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US 2004/0164576 A1Published application
Flexible-member-routing arrangement and bracket
AssigneeInternational Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
InventorChristopher F. Wright
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Abstract
An assembly comprises a flexible member that extends through an aperture defined by a divider component. A distal portion of the flexible member extends away from the assembly at an angle. A first flexible-member-routing bracket is mounted to the divider component and has one or more guide structures that function to facilitate a gradual transition of the flexible member from the direction it extends in as it passes through the aperture defined by the divider component to the direction its distal portion extends in.
Claims67
A first flexible-member-routing bracket, comprising:
- (a) leading guide-structure that defines a leading guide-surface;
- (b) mounting structure that is directly or indirectly fixedly engaged to said leading guide-structure and which defines a mounting surface which is planar and is disposed in a mounting plane of said first flexible-member-routing bracket;
- (c) trailing guide-structure that is directly or indirectly fixedly engaged to said leading guide-structure and said mounting structure;
- (d) wherein said trailing guide-structure defines a trailing guide-surface that is disposed at a greater distance from said mounting plane than is said leading guide-surface an angle of less than 60 degrees relative to said mounting plane and an angle of more than 30 degrees relative to said leading guide-surface;
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- (e) wherein portions of said leading guide-surface adjacent said mounting plane are disposed at an angle of more than 30 degrees relative to said mounting plane.
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An assembly, comprising:
- (a) a first flexible-member-routing bracket that is serviceably fixedly mounted to a divider component of said assembly adjacent a flexible-member-routing aperture defined by said divider component;
- (b) a flexible member that comprises a penetrating portion that extends through said flexible-member-routing aperture;
- (c) wherein said flexible member further comprises a distal portion that extends away from said flexible-member-routing aperture at an angle of at least 30 degrees relative to an aperture axis of said flexible-member-routing aperture;
- (d) wherein said flexible member further comprises a transition portion that extends between said penetrating portion and said distal portion thereof;
- (e) wherein said first flexible-member-routing bracket comprises trailing guide-structure that defines a trailing guide-surface that is disposed at an angle of at least 30 degrees relative to said aperture axis and that is disposed at a distance from said flexible-member-routing aperture in directions parallel to said aperture axis and also in directions perpendicular to said aperture axis;
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- (f) wherein a trailing portion of said transition portion of said flexible member extends adjacent to said trailing guide-surface.
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An assembly, comprising:
- (a) a first flexible-member-routing bracket that is serviceably fixedly mounted to a divider component of said assembly adjacent a flexible-member-routing aperture defined by said divider component;
- (b) a flexible member that comprises a penetrating portion that extends through said flexible-member-routing aperture;
- (c) wherein said flexible member further comprises a distal portion that extends away from said flexible-member-routing aperture at an angle of at least 30 degrees relative to an aperture axis of said flexible-member-routing aperture;
- (d) wherein said flexible member further comprises a transition portion that extends between said penetrating portion and said distal portion thereof;
- (e) wherein said first flexible-member-routing bracket comprises leading guide-structure that defines a leading guide-surface that is disposed adjacent said flexible-member-routing aperture and that is disposed at an angle of less than 60 degrees relative to said aperture axis;
- (f) wherein a leading portion of said transition portion of said flexible member extends adjacent said leading guide-surface and is strapped to said leading guide-structure;
- (c) wherein said leading guide-structure extends through said flexible-member-routing aperture where it meets and is engaged to opposite-side leading guide-structure that is disposed upon a side of said divider component opposite said trailing guide-structure;
- (g) wherein said opposite-side leading guide-structure defines an opposite-side leading guide-surface that is disposed adjacent said flexible-member-routing aperture and that extends at an angle of less than 60 degrees relative to said aperture axis;
- (h) wherein said flexible member further comprises an opposite-side distal portion that is disposed upon a side of said penetrating portion opposite said distal portion of said flexible member;
- (i) wherein said opposite-side distal portion of said flexible member extends away from said flexible-member-routing aperture at an angle of at least 30 degrees;
- (j) wherein said flexible member comprises an opposite-side transition portion that extends between said penetrating portion and said opposite-side distal portion;
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- (k) wherein an opposite-side leading portion of said opposite-side transition portion of said flexible member extends adjacent said opposite-side leading guide-surface and is strapped to said opposite-side leading guide-structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.