Vehicle closure body structure and related method
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsFumitake Miyahara, Akira Nakazato
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Abstract
A vehicle closure body structure is provided with an outer panel, an inner panel opposed to the outer panel, with the outer panel and the inner panel forming a hollow structure of a closure body adapted to be mounted to an opening portion of a vehicle body through a hinge secured to the inner panel, a reinforce joined to the inner panel, inside the closure body, in at least a hinge fixing area thereof at which the hinge is fixed, and a tunneled portion formed in the reinforce to form a passage between the tunneled portion and the inner panel so as to permit wiring harness to be arranged therein.
Claims11
A vehicle closure body structure comprising:
- an outer panel;
- an inner panel opposed to the outer panel, with the outer panel and the inner panel forming a hollow structure of a closure body adapted to be mounted to an opening portion of a vehicle body through a hinge secured to the inner panel;
- a reinforce joined to the inner panel, inside the closure body, in at least a hinge fixing area thereof at which the hinge is fixed;
- and
- a tunneled portion formed in the reinforce to form a passage between the tunneled portion and the inner panel so as to permit wiring harness to be arranged therein.
A vehicle closure body structure comprising:
- an outer panel;
- an inner panel opposed to the outer panel, with the outer panel and the inner panel forming a hollow structure of a closure body adapted to be mounted to an opening portion of a vehicle body through a hinge secured to the inner panel;
- a reinforce joined to the inner panel, inside the closure body, in at least a hinge fixing area thereof at which the hinge is fixed;
- and
- forming means for forming a passage so as to permit wiring harness to be arranged therein in connection with the inner panel, the forming means being disposed in the reinforce.
A method of arranging wiring harness in a vehicle closure body, which has an outer panel, an inner panel opposed to the outer panel ad a reinforce joined to the inner panel, and which is mounted to an opening portion of a vehicle body through a hinge fixed to the inner panel, the method comprising:
- pulling out a terminal portion of wiring harness, which is internally arranged through a vehicle body, from a takeoff hole formed at a periphery of an opening portion of the vehicle body;
- forcing the terminal portion of the wiring harness into an inside of the closure body;
- permitting the wiring harness to travel through the inside of the closure body while guiding the terminal portion of the wiring harness through a tunneled portion formed in the reinforce;
- and
- taking out the terminal portion of the wiring harness from an opening portion of the closure body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.