A protective member for a wire harness, having a branching point between a trunk harness and a branch harness, includes a protective sheet portion to be wound around an outer circumference of at least the trunk harness near the branching point; a pair of band-shaped fixing strip portions extending from the protective sheet portion and to be wound around on the trunk harness at a pair of spots. The branching point is between the pair of the spots. The protective member is formed from a resin. The fixing strip portions are smaller in thickness than the protective sheet portion.

There are provided a conductor for busbar electric wire, and a busbar electric wire configured by a conductive plate material having a substantially rectangular cross-sectional shape, the conductor including: an opening formed on one side in a width direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the plate material, the width direction corresponding to a planar direction of the plate material.

A wiring member includes: at least one wire-like transmission member; and a sheet to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed, wherein a route bending portion in which the wire-like transmission member is bended and disposed is provided on the sheet, and the route bending portion includes a bending position.

A wire harness manufacturing method includes: an insertion step of inserting a binding member into an insertion hole of a protective member including a base member forming a routing space, the insertion hole provided in the base member and into which the binding member is insertable, and a temporary holding part provided on an outer surface of the base member and capable of temporarily holding an end of the binding member in a state in which the binding member is inserted into the insertion hole; a temporary holding step of temporarily holding the end of the binding member; a routing step of routing an electric wire in the routing space; and a binding step of removing the end of the binding member from the temporary holding part, and binding the electric wire to the base member by the binding member.

A wire harness includes: an electrical wire including a core wire and an insulating covering for covering the core wire; and a sheet material in which the electrical wire is disposed on a resin main surface, and a part of the main surface having contact with the electrical wire is thermally processed with the insulating covering of the electrical wire, thereby forming an electrical wire fixing part. A part of the sheet material including the electrical wire fixing part is softer than the insulating covering.

Active cables and communication methods can provide data path redundancy with power sharing. In one illustrative cable implementation, the cable includes a first connector with contacts to supply power to circuitry in the first connector; a second connector with contacts to supply power to a component of the circuitry in the first connector via a first connection that prevents reverse current flow; and a third connector with contacts to supply power to the same component via a second connection that prevents reverse current flow. An illustrative method implementation includes: using contacts of a first connector to supply power to circuitry in the first connector; and using contacts in each of multiple redundant connectors to supply power to a component of said circuitry in the first connector via a corresponding diodic or switched connection that prevents reverse current flow.

The present invention relates generally to a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire thereby, more particularly, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire and far-infrared radiation thermal wire manufactured thereby, in which electric power is supplied with a predetermined resistance value. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of manufacturing far-infrared radiation thermal wire comprise steps of: making microfine wire that emits far-infrared radiation as it generates heat according to the resistance value when electricity is flowed in; making one strand of thermal wire by bundling many strands of the microfine wire that are in contact of each other; and making two or more groups each of the groups having different resistance value and comprising one or more microfine wires that have identical resistance value in order to make the bundle into an effective geometric structure that well radiates electric dipole radiation while emitting far-infrared radiation.

A grommet assembly includes a wire harness and a grommet including a hollow channel configured to receive the wire harness therein. At least one rib extends inwards from and substantially annularly about the interior surface of the hollow channel. At least one port configured to fluidly couple the hollow channel with an exterior environment is defined by the grommet. Material is injected into the channel through the port to secure the grommet relative to the wire harness. The material injected into the channel flows through interstices located between adjacent wires that define the wire harness so as to encapsulate the wires. The injected material also flows into other voids and openings located within the hollow channel. Upon setting, the injected material is configured to prevent movement of the grommet relative to the wire harness and to prevent the passage of contaminants through the grommet assembly.

The present disclosure provides a wire harness in which the occurrence of abnormal sound is suppressed. This wire harness (10) comprises: a cable (11); a plurality of band clips (12) which are attached to the cable (11) and are for wiring the cable (11) with respect to an external component; and a cushion sheet (13) which is more flexible than the band clips (12) and covers the individual band clips (12). The cushion sheet (13) comprises: an insertion hole (45) provided on one longitudinal end side; and an insertion section (46) provided to the other longitudinal end side. The insertion section (46) has: a base end section (47) corresponding to the width of the insertion hole (45); and an intermediate section (49) that is positioned closer to the other longitudinal end side than the base end section (47) and has a greater width than the base end section (47).

A wire harness has less differences of the amount of deflection caused by the self weight when the wire harness is constructed by arranging the plurality of the electric wire having the different cross-sectional area of the conductor. A wire harness has first and second electric wires arranged side by side in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the electric wires. Each of the first and second electric wires includes a conductor with a plurality of elemental wires, the second electric wire has a larger conductor cross-sectional area than the first electric wire has, the second electric wire has the larger outer diameter of the elemental wires composing the conductor than the first electric wire has, and the second electric wire contains a same or smaller number of elemental wires composing the conductor in comparison with the first electric wire.