Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Means to assemble electrical device
Patent
1987-03-19
1988-11-29
Echols, P. W.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Means to assemble electrical device
29759, G23P 1904
Patent
active
047871385
ABSTRACT:
A contact on the end of a wire is inserted into an aperture of a multi-pin connector by a traveling insertion head that moves in three dimensions to fetch the wire from a wire holder, pull it from the holder and drive it into a selected aperture of the connector. The head moves back toward a wire to insert the wire end contact between a pair of rotating wire drive rollers which grasp the contact and wire to position the contact wholly within a protective insertion quill. The insertion head is then driven into alignment with a selected connector aperture, slightly inserts the quill into the aperture while the contact is fully protected, and the wire drive rollers are rotated to drive the contact and wire through the quill into the connector. A pull test is provided by pivotally retracting the rollers which still grasp the wire. The rollers and quill are withdrawn and opened to enable the rollers and quill to move laterally off the now connected wire to prepare for fetching the next wire. A plurality of turret mounted quills are selectively aligned with the rollers to accommodate different size and style of wires and contacts. To ensure alignment of the connector grommet aperture and to facilitate driving of the contact into the connector, the head may be oscillated a small amount in several directions in a plane parallel to the face of the connector while the quill is partly inserted into the connector grommet aperture. Precise and stable location of the head for alignment with a selected connector aperture is accomplished by mounting the rollers and quill by a simple but rigid set of pivoting precision links, including a fixed length link and two variable length links.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4308659 (1982-01-01), Brandewie et al.
patent: 4638558 (1987-01-01), Eaton
patent: 4658503 (1957-04-01), Eaton
Eaton Homer L.
Kambara Goro
Echols P. W.
Gorski Joseph M.
MTS Systems Corporation
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