Steven M Willis

US Patent:

59628146, Oct 5, 1999

Filed:

Oct 14, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/949594

Inventors:

Richard Humes Skipworth - Plymouth MI
Raymond Paul Ernst - Canton MI
Steven Loyd Willis - Belleville MI

Assignee:

Yazaki Corporation - Tokyo

International Classification:

H01B 706
H01B 724
F16L 301

US Classification:

174135

Abstract:

A wire harness protector having a hinged guide for controlling movement of the wire harness adjacent the protector. The protector is an open-ended trough with a hinged, latchable cover and fasteners for securing the trough to a moving surface, such as a vehicle trunk lid. The guide is hinged to an end of the trough, with a free end enabling it to swing relative to the trough. A central slot extends along a length of the guide, sized to receive a standard clip head strapped to the wire harness in a fixed position on the harness. When the surface to which the trough is secured moves, the wire harness slides relative to the trough. The clip head travels along the slot and the guide pivots relative to the end of the trough, controlling both sliding and bending movement of the wire harness.

US Patent:

60875933, Jul 11, 2000

Filed:

Oct 14, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/949624

Inventors:

Richard Humes Skipworth - Plymouth MI
Raymond Paul Ernst - Canton MI
Steven Loyd Willis - Belleville MI

Assignee:

Yazaki Corporation - Tokyo

International Classification:

H02G 300
H02G 326
H01R 1356

US Classification:

174135

Abstract:

A wire harness protector having an open slide trough closed by a removable cover, and containing an internal wire harness carrier attached to the harness, for example by taping, and connected to the cover to slide in the trough when the cover is closed. The carrier is generally L-shaped, and the trough has a wire slot formed in a sidewall thereof generally parallel to the guide slot in the cover, such that the wire harness is redirected laterally within the trough by the carrier, with an incoming end sliding longitudinally in the trough, and an outgoing end sliding laterally through the wire slot in the side wall. The wire harness protector according to the invention is especially useful for protecting and controlling wire harness slack found between hinged and sliding surfaces in a vehicle, for example doors, hoods and trunk lids.