Corrugated tube
View Patent ↗A corrugated tube which can easily bend a wiring harness in one direction and can make the wiring harness hardly bend in another direction crossing the one direction at right angles. The wiring harness is made so that it can hardly bend in the other direction, so that the slack of the wiring harness for use in supplying electric power to a slide door can be effectively prevented from occurring. The corrugated tube includes: dented grooves and projecting strips formed on an outer periphery of the corrugated tube and arranged alternately in a longitudinal direction of the corrugated tube; and a reinforcing rib formed projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the dented groove and extending beyond an outer peripheral surface of the projecting strip, the reinforcing rib being formed in the longitudinal direction of the corrugated tube.
1. A corrugated tube comprising:
dented grooves and projecting strips formed on an outer periphery of the corrugated tube and arranged alternately in an entire longitudinal direction of the corrugated tube; and
a pair of reinforcing ribs integrally formed with said grooves and projecting strips, said reinforcing ribs projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the dented grooves and extending beyond an outer peripheral surface of the projecting strips, the reinforcing ribs being formed 180° apart and extending uninterrupted in the entire longitudinal direction of the corrugated tube,
wherein each of the reinforcing ribs have straight sidewall portions, and gradually decreases in width thereof in a tapered shape as approaching a top part thereof, the straight sidewall portions extending beyond the outer peripheral surface of the projectinq strips which extend uninterrupted in the entire longitudinal direction of the corrugated tube, and an inside of each of the ribs is partly or entirely formed hollow.
2. The corrugated tube according to claim 1 , wherein the corrugated tube has an elliptical shape in section and the rib is formed at an end part situated on a long diameter-side of the elliptical shape.