JPH09106718A - Manufacture of tape wires and manufacturing device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide manufacturing method of tape wires and manufacturing device thereof capable of efficiently manufacturing plural kinds of tape wires with the different number of circuits. SOLUTION: A number of conductive wire stripes 11 is sent out from a conductive wire stripe supply device 10 and pulled out by means of a wire rod pulling out device 30 while the tip end thereof is wound by means of a winding device 70. In the sending process of this conductive wire stripe 11, the winding memory of the conductive wire stripe 11 is removed by means of a wire straightening device 20 and sent into a bonding device 30 while it is aligned. In the bonding device 30, the conductive wire stripes 11 are fixed by means of thermal fusion of a tape 33, pass through a cooling device 40 and a wire pulling out device 50, and supplied to a tape cutting device. Since the tape 33 can be cut in its desired length, tape wires having the necessary number of circuits can be continuously manufactured.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a tape electric wire in which conductor wires are arranged in a tape shape.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-19928 is known as a method for manufacturing this kind of tape electric wire. As shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of conductor wires 3 are drawn from a conductor wire feeder 2 including a plurality of reels 1 around which the conductor wires are wound, and the conductor wires 3 are aligned in a predetermined direction and spaced apart from each other. Are arranged side by side, the tape 5 is intermittently fixed to the conductor wire group 3 by the tape fusion device 4 in the longitudinal direction of the conductor wire group 3, and the cutting device 6 is arranged so as to cross the conductor wire group 3. To disconnect. As a result, a tape electric wire in which a plurality of conductor wire strips 3 are arranged in parallel with the tape 5 is manufactured.

[0003]

The number of circuits required for a tape electric wire, that is, the number of conductor wires is variously required depending on the type of electric circuit to be connected. In some cases. However, in the above-described manufacturing method, the number of circuits of the tape electric wire is uniformly determined by the number of the conductor wires 3 supplied from the conductor wire feeder 2, so that the conductor wires 3 supplied from the conductor wire feeder 3 are provided. Only one type of tape wire can be manufactured according to the number of Therefore, in order to manufacture a tape electric wire having a different number of circuits, the manufacturing line is stopped, and the reels 1 of the conductor wire supplying device 2 are attached and detached so that the required number is obtained, and the number of supply of the conductor wires 3 is adjusted. There was a need. Further, if the number of supply of the conductor wire 3 is different, the supply length of the tape 5 is also required to be different. Therefore, the tape fusing device 4 must be adjusted.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a method of manufacturing a tape electric wire and a manufacturing apparatus therefor capable of efficiently manufacturing a plurality of types of tape electric wires having different numbers of circuits. To do.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems and Functions / Effects]

<Invention of Claim 1> In the method of manufacturing a tape electric wire according to the invention of Claim 1, a plurality of conductor wires are aligned in a predetermined direction and arranged at intervals, and a tape is conductord to the conductor wire group. It is characterized in that it is intermittently fixed in the longitudinal direction of the filament group, and then the tape fixed to the conductor filament group is cut along the longitudinal direction of the conductor filament group.

According to the above-mentioned manufacturing method, the conductor wire group is held side by side by being fixed by the tape.
After that, the tape is cut along the length direction of the conductor wire group to obtain a tape electric wire having a required number of conductor wire groups. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture various tape electric wires all at once by supplying a large number of conductor wires in advance, fixing them all together with a tape, and cutting the tape along the longitudinal direction into the required number of pieces. Therefore, productivity can be greatly improved.

<Invention of Claim 2> In the method of manufacturing a tape electric wire according to the invention of Claim 2, the tape electric wire divided into a plurality of pieces by cutting the tape in the invention of Claim 1 is wound on each individual reel. It has a feature where it is taken.

By winding the tape electric wires on the individual reels in this manner, the tape electric wires can be conveyed in units of the reels, which is efficient when various tape electric wires are post-processed in the next step.

<Invention of Claim 3> The tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus according to the invention of Claim 3 rotatably supports a plurality of reels each wound with a conductor wire, and spaces the plurality of conductor wires. A conductor wire supplying device that supplies the tape in a predetermined direction while separating the tape, a tape fixing device that intermittently fixes the tape to the drawn conductor wire group in the feeding direction of the conductor wire group, and a conductor. It is characterized in that it is provided with a tape cutting device for cutting the tape fixed to the wire group along the feeding direction of the conductor wire group.

