Wireworking – Article making or forming – Forms and frames
Patent
1988-08-25
1989-09-05
Eley, Timothy V.
Wireworking
Article making or forming
Forms and frames
29 566, 140 93R, B21F 300
Patent
active
048629278
ABSTRACT:
A wire harness assembly arrangement acquires, prepares and routes various sections of wire by means of a wiring tool apparatus attached to a robotic manipulator. The tool apparatus moves coincident with an arm of the process controlled robotic manipulator and acquires the wire section through a front end portion. The first end of the wire section is fed into the tool apparatus and through a tail end portion of the tool apparatus. The next portion is wound around a spool member disposed within the tool apparatus and rotatable in response to a controlled motor operation. The front end portion is movable in relation to a wire feeding unit so that the wire section wound around the spool member is wound in a helical manner. The wire harness assembly arrangement can also include a strip/crimp station to prepare the acquired wire section for termination. The process controlled robotic manipulator then routes the acquired wire section along a predetermined path to form a part of the wire harness assembly. During the wire routing operation, the motor exerts a reverse torque on the spool member to prevent the wire section from springing off of the spool member.
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Dorman John G.
Sturges Robert H.
Wylie Mark E.
Arbes Carl J.
Eley Timothy V.
Hawranko G. E.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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