Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mikiya Matsuoka

Akinori Yamauchi

Kazuhiro Kusuyama

Michihito Suzuki

Naoto Kuzutani

Hirotaka Takasu

Hiroki Shukuri

A protector includes a protector body to hold a wire member and a temporary holding unit to temporarily hold a connector provided to an end of the wire member. The temporary holding unit includes a first holding part engageable with the first portion of the flange of the connector, and a second holding part located remote from the first holding part and engageable with the second portion of the flange of the connector. With the temporary holding unit temporarily holding the connector, the first holding part and the second holding part are located in an area where the temporary holding unit and the flange overlap one over the other, when viewed from an insertion direction.

Protector

A protective tube connection structure includes a protective tube through which an electric wire is inserted and has alternately large diameter portions and small diameter portions; and a covering member where an end portion of the protective tube is fixed, the electric wire led out from the end portion being disposed inside the body portion. A wire support portion is provided on a bottom plate portion vertically below the covering member such that the electric wire led out from the end portion of the protective tube is placed on the wire support portion at first and the wire support portion is located vertically above an inner surface of the small-diameter portion on an endmost side.

Protective tube connection structure

A temporary locking structure for an end portion of a wire harness is provided. An engaged shaft portion is provided in a bolt inserted into a through hole provided in a vehicle body panel. A plate-shaped engagement flange extends to a connector cover main body attached to an end portion of a wire harness, and has an engagement recessed portion. The engagement recessed portion of the engagement flange is engaged with an engaged shaft portion of the bolt, and thereby the end portion of the wire harness is temporary locked in the vehicle body panel.

Temporary locking structure for end portion of wire harness

A grommet includes a bellows portion and a movable-member-side fitting portion connected with an end of the bellows portion. The movable-member-side fitting portion has an outer surface connected with the bellows portion and an inner surface formed on the opposite side of the outer surface. On the outer surface, the bellows portion is connected to the movable-member-side fitting portion with unequal distances from an axial center of the bellows portion to the outer edge of the movable-member-side fitting portion. Furthermore, on the outer surface, a first outer rib is formed that extends along a direction having a maximum distance from the axial center to the outer edge with an outer peripheral surface of the bellows portion serving as its base.

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Aichi, Japan

Mikiya Matsuoka