A wire harness configured to protect the group of lead wires having a large curve such that there is no risk of the binding tape-type protection portion exposing the group of lead wires is provided. The wire harness includes a group of lead wires and a binding tape-type protection portion that covers the group of lead wires. The binding tape-type protection portion is formed by overlapping a binding tape member around the group of lead wires. The binding tape member includes a tape member body that is made of a synthetic resin and is molded such that the cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the lengthwise direction is a four-triangle wave shape, and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the tape member body.

A wire harness is provided in which, by merely overlap wrapping a binding tape member around a group of lead wires, intruding water can be guided to the outside. The wire harness includes a group of lead wires and a binding tape-type protection portion that covers the group of lead wires. The binding tape-type protection portion is formed by overlap wrapping a binding tape member around the group of lead wires, the binding tape member having a tape member body made of a synthetic resin and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the tape member body. The tape member body has a plurality of water drain holes that are provided so as to penetrate the wall of the tape member body in the width direction, and that are provided in the lengthwise direction.

The efficiency of the tape winding task is improved while a desired lapping width (R11) is secured. A tape winding method includes a winding start step (step S11 to step S14), a lapped winding step (step S15 and step S16) of performing lapped winding in which adjacent tapes (21) partially overlap each other, while the tape set (2) is moved by an amount of movement per lapped winding that is a sum of a tape spacing (T11) and a lapping width (R11), and a winding end step.

A wiring harness assembly includes a plurality of electrical conductors having wires enclosed within insulative sheaths that are integrally formed of an electrically insulative material. The assembly also includes a lattice support structure that is attached to the insulative sheaths at multiple locations. The lattice support structure is configured to maintain a desired shape of the assembly. The lattice support structure is formed of filaments that may be formed using an additive manufacturing process The filaments may be arranged such that lattice support structure defines a plurality of hexagonally shaped apertures. A process for manufacturing the wiring harness assembly and an apparatus configured to manufacture the wiring harness assembly is also presented.

A pre-assembled low voltage wiring harness is configured for being installed in a building having framing. The wiring harness includes an exterior sheath having a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portions extending off the trunk portion. The wiring harness further includes a plurality of low voltage cables bundled inside the exterior sheath, and a plurality of attachment members coupled to the exterior sheath at a respective plurality of fixed, predetermined locations along a length of the exterior sheath. Each one of the attachment members includes a flexible strap, an attachment connector configured for removably attaching to the framing of the building, and an attachment marker for indicating an intended attachment location. The attachment connector may be a carabiner, a soft shackle, a hook, a snap hook, a clip, or a similar connector that does not require any tools for installation so that the wiring harness is easily installed.

A heat shrink machine fixture for clamping a wire harness product with a heat shrink tube includes a tray, a clamping component installed in the tray, and a plurality of installation components fixed to a bottom of the tray. The clamping component clamps and supports the wire harness product. The installation components are magnetically attracted to a frame of a heat shrink machine and detachably fix the heat shrink machine fixture to the frame of the heat shrink machine.

The invention relates to a method for jacketing elongate articles, such as lines or cable harnesses in particular, by means of an adhesive tape comprising a tape-shaped substrate, which substrate has, on at least one side, a thermally curable, meltable, preferably pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhesive layer comprising an epoxide-functionalized acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer which has on average more than 1.5 epoxide groups per molecule and comprising the reaction product of phthalic anhydride and diethylene-triamine, the adhesive tape being led in a helix around the elongate article or the elongate article being enveloped by the adhesive tape in the axial direction, the elongate article together with the enveloping adhesive tape being brought into the desired arrangement, in particular into the cable harness plan, the elongate article being held in this arrangement, and the curable adhesive mass being cured by supplying thermal energy, in particular at a temperature of up to 110 C.

An adhesive tape particularly for wrapping cables comprises a textile carrier and a pressure-sensitive adhesive applied on at least one side of the carrier, where starting materials used for the textile carrier comprise fibres of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, where the fraction of the fibres is at least 50 wt % and where the fibres are staple fibres or continuous filaments or are processed to form yarns.