EP0041332A2 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Einsetzen von elektrischen Endkontakten in Gehäuse von elektrischen Steckverbindern - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Einsetzen von elektrischen Endkontakten in Gehäuse von elektrischen Steckverbindern Download PDF

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EP0041332A2
EP0041332A2 EP19810302186 EP81302186A EP0041332A2 EP 0041332 A2 EP0041332 A2 EP 0041332A2 EP 19810302186 EP19810302186 EP 19810302186 EP 81302186 A EP81302186 A EP 81302186A EP 0041332 A2 EP0041332 A2 EP 0041332A2
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Kunitada Tominoi
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    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve

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  • Apparatus for, and a method of, inserting electrical terminals into an electrical connector housing Apparatus for, and a method of, inserting electrical terminals into an electrical connector housing.
  • US-A-4,055,889 and US-A-4,087,908 apparatus for inserting electrical terminals connected to a wire, into respective cavities in an electrical connector housing
  • the apparatus comprising a housing positioning unit arranged to locate the housing in a predetermined terminal receiving position; a terminal insertion unit arranged to insert each terminal into its respective cavity in the housing, when the housing is located in its predetermined position; a terminal rotation member arranged to rotate each terminal prior to its insertion into its respective cavity, the terminal rotation member being movable towards and away from the terminal insertion unit, and means arranged to transfer each rotated terminal from the terminal rotation member to the terminal insertion uni.t.
  • the wires to which the terminals are connected are rotated from a position in which they extend at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane, to a position in which they extend vertically so as to be aligned with their respective cavities.
  • each terminal is in the same angular position as the remaining terminals about the longitudinal axis of the wire to which the terminal is connected.
  • the present invention is directed to the problem of inserting terminals into cavities in a housing, for example, that of a printed circuit edge connector, in such a way that the terminals are arranged in pairs of oppositely oriented terminals.
  • apparatus as defined in the first paragraph of this specification is characterised in that, the terminal rotation member is arranged to rotate a first terminal in one sense about the longitudinal axis of the wire to which the terminal is connected, in respect of a first traverse of the terminal rotation member towards the terminal insertion unit and to rotate a second terminal in the opposite sense about such axis in respect of a subsequent traverse of the terminal rotation member towards the terminal insertion unit, so that the first and second terminals are inserted into their cavities in oppositely oriented relationship,
  • a method of inserting elongate electrical terminals into respective cavities in an electrical connector housing comprising the steps of supplying respective terminals to terminal rotation means at a terminal receiving position thereof, operating the terminal rotation means to rotate each terminal, in the course of moving the terminal rotation means from its terminal receiving position, towards the housing and transferring each terminal from the terminal rotation means into a respective cavity on the housing; is characterised in that a first terminal is rotated by the terminal rotation means by 90° about the longitudinal axis of the first terminal, in a first sense, and is transferred into the cavity whilst returning the terminal rotation means to its terminal receiving position; and a second terminal is then supplied to the terminal rotating means, which is operated to rotate the second terminal through 90 about its longitudinal axis in a second sense opposite to the first sense, whilst moving the terminal rotating means towards the housing, and the second terminal is then transferred from the terminal rotating means into a second cavity in the housing, whereby the second terminal is oppositely angularly positioned in the housing with respect to the first terminal.
  • the invention can readily be applied to a harness making machine for producing wired printed circuit edge connectors, the terminals being crimped to the wires at a crimping station of the machine and being supplied to the terminal insertion apparatus by means of a wire conveyor.
  • the terminal insertion apparatus can be constructed as a modular unit which can be detachably mounted to the harness making machine in place of a conventional terminal insertion apparatus thereof.
  • Each terminal 3 which has been connected by crimping to a wire 1 or 1', comprises a contact spring 3' which projects laterally from one side of the terminal 3.
  • the cavities 5' are arranged in pairs of cavities juxtaposed transversely of the housing 5, one cavity of each pair 5' being disposed on each side of a printed circuit board receiving channel 5'' of the housing 5.
  • the cavities 5' are such that terminals 3 can only be inserted into a pair of -cavities 5' with the contact springs 3' Of these terminals facing one another.
  • the apparatus to be described is arranged to take each of a plurality of terminals 3 supplied to.the apparatus, and to insert it into an individual cavity 5', after rotating the terminal through 90° about the longitudinal axis of its wire 1 to 1', correctly to orient the terminal 3 for insertion into its cavity 5'.
  • the apparatus is accordingly arranged oppositely to rotate the terminals 3 to be inserted into the cavities 5' of each pair, as shown in Figure 1, prior to inserting these terminals into their individual Cavities 5'.
