This invention provides a technology that makes it easy to bend parts of wire harnesses accommodated inside protectors without installing a hot press machine, for shaping the protectors so as to be able to accommodate the wire harnesses, at the site where the wire harnesses are being manufactured. In order to achieve that goal, both sides of parts of a flexible, sheet-shaped nonwoven material containing base fibers and a binder having a lower melting point than said base fibers are pressed and the pressed parts are heated on at least one side, yielding a sheet material that has hardened areas and is used to form an accommodating section of a protector, said accommodating section being provided with an internal space that can accommodate a wire harness. Said accommodating section is provided, in the lengthwise direction thereof, with a hard section and a soft section that is softer than said hard section.
Protector and wire harness with protector
2016-02-24
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H02G INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES , Verlegen oder Installieren elektrischer Kabel oder Leitungen, Verlegen oder Installieren kombinierter optischer und elektrischer Kabel oder Leitungen / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / H01B CABLES , Kabel |