JP6810640B2 - Wire harness manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a wire harness manufacturing apparatus in which a wire harness is manufactured on a wire board provided with a holding portion for holding the wire harness.

Conventionally, a wire harness used for electrical wiring of an automobile or the like is manufactured while holding each part by a holder arranged at various places on a wire plate corresponding to the wiring shape of the wire harness.
For example, Patent Document 1 describes that in the manufacture of a wire harness using a wire harness, the wire harness is moved to each work area where an operator is arranged.
In the wire harness manufactured by such a wire plate, the wire harness is removed from the holder when the assembly process on the wire plate is completed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 7-13237

By the way, there are various types of holders for holding the wire harness. For example, in the case of a U-shaped holder that only hooks the electric wire portion of the wire harness, the wire harness can be easily removed. Since the holder for holding the connector part provided at the end of the wire of the wire harness is fixed so that the connector is not detached, it is necessary to release the fixing of the connector by using a fixing release mechanism, which is troublesome. It was.

In order to solve such a problem, it is conceivable to provide a mechanism for automatically releasing the fixing of the wire harness with the holder at the same time as the assembly work of the wire harness with the wire plate is completed, but a new drive mechanism or the like is provided. As a result, there is a problem that the device configuration becomes complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a wire harness manufacturing apparatus capable of automatically releasing the fixing of a wire harness on a wire plate with a simple apparatus configuration.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the object, in the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention, a plurality of workers are arranged with a wire wire plate provided with a holding portion for holding the wire harness. In a wire harness manufacturing apparatus in which the wire harness is manufactured on the wire harness by being moved to each work area, a contact portion provided on the movement route of the wire harness to each work area. And the contacted portion provided on the wire plate so as to be brought into contact with the contact portion by the movement of the wire plate, and the holding state of the wire harness by the holding portion. It is provided with an automatic holding release mechanism that automatically releases the holding state of the wire harness by the holding portion by utilizing the force that the contacted portion abuts on the abutting portion at the timing of releasing. It is characterized by.

Further, in the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2 of the present invention, in the above invention, the holding release mechanism is provided with a holding release lever provided in the holding portion so that the holding release operation of the wire harness can be performed, and the above. The wire connected to the holding release lever and the contacted portion are included in the configuration, and the holding release lever is operated to release the holding by utilizing the force with which the contacted portion is brought into contact with the contact portion. It is characterized by having a wire pulling mechanism portion for pulling the wire so as to be provided.

Further, in the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 3 of the present invention, in the above invention, the holding portions are provided at a plurality of locations on the wire plate, and the wire pulling mechanism portion is a plurality of the holding portions. It is characterized in that a plurality of the wires connected to the wire have a link mechanism portion that is pulled by using a rod.

In the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention, the contacted portion is brought into contact with the abutting portion at the timing when the holding automatic release mechanism releases the holding state of the wire harness by the holding portion. Since the holding state of the wire harness by the holding portion is automatically released by using the force, it is dedicated to automatically releasing the holding state of the wire harness by the holding portion at a predetermined timing. Since it is not necessary to provide the drive mechanism of the wire harness, the wire harness can be automatically released from the wire harness with a simple device configuration.

In the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2 of the present invention, the automatic holding / releasing mechanism is connected to the holding / releasing lever provided in the holding portion so that the holding / releasing operation of the wire harness can be performed, and the holding / releasing lever. The wire and the contacted portion are included in the configuration, and the wire is pulled so that the holding release lever is operated to release the holding by utilizing the force with which the contacted portion is brought into contact with the abutting portion. Since it has a simple configuration of a wire pulling mechanism portion, it is possible to automatically release the fixing of the wire harness on the wire board with a simple device configuration.

The wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 3 of the present invention has a link mechanism portion so that the wire pulling mechanism portion pulls a plurality of the wires connected to the plurality of holding portions by using a rod. Even when the holding state of the plurality of holding portions is released, the force required to bring the contacted portion into contact with the abutting portion and pull the plurality of wires. As a result, the load on the drive unit for moving the wire plate can be reduced.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the periphery of one wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1B schematically shows the overall configuration of the wire harness manufacturing apparatus. It is a figure. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the back surface of the wire board. 3A and 3B are views of a state in which the contacted portion of the wire pulling mechanism portion has started to contact the contacted portion as viewed from the side of the wire plate, and FIG. 3B is a contacted portion. It is a figure which looked at the state which the holding state of the wire harness by a connector holding part was released by abutting with a contact part, and was seen from the side of a wire board. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining that when the wire wire plate is returned to the manufacturing start position of the wire harness, the wire pulling mechanism portion is returned to the state before the wire is pulled.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the periphery of one wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 of the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1B illustrates the overall configuration of the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1. It is a figure shown as a target. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the back surface of the wire board 10. FIG. 3 is a view in which (a) is a state in which the contacted portion 71 of the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 has started to contact the contact portion 50 from the side of the wire wire plate 10, and (b) is a view. It is a figure which looked at the state which the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding part 20A was released by abutment | contact | contact part 71 with a contact part 50, and was seen from the side of the wire board 10. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining that when the wire plate 10 is returned to the manufacturing start position of the wire harness WH, the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 is returned to the state before pulling the wire 40.
The wire harness manufacturing device 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention is a device for manufacturing a wire harness WH used for electrical wiring of an automobile, and is a wire plate 10 provided with a holding portion 20 for holding the wire harness WH. Is moved to each work area Ar where a plurality of workers are arranged.
Further, the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 includes an automatic holding release mechanism 30 that automatically releases the holding state of the wire harness WH by the holding unit 20 by utilizing the movement of the wire plate 10.

As shown in FIG. 1B, the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 is sequentially moved to each work area Ar in which a plurality of wire plates 10 are arranged linearly side by side by a conveyor (not shown), and the final process is performed. When it is positioned at the end, it is moved in the opposite direction (arrow D2 direction) and returned to the work start position again.

The wire wire plate 10 is a plate-shaped member, and a plurality of holding portions 20 for holding each portion of the wire harness WH are provided on the surface thereof.

The holding portion 20 is made of a U-shaped member and is held by hooking the electric wire W portion of the wire harness WH (hereinafter referred to as “electric wire holding portion 20B”), or the terminal of the electric wire W of the wire harness WH. There is one that holds the connector C provided in the portion (hereinafter, referred to as "connector holding portion 20A").
The wire plate 10 may be provided with a holding portion 20 other than the electric wire holding portion 20B and the connector holding portion 20A shown in the examples.

Since the electric wire holding portion 20B hooks and holds the electric wire W from the opening of the U-shaped portion, the electric wire W can be easily removed from the opening.

In this embodiment, the connector holding portion 20A enables the continuity inspection to be performed while the connector C is held, so that the connector C is held in a state of being connected to the terminal for the continuity inspection. There is.

Since the connector holding portion 20A has a continuity inspection connector T including a continuity inspection terminal, it is possible to release the energization after the continuity inspection.

Further, in the connector holding portion 20A, the connector C is released from the holding state by pulling the holding release lever 25 downward by the wire 40.

Next, the holding automatic release mechanism 30 will be described.
The automatic holding release mechanism 30 is provided so that the contact portion 50 provided on the movement route of the wire plate 10 to each work area Ar and the contact portion 50 are brought into contact with each other by the movement of the wire plate 10. The contacted portion 71 provided on the wire plate 10 is provided, and the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the contacted portion 50 at the timing of releasing the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A. The holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A is automatically released by utilizing the force.

The automatic holding release mechanism 30 includes the above-mentioned holding release lever 25 provided in the connector holding portion 20A so that the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A can be released, and the wire 40 connected to the holding release lever 25. The contact portion 50 provided on the movement route of the wire plate 10 and the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 for operating the holding / releasing lever 25 by pulling the wire 40 are included.

One end of the wire 40 is fixed to the holding release lever 25.
Further, the wire 40 is a wire pulling mechanism in which the other end of the wire 40 is drawn out to the back surface of the wire plate 10 through a wire insertion hole 10a formed through the front surface of the wire plate 10 to the back surface of the wire plate 10. It is designed to be connected to the unit 60.

