JPH07245846A - Method of accommodating cable into protector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a method of accommodating a cable in a protector efficiently whether the quantity is large or small. CONSTITUTION:A cover 6 is overlaid while pressing down the cable inside a protector body 2 by the rubber band 5 being put up between the hooking fittings 3 and 4 arranged on both sides of the protector body 2. Especially, in case that the quantity of cables is large, it is better to accommodate the remainder while pressing down some of them in the stage of having accommodated them in the protector body 2. For the hooking fitting 4, a pillar-shaped metal fitting is better. For the rubber band 5, it is better to remove it from the protector body 2 when overlaying the cover 6. Hereby, the floating of the cable can be prevented with simple constitution referring to a pair of hooking fittings and a rubber band.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electric wire housing method for housing a plurality of electric wires in a protector body having a substantially U-shaped cross section and covering an upper opening of the protector body with a cover for protection. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in the case of manufacturing a wire harness on a drawing board, when a large number of electric wires are accommodated in the protector main body and a top opening thereof is covered with a cover, the electric wires are conventionally lifted. In order to prevent the electric wire from being caught between the protector body and the cover due to this, the electric wire was fixed to the protector body by rolling an adhesive tape or the like, but a large protector with a particularly long length was used. However, since the number of places where the adhesive tape is wound increases, there is a problem that the man-hours are increased and the workability is poor.

After the cover is covered, the adhesive tape is no longer necessary, but the adhesive tape cannot be reused.
Since it cannot be removed from the protector, there is a problem that the material is wasted. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, notches 92b, 92b are formed at predetermined positions on both side walls 92a, 92a.
The protector main body 92 having the formed 92b is arranged on the drawing board 91, the electric wire W is accommodated in the protector main body 92, and then the pin G1 of the jig G is inserted into the protector main body 92 from the notches 92b and 92b. While holding the wire W,
While covering the protector body 92 with the cover 96,
Before the engagement and fixing of the cover 96 to the protector main body 92, the method of accommodating the electric wire in the protector in which the pin G1 is pulled out at an arbitrary stage after the time when the electric wire is not likely to be caught between them. Was proposed (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 5-30129).

In the above-mentioned method, the wire G can be prevented from floating only by inserting the pin G1 of the jig G into the protector main body 92 from the notches 92b and 92b. Therefore, it is necessary to hold the wire at a plurality of positions. Even a large protector can work more efficiently and has better workability than an adhesive tape or the like. Further, since the pin G1 can be pulled out from the protector body 92 and reused any number of times, the material is not wasted unlike the adhesive tape.

[0005]

However, in the above method, a dedicated jig G as shown in the figure is required, resulting in high cost. Further, since a space for mounting such a jig G is required on the drawing board 91, there is a problem that the drawing board layout is limited. Further, in the case of accommodating the electric wire having the full cross-sectional area of the protector main body 92, when the electric wires are sequentially laid in the protector main body 92, the electric wire may float and overflow from the protector main body 92. However, there is a problem that the above-mentioned jig G cannot deal with this.

The present invention has been made on the basis of the background art described above, and there is no fear that the material is wasted unlike the adhesive tape, and the electric wire protector is used without using the above jig. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for accommodating an electric wire in a protector for efficiently accommodating the electric wire inside.

[0007]

According to the invention of claim 1,
A method of accommodating an electric wire in a protector is as follows. The electric wire is accommodated in a protector body which is formed in a U-shaped cross section and has a notch at a predetermined position on both side walls thereof. A rubber band may be laid between a pair of hook metal fittings arranged at the corresponding positions, and the rubber band inserted into the protector body from the notch may be used to hold the wires inside the protector body while covering the protector body with the cover. It is a feature.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for accommodating an electric wire in a protector, wherein the protector main body is formed in a U-shaped cross section and has notches at predetermined positions on both side walls thereof. Then, the rubber band is bridged between a pair of hook metal fittings arranged on the both sides of the protector body at the positions corresponding to the cutouts, and the protector body is inserted by the rubber bands inserted into the protector body from the cutouts. While holding the electric wires inside the main body, after accommodating the remaining electric wires in the protector body, replace the rubber band,
It is characterized in that the protector body is covered with a cover while holding all the electric wires by the rubber band.

The invention according to claim 3 is the same as claim 1 above.
Alternatively, in the electric wire housing method in the protector described in 2,
One of the pair of hook metal fittings is a pillar-shaped metal fitting arranged substantially parallel to the side wall of the protector body. Further, the invention according to claim 4 is the method for accommodating an electric wire in the protector according to claim 1 or 2, after the time when the electric wire is no longer caught between the both when the protector body is covered with the cover. The rubber band is removed from the protector body at an arbitrary stage.

