US 11,987,190 B2
Wire harness
Ryuta Saito, Yokkaichi (JP); Katsutoshi Izawa, Yokkaichi (JP); and Kosuke Tanaka, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/990,278.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-192257 (JP), filed on Nov. 26, 2021; and application No. 2022-003732 (JP), filed on Jan. 13, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166675 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 16/02 (2006.01); H02G 3/04 (2006.01); H02G 3/32 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/0215 (2013.01) [H02G 3/0468 (2013.01); H02G 3/32 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wire harness comprising:
a wire harness main body that includes an electric wire and an exterior tube that covers an outer circumferential surface of the electric wire;
a first path restrictor that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the exterior tube and is configured to restrict a path of the wire harness main body; and
an attachment that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of a portion of the first path restrictor in a lengthwise direction thereof, wherein:
the first path restrictor has a C-like cross-sectional shape and covers a range larger than half of the outer circumferential surface of the exterior tube in a circumferential direction of the exterior tube, and is provided with an insertion port that is open in a direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the first path restrictor, the insertion port extending over an entirety of the first path restrictor in the lengthwise direction thereof,
the attachment is provided with a receiver that covers a portion of the first path restrictor in a circumferential direction thereof, and a lid that covers all the way around the first path restrictor together with the receiver,
the receiver is provided with a rail that extends in a lengthwise direction of the receiver,
the lid is provided with a slide that is configured to be slidable along the rail while engaging with the rail so that the lid does not become detached from the receiver,
the receiver and the lid sandwich the first path restrictor with the slide engaging with the rail,
the receiver is provided with a fitting target and a rotator configured to be rotatable about a thin hinge, and
the rotator is provided with a fitting configured to be fitted into the fitting target in a direction that intersects the lengthwise direction of the receiver when the rotator rotates, and the rotator prevents the slide from sliding, with the fitting being fitted into the fitting target.