Adjustable Overlap Cover Member for Wire Harness Shielding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cover members for wire harnesses require individual design changes to accommodate different shapes of shield shells, leading to increased costs and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A cover member with a main body featuring adjustable overlap areas and flange parts, allowing it to be adapted to various shield shell shapes without specific design modifications, utilizing a binding member to secure the cable routing material.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cover members are designed with opening parts corresponding to specific shield shell shapes, then the fit and protection performance is improved, but the number of different cover member types increases leading to higher costs
Solution Approach 1:
The cover member is designed with a single standardized opening part that can accommodate multiple different shield shell shapes. The opening part has a universal geometry that allows various cable routing materials to be inserted and fixed, eliminating the need for multiple specialized cover member designs while maintaining effective protection and fit for different configurations
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple types of cover members are produced for different shield shell shapes, then specific fit requirements are met, but manufacturing costs and inventory complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single cover member design with a standardized opening part serves multiple functions by accommodating different shield shell shapes and cable routing materials. This universal design simplifies manufacturing processes, reduces production costs, and eliminates the need to manage multiple SKUs while still achieving precise fit requirements through the flexible binding member mechanism
3Reliability
If individual design changes are made for each shield shell shape, then optimal protection is achieved, but design time and development costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cover member employs a universal opening part design that works with various shield shell shapes without requiring individual design modifications. The binding member can be adjusted to secure different cable routing material configurations, allowing optimal protection to be achieved across multiple applications using a single standardized design, thereby eliminating repetitive design development work
Data Source
AI summary
A cover member includes: a main body; and a binding member. The main body includes, when viewed from the axial direction, a base area, a first overlap area located on one side, and a second overlap area located on the other side with the base area interposed therebetween. The first overlap area includes a first end part out of the main-body both end parts. The second overlap area includes a second end part out of the main-body both end parts. The base area is formed to be able to change an overlap amount of the first overlap area and the second overlap area. The main-body both end parts are formed from one opening part to the other opening part out of a pair of opening parts that communicate an inside space with the outside.