US 11,854,719 B2
Wire harness
Fumitoshi Imasato, Yokkaichi (JP); Yusuke Maejima, Yokkaichi (JP); Yasuyuki Otsuka, Yokkaichi (JP); Toyoki Furukawa, Yokkaichi (JP); and Kyoma Sahashi, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/770,789
Filed by AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/039686
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/095477, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-204757 (JP), filed on Nov. 12, 2019; and application No. 2020-067802 (JP), filed on Apr. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0375645 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H01B 7/00 (2006.01); H01B 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 7/0045 (2013.01) [H01B 7/0823 (2013.01); H01B 7/0846 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wire harness, comprising first and second electric wires arranged side by side in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the electric wires, wherein
each of the first and second electric wires comprises a conductor comprising a plurality of elemental wires;
the second electric wire comprises a larger conductor cross-sectional area than the first electric wire;
the second electric wire comprises the larger outer diameter of the elemental wires composing the conductor than the first electric wire;
the second electric wire comprises a same or smaller number of elemental wires composing the conductor in comparison with the first electric wire;
the conductors of the first and second electric wires comprise a flat portion with the cross section of the conductor intersecting the axial direction of the electric wire having a flat shape and;
the first and second electric wires are arranged along a width direction of the flat shape; and
in the cross section of the flat shape, defining a length in the width direction of the flat shape as W and a length in a height direction intersecting the width direction as T, the second electric wire has a same flatness ratio W/T as the first electric wire.