JPH11126662A - Fixing member for fixing connector to wire material bundle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing member for fixing a connector to a wire material bundle capable of simply fixing the connector to the trunk line-shaped wire material bundle and simplifying work after the continuity inspection of a connector. SOLUTION: In a fixing member for fixing a connector 14 fixed to the tip of a branch harness 13 branched from the specified position of a trunk line harness 12 to the trunk line harness 12, the fixing member is constituted with a cover main body 15 having a bus bar to be connected with a terminal of the connector 14 and a band member 16 fixed to the cover main body 15 and wound on the trunk line harness 12.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mounting member for mounting a connector to a bundle of wires, and more particularly, to a branch harness branched from a bundle of wires such as a wire harness provided in a vehicle body or an electric device. The present invention relates to an attachment member for attaching a connector to a wire bundle, which allows the connector to be easily attached to a wire harness.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a wire harness mounted on a vehicle body or an electric device is connected to a battery and a plurality of electric circuits. Therefore, a connector is mounted at an end of the wire harness. The branch harness is branched from the extending direction of the wire harness, and a connector is also attached to the tip of the branch harness. This connector is not in a free state but is fixed to the wire harness, and is shown, for example, in FIGS.

[0003] In FIG. 4, reference numeral 1 denotes a wire harness. A branch harness 2 branches from a predetermined portion of the wire harness 1. Is installed. After the wiring harness 1 is subjected to operations such as wiring and attachment of the connector 3 on the wiring harness assembly drawing board, the wiring harness 1 is transferred from the wiring harness assembly drawing board to a continuity inspection step.
After the continuity test is performed, the tape 4 can be attached to the wire harness 1.

On the other hand, in FIG. 5, a connector 5 containing a diode is attached to the tip of a branch harness 2. This wire harness 1 is also used for wiring and mounting of the connector 5 on a wire harness assembly drawing board. After the operation, the wire harness is transferred from the assembly drawing board to the continuity inspection step. After the continuity inspection of the connector 5 is performed in the continuity inspection step, the connector 5 is attached to the wire harness 1 by the tape 6.

[0005]

However, such conventional connectors 3 and 5 are attached to the wire harness 1 by tapes 4 and 6 after the continuity test. Was troublesome and time consuming. In particular, the joint connector 3 that is connected to 20 circuits has a large width of about 45 mm, so that the operation of winding three tapes is very troublesome.

Further, since the connectors 3 and 5 are attached to the wire harness 1 by tapes 4 and 6 after the continuity test,
Unnecessary tape winding work after the continuity test increased, and the manufacturing work of the wire harness 1 became more troublesome. Therefore, the present invention provides an attachment member for attaching a connector to a wire bundle, which makes it possible to easily attach the connector to a trunk wire bundle and to simplify the work after the continuity test of the connector. It is intended to be.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In order to solve the above problem, a mounting member for mounting a connector attached to a tip of a branched wire bundle branched from a predetermined position of a trunk wire bundle to the trunk wire bundle, wherein the terminal of the connector is It is characterized by comprising a cover main body having a terminal to be connected, and a band member attached to the cover main body and wound around the trunk wire bundle.

In this case, the connector can be attached to the trunk wire bundle via the cover body by attaching the connector to the cover body after attaching the cover body to the trunk wire bundle in advance by the band member. Therefore, the connector can be easily and quickly attached to the trunk wire bundle, and the workability of the connector attaching operation can be improved. Further, since it is only necessary to attach the connector to the cover body after the continuity test of the connector, the operation after the continuity test can be simplified.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are views showing a first embodiment of an attachment member for attaching a connector according to the present invention to a wire bundle. First, the configuration will be described. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes a wire harness as a wire rod bundle.
Reference numeral 11 denotes a branch harness (branch wire bundle) 13 branched from a predetermined position of a trunk harness (branch wire bundle) 12. At a tip of the branch harness 13, for example, a joint connector 14 capable of passing through 20 circuits is provided. Installed.

On the other hand, in FIG. 2, reference numeral 15 denotes a cover body, and the cover body 15 has a built-in bus bar (terminal) connectable to a terminal of the joint connector 14 therein. A band member 16 is attached to the cover body 15, and the band member 16 is connected to the cover body 15 by a connecting portion 16a.
It is fixed to. In addition, the band member 16 has a saw-like uneven portion 16b formed in the extending direction, and a lock groove 16c is formed at the distal end. The hand member 16 is locked after being wound around the trunk harness 13. Saw-like uneven portion 16b in groove 16c
Are locked, so that they can be attached to the main harness 13. In the present embodiment, the cover body 15 and the hand member 16 constitute an attachment member.

