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US 12,112,863 B2Granted
Taping head
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsLopes José Carrolo Nuno, Qiu Jianliang, Rubén Marco Medeiros Ferreira Da Silva, Miguel Sousa Borges Monteiro Pires
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Abstract
A taping head for taping a wire harness includes a base plate with a first aperture for receiving a wire harness. A tape dispenser with a second aperture is configured to rotate a roll of tape around the center of the first and second apertures. The taping head further includes a clamping unit configured to clamp a free end of the tape.
Claims19
A taping head for taping a wire harness with tape of a roll of tape, said taping head comprising:
- a base plate with a first aperture for receiving the wire harness,
- a rotatable tape dispenser with a second aperture, the rotatable tape dispenser rotatably mounted to the base plate and configured to rotate the roll of tape about a center of the first and second apertures, and
- a clamping unit configured to clamp a free end of the tape, wherein the clamping unit includes an anvil fixedly mounted to the rotatable tape dispenser and a clamping element movably mounted to the base plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.