JP2595172Y2 - Clamp for wire harness - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

The present invention relates to a wire harness which is attached to the outer periphery of a wire harness, and a vertical locking portion is locked in a fitting hole of a vehicle body / equipment, and the wiring harness is arranged and maintained in a proper posture. The present invention relates to a clamp for a wire harness used to perform the operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A wire harness clamp is a locking portion comprising a cantilever-like elastic locking piece which fits and locks into a fitting hole on the vehicle body / equipment side on a mounting portion mounted on the outer periphery of the wire harness. Or, it has a basic structure in which a stud bolt locking portion is provided for fitting and locking to a stud bolt protruding from the vehicle body / equipment side, and the mounting portion and the locking portion are integrally attached to a vehicle body or the like. "Free" is used.

[0003]

With the above-described conventional wire harness clamp, when the wire harness is to be detached from the vehicle body or the like for some reason, the locking portion that has been locked to the vehicle body is removed from the vehicle body. Since it is extremely difficult to make the wire harness free, it is inevitable to remove the wire harness by separating the mounting portion and the locking portion with a tool while retaining the wire harness in the vehicle body. However, this dividing work is a work environment in a narrow space that is difficult to access,
Since the number of clamps to be divided is considerably large in a single wire harness, it is extremely difficult and time-consuming to perform difficult work, and improvement in workability is strongly demanded.

On the other hand, in recent years, there has been a strong demand for recycle use of automotive parts, and the number of cases in which wire harnesses are removed from the vehicle body and reused tends to increase. The present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art and provides a clamp for a wire harness that meets the technical requirements in the field.

[0005]

The wire harness clamp according to the present invention, which solves the above technical problems, comprises a mounting member which is mounted on the outer periphery of the wire harness, and a locking portion which locks the vehicle body / equipment. None combinations set the clamping member, the mounting member, the upper stopper then co the base
To the longitudinal direction of the wires that make up the wire harness
A pair of opposing hook-shaped guide strips that slide in the orthogonal direction
Only setting the clamp member receiving portion made of, further, to the middle of the first SL clamp member receiving portion, extending in the sliding direction with a free end on the insertion side of the clamping member and the upper surface of the sliding side Cantilever elastic locking piece with locking claw
The provided with, at the base of the front SL clamping member, in the free state of the elastic latching pieces <br/> in the normal insertion posture into the clamp member receiving portion, retaining for pawl omission engagement with the locking pawl The feature is "a structure with claws."

[0006]

The wire harness clamp according to the present invention having the above-described structure has a mounting member having a clamp member receiving portion forming the main part of the elastic locking piece, and is slidably inserted into the clamp member receiving portion. When the clamp member is mounted on the clamp member receiving portion, the clamp member in the mounting position is stopped and locked in a retaining shape, and thus functions as a single wire harness clamp. Then, when the elastic locking piece of the mounting member is elastically bent with a fingertip or the like, the engagement between the locking claw and the pawl claw of both is dissociated, and the clamp member can be pulled out. So
Then, the attachment member is attached to and detached from the clamp member receiving portion.
The sliding direction of the clamp member is the configuration of the wire harness
Since it is in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the electric wire, the body
The elastic locking piece from the side of the wire harness
To pull the wire harness to the side,
The clamp member locked to the vehicle body and the wire harness side
The mounting member can be separated very easily,
To easily remove the wire harness from the vehicle body
You. That is, the above-mentioned clamp member receiving portion is a pair of the intermediate space.
With a pair of hook-shaped guide strips for locking to the vehicle body
Can be set by inserting the base of a clamp member
Therefore, the wire harness load applied to the locking portion is
It is carried by the shape guide strip. Therefore, said elastic locking
The locking means of the one-piece locking claw and the retaining pawl is provided on the base portion.
Since it only functions as a slide load retainer,
The applied load is significantly smaller than the wire harness carrying load.
In addition, when disengaging and disengaging when removing the wire harness
Since there is almost no load, the wire harness
In the surrounding environment where the
The lock can be released.

[0007]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. That is, the clamp for a wire harness of the present invention fits into a fitting hole (not shown) of the vehicle body at the center of the upper surface of the base 3 of the rectangular plate and a horizontally long mounting member 1 that is fixed to the outer periphery of the wire harness 10 by tape. It is a combination of two separate members with the clamp member 2 on which the locking portion 4 for engaging and locking is erected. In the center of the mounting member 1, a base 3
A clamp member receiving portion 5 formed of a pair of opposed hook-shaped guide members 6A and 6B for slidably receiving the left and right side edges 3A into the groove is formed, and the clamp member 2 is inserted from the front end of the clamp member receiving portion 5. When inserted, guide strips 6A and 6
By B, the clamp member 2 is guided in a state in which the clamp member 2 is prevented from coming off, and can be inserted and attached. And
The sliding direction is the length of the constituent wires of the wire harness 10.
It is configured in a direction orthogonal to the hand direction.

