US 12,134,360 B2
Impact and cut-through resistant, self-locating, multilayered textile sleeve and method of construction thereof
Steve Galamba, West Chester, PA (US); Fernando Salcedo, Southfield, MI (US); Alice Kaing, Margny les Compiegne (FR); and Jocelyn Pacquelet, Saint Etienne Roilaye (FR)
Assigned to Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC, Southfield, MI (US)
Filed by FEDERAL-MOGUL POWERTRAIN LLC, Southfield, MI (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/846,666.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/214,258, filed on Jun. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0410824 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 16/02 (2006.01); D03D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/0215 (2013.01) [D03D 1/0043 (2021.05)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A protective member for a wire harness and electrical member fixed thereto, comprising:
a tubular textile wall extending lengthwise between opposite open ends about a central axis; and
a tubular braided wall having a first region fixed to said tubular textile wall and a second region detached from said tubular textile wall, wherein said second region is extendible about said central axis away from one of said opposite open ends of said tubular textile wall, wherein said first region extends along an outer surface said tubular textile wall and is fixed to a first portion of said tubular textile wall adjacent a first one of said opposite ends, said second region extends along a second portion of said tubular textile wall, in detached relation therefrom, adjacent a second one of said opposite ends, wherein said second region of said tubular braided wall is axially extendible along said second portion of said tubular textile wall and axially beyond said second one of said opposite ends, such that said tubular braided wall is axially compressible and axially extendable along said second portion of said tubular textile wall,
wherein said tubular textile wall is a woven wall.