US 7,581,564 B2
Protector
Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Yokkaichi (Japan); Masato Ibaraki, Yokkaichi (Japan); Tsutomu Sakata, Yokkaichi (Japan); and Toshitsugu Morii, Yokkaichi (Japan)
Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., (Japan)
Filed on May 07, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/116,376.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-122650 (JP), filed on May 07, 2007; application No. 2007-124846 (JP), filed on May 09, 2007; and application No. 2007-148319 (JP), filed on Jun. 04, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0277015 A1, Nov. 13, 2008
Int. Cl. F16L 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 138—110  [138/156; 174/71 R; 174/72 A; 174/92; 285/419; 285/903; 285/921] 39 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
26. A protector for fixing a bundle of wires to an object, comprising:
first and second split members engageable with at least one corrugated tube mounted on the bundle of wires; and
an engaging part mountable on a mounting portion of the split members and engageable with a fixing hole in the object, the engaging part including a leg shaped for insertion into the fixing hole, at least one resilient engaging piece engageable with the fixing hole to retain the leg when the leg is inserted to a specified position, and at least one bulging plate near a rear end of the leg in an inserting direction into the fixing hole and bulging out at an angle to the inserting direction;
the mounting portion includes a guide plate formed with a mount groove for receiving the leg, and at least one resilient plate spaced from the guide plate to define a space for holding the bulging plate a surface of the resilient plate facing the guide plate and a surface of the bulging plate opposite a side with the leg have engaging portions that are engageable with each other,
the leg being insertable into the mount groove in mounting postures of the engaging part angularly displaced about the axial line of the leg, and
the engaging portions being shaped to prevent withdrawal of the bulging plate from the space by engaging each other upon insertion of the bulging plate into the space, regardless of a mounting posture of the engaging part.