Patent ID: 9403495
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: B60R,H01B,H02G,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method for manufacturing a wire harness, the wire harness having at least one electric wire and a tubular protection member made of synthetic resin and arranged to receive the at least one electric wire to protect the electric wire, wherein the protection member is arranged to be bent at an appropriate section when wired on an automobile, and wherein the protection member has an outer surface including circumferentially-extending recessed grooves and circumferentially-extending protrusions which are arranged alternately along a longitudinal direction of the protection member so as to form the outer surface of the protection member into a concertina shape, the method comprising steps of: receiving the electric wire in the protection member in a linear state; attaching the adjacent protrusions of the appropriate section of the protection member in the linear state on an inward side with respect to a direction in which the appropriate section is bent when wired in the automobile to each other; and pushing only the inward side of the appropriate section against an outer periphery of a heated circular-plate-shaped shaping jig, thereby bending the appropriate section of the protection member in said direction in a non-restorable fashion.