Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Yukihiro Shirafuji

Yuuji Saka

Yutaka Takata

Takeharu Ito

Masamichi Yamagiwa

Atsushi Murata

Isamu Hamamoto

Osamu Sato

Makoto Kamiya

Satoshi Tanigawa

Shinichi Igarashi

Nobumasa Takihara

Takeshi Mizuhira

Hiroto Ueno

A purpose is, in the case where a nonwoven member is hot pressed around a wire harness to form a protective member, to inhibit rotation of a vehicle body fixing component attached to the protective member while making a cross-sectional shape of the protective member as circular as possible. The wire harness includes a wire harness body containing at least one electric wire and a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness body. The protective member has a protective member that is formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape and a flat surface forming part that has a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery.

Wire harness

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.

Cables W are spliced to one another by insulation displacement terminalsin sub connectorsA andB, when a cable holderthat contains ends of a plurality of cables is fitted into containing sections of the sub connector housingsA andB. A tabof each insulation displacement terminalis connected to each joint bus bardisposed in a joint connector housing. The sub connectorsA andB are interconnected when the sub connectorsA andB are fitted into containing sections of the joint connector housing

Splice absorbing structure for motor vehicle

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