Abstract: A purpose is, in the case where a nonwoven member is hot pressed around a wire harness to form a protective member, to inhibit rotation of a vehicle body fixing component attached to the protective member while making a cross-sectional shape of the protective member as circular as possible. The wire harness includes a wire harness body containing at least one electric wire and a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness body. The protective member has a protective member that is formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape and a flat surface forming part that has a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing method includes a first step of covering a periphery of the wire with a molded body (13) having a thermoplastic material, and heating the molded body (13) to a temperature at which plastic deformation by thermo plasticity is possible and pressuring the molded body (13) to have predetermined cross-sectional shape and size. The method also includes a second step of, after the first step, while the molded body (13) has the temperature at which plastic deformation by thermo plasticity is possible, molding the thermoplastic material to have a predetermined axial shape, and cooling the molded body (13) having the predetermined axial shape.

Abstract: An object is to inhibit heating of a wire as much as possible during hot-pressing of a nonwoven material around the wire. A portion of a wire harness main body is covered by a nonwoven material. The nonwoven material is placed in a mold in a state where at least an end portion of the nonwoven material projects from the mold. The nonwoven material is hot-pressed in the mold to form a protection member. Thereby, a wire harness is produced in which the nonwoven material is hot-pressed at least in a portion of the wire harness main body.

Abstract: A purpose is, in the case where a nonwoven member is hot pressed around a wire harness to form a protective member, to inhibit rotation of a vehicle body fixing component attached to the protective member while making a cross-sectional shape of the protective member as circular as possible. The wire harness includes a wire harness body containing at least one electric wire and a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness body. The protective member has a protective member that is formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape and a flat surface forming part that has a flat surface formed on at least a portion of an outer periphery.

Abstract: A purpose is, in the case where a nonwoven member is hot pressed around a wire harness to form a protective member, to inhibit rotation of a vehicle body fixing component attached to the protective member while making a cross-sectional shape of the protective member as circular as possible. The wire harness includes a wire harness body containing at least one electric wire and a protective member formed by hot pressing a nonwoven member in a state of covering at least a portion of the wire harness body. The protective member has a protective body that is formed to have a circular cross-sectional shape and a projection forming part that has a partially projecting part formed on an outer periphery.

Abstract: A wire harness has an exterior component (11a) that covers a certain part of at least one wires (12). The exterior component (11a) has parts having different hardness, including a relatively hard first part (111a), a relatively soft second part (112a), and a third part (113a) having an intermediate hardness between that of the first parts (111a, 112a). The first part is formed on a surface of the exterior component and functions as a shape keeping member and a protector. The second and third parts (112a, 113a) surround the certain part of the at least one wire 12 and each functions as a cushioning material and a muffler/soundproofing material. The first part (111a), the second part (112a), and the third part (113a) are formed integrally from a non-woven fabric (2) with thermo plasticity.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a wire harness main body having at least one electric wire and a protection material formed by hot pressing a nonwoven material wrapped more than one time around a circumference of at least a portion in a longitudinal direction of the wire harness main body. A slimmed portion is provided to at least one end of the protection material, the slimmed portion being thinner than a middle portion of the protection material so that a portion where an external surface and an internal surface of the nonwoven material make contact with each other is entirely joined in a circumferential direction on a periphery of the wire harness main body.

Abstract: An electric wire protection structure has a structure in which a branch portion of an electric wire bundle is protected. In the electric wire protection structure, a protection portion covers the branch portion of the electric wire bundle, the protection portion being formed by heating and compressing a thermoplastic material in a state of covering at least the branch portion of the electric wire bundle.

Abstract: A wire harness has an exterior component (11a) that covers a certain part of at least one wires (12). The exterior component (11a) has parts having different hardness, including a relatively hard first part (111a), a relatively soft second part (112a), and a third part (113a) having an intermediate hardness between that of the first parts (111a, 112a). The first part is formed on a surface of the exterior component and functions as a shape keeping member and a protector. The second and third parts (112a, 113a) surround the certain part of the at least one wire 12 and each functions as a cushioning material and a muffler/soundproofing material. The first part (111a), the second part (112a), and the third part (113a) are formed integrally from a non-woven fabric (2) with thermo plasticity.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a wire harness that has a simple structure, that can be easily manufactured, and that includes a protective member having an extra-length absorbing function. A wire harness (1) includes an electrical wire bundle (12) and a protective member (21). The protective member (21) is a member obtained by heat-molding a nonwoven fabric, covers a portion in the longitudinal direction of the electrical wire bundle (12), and has a spiral shape or helical shape in which a curved portion is formed with a continuous turn in the longitudinal direction or has a meander shape in which a plurality of curved portions are formed with intermittent turns in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a bundle of electric wires and a protector protecting the bundle of electric wires by extending in a longitudinal direction of the bundle of electric wires and surrounding a portion thereof. The protector includes a base material and a binder material having a lower melting point than the base material, the protector being joined in a joint portion thereof by cooling and solidifying the melted binder material. In a case where a first side portion and a second side portion are each provided as a portion along the longitudinal direction in an outer peripheral surface of the protector and the second side portion is disposed opposite the first side portion with the bundle of electric wires therebetween, a portion of the binder material in each of the first side portion and the second side portion is melted, cooled, and solidified such that the second side portion is harder than the first side portion.

Abstract: A wire protector is provided that is lightweight, that has a simple structure, and that is capable of covering a circumference of wires along a length direction thereof and of preventing an occurrence of noise due to contact with the wires sheathed therein. The wire protector covers the circumference of the wires in the length direction thereof, is configured with a cylindrical member made of a hot press processed non-woven fabric, is formed such that an inner surface is more pliable than an outer surface hardened by the hot press process, and has a slit from the outer surface to the inner surface formed along the entire length direction.

Abstract: Cables W are spliced to one another by insulation displacement terminals 22 in sub connectors 21A and 21B, when a cable holder 11 that contains ends of a plurality of cables is fitted into containing sections of the sub connector housings 21A and 21B. A tab 22c of each insulation displacement terminal 22 is connected to each joint bus bar 24 disposed in a joint connector housing 31. The sub connectors 21A and 21B are interconnected when the sub connectors 21A and 21B are fitted into containing sections of the joint connector housing 31.

Abstract: Cables W are spliced to one another by insulation displacement terminals 22 in sub connectors 21A and 21B, when a cable holder 11 that contains ends of a plurality of cables is fitted into containing sections of the sub connector housings 21A and 21B. A tab 22c of each insulation displacement terminal 22 is connected to each joint bus bar 24 disposed in a joint connector housing 31. The sub connectors 21A and 21B are interconnected when the sub connectors 21A and 21B are fitted into containing sections of the joint connector housing 31.