US 9,000,297 B2Granted

Electric junction box

AssigneeYazaki Corporation

InventorsMasahiro Makino, Kazuyoshi Fujishiro, Shouta Yamaguchi, Koki Sato, Takeshi Onoda

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Abstract

An electric junction box 1 includes: a case 4; a tubular guide portion 5 projected from the case 4, and guiding a harness 6 out of the case 4. The guide portion 5 is divided to a pair of gutter-shaped portions 51, 52. Each of the gutter-shaped portions 51, 52 is composed of a bottom wall 53, 54 and a pair of vertical walls 55, 56 extended from both sides of the bottom wall 53, 54 in a circumferential direction Y2. An elastically deformable hinge 57 is provided between the gutter-shaped portion 52 and the case 4 and configured to allow the gutter-shaped portion 52 to be moved away from or close to the gutter-shaped portion 51. The vertical walls 55, 56 of the pair of gutter-shaped portions 51, 52 are overlapped with each other in a radial direction.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An electric junction box comprising:

a box main body;
a tubular guide portion projecting from the box main body and guiding a harness out of the box main body,
said guide portion being divided to a pair of gutter-shaped portions, each gutter-shaped portion being composed of a bottom wall portion and a pair of flat vertical wall portions extended vertically from both sides of the bottom wall portion in a circumferential direction, and the respective flat vertical wall portions of the pair of gutter-shaped portions being overlapped with each other in a radial direction;
and
an elastically deformable flexible portion provided between at least one of the pair of gutter-shaped portions and the box main body, the elastically deformable flexible portion allowing the one gutter-shaped portion to be moved away from or close to the other gutter-shaped portion,
wherein an inner diameter of the guide portion in a neutral state, in which the flexible portion is not elastically deformed, is fitted for a smallest outer diameter of the harness and when the outer diameter of the harness is increased, the flexible portion is bent so as to move the pair of gutter-shaped portions away from each other.

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