US 11,869,683 B2
Electric wire outer cover and covered wire harness
Takashi Oshino, Tokyo (JP); Yoshikazu Kamei; Hiroshi Suyama, Tokyo (JP); and Naoyuki Kojima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Inukami-gun (JP)
Filed by FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Inukami-gun (JP)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/445,029.
Application 17/445,029 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/048040, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-030075 (JP), filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0375503 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H02G 3/04 (2006.01); H01B 7/17 (2006.01); H01B 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 7/17 (2013.01) [H01B 7/0045 (2013.01); H02G 3/04 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric wire outer cover to be fitted around an electric wire, comprising:
a tubular housing portion where the electric wire is to be housed, the housing portion being formed of a sheet including a projection provided on a first end of the sheet and a hole extending through the sheet at a second end of the sheet which is opposite to the first end, the sheet being formed in a folded state to provide walls forming the housing portion which include a first wall having the projection formed therefrom and a second wall having the hole formed therein, and the housing portion is formed by engagement between the first wall and the second wall by passing a portion of the projection through the hole to form the tubular housing portion having an internal surface and an external surface with the projection extending from the external surface; and
a weld connection formed by melting of the projection that has passed through the hole such that the melted projection is larger than the hole and welded to the exterior surface of the second wall.