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US 6,578,263 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing a wire harness
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Ichikawa, Masashi Kitada
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Abstract
A wire harness includes a circuit unit having a plurality of electric wires with a predetermined path, a first soft sheet material formed into the shape as that of the predetermined path and a second soft sheet material adhesively joined to the first soft sheet material so that the circuit unit is interposed between the first and the second soft sheet materials.
Claims3
A method of manufacturing a wire harness, comprising the steps of:
- placing one of two soft sheets on a vacuum forming die having a groove to establish a predetermined path;
- placing a plurality of electric wires of a circuit unit in the predetermined path on the one soft sheet;
- placing the other of the two soft sheets on the one soft sheet and the plurality of electric wires;
- and
- evacuating air from between the two soft sheets to adhesively join the two soft sheets so that the two soft sheets enclose the plurality of electric wires.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.