[0010]

In the method of accommodating the electric wire in the protector according to the first aspect, the rubber band is simply bridged between the pair of hook metal fittings arranged at the positions corresponding to the notches on both sides of the protector main body. Since it is possible to hold the electric wire housed in, and prevent it from rising, it is possible to work efficiently even with a large protector that needs to hold the electric wire at multiple points compared to adhesive tape, etc. Good.

Further, as described above, since the electric wire accommodated in the protector body is held by the pair of hook metal fittings and the rubber band spanned by the metal fittings which are inexpensive and simple, an expensive dedicated jig is not required. , The production cost can be reduced. Further, unlike the jig, the hooking metal does not require a wide space for attachment, and therefore the layout of the drawing board is not limited.

Moreover, since the elasticity of the rubber band is used to hold down the electric wire, the amount of electric wire accommodated in the protector body can be adjusted to some extent, and the electric wire floats and overflows from the protector body. However, it can be held by the elasticity of the rubber band and housed in the protector body. Claim 2
According to the electric wire housing method for the protector described above, the part of the electric wire is housed in the protector main body, and is held by the rubber band to prevent the electric wire from floating and overflowing from the protector main body. ,
Since the remaining electric wires can be accommodated, workability is further improved, for example, when accommodating the electric wires having the full cross-sectional area of the protector body.

If one of the pair of hook metal fittings is a pillar-shaped metal fitting arranged substantially parallel to the side wall of the protector body, the rubber band is hooked at an appropriate position of the metal fitting to protect the protector. It is possible to more flexibly cope with the amount of electric wires accommodated in the main body. If the rubber band is to be removed from the protector body at any stage after the wire is no longer caught between the two when the cover is put on the protector body, the rubber band can be removed from the protector body many times. But since it can be reused, the material is not wasted like adhesive tape.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. First, an embodiment of the electric wire housing method according to the invention of claim 1 will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, in the electric wire housing method of this embodiment, first,
The notch 21 is provided at a predetermined position on the drawing board 1 for manufacturing a wire harness or the like, and at a predetermined position on both side walls 21 and 21.
The protector body 2 having a substantially U-shaped cross section, in which a and 21a are formed, is arranged.

The cutouts 21a, 21 on the drawing board 1
A pair of hook fittings 3 and 4 are fixed in advance at the positions on both sides of the protector body 2 corresponding to a.
One of the pair of hooks 3 and 4 has two inverted L
The metal fitting 3 has a character shape, and the other metal fitting 4 has a column shape. As shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b), the inverted L-shaped hooking metal fitting 3 is fixed to the surface of the drawing board 1 with its horizontal bar facing in the direction opposite to the protector body 2. The columnar hooking metal member 4 is erected vertically on the surface of the drawing board 1 so as to be parallel to the side wall 21 of the protector body 2.

Next, after accommodating a predetermined amount of the electric wire W in the protector body 2, the rubber band 5 is bridged between the pair of hook fittings 3 and 4 and inserted into the protector body 2 through the notches 21a and 21a. By the rubber band 5
Hold the wire W in the protector body 2. On this occasion,
As shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b), the rubber band 5 is hooked at an appropriate position of the pillar-shaped hooking metal fitting 4 so that the amount of the electric wire W accommodated in the protector body 2 can be freely adjusted. can do.

Next, as shown by the two-dot chain line arrow in FIG. 1, the cover 6 is fitted into the protector main body 2, and the engaging projection 61 of the cover 6 is engaged with the lock receiving portion 22 of the protector main body 2.
To engage and fix the cover 6 to the protector body 2. Further, as described above, the rubber band 5 is hooked on the rubber band 5 at an arbitrary stage before the cover 6 is engaged and fixed to the protector main body 2 and after there is no risk of the electric wire W being caught between them. If the protector body 2 is removed from the protectors 3 and 4 and then removed from the protector body 2, the protector body 2 is removed from the drawing board 1 to complete the electrical wire accommodation in the protector.

As described above, according to the method of accommodating electric wires in the protector of this embodiment, there is no possibility that the material is wasted unlike the adhesive tape, and the jig as in the conventional example is not used. The electric wires can be efficiently housed in the protector regardless of the amount of the electric wires. Next, an embodiment of the electric wire housing method according to the invention of claim 2 will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 3A, when the electric wires are sequentially laid in the protector body 2, the electric wire W is lifted. Therefore, as shown in FIG.
When a certain amount of the electric wire W is accommodated therein, the rubber band 5 is bridged between the pair of hook metal fittings 3 and 4, and the rubber band 5 inserted into the protector main body 2 through the notches 21a and 21a. , The electric wire W in the protector body 2
Hold down. Then, the remaining electric wires W are continuously accommodated in the protector body 2.

