Patent ID: 9711958
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: B60R,F16L,H02G

Claim:
1. A guide device for guiding a wiring harness through an aperture in a panel, the panel having a substantially cylindrical burring wall surrounding the aperture, the cylindrical burring wall having inner and outer circumferential surfaces with specified inside and outside diameters, the guide device comprising: a substantially tubular sidewall having opposite front and rear ends, portions of the sidewall adjacent the front end defining substantially cylindrical inner and outer circumferential walls and a forwardly open annular groove between the inner and outer circumferential walls, the inner circumferential wall being dimensioned to fit in and engage the inner circumferential surface of the burring wall and the outer circumferential wall being dimensioned to fit on and engage the outer circumferential surface of the burring wall for retaining the guide device removably on the panel, the sidewall flaring outwardly toward the rear end to define a substantially frustoconical portion between the substantially cylindrical portion and the rear end, a plurality of circumferentially spaced supports projecting out from the outer circumferential surface of the frustoconical portion and having stop surfaces facing toward the front end, the stop surfaces being between the front end and the frustoconical portion, the supports being dimensioned to limit insertion of the front end into the aperture in the panel, a slit being formed through the sidewall and extending continuously from the front end of the sidewall to the rear end thereof, and first and second abutting walls projecting radially out beyond the outer circumferential surface of the frustoconical portion at positions adjacent opposite sides of the slit for preventing the sidewall from collapsing inwardly at the slit.