Grommet
AssigneesYazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoshi Yokoyama, Kazuyuki Kumoi, Akihito Kouketsu, Masanori Suzumura, Kiyotsugu Miura
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Abstract
A grommet includes a grommet body, an inner protector, and an outer member. The inner protector includes a protector body accommodated in a protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body and an electric wire guide body projecting toward an outside of the protector accommodating chamber from the protector body. The electric wire guide body is bent such that an intermediate position between a support portion on a side of the protector body and a tip portion is lower than heights of both the support portion and the tip portion with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
Claims10
A grommet comprising:
- a grommet body formed of an elastic body and including a protector accommodating chamber in the grommet body, wherein an electric wire is inserted into the grommet body;
- an inner protector formed of a member having a higher rigidity than a rigidity of the grommet body and accommodated in the protector accommodating chamber;
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- an outer member formed of a member having a higher rigidity than the rigidity of the grommet body, the outer member being configured to mount the grommet body with the inner protector accommodated in the protector accommodating chamber with the grommet body sandwiched between the outer member and a grommet accommodating recessed portion of an attachment panel, wherein
- the outer member is on the opposite side of the grommet body from the inner protector, and the inner protector includes
- a protector body accommodated in the protector accommodating chamber of the grommet body,
- a rib positioned on an outer surface of the protector body that projects towards an inner surface of the protector accommodating chamber, and
- an electric wire guide body projecting toward an outside of the protector accommodating chamber from the protector body, and
- the electric wire guide body is bent such that an intermediate position between a support portion on a side of the protector body and a tip portion is lower than heights of both the support portion and the tip portion with the grommet installed in a vehicle body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.