  • the apparatus comprises a base plate 100 on which are mounted; a housing positioning unit 10 for locating each connector housing 5 into which terminals 3 are to be inserted, at a predetermined terminal receiving position; a terminal rotation unit 20 for rotating, as described above, each terminal 3, which has been conveyed to the apparatus from a crimping station (not shown); and a terminal insertion unit 50 for inserting each terminal 3 into one of the cavities 5' after the terminal has been rotated through 90° by means of the unit 20.
  • the housing positioning unit 10 includes X-Y positioning tables 11 and 12 which are relatively movable at right angles to one another, by means of electrical stepping motors 15 and 16, respectively, a housing support plate 13 connected to the table 11, and a housing holder 14 secured to the plate 13 and in which a housing 5 can be releasably engaged.
  • a row of holders 14 extending longitudinally of the plate 13' is provided.
  • the terminal rotation unit 20 comprises a slide plate constituting a carriage 21 which is mounted to slide along horizontal guide rods 22 supported by brackets 8 on the base plate 100.
  • the carriage 21 is provided, on its rear face, with a tapped eye (not shown) through which extends a screw threaded rod 23 which is connected to, and is intermittently rotatable by means of an electric motor 24 carried by one of the brackets 8, to move the carriage 21 along the guide rods 22.
  • the carriage 21 is arranged to dwell at a terminal pick-up first position at which it receives, by means described below, a wire 1 or 1' to which a terminal 3 has previously been crimped.
  • the carriage 21 is then moved to a terminal transfer second dwell position at which the wire, after the terminal 3 has been rotated through 90° on the carriage 21 (by means described below), is seized by terminal insertion jaws 60 of the insertion unit 50 which insert the terminal 3 into its individual cavity 5' with the aid of terminal gripping arms 78 of a terminal positioning sub-unit 70 of the unit 50, as described below.
  • the terminal rotation unit 20 comprises a block 25 secured to the carriage 21 and having formed integrally therewith a guide sector 27 having upper and lower V-section arcuate grooves 26 in which rotatably engage three rollers 28 (Figure 3) journalled in a block 29 which is thereby movable along the sector shaped track defined by the grooves 26.
  • a terminal rotation member in the form of a swingable, finger-shaped wire clamp 30 described in detail below with reference to Figure 6 and shown only schematically in Figures 2 and 4, is fixed to the side of the block 29 remote from the block 25.
  • An endless chain 33 is engaged about two horizontally spaced sprocket wheels 32 rotatably supported by the carriage 21, and about the sector- shaped under side of a chain guide 34 depending from the block 25 as shown in Figure 4.'
  • the chain 33 is connected to the block 29 by means of a bracket 31 ( Figure 4) and to a slide block 36 by means of an attachment 35.
  • the slide block 36 is drivable in reciprocating motion along a guide rod 38 by means of a pneumatic piston-and-cylinder device 37, to rotate the sprocket wheels 32 so as to swing the clamp wire 30 through a predetermined angle about the sector 27.
  • the wire clamp 30 is swung through 90 0 .
  • the wire clamp 30 includes a main, fixed clamp member 40 arranged to be driven in intermittent reciprocating axial movement in a support block 39, by means of a pneumatic piston-and-cylinder device 41, and a smaller, movable clamp member 42 having a clamping nose 49.
  • the member 42 is pivotable, by means of a pneumatic piston-and-cylinder device 44, about a pin 46, in a clockwise (as seen in Figure 6) sense to clamp a wire when such is received therein in a recess 45 in the free end of the member 40, and in the opposite direction to release the wire from the recess 45.
  • the terminal insertion unit 50 (shown in detail in Figures 7 and 8) includes an L-shaped support bracket 51 ( Figure 2) secured to the base plate 100, and carrying a frame 52 supporting a slide plate 53.
  • the plate 53 is connected to the piston rod of a pneumatic piston-and-cylinder device 55 by means of a bracket 54.
  • a housing 56 slidably connected to the plate 53 contains a cranked lever 58 pivoted to a cross shaft 57 extending between opposed side walls of the housing 56.
  • One end of the lever 58 is connected to the piston rod 59' of a pneumatic piston-and-cylinder device 59, the other end of the lever 58 being pivotally connected to the terminal insertion jaws 60 which have terminal stuffing projections 80 at their ends remote from the housing 56.
