Patent ID: 11945380
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A structure for attaching a wire harness at a vehicle door, the structure comprising:
a slit that is formed in a door panel of a vehicle door and extends along a predetermined direction;
an introduction hole that is provided in the door panel so as to be connected to one end portion of the slit in a direction of extension of the slit;
a wire harness;
a tube that covers a peripheral surface of the wire harness; and
a clip that is fixed to the tube and is elastically deformable, wherein:
the clip includes:
a first contact portion that is configured to move via the introduction hole from a side of one surface of the door panel to a side of another surface of the door panel and is configured to contact the another surface of the door panel,
an insertion portion that is slidably inserted into the slit from the one end portion when the first contact portion contacts the another surface of the door panel, and
a second contact portion that contacts the one surface of the door panel when the insertion portion has been inserted into the slit, and

a distance, in a thickness direction of the door panel, between the first contact portion and the second contact portion when the clip is in a free state is smaller than a thickness of the door panel.