After that, the rubber band 5 is replaced,
As shown in FIG. 2 (b), the work is completed when all the electric wires W are held by the rubber band 5 and the protector body 2 is covered with a cover. According to the above method, for example, as shown in FIG.
When accommodating the electric wire W having the full cross-sectional area, it is possible to prevent the electric wire W from floating and overflowing from the protector body 2, so that the workability is further improved.

In both of the above-mentioned embodiments, one of the pair of hook metal fittings is a pillar-shaped metal fitting arranged substantially parallel to the side wall of the protector body, and the rubber band is
The rubber band was hooked at an appropriate position on this column-shaped hooking metal to accommodate the amount of electric wire accommodated in the protector, but the elasticity of the rubber band alone should accommodate the amount of electric wire. You can also In that case, the hooks on both sides of the protector body may be the inverted L-shaped metal fittings used in the embodiments.

In addition, the present invention can be variously modified within the scope of the claims without being limited to the description of the embodiments.

[0023]

According to the method of accommodating electric wires in the protector of the present invention, a pair of hook fittings arranged at positions corresponding to the notches on both sides of the protector body, and a rubber band hung between the hook fittings. Since the electric wire accommodated in the protector body is held down by the above, workability is better than that of an adhesive tape or the like, and since a jig like the conventional example is not used, the production cost can be reduced. In addition, the board layout is not limited. Further, according to the present invention, since the elasticity of the rubber band is used to hold the electric wire, it is possible to flexibly cope with the amount of the electric wire accommodated in the protector body.

When a part of the electric wire is housed in the protector body and the rest of the electric wire is housed while being held down by the rubber band, the electric wire is prevented from floating and overflowing from the protector body. Therefore, the workability is further improved, for example, when accommodating the electric wire having the full cross-sectional area of the protector body. Also, if one of the pair of hook metal fittings is a pillar-shaped metal fitting that is arranged substantially parallel to the side wall of the protector body, by hooking the rubber band at an appropriate position of this metal fitting, It is possible to more flexibly cope with the amount of electric wires accommodated.

Further, when the rubber band is removed from the protector body at any stage after the electric wire is no longer caught between the two when the cover is put on the protector body, the rubber band is removed. Since it can be reused any number of times, the material is not wasted like adhesive tape. Therefore, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to easily and efficiently carry out the work of housing the electric wire in the protector.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a method for accommodating an electric wire in a protector according to the invention of claim 1.

FIG. 2 (a) is a cross-sectional view showing a case where the amount of electric wires to be accommodated is small, and FIG. 2 (b) is a cross-sectional view showing a case where the amount of electric wires to be accommodated is large. .

3 (a) and 3 (b) are cross-sectional views showing an embodiment of a method for accommodating an electric wire in a protector according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an electric wire housing method using a jig as a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 protector body 21 side wall 21a notch portion 3 hook metal fitting 4 hook metal fitting 5 rubber band 6 cover

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electric wire is housed in a protector body which is formed in a substantially U-shaped cross-section and has notches at predetermined positions on both side walls thereof, and then at positions on both sides of the protector body corresponding to the notches. It is characterized in that a rubber band is laid between a pair of hook metal fittings that are arranged on the protector body, while the rubber band inserted into the protector body from the notch holds down the electric wire inside the protector body while covering the protector body. How to store wires in the protector. 2. A protector body having a substantially U-shaped cross section and having notches formed at predetermined positions on both side walls thereof. Part of a predetermined electric wire is housed in the protector body, and the cutouts are formed on both sides of the protector body. The rubber band is laid between a pair of hooks arranged at the positions corresponding to the parts, and the rubber band inserted into the protector body from the notch holds down the electric wire inside the protector body while leaving the remaining part inside the protector body. A method for accommodating electric wires in a protector, characterized in that, after accommodating the electric wires, the rubber band is replaced, and all the electric wires are held down by the rubber band, and the protector body is covered with a cover. 3. The method of accommodating an electric wire in a protector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein one of the pair of hook metal fittings is a pillar-shaped metal fitting arranged substantially parallel to a side wall of the protector body. It is what 4. The method of accommodating an electric wire in a protector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at the time of covering the protector main body with a cover, the electric wire is no longer caught between the two at any stage. The rubber band is removed from the protector body.