Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Hiroto Ueno

Yutaka Takata

Masamichi Yamagiwa

Atsushi Murata

Osamu Sato

Yukihiro Shirafuji

Nobumasa Takihara

Makoto Kamiya

Satoshi Tanigawa

Shinichi Igarashi

A wire harness has an exterior component () that covers a certain part of at least one wires (). The exterior component () has parts having different hardness, including a relatively hard first part (), a relatively soft second part (), and a third part () having an intermediate hardness between that of the first parts (). The first part is formed on a surface of the exterior component and functions as a shape keeping member and a protector. The second and third parts () surround the certain part of the at least one wireand each functions as a cushioning material and a muffler/soundproofing material. The first part (), the second part (), and the third part () are formed integrally from a non-woven fabric () with thermo plasticity.

Wire harness

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Hiroto Ueno