公开(公告)号：US4653665A

公开(公告)日：1987-03-31

申请号：US584047

申请日：1984-02-27

申请人： Douglas L. Heisner ,  Wayne A. Zahlit

发明人： Douglas L. Heisner ,  Wayne A. Zahlit

IPC分类号： H01R43/055 ,  H01R43/01 ,  H01R43/04 ,  H01R43/045 ,  B65G59/00

CPC分类号： H01R43/04 ,  H01R43/055

摘要： Electrical connectors are slidably received in side-by-side serial array in elongated, hollow tubular cassettes. The cassettes are shaped to receive the connectors only in a single orientation, and protect terminals which partly extend from the connector housings in an intermediate assembly stage. Cassettes are vertically stacked in a feed system, and when the bottom cassette is emptied of connectors, it is released from the stack and replaced with a full cassette.

摘要翻译： 电连接器在细长的中空管状盒中可并排地并排连接。 盒被成形为仅以单个取向接收连接器，并且保护在中间组装阶段部分地从连接器壳体延伸的端子。 盒子垂直堆叠在进料系统中，当底部盒被清空连接器时，它从堆叠中释放并用全盒替换。

公开(公告)号：US5471741A

公开(公告)日：1995-12-05

申请号：US323556

申请日：1994-10-17

申请人： Douglas L. Heisner ,  Peter Ingwersen ,  Lawrence M. Kurek ,  Thomas P. Pellegrino

发明人： Douglas L. Heisner ,  Peter Ingwersen ,  Lawrence M. Kurek ,  Thomas P. Pellegrino

IPC分类号： H01R43/00 ,  H01B13/012 ,  H01R43/01 ,  H01R43/055 ,  B23P23/00

CPC分类号： H01R43/01 ,  H01R43/055 ,  Y10T29/49174 ,  Y10T29/49181 ,  Y10T29/5137 ,  Y10T29/53217 ,  Y10T29/53243

摘要： A wire harness-making machine for producing wire harnesses of the type in which multiple wires extend between opposing first and second electrical connector elements. The machine includes a feeding assembly which separates successive first wire connectors and a transfer nest which shuttles the first array of connectors from a first connector advancement track to a first termination station. Multiple wires are fed to the first termination station where first free ends thereof are terminated to the first connector. Once terminated to the multiple wires, the first connector is shuttled back to the first connector advancement track. The first connector is then advanced along a feedpath and a set of second free ends of the wires are transferred to a second termination station while maintaining the order of the wires. A second connector is advanced from a second feed track into the second termination station where it is terminated to the second wire free ends at the same time a succeeding first set of wire free ends is terminated at the first termination station.

摘要翻译： 一种线束制造机，用于生产多根线在相对的第一和第二电连接器元件之间延伸的线束。 该机器包括馈送组件，其分离连续的第一线连接器和将第一阵列的连接器从第一连接器前进轨道穿过到第一终端站的传送嵌套。 多个电线被馈送到第一终端站，其中第一自由端被终止于第一连接器。 一旦端接到多条电线，第一连接器就被穿回到第一连接器前进轨道。 然后第一连接器沿着馈送路径前进，并且线的一组第二自由端被传送到第二终端站，同时保持电线的顺序。 第二连接器从第二馈送轨道前进到第二终端站，在第二终端站中，第二连接器终止于第二无线端，同时在第一终端站终止后续第一组无线端。

公开(公告)号：US5590576A

公开(公告)日：1997-01-07

申请号：US324813

申请日：1994-10-17

申请人： Peter Ingwersen ,  Lawrence M. Kurek ,  Douglas L. Heisner

发明人： Peter Ingwersen ,  Lawrence M. Kurek ,  Douglas L. Heisner

IPC分类号： H01B13/012 ,  H01R43/01 ,  H01R43/055 ,  H01R43/20 ,  B26D7/06

CPC分类号： H01R43/01 ,  H01R43/055 ,  H01R43/20 ,  Y10T29/49798 ,  Y10T29/53261 ,  Y10T83/2174 ,  Y10T83/22 ,  Y10T83/2205 ,  Y10T83/533 ,  Y10T83/541

摘要： An apparatus for loading individual connectors into a wire-harness making machine includes a feed track which feeds a supply of connectors which have been separated from a connector supply chain. The lead connector is advanced into a feed channel whereupon a severing knife is advanced into the feed channel to separate the lead connector from an adjacent connector. The severing knife remains in place momentarily as a shuttle mechanism is actuated to move the severed lead connector along the feed channel, the severing knife blade forming a portion of the feed channel during the shuttling of the severed connector. Optical sensors may be mounted in proximity to the severing knife in order to verify the presence or absence of a connector prior to severing.

摘要翻译： 用于将单个连接器加载到线束制造机中的装置包括馈送轨道，其馈送已经与连接器供应链分离的连接器的供应。 引线连接器前进到馈送通道中，然后切割刀进入馈送通道以将引线连接器与相邻连接器分离。 当切换机构被致动以切断引导连接器沿着进给通道移动时，切割刀保持在适当位置，切断刀片在切断连接器的过程中形成进给通道的一部分。 可以将光学传感器安装在切割刀附近，以便在断开之前验证连接器的存在与否。