The wire 40 is provided with a wire stopper 40a for preventing the wire from coming off at the end on the side connected to the wire pulling mechanism portion 60.
The wire stopper 40a functions as a portion for hooking the wire 40 when the wire 40 is pulled by the wire pulling mechanism portion 60.

Further, the wire 40 pulled out from the wire insertion hole 10a to the back surface of the wire plate 10 is inserted into the tube 41 between the wire insertion hole 10a and the wire pulling mechanism portion 60.

The tube 41 is fixed at various places on the back surface of the wire plate 10 by a fixing member (not shown) to hold the wire routing path in a predetermined shape.
Such a tube 41 has a function of holding the wire 40 so that the wire 40 inserted therein can be pulled by the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 in a state where the wiring path is held in a predetermined shape. ..

As shown in FIG. 3, the contact portion 50 is provided on the movement route of the wire plate 10, for example, on the frame of a conveyor (not shown).
The contact portion 50 has a wheel structure, and the portion that is in contact with the contacted portion 71 can rotate in the moving direction of the wire plate 10.
Therefore, the direction of the contacted portion 71 that is in contact with the contact portion 50 is changed so as to move the linked link mechanism without excessive frictional resistance with the contact portion 50.

The wire pulling mechanism portion 60 is provided on the back surface of the wire plate 10, and is brought into contact with the contacted portion 71 at the timing when the contacted portion 71 releases the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A due to the movement of the wire plate 10. It comes into contact with the portion 50.
When the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the abutting portion 50, the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 pulls the wire 40 connected to the holding release lever 25, and the holding release lever 25 releases the holding state of the wire harness WH. Operated to be manipulated.

More specifically, the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 is a mechanism main body portion 61 which is a portion fixed to the back surface of the wire plate 10, a contacted portion 71, and a link mechanism connected to the contacted portion 71. It includes a portion 70 and a slide portion 80 connected to the link mechanism portion 70 so as to be slidable with respect to the mechanism main body portion 61.

The mechanism main body 61 includes a fixing base 62 that is fixed to the wire plate 10 and a link member supporting 63 that is fixed to the fixing base 62 and supports the link member of the link mechanism 70. Must have.

The fixed base portion 62 is formed by a pair of standing walls 62a and 62b arranged opposite to each other in the sliding direction of the slide portion 80 and erected on the back surface of the wire plate 10, and the upper end surfaces of the pair of standing walls 62a and 62b. It has a supported top wall 62c and.
The wire hooking portion 82 described later of the sliding portion 80 is arranged in the space surrounded by the pair of standing walls 62a and 62b of the fixed base portion 62, the top wall 62c, and the back surface of the wire plate 10. ing.

A plurality of wire insertion holes 62aa through which the other ends of a plurality of wires 40 whose one end is connected to each connector holding portion 20A are inserted are formed side by side on one of the standing walls 62a and 62b of the pair of standing walls 62a and 62b. Has been done.

The link member support portion 63 has a fulcrum support portion 65 fixed to the top wall 62c and supporting the fulcrum of the link mechanism portion 70, and a slide rod portion 73 described later of the link mechanism portion 70 along the slide direction of the slide portion 80. It has a slide support portion 66 that supports the shaft so as to be movable.

The link mechanism portion 70 constitutes the above-mentioned contacted portion 71, which is a force point in the principle of leverage, and an end portion of the contacted portion 71 opposite to the side that is in contact with the contact portion 50. , A fulcrum portion 72 supported by the fulcrum support portion 65, a slide rod portion 73 as an action point, and a double chain in which one end is connected to the end portion of the slide rod portion 73 and the other end is connected to the fulcrum portion 72. It has an intermediate connecting portion 74 made of a link member.

The slide portion 80 is connected to the end portion of the slide rod portion 73, and is moved to the slide main body portion 81 and the slide main body portion 81 by the movement of the slide rod portion 73 due to the movement of the link mechanism portion 70. It has a wire hooking portion 82 that is connected and hooks the wire stopper 40a of the wire 40 to pull the wire 40 as the slide main body portion 81 moves in the sliding direction.

The slide main body 81 is formed by a slide rod 73 and a fixed base 62 in which a pair of walls located on both sides of the top wall 62c are located outside the space formed by the fixed base 62. It is designed to connect to the wire hooking portion 82 located in the space.

