EP1145389B1 - Automatische krimpvorrichtung für flexible flachbandkabel und herstellungsverfahren - Google Patents

Automatische krimpvorrichtung für flexible flachbandkabel und herstellungsverfahren Download PDF

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EP1145389B1
EP1145389B1 EP99968805A EP99968805A EP1145389B1 EP 1145389 B1 EP1145389 B1 EP 1145389B1 EP 99968805 A EP99968805 A EP 99968805A EP 99968805 A EP99968805 A EP 99968805A EP 1145389 B1 EP1145389 B1 EP 1145389B1
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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
    • H01R43/28—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for wire processing before connecting to contact members, not provided for in groups H01R43/02 - H01R43/26
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/50—Fixed connections
    • H01R12/59—Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures
    • 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
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  • the present invention relates to an automatic crimping unit for flexible flat cable plies and a corresponding crimping process.
  • Crimping these connectors is a long and delicate operation. For reasons of complexity of the cable strands, this crimping is often done manually. The installation of the crimping branch in the crimping is thus commonly performed by an operator. This leads to inevitable mounting errors, and very few cable strands are made right the first time. Such a crimping process requires the implementation of systematic checks of each strand, which increases the manufacturing time accordingly.
  • the object of the present invention is to create a crimping unit in which the installation of the branch to be crimped in the crimping station is performed automatically.
  • the tilting of the ramp makes it possible to guarantee that only the branch of the tablecloth opposite this ramp will be brought to the corresponding crimping station.
  • the ply is rigid enough for the branch to be crimped to be driven at the same time as the tablecloth itself.
  • the ramps allowing each of the branches to be crimped towards a crimping station, have a narrower width. Indeed, sometimes the crimp branch contains only two tracks, sometimes it contains one large number (ten or more).
  • the width of the ramp is each time adapted to direct all the tracks constituting the branch to crimp towards the crimping station. Consequently, the ramps according to the invention do not all have the same width.
  • the width of each ramp can be modified according to the tablecloth to be produced.
  • each post of crimping has a set of ramps of various widths. Whenever a tablecloth series is to be performed, the appropriate ramps are placed in front of each crimping station.
  • the tilting of a ramp is programmable in time.
  • the various connectors can be placed one after the other on each of the branches or be crimped at the same time.
  • FIGS. 1a and 1b show a ply 10 of flat cables to be crimped.
  • this ribbon of flat cables is extremely simple since it consists of four tracks held together in a common connector 11 (on the left in the drawing).
  • This tablecloth is divided in two branches 12 of different lengths each consisting of two tracks.
  • a connector 13 is placed at the end of each of these branches.
  • these branches are intended to take different directions by folding and feeding accessories placed in the vehicle in separate locations.
  • the connector crimping unit 20 making it possible to produce such a ply 10 is shown in Figures 2 and 3.
  • This unit has three crimping stations 14a, 14b, 14c (in the particular case of the production of the ply shown in Figure 2). It is well understood that the number of crimping stations may vary depending on the configuration of the branches to be crimped.
  • the crimping unit also includes a guide plate 15 on which is laid the ribbon of flat cables 10.
  • This ribbon of flat cables is driven in movement along a guide rail 16.
  • the means of displacement of the sheet are constituted by rollers 17 which can be rotated in two directions of rotation (clockwise and counterclockwise).
  • the tablecloth is driven by rubbing the rollers against the tablecloth, this which results in driving it to the right or left (on the drawing), i.e. in two opposite directions of movement.
  • Each crimping station is placed above the ply (of vertically offset), so that a tilting ramp 18a, 18b, 18c associated with it is located directly above the slopes of the branch on which it must install a connector.
  • the tilting ramps 18a, b and c are in the position shown in solid lines in Figure 2.
  • the sheet is therefore driven by rollers 17 and moves smoothly below the posts crimping 14a, b, c.
  • the common connector 11 is firstly crimped. To do this, the tablecloth 10 is brought using the rollers 17 so that its left end is disposed to the right of the tilting ramp 18a. Tipping (lines dotted, Figure 2) from the ramp 18a towards the guide plate is then ordered. Thus, a first end of this ramp is arranged at the level of the guide plate 15 (in contact with this plate), while a second end of the ramp 18a is arranged at the crimping station 14a. The rollers 17 are then rotated so that the web 10 is driven to the left. As the ramp 18a is tilted in the opposite direction displacement of the tablecloth, it is deflected and directed towards the crimping.
  • the common connector 11 is crimped on the end of the ply.
  • the rollers 17 drive the ply 10 in the opposite direction reverse (i.e. to the right in the drawing) so that the tablecloth back down from the crimping station 14a.
  • the tilting ramp 18a is raised to the position of rest.
  • the connectors 13 to be placed at the end of the branches 12 are then set up in a similar way, by controlling the tilting of the ramps 18b then 18c, and by driving the tablecloth in the appropriate direction thanks to the rollers 17.
  • rollers 17 could damage the already installed connector (s). To avoid this, the rollers 17 are erasable vertically. This erasure can be programmed. So the rollers 17 do not damage the connectors already installed when they drive the tablecloth in movement.
  • the present invention is not limited to the mode of realization previously described.
  • the crimping unit according to the present invention may include a plurality of crimping stations and a plurality of associated tilting ramps, depending on the configuration of the branches Crimp.

