JP3290374B2 - Protector with cover - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a protector with a cover, and more particularly, to a protector with a cover capable of securely and easily housing a large number of wires by binding them.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a protector with a cover for binding and accommodating a large number of electric wires has been frequently used in order to protect, for example, electric wires along a vehicle body. Many such protectors with covers have been proposed. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the present applicant has proposed an electric wire housing protector 50 having a bite prevention structure (see Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 3-111121).

An electric wire housing protector 50 includes a gutter-shaped protector body 53 having side walls 51 and 52, a flexible electric wire protruding prevention plate 54 erected on the side wall 51, and a hinge 55 at an edge of the side wall 52. And a lid 56 provided through the cover. In this electric wire housing protector 50, when a large number of electric wires 60 are stored in parallel in the protector main body 53 and the cover 56 is closed in a state where the electric wire protrusion prevention plate 54 is bent over a certain amount, the electric wire protrusion prevention plate 54 is closed. The protector main body 53 is provided by bending drive pieces 57, 57 provided inside the body 56.
Are further bent inward, so that the wires 60 are bound and accommodated without protruding outside. The lid 56 is provided with an engaging portion provided on the protector main body 53.
The closed state of the protector main body 53 is maintained by interlocking the locking piece 59 provided on the cover 56 with the locking piece 59.

[0004]

By the way, when the above-mentioned wire housing protector 50 is made of synthetic resin, for example,
Deformation due to shrinkage (heat shrinkage) during molding is the protector body
53, or if the operator pushes the side wall 51 toward the side wall 52 when accommodating each electric wire 60 as shown in FIG. 6, the protector body 53 may be temporarily deformed. There is. In such a case, the bending drive piece
The side wall 51 is further deformed toward the side wall 52 following the bending of the electric wire protrusion prevention plate 54 by 57, 57, and the engaging portion 58 and the locking piece 59 cannot be engaged with each other. There is a problem that the lid 56 cannot be kept closed. The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and has as its object to provide a protector with a cover that can securely and easily house a large number of electric wires by binding them.

[0005]

An object of the present invention is to provide a protector with a cover according to the first aspect,
In order to bundle and accommodate a large number of electric wires, a receiving portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section capable of accommodating each of the electric wires is rotatably connected to the receiving portion via a first hinge, and each of the receiving portions is A pressing member capable of pressing at least a part of the electric wire inward from an opening formed in the peripheral surface of the receiving portion, and a second receiving member that faces the pressing member with the opening interposed therebetween. A lid member rotatably connected via a hinge and covering the pressing member and the opening, and fixing means for fixing the lid member to the receiving portion while covering the pressing member and the opening. A positioning means having the flat surface formed on an inner surface of the lid member, orthogonal to the inner surface of the lid member, and capable of contacting a free tip of the pressing member. wherein the pressing member Wherein by the lid member defeat on the wire
When the opening is covered, the free tip of the pressing member moves to the position
By contacting the flat surface of the deciding means, the relative position between the lid member covering the opening and the pressing member covered with the lid member can be determined, and the problem is solved by a protector with a cover. it can.

Here, the receiving portion, the pressing member, the lid member, the first hinge and the second hinge may be configured in the same manner as a conventionally known protector with a cover. Can be arbitrarily selected. Further, as the positioning means, for example, a structure in which the free tip of the pressing member is engaged with a projecting piece provided on the inner surface of the lid member, or a projecting piece and an engaging portion provided on the pressing member and the lid member are engaged with each other. Structure can be adopted. The protruding pieces may be formed in, for example, a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a columnar shape, a substantially semicircular shape, a hemispherical shape, or the like. What is necessary is just to form in a part etc. In the protector with the cover having the above-described configuration, the pressing member and the lid member are relatively positioned by the positioning means when the lid member covers the opening, so that, for example, even if the receiving portion formed of synthetic resin is deformed, As a result, the inconvenience that the closed state of the lid member cannot be maintained with respect to the receiving portion does not occur.

Further, in the present invention, the positioning means may have a flat surface orthogonal to the inner surface of the lid member, and a free tip of the pressing member may be in contact with the flat surface. Here, as the positioning means, a rectangular parallelepiped or substantially semicircular projection may be provided on the inner surface of the lid member,
What is necessary is just to arrange | position so that the flat surface may face a desired direction. Specifically, it is preferable that the flat surface is oriented in a direction away from the second hinge and is parallel to the axis of the second hinge. In addition, you may employ | adopt the wall surface in the concave-shaped groove formed in the cover member as a flat surface. In the cover-equipped protector having the above-described structure, the free end of the pressing member abuts on the flat surface of the positioning means, so that it is not necessary to form a through-hole, a recess, a wall, a claw, or the like at the free end of the pressing member. Thus, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

