Patent ID: 8117747
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: B60R,F15B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of installing a wiring harness in a motor vehicle that has an interior compartment, an exterior compartment adjacent the interior compartment, and a wall separating the two compartments from each other, the method comprising: passing one or more connectors at one end of a wire bundle through a polarized through-opening in the wall in a direction from one compartment to the other, then advancing more of the wire bundle through the through-opening in the same direction until the wire bundle has been advanced sufficiently to place a grommet that has a substantially right angle curved bend, through and along which the wire bundle curves along a substantially right angle curved bend, immediately proximate the through-opening on one side of the wall, inserting one end of the grommet into and through the through-opening and then advancing the grommet further to pass its curved bend and the substantially right angle curved bend of the wire bundle through the through-opening until the substantially right angle curved bend of the grommet is disposed on the other side of the wall so as to direct the portion of the wire bundle exiting the one end of the grommet in the other compartment substantially at a right angle to the portion of the wire bundle exiting an opposite end of the grommet in the one compartment, and seating a polarized groove in the grommet in the polarized through-opening to locate a direction in which the portion of the wire bundle exiting the one end of the grommet extends from the curved bend of the grommet.