A bracket-equipped conductive path A, comprising: a conductive path main body; a protector that is tubular, is made of a synthetic resin, and surrounds the conductive path main body; a bracket that is made of a metal, includes a plate-shaped base portion, and is formed as a single body with the protector in a state in which at least a portion of the base portion is embedded in the protector; and a displacement restricting portion that the bracket is provided with, and that restricts displacement of the conductive path main body by abutting the conductive path main body.

A wiring harness assembly includes a plurality of separated conductors formed of an electrically conductive material, a substrate formed of a dielectric material encasing the plurality of separated conductors, a location feature integrally formed with the substrate and an opening defined in the substrate having a predetermined size and shape. A section of the plurality of separated conductors is exposed within the opening. The opening is precisely located relative to the location feature.

A wire harness production supporting device configured to produce a wire harness by in turn laying out a plurality of electric wires on a wire laying out drawing. This wire harness production supporting device is composed of a time recording section configured to, each time one of the plurality of electric wires is laid out, store a time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out, in a storing section, and a progress status administrating section configured to obtain a progress status of the production of the wire harness based on the time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out having been stored in the storing section.

An electric wire processing apparatus includes a gripping mechanism that grips a part of an electric wire, a driving mechanism that drives the gripping mechanism, an electric wire winding mechanism that winds the electric wire, and a rotating mechanism that rotates and drives the electric wire winding mechanism. The electric wire winding mechanism includes a winding drum, an electric wire clip provided on the winding drum to hold a leading end of the electric wire, and a holding member that holds an electric wire bundle. The driving mechanism moves the gripping mechanism toward the electric wire clip to hold the leading end on the electric wire clip, the rotating mechanism rotates the winding drum so that the electric wire is wound around the winding drum, and the holding member holds the electric wire bundle wound around the winding drum in the annular shape.

An electric wire conductor capable of achieving both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire and a wiring harness including such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a wire strand containing a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, and has a flat portion where a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. A covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductors and an insulator covering the electric wire conductors. A wiring harness contains such covered electric wires.

The present disclosure relates to an adhesive tape and to a method for jacketing an elongated item, more particularly cable sets. The adhesive tape comprises a tapelike carrier provided on at least one side with an adhesive layer which consists of a self-adhesive, pressure-sensitive adhesive, characterized in that the self-adhesive pressure-sensitive adhesive is a UV-curable composition comprising, based on the total weight of the composition: 15 to 50 parts by weight of matrix polymer; 50 to 85 parts by weight of epoxy resin; 0.1 to 3 parts by weight of photoinitiator, with the matrix polymer forming a self-supporting film in which epoxy resin and photoinitiator are embedded.

An adhesive tape for jacketing elongated items may comprise a tape-like carrier provided on at least one side with a self-adhering adhesive layer which consists of a pressure-sensitive adhesive. The tape-like carrier may additionally be provided on at least one side with a binder that is thermally curable at a temperature of up to 110 C.

The present invention relates to an adhesive tape and to a method for jacketing an elongated item, more particularly cable sets. The adhesive tape must cure within the operational dictates for further processing, e.g. within 6 min, and after curing must exhibit the required dimensional stability properties. However, the adhesive compositions must not cure during storage itself, since otherwise they can no longer be used. Nor may the curing temperatures be too high, since otherwise the lead insulation, which is often made of PVC, may suffer damage. The invention provides a method for jacketing an elongated item such as more particularly leads or cable sets, where a stretched shrink-wrap film is guided in a helical line around the elongated item or the elongated item is wrapped in an axial direction by the stretched shrink-wrap film, the elongated item together with the shrink-wrap film wrapping is brought into the desired disposition, more particularly into the cable set plan, the elongated item is held in this disposition and the shrink-wrap film is brought to shrink by the supply of thermal energy at a temperature of up to 130 C.

Provided are an electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness containing such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a plurality of elemental wires, and has a flat portion in which a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. Deformation ratios of the elemental wires at peripheral end parts in a width direction are 70% or lower of deformation ratios of the elemental wires at center parts. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor.

A bracket-equipped conductive path A, comprising: a conductive path main body; a protector that is tubular, is made of a synthetic resin, and surrounds the conductive path main body; a bracket that is made of a metal, includes a plate-shaped base portion, and is formed as a single body with the protector in a state in which at least a portion of the base portion is embedded in the protector; and a displacement restricting portion that the bracket is provided with, and that restricts displacement of the conductive path main body by abutting the conductive path main body.