Further, according to the present invention, the projecting piece having the flat surface may be provided on the inner surface of the lid member. According to this, since the pressing member may be flat, the manufacturing cost can be further reduced. Become. In the present invention, the free end of the pressing member may have a tapered cross-section that can be provided at an intersection of the inner surface of the lid member and the flat surface. Here, the free tip of the pressing member may be formed in a wedge shape or a cone shape so as to make line contact or point contact with a flat surface. In the protector with the cover configured as described above, the inclined surface is formed at the free distal end of the pressing member. Therefore, in this protector with a cover, when the electric wire enters between the flat surface and the free front end of the pressing member when the pressing member and the lid member are relatively positioned, if the free front end of the pressing member comes into contact with the flat surface. The electric wire is pushed out to the receiving portion side by the flat surface and the inclined surface of the pressing member, whereby it is possible to avoid the possibility that the electric wire is pinched by the portion.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an embodiment of a protector with a cover according to the present invention, and FIG.
3 is an enlarged sectional view showing a first hinge, FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view showing a positioning means, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing a state in which a large number of electric wires are bundled and accommodated. As shown in FIG. 1, a protector 10 with a cover according to the present embodiment includes, for example, a large number of electric wires along a car body, similar to a conventional protector with a cover.
To protect the 60, a receiving portion 11 capable of accommodating each electric wire 60,
A pressing member 13 rotatably connected to the receiving portion 11 via a first hinge 12, a lid member 15 rotatably connected to the receiving portion 11 via a second hinge 14, and a lid member 15. Fixing means 16
It is comprised including. In such a protector 10 with a cover, the receiving portion 11, the pressing member 13, and the cover member 15 are integrally formed of synthetic resin, and the first hinge 12 and the second
The hinge 14 is a thin hinge.

The receiving portion 11 has a substantially U-shaped cross section having a pair of side walls 11B and 11C arranged in parallel via a bottom wall 11A of a substantially rectangular plate shape. The receiving portion 11 has a gutter shape having a cross-sectional shape continuous along the longitudinal direction, and has side walls 11B, 11B.
An opening 11D is formed between Cs. The pressing member 13 has a rectangular plate shape having a smaller width and length than the bottom wall 11A via the first hinge 12, extends from the upper end of the side wall 11C, and extends inward with respect to the side wall 11C. About 90 degrees, and open at least a part of each wire 60
It can be pressed from 11D toward the inside of the receiving portion 11. The pressing member 13 has its free tip, that is, the first
An edge 13A (upper edge in the figure) parallel to the hinge 12 is formed to have a tapered cross section. Specifically, the pressing member 13
The edge 13A is provided with an inclined surface 13B which tapers from the inner surface to the outer surface of the pressing member 13.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the first hinge 12 for connecting the pressing member 13 to the receiving portion 11, the pressing member 13 is arranged stepwise with respect to the side wall 11C of the receiving portion 11 in accordance with the wall thickness. The part where the wall thickness is reduced is used. This first hinge
When the pressing member 13 is rotated at right angles from the state parallel to the side wall 11C of the receiving portion 11 (the state shown by the solid line in the figure) (the state shown by the chain line in the figure), the chamfered portion is formed outside the folding curve A groove 12A having a substantially V-shaped cross section is formed inside the bent curve. Therefore, such a first hinge 12
In rotating the pressing member 13 in order to press a part of 60 toward the inside of the receiving portion 11, even if the electric wire 60 is positioned inside the folding curve, with the rotation of the pressing member 13, Gradually extrude from the groove 12A formed inside the fold curve,
The electric wire 60 is not sandwiched between the portions.

Returning to FIG. 1, the lid member 15
11D is a rectangular plate shape that can be closed, and the side wall 11B of the receiving portion 11
Is rotated until it is orthogonal to
While closing the opening 11D. The second hinge 14 for connecting the lid member 15 to the receiving portion 11 is formed in a band shape, and when the lid member 15 is rotated to close the opening 11D, the second hinge 14 is appropriately deformed and is outside the receiving portion 11 and the lid member 15. , So that the wires 60 do not interfere with each other.

The fixing means 16 includes a fixing portion 17 provided outside the side wall 11C and a fixing portion provided on the lid member 13 for fixing the lid member 15 to the receiving portion 11 with the opening 11D closed. 17
And a locking portion 18 that can be locked to the head. The fixing portion 17 includes an inclined surface 17 tapering toward the first hinge 12.
It has a substantially trapezoidal shape having an A, and a pair is provided at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction of the receiving portion 11. On the other hand, the locking portion 18 has a substantially frame shape that can be fitted to the fixing portion 17.
The cover member 15 is provided at a free front end (upper end in FIG. 1) corresponding to the arrangement position of the cover member 17.

The protector with cover according to this embodiment is
10 is provided with positioning means 20 for relatively positioning the pressing member 13 and the lid member 15 when the opening 11D is closed so that the lid member 15 covers the pressing member 13. The positioning means 20 includes a pair of protrusions protruding from the inner surface of the lid member 15.
21 and 21. The projecting piece 21 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and is arranged so that the flat surface 22 faces away from the second hinge 14 and is parallel to the axis of the second hinge 14.

