A wire harness including: a first conductive path; a second conductive path provided side-by-side with the first conductive path; an electromagnetic wave absorber provided on a portion of the first conductive path in a length direction of the first conductive path; and a fixing member configured to fix the first conductive path to the second conductive path in a region of the first conductive path where the electromagnetic wave absorber is installed.

A wire harness manufacturing apparatus includes: a jig plate that is used in disposing of a wire; a mobile body that retains the wire and is movable on the jig plate; and a controller configured to carry out movement control of the mobile body and cause the mobile body to move depending on a shape of a wire harness to carry out the disposing of the wire. The jig plate has a magnetic body provided in a mobile region of the mobile body, and the mobile body has a magnetic force generator that generates magnetic force that serves as attraction force with respect to the jig plate.

Systems, methods, and devices providing for the robotic installation of vehicle electrical systems are described. A vehicle wiring harness includes first and second cables, a robotic gripping arm, and at least two pairs of stiffeners coupled to the cables to define folding points and corresponding segments that enable robotic folding and unfolding of the wiring harness. In other examples, a wiring harness is coupled to a plurality of electrical connectors carried by a carrier plate of an electrical control unit connection system (ECU), which is installed by robotically mating the plurality of electrical connectors carried by the carrier plate.

An aluminum alloy element wire has a chemical composition including in mass percent: Mg: 0.3% or more and 0.9% or less, Si: 0.1% or more and 0.7% or less, Fe: 0.1% or more and 0.4% or less, at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Cr, Ni, and Zr: 0.01% or more and 0.5% or less in total, and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum alloy element wire has a surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.15 m or more and 2 m or less as measured with a non-contact surface roughness measuring machine. An aluminum alloy stranded wire includes a plurality of the aluminum alloy element wires twisted together. An automotive electric wire includes the aluminum alloy stranded wire. A wire harness includes the automotive electric wire, and a terminal crimped to the aluminum alloy stranded wire of the automotive electric wire.

A wire harness to be fixed to a surface of a sheet material in which a fiber material is exposed on the surface, the wire harness includes an electric wire and a molding body made of a thermoplastic material and provided integrally with the electric wire to be exposed on an outer surface of the electric wire. The molding body includes a fusion surface which fixes the electric wire to the surface of the sheet material through heating and fusing.

A method is described that is suitable for automated use of peg apparatus and an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of a bundled wire harness.

A strand for a wiring harness includes a first element wire and a second element wire twisted around the first element wire and made of copper or a copper alloy. The first element wire includes a core portion made of stainless steel and a covering layer covering the core portion and made of copper or a copper alloy.

A conductive portion of a circuit body is formed by performing spraying on a surface of a resin casing. For spraying of the conductive portion, a cold spray method in which metal powder and inert gas are sprayed to an object is used. A circuit component is mounted on the conductive portion. Each terminal portion of the conductive portion is provided with a connector for connection with an external circuit body. An insulating resin is laminated on a surface of the conductive portion. The circuit body is directly formed on the surface of the resin casing by a series of processes described above.

A tool for fixing a protective textile sleeve about an elongate member contained therein and method of use thereof is provided. The tool includes a clamp assembly having opposed clamp members attached to one another for pivotal movement relative to one another between an open state and a closed state. The clamp members have clamping surfaces, wherein at least one of the clamping surfaces has at least one outlet. A fluid source is arranged in fluid communication with the at least one outlet, and a heat source is configured to heat fluid from the fluid source to create steam. The steam is dispensed outwardly from the at least one outlet to cause an adhesive on the sleeve to become activated to bond with an adjacent abutting surface.

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. In the cross-section of the flat portion, a vacancy ratio defined as a ratio of vacancies not occupied by the elemental wires is 17% or higher. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor. Furthermore, a wiring harness contains the covered electric wire.