Patent ID: 11869684
Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A wire harness comprising:
a wire bundle that includes a plurality of wires, each wire of the plurality of wires includes a conductor and an insulating covering that covers an outer circumference of the conductor, and each wire of the plurality of wires includes an exposed portion at which the conductor is exposed from the insulating covering, wherein
the wire bundle is divided into a first wire bundle including a first plurality of the plurality of wires and a second wire bundle including one or more of the plurality of wires;

a splice body; and
a waterproofing cover, wherein:
at the splice body, the respective exposed portions of the first and second wire bundles are bonded to each other,
a covered region of each of the first and second wire bundles is defined as a portion of each of the first and second wire bundles that is adjacent to the splice body and at which the respective conductors are covered by the respective insulating coverings,
the waterproofing cover integrally covers the splice body and the covered region with a resin material, and
the waterproofing cover includes an inter-wire filling that covers an entire circumference of at least one of the wires of the first wire bundle, the waterproofing cover filling a gap between the plurality of wires of the first wire bundle with the resin material, and a distance of the gap is set to be less than or equal to an outer diameter of a wire of the first wire bundle, wherein

an outer circumference of the waterproofing cover is enveloped by a sheet member and the waterproofing cover extends to an axial edge of the sheet member relative to a central axis of the first and second wire bundles,
inside a region surrounded by the sheet member, a pair of flexible spacers is arranged that is constituted by (i) any one of strings, threads, and tapes placed on or fixed to a surface of the sheet member while being spaced apart from each other along an axial direction of the wire harness, or (ii) by a raised surface of the sheet member, and
the splice body and the covered region are arranged between the pair of spacers.