Method for mounting a sheath on a wire harness and a set comprising a sheath and a wire harness
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorFrédéric Forget
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Abstract
The method for fitting a sheath on a cable harness includes a series of steps including determining the length of sheath to be used, mounting the sheath on a mounting tool of tubular shape, inserting the cable harness into the mounting tool, removing the mounting tool and arranging the sheath around the cable harness, fitting a sheath stop at one of the ends of the sheath, the sheath stop fastening the end of the sheath to the cable harness stretching the sheath over the cable harness so as to extend it and tension it, and fitting a sheath stop at the other one of the ends of the sheath.
Claims17
A method for fitting a sheath on a cable harness, the method comprising:
- determining a length of the sheath to be used;
- mounting the sheath on a mounting tool of tubular shape;
- inserting the cable harness into the mounting tool;
- removing the mounting tool and arranging the sheath around the cable harness;
- fitting a first sheath stop at a first end of the sheath, said first sheath stop fastening the first end of the sheath to the cable harness;
- stretching the sheath over the cable harness so as to extend the sheath and tension the sheath;
- and
- fitting a second sheath stop at a second end of the sheath,
- wherein the determining the length of sheath comprises determining the length C of sheath to be used, with the aid of the following expression:
- C=A×(B+2L)
- in which:
- A is a length of sheath covering one meter of cable harness, said length A depending at least on a diameter of the cable harness and on the type of sheath;
- B represents a length of cable harness to be covered;
- and
- L is an additional length corresponding to the length of the one of the first and second sheath stops.
A method for fitting a sheath on a cable harness, the method comprising:
- determining a predetermined length of the sheath to be used;
- mounting the sheath on a mounting tool of tubular shape;
- inserting the cable harness into the mounting tool;
- removing the mounting tool and arranging the sheath around the cable harness;
- fitting a first sheath stop at one end of the sheath, said first sheath stop fastening a first end of the sheath to the cable harness;
- stretching the sheath over the cable harness so as to extend the sheath and tension the sheath;
- and
- fitting a second sheath stop at a second end of the sheath,
- wherein at least one of the fitting the first sheath stop& and the fitting the second sheath stop& comprises:
- defining a position referred to as an outer end position of a corresponding one of the first sheath stop and the second sheath stop and fastening a first adhesive tape at the outer end position;
- unfurling the sheath in a tensioned manner as far as the first adhesive tape and fastening the sheath to the first adhesive tape comprising two adhesive faces;
- fastening a third adhesive tape to an outer face of the sheath longitudinally at the outer end position;
- and
- mounting a clamping collar on the third adhesive tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.