The wire hooking portion 82 is formed by bending a plate-shaped member into an L shape and forming a plurality of wire insertion holes 62aa of the standing wall 62a in the standing wall facing plate portion 82a arranged so as to face the standing wall 62a. A plurality of corresponding wire insertion holes 82aa are formed, and the wire stopper 40a at the end of each wire 40 is positioned inside the standing wall facing plate portion 82a.
Therefore, when the wire hooking portion 82 is slid and moved away from the erection wall 62a through which the plurality of wires 40 are inserted, each wire 40 is pulled in the sliding moving direction with the wire stopper 40a as the hooking portion. ing.

Here, the operation of each part of the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 when the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A is automatically released by using the movement of the wire plate 10 will be described.

The wire pulling mechanism portion 60 is in a state before the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the abutted portion 50, that is, until the wire plate 10 is in contact with the abutted portion 71. In the non-moved state, as shown in FIG. 3A, the tip of the contacted portion 71 to be abutted against the abutting portion 50 is directed in the moving direction D1 of the substantially cloth wire plate 10. It is in a state.
In this state, the slide portion 80 connected to the link mechanism portion 70 is arranged at a position where the standing wall facing plate portion 82a of the wire hooking portion 82 is brought close to the standing wall 62a.

Therefore, in each wire 40, the wire stopper 40a is arranged close to the erection wall 62a and is not pulled by the wire harness pulling mechanism portion 60. As shown in FIG. 3A, the connector is held. The holding release lever 25 of the portion 20A is not pulled downward.

When the wire plate 10 is moved to a position where the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A is released, the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the abutting portion 50 as shown in FIG. 3 (b). The contacted portion 71 is directed at the tip end in the direction D2 opposite to the moving direction D1 of the wire plate 10 with the fulcrum portion 72 as the fulcrum.

As a result, the slide portion 80 is slid and moved in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the wire plate 10, and each wire 40 is pulled in the sliding moving direction by the wire hooking portion 82.
At this time, the contacted portion 71 of the link mechanism portion 70 serves as a force point, the fulcrum portion 72 serves as a fulcrum point, the slide rod portion 73 serves as an action point, and a force for pulling each wire 40 acts using the principle of leverage. Will be done.
Therefore, the force required to pull each wire 40 is reduced, and the load on the drive unit for moving the wire plate 10 can be reduced.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 3B, the wire 40 connected to each connector holding portion 20A is pulled, and the holding release lever 25 releases the holding state of the wire harness WH.

In this state, the operator removes the wire harness WH from the wire plate 10. The work of removing the wire harness WH from the wire plate 10 can be easily performed because the connector C is released from the holding state by the connector holding portion 20A.

In this embodiment, the wiring plate 10 is moved at the moving end position by a conveyor (not shown), and is moved in the direction of arrow D2 in FIG. 1, which is opposite to the moving direction D1 to each work area Ar. As a result, the wire harness WH is returned to the manufacturing start position.

When the wire harness 10 is returned to the manufacturing start position of the wire harness WH in this way, as shown in FIG. 4, a wire pulling mechanism is provided by providing another contact portion 51 on the return route of the wire harness 10. The contacted portion 71 of the portion 60 is brought into contact with the abutting portion 51, and the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 can be returned to the state before the wire 40 is pulled.

In this state, the end of each wire 40 on the wire stopper 40a side remains in the pulled position, but the standing wall facing plate portion 82a of the wire hooking portion 82 is close to the standing wall 62a. When the connector C is set in the connector holding portion 20A by the operator, the wire stopper 40a of the wire 40 connected to the connector holding portion 20A in which the connector C is set is set to the standing wall facing plate. It is returned to a position close to the portion 82a.

In the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the contacted portion 71 contacts the contacted portion 50 at the timing when the automatic holding release mechanism 30 releases the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A. Since the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A is automatically released by using the force, the holding state of the wire harness WH by the connector holding portion 20A is automatically released at a predetermined timing. Therefore, since it is not necessary to provide a dedicated drive mechanism, the fixing of the wire harness WH on the wire plate 10 can be automatically released with a simple device configuration.

