Electrical connection box and wire harness
View Patent ↗An electrical connection box applied to a wire harness includes a casing that includes an accommodating space that is formed therein and that accommodates an electronic component, and a guiding space that is partitioned horizontally lateral to the accommodating space therein via a partition wall, and that extends in a vertical direction and guides water entered therein to a vertically downside. The casing includes a water-preventing rib that is provided in the guiding space, and that guides water guided to the vertically downside in the guiding space, in a direction of avoiding from an avoidance target portion that is positioned vertically below the guiding space.
1. An electrical connection box, comprising:
a casing that includes an accommodating space that is formed therein and that accommodates an electronic component, and a guiding space that is partitioned horizontally lateral to the accommodating space therein via a partition wall, that extends in a vertical direction and guides water entered in the casing to a vertically downside, wherein
the casing includes a water-preventing rib that is provided in the guiding space, and that guides water guided to the vertically downside in the guiding space, in a direction of avoiding from an avoidance target portion that is positioned vertically below the guiding space.
2. The electrical connection box according to claim 1 , wherein
the casing includes an insertion opening through which an electric wire connected to the electronic component is inserted,
the avoidance target portion includes the electric wire that is inserted through the insertion opening and that crosses vertically below the guiding space, and
the water-preventing rib includes an inclined surface that is positioned vertically above the avoidance target portion and that extends to a position deviated from vertically above the avoidance target portion.
3. The electrical connection box according to claim 1 , wherein
the casing has a bottom portion positioned vertically below the guiding space,
the avoidance target portion includes a bottom proximity part close to the electronic component side with respect to a destination of avoidance of the water by the
water-preventing rib in the bottom portion, and the water-preventing rib includes an inclined surface that is positioned vertically above the bottom proximity part and extends to the destination of avoidance.
4. The electrical connection box according to claim 2 , wherein
the casing has a bottom portion positioned vertically below the guiding space,
the avoidance target portion includes a bottom proximity part close to the electronic component side with respect to a destination of avoidance of the water by the water-preventing rib in the bottom portion, and
the water-preventing rib includes an inclined surface that is positioned vertically above the bottom proximity part and extends to the destination of avoidance.
5. A wire harness, comprising:
an electric wire; and
an electrical connection box that includes a casing that includes an accommodating space formed therein and that accommodates an electronic component connected to the electric wire, and a guiding space that is partitioned horizontally lateral to the accommodating space therein via a partition wall, that extends in a vertical direction and guides water entered therein to a vertically downward, wherein
the casing includes a water-preventing rib that is provided in the guiding space, and that guides water guided vertically downside in the guiding space, in a direction of avoiding from an avoidance target portion that is positioned vertically below the guiding space.