The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitsutaka Ohara

Hajime Watanabe

Yutaka Matsuda

Minoru Asano

A flat cable includes a strip having lead wires therein, and projecting portions formed on the strip as branch joints and projecting in the width direction of the strip. The branch joint allows a connection between the lead wires or between the lead wire and an electric connection line. A laminated cable harness includes the flat cables laminated one on top of the other, and connecting terminals or wires for electrically connecting between the lead wire of one flat cable and the lead wire of the other flat cable so that the branch joint is completed.

Flat cable and laminated cable harness

The present invention provides a vehicle air-conditioning module wherein the surface thereof opposed to the mounting surface of an instrument panel includes at least one electrical component connector which is to be connected directly with the connector of the corresponding one of electrical components through a mount opening formed through the mounting surface of the instrument panel. The present invention also provides another vehicle air-conditioning module comprising an air-conditioner body mounted on the inner wall of a dash panel partitioning between a passenger room and an engine room, an electrical connection box mounted on the top of the air-conditioner body, a first connector mounted in a through-aperture formed in the dash panel and electrically connected with an engine room wire harness, and a second connector mounted on the surface of the electrical connection box opposed to the engine room and electrically connected with the corresponding one of electronic parts in the electrical connection box while fitting to the first connector.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsutaka Ohara