Patent ID: 8070212
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: B60R,H02G

Abstract:
1. An arranging structure of a wire harness for a motor vehicle wherein said wire harness is spanned between a vehicle body and a slide member, comprising: a corrugated tube for sheathing said wire harness; a protector made of a resin material, said protector holding opposite ends of said corrugated tube in a longitudinal direction and threading said wire harness; and a rotary member coupled to said protector as a different element from said protector, said rotary member being rotatably supported on supporting members provided on said vehicle body and said slide member; wherein said protector is provided with projections on upper and lower surfaces of an end at a coupling side to said rotary member, said rotary member is provided on upper and lower surfaces with through-holes, and said protector and said rotary member are coupled to each other rotatably in right and left directions by inserting said projections into said through-holes; wherein when said wire harness that follows a motion of said slide member rotates in the right and left directions, an end of said protector at the coupling side contacts with an inner surface of a side wall of said rotary member, and a rotary angle of said protector in the right and left directions is restrained within a given range; and wherein said rotary member is provided on opposite side walls at the end side having said through-holes with a cover having an arcuate side wall, said protector is provided on the opposite side walls at the end side having projections of an adjacent protector with protrusions that can be inserted into said cover and have an arcuate side surface, and said cover and said protrusions do not expose said wire harness outward when said protector rotates.