Patent ID: 7403876
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A wire harness wiring path design aiding apparatus comprising: a designing unit which designs a wiring path of a wire harness by using body data on an object to which the wire harness is installed and three-dimensional data on an auxiliary device installed on a vehicle body; a storing unit which stores data on a minimum bending radius of the wire harness; and a checking unit which judges whether the wiring path data designed by the designing unit satisfies the minimum bending radius, and outputs, if the wiring path data does not satisfy the minimum bending radius, data on corrected wiring path data designed in light of the minimum bending radius, wherein the storing unit stores, as the data on the minimum bending radius, a first minimum bending radius defined based on properties of material of the wire harness and a second minimum bending radius defined based on force of worker's hand, and wherein the apparatus includes a selecting unit which, when the first minimum bending radius differs from the second minimum bending radius, selects one of the first and second minimum bending radii which has larger minimum bending radius.