EP1203426B1 - Crimpwerkzeug - Google Patents

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EP1203426B1
EP1203426B1 EP00962213A EP00962213A EP1203426B1 EP 1203426 B1 EP1203426 B1 EP 1203426B1 EP 00962213 A EP00962213 A EP 00962213A EP 00962213 A EP00962213 A EP 00962213A EP 1203426 B1 EP1203426 B1 EP 1203426B1
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cylinder
crimping tool
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thrust element
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Wolfgang Hanke
Paul Fleps
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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
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S72/00—Metal deforming
    • Y10S72/712—Electrical terminal crimper
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49002—Electrical device making
    • Y10T29/49117—Conductor or circuit manufacturing
    • Y10T29/49174—Assembling terminal to elongated conductor
    • Y10T29/49181—Assembling terminal to elongated conductor by deforming
    • Y10T29/49185—Assembling terminal to elongated conductor by deforming of terminal
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/53—Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/5313—Means to assemble electrical device
    • Y10T29/532—Conductor
    • Y10T29/53209—Terminal or connector
    • Y10T29/53213—Assembled to wire-type conductor
    • Y10T29/53235—Means to fasten by deformation

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  • the invention relates to a crimping tool for crimping crimp contacts, in particular of crimp contacts fed in strip form to the crimping tool, with a press device and a feed device for feeding the Crimp contacts to the press device, the feed device being a Has thrust element and means for reciprocating the thrust element and the means for reciprocating the pusher element two have independent cylinder-piston arrangements.
  • Crimping tools of the type in question have long been known in practice and exist in a wide variety of embodiments.
  • the known crimping tools are designed for the efficient processing of crimp contacts in tape form, in longitudinal or transverse transport, or for sortable individual contacts.
  • the known crimping tools are often designed as quick-change tools and can be used on individual workstations or fully automatic machines and transfer lines. It is possible to machine electrical conductors with a cross-sectional area of approximately 0.08 mm 2 - 50 mm 2 .
  • a crimping tool of the type mentioned is, for example, from DE 197 50 770 A1 known.
  • the known crimping tool has a feed device with a thrust element, which is arranged on the thrust element Feed fingers the crimp contacts of the pressing device and in particular a crimp stamp of the press device.
  • the feed device has means for back and forth Moving the thrust element on.
  • the means include a pneumatic one Drive that formed two aligned and touching or as one piece Has piston rods.
  • the piston rods are relative to a common one Movable cylinder, which is formed in the thrust element. With the usual The piston rods remain to reciprocate the thrust element stationary, whereas the thrust element moves with the cylinder.
  • the Piston rods each have a channel for the compressed air that can be supplied leads into the cylinder from outside the crimping tool.
  • US-A-4 443 936 is a crimping tool with a pressing device and a feed device for feeding the crimp contacts to the Press device known.
  • the feed device includes, among other things Shell, guide rails and a piston, with the crimp contacts to the Press device are moved.
  • US-A-3 800 389 is a crimping tool with all the features the preamble of claim 1 is known.
  • Crimping tool two independent cylinder-piston arrangements on, which serve to reciprocate the thrust element.
  • the cylinder-piston arrangements are arranged so that the main axes of the cylinder-piston arrangements form a single axis. In other words, they are Cylinder-piston arrangements arranged on a line one behind the other.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of a crimping tool of the type mentioned at the beginning to indicate the lowest possible Has space requirements and is therefore inexpensive.
  • a crimping tool solved the features of claim 1. After that is the issue in question Crimping tool designed such that the main axes of the cylinder-piston assemblies are staggered.
  • a particularly compact crimping tool is realized in the manner according to the invention.
  • the pistons of the cylinder-piston arrangements could have piston rods.
  • the thrust element could be on the piston or on the piston rods be led.
  • the cylinders of the cylinder-piston arrangements could correspondingly be arranged in the thrust element. It is conceivable that the Cylinders are formed as recesses in the thrust element.
  • Thrust Different ones could be used for the back and forth movement of the thrust element Thrust may be required.
  • Movement of the push element, which leads to the feeding of the crimp contacts guaranteed could have a higher thrust than that of the press directional movement may be required.
  • the cylinder-piston arrangement could accordingly for the movement of the Thrust element a larger diameter than the other cylinder-piston arrangement exhibit. This could differ in the diameter of the piston and the Show cylinder.
  • the guide element could be one by one Passage in the thrust element extending rod.
  • the pole could ever essentially between the two cylinder-piston arrangements as required be arranged. However, an arrangement is also above or below or conceivable to the side of the two cylinder-piston arrangements.
  • the guide element could have a particularly compact design of the crimping tool perform a double function as it on the one hand to guide the thrust element and on the other hand to supply one flowable medium is formed.
