EP0278135A1 - Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Gestaltung von Kabelbäumen - Google Patents

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EP0278135A1
EP0278135A1 EP87301131A EP87301131A EP0278135A1 EP 0278135 A1 EP0278135 A1 EP 0278135A1 EP 87301131 A EP87301131 A EP 87301131A EP 87301131 A EP87301131 A EP 87301131A EP 0278135 A1 EP0278135 A1 EP 0278135A1
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Schuyler Robert Darstein
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  • the present invention relates to the manufacture of cable harnesses from predetermined lengths of multi-conductor flat flexible cable by attachment of terminals to opposite ends of the conductors in the flexible cable, and more particularly to a method and appraratus for forming such cable harnesses in serial­ly interconnected but separable form.
  • Cable harnesses comprising predetermined lengths of multi­conductor flat flexible cable having terminals at opposite ends of each of the conductors thereof are well-known and widely used in the electronics industry for many purposes, such as, for example, connecting printed circuit boards.
  • a cable harness was made by severing a predetemined length of the flexible cable from a strip or roll and then applying terminals successively to the ends of the predetermined length of cable.
  • United States patents Nos. 4,335,497; 4,110,880; and 3,774,284 disclose several different apparatus for forming such cable harnesses.
  • United States Patent No. 4,290,179 discloses an apparatus for forming cable harnesses by simultaneously terminating all conductors at one or both ends of a length of cable. While a distinct improvement over previous apparatus, this apparatus still formed individual cable harnesses in loose or unconnected form which present difficulties in handling, packaging and shipping such cable harnesses.
  • an elongate strip of multi-conductor flat flexible cable is fed and indexed along a predetermined path of travel where it intersects at least one elongate strip of terminals, having transversely extending, spaced apart elongate terminals.
  • the strip is indexed along a predetermined path so that a row of terminals is placed into superposed relation to the flexible cable.
  • a row of terminals is terminated to the cable in electrical conductive relation to the conductors therein.
  • at least one weakened tear line is formed in the cable adjacent and parallel to the row of terminals so that a strip of serially interconnected but separable harness segments having terminals attached to predetermined lengths of flexible cable is formed.
  • an elongate strip of multi-conductor flat flexible cable is fed along a predetermined path of travel where it intersects with a pair of spaced apart, elongate strips of terminals.
  • the strips of terminals are arranged with the terminals facing in opposite directions and predetermined lengths thereof are fed into superposed relation to the flexible cable.
  • Rows of terminals are separated from the strips of terminals and terminated to the flexible cable in electrical conductive relation to the conductors therein.
  • This procedure is repeated at predetermined, spaced apart locations along the length of the elongate strip of flexible cable to form interconnected cable harnesses of the cable and terminals.
  • at least one weakened tear line is formed in the flexible cable between the rows of terminals so that the interconnected cable harnesses are separable when desired to be used.
  • the method and apparatus of the present invention commences with the step of index­ing a strip of flat, flexible cable by feeding an elongate strip of multi-conductor flat flexible cable 20 from a suitable source, such as reel 21 ( Figure 2), longitudinally along a predetermined path of travel in intermittent intervals so that a predetermined length of the strip of cable 20 is fed during each feeding inter­val.
  • This predetermined length of cable 20 is fed by any suit­able means, such as by a pair of feed rolls 22, 23 driven by any suitable means, such as a stepping motor 24 ( Figure 2).
  • the drive for rolls 22, 23 is preferably variable so that the length of the flexible cable 20 fed during each feeding interval may be varied to correspond to the desired length of the cable harness­es being formed.
  • the strip of flexible cable 20 is well known and includes a plurality of flat elongate conductors 25 encased within an outer sheath 26 ( Figures 1, 15 and 16).
  • the conductors 25 are spaced apart within sheath 26 so that the conductors 25 are insulated by the intervening portions 27 of the sheath 26 from each other.
  • Flexible cables are supplied with conductors 25 evenly spaced across the width of the cable and, depending upon end use requirements, with one or more conductors omitted so as to provide a blank space or spaces across the width of the cable.
