Patent ID: 6737585
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A wire harness comprising:a plurality of crimp terminals each crimp terminal clamping a core wire of an electric wire by a wire barrel at an extremity of the electric wire, the extremity thereof stripped to expose the core wire; a plurality of insulation displacement terminals each insulation displacement terminal having pressure-connecting blades between which the electric wire is inserted, each of the insulation displacement terminals pressure-connecting the electric wire; first and second sharable housings to which any of the crimp terminals and the insulation displacement terminals is insertable; a first sub-harness having a plurality of first harness housings including the first shareable housing, the first harness housings having the insulation displacement terminals inserted in the first harness housings; a second sub-harness having a plurality of second harness housings including the second shareable housing, the second harness housings having the insulation displacement terminals inserted in the second harness housings; and an after-insertion electric wire having first and second crimp terminals provided at corresponding first and second ends, wherein the first crimp terminal, provided at the first end of the after-insertion electric wire, is inserted into the first sharable housing of the first sub-harness; the second crimp terminal, provided at the second end of the after-insertion electric wire, is inserted into the second sharable housing of the second sub-harness; the first sharable housing further includes a first retainer mount hole and a first retainer, the first retainer mount hole communicating to a first exterior surface of the first sharable housing from a first inner wall of a first cavity of the first sharable housing, the first retainer preventing removal of said one of either the crimp terminals or the insulation displacement terminals attached to the first retainer mount hole; the second sharable housing further includes a second retainer mount hole and a second retainer, the second retainer mount hole communicating to a second exterior surface of the second sharable housing from a second inner wall of a second cavity of the second sharable housing, the second retainer preventing removal of said one of either the crimp terminals or the insulation displacement terminals attached to the second retainer mount hole; one of either the crimp terminals or the insulation displacement terminals is inserted into one of either the first cavity or the second cavity; the first and second sub-harnesses are connected together by way of the after-insertion electric wire; and the second sub-harness further includes a shield line having third and fourth crimp terminals provided at corresponding first and second shield line ends, and an earth line having at a first earth line end a fifth crimp terminal inserted into the second harness housings, and at a second earth line end an uninserted earth terminal, the third and fourth crimp terminals being inserted into the second harness housings.