EP0896403A2 - Procédé et dispositif de fabrication automatique de jeux de câbles - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de fabrication automatique de jeux de câbles Download PDF

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EP0896403A2
EP0896403A2 EP98114612A EP98114612A EP0896403A2 EP 0896403 A2 EP0896403 A2 EP 0896403A2 EP 98114612 A EP98114612 A EP 98114612A EP 98114612 A EP98114612 A EP 98114612A EP 0896403 A2 EP0896403 A2 EP 0896403A2
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cable
loop module
station
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assembly
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Werner Gennen
Manfred Backes
André Loffet
Guido Arens
Bernhard Fank
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Stocko Metallwarenfabriken Henkels and Sohn GmbH and Co
Stocko Metallwarenfabriken
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • 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
    • H01R43/04—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for forming connections by deformation, e.g. crimping tool
    • H01R43/048—Crimping apparatus or processes
    • H01R43/052—Crimping apparatus or processes with wire-feeding mechanism
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • 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
    • H01R43/01—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for connecting unstripped conductors to contact members having insulation cutting edges

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  • the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for mechanical Equipping cables at both ends with housings Plugs, especially insulation displacement contact elements, for the automatic Manufacture of wiring sets.
  • a cable assembly device has a cable pull-in device for single-wire pull-in, a Cable feed device, a cable cutting station and one Assembly station for the assembly of the cables with the one Article feed housings supplied with a grid transport device for further processing of the assembled cable sets cooperates.
  • Such a cable assembly device is known from document EP 0 752 742 A1 known.
  • the cable assembly facility enables automatic Equipping conductors of different lengths with housings the basis of single-wire processing and is able to Assemble in different steps in such a way that grid jumps can be made and pairings of different Connector systems of the same pitch are possible with each other.
  • the two free ends of a cut cable with the in the housing contacted insulation displacement contact elements, but is not Possibility of automatically laying bridge cables between the Given insulation displacement contact elements of a contacting side. Consists therefore the requirement of a bridge cable in the cable harness to be created to lay, the bridge cable on semiautomatic must be manually from Operators are served and contacted by activating a trigger become.
  • a loop formation or bridging where the two ends of the cable two connectors either on the same item or also Linking together on two different items is common used to increase the use of a cable pull for the application.
  • the invention has for its object to improve a method and a cable assembly of the type mentioned in such a way that an automatic laying of bridge cables between contact elements of the connectors on one contacting side as a loop connection between connectors on the same article or on different articles is possible .
  • the object is inventively achieved by a method, supplied parallel to the loading of both line ends in a loading station and transport for further processing by means of a grid transport device, arranged in the processing direction after the mounting station loop module, a single conductor with a retractable cord device in which and deflected in a first step and cut is, the loop length is freely definable, and in which the deflected individual conductor is then gripped and one end and the other end of the individual conductor are contacted with contact elements of the line sets supplied via the grid transport device and checked at the same time.
  • the object is achieved in that on the side of the cable feed in the processing direction behind the Loading station a loop module is provided, which in the way of Single conductor pull-in a cable can be fed via the cable pull-in device, the loop module with a cable deflection device, one Cable cutting device, a movable pliers for the bridge cable and a contacting device is equipped. It is particularly advantageous to arrange the cable pull-in device so that it can be swiveled the delivery of a cable to the assembly station or to the loop module can be made.
  • the connection is preferred here between the cable feed device and the loop module by a flexible cable routing provided, in particular as on the loop module fixed flexible hose with a quick release connection for Cable feed device can be formed.
  • the cable deflection device of the loop module preferably has one 180 ° curve guide, a holding device and a cutting device for the manufacture of the bridge cable. It can be located below the cable deflection device pliers movable in three positions to hold the Bridge cable, method in a first position for contacting one Cable end in the contacting device and method in a contacting position be provided for the second cable end.
  • the pliers are advantageous as a pair of pliers for gripping both ends of the bridge cable designed.
  • the improved cable assembly device allows the invention with additional loop module, contact elements of the same or different Connect the connector using a loop on the same article carrier.
  • the cable delivery is done with the existing cable pulling device advantageously caused by flexible cable routing, by providing the pivotability of the cable pull-in device.
  • the previous grid advance on the known cable assembly device is also advantageous for positioning the connector under the contacting device of the loop module.
  • the advantages of this The solution consists in the optional use of the grid feed and the cable delivery including its control for the automatic production of Cable sets with or without automatic laying of bridge cables.
  • the loop module is very accessible and due to its arrangement clear, the overall length of the machine is not increased.
  • a Retrofitting existing cable assembly devices with a loop module is possible in a simple way. In the cornering the next can Cables are inserted while the previous cable is contacted. This is an advantage for the speed of processing at more than one bridge cable per article carrier.
