Patent ID: 6968289

Claim:
A method of predicting a displacement range of a wire harness, comprising the steps of: designing a basic route of the wire harness; fixing the wire harness at least two different fixing points on the basic route; computing a displacement range of the wire harness between the fixing points, based on values of a length of the basic route between the fixing points including a dimensional tolerance, fixing positions and fixing directions of the wire harness at the fixing points, and a minimum bending radius of the wire harness, the computing step including the steps of: computing two predictive routes which satisfy the values of the length of the basic route, the fixing positions, the fixing directions and the minimum bending radius, and the two predictive routes being respectively closest to the fixing points; obtaining a plurality of computing points for computing the displacement range based on the predictive routes; and computing outermost points of a plurality of predictive routes which satisfy the values of the route length, the fixing positions, the fixing directions and the minimum bending radius, at each of the plurality of computing points; and displaying the displacement range of the wire harness in three dimensions by using the outermost points.