Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1984-03-08
1986-08-05
Goldberg, Howard N.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
29565, 29593, 140 921, 2421001, 414786, H01R 4304, B21F 300, B23C 100
Patent
active
046034765
ABSTRACT:
A special cartridge is provided which is used in wire harness making applications. The cartridge is loaded with a single length of wire which has been pre-cut to the desired length and also marked for identification with an ink jet sprayer, or other wire marking device, prior to being wound on the spool in the cartridge.
Once the wire is thus wound, it may sequentially be passed through a curing oven to dry the inked coding on the wire. Then the cartridge is engaged by an end effector on an articulated robot which passes both the leading end and the trailing end of the wire into selected wire strippers, crimpers, and a wire tester.
Once the wire reaches this point it is now wound on the reel in the cartridge with the proper terminals crimped on both ends. The cartridge may now be carried by the robot through a programmed path which first, inserts the wire extending out of the pay-out tube into a wire gripper on the formboard; second, pays out the now-gripped wire around the forming pins of the formboard and finally, runs the wire into a trailing end wire gripper. If production requirements call for parallel, as opposed to sequential operation, the cartridge may be transferred, by parking and re-picking, to a second robot at any logical step in the sequence.
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Arbes Carl J.
Branscomb Ralph S.
Goldberg Howard N.
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