Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Yokoyama

Masayoshi Ogawa

Shinichi Ikeda

Akitoshi Kimura

Yoshimichi Yamao

Yusuke Nagai

Makoto Goto

Akihisa Unoh

Akihito Kouketsu

Masanori Suzumura

Kiyotsugu Miura

Shota Kinoshita

Kazuyuki Kumoi

Hiroki Kawakami

Katsuya Yoshimura

Kazuyuki Shiga

Takaaki Yanagihashi

Keisuke Yamamoto

Tomohiro Muramatsu

Hirotada Suyama

Masafumi Nakayasu

A grommet assembly includes a grommet through which a wiring material is inserted, that is attached to a through hole formed on a panel, and a protector through which the wiring material is inserted, that is attached to the panel to house the grommet. The grommet includes a lip part that is formed toward the panel to abut on the panel, and the protector includes a wall part that is extended toward the panel to cover an outer side of the lip part.

Grommet assembly with lip and protector, and wire harness

A grommet assembly includes: a grommet through which a wiring material is inserted, that is attached to a through hole formed on a panel for a vehicle; a resin inner arranged to abut on a side of the grommet opposite to the panel for the vehicle; and a protector through which the wiring material is inserted, the protector being locked to the resin inner and attached to the panel for the vehicle to hold the grommet and the resin inner between the protector and the panel for the vehicle.

Grommet assembly and wire harness

A wire harness manufacturing method includes: an insertion step of inserting a binding member through an insertion hole of a protective member; a temporary retention step of inserting the binding member through a temporary retention notch in a state where the binding member is inserted through the insertion hole, and hooking the binding member, which is in a state of being inserted through the temporary retention notch, to the temporary retention projection to achieve temporary retention of the binding member on the temporary retention projection; a routing step of routing a wiring member in a routing space in a state where the binding member is temporarily retained on the temporary retention projection; and a binding step of detaching the binding member.

Wire harness manufacturing method, wire harness, protective member assembly, and protective member

A grommet assembly includes a grommet attached to a through hole formed on a panel, an inner member supported by the grommet, and a protector that is attached to the panel while covering the grommet and the inner member. The grommet includes a supporting part that supports the inner member. The supporting part includes a first extending part that extends from an outer side toward an inner side in a radial direction to be held between the inner member and the protector, and a second extending part that extends in an axial direction while being bent from the first extending part to be held between the inner member and the protector.

A liquid discharge structure includes a bottom wall with a discharge opening for liquid, the liquid being collected inside a casing which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a blocking wall disposed outside the bottom wall so that the blocking wall is overlapped with the discharge opening in a plan view on the bottom wall and opposed to the bottom wall with a gap, and a pair of vertical walls extending towards the bottom wall from the blocking wall in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, the pair of vertical walls being opposed to each other in a width direction of the vehicle, wherein the pair of vertical walls is configured to define a discharge path together with the bottom wall and the blocking wall, the discharge path being opened towards both of a front and rear side of the vehicle.

Liquid discharge structure

A liquid discharge structure includes a bottom wall to be disposed tilted relative to a horizontal plane at a casing which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a lateral wall arranged vertically at a lower end edge of the bottom wall, wherein the lower end edge is configured to be located on a lower side of the bottom wall being tilted, wherein the lateral wall has a discharge opening for liquid located at an end of the lateral wall closer to the bottom wall, a tubular rib wall projecting at least inwardly within the casing from the lateral wall so as to surround the discharge opening, and a partitioning rib wall which is arranged vertically on an inner surface of the bottom wall at a position closer to the lateral wall so that the partitioning rib wall extends intersecting a center axis of the tubular rib wall.

A wire harness includes a connector and a grommet. The connector includes an inner member having an annular plate-shaped flange. The inner member includes a first divided inner part, a second divided inner part, a deformable hinge that connects one end of the first divided inner part and one end of the second divided inner part to each other, and a lock portion that is formed on a fitting portion between the other end of the first divided inner part and the other end of the second divided inner part. The lock portion is formed on a portion where the other end of the first divided inner part and the other end of the second divided inner part are fitted to each other by sliding movement in accordance with a twisting of the hinge about a first axis.

