JPH08317527A - Molding protector for wire harness - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily wind a tape to a bending section in order to improve molding efficiency of wire harness and prevent the occurrence of defective winding of tape to the wire harness by selecting skip-saving and setting to the predetermined position of a tongue-shaped fitting piece. CONSTITUTION: A tongue-shaped fitting piece 2 to a body and apparatus is provided at a rotating cover section 5 to select saving to the upper part of the tongue-shaped piece 2 by up-skipping of the rotating cover 5 and setting to the predetermined position by rotation. Therefore, the working means or method can be selected so that, for example, until the tape is wound 11 to a wire harness 10, the tongue-shaped fitting piece 2 is saved by up-skipping in the area near the bending section 4 and after completion of tape winding 11, the rotating cover 5 is set by rotation to set the tongue-shaped fitting piece 2 to the predetermined position. Thereby, the molding work of the wire harness 10 can be improved and the occurrence of defective tape winding 11 to the wire harness 10 can be prevented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wire harness molding protector used for accommodating and mounting a wire harness on a vehicle body / equipment, and adjusting and maintaining the arrangement posture of the wire harness on the vehicle body or the like. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A molded protector for a wire harness (see FIG. 3) has a basic shape of a long groove body for penetrating and accommodating the wire harness 10 and has a complicated bending shape which is aligned with a route of disposing a vehicle body or the like. There is a tongue-shaped mounting piece structure in which a mounting bolt (not shown) is inserted into a bolt hole 3 of a tongue-shaped mounting piece 2 projecting laterally from the elongated groove body and fixed to a vehicle body or the like. in use. Then, for example, since the wire harness arranged in the automobile is arranged in the route of the narrow arrangement space where many other devices / members 20 are present, the tongue-like attachment piece 2 is preferentially laid out. It is set to a position avoiding other devices / members 20 to be operated.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional tongue-shaped attachment piece structure has a molded protector 1 for wire harness.
In the vicinity of the bent portion 4 that sharply bends in the longitudinal direction of the wire harness 10, the tongue-like attachment on the inside of the bend is performed because the arrangement of the other device / member 20 is prioritized. The play C between the piece 2 and the bent portion 4 may have to be set to an extremely small amount.

Therefore, with such a set configuration of the tongue-shaped attachment piece 2, the tape roll 12 of the tape 17 wound around the bent portion 4 cannot pass through the play C, and is pulled out from the tape roll 12. The tape 17 is taken by a fingertip and put in the play C to apply the tape winding 11. This is a very difficult work, requires a lot of trouble, and has a drawback that the tape winding 11 is deficient. Further, since the wire harness 10 is housed in the molding protector 1 and the work of the tape winding 11 is performed on the mass production molding line of the wire harness having a fast processing tact, the processing of the mass production molding line is performed due to the existence of the difficult and inefficient work described above. This is a factor that slows down the tact and hinders the molding productivity of wire harnesses.

The present invention provides a molded protector for a wire harness having a tongue-shaped attachment piece structure that solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art.

[0006]

The molded protector for a wire harness according to the present invention which solves the above technical problems is described as follows: "The side wall of a long U-shaped groove for accommodating a wire harness penetrates the vehicle body
In a molded protector for a wire harness in which a tongue-shaped attachment piece is projectingly provided, a flip-up bridge-shaped protector having the tongue-like attachment piece in front of a lid piece bridged to an upper opening of the U-shaped groove body. A rotary lid is hinged to one side wall of the U-shaped groove, and the tongue-shaped mounting piece is attached to the other side of the U-shaped groove by closing the upper opening by the rotary lid. It has a structure in which it can be set up on the side wall freely.

That is, the molded protector for a wire harness according to the present invention is provided with a tongue-shaped attachment piece for a vehicle body / apparatus on the above-mentioned turning lid portion, and the tongue-like attachment piece is formed by flipping up the turning lid portion. It is configured so that the upward retraction and the set to a predetermined position by the rotation transfer can be selected, and the present invention is applied to the position in the vicinity of the bent portion 4 where the dynamic change is required.

[0008]

In the wire harness molding protector of the present invention having the above-described structure, since the flip-up and withdrawal of the tongue-like mounting method and the predetermined position set can be selected, for example, in the vicinity of the bent portion 4, the tape winding 11 Until the tongue-shaped attachment piece is flipped up and retracted, and after the winding of the tape 11 is completed, the rotary lid is pivotally set to project and set the tongue-shaped attachment piece in a predetermined position. A procedure / working method can be adopted, and a series of work for storing the wire harness in the wire harness molding protector, from the storage of the wire harness to the tape winding set, becomes extremely easy. And, the transfer set of the rotation lid part is simply set by rotation,
The turning lid part, which is made possible by one-touch operation and has the tongue-shaped attachment piece set at a predetermined position, functions as a closing lid for the upper opening of the wire harness molding protector.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A wire harness molding protector according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIG.
That is, a molded protector for a wire harness, which is composed of a long U-shaped groove body which penetrates and houses the wire harness 10, and which is provided with a tongue-shaped mounting piece 2 protruding from the side of the U-shaped groove body for mounting and fixing to the vehicle body. 1 (hereinafter simply referred to as “mold protector 1”), the wire harness 10 has a length of about 9 mm.
A tongue-shaped attachment piece 2 provided on a flip-up bridge-shaped turning lid portion 5 is provided in the vicinity of the bent portion 4 bent at 0 ° so as to project.

