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Granted Patent B2
US 12,308,143 · App. 17/759,228 · Granted May 20, 2025

Wiring member

Inventors: Hironobu Yamamoto (Yokkaichi, JP); Kyungwoo Kim (Yokkaichi, JP); Toshinari Kobayashi (Yokkaichi, JP); Yukitoshi Terasaka (Yokkaichi, JP)
Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
H01B7/24H01R13/58H01R13/5845B60R16/0207H01B7/009H01R2201/26
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Patent No.
US 12,308,143
App. No.
17/759,228
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Technology capable of reducing the number of tubular protective members in a wiring member is provided. The wiring member includes: multiple electric wires that branch into multiple branch lines from a main line at a branch position; a connection component provided at an end portion of a target branch line among the branch lines; and a resin molded body that includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The main body portion covers all of the electric wires at the branch position, and the extending portion extends from the main body portion and covers a portion of the target branch line that is between the main body portion and the connection component.

Claims (17)

1. A wiring member comprising:

a plurality of electric wires that branch from a main line into a plurality of branch lines at a branch position;

a connection component provided at an end portion of a target branch line among the plurality of branch lines; and

a resin molded body that includes a main body portion and an extending portion, the main body portion and the extending portion formed as a unitary piece,

wherein the main body portion covers the plurality of electric wires at the branch position,

the extending portion extends from the main body portion and covers a portion of the target branch line that is between the main body portion and the connection component,

the connection component includes a connector housing in which an end portion of the target branch line is accommodated,

the extending portion having a distal end spaced apart from the connector housing,

the wiring member further comprises a connector cover that covers the distal end of the extending portion to a rear end portion of the connector housing,

the resin molded body is an insert-molded body having the plurality of electric wires as insert parts, and

the connector cover is formed using an elastic material,

wherein the connector housing includes a flange, and wherein the connector cover encloses a surface of the flange that faces the connector housing.

2. The wiring member according to claim 1 , wherein a wall thickness of the extending portion is smaller than a wall thickness of the main body portion.

3. The wiring member according to claim 1 , wherein the target branch line includes a bent portion, and

the extending portion maintains the bent portion in a bent shape.

4. The wiring member according to claim 2 , wherein the target branch line includes a bent portion, and

the extending portion maintains the bent portion in a bent shape.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2022
From: YAMAMOTO, HIRONOBU; KIM, KYUNGWOO; KOBAYASHI, TOSHINARI; TERASAKA, YUKITOSHI
To: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 060580/0843 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-009723 · Jan 24, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230051435A1 · Feb 16, 2023
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