Patent ID: 7703204

Claim:
A manufacturing method for a harness, said harness comprising a cable and a plurality of connectors installed at locations along the longitudinal direction of said cable, said cable comprising a plurality of conductors surrounded by an insulating covering and arrayed in a substantially flat configuration, and said plurality of connectors comprising connection terminals that connect to at least one of said plurality of conductors in order to connect external circuits to said at least one of said plurality of conductors, said method comprising: a connector installation step of installing each of said plurality of connectors at predetermined positions in the longitudinal direction of said cable such that said connection terminals and said at least one of said plurality of conductors are connected; and a conductor cutting step of cutting a selected one of said plurality of conductors at a point between the plurality of connection terminals that are disposed along said cut conductor, wherein said connector installation step further includes a molding step in which the proximal ends of the connection terminals connected to the conductors of said cable are sealed by placing each of the plurality of connectors into a respective mold assembly, injecting a resin onto each of the connectors, and removing each of the connectors from the mold assembly, and wherein said molding step also comprises a bending step of bending said selected one of said conductors that has been cut and separated in said conductor cutting step such that the respective cut surfaces do not contact and do not face each other, and sealing each of said bent conductors in an enclosed state such that said cut surfaces are each encased in the resin.