IP Library Granted Patent US 9,925,934
Granted Patent B2
US 9,925,934 · App. 15/341,892 · Granted Mar 27, 2018

Corrugated tube and wire harness for slide door

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Patent No.
US 9,925,934
App. No.
15/341,892
Granted
Mar 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A corrugated tube having a tube shape is provided with a tubular member configured to contain a conductor path, a first bellows portion, a second bellows portion, and a straight portion. The first bellows portion and the second bellows portion include recessed grooves extending in a circumferential direction of the tubular member and projection strips extending in the circumferential direction of the tubular member. The recessed grooves and projection strips are alternately arranged in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member. In the first bellows portion and the second bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a first distance and a second distance which is longer than the first distance.

Claims (29)

1. A corrugated tube having a tube shape comprising:

a tubular member configured to contain a conductor path;

a first bellows portion;

a second bellows portion; and

a straight portion,

wherein the first bellows portion and the second bellows portion include recessed grooves extending in a circumferential direction of the tubular member and projection strips extending in the circumferential direction of the tubular member,

wherein the recessed grooves and projection strips are alternately arranged in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member,

wherein in the first bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a first distance,

wherein in the second bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a second distance which is longer than the first distance,

wherein the straight portion has a straight shape without the recessed groove and the projection strip,

wherein the recessed grooves of the first bellows portion and the recessed grooves of the second bellows portion have the same shape, and

wherein the projection strips of the first bellows portion are shorter than the projection strips of the second bellows portion in the longitudinal direction of the tubular member.

2. A corrugated tube having a tube shape comprising:

a tubular member configured to contain a conductor path;

a first bellows portion;

a second bellows portion; and

a straight portion,

wherein the first bellows portion and the second bellows portion include recessed grooves extending in a circumferential direction of the tubular member and projection strips extending in the circumferential direction of the tubular member,

wherein the recessed grooves and projection strips are alternately arranged in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member,

wherein in the first bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a first distance,

wherein in the second bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a second distance which is longer than the first distance,

wherein the straight portion has a straight shape without the recessed groove and the projection strip,

wherein the straight portions are formed in both end portions of the tubular member,

wherein the first bellows portion is formed in a center portion in the longitudinal direction of the tubular member,

wherein the second bellows portion is formed between the straight portion and the first bellows portion, and

wherein the projection strips of the first bellows portion are shorter than the projection strips of the second bellows portion in the longitudinal direction of the tubular member.

3. A wire harness for a slide door comprising

the corrugated tube according to claim 2 , and

the conductor path that is inserted into an inside of the tubular member.

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 Dec 1, 2016
From: MOCHIZUKI, SHOTA; ICHIKAWA, HIROSHI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040482/0383 →