Wire harness and method of maintaining shape thereof
View Patent ↗A wire harness includes a conduction path, and a flexible sheathing member through which the conduction path passes and which has recessed sections and protruded sections. The recessed sections and the protruded sections extend in a circumferential direction on the surface of the sheathing member and are formed alternately along a longitudinal direction of the sheathing member. A curing-type adhesive or resin containing the adhesive is supplied to the recessed sections of a bent part which is formed when the wire harness is bent, and cured while the bent part is maintained in a bent shape.
1. A wire harness comprising:
a conduction path; and
a flexible sheathing member through which the conduction path passes and which has recessed sections and protruded sections, the recessed sections and the protruded sections extending in a circumferential direction on the surface of the sheathing member and being formed alternatively along a longitudinal direction of the sheathing member,
wherein a curing-type adhesive or resin containing the adhesive is supplied to only the recessed sections of a bent part which is formed when the wire harness is bent, and cured while the bent part is maintained in a bent shape, and
wherein a tape is wrapped around the bent part in which the curing-type adhesive or the resin containing the adhesive is supplied and cured.
2. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein the curing-type adhesive or the resin containing the adhesive is supplied and cured in at least the recessed sections of a straight part of the sheathing member which is used in a not-bent state.
3. The wire harness according to claim 1 , wherein the curing-type adhesive or resin supplied to the recessed sections of the bent part creates a planar surface with the protruded sections the bent part.