Corrugated tube with path-maintaining member and wire harness
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorTakashi Okuhara
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Abstract
A purpose of the present invention is to enable, with a more compact configuration, a path of an electric wire to be kept constant while covering the electric wire. A corrugated tube with a path-maintaining member is provided with a corrugated tube having annular convex portions and annular concave portions alternately formed along a longitudinal direction, and a path-maintaining member attached to the corrugated tube along the longitudinal direction thereof. The path-maintaining member is formed as a long member die-molded to maintain a shape at least a portion of which is bent in the longitudinal direction and includes an arc-shaped portion [[3]] in which a lateral-direction cross section exhibits an arc shape.
Claims5
A corrugated tube with a path-maintaining member comprising:
- a corrugated tube having annular convex portions and annular concave portions alternately formed along a longitudinal direction;
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- a path-maintaining member configured as an elongated member die-molded to maintain a shape at least a portion of which is bent along the longitudinal direction, that includes an arc-shaped portion in which a lateral-direction cross section has an arc shape, and that is attached to the corrugated tube along the longitudinal direction in a condition where the arc-shaped portion is arranged on an inner periphery side of the corrugated tube, wherein
- the path-maintaining member includes a first portion and a second portion having different dimensions in a width direction of the arc-shaped portion, and
- the first portion has a longer dimension in the width direction of the arc-shaped portion, and is more sharply bent, than the second portion that has a shorter dimension in the width direction of the arc-shaped portion.
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