Abstract: A curvature regulation member to be inserted into a corrugated tube is made of synthetic resin, and integrally includes a belt, and a plurality of bridges standing from both ends in a width direction of the belt. The curvature regulation member is allowed to be curved in a direction that the belt is inside and the bridges are outside. In an opposite direction, curving of the curvature regulation member is restricted by the adjacent bridges abutting on each other. The bridge includes a rectangular plate. Two corners of the plate at a side away from the belt are rounded.

Abstract: A curvature regulating member and a power supply device to which the curvature regulating member is applied are provided. The curvature regulating member has a plurality of member pieces arranged along a wire harness, and a flexible connection. The curvature regulating member regulates a curvature of the wire harness on a predetermined plane by contact with the adjacent member pieces. A burr (strip projection) is provided in an inner surface of the receiving groove of the wire harness in at least one of the member pieces. Further, a recessed portion is provided in an area of the inner surface including the burr (strip projection).

Abstract: A power supply device includes: a rotary member that holds a wire harness inserted therethrough; and a support member that swingably supports the rotary member and is fixed to a fixed structure body or a sliding structure body, wherein the rotary member has an annular outer peripheral wall and a harness lead-out portion, the support member has one sidewall disposed along the outer peripheral wall, and the harness lead-out portion moves in a direction away from the sidewall when the sliding structure body is fully opened, the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed between the harness lead-out portion and the sidewall, and the outer peripheral wall and the sidewall are overlapped with each other in a plate thickness direction in a state where the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed and come in contact with each other so as to avoid an entry of foreign matters therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention is to prevent sand or water from adhering to a spring member biasing a rotary member of a power supply device and thus cause the power supply device to smoothly and reliably perform a biasing operation of the rotary member over a long period. Provided is a protection structure for a spring member of power supply devices including: base members; cover members provided integrally with or separately from the base members; rotary members supported swingably by the base members and the cover members and leads out and holds a wire harness; and annular spring members biasing the rotary members in any one of swing directions, wherein the spring members are housed inside the cover members so that foreign matters are prevented from adhering to the spring member from the outside.

Abstract: A curvature-restraining member and a power feeding device include a wire harness having an electric wire and a corrugated tube (flexible tube). The curvature-restraining member restrains the wire harness from curving in a predetermined curving direction D3 with a radius of curvature smaller than a reference radius. The curvature restraining member includes a body portion placed near at least one of ends of the corrugated tube and extending in a length direction of the electric wire, and a curved portion extending from one end of the corrugated tube opposite from the former end, and curving in the curving direction D3 with a radius of curvature not less than the reference radius with such a length that it falls within the straightly extending corrugated tube.

Abstract: Provided is a curvature restricting member, allowing for a curvature of the wire harness in a predetermined allowable direction, and regulating the curvature of the wire harness in a regulating direction beyond a predetermined limit state or more, the curvature restricting member includes: a plurality of member pieces arranged along the wire harness; a flexible connecting portion connecting adjacent ones of the plurality of member pieces to each other, wherein the curvature is allowed in the allowable direction by adjacent ones among the plurality of member pieces at the curbed portions separating from each other on the side opposite to the connecting portion and the connection portion bending, and wherein the curvature is not allowed in the restricting direction beyond the limit state by adjacent ones among the plurality of member pieces at the curbed portion abutting against each other on the side opposite to the connecting portion.

Abstract: Provided is a power supply device capable of suppressing bulge of a wire harness toward a vehicle body when a slide door is half-opened. The power supply device is provided with a wire harness arranged between a vehicle body and a slide door, a portion of the wire harness on the vehicle body side extending in the closing direction of the slide door when the slide door is half-opened, and a door side coil spring (a biasing part) for biasing a portion of the wire harness on the slide door side in the biasing direction pressing against the slide door on the closing direction side of the slide door in order to suppress a curvature convex toward the inside of the vehicle body at the time of half-opening of the slide door.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a rotation retainer including an inlet horizontally guiding the electrical wire one end of which is connected to the vehicle, and an outlet communicating with the inlet and to draw out upwardly the other end of the electrical wire, the rotation retainer being arranged horizontally pivotally in the slide door to retain the electrical wire movably, a biasing member configured to bias the rotation retainer in a predetermined rotational direction, wherein the electrical wire includes a bending portion to be bent in an L-shape between the inlet and the outlet, and a guide portion to be wired nearer the outlet than the bending portion, and wherein the guide portion is arranged in a natural state in which the guide portion is not twisted, or a twisted state in which restoring force is generated in a same direction as a biasing direction of the biasing member.

Abstract: There is employed an arm power supply device in which a first arm is rotatably and axially supported to a base member having one harness fixing portion, a second arm having the other harness fixing portion is rotatably and axially supported on a rotation tip side of the first arm, the first arm includes an enclosure portion forming a slit through which a wire harness is inserted, and the wire harness passes from the base member to the slit and is wired over the second arm. The enclosure portion includes an inclined wall to guide the wire harness derived in a bent shape from the second arm to be in contact with the inner surface.

Abstract: Provided is a harness bending regulation member to be attached to a flexible harness protective tube, including: a high rigid unbendable portion into which an electric wire is inserted; and a bendable portion projecting in an axial direction of the unbendable portion from a tip end of one side of the unbendable portion, the bendable portion regulating a bending of the harness protective tube in a curved shape. The harness protective tube is routed from an oscillating member on a side close to a fixing structure to another oscillating member closer to a slide structure, the harness bending regulation member is placed inside of a harness holding tube on the side of the fixing structure, and the bendable portion is placed toward the slide structure along an inner surface of the harness protective tube.

