Power supply device
View Patent ↗Provided is an electric power supply device in which exposure of a wire harness can be reduced in a slide door and interference with door trim can be minimized. When a slide door is half opened, a wire harness bends convexly downward, and one portion thereof is positioned lower than when the slide door is fully open or fully closed. Specifically, the wire harness is bent three-dimensionally. This makes it easier for the wire harness to be pulled out from a bottom end of door trim, and makes it possible for interference between the wire harness and the door trim to be minimized. The wire harness may be also bent three-dimensionally as appropriate in accordance with a shape of the door trim, reducing exposure of the wire harness in the slide door.
1. A power supply device for supplying power from a vehicle main body to a slide door in a vehicle having the slide door sliding along a traveling direction, the power supply device comprising:
a wire harness provided from the vehicle main body to the slide door;
a main body side unit having a main body side support portion for supporting a main body side end portion of the wire harness, and fixable to the vehicle main body; and
a door side unit having a door side support portion for supporting a door side end portion of the wire harness, and fixable to the slide door, wherein
the wire harness is bent convexly downward so that at least a portion of the wire harness between the main body side end portion and the door side end portion is located lower when the slide door is in a half opened state than when the slide door is in a fully opened state or a fully closed state, wherein
the main body side support portion rotatably supports the main body side end portion about a rotation axis along a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, wherein
the wire harness includes one or more electric wires, a corrugated tube covering an outer periphery of the electric wire, and a bending restricting member provided on a side of the vehicle main body, wherein
the bending restricting member extends along the electric wire, and has a bending allowance direction that allows bending and a bending restricting direction that faces an opposite side of the bending allowance direction and restricts bending, wherein
the main body side support portion supports the main body side end portion so as to extend along a horizontal plane, and wherein
the bending restricting member turns the bending restricting direction upward when the slide door is in the half opened state.
2. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the corrugated tube is formed in a cylindrical shape.
3. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the door side support portion rotatably supports the door side end portion about the rotation axis along the longitudinal direction of the wire harness, wherein
the wire harness includes one or more electric wires and a chain member provided on the outer periphery of the electric wire, wherein
the chain member has a bendable direction in which a whole of the chain member is bendable and an unbendable direction crossing the bendable direction, and wherein
as the slide door slides, the entire wire harness rotates and the chain member changes direction.