IP Library Granted Patent US 8,426,737
Granted Patent B2
US 8,426,737 · App. 12/588,751 · Granted Apr 23, 2013

Electric connection box

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Patent No.
US 8,426,737
App. No.
12/588,751
Granted
Apr 23, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The electric connection box includes a case main body; a lower cover to be attached at the case main body; a harness-through opening to be structured into a cylindrical shape with the case main body and the lower cover; a wiring harness to be passed through the harness-through opening; and a water-protect elastic sheet wound around the wiring harness to be arranged in the harness-through opening. The harness-through opening has a large diameter portion, which has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet, and a small diameter portion, which has an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet.

Claims (9)

1. An electric connection box, comprising:

a case main body;

a cover to be attached to the case main body;

a harness-through opening formed in the case main body as a cylindrical shape;

a wiring harness to be passed through the harness-through opening; and

an elastic sheet wound around the wiring harness and disposed along with the wiring harness in the harness-through opening,

wherein the harness-through opening forms a large diameter portion, which has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of a part of the wiring harness wound with the sheet, and a small diameter portion, which has an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the sheet.

2. The electric connection box according to claim 1 , wherein the harness-through opening comprises a cylindrical portion forming the large diameter portion and a slant portion arranged at an inner surface of the cylindrical portion, the slant portion slanting from an end of the cylindrical portion to the other end of the cylindrical portion to approach gradually toward a center of the cylindrical portion so as to form the small diameter portion.

3. The electric connection box according to claim 1 , wherein the harness-through opening comprises a cylindrical portion forming the large diameter portion, and a rib projecting from an inner surface of the cylindrical portion toward a center of the cylindrical portion and extending along the cylindrical portion so as to form the small diameter portion.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2009
From: MAEBASHI, AKEMI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023478/0376 →