Communications: electrical – Visual indication – Using light emitting diodes
Patent
1995-03-31
1997-03-18
Crosland, Donnie L.
Communications: electrical
Visual indication
Using light emitting diodes
29755, 29854, 439248, 324 66, G08B 522, B23P 1900
Patent
active
056126808
ABSTRACT:
A wire harness assembly system permits a wide variety of different electrical wire harnesses to be assembled with different harness connectors but employing the same termination modules. The wire harnesses are assembled on a wiring board surface which includes guides to hold the wires in position. Each end of each wire in the wire harness is intended to terminate in a first or harness multiconductor connector. Each first multiconductor connector mates with a second multiconductor connector which is received in each termination module. Each termination module includes an LED light array and an array of spring-loaded contact pins which selectively engage with the conductor pins in the mating second connector. An electronic controller or test system is connected to each of the universal termination modules and controls the lighting of the LED array and the testing of the spring-loaded pins. Each universal termination module can accommodate a wide variety of different connectors by changing the face plate. Each face plate has a unique set of apertures for the LED array and a unique plug configuration which only conforms to a particular connector. According to an alternative embodiment, the face plate may incorporate a permanent second connector to mate with the first connector on the wire harness.
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Crosland Donnie L.
Woodbridge Richard C.
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