Abstract: There is provided a power-supplying device and an assembly method thereof. By causing a first-turning member, which locks with an one end of a coil spring by a first-locking section, and a first support, which locks with the other end thereof by a second-locking section, to rotate relative to each other in the direction that is opposite to the biasing direction, and causing an engaging part and an engaged part to be in an engaged state by engaging with each other, thereby, maintaining the state where the initial biasing force is being imparted to the first turning member, is enabled, and the first support and a second support member are easily assembled to each other to make a turning member be supported, and thus, assembly properties can be made enhanced.

Abstract: A curvature-restraining member includes a wire harness having an electric wire and a corrugated tube (flexible tube). The curvature-restraining member restrains the wire harness from curving in a predetermined curving direction D3 with a radius of curvature smaller than a reference radius. The curvature restraining member includes a body portion placed near at least one of ends of the corrugated tube and extending in a length direction of the electric wire, and a curved portion extending from one end of the corrugated tube opposite from the former end, and curving in the curving direction D3 with a radius of curvature not less than the reference radius with such a length that it falls within the straightly extending corrugated tube.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a rotation retainer including an inlet horizontally guiding the electrical wire one end of which is connected to the vehicle, and an outlet communicating with the inlet and to draw out upwardly the other end of the electrical wire, the rotation retainer being arranged horizontally pivotally in the slide door to retain the electrical wire movably, a biasing member configured to bias the rotation retainer in a predetermined rotational direction, wherein the electrical wire includes a bending portion to be bent in an L-shape between the inlet and the outlet, and a guide portion to be wired nearer the outlet than the bending portion, and wherein the guide portion is arranged in a natural state in which the guide portion is not twisted, or a twisted state in which restoring force is generated in a same direction as a biasing direction of the biasing member.

Abstract: The wiring-harness routing device 1 includes two wiring harness 10, a support body 3 mounted slidably at a rail 2 and supporting a seat, and a protector 4 sliding interlockingly with the support body 3 and leading the two wiring harnesses 10 to the seat. The protector 4 includes a pair of wiring-harness hold portion 43 holding the two wiring harnesses 10 led through an opening 20 into the rail 2 to be arranged in parallel; a lead portion arranged between the pair of wiring-harness hold portions 43, and passing the two wiring harnesses 10 therethrough, and extending with a cylindrical shape so as to go through the slit and be led to an outside of the rail 2; and a mount portion 68 attached at the support body 3 so as to have a gap allowing motion in the widthwise direction of the rail 2.

Abstract: A slide protector slidably engaged with a slide rail together with a slide support has a harness holder holding a wire harness and a hooking section capable of hooking the slide support with the harness holder and the hooking section formed integrally. Though the wire harness causes a resistance force when the slide support slides rearward in the sliding direction and the slide protector is pulled rearward, reliability of the attachment structure of the slide protector to the slide support can be enhanced since the hooking section and the harness holder holding the wire harness are formed integrally.

Abstract: Provided is a harness bending regulation member to be attached to a flexible harness protective tube, including: a high rigid unbendable portion into which an electric wire is inserted; and a bendable portion projecting in an axial direction of the unbendable portion from a tip end of one side of the unbendable portion, the bendable portion regulating a bending of the harness protective tube in a curved shape. The harness protective tube is routed from an oscillating member on a side close to a fixing structure to another oscillating member closer to a slide structure, the harness bending regulation member is placed inside of a harness holding tube on the side of the fixing structure, and the bendable portion is placed toward the slide structure along an inner surface of the harness protective tube.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a power-supplying system that can restrain an increase in size thereof with a spring equipped therewith. A first end of a rolling spring projects inwardly, and a first locking section is formed on a primary shaft of a turning member, the primary shaft being disposed inside the rolling spring so that the turning member can engage with the rolling spring at the inside of the rolling spring, thereby restraining an increase in size thereof.

Abstract: A harness wiring apparatus wires a harness between a floor of a car and a seat, which is supported by a supporting member mounted at a long-tube-shaped support rail fixed at the floor. The harness wiring apparatus 1A includes a slider 10 holding the harness 4, which is led through an opening arranged at one end 7a in a direction of lengthwise of the support rail 7 into the support rail 7, and sliding interlockingly with the seat and the supporting member 11, and leading the harness 4 out of the support rail 7 through a slit 75 arranged at the support rail to the seat; and a receiving section 8 arranged in parallel to the support rail 7, and receiving an extra-length of the harness 4, which is led to an outside of the support rail 7 and folded to U-shape.

Abstract: Provided is a sliding power supply device which can reduce entire length of a case extendably housing a wiring harness, for a large slide stroke of a sliding seat and such. The sliding power supply device includes a long case extendably housing a wiring harness, a slider arranged slidable in a longitudinal direction of the case and arranged to lead out the wiring harness to outside of the case, and an extra length absorption portion arranged to support a wiring harness portion lead outside of the case such that the wiring harness portion is lead out at location further away from a movement end of the slider in the longitudinal direction of the case. The extra length absorption portion is a subcase having at least a bottom plate portion. Both ends of the wiring harness portion in a movement direction of the slider are positioned at the same height.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with a wire harness having an exterior member; and a case that accommodates the wire harness, wherein the exterior member has rigidity portions disposed between wall portions of the case in a direction orthogonal to the wall portions, the wall portions being opposite to each other, and when external force acts on the wall portions, the rigidity portions are arranged in directions in which the external force acts on the wall portions to support the wall portions together with the exterior member. The exterior member is a corrugated tube, and the rigidity portions are reinforcing ribs formed on its sidewalls. Alternately, the exterior member is a caterpillar-like member and the rigidity portions are its sidewalls.