JPH0582233A - Electrical parts and wire fitting position indicating method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to automatically attach wires to a connector by only setting the connector to an apparatus. CONSTITUTION:A photo-magnetic stripe 7, in which the data concerning the enclosing position and the installing position of wires to be installed on a connector 5, is installed to the connector 5. A reading means 3 installed on the top of a manipulator 4 reads the photo-magnetic stripe 7. Based on the read data, the maniplator 4 takes wires 8 out of a knitting box 1 one by one, and the maniplator 4 arranges the taken out wires 8 onto the connector 5, followed by installing the wires 8 with solder or the like.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electric component and a position indicating method for attaching a wire to the electric component. For convenience of explanation, take a connector as an example of an electrical component.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, in the wiring work to a connector in high-mix low-volume production, the type, size, shape, number of pins, quantity, specifications, etc. of the material of the connector are not constant and there are many variations. It's another. As a method of attaching the wire rods to such a connector, various methods can be considered depending on the production volume and the work form. Generally, work desks are arranged side by side and the wire rods are individually handled while looking at the drawings. During the work, we carefully soldered to the prescribed pins of the connector. To install the wire rod, prepare a set of wire rods to be attached to the connector (hereinafter referred to as "kitting"), prepare a connector for wiring the wire rod, check the connector model name while looking at the connector wiring drawing, and then install the wire rod. One by one is selected from the kitting box and attached to a pin at a predetermined position among the plurality of pins of the connector by soldering or the like. This series of operations must be carried out in accordance with the assembly specifications of various connectors that are input one after another.

Pins at predetermined positions are selected from a plurality of pins of a connector for selecting wires one by one, which are stored in a box containing kitted wires (hereinafter referred to as "kitting box"). In the case of mechanization of arranging in various locations, it is important for mechanization to use a system that simplifies the data input for the work of attaching various necessary wire rods as much as possible.

[0004]

In the work of attaching the wire rod of the conventional connector as described above, while referring to the drawings,
Since the wires are carefully attached by hand one by one, the work efficiency is very poor.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and by simply setting the connector in the device,
It is a method that enables wire to be automatically attached to the connector.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A connector according to the present invention and a method for instructing a position for attaching a wire to a connector are provided with a magneto-optical stripe on which data regarding the storage position and the attachment position of the wire to be attached to the connector is previously written. , The magneto-optical stripe is read using the reading means attached to the tip of the manipulator, and based on the read data, the wire rods are taken out one by one from the kitting box in which they are stored, and then soldered to the connector. Characterized by attaching a wire rod.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the predetermined wire rods are taken out one by one from the kitting box in which the wire rods are stored on the basis of the information of the magneto-optical stripe, and the pins at the predetermined positions among the plurality of pins of the connector are automatically moved. In addition to wiring, wires can be automatically attached to various types of mixed connectors.

[0008]

EXAMPLES Example 1. Examples of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a method for indicating a position for attaching a wire to a connector according to the present invention and an apparatus therefor.
In the figure, 1 is a kitting box, 2 is a wire rod storage position, 3 is a manipulator attached to the tip of a manipulator, and a reading equipped with an optical pickup capable of reading the data of the magneto-optical stripe via the optical pickup of the magneto-optical stripe. Means, 4 is a manipulator of the assembling robot, 5 is a connector to which a magneto-optical stripe in which data regarding the storage position and the mounting position of the wire to be attached to the connector is written is attached, and 6 is a work desk.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example in which a magneto-optical stripe in which data regarding the storage position and the mounting position of the wire to be attached to the connector according to the present invention is written in advance is attached to a predetermined position on the connector, and 7 is a magneto-optical stripe,
Reference numeral 8 is a wire rod, and 9 is a pin. In the figure, in the kitting box 1, the wire rods to be mounted on the connector are stored in the kitting box 1 according to the types of the wire rods.

The operation will be outlined below. The manipulator 4 moves and the reading means 3 comes into contact with the optical pickup of the magneto-optical stripe, whereby all the data in the magneto-optical stripe is read. Next, the storage position data of the predetermined first wire out of the read data is interpreted, and the wire 8 is taken out by the manipulator 4 from the corresponding position of the kitting box 1 in which it is stored. Next, the data of the mounting position of the connector of the wire rod taken out is interpreted from the read data, the wire rod 8 is arranged at the position of the corresponding pin 9 on the connector 5 from the manipulator 4, and it is mounted by soldering or the like. . Next, the storage position data of the second predetermined wire rod is interpreted, and the wire rod is taken out from the predetermined position of the kitting box 1. Similarly, the wires are attached one after another.

In the above embodiment, the connector was taken as an example for description, but the present invention can be applied to any electric component which requires wire attachment. Further, the magneto-optical stripe is attached to the connector in the embodiment, but the same effect can be obtained by using a magnetic stripe or a bar code.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, if the magneto-optical stripes in which predetermined data is written are attached to the electrical parts, the wires can be attached correctly in any order and in any device. It can be done automatically. Therefore, it is effective for high-mix low-volume production and contributes to cost reduction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a wire rod attachment position indicating method and apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a connector according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 kitting box 2 wire storage position 3 reading means attached to the tip of manipulator 4 manipulator 5 connector 6 work desk 7 magneto-optical stripe 8 wire rod 9 pins

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An electric component, wherein data on a storage position and a mounting position of a wire to be attached to an electric component is written in a magneto-optical stripe, and the magneto-optical stripe is attached to a predetermined position of the electric component. 2. A step of reading data in a magneto-optical stripe by touching an optical pickup of the magneto-optical stripe from a magneto-optical stripe in which data regarding a storage position and a mounting position of a wire to be attached to an electric component is written in advance, The process of taking out the wire rod from the storage position of the wire rod indicated by the data read from the magnetic stripe by the manipulator, and the pin at the predetermined position of the electric component indicated by the data read from the magneto-optical stripe by the above manipulator A method of instructing a wire rod attachment position to an electric component, the method comprising: attaching a wire rod.