According to the above-mentioned manufacturing apparatus, a plurality of conductor wires are pulled out from the conductor wire supply device, and these are fixed by the tape in the tape fixing device to be held in a side-by-side state. Then, the tape cutting device cuts the tape along the feeding direction of the conductor wire group, whereby a tape electric wire having a required number of conductor wire groups is automatically manufactured. Therefore, various kinds of tapes are set by setting a large number of conductor wires in the conductor wire supply device in advance, fixing them all together with a tape, and cutting the tape into a required number of pieces with a tape cutting device. The electric wire can be manufactured all at once, and the productivity can be greatly improved. <Invention of claim 4> The tape electric wire manufacturing device according to the invention of claim 4 is a device for cutting the tape in addition to the manufacturing device of claim Is characterized in that it further comprises a winding device that winds each of the tape electric wires divided into a plurality of pieces onto individual reels.

According to this, since the tape electric wire can be conveyed in reel units, it becomes efficient when various tape electric wires are post-processed in the next step.

<Invention of Claim 5> In the tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus according to the invention of claim 5, the tape cutting device is provided with a tape cutting blade fixed in the feeding direction of the conductor wire group, and the tape is formed. The cutting blade is characterized in that its mounting position can be adjusted in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the conductor wire group.

According to this structure, by adjusting the mounting position of the tape cutting blade, the cutting position of the tape can be made different in the direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the conductor wire group. Can be freely and easily different.

<Invention of Claim 6> The tape wire manufacturing apparatus according to the invention of claim 6 is the tape wire manufacturing apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the conductor wire feeder has spring characteristics. Is provided, and a wire correlating device for taking a winding tendency of each conductor wire drawn from the conductor wire supplying device is provided.

According to this structure, since the conductor wire has a spring characteristic, the characteristic can be utilized to provide a connector function such as stably contacting the conductor wire with a contact portion of another electric circuit. it can. Moreover, since each conductor wire drawn out from the conductor wire feeder is provided with the spring characteristic as described above, the wire curling device takes a curl.
Since the conductor wire is straight, stable processing can be performed in the next process, which contributes to improved productivity.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION First Embodiment Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6. FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of this embodiment. Reference numeral 10 denotes a conductor wire feeder, in which a plurality of reels 12 around which the conductor wire 11 is wound are arranged, and these reels 12 are rotatably supported by a predetermined stable braking action. In this embodiment, as the conductive wire 11, a wire having a spring characteristic, for example, a phosphor bronze having a round cross section is used.
A copper alloy such as iron-containing copper, an iron-based alloy such as a piano wire or a stainless wire, or a clad wire in which a nickel layer is coated on a copper core may be used, and an annealed copper wire having no spring property or Strands may be used.

Further, the number of reels 12 arranged is set to be larger than that of the conventional one, and in this embodiment, the maximum number is four.
It can accommodate zero reels 12. The maximum number of the conductor wire 11 supplied from the conductor wire feeder 10 is the reel 1
Since it corresponds to the number of two, a maximum of 40 conductor wires 11 can be simultaneously supplied here. These reels 12 are arranged so as to be displaced in the axial direction, and the conductor wire strips 11 pulled out from the reels 12 are arranged in the horizontal direction at a predetermined interval.

A wire-changing device 20 is arranged at the next stage of the conductor wire feeder 10. This arranges a plurality of rolls 21 in a zigzag manner and passes the conductor wire 11 between the rolls 21 to correct the curl of the conductor wire 11. As a result, even the conductive wire material 11 having the spring characteristic has no curl and can be pulled out linearly from the wire correlating device 20. A pitch guide 22 having a large number of through holes arranged side by side is provided on the outlet side of the wire-changing device 20.

Next, the tape fixing device 30 is arranged. As shown in FIG. 2, this is provided with heating plates 31 provided with heaters (not shown) so as to be heated to a predetermined temperature so as to face each other vertically, and the conductive wire strips 11 group between the heating plates 31. Are supposed to pass through. These heating plates 31 can be moved up and down by a drive mechanism (not shown),
The group of conductive wires 11 can be vertically sandwiched together with 3.