  • a cable pulling device 1 for single-wire feed into the machine, in which the The line is delivered from a barrel 2 or from Conipack.
  • the Cable pulling device 1 works with a not shown in detail Roller drive that pulls the unprocessed cable 23 from a roll and in introduces the machine.
  • the cable 23 comes after one Blank spot detection and node detection first in a cable straightener 3, in which a straightening by acting horizontally and vertically Role combinations are done. Then the cable from one Feed device 4 is detected and continues in the direction of a Assembly station 5 of the cable assembly device advanced.
  • the cable feed device 4 consists of two one above the other in one plane arranged toothed belt drive 6, the belt between them in neighboring strand behind a funnel-like entry area are close together and are suitable for gripping and advancing the cable.
  • a belt drive is driven by a servo motor.
  • the loading station 5 is located at the interface in the Drawing coming from the front according to arrow 8 and the Cable entry, as described above (from the right in the drawing), the are arranged at right angles to each other.
  • the article feed works with a magazine, not shown, in which article carriers are arranged, that of picking up and positioning the connector elements exactly intended position.
  • the article consists of a housing with Insulation displacement contact elements, by means of transport devices, not shown for opposite processing on rails of the Assembly station 5 are supplied. Take over in the assembly station 5 via the already mentioned servo motor driven toothed belt 9, 10 the article carrier with the housings and push them in cyclical feed into a contacting position within the loading station 5.
  • the core component of the loading station 5 are two at a distance from one another arranged cable tongs 11, 12, which are known as such and closer in the EP 0 752 742 A1.
  • the onward transport takes place from the assembly station 5 out by means of a grid transport device 25 instead of the article transport accomplished by means of the drive belts 9 and 10.
  • the endless ones Drive belts 9, 10 cause a longitudinal movement of the article carrier and transport through the assembly station to a loop module 13 and continue until the ready-made cable is removed.
  • the drive belt 9 and 10 are driven by the servo motor, any one Position of the article carrier can be approached forwards and backwards.
  • the assembly station is also with a cable cutting station, not shown equipped, whose cutting tools are adjacent close to the second Cable tongs 12 are arranged.
  • the loop module 13 following the loading station 5 is provided an automatic laying of bridge cables between insulation displacement contact elements in articles that focus on one, in the Drawing right contact page are in the article carriers.
  • Such Loop connections can be made between insulation displacement contact elements in the same article or between different articles become.
  • the cable pulling device is provided 1 together with the cable straightener 3, the feed device 4 with the measuring wheels 7 pivotable in the machine frame and as Unit in the one highlighted in the drawing by a dash-dotted oval To be able to bring pivot position 14 in which a direct connection cable delivery to the loop module is made possible.
  • the reference numbers in Brackets arranged.
  • the loop module 13 essentially consists of a cable cutting station 17, a cable deflection unit 18, a transfer system, not shown from the deflection unit for the bridge cable to a pair of pliers 19 and a contacting station 20 with a test device.
  • the double pliers 19 is in three positions parallel to the raster transport device 25, namely in the position for receiving the bridge cable 21, the position for Contact one end of the cable in the contacting station 20 and then in the third position for contacting the second cable end. Clarified the dashed line of the bridge cable 21 in the cable deflection unit 18 that this has a 180 ° curve to get out of retracted cable after cutting in the cable cutting station To form a loop.
  • the cable assembly device described above works as follows:
  • a line / cable 23 such as indicated by dashed lines, withdrawn from the cable feed device 1 and in the machine is drawn in.
  • the management is doing various tests, such as the blank spot detection and a node detection.
  • a cable backstop Against a return line is provided a cable backstop.
  • the line 23 enters the cable straightener 3 and is there by the horizontally and vertically arranged straightening rollers directed axially and made tension free.
  • the line is then from the cable feed device 4 taken over from two side by side or one above the other arranged internally toothed conveyor belt 6 is formed, the line between their peripheral surfaces running in the longitudinal direction of the line clamp and convey axially into the loading station 5.
  • the assembly station 5 is connected to the line 23 by means of the measuring device 7 measurements, such as slip measurements and determinations the line length, the latter measuring the control of the Cutting tools of the cutting station integrated in the loading station 5 is used.
  • the article feed is transverse to the processing direction just described Arranged according to arrow 8, in the case of a magazine, not shown out article carriers in two parallel rows coaxial with the Drive belts 9, 10 of the raster transport device 25 are fed.
  • the Article carriers are equipped with insulation displacement contact elements located in the housing, those in the loading station 5 with one end each the cable feed device 1 supplied line can be equipped.
  • After The further transport is contacted using the grid transport device 25 instead and can be automatically installed in the loop module 13 Bridge cables 21 made between the insulation displacement contact elements which are on the right side of the contact, i.e. the side the cable feed in the cable assembly machine.
  • the entire cable feed with feed device and measuring wheels is pivoted into the pivoting position 14 and the cable 23 now fed to the loop module 13 via the flexible cable guide 15.

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US5412855A (en) * 1992-11-17 1995-05-09 Komax Holding Ag Cable-feeding and cable-changing apparatus for a cable processing machine
EP0752742A1 (fr) * 1995-07-06 1997-01-08 STOCKO Metallwarenfabriken Henkels und Sohn GmbH & Co Méthode et dispositif de fabrication automatique de jeux de câbles

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