Further, a free end 8 is provided at the center of the clamp member receiving portion 5 at the front end on the insertion side of the clamp member 2, and the elastic locking piece 7 of a cantilever extending in the sliding direction.
A locking claw 11 is provided on the upper surface of the elastic locking piece 7, and a pawl 12 is provided at the center of the lower surface of the base 3 of the clamp member 2. Then, FIG.
When the clamp member 2 is inserted into the clamp member receiving portion 5 to be in a normal combination posture, the locking claw 11 of the elastic locking piece 7 and the pawl claw 12 of the base portion 3 in the free state engage with each other, and the clamp member 2 is engaged. 2 are secured together, and a locking portion 4 is provided upright at the center of the mounting member 1 in the combined posture to form a single wire harness clamp. When the finger is bent downward as shown by a dotted line in the drawing, the engagement between the locking claw 11 and the pawl 12 is dissociated, and the clamp member 2 is pulled out of the mounting member 1 in the direction of arrow A in the drawing. .

The above-described wire harness clamp may be provided as a single wire harness clamp by attaching the clamp member 2 to the mounting member 1 fixed to the wire harness 10 by a tape winding 18, or The combination of the clamp member 1 and the clamp member 2 is attached to the wire harness 10 for use. The locking portion 4 of this embodiment has a well-known shape including a blade-shaped locking piece 15 vertically extending from the upper end of a locking column 14 erected on the base 3 in an open leg shape. The numeral 16 in the figure indicates that when the engaging portion 4 is fitted into the fitting hole of the vehicle body, it is pressed against the periphery of the fitting hole and “rattles”.
The reference numeral 17 in the drawing denotes a stopper for the clamp member 2.

The clamp for a wire harness according to the above-described embodiment extends to the side of the wire harness 10 even when it is attached to the wire harness 10 and the locking portion 4 is locked to the vehicle body.
And has a free end 8 of the resilient locking pieces 7, by creating FLEXIBLE lightly <br/> lower tool or a finger, it engaged with the vehicle body side clamp
In the attachment member 1 attached to the member 2 and the wire harness 10,
Since the wire harness 10 can be separated very easily, even if there are a large number of wire harness clamps provided on a single wire harness 10, the wire harness 10 which is arranged and locked on the vehicle body is separated by the separation. It can be easily removed from the product and recycled.

The clamp for a wire harness according to the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but is also applied to a stud bolt type clamp having a locking portion for locking to a stud bolt on the vehicle body, although not shown. These locking portions may be of known shapes other than those shown above.

[0012]

As described above, the wire harness clamp of the present invention can be easily mounted on the wire harness and locked on the vehicle body or the like, and the members on the vehicle body / equipment side and the member on the wire harness side can be extremely easily. Therefore, the workability of removing the wire harness from the vehicle body / equipment is particularly improved, and there is an effect that the recycling use of the wire harness is promoted and the demand in the field is satisfied.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a clamp for a wire harness according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which (A) is a perspective view of its constituent members, (B) is a side view of the assembled and connected state, and (B) in the drawing. C)
Is a perspective view of the state of attachment to the wire harness

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Attachment member 2 Clamp member 3 Base 4 Locking part 5 Clamp member receiving part 6A, 6B Guide strip 7 Elastic locking piece 8 Free end 10 Wire harness 11 Locking claw 12 Pawl 17 Stopper 18 Tape winding

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A combination of a mounting member to be mounted on the outer periphery of a wire harness and a clamp member having a locking portion for locking to a vehicle body / equipment erected at a base portion, wherein the mounting member prevents the base portion from falling upward . Together with the wire harness
Slides are received in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wire
A clamp member receiving part consisting of a pair of
Only, further, in the middle of the front Symbol clamp member receiving portion, extending in the sliding direction with a free end on the insertion side of the clamping member, and a cantilever shape having a locking claw on the upper surface of the sliding side provided with a resilient locking pieces, the base of the prior SL clamping member, the normal insertion posture into the clamp member receiving portion
A wire harness clamp characterized in that a retaining pawl engaging with the locking claw is provided in the free state of the elastic locking piece .