Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Hiroki Yuasa

Isamu Takahashi

Yuji Tanaka

Seiya Tanji

Yusuke Kanna

A wire harness unit includes a first electrical cable, a first tubular member that covers the first electrical cable, a rubber member that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular member, a bracket that includes a first fixing portion supporting the first tubular member with the rubber member in between, and a fastening member that surrounds and fastens the rubber member and the first fixing portion. The first tubular member is made of a metal that contains a first metal as a major component. The bracket is made of a metal that contains a second metal, which is different from the first metal, as a major component.

Wire harness unit

When not in use and axis of a grommet is straight, a grommet entire length is 120% or greater and 150% or less of a distance from a through hole of a body panel to an opposing member, an accordion sleeve outer diameter is 37% or greater and 42% or less of the grommet entire length, an accordion sleeve length is 50% or greater and 55% or less of the grommet entire length, an accordion sleeve pitch is 12% or greater and 17% or less of the accordion sleeve length. When in use and the grommet is bent, an angle between opening directions of first and second openings is ninety degrees or greater, and a grommet length in the opening direction of the second opening is 82% or greater and 87% or less of the distance from the through hole of the body panel to the opposing member.

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Hiroki Yuasa