Patent ID: 8530743

Claim:
A water discharging structure of a wire harness in a vehicle, the wire harness having a lower end position, the water discharge structure comprising: a tape half-wrapped around an electric wire group of the wire harness and passed through an inner portion of a tube formed of an annular tube or a corrugated tube made of resin so that the electric wire group is exposed without the tape and without being passed through the tube at the lower end position of the wire harness; an outer covering of a first waterproof material provided around the electric wire group at a location overlapping the lower end position, the first waterproof material being opened at the lower end position, an outer covering of a second waterproof material provided around the electric wire group at a location overlapping the lower end position, a front end portion of the second waterproof material being inserted in and substantially surrounded by an inner portion of the first waterproof material from the opened part of the first waterproof material at the lower end position, and a water discharging gap is opened between the first waterproof material and the front end portion of the second waterproof material; and the first waterproof material is formed of a first waterproof tube having a slit in a longitudinal direction or a first waterproof sheet wound around the electric wire group, and is attached to the electric wire group from a side part perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the second waterproof material is formed of a second waterproof tube having a slit in a longitudinal direction or a second waterproof sheet wound around the electric wire group, and is attached to the electric wire group from a side part perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.