  • the method of the present invention further includes the step of indexing strips of terminals by feeding a pair of elon­gate, oppositely facing, parallel strips of terminals 30, 31 along spaced apart paths of travel perpendicular to the path of travel of the flexible cable 20 in intermittent intervals and in timed relation to the feeding intervals of cable 20 so that prede­termined lengths of the strips of terminals 30, 31 and the flexi­ble cable 20 are in a superposed relation.
  • the strips of terminals 30, 31 include continuous carrier portions 32, 33, respectively, extending along distal sides of the pair of terminal strips 30, 31 and having spaced-apart holes 34, 35 therein for use in feeding the terminal strips 30, 31 and for alignment purposes.
  • Carrier portions 32, 33 have integrally formed therewith and support a plurality of spaced apart terminals 36, 37 which project laterally from carrier portions 32, 33 toward each other in alignment with each other.
  • the strips of terminals 30, 31 comprise two terminal strips 30a, 30b and 31a, 31b, respectively. ( Figure 2) which are stacked in superposed relation as is more fully described in United States Patent No. 4,021,095.
  • Each of the terminals 36, 37 is integral with its associated carrier portion at one end and extends laterally outwardly there­from a point where it terminates in a free end.
  • each of the terminals 36, 37 At an inter­mediate location along their length but closer to the end sup­ported by the carrier portions, each of the terminals 36, 37 have upwardly projecting pairs of teeth 36a, 36b and 37a, 37b, re­spectively, ( Figures 8a and 9a) on opposite sides thereof for penetration through the flexible cable 20 to establish an elec­trical conductive relation to the conductors 25.
  • terminals 36, 37 are adapted to be crimped after penetrating through the cable 20 to fasten the terminals onto the cable 20 ( Figures 9A, 9B and 9C).
  • United States Patent No. 4,082,402 discloses such terminals and their manner of connection to flexible cable in more detail and reference is made thereto for such greater detail.
  • terminals 36 and 37 are aligned with conductors 25 and define opposing, spaced apart rows of terminals.
  • the terminals 36, 37 are then removed from the carrier portions 32, 33 and the teeth 36a, 36b and 37a, 37b are caused to penetrate through the cable 20 and are crimped on the opposite side thereof ( Figures 9A, 9B, 9C, 15 and 16). This crimping or terminating procedure is repeated for each feeding interval to form interconnected cable harnesses with terminals 36, 37 at opposite ends of the predetermined lengths of cable 20.
  • a pair of weakened tear lines 40, 41 ( Figure 16) are formed between the rows of ter­minals 36, 37, with the tear lines 40, 41 being located between the portions of the terminals 36, 37 crimped to the cable 20 and the free ends of the terminals.
  • Weakened tear lines 40, 41 are preferably formed by severing the conductors 25 and the portions of the sheath 26 overlying and underlying those con­ductors and by scoring the portions 26 of the sheath 26 lying between the conductors 25.
  • cable 20 is of the type with one or more conductors omitted to form cable harnesses narrower than the width of cable 20, then appropriate pairs of terminals 36, 37 are removed from the pair of terminal strips 30, 31 at a location or locations which will underlie the location or locations of the omitted conductors prior to the terminal strips 30, 31 being fed into underlying relation to the cable 20.
  • the cable 20 with spaced rows of terminals 36, 37 may be longitudinally slit as generally indicated at 42 ( Figure 1) along the space or spaces provided by an omitted conductor or conductors to form multiple narrower strips of interconnected cable harnesses.
  • the completed strip or strips of interconnected but separable cable harnesses are preferably wound into rolls on suitable take-up reels 43, 44.
  • the rolls of interconnected cable harnesses may be stored, packaged and shipping in this compact­ed form with the attendent advantages of savings in space, shipping costs and ease of handling, and also with the advantage that the terminals are protected from damage since the projecting tips thereof lie along and are protected by the portion of cable lying between the weakened tear lines 40, 41.
  • individual cable harnesses may be removed from a roll of the strip of harnesses by tearing along the tear lines 40, 41. The portion of cable 20 between adjacent tear lines 40, 41 will be discarded since it has served its functions of interconnecting the cable harnesses and protecting the projecting tips of the terminals 36, 37.
  • Apparatus 50 includes the usual structural frame, housing and drive mechanisms of conventional punch presses which are well known and need not be described here.
