WO2000039899A1 - Unite de sertissage automatique de nappes de cables plats flexibles et procede de sertissage correspondant - Google Patents
Unite de sertissage automatique de nappes de cables plats flexibles et procede de sertissage correspondant Download PDFInfo
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- WO2000039899A1 WO2000039899A1 PCT/EP1999/010119 EP9910119W WO0039899A1 WO 2000039899 A1 WO2000039899 A1 WO 2000039899A1 EP 9910119 W EP9910119 W EP 9910119W WO 0039899 A1 WO0039899 A1 WO 0039899A1
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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
- H01R43/28—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
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- 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
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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
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- the present invention relates to an automatic crimping unit for flexible flat cable plies and a corresponding crimping method.
- this crimping is often done manually.
- the establishment of the branch to be crimped in the crimping station is thus commonly carried out by an operator. This leads to inevitable mounting errors, and very few cable strands are made correctly the first time.
- Such a crimping process requires the establishment 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 setting up of the crimping branch in the crimping station is carried out automatically.
- the present invention relates to an automatic crimping unit for flexible flat cable plies, the said ply comprising at least one branch on which a connector is to be crimped, the said unit being characterized in that it comprises:
- crimping stations arranged vertically offset vertically above the plane of the guide plate and adapted to crimp a connector at the end of a branch
- a plurality of tilting ramps having a first end at the plane of the guide plate when they are in the tilted state, and a second end at a crimping station, said ramp being arranged in the opposite direction from displacement of the ply, each ramp being adapted to tilt, on command, towards the guide plate so that a predetermined branch of the ply follows the ramp that it meets on its way during its displacement and goes towards one of the crimping stations to receive a connector there.
- the tilting of the ramp makes it possible to guarantee that only the branch of the ply located 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 ply itself.
- the ramps making it possible to bring each of the branches to be crimped towards a crimping station, have a narrower width.
- the branch to be crimped contains only two tracks, sometimes it contains a large number (ten or more).
- the width of the ramp is each time adapted to direct all of the tracks constituting the branch to be crimped 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 depending on the layer to be produced.
- each crimping station has a set of ramps of various widths. Whenever a series of plies is to be produced, the appropriate ramps are placed in front of each crimping station.
- the tilting of a ramp is programmable over 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 are schematic views showing a sheet of flat cables on which connectors are to be crimped
- FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a crimping unit according to the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic top view of the crimping unit according to FIG. 2.
- 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 layer is divided into two branches 12 of different lengths each consisting of two tracks.
- a connector 13 is placed at the end of each of these branches. As shown in Figure 1b, these branches are intended to take different directions by folding and to supply 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 FIGS. 2 and 3.
- This unit comprises three crimping stations 14a, 14b, 14c (in the particular case of the production of the ply shown in FIG. 2). It is understood that the number of crimping stations can 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 displacement along a guide rail 16.
- the means of displacement of the ribbon are constituted by rollers 17 which can be rotated in two directions of rotation (clockwise and counterclockwise).
- the tablecloth is driven by friction of the rollers against the tablecloth, which has the consequence of driving the latter to the right or to the left (in the drawing), that is to say in two opposite directions of movement. .
- Each crimping station is placed above the ply (vertically offset), so that a tilting ramp 18a, 18b, 18c associated therewith is located directly above the tracks 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 FIG. 2.
- the ply is therefore driven by the rollers 17 and moves unhindered below the crimping stations 14a, b, c.
- the common connector 11 is firstly crimped. To do this, the sheet 10 is brought using the rollers 17 so that its left end is disposed to the right of the tilting ramp 18a. The tilting (dotted lines, Figure 2) of the ramp 18a towards the guide plate is then controlled. Thus, a first end of this ramp is disposed 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 ply 10 is driven to the left. As the ramp 18a is inclined in the opposite direction of movement of the ply, the latter is deflected and directed towards the crimping station.
- the common connector 11 is crimped on the end of the ply.
- the rollers 17 drive the ply 10 in the opposite direction (that is to say to the right in the drawing) so that the ply descends from the crimping station 14a.
- the tilting ramp 18a is raised to the rest position.
- the connectors 13 to be placed at the end of the branches 12 are then put in place in a similar manner, by controlling the tilting of the ramps 18b then 18c, and by driving the sheet in the appropriate direction using the rollers 17.
- certain rollers 17 could damage the connector (s) already installed. To avoid this, the rollers 17 can be erased vertically. This erasure can be programmed. Thus, the rollers 17 do not damage the already installed connectors when they drive the moving web.
- the crimping process according to the present invention consists in:
- the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above.
- the crimping unit according to the present invention may comprise a plurality of crimping stations and a plurality of associated tilting ramps, this depending on the configuration of the branches to be crimped.
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Priority Applications (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE69903353T DE69903353T2 (de) | 1998-12-23 | 1999-12-20 | Automatische krimpvorrichtung für flexible flachbandkabel und herstellungsverfahren |
US09/868,567 US6829821B1 (en) | 1998-12-23 | 1999-12-20 | Crimping unit and method of crimping flat cables |
EP99968805A EP1145389B1 (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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FR9816332A FR2787937B1 (fr) | 1998-12-23 | 1998-12-23 | Unite de sertissage automatique de nappes de cables plats flexibles et procede de sertissage correspondant |
FR98/16332 | 1998-12-23 |
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US (1) | US6829821B1 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP1145389B1 (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69903353T2 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2185422T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2787937B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO2000039899A1 (fr) |
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- 1999-12-20 DE DE69903353T patent/DE69903353T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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US4126935A (en) * | 1977-05-31 | 1978-11-28 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Method and apparatus for manufacturing wiring harnesses |
US4217977A (en) * | 1978-09-15 | 1980-08-19 | The Silicon Valley Group, Inc. | Conveyor system |
EP0167985A2 (fr) * | 1984-07-11 | 1986-01-15 | INARCA S.p.A. | Poste automatique de pose de fil, en particulier pour des machines pour préparer la coupe sur mesure de fils électriques pourvus d'une cosse électrique isolable |
EP0413655A2 (fr) * | 1989-08-17 | 1991-02-20 | Mecanismos Auxiliares Industriales S.A. M.A.I.S.A. | Fabrication de faisceaux de câbles |
DE9307220U1 (de) * | 1993-05-12 | 1993-09-02 | Ligmatech Maschb Gmbh | Vorrichtung zur Rückführung von in einer Bearbeitungsanordnung bearbeiteten Werkstücken von der Ausgabeseite der Bearbeitungsanordnung zu deren Beschickungsseite |
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DE69903353T2 (de) | 2003-09-04 |
FR2787937B1 (fr) | 2001-03-02 |
DE69903353D1 (de) | 2002-11-07 |
FR2787937A1 (fr) | 2000-06-30 |
EP1145389A1 (fr) | 2001-10-17 |
US6829821B1 (en) | 2004-12-14 |
ES2185422T3 (es) | 2003-04-16 |
EP1145389B1 (fr) | 2002-10-02 |
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