  • the housing 56 has in its left hand (as seen in Figure 7) wall, an adjustable length stop 61 adapted to limit the rotation of the lever 58 in a clockwise (as seen in Figure 7) sense,-as the piston rod 59' is retracted, so as to limit the descent of the jaws 60 which are mounted for vertical reciprocating movement relative to the housing 56.
  • the terminal positioning sub-unit 70 is secured to the slide plate 53 by means of a depending plate 53' and extends transversely of the frame 52, as best,seen in Figure 2, being connected to the plate 53' through a slide base 71 ( Figure (8).
  • the slide base 71 carries the cylinder of a piston-and-cylinder device 72 for driving horizontally a slide 73 connected to a slide plate 77 which supports a terminal positioner 75 having a housing 75'.
  • the slide plate 77 is driven horizontally by a piston-and-cylinder device 74 fixed to the slide 73, in turn horizontally to drive the positioner 75 between a first position referenced (a) in Figure 8a -and a second position referenced (b) in Figure 8a.
  • a piston-and-cylinder device 76 is arranged to open and close the terminal gripping arms 78, through a linkage 78'.
  • Each arm 78 has, at its end remote from the housing 75', two recesses 79 and 79' having different configurations, each for receiving a terminal 3 in a different one of the two angular orientations, described above.
  • the electric motors and the piston-and-cylinder devices mentioned above are automatically operated according to a predetermined programme described below, by means of a conventional pneumatic or electronic control logic system (not shown).
  • the wires 1 and 1' are intermittently conveyed to the terminal rotation unit 20, one by one, in the direction of the arrow A in Figure 2, by means of pairs of wire clamp jaws 2 ( Figure 2) of a conveyor (not shown), from a crimping station (not shown) upstream of the apparatus, at which station, the terminals 3 are crimped to the wires 1.
  • the carriage 21 of the unit 20 is driven to its first position ( Figure 5a) to dwell thereat, the wire clamp 30 having been simultaneously displaced by 45° by the device 47 in a clockwise (as seen in Figures 5a and 5b) sense with respect to the centre of the guide sector 27 and being stationary.
  • the jaws 2 are then opened to release the wire 1 and the motor 24 is simultaneously run to slide the carriage 21 to its second position ( Figure 5c).
  • the device 37 is operated simultaneously with the movement of the carriage 21 to its second position, to move the slide block 36 along the guide rod 38 to cause the chain 33 to rotate the wire clamp 30 in an anticlockwise (as seen in Figures 5a to 5c) sense through 90°, from its Figure 5a and b position to the position shown in Figure 5c, so that the terminal 3 is rotated about the longitudinal axis of the wire 1 and thus about its own longitudinal axis, through 90°, also in an anticlockwise sense.
  • the main clamp member 40 is advanced again to receive the wire 1', the movable clamp member 42 is operated so that the wire 1' is gripped in the wire clamp 30, and the wire clamp 30 is returned to its Figure 5a position whilst the carriage 21 is being moved to its second position, whereby the terminal 3 on the wire 1' is rotated about its longitudinal axis by 90° in the opposite sense to that in which the terminal on the wire 1 was rotated.
  • the wire 1' is then released from the wire clamp 30 when the jaws 60 have been closed about the wire 1'.
  • the insertion jaws 60 co-operate with the terminal positioner 75 to insert the terminal 3 on the wire 1 or I' gripped by the jaws 60 into a corresponding cavity 5' of the connector housing 5, during the subsequent return movement of the carriage 21.
  • the terminal positioner 75 is driven by the device 74 to bring the positioner 75 into its position (a) or its position (b) in Figure 8a in dependence upon the orientation of the terminal 3.
  • the device 76 is then operated to close the arms 78, so that the crimped portion of the terminal 3 is received in the recesses 79' ( Figure lOa) or 79 ( Figure lOb), as the case may be of the arms 78.
  • the device 55 is then operated to retract the slide plate 53 leftwardly (as seen in Figure 7) similarly to displace the terminal positioner 75 and the insertion jaws 60, to insert the terminal 3 into its individual cavity 5' of the connector housing 5, as shown in Figure 10c.
  • the device 76 is actuated to open the arms 78, and the device 2 is operated to move the slide 73 leftwardly (as seen in Figure 8) to retract the arms 78 from between the jaws 60 and the housing 5, the device 55 being still in operation, so that the jaws 60 fully insert the terminal 3 into the cavity 5' with the aid of the terminal stuffing projections 80 on the-jaws 60, as shown in Figure 10d.
  • the devices 55 and 72 are actuated to return the slide plate 53 and the terminal positioner 75, respectively, to their starting positions and the tables 11 and 12 are shifted to position the housing 5 for the insertion of the next terminal 3 thereinto, whereby a cycle of operation of the apparatus has been completed.