  • Apparatus 50 does include suitable supporting structure 51 for cable supply reel 21 including a shaft 52 on which reel 21 is supported and a standard 53.
  • Reel 21 may be positively driven or free of wheeling with a suitable brake in a manner not shown.
  • Supporting structure 51 includes a guide 54 for guiding cable 20 from reel 21 to a guide 50 by feed rolls 22, 23.
  • feed rolls 22, 23 are driven intermittently by stepping motor 24 to feed predetermined lengths of cable 20 for fastening of terminals thereto.
  • Stepping motor 24 is computer controlled by control means 56 in a manner well known to those skilled in the art to vary the length of cable 20 fed into apparaus 50 as desired and thereby to vary the length of cable harnesses being formed.
  • Apparatus 50 includes a creel 60 ( Figure 2) for supporting supply reels 61, 62 and 63, 64 for strips of terminals 31a, 30b and 31a, 31b, respectively.
  • the supply reels 61, 62, 63 and 64 are preferably driven in a manner (not shown) to avoid undue tension on the strips of terminals being withdrawn therefrom.
  • the convolutions of the strips of terminals 30a, 30b and 31a, 31b on reels 61-64 are separated by divider strips which are wound on take-up reels 65, 66 and 67 and 68 as the terminal strips 30a, 30b and 31a, 31b are unwound from reels 61-64.
  • the strips of terminals 30a, 30b and 31a, 31b are directed from supply reels 61-64 to a feed track 70 ( Figures 11 and 12) and the strips 30a and 30b and strips 31a and 31b are brought into superposed stacked relation with the individual terminals off-set in the manner previously described.
  • Two pairs of guide rolls 71a, 71b and 72a, 72b are provided at the input end of feed track 70 to guide, control and tension the strips of ter­minals 30, 31.
  • Strip guides 73, 74 are provided along opposite sides of feed track 70 and included overhanging guide portions 73a, 74a spaced upwardly from feed track 70 for receipt of the carrier portions 32, 33 of terminal strips 30, 31 therebeneath ( Figure 13).
  • the overhanging guide portions 73a, 74a are cut away or foreshortened approximately midway of feed track 70 to expose carrier portions 32, 33 and particularly the holes 34, 35 therethrough ( Figure 2).
  • Feeding means 75 is provided for intermittently feeding terminal strips 30, 31 into apparatus 50.
  • Feeding means 75 includes a pair of feeding fingers or pawls 76 which are carried by a bushing 77 journaled on a stub shaft 78.
  • Feeding fingers 76 are biased downwardly toward feed track 70 and have the lower ends thereof sharpened so that they will enter holes 34, 35 in carrier portions 32, 33 of terminals strips 30, 31.
  • Shaft 78 is carried by a slide 80 slideably mounted on a supporting frame 81 ( Figures 11, 12, 14a and 14b).
  • Slide 80 is moved by a screw 82 journaled at its opposite ends in supports 83, 84 of frame 81 and connected to the output shaft 85 of a reversible stepping motor 86 mounted on a support 87 of frame 81.
  • Slide 80 includes a threaded portion which mates with the threads of screw 82 such that when screw 82 is rotated by stepping motor 86, slide 80 is moved therealong in a direction determined by the direction of rotation of screw 82.
  • Rotation of screw 82 in one direction moves the slide 80 to the right as seen in Figures 11 and 12 and this movement may be characterized as the inactive or retractive stroke of feeding means 75.
  • a pair of anti-back-up fingers or pawls 90 are carried by bushings 91, 92 journaled on a stub shaft 93 carried by support 84 ( Figures 11 and 13).
  • Anti-back-up fingers 90 are constructed and operate similarly to feeding fingers 76 except that they do not move along feed track 70.
  • Anti-back-up fin­gers 90 serve to prevent the terminal strips, 30, 31 from moving backwards (to the right in Figures 11 and 12) during the inac­tive or retractive stroke of feeding means 75, but ratchet during the active or feeding stroke thereof to permit the terminal strips 30, 31 to move forwardly (to the left in Figures 11 and 12).
  • Stepping motor 86 is suitably controlled by control means 56 to vary the time intervals that screw 82 is rotated during the retractive stroke of feeding means 75 to vary the length of terminal strips 30, 31 fed into apparatus 50, but slide 80 is preferably always returned to the same position at the end of the feeding stroke of feeding means 75.
