IP Library Granted Patent US 8,242,366
Granted Patent B2
US 8,242,366 · App. 12/723,962 · Granted Aug 14, 2012

Power supplying system for a sliding structure

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Patent No.
US 8,242,366
App. No.
12/723,962
Granted
Aug 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A link arm is rotatably supported by a rotating shaft along a protector base, and urged in a harness-slack-absorbing direction by a torsion coil spring. A wiring harness is fixed to a harness-holding member at a tip end of the link arm and to a harness-fixing portion of the protector base, and routed flexibly between the harness-holding member and the harness-fixing portion via between the protector base and an opposite wall of the link arm opposite to the protector base.

Claims (7)

1. A power-supplying system for a sliding structure comprising:

a link arm rotatably supported by a rotating shaft along a protector base, and urged in a harness-slack-absorbing direction by a spring; and

a wiring harness fixed to a harness-holding member at a tip end of the link arm and to a harness-fixing portion of the protector base, and routed flexibly between the harness-holding member and the harness-fixing portion via between the protector base and an opposite wall of the link arm opposite to the protector base.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the rotating shaft of the link arm is surrounded by a circular wall mounted on the protector base, and a winding portion of the spring is disposed along an outer periphery of the circular wall.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a stopper provided on the protector base for preventing an excessive rotation of the link arm against an urging force of the spring.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring is a torsion coil spring.

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 Mar 15, 2010
From: KATOU, MITSUNOBU; YAMASHITA, HIROSHI; NISHIMURA, TOMOAKI; INAGAKI, MOTONARI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION; AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 024081/0333 →