Flexible exterior member for wire guide and wire guide device
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsKousuke YOSHIDA, Hiroki UNO, Hiroshi INOUE
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Abstract
It is aimed to provide a flexible exterior member for wire guide 12 including a hollow tubular portion 34 to be sheathed on a wire guide 10 bendable and deformable into a predetermined shape, a slit 36 provided over an entire length in an axial direction of the tubular portion 34, and a pair of joining portions 48, 48 respectively provided on a pair of circumferential end surfaces 50, 50 of the tubular portion 34 divided by the slit 36, the pair of joining portions 48, 48 being put together and joined to each other, and a wire guide device G using this flexible exterior member for wire guide 12.
Claims9
A flexible exterior member for wire guide, comprising:
- a hollow tubular portion to be sheathed on a wire guide bendable and deformable into a predetermined shape;
- a slit provided over an entire length in an axial direction of the tubular portion;
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- a pair of joining portions respectively provided on a pair of circumferential end surfaces of the tubular portion divided by the slit, the pair of joining portions being put together and joined to each other,
- the pair of joining portions being provided to be arranged on a line connecting a plurality of bend center points of the wire guide.
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