US 11,942,768 B2
Wire cover and wiring member
Hironobu Yamamoto, Yokkaichi (JP); Kyungwoo Kim, Yokkaichi (JP); Toshinari Kobayashi, Yokkaichi (JP); Moriyuki Shimizu, Yokkaichi (JP); Yukitoshi Terasaka, Yokkaichi (JP); and Hiroyuki Koyano, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yokkaichi (JP)
Filed by Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yokkaichi (JP)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/813,071.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-118928 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0019520 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H02G 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02G 3/0437 (2013.01) [H02G 3/0418 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wire cover that holds a bent section of an electric wire, the wire cover comprising:
an inner cover member that includes an inner cover body that covers the bent section from an inner peripheral side thereof, a first inner attachment portion provided at one end portion of the inner cover body, and a second inner attachment portion provided at the other end portion of the inner cover body; and
an outer cover member that includes an outer cover body that covers the bent section from an outer peripheral side thereof, a first outer attachment portion provided at one end portion of the outer cover body, and a second outer attachment portion provided at the other end portion of the outer cover body,
wherein the inner cover member and the outer cover member are fixed through attachment of a first attachment portion that includes the first inner attachment portion and the first outer attachment portion and a second attachment portion that includes the second inner attachment portion and the second outer attachment portion,
the one end portion of the inner cover body and the one end portion of the outer cover body sandwich the electric wire along a first direction,
the other end portion of the inner cover body and the other end portion of the outer cover body sandwich the electric wire along a second direction that intersects the first direction,
the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are positioned outward of a surface of the inner cover body on the innermost side of the bent section or inward of a surface of the outer cover body on the outermost side of the bent section when observed from a third direction that intersects a plane that includes the first direction and the second direction, and
the inner cover member and the outer cover member move relative to each other along the first direction such that the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are attached to the inner cover member and the outer cover member; and
wherein the inner cover member and the outer cover member are separate pieces that are removably detached from each other along the first direction; and
wherein one of the inner cover member and the outer cover member including a pair of first side walls recessed inwardly from a pair of supporting portions and the other of the inner cover member and the outer cover member includes a pair of second side walls configured to engage a corresponding one of the pair of supporting portions wherein an inner surface of each of the pair of second side walls engage an outer surface of a corresponding one of the pair of first side walls.