A total of six heat-fusible tapes 33 wound around the tape reels 32 are arranged on the sides of each hot platen 31 in two upper and lower stages so that they can be pulled out from the tape reels 32. There is. Further, a total of six tape clamps 34 can be advanced to the tape reel 32 side on the opposite side of the tape reel 32 with the heating plate 31 sandwiched therebetween, and the upper and lower two
The tips of the tapes 33 can be clamped by being arranged in steps and advancing above and below the group of conductive wire 11 groups. The tape clamp 34 that has clamped the tape 33 retracts to pull out the tape 33 from the tape reel 32, and as shown in FIG. 3, the pulled-out tape 33 is orthogonal to the conductive wire group 11 and Will be sandwiched from above and below. As a result, when the hot platen 31 sandwiches the group of conductive wires 11 together with the tape 33, the tapes 33 are fused together and integrated with the conductive wires 11 being sandwiched, and the conductive wires 11 are fixed in a lined state. To do.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG.
1, the tape cutter 35 is arranged at a position away from the conductive wire 11 group, and when the upper and lower heating plates 31 sandwich the conductive wire 11 group, the tape cutter 35 cuts the six tapes 33. It Although various synthetic resins that can be heat-sealed to the material can be used for the tape 33, for example, a PET film or a composite resin film obtained by laminating PVC and PET is suitable, and particularly, heat resistance and flame retardancy are preferable. It is more preferable to provide. In the case of this embodiment, P
Using a laminated film of VC and PET, PVC
The upper and lower sides are arranged so as to face each other, and are sandwiched between the heating plates 31, so that the PVCs are fused and integrated with each other.

A cooling device 4 is provided next to the tape fixing device 30.
0 is arranged and the fused tape 33 is cooled by cold air. As a result, the tape 33 is cured, so that it is possible to suppress deformation even when receiving the pulling force of the wire rod drawing device 50 including the pair of belts 51, 51 provided in the next stage.

A tape cutting device 60 and a winding device 70 are provided in the next stage. First, the tape cutting device 6
6, the movable base 62 is mounted on the fixed base 61 by the bolts 63 so that the position of the movable base 62 can be adjusted, and the tape cutting blade 64 is fixed to the movable base 62. Therefore, although the tape cutting blade 64 is fixed in the feeding direction of the conductor wire group 11, the position can be adjusted in the direction orthogonal to this (width direction of the conductor wire group 11), and each tape cutting The spacing between the blades 64 can be changed as desired. On the other hand, the winding device 7
No. 0 is also shown in FIG. 6, and is provided with a plurality of take-up reels 71, and the tape is wound at a required speed by a drive mechanism (not shown). The take-up reel 71 is attachable to and detachable from the drive mechanism, and can be replaced with a take-up reel having a different take-up width depending on the type of the tape electric wire to be taken up.

According to the embodiment having the above-described structure, a large number of conductor wires 11 are sent out from the conductor wire feeder 10 in a side-by-side arrangement, and the tip ends of the reels 71 of the winding device 70.
The wire rod is pulled out by the wire rod pulling-out device 50 while being wound up. In the process of feeding the conductive wire 11, the conductive wire 11
The curling habit is removed by the wire-changing device 20, straightened, aligned by the pitch guide 22, and fed into the tape fixing device 30. In the tape fixing device 30, the three pairs of tapes 33 are pulled out from the tape reel 32 by the tape clamps 34, and are positioned so as to sandwich the reel conductive wire group 11 from above and below. In this state, the hot platen 31 moves to sandwich the tape 33 and the conductive wire group 11 from above and below, so that the tapes 33 are fused to each other and integrated with the conductive wire group 11 sandwiched. At the same time, the tape 33 is cut by the tape cutter 35 of the heating plate 31. Such fixing of the tape 33 is simultaneously performed at three locations by one sandwiching operation of the heating plate 31, and the conductor wire 11 group is subjected to the sandwiching operation of the heating plate 31 once, so that the tape 33 is attached. It is sent out by the pitch of 3 sheets.