  • Control means 56 is programmed by the operator with certain data including the width of cable 20 being fed into apparatus 50 and the number and location of any conductors omitted therefrom. This data is then utilized by control means 56 to control feeding means 75 such that the length of terminal strips 30, 31 fed into apparatus 50 corresponds to the width of cable 20.
  • Terminal removing means 94 is provided for this purpose and is operatively associated with feeding means 75.
  • Terminal removing means 94 includes a plunger or notcher 95 which is located immediately downstream of feeding fingers 76 (to the left in Figures 1, 11 and 12).
  • Plunger 95 normally occupies an inactive or retracted position spaced above feed track 70 and terminal strips 30, 31, but is moved downwardly when positioned above a pair of terminals 36, 37 to be removed to sever those terminals from their respective carrier portions 32, 33, which terminals then drop downwardly between the spaced members 70a, 70b of feed track 70 ( Figures 14a and 14b).
  • Plunger 95 is carried by one end of a cam follower 96 which is pivotally mounted at its other end of a cam follower 96 which is pivotally mounted at its other end on slide 80 ( Figures 11 and 12) by a pin 97. Accordingly, plunger 95 moves along feed track 70 with slide 80.
  • Cam follower 96 has a square hole or opening 98 through which penetrates an elongate cam 100 of generally triangular cross section so as to have three lobes thereon ( Figures 14a and 14).
  • Cam 100 is journaled for rotation in supports 83 and 84.
  • Drive means is provided for cam 100 which includes a drive pulley 101 ( Figure 13) suitably driven by a motor 10a.
  • Drive pulley 101 drives a belt 102 which in turn rotates a driven pulley 103 mounted on a drive shaft 104 which is journaled in support 87.
  • a slip clutch 105 is mounted on drive shaft 104 and the other half thereof is mounted on cam 100.
  • a pawl 106 cooperates with the half of clutch 105 mounted on cam 100 to normally prevent rotation thereof and to maintain cam 100 sta­tionary.
  • a solenoid 107 is momentarily activated and pawl 106 is temporarily withdrawn. This permit clutch 105 to rotate cam 100 for a fraction of a rotation.
  • Stepping motor 86 and solenoid 107 are controlled by control means 56 which uses the programmed data about the width of cable 20 and the number and location of omitted conductors to rotate screw 82 to move the slide 80 in its retractive stroke.
  • the retractive stroke of slide l80 is interrupted at a location or locations corresponding to the location or locations of omitted conductors and solenoid 107 is momentarily activated during each such interruption.
  • the retractive stroke of slide 80 is completed when it has moved a length corresponding to the width of cable, 20 and is then moved forward by counterrrotation of screw 82 by stepping motor 86 to feed a corresponding length of terminal strips 30, 31 into position for fastening of terminals 36, 37 to cable 20.
  • the terminals are fastened to cable 20 in electrical conductive relation to the conductors 25 by terminating means 100 which includes a lower die 111 and an upper die 112 ( Figure 1).
  • Lower die 111 includes an anvil 113 ( Figures 5A - 10B) which supports the terminal strips 30, 31 and terminals 36, 37 once they are removed from the carrier portions 32, 33.
  • Anvil 113 is secured to a bse 114 by bolts 115 ( Figures 6A and 6B).
  • Anvil 113 carries a pair of guides 116, 117 which include overhanging portions 116a, 117a which receive carrier portions 32, 33 therebeneath to guide terminal strips 30, 31 into position on anvil 113 (Figues 5A and 5B).
  • Upper die 112 includes a base 120 which moves up and down and to which an upper die shoe 121 is attached by bolts 122 ( Figures 6A and 6B).
  • Upper die show 121 carries a pair of positioning pins 123, 124 ( Figures 5A and 5B) which cooperate with a pair of guide bushings 125, 126 carried respectively by guides 116, 117 to position terminal strips 30, 31 so that the terminals 36, 37 are properly aligned with the conductors 25.
  • positioning pins 123, 124 first enter the upper portions of bushings 125, 126 and then penetrate through holes 34, 35 in carrier portions 32, 33, of terminal strips 30, 31. The pins then move into the lower portions of the bushings 125, 126 and hold the carrier portions 32, 33 firmly during the fastening operation.
  • Terminal removing means is provided for removing the two rows of terminals 36, 37 to be fastened to cable 20 from carrier portions 32, 33.
  • This means includes a pair of cutter members 130, 131 carried by anvil 113 for limited vertical movement by mounting pins 132, 133 slideably mounted in base 114 ( Figures 6A and 6B).
  • Compression springs 13, 135 positioned in base 114 beneath mounting pins 132, 133 bias cutter members 130, 131 upwardly.
  • Cutter members 130, 131 have carrier portion receiv­ing slots 136, 137 in the upper portion thereof which receive the carrier portions 32, 33 therein with the terminals 36, 37 project­ing outwardly toward each other.
  • Cutter members 130, 131 cooperate an anvil 113 to sever the projecting terminals 36, 37 from carrier portions 32, 33 in a scissors-like manner upon downward movement of the cutter members 130, 131 ( Figures 8A and 8B).
  • Cutter members 130, 131 are moved downwardly upon down­ward movement of upper die 112 by actuating pins 140, 141 mounted in upper die shoe 121 and base 120 for limited verticed movement.
  • Compression springs 142, 143 are positioned above actuating pins 140, 141 to bias these pins downwardly.
  • Com­pression springs 142, 143 have an initial stronger resistance to compression than do compression springs 134, 135 which bias cutter members 130, 131 upwardly so that when actuating pins 140, 141 contact the tops of cutter members 130, 131 they will be moved downwardly and compress springs 134, 135.
  • Upper die 112 also includes a clamping member 144 mounted on upper die shoe 121 by mounting pins 145 (only one of which is shown in Figures 7A and 7B) which are mounted for limited vertical movement in upper die shoe 121 and base 120.
  • a com­pression spring 146 is positioned above each mounting pin to bias clamping member 144 downwardly while allowing the limited vertical movement thereof.
  • clamping member 144 moves cable 20 downwardly onto the spaced rows of terminals 36, 37 and clamps the cable 20 and terminals 36, 37 against anvil 113 ( Figures 8A and 8B).
  • teeth 36a, 37a on terminals 36, 37 are caused to at least partially penetrate through cable 20 on opposite sides of conductors 25 but in contact therewith.
  • Crimping members 150, 151 have the lower surfaces thereof configured similar to gear teeth with the projecting portions contacting the cable 20 between the terminals 36, 37 and the cavities receiving the teeth 36a, 37a and crimping them over and onto the upper surface of cable 20 ( Figures 9C).
  • Anvil 113 has cavities 154 in its upper surface which receive the terminals 36, 37 therein ( Figures 9A - 9C).
  • Each cavity 154 has an anchoring stud 155 therein which is received in a groove in the lower surface of each terminal 36, 37 to anchor the terminal in position during fastening to the cable 20.
  • the portions 156 of the upper surface of anvil 113 between cavities 154 have a height slightly less than the thickness of terminals 36, 37.
  • carrier portion severing means is provided in the form of a cutter member 160 ( Figures 10A and 10B) carried by anvil 113 and an actuating member 161 carried by upper die 112.
  • Cutter member 160 is mounted for limited vertical movement by mounting pin 162 and a compression spring 163 is positioned beneath pin 162 to bias cutter member 160 upwardly.
  • Cutter member 160 has an opening therethrough to receive carrier portions 32, 33 and, upon being moved down­wardly by actuating member 161 as upper die 112 moves down­wardly, shears off portions of the carrier portions 32, 33 which drop into a chute 164 ( Figure 2) and thence into a waste recep­tacle (not shown).
  • apparatus 50 includes take-up means 164 which includes spindles 166 for mounting reels 43, 44 for winding the strip or strips of interconnected cable harnesses into rolls ( Figures 2).
  • spindles 166 are driven intermittently in a manner not shown to rotate take-up reels 43, 44 in timed relation to the feed rolls 22, 23 which feed cable 20. Any desired number of spindles 166 may be used depending upon the number of strips of cable harnesses being formed.
  • slitter 42 will have as many blades as there are omitted conductors and is also driven in a manner not shown.

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