector.   The bracket has a horizontally long shape, the connector holding portion protrudes laterally on the outer surface of one end side in the horizontal direction of the bracket, and the protruding dimension of the connector holding portion is smaller than the horizontal dimension of the bracket. Item 2. The wire harness for a vehicle according to Item 1. It is a wiring method of the wire harness for vehicles of Claim 2, Comprising:
In the through hole provided in the vehicle body, the bracket is rotated 90 degrees to the vertical direction to penetrate the connector and the connector holding portion holding the connector, and then the bracket is rotated 90 degrees to the horizontal direction, A wiring method of a wire harness for a vehicle, wherein after fixing a bracket to a vehicle body, the connector held by the bracket is fitted and connected to a mating connector. The wire harness is a wire harness that is routed to a door and routed to a vehicle body,
After passing the connector of the wire harness through the through hole provided in the vehicle body, the bracket is fixed to the vehicle body, and the connector held by the bracket fixed to the vehicle body is connected to the wire harness routed to the vehicle body. The wiring harness wiring method according to claim 3, wherein the wiring harness is connected to a mating connector.

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