AUSTRALIA PATENTS ACT 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION NAME OF APPLICANT(S):: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. ADDRESS FOR SERVICE: DAVIES COLLISON CAVE Patent Attorneys I Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000. INVENTION TITLE: Door harness The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us: 5102 This invention relates to a door harness to be arranged on a vehicle door and more particularly relates to a door harness that can improve an inserting work into a vehicle frame through a doorframe through-hole. 5 For convenience of explanation, a conventional door harness will be described by referring to Figures 6 and 7. Figure 6 is a perspective view of a part of a door panel, illustrating a step for attaching a conventional door harness to the door 10 panel. Figures 7A, 7B, and 7C are schematic side elevation views, illustrating steps for inserting the conventional door harness into a through-hole in the door panel. A door harness W/H to be arranged in a door panel 1 of an automobile vehicle, as shown in Figures 6 and 7, is provided 15 with a connector 3 connected to a distal end of the door harness at a vehicle body side, a grommet 4 mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the door harness, and a resin inner member 5 disposed in the grommet 4. The connector 3 is adapted to be connected to a wire harness on a vehicle body. The 20 grommet 4 is inserted into and secured to a through-hole in the vehicle body. The connector 3 is inserted into and secured to the resin inner member 5. As shown in Figure 6, when the door harness W/H is inserted through the through-hole 2 in the door panel 1 la FP02-415AU into a vehicle body side, an interior of the door panel 1 makes it difficult for a worker to reach worker's hand and peep the through-hole 2. Consequently, a work of inserting the door harness W/H into the through-hole 2 is 5 one of very difficult works. Heretofore, an auxiliary device 6 is used to insert the door harness W/H into the through-hole 2. The auxiliary device 6 includes a dummy connector 7 connected to an end of a wire 8 having a relatively great diameter. 10 The dummy connector 7 is adapted to be coupled to the connector 3. As shown in Figure 7A, the auxiliary device 6 is inserted into the through-hole 2 at the outside of the door panel to couple the dummy connector 7 to the 15 connector 3. As shown in Figure 7B, the wire 8 is pulled to draw the auxiliary device 6 out of the through-hole 2, thereby drawing the door harness W/H outwardly. Then, as shown in Figure 7C, the dummy connector 7 of the auxiliary device 6 is disconnected from the connector 3 and opposite 20 latch portions 4b and 4a of the grommet 4 are engaged with the through-hole 2 in the door panel 1 and a through-hole 31 in a vehicle panel 30 (Figure 3), respectively. This fixes the door harness W/H on a vehicle body. However, the above process requires a preparation of 25 the auxiliary device 6, a work of inserting the auxiliary device 6 into the through-hole 2, and works of coupling and decoupling the dummy connector 7 and the connector 3 to and from each other. This lowers efficiency of working. 2 It is desirable to provide a door harness that can improve an arrangement work of a wire harness that is disposed from an interior of a door panel through a through hole to the outside of the door panel. 5 The invention provides a door harness to be drawn from an interior of a door panel through a through-hole in said door panel to a vehicle body side, the harness being provided with; a connector connected to a distal end of said door 10 harness; a grommet mounted on an outer peripheral surface of an end section of said door harness; a resin inner member provided in said grommet for containing said connector; and a string-like member disposed at said end section of said door harness, an end of said string-like member extending 15 along the connector from a space between said resin inner member and said connector, said string-like member being positioned to be able to be drawn out of said through-hole in said door panel at an outside of said door panel upon arrangement of said door 20 harness in said door panel, whereby said grommet passes said through-hole from the side of the connector, said string like member including a binding string made of a wire or a resin string having stiffness, and said string-like member being formed into a loop-like configuration and fixed with 3 respect to said door harness. The string-like member extends from the distal end of the door harness in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, whereby the string-like member can pass the 5 through-hole from the interior of the door panel. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, if the string-like member cannot pass the through-hole from the interior of the door panel, the string-like member is disposed near the through-hole in the interior and the 10 member can be easily drawn out of the through-hole from the outside. By pulling the string-like member drawn out of the through-hole outwardly, the grommet containing the connector at the distal end of the door harness can pass the through hole. 15 Because the string-like member includes a wire or a string having stiffness, the string-like member may be easy to pass the through-hole from the interior of the door panel and the string-like member and resistant to breakage when it is pulled outwardly by a strong force, thereby surely 20 drawing the door harness through the through-hole. Furthermore, a worker may be able to hold the looped string like member and pull it without causing any slippage, thereby surely applying a pulling force to the door harness. Since an excessive length of the string-like member 4 extending from the distal end of the grommet may interfere with elements disposed in the interior of the door panel upon arrangement of the door harness in the door panel, the length of the string-like member should be determined under 5 a condition in which a worker can hold it. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, an adhesive tape is wound around a rear end section of the string-like member together with an electric wire bundle with the rear end section being exposed by a given length from the rear 10 end of the string-like member, the rear end section is folded and another adhesive tape is wound around the exposed and folded section together with the electric wire bundle. Thus, the string-like member may pass the space between the connector attached to the distal end of the door harness 15 and the resin inner member and extend along the electric wire bundle. Preferably, after the adhesive tape is wound around the rear end section of the string-like member spaced by the given distance from the rear end thereof, the rear end section is folded and another adhesive tape is wound 20 around the folded rear end section together with the electric wire bundle to secure the section to the bundle. Thus, the electric wire bundle and string-like member bundled by the adhesive tapes two times can enhance a securing strength, thereby preventing the string-like member 5from being removed from the electric wire bundle when the string-like member is pulled. Preferably, the string-like member includes a wire, and a terminal is crimped on a rear end of the wire. In a 5 preferred embodiment of the invention, the terminal is inserted into an available cavity in the connector, and the string-like member is attached to the door harness. Preferably, the terminal is crimped on each of the opposite ends of the wire and the terminal is inserted into 10 the available cavity in the connector. If the string-like member is the wire and the terminal crimped on each of the opposite ends of the wire is inserted into the connector, it may be unnecessary to treat the ends of the string-like member, 15 If the soft tape is wound around the section of the string-like member projecting from the grommet, it may be possible to prevent the string-like member from causing unusual noise due to interference with the other parts and for a worker to hold the string-like member without slippage 20 when pulling it. The present invention will now be described, by way of non-limiting example only, with reference to the drawings, in which: 25 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a door harness in 6 accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention; Figures 2A and 2B are schematic side elevation views, illustrating steps for attaching a wire to the door harness shown in Figure 1; 5 Figures 3A, 3B, and 3C are schematic perspective views of a door panel, illustrating steps for arranging the door harness shown in Figure 1 on a path from the door panel to a vehicle body; Figure 4 is a front elevation view of a door harness in 10 accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention; Figures 5A and 5B are perspective views of the door harness shown in Figure 4, illustrating steps for attaching a wire to the door harness shown in Figure 4; 15 Figure 6 is a perspective view of a part of a door panel, illustrating a step for attaching a conventional door harness to the door panel; and Figures 7A, 7B, and 7C are schematic side elevation views, illustrating steps for inserting the conventional 20 door harness into a through-hole in the door panel. Referring now to the drawings, embodiments of the present invention will be described below. Figures 1 to 3 show a door harness 10 in accordance 7 with a first embodiment of the present invention. The door harness 10 is provided with a connector 11 connected to a distal end thereof, a grommet 12 mounted on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and a resin inner member 16 5 disposed in a distal end of the grommet 12. The connector 11 is contained in the resin inner member 16. A loop-like wire 17 extends from an end of a space between the resin inner member 16 and the connector 11 in an inserting direction of the door harness 10. 10 The grommet 12 with the resin inner member 16 includes a grommet body 13 that is provided on the opposite ends with enlarged diameter portions 13a and 13b, and a bellows portion 13c that connects the enlarged diameter portions 13a and 13b to each other. The enlarged diameter portion 13a of 15 the grommet body 13 at a front side of the inserting direction contains the resin inner member 16. The resin inner member 16 is provided on positions extending outwardly from the grommet body 13 7a FPO2-415AU with a pair of protrusions 16a for engagement of a vehicle body (Figure 1). The protrusions 16a engage a through hole 31 in a vehicle body panel 30 (Figure 3). The other enlarged diameter 13b of the grommet body 13 at the rear 5 side of the inserting direction is formed into a substantially cone-like configuration and is provided on an outer periphery with an annular latch groove 13d. The annular latch groove 13d engages an inner periphery of a through-hole 2 in a door panel 1. 10 An end of the loop-like wire 17 has a loop-like holding portion 18 that is folded at a substantially central position of the wire 17. A soft tape 20 is, preferably wound around the holding portion 18 to take measure against unusual noise. 