  • the guide element or the rod may be formed with a channel or tubular to form a cylinder-piston arrangement to be supplied with a flowable medium. It could a cylinder-piston arrangement or could both cylinder-piston arrangements be supplied with a flowable medium.
  • a flowable medium preferably serves compressed air.
  • there are other liquid or gaseous ones Media such as oil are conceivable.
  • control unit could have a valve system containing the medium from a source supplies the cylinder-piston assemblies in a suitable manner.
  • the pistons or the piston rods could be in a particularly practical manner be tubular to a flowable medium in the respective cylinder to lead.
  • the control unit with the pressing device could be in a particularly simple manner be functionally coupled, d. that is, according to the working position of the pressing device the control unit and thus the movement of the thrust element is controlled.
  • the coupling could be via the movement of the crimping die of the pressing device, the movement of which Control unit controls via a cam.
  • Fig. 1 shows a front view of the embodiment of an inventive Crimping tool for crimping crimp contacts.
  • the crimping tool has a press device 1 and a feed device 2 for feeding the Crimp contacts to the press device 1.
  • the feed device 2 has a thrust element 3 and means 4 for reciprocating the thrust element 3 on.
  • the means 4 for moving the pushing element 3 back and forth include two mutually independent cylinder-piston arrangements 5, 6, which ensure a safe Supply of crimp contacts to the press device 1 with simple design Enable funds.
  • the crimping tool also has a base body 7, which the press direction 1 and the feed device 2 are assigned.
  • the press facility 1 has a crimping die 8 which can be moved in the vertical direction.
  • the movement of the thrust element 3 is limited by two stops 9.
  • the Stops 9 are formed by knurled nuts on a threaded rod 10 are arranged, which also serves to guide the thrust element 3.
  • a rod 11 is also provided for guiding the thrust element 3 is tubular to the cylinder-piston assembly 6 with compressed air supply.
  • the compressed air is a connecting part through the base body 7, the rod 11 12, and the tubular piston of the cylinder-piston assembly- 6 in the cylinder of the cylinder-piston assembly 6 passed.
  • the cylinder-piston arrangement 5 is about the base body 7 and the piston of the cylinder-piston arrangement 5, which may be tubular or with a channel with which flowable medium supplied.
  • both pistons and / or piston rods the cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6 tubular or with a corresponding channel for the flowable medium may be formed. This makes possible an elegant feed of the medium into the respective cylinders of the cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6.
  • Figure 2 shows a partially sectioned front view in the right area the figure the thrust element 3 and in the left area of the figure the connector 12 for the thrust element 3.
  • the arrangement of the cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6 particularly well recognizable.
  • the main axes 13 of the Cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6 are arranged offset from one another.
  • the pistons of the cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6 each have a piston rod 14 on.
  • the cylinders 15 of the cylinder-piston arrangements 5 and 6 are formed in the thrust element 3.
  • the upper cylinder-piston arrangement 5 is dimensioned smaller or has one smaller diameter than the cylinder-piston arrangement 6 in the lower Area of the thrust element 3. This ensures that in the Direction of supply of the crimp contacts to the pressing device 1 is sufficient force Rolling the crimp contacts from their role is provided.
  • the thrust element has 3 passages 16 for guide elements. Through the middle passage 16, for example, the rod 11 from FIG. 1 is guided.
  • FIG. 2 In the left part of FIG. 2 there is the connecting part 12 for the push element 3 shown.
  • a channel 17 is formed which the flowable Medium from the rod 11 in the piston rod 14 of the cylinder-piston arrangement 6 leads.
  • FIG. 3 shows the base body 7 in a partially sectioned front view of the embodiment of Figure 1.
  • the pressing device 1 is without the Crimp stamp 8 shown and the feed device 2 without the thrust element 3.
  • the rod 11 extends into the base body 7, where it with a Control unit for controlling the supply of the flowable medium is coupled.
  • Another guide rod 18 is located in the lower region of the base body 7 arranged.
  • FIG. 4 shows the basic body in a partially sectioned side view 7 and below the control unit 19 in detail.
  • the basic body 7 shows the arrangement of the control unit 19 in the base body 7.
  • Compressed air is supplied to the control unit 19 via a compressed air connection 20, then the cylinder-piston assemblies according to the working position of the crimping die 8 5 and 6 is supplied.
  • the control unit 19 will controlled by a cam 21 which is movable via the crimping die 8.
  • control unit 19 of the crimping tool is in detail shown.
  • the arrangement of the control unit 19 in the base body 7 is by the Letter X denotes.
  • the base body 7 is in the figure 4 from the right Side of the crimping tool shown in Figure 1.

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EP00962213A 1999-08-11 2000-08-11 Crimpwerkzeug Expired - Lifetime EP1203426B1 (de)

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DE19937351A DE19937351A1 (de) 1999-08-11 1999-08-11 Crimpwerkzeug
DE19937351 1999-08-11
PCT/DE2000/002751 WO2001013474A1 (de) 1999-08-11 2000-08-11 Crimpwerkzeug

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AT (1) ATE261619T1 (es)
DE (2) DE19937351A1 (es)
ES (1) ES2214315T3 (es)
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MXPA02001405A (es) 2004-07-16
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