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US4470181A (en) * 1981-04-27 1984-09-11 Amp Incorporated Apparatus for loading color-coded wires into a connector half
DE3727429A1 (de) * 1986-09-16 1988-03-17 Amp Inc Anschlussrotationsstation
EP0286207A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung für die Herstellung von elektrischen Kabelanordnungen
EP0286206A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung zum Laden eines elektrischen Klemmenblocks
EP0286208A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung zum Sortieren und Lagern elektrischer Kabel
EP0330309A2 (de) * 1988-02-23 1989-08-30 Molex Incorporated Quetschkabelbaum-Herstellungsapparat und -Methode
EP0348615A1 (de) * 1988-07-01 1990-01-03 Komax Ag Verfahren zum automatischen Montieren von elektrischen Leitern mit Kontaktteilen in Steckergehäuse
WO1991015042A1 (de) * 1990-03-28 1991-10-03 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur herstellung von steckverbindungen
EP0534822A1 (de) * 1991-09-26 1993-03-31 AEROSPATIALE Société Nationale Industrielle Vorrichtung und Maschine zum Einfügen von Verbindungselementen in Verbindern
EP0817333A2 (de) * 1996-06-25 1998-01-07 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. Drahtzusammenbauherstellungsverfahren und Einführungsapparat für Drähte versehen mit Kontakte
GB2328323A (en) * 1997-08-15 1999-02-17 Japan Aviation Electron Mounting a connector to a board by rotation of the connector and using a clip
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US4470181A (en) * 1981-04-27 1984-09-11 Amp Incorporated Apparatus for loading color-coded wires into a connector half
DE3727429B4 (de) * 1986-09-16 2004-05-06 Amp Inc. Anschlußrotationsstation
DE3727429A1 (de) * 1986-09-16 1988-03-17 Amp Inc Anschlussrotationsstation
EP0286207A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung für die Herstellung von elektrischen Kabelanordnungen
EP0286206A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung zum Laden eines elektrischen Klemmenblocks
EP0286208A1 (de) * 1987-04-07 1988-10-12 The Whitaker Corporation Einrichtung zum Sortieren und Lagern elektrischer Kabel
US4835844A (en) * 1987-04-07 1989-06-06 Amp Incorporated Block loading apparatus
US4925007A (en) * 1987-04-07 1990-05-15 Amp Incorporated Electrical lead parking and sorting station
EP0330309A2 (de) * 1988-02-23 1989-08-30 Molex Incorporated Quetschkabelbaum-Herstellungsapparat und -Methode
EP0330309A3 (de) * 1988-02-23 1991-03-27 Molex Incorporated Quetschkabelbaum-Herstellungsapparat und -Methode
EP0348615A1 (de) * 1988-07-01 1990-01-03 Komax Ag Verfahren zum automatischen Montieren von elektrischen Leitern mit Kontaktteilen in Steckergehäuse
WO1991015042A1 (de) * 1990-03-28 1991-10-03 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur herstellung von steckverbindungen
FR2681987A1 (fr) * 1991-09-26 1993-04-02 Aerospatiale Dispositif et machine pour brancher des elements de connexion dans des connecteurs.
US5333374A (en) * 1991-09-26 1994-08-02 Societe Nationale Industrielle Et Aerospatiale Device for connecting connexion elements into connectors
US5485660A (en) * 1991-09-26 1996-01-23 Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle Machine for connection connexion elements into connectors
EP0534822A1 (de) * 1991-09-26 1993-03-31 AEROSPATIALE Société Nationale Industrielle Vorrichtung und Maschine zum Einfügen von Verbindungselementen in Verbindern
EP0817333A2 (de) * 1996-06-25 1998-01-07 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. Drahtzusammenbauherstellungsverfahren und Einführungsapparat für Drähte versehen mit Kontakte
EP0817333A3 (de) * 1996-06-25 1999-01-13 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. Drahtzusammenbauherstellungsverfahren und Einführungsapparat für Drähte versehen mit Kontakte
GB2328323A (en) * 1997-08-15 1999-02-17 Japan Aviation Electron Mounting a connector to a board by rotation of the connector and using a clip
GB2328323B (en) * 1997-08-15 2002-03-13 Japan Aviation Electron Mounting apparatus and method for mounting a connector to a board with a turn of the connector
CN114833589A (zh) * 2022-04-26 2022-08-02 东莞市品晔电子有限公司 一种连接器端子削边铣槽收口机

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