Patent ID: 9570212
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B60R,H01B,H02G

Claim:
1. A wire harness comprising: a wire harness main body including a trunk line portion and a branch line portion branching off from the trunk line portion; and a branching portion protection portion that is formed by hot-pressing a nonwoven member in a condition in which the nonwoven member covers a branching portion where the branch line portion branches off from the trunk line portion, the branching portion protection portion including a branch line side protection portion that is tapered from a base end portion toward a distal end portion of the branch line portion, wherein the branching portion protection portion is formed by hot-pressing the nonwoven member in a condition in which the branching portion where the branch line portion branches off from the trunk line portion is sandwiched by the nonwoven member, said nonwoven member being a sheet-shaped nonwoven member, and the wire harness further comprising: a periphery protection portion that is formed by hot-pressing a nonwoven member in a condition in which the nonwoven member covers at least one part of the trunk line portion and the branch line portion that is adjacent to the branching portion so as to cover that part, wherein hot-pressing is performed in a condition in which the nonwoven member for forming the branching portion protection portion also overlaps the nonwoven member for forming the periphery protection portion.