Wiring Harness Guide Track for Vehicle Seat Movement Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wiring harnesses in vehicles often experience unregulated movement, leading to damage and noise due to friction with nearby components when moving components like vehicle seats or doors operate, as they lack proper direction and path control.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus comprising a binding unit and a guide track that encircles the wiring harness, allowing it to move along a predetermined path, using a slider with a guide cavity and stoppers to limit movement and prevent interference with other components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the wiring harness is made long enough to allow movement of the moving component, then the moving component can move freely, but the wiring harness may contact or interfere with nearby components causing damage or short circuits
Solution Approach 1:
A guide track is introduced as an intermediary component between the wiring harness and the surrounding environment. The guide track receives and guides the binding unit, which secures the wiring harness, constraining it to move only along a predetermined safe path defined by the guide track, thereby preventing contact with nearby components while allowing movement
Solution Approach 2:
The wiring harness system is segmented into multiple functional components: the wiring harness itself, a binding unit (binder with slider) that secures it, and a guide track that defines the movement path. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each component's function while maintaining overall system reliability
2Ease of operation
If the wiring harness is allowed to move freely with the moving component, then the electrical connection is maintained, but excessive noise is generated due to friction with nearby components
Solution Approach 1:
The guide track acts as a mediator that separates the wiring harness from nearby components. By constraining the wiring harness to move within the guide track's defined path, friction with surrounding components is eliminated, thereby reducing noise while maintaining electrical connection functionality
3Reliability
If a binding unit is used to secure the wiring harness, then the wiring harness movement is controlled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The binding unit is designed with multi-functionality: the binder secures the wiring harness, the slider enables movement along the guide track, and the holding protrusion with multiple holding recesses provides both movement control and positioning functions. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, thereby managing complexity while achieving reliable movement control
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AI summary
An apparatus for limiting a movement of a wiring harness includes a binding unit configured to bind the wiring harness electrically connected to a moving component configured to be movable relative to a vehicle body, the binding unit configured to be movable according to a movement of the moving component, and a guide track configured to guide a movement of the binding unit, wherein the guide track defines a movement path of the binding unit.