15 The loop-like wire 17 directs the folded loop-like holding portion 18 forwardly in the inserting direction and the grommet 12 is disposed along the distal end of the door harness 10 before the door harness 10 is inserted into the through-hole 2. As shown in Figure 2A, a first 20 adhesive tape 21 is wound around a rear end section of the wire 17 together with an electric wire bundle w at a rear side of the grommet 12 while exposing a given length 17b from the rear end 17a of the wire 17. Then, as shown in Figure 2B, the exposed length 17b is folded at 180 degrees 25 and a second adhesive tape 22 is wound around the folded and exposed length 17b together with the electric wire bundle w. Figures 3A, 3B, and 3C show steps of arranging the 8 door harness 10 with the loop-like wire 17 on the door panel 1. Firstly, as shown in Figure 3A, an end of the door harness 10 is directed in the door panel 1 to the through 5 hole 2. Secondly, as shown in Figure 3B, when the holding portion 18 of the loop-like wire 17 approaches the through hole 2, a worker pinches the holding portion 18 from the outside of the through-hole 2 to draw the door harness 10 out of the through-hole 2. 10 Then, as shown in Figure 3C, the annular latch groove 13d in the enlarged diameter rear portion 13b of the grommet 12 engages the inner periphery of the through-hole 2 to secure the door harness 10 to the door panel 1. Thirdly, the resin inner member 16 contained in the 15 enlarged diameter front portion 13a of the grommet 12 is pushed into the through-hole 31 in the vehicle body panel 30 to engage the engaging protrusions 16a with the outer peripheral surface of the through-hole 31, thereby securing the portion 13a to the vehicle body panel 30. 20 Thus, by providing the loop-like wire 17 on the distal end of the door harness 10 in the inserting direction, it is possible to insert the door harness 10 into the through hole 2 while pulling the loop-like wire 17 at the outside of the door panel 1. In the conventional step, the door harness 10 9 was pulled at the inside of the door panel 1 where is invisible and inaccessible. Accordingly, the present embodiment will improve an inserting work of the door harness into the through-hole. 5 Since the rear end portion 17b of the loop-like wire 17 is folded and the adhesive tapes 21 and 22 are wound around the folded portion 17b to secured to the electric wire bundle w, the loop-like wire 17 does not come out from the electric wire bundle w even if the holding portion 18 of the 10 loop-like wire 17 is pulled. Figures 4 and 5 show a door harness 10' in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention The door harness 10' in the second embodiment is provided with a loop-like wire 17 having a securing means 15 different from that in the first embodiment. Since the other structure in the second embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, an explanation of it is omitted here by indicating the same signs. As shown in Figure 5A, a terminal 25 is crimped on each 20 of the opposite ends of the folded loop-like wire 17. The terminal 25, as shown in Figure 5B, is inserted into and secured to an available cavity in the connector 11 in the same manner as a terminal connected to each of electric wires that constitute a door harness. Since the direction 10 in which the terminal 25 is inserted into the connector 11 is opposite from the extending direction of the loop-like wire 17, the loop-like wire 17 is folded in the front side after the terminal 25 is inserted into the connector 11. 5 When the connector 11 is contained in the resin inner member 16 of the grommet 12, the loop-like wire 17 is inserted into the space between the connector 11 and the resin inner member 16 in the same manner as that in the first embodiment so that the loop-like holding portion 18 10 extends forwardly from the grommet 12. The soft tape 20 is wound around the holding portion 18 in the same manner as that in the first embodiment. Thus, in the second embodiment, since the terminal 25 is crimped on each end of the loop-like wire 17, is inserted 15 into the connector 11 together with the electric wire bundle w of the door harness 10, and is folded to extend outwardly from the grommet 12, the loop-like wire does not come out from the connector 11 even if the wire 17 is pulled and the wire is surely secured to the door harness 10' . Accordingly, 20 when the door harness 10' is inserted into the through-hole 2 in the door panel 1, the door harness 10' can be easily inserted into the through-hole 2 by drawing the wire 17 at the outside of the through-hole in the same manner as that in the first embodiment. 11 It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. It is possible to use a string-like member having stiffness such as a resin binding string in lieu of the wire around which the adhesive tapes 5 are wound together with the electric wire bundle. The wire may have a length sufficient for a worker to pinch and pnll it. Throughout this specification and the claims which follow, unless the context requires otherwise, the word 10 "comprise", and variations such as "comprises" and "comprising", will be understood to imply the inclusion of a stated integer or step or group of integers or steps but not the exclusion of any other integer or step or group of integers or steps. 15 The reference in this specification to any prior publication (or information derived from it), or to any matter which is known, is not, and should not be taken as an acknowledgment or admission or any form of suggestion that that prior publication (or information derived from it) or 20 known matter forms part of the common general knowledge in the field of endeavour to which this specification relates. 12