Next, the operation will be described. Wire harness 11
As is well known, a plurality of electric wires are wired on a wire harness assembly drawing board so as to become a main harness 12 and a branch harness 13 and then bound by a tape. The connector 14 is attached to the tip of the branch harness 13 while being attached.

The wire harness thus manufactured
After attaching the band member 16 to the main harness 12 and the cover body 15, removing the wire harness 11 from the wire harness assembly drawing board, transferring the wire harness 11 to the continuity inspection process, and After the continuity test of the connector 14 is performed, the connector 14 is attached to the cover main body 15 and then mounted on a panel of a vehicle body or an electric device.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the connector 14
A cover body 15 having a bus bar to which the terminals are connected,
Attached to the cover body 15, the main harness 12
Since the cover member 15 is attached to the trunk harness 12 by the band member 16 in advance, and the connector 14 is attached to the cover body 15, the connector 14 is attached to the cover body. It can be attached to the main harness 12 via 15.

For this reason, the connector 14 is connected to the main harness 12.
Can be easily and quickly installed on the connector
The workability of the mounting work of 14 can be improved. Further, since it is only necessary to attach the connector 14 to the cover main body 15 after the continuity test of the connector 14, the operation after the continuity test can be simplified. FIG. 3 is a view showing a second embodiment of the mounting member for mounting the connector according to the present invention to a wire bundle. In the present embodiment, only the configuration of the mounting member is different, and the configuration of the wire harness is the same as that of the first embodiment. Therefore, the configuration of the wire harness will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 21 denotes a cover main body in which a bus bar is built, and the cover main body 21 is formed with engaging rails 22a and 22b. Reference numeral 23 denotes a band member that forms an attachment member together with the cover body 21,
The band member 23 has a saw-like uneven portion 23a formed in the extending direction, and is provided with an engaging member 23c having an insertion hole 23b at a tip end.

A lock piece (not shown) is provided inside the engagement member 23c. After the hand member 23 is wound around the main line harness 13, the hand member 23 is inserted into the insertion hole 23b to form the saw-like uneven portion 23a. The main harness is locked by the locking piece.
13 can be attached. Also, lock groove 23
b, a fixing piece 23d is formed on the upper surface thereof.
Reference numeral 23d is adapted to be locked to the engaging rails 22a and 22b. For this reason, the band member 23 is integrally attached to the cover main body 21.

In this embodiment, after attaching the band member 23 to the trunk harness 12 of the wire harness 11, the fixing piece 23d is locked to the engaging rails 22a and 22b to integrate the band member 23 and the cover main body 21. . Next, after removing the wire harness 11 from the wire harness assembly drawing board, the wire harness 11 is transferred to a continuity inspection process, and after the continuity inspection of the connector 14 is performed in the continuity inspection process, the connector 14 is attached to the cover body 21. After that, it is mounted on a panel of a vehicle body or an electric device.

In this embodiment, the connector 14 is attached to the cover body 21 as described above.
The same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained. In addition,
In the first and second embodiments, a joint connector is used as the connector 14, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention can be applied to a connector having a built-in diode.
In short, anything can be used as long as it is a connector.

[0019]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the connector is attached to the cover body after the cover body is attached to the trunk wire bundle by the band member in advance, so that the connector is attached to the trunk wire via the cover body. Can be attached to a bundle of wires. Therefore, the connector can be easily and quickly attached to the trunk wire bundle, and the workability of the connector attaching operation can be improved. Further, since it is only necessary to attach the connector to the cover body after the continuity test of the connector, the operation after the continuity test can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a first embodiment of an attachment member for attaching a connector according to the present invention to a wire bundle, and is a diagram showing a state where the attachment member is attached to a wire harness.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a mounting member according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of an attachment member for attaching a connector according to the present invention to a wire bundle, and is an exploded view thereof.

FIG. 4 is a conventional example in which a connector is fixed to a trunk harness with a tape.

FIG. 5 shows another conventional example in which a connector is fixed to a trunk harness with a tape.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Wire harness (wire bundle) 12 Trunk harness (trunk wire bundle) 13 Branch harness (branch wire bundle) 14 Connector 15, 21 Cover body 16, 23 Band member

Claims (1)

[Claims] An attachment member for attaching a connector attached to a tip of a branched wire bundle branched from a predetermined position of the trunk wire bundle to the trunk wire bundle, to which terminals of the connector are connected. An attachment member for attaching a connector to a wire bundle, comprising: a cover body having terminals; and a band member attached to the cover body and wound around the trunk wire bundle.