Further, in the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the holding / releasing lever 25 and the holding / releasing lever 25 provided in the connector holding portion 20A so that the holding / releasing mechanism 30 can perform the holding / releasing operation of the wire harness WH The wire 40 connected to the contact portion 71 and the contacted portion 71 are included in the configuration, and the holding release lever 25 is operated to release the holding by utilizing the force with which the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the contact portion 50. Since it has a simple configuration of a wire pulling mechanism portion 60 that pulls the wire 40, the wire harness WH can be automatically released on the wire plate 10 with a simple device configuration.

Further, in the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the link mechanism unit 60 is pulled by the wire pulling mechanism unit 60 so that the plurality of wires 40 connected to the plurality of connector holding portions 20A are pulled by using a rod. Since it is configured to have 70, even when the holding state of the plurality of connector holding portions 20A is released, the contacted portion 71 is brought into contact with the abutting portion 50 and the plurality of wires 40 are pulled. Therefore, the force required for this is reduced, and as a result, the load on the drive unit for moving the wire plate 10 can be reduced.

In the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the one in which the holding state is automatically released is the connector holding portion 20A, but the holding portion in which the holding state is automatically released is a connector. Not limited to the one that holds C, the holding state may be automatically released for other holding portions. For example, the holding state of the holding portion that holds the exterior member of the wire harness WH may be automatically released.

Further, the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention illustrates that the wire pulling mechanism portion 60 is provided at one position on the wire line plate 10, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 is not limited to this, and may be provided at a plurality of places on the wire wire plate 10. The wire pulling mechanism portion 60 may be provided.

Further, the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention illustrates that the wire harness 10 is moved by a linear route, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the wire harness 10 is moved to an annular route. It doesn't matter if it is done.

Further, although the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention exemplifies the wire harness manufacturing apparatus 1 in which the wire wire plate 10 is installed horizontally, the wire harness plate 10 may be installed diagonally.

The invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described above based on the above-mentioned examples of the invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned examples of the invention and does not deviate from the gist thereof. Can be changed in various ways.

1 Wire harness manufacturing equipment 10 Wire plate 10a Wire insertion hole 20 Holding part 20A Connector holding part (holding part)
20B wire holding part (holding part)
25 Holding release lever (holding automatic release mechanism)
30 Automatic holding release mechanism 40 Wire 40a Wire stopper 41 Tube 50, 51 Contact part 60 Wire pulling mechanism part 61 Mechanism main part 62 Fixed base part 62a, 62b Standing wall 62aa Wire insertion hole 62c Top wall 63 Link member support part 64 Support body 65 Supporting point support 66 Slide support part 70 Link mechanism part 71 Contacted part 72 Supporting part 73 Slide rod part 74 Intermediate connecting part 80 Slide part 81 Slide body part 82 Wire hooking part 82a Standing wall facing plate part 82aa Wire insertion hole WH Wire harness C connector T Continuity inspection connector

Claims (3)

In a wire harness manufacturing apparatus in which a wire harness is manufactured on the wire harness by moving a wire harness provided with a holding portion for holding the wire harness to each work area in which a plurality of workers are arranged. ,
A contact portion provided on the movement route of the wire plate to each work area, and a cover provided on the wire plate so as to be brought into contact with the contact portion by the movement of the wire plate. The holding portion is provided with a contact portion, and the holding portion utilizes the force with which the contacted portion is brought into contact with the contact portion at the timing when the holding state of the wire harness is released by the holding portion. A wire harness manufacturing apparatus comprising an automatic holding release mechanism for automatically releasing the holding state of the wire harness. The automatic holding release mechanism is
A holding / releasing lever provided on the holding portion so that the holding / releasing operation of the wire harness can be performed,
The wire connected to the holding release lever and
A wire pulling mechanism that pulls the wire so that the holding release lever is held and released by utilizing the force that the contacted portion is included in the configuration and the contacted portion is brought into contact with the abutting portion. Department and
The wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wire harness manufacturing apparatus is provided. The holding part is
Provided at a plurality of places on the wire board
The wire pulling mechanism portion
The wire harness manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of wires connected to the plurality of holding portions are configured to include a link mechanism portion that is pulled by using a rod.

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