Wire harness and waterproof structure

An objective of the present invention is to improve the discharge capacity for liquid collected within a casing while suppressing liquid entering a discharge opening from the outside. A liquid discharge structure includes a plate-shaped bottom wall with a discharge opening for liquid, the liquid being collected inside a casingwhich is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a blocking wall outside the bottom wall, wherein the blocking wall is overlapped with the discharge opening in a plan view on the bottom wall and opposed to the bottom wall with a gap between the blocking wall and the bottom wall, and a fixing mechanism which is disposed not to be overlapped with the discharge opening in the plan view, wherein the fixing mechanism is configured to fix the blocking wall relative to the bottom wall in an attachable and detachable manner.

A grommet includes a tapered barrel part and a tape winding spatula part. The tapered barrel part includes a large diameter cylindrical portion, a small diameter cylindrical portion, and an elastic deformation portion disposed between the large diameter cylindrical portion and the small diameter cylindrical portion. A fitting groove to be fitted in a through hole of a panel, is formed on the large diameter cylindrical portion. A thick walled portion is formed on an inner side of the elastic deformation portion. The tape winding spatula part is connected to the small diameter cylindrical portion and holds a wire harness passed through therein.

Grommet

A grommet includes: an enlarged-diameter cylindrical portion that has a fitted groove that is around a larger-diameter-side peripheral portion and is configured to be fitted to a through hole of a panel, and an elastically deformable portion that extends from the larger-diameter-side peripheral portion to a smaller-diameter-side peripheral portion and is elastically deformable; and a smaller-diameter cylindrical portion that is configured to be connected with the smaller-diameter-side peripheral portion of the enlarged-diameter cylindrical portion, and in which a wire harness is inserted. A reinforcement rib protrudes from an interior surface of the elastically deformable portion of the enlarged-diameter cylindrical portion. The reinforcement rib is T-shaped. The reinforcement rib has depressions for deformation. The depressions for deformation face in the opposite directions. An intersection of the reinforcement rib that is T-shaped is between the depressions for deformation.

A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and an electric wire guide body projecting toward an outside of the protector accommodating chamber from the protector body. The electric wire guide body is bent such that an intermediate position between a support portion on a side of the protector body and a tip portion is lower than heights of both the support portion and the tip portion with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.

A grommet includes a panel mounting portion to be mounted on a panel having an attachment hole, and an inner member to be assembled to the panel mounting portion and fitted into the attachment hole to lock an edge portion of the attachment hole. The panel mounting portion includes a base portion formed in an annular shape, a seal portion formed on the base portion, and a groove portion formed between the base portion and the seal portion, the groove portion being continuous in a peripheral direction. The inner member includes a restriction piece, which abuts against the edge portion of the attachment hole when the inner member is obliquely fitted into the attachment hole of the panel.

A grommet which is configured to cover a periphery of a wire harness includes a panel mounting portion which is configured to be mounted to a panel. The panel mounting portion includes a base portion which is formed in an annular shape, a seal portion which is formed on the base portion and is configured to be in close contact with a surface of the panel, and a groove portion which is formed between the base portion and the seal portion along a peripheral direction of the panel mounting portion. A plurality of reinforcing ribs are configured to connect the base portion and the seal portion and are arranged in the peripheral direction in the groove portion, and the reinforcing ribs are inclined with respect to a mounting direction of the panel mounting portion to the panel.

A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body. The protector body includes a rib on an outer surface of the protector body. The rib projects toward an inner surface of the protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and extends along a direction toward a lower side from an upper side with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.

A panel mounting portion of a grommet includes an annular shaped base portion, a seal portion formed on the base portion, and a groove portion formed between the base portion and the seal portion. The seal portion includes a support portion extending forward from the base portion in a mounting direction to the panel, an extension portion extending outward from the support portion in a radial direction, a lip portion formed on the extension portion such that the lip portion protrudes forward in the mounting direction, and a thin portion formed at a middle portion of the support portion in the mounting direction. The panel mounting portion is pressed against the panel, so that the support portion is elastically deformed at the thin portion. And, the lip portion is in close contact with the panel in a state of protruding forward in the mounting direction.

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Toyota, Japan

Satoshi Yokoyama