The projections 21, 21 are provided at positions where the respective flat surfaces 22 are on the same plane and the edge 13A of the pressing member 13 can abut. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the pressing member 13 has a boundary line between the outer surface (upper surface in the figure) and the inclined surface 13 </ b> B and the inner surface (lower surface in the figure) of the lid member 15 and the flat surface 22. Are in line contact with the intersecting corners (inset corners). Therefore, in relative positioning of the pressing member 13 and the lid member 15,
Even if the electric wire 60 enters between the flat surface 22 and the edge 13A of the pressing member 13 (see the chain line in the drawing), the edge 13A of the pressing member 13
When the wire comes into line contact with the flat surface 22, the electric wire 60 is pushed downward in the drawing by the flat surface 22 and the inclined surface 13B of the pressing member 13 (see the solid line in the drawing), whereby the electric wire 60 may be pinched in the portion. There is no.

As shown in FIG. 4, the cover-equipped protector 10 as described above presses when the lid member 15 closes the opening 11D in order to bind and accommodate a large number of electric wires 60 in the receiving portion 11. Since the member 13 and the lid member 15 are positioned relative to each other, for example, even if shrinkage or artificial deformation occurs during molding, the lid member 15 cannot be fixed in the closed state with respect to the receiving portion 11 as in the conventional case. No inconvenience occurs. Further, since the edge 13A of the pressing member 13 abuts on the flat surface 22, the positioning means 20 does not need to form a through-hole, a concave portion, a wall, a claw, or the like in the pressing member 13, so that Manufacturing costs can be reduced. Further, since the positioning means 20 is provided with the flat surface 22 by the projecting pieces 21 formed on the inner surface of the lid member 15, the pressing member 13 may have a flat plate shape, thereby further reducing the manufacturing cost. Then, the pressing member 13 is
Since the cross section of the wire 13A is tapered, even when the wire 60 enters the portion, the wire 60 is pushed out toward the receiving portion 11 as the edge 13A comes into line contact with the flat surface 22. Can be avoided.

The protector with cover of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be appropriately modified and improved. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the receiving portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section has been exemplified. However, by using a receiving portion having a substantially C-shaped cross section and using a pressing member and a lid member having an arcuate surface, the overall structure is improved. May be cylindrical. Further, as the positioning means, an appropriate structure or the like that inserts or locks the convex portion into the concave portion may be adopted.

[0018]

As described above, according to the protector with cover according to the first aspect of the present invention, the protector with cover is formed on the inner surface of the lid member,
The free end of the pressing member abuts at right angles to the inner surface of the material
Positioning means having a flat surface enabled,
When the pressing member was dropped on the electric wire and the opening was covered with the lid member
The free tip of the pressing member is on the flat surface of the positioning means.
By contacting , the relative position between the cover member covering the opening and the pressing member covered by the cover member can be determined ,
The receiving part made of synthetic resin does not deform,
The lid member can be reliably maintained in a closed state with respect to the receiving portion. Further, according to the cover with a protector according to claim 1, for the free distal end of the pressing member to the flat surface of the positioning means is contactable, through hole to the free front end of the pressing member, the recess, the wall portion, the claw portion It is not necessary to form such a device, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced. Furthermore, according to the protector with cover described in claim 2 , even if the pressing member 13 is flat, the cover member
Since it is possible to abut the flat surface 22 of the projection piece 21 formed on the inner side surface of the device 15, the manufacturing cost can be further reduced. Then, 請
According to the protector with the cover described in claim 3 , since the free tip of the pressing member has a tapered cross-sectional shape, it enters between the flat surface and the free tip of the pressing member in relative positioning of the pressing member and the lid member. The wire can be pushed out to prevent pinching.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an embodiment of a protector with a cover according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view showing a first hinge.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view showing a positioning means.

FIG. 4 is a schematic side view showing a main state in which a number of electric wires are bound.

FIG. 5 is an overall perspective view showing a conventional protector with a cover.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a conventional problem.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Protector with cover 11 Receiver 11D Opening 12 First hinge 13 Pressing member 13A Edge (free tip) 14 Second hinge 15 Cover member 16 Fixing means 20 Positioning means 21 Projection piece 22 Flat surface 60 Electric wire

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. In order to bind and accommodate a large number of electric wires,
A receiving portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section capable of accommodating each of the electric wires, and being rotatably connected to the receiving portion via a first hinge, at least a part of each of the electric wires is connected to the receiving portion; A pressing member that can be pressed inward from an opening formed in the peripheral surface, and is rotatably connected to the receiving portion via a second hinge so as to face the pressing member across the opening. A cover member that covers the pressing member and the opening, and fixing means for fixing the lid member to the receiving portion while covering the pressing member and the opening . Formed on the side surface, on the inner surface of the lid member
The free end of the pressing member can be contacted.
Positioning means having the flat surface, wherein the pressing member is tilted on an electric wire, and the opening is formed by the lid member.
When the cover is covered, the free tip of the pressing member
A protector with a cover, wherein a relative position between the cover member covering the opening and the pressing member covered by the cover member can be determined by contacting the flat surface of the means . 2. The protector with a cover according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion having the flat surface is provided on an inner surface of the lid member. 3. The protector with a cover according to claim 2, wherein a free front end of the pressing member has a tapered cross section which can be attached to an intersection between the inner surface of the lid member and the flat surface.