Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Yasushi Itani

Yuichi Kimoto

Masanori Kuwahara

Naoki Aoyama

Yoshinori Sugimoto

Fujio Sonoda

Katsutoshi Izawa

Hiroki Tamaru

Takeshi Shimizu

Masaharu Suetani

Tomoya Kawaguchi

Masashi Fujiki

Koji Fukumoto

Sonoda Fujio

A wire harness including: a wire having a core wire and an insulating coating that coats an outer periphery of the core wire; and an electromagnetic shield that surrounds an outer periphery of the wire, wherein: the electromagnetic shield has a plurality of split tubes that each have an opening in a horizontal cross-sectional shape thereof, the plurality of split tubes of the electromagnetic shield are combined such that the openings of the plurality of split tubes are fitted to each other, thereby forming a tubular body, a horizontal cross-sectional shape of the tubular body formed by combining the plurality of split tubes is a shape that corresponds to an outer peripheral surface of the core wire, and the plurality of split tubes of the electromagnetic shield are each in direct surface contact with the wire, or indirect surface contact with the wire via another layer.

Wire harness

A wire harness including: a plurality of wires each including a core wire whose transverse cross-sectional shape is a flat shape, and an insulating sheath covering an outer circumference of the core wire; a plurality of outer covers into which the plurality of wires are inserted respectively, wherein the outer covers are independent of each other and each have a flat tubular shape; and a clamp that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the outer covers and that fix the outer covers to a vehicle body.

A wire harness having a bent router configured to be routed in a bent manner in a vehicle, the wire harness including: a wire; an exterior tube enclosing an outer peripheral surface of the wire; and a heat transfer tube having a rectangular tubular shape, provided between the wire and the exterior tube, and contacting an entire periphery of both the outer peripheral surface of the wire and an inner peripheral surface of the exterior tube, wherein the wire has an exposed part not covered by the heat transfer tube.

An electromagnetic shield component that includes a tube that is electrically conductive and has an internal space through which an electrical wire is to be inserted, wherein the tube includes: a first half-split tube that has a half-split tubular shape and has two first ends in a circumferential direction; a second half-split tube that has a half-split tubular shape and has two second ends in the circumferential direction that are provided so as to face the two first ends of the first half-split tube in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of connectors that contain a crystal refining agent, and are provided between, and are welded to, the two first ends of the first half-split tube in the circumferential direction and the two second ends of the second half-split tube in the circumferential direction.

Electromagnetic shield component and wire harness

A connector-equipped wire includes a terminal, and a wire including a core and an insulation coating provided around the core. The terminal is connected to an end part and is formed with a bulge so that a part of an end part of the insulation coating protrudes radially out. Further, the connector-equipped wire includes a connector housing including a body formed with a cavity into which the wire is to be inserted, and formed with a step on an inner peripheral surface of the cavity of the body. The bulge comes into contact with the step, and a retainer to be locked to the connector housing with the bulge pressed toward the step.

Connector-equipped wire and production method for connector-equipped wire

A wiring module equipped with an external covering member includes an external covering pipe; a first conductive wire member that is inserted into the external covering pipe, a first end portion of the first conductive wire member extending from a first-end opening portion of the external covering pipe; a second conductive wire member that is connected to the first end portion of the first conductive wire member via a connection portion that is located outward of the first-end opening portion of the external covering pipe; and a bending mitigating member that is capable of undergoing elastic bending deformation more easily than the external covering pipe, a first end portion of the bending mitigating member being fixed to the first-end opening portion of the external covering pipe, and the bending mitigating member extending up to the connection portion or beyond the connection portion while surrounding the first conductive wire member.

Wiring module equipped with external cover member

An object is to prevent electric wires from being brought into contact with, and being damaged by, an edge of a rigid pipe of an electromagnetic shielding component, without need for an additional component such as a cover for an end portion of the pipe, despite the increased density of the electric wires within a hollow space in the pipe. A shielding pipe includes an expanded-diameter portion that is an end portion whose inner and outer circumferential surfaces each have a diameter that is greater than diameters of inner and outer circumferential surfaces of a portion that is contiguous with the expanded-diameter portion. A ring-shaped coupling member holds an overlapping portion of a flexible shielding member, the overlapping portion being sandwiched between the coupling member and the inner circumferential surface of the shielding pipe. The overlapping portion overlaps the inner circumferential surface of the expanded-diameter portion.