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  1. Einheit (20) zum automatischen Krimpen von flexiblen Flachkabelbändern (10), von denen jedes Band mindestens einen Zweig (12) aufweist, an dem ein Verbinder (11, 13) durch Krimpen zu befestigen ist, wobei die Einheit dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sie aufweist:
    eine Führungsfläche (15), auf der das Flachkabelband (10) läuft,
    mehrere Krimpvorrichtungen (14a, 14b, 14c), die vertikal versetzt senkrecht zur Ebene der Führungsfläche (15) angeordnet sind und dazu dienen, einen Verbinder (11, 13) am Ende eines Kabelbandzweiges (12) durch Krimpen anzubringen, und
    mehrere schwenkbare Rampen (18a, 18b, 18c), die ein erstes und ein zweites Ende haben, von denen das erste Ende im verschwenkten Zustand auf Höhe der Ebene der Führungsfläche liegt und das zweite Ende auf Höhe einer Krimpvorrichtung liegt, wobei die Rampe im umgekehrten Richtungssinn bezüglich einer Verschiebung des Bandes angeordnet ist, jede Rampe gesteuert gegen die Führungsfläche so schwenkbar ist, dass ein vorgegebener Kabelbandzweig (12) der Rampe folgt, auf die er auf seiner Bahn bei seiner Verschiebung auftrifft, und sich zu einer der Krimpvorrichtungen bewegt, um dort einen Verbinder (11, 13) zu erhalten.
  2. Einheit nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jede schwenkbare Rampe (18a, 18b, 18c) einer vorgegebenen Krimpvorrichtung (14a, 14b, 14c) zugeordnet ist, zu der sie einen zu krimpenden Kabelbandzweig (12) lenkt.
  3. Einheit nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Führungsfläche (15) das Band in zwei entgegengesetzte Verschieberichtungen fördert.
  4. Einheit nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Flachkabelband (10) auf der Förderbahn durch Rollen (17) mit zwei Drehrichtungen gefördert wird.
  5. Einheit nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Rollen (17) zum Fördern des Bandes in vertikaler Richtung so verstellbar sind, dass sie die durch Krimpen am Band befestigten Verbinder (11, 13) nicht stören.
  6. Krimpverfahren zum Betreiben der Krimpeinheit (20) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es aus folgenden Schritten besteht:
    Fördern eines Flachkabelbandes (10) längs einer Führungsfläche (15),
    gesteuertes Verschwenken mindestens einer schwenkbaren Rampe (18) in der Weise, dass mindestens ein Kabelbandzweig (12) der verschwenkten Rampe folgt und zu einer entsprechenden Krimpvorrichtung gelenkt wird, und
    Krimpen eines Verbinders (11, 13) an dem Kabelbandzweig, wenn das Vorhandensein desselben in einer Krimpvorrichtung (14) detektiert wird.
EP99968805A 1998-12-23 1999-12-20 Automatische krimpvorrichtung für flexible flachbandkabel und herstellungsverfahren Expired - Lifetime EP1145389B1 (de)

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FR9816332A FR2787937B1 (fr) 1998-12-23 1998-12-23 Unite de sertissage automatique de nappes de cables plats flexibles et procede de sertissage correspondant
PCT/EP1999/010119 WO2000039899A1 (fr) 1998-12-23 1999-12-20 Unite de sertissage automatique de nappes de cables plats flexibles et procede de sertissage correspondant

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