More specifically, a flip-up bridge-shaped rotating lid portion 5
Is a rectangular plate lid piece 8 bridging transversely in the upper opening 13 of the U-shaped groove protector 1, and the protector 1
The side wall overlapping piece 9 of a rectangular plate attached and polymerized on the outside of the other side wall 7 and the tongue-shaped attachment piece 2 of a required shape are bent at 90 ° to each other, and are successively and integrally provided. The base end of the hinge protector 8 is attached to the upper end of the one side wall 6 of the molding protector 1, and the hinge part 1
It is connected via 6.

When the wire harness 10 is inserted or the tape is wound on the bent portion 4, the rotating lid portion 5 can be flipped up as shown by the solid line in the drawing to open the upper opening portion 13. Then, when the rotating lid portion 5 is rotationally transferred to a set state as shown by a dotted line in the drawing, the lid piece 8 is bridged to the upper opening portion 13 to close the upper opening portion 13 and the side wall overlapping piece 9 is removed. Polymerization is carried out on the outside of the side wall 7. Then, the tongue-shaped attachment piece 2 at the tip protrudes from the lower end of the other side wall 7 and is set parallel to the bent portion 4 with a small clearance C existing between the bent portion 4 and this set state. A mounting bolt is inserted into the bolt hole 3 of the tongue-shaped mounting piece 2, and the molded protector 1 is arranged and fixed to the vehicle body.

The rotating lid portion 5 is provided with a set lock portion consisting of a locking projection 14 projecting from the other side wall 7 and a locking hole 15 provided in the side wall overlapping piece 9, and the above-mentioned rotation is provided. The motion transition posture is locked to "pachin", and even if the molded protector 1 arranged on the vehicle body is subjected to vibration of the vehicle body, the set lid state of the rotary lid portion 5 is maintained.

In the molding protector 1 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 (see FIG. 1B), the rotary lid 5 is provided between the insertion of the wire harness 10 and the winding of the tape 11 on the inserted wire harness. No winding posture, tape winding 11
After the above, the tongue-shaped attachment piece 2 in the vicinity of the bent portion 4 can be brought into a desired projecting posture by rotationally transferring.

Therefore, due to the presence of the other device / member 20 preferentially arranged around the arrangement route of the molding protector 1, there is a "small play C between the tongue-shaped attachment piece 2 and the bent portion 4. Even if only "" is allowed, the work of the tape winding 11 becomes extremely easy to perform, and by improving this workability, defective defective winding of the tape winding 11 can be prevented and processing of the wire harness mass production molding line can be prevented. The factor that slows down the tact can be eliminated.

The molding protector 1 of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but the lid piece 8 of the rotating lid portion 5 is formed into a concave shape so that the U-shaped groove is set when the upper opening portion 13 is bridged. The concave portion is inserted in the groove to make it function as a pressing plate of the wire harness 10 in the groove, or the lid piece 8 is widened to make the upper opening 13
May be shaped so as to close a wide portion thereof, and the set lock portion of the rotating lid portion 5 has a locking projection 14 with a locking claw provided on the side wall overlapping piece 9, as shown in FIG. In some cases, the other side wall 7 may be combined with the locking hole 15 that is formed by cutting out.

[0016]

As described above, the molding protector for wire harnesses of the present invention improves the workability of the storage set of the wire harness and improves the molding productivity of the mass production of wire harnesses. The improvement in workability has the effect of preventing the occurrence of defective tape winding on the wire harness and improving the molding quality of the wire harness.

[Brief description of drawings]

1A and 1B show a molded protector for a wire harness according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1A is a perspective view thereof, and FIG.

FIG. 2 shows a molded protector for a wire harness according to another embodiment of the present invention, (A) is a perspective view thereof, and (B) is a transverse sectional view thereof.

3A and 3B show a conventional molded protector for a wire harness, in which FIG. 3A is a perspective view thereof, and FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Wire Harness Molding Protector 2 Tongue-shaped Attachment Piece 3 Bolt Hole 4 Bent Section 5 Rotating Lid Section 6 Side Side Wall 7 Other Side Side Wall 8 Lid Side Piece 9 Side Wall Overlapping Piece 10 Wire Harness 11 Tape Winding 12 Tape Roll 13 Upper Opening Part 14 Locking protrusion 15 Locking hole 16 Hinge part 17 Tape 20 Other equipment / members C Play space

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A wire harness molded protector in which a tongue-shaped attachment piece for a vehicle body / device is provided on a side wall of an elongated U-shaped groove body that penetrates and accommodates a wire harness. A flip-up bridge-shaped turning lid portion having the tongue-like attachment piece is hingedly connected to one side wall of the U-shaped groove in front of the lid piece bridging the portion, and the turning lid portion is used to A molded protector for a wire harness, characterized in that the tongue-shaped mounting piece is projectably set on the other side wall of the U-shaped groove by closing the upper opening.