The group of conductive wires 11 to which the tape 33 is fixed passes through the cooling device 40 and the wire rod drawing device 50 and is supplied to the tape cutting device 60. Here, the movable base 6
By adjusting the mounting position of 2, the tape cutting blades 64 are fixed between the conductive wire strips 11 so that the tape cutting blades 64 are spaced in advance according to the required number of circuits of the tape electric wire. Therefore, when the tape 33 moves in the same direction as the conductor wire 11 is fed, the tape cutting blade 64 cuts the tape 33 into a width corresponding to the distance between the tape cutting blades 64 (FIG. 6).
reference). Then, the tape electric wires divided in the width direction are individually wound around the reels 71 of the winding device 70, and the tape electric wires having the required number of circuits are continuously manufactured.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, if the tape cutting blades 64 are attached in advance so that the intervals corresponding to the required number of circuits of the tape electric wire are attached, the tape is fed as the conductor wire strips 11 are sequentially fed. The cutting blade 64 cuts the tape 33 into a width corresponding to the distance between the tape cutting blades 64, so that a tape electric wire having a desired width (number of circuits) can be continuously produced. As a result, various tape electric wires having different numbers of circuits can be manufactured at once, so that the productivity of the tape electric wires can be greatly improved. Moreover, in particular, in the above-described embodiment, the tape cutting blade 64 can be adjusted in the mounting position in the direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the conductor wire group 11, so that the tape cutting blade 64 is manufactured by adjusting the mounting position of the tape cutting blade 64. The number of circuits of the tape electric wire to be used can be freely changed, and the degree of freedom is further increased.

Further, in the present embodiment, the various tape electric wires are not cut into a predetermined length but are continuously wound around the individual reels 71.
The tape electric wires can be easily transported in units, which is extremely efficient when the tape electric wires are post-processed in the next step.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, since the phosphor bronze wire material having the spring characteristic is used as the conductive wire 11,
Utilizing the spring characteristic, it is possible to provide a connector function such that the conductor wire group 11 can be stably brought into contact with a contact portion of another electric circuit. Since each conductor wire strip 11 drawn out from the conductor wire strip feeder 10 has a spring characteristic, the conductor wire stripping device 20 takes a winding habit, so that the conductor wire strips have spring characteristics. Since 11 is straightly extended, stable processing can be performed in the next step of the tape fixing device 30 and the like, and the effect of contributing to improvement in productivity can be obtained.

<Other Embodiments> The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and illustrated in the drawings. For example, the following embodiments are also included in the technical scope of the present invention. In addition to the following, various changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

(1) In the above embodiment, the phosphor bronze wire material having the spring property is used as the conductive wire, but it does not necessarily have the spring property, and even if the spring property is desirable, the material containing beryllium copper or iron is contained. A copper alloy such as copper, an iron-based alloy such as a piano wire or a stainless wire, or a clad wire having a copper core coated with a nickel layer may be used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing a tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the same tape fixing device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view showing the same tape fixing device.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged perspective view showing the same tape fixing device.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view showing the same tape fixing device.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view showing a tape cutting device and a winding device.

FIG. 7 is a schematic side view showing a conventional tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Conductor wire feeder 11 ... Conductive wire 20 ... Wire marking device 30 ... Tape fixing device 31 ... Hot plate 32 ... Tape reel 33 ... Tape 34 ... Tape clamp 35 ... Tape cutter 40 ... Cooling device 50 ... Wire drawing device 60 ... Tape cutting device 70 ... Winding device

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of conductor wires are aligned in a predetermined direction and arranged at intervals, and a tape is intermittently fixed to the conductor wire group in the longitudinal direction of the conductor wire group, and then, A method of manufacturing a tape electric wire, comprising cutting a tape fixed to a conductor wire group along the longitudinal direction of the conductor wire group. 2. The method of manufacturing a tape electric wire according to claim 1, wherein each of the tape electric wires divided into a plurality of pieces by cutting the tape is wound on an individual reel. 3. A conductor filament supply device for rotatably supporting a plurality of reels, each of which has a conductor filament wound thereon, and for supplying a plurality of conductor filaments at regular intervals in a predetermined direction.
A tape fixing device for intermittently fixing the tape to the pulled-out conductor wire group in the feeding direction of the conductor wire group, and a tape fixed to the conductor wire group for the conductor wire group. A tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus comprising: a tape cutting device that cuts along a feeding direction. 4. The tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a winding device that winds each tape electric wire divided into a plurality of pieces by cutting the tape on an individual reel. 5. The tape cutting device comprises a tape cutting blade fixed in the feeding direction of the conductor wire group, and the tape cutting blade adjusts a mounting position in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the conductor wire group. It is possible, The tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus of Claim 3 or 4 characterized by the above-mentioned. 6. The conductor-wire supplying device is provided with a wire-changing device for supplying a conductor wire having a spring characteristic and for taking a curl of each conductor wire drawn out from the conductor-wire supplying device. The tape electric wire manufacturing apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein