Patent ID: 8304653

Claim:
A protector for a wire harness wherein said wire harness is arranged in a motor vehicle, and said protector is mounted on a given area on said wire harness and is made of a resin product; said wire harness to be threaded in said protector including a main line having one to three pieces, a plurality of branch lines branched from said main line, and a splice portion between said main line and said branch line, a main line terminal and branch line terminals being connected to connectors, said connectors being adapted to be coupled to a plurality of test connectors for a continuity test juxtaposed on a continuity test table, a length of said main line being set to be greater than a required length upon arranging said wire harness in said motor vehicle by an additional length so that said main line connector is coupled to said test connector; said protector being provided on longitudinal opposite ends with a main line inlet port and a main line outlet port and between said inlet and outlet ports with a main line threading portion having a small volume with a narrow width and a small cross section; said protector being provided on a longitudinal intermediate part with a plurality of branch line drawing ports spaced apart from one another, on said main line threading portion with a splice containing space having a large volume in part, on said longitudinal intermediate part with a guide portion that bends said branch line branched from said splice portion and guides said bent branch line to said branch line drawing port, on said longitudinal intermediate part with a partition that defines said guide portion and said splice containing portion, on an interior side communicated to said branch line drawing port with a wire additional length containing space, and on peripheral edges of said branch line drawing ports and said main line outlet port with tape-wrapping tongue pieces.