Electromagnetic shielding component and electric wire assembly with electromagnetic shielding component

An electric cable with protection member that makes it possible to waterproof an electric cable, ensure shock resistance with respect to a portion of the electric cable, and maintain the shape of the electric cable and, furthermore, that is easily adaptable to specification changes and dimensional tolerances and is produced at low cost. An electric cable with protection member includes an electric cable, a tube that is continuous in a circumferential direction, a metal exterior member surrounding the circumference of a portion of the tube, and a plurality of fixing portions. The metal exterior member is a member that is formed in a tubular shape capable of bending deformation and that can maintain a fixed shape against the load of the electric cable and the tube. The fixing portions are portions that can be fixed to a support.

Electric cable with protection member

A electromagnetic shielding member whose tubular shape is maintained with a simpler structure. The electromagnetic shielding member includes a pluralities of first and second protrusions that are respectively formed at first and second edges in a circumferential direction of a metal plate member that has been bent into a tubular shape. The plurality of first protrusions are formed, spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, each of the first protrusions having a first wider portion closer to its tip than the first narrower portion. The plurality of second protrusions are formed, spaced apart in the longitudinal direction, each of the second protrusions having a second wider portion closer to its tip than the second narrower portion. The metal plate member is formed into the tubular shape so that the first protrusions and the second protrusions are engaged with each other and are interposed with each other.

Electromagnetic shielding member

It is an object of the exemplary embodiments to obtain a long electric-wire protection pipe having a flat outer shape, using a simple press working process, while reducing or even preventing warping problems. An electric-wire protection pipe is a metal pipe that surrounds an electric wire, and has a reinforced section () and a flat pipe section. The reinforced section is a section that is located at a part in the circumferential direction of the electric-wire protection pipe while extending along the entire length in the longitudinal direction of the electric-wire protection pipe, and that is thicker than other sections. The flat pipe section is a section that constitutes at least a part in the longitudinal direction of the electric-wire protection pipe, and is flattened by press working.

Electric-wire protecting pipe and wire harness

It is an object of the exemplary embodiments to obtain a long electric-wire protection pipe having a flat outer shape, using a simple press working process, while preventing warping problems. An electric-wire protection pipe is a metal pipe that surrounds an electric wire, and has a reinforced section and a flat pipe section. The reinforced section is a section that is located at a part in the circumferential direction of the electric-wire protection pipe, and constitutes a protrusion forming, on either the internal or external surface of the electric-wire protection pipe, a ridge line extending along the longitudinal direction of the electric-wire protection pipe, and a groove extending along the longitudinal direction of the electric-wire protection pipe on the other surface. The flat pipe section is a section that constitutes at least a part in the longitudinal direction of the electric-wire protection pipe, and that is flattened by press working.

Electric-wire protection pipe and harness

An electromagnetic shielding device includes a conductive sheet that is a sheet-shaped flexible conductive member that can be deformed into a tube shape, and an outer edge portion coupling member that keeps the conductive sheet in a tube shape in a state in which a first outer edge portion and a second outer edge portion of the conductive sheet are joined together, the second outer edge portion being located on the side opposite to the first outer edge portion. For example, a parallel slit group is formed in the conductive sheet, the parallel slit group being constituted by a plurality of slits that extend in a direction that crosses a first direction from the first outer edge portion toward the second outer edge portion and that are lined up in the first direction.

Magnetic shielding device and wire harness

A shield conductor is provided with electrical wires and a metal pipe that encloses the electrical wires and whose outer peripheral surface is covered with an orange (color other than a metallic color) resin layer. The pipe is routed so that at least a portion passes in proximity to an exhaust pipe of a vehicle. A section of the pipe passing in proximity to the exhaust pipe that faces the exhaust pipe does not have the resin layer and the metallic-colored outer peripheral surface of the section remains exposed.

Shield conductor

A shield conductor includes: an electrical wire; a tubular shield member that encloses the electrical wire and is configured such that an end portion of a pipe made of metal is fit to an end portion of a tubular accordion member made of metal; a swage ring that is attached at a portion where the end portion of the pipe is fit to the end portion of the tubular accordion member, and constricts the end portion of the pipe and the end portion of the tubular accordion member from outside; a conductor ring that is arranged between the pipe and the tubular accordion member, has an inner circumferential face that faces the pipe and an outer circumferential face that faces the tubular accordion member, and has electrical conductivity; and a plurality of protrusion/recession portions formed on the inner circumferential face and the outer circumferential face.

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Yasushi Itani