Hot pressing machine and method for continuously hot pressing flexible flat cable
AssigneesTyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
InventorsZhonghua Xu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu
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Abstract
A hot pressing machine for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable includes a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable. A central controller of the machine is operably connected to the plurality of hot pressing units and is configured to control the plurality of hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units.
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A hot pressing machine for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable, comprising:
- a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable, each hot pressing unit includes four hot pressing plates aligned in a vertical direction perpendicular to the feeding direction, and the flexible flat cable is adapted to be hot pressed between adjacent two hot pressing plates;
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- a central controller operably connected to the plurality of hot pressing units and controlling the plurality of hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units.
A method for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable, comprising steps of:
- feeding the flexible flat cable into a hot pressing machine, the hot pressing machine including a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable;
- synchronously hot pressing first parts of the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units by the plurality of hot pressing units;
- moving second parts, which are adjacent to the pressed first parts, of the flexible flat cable into the hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the second parts, wherein in the step of hot pressing at least one of the first parts or the second parts, a pressure applied by hot pressing plates of the hot pressing machine is controlled based on a control curve indicative of a relationship between temperature and time;
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- removing the flexible flat cable from the hot pressing machine.
A hot pressing machine for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable, comprising:
- a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable, each hot pressing unit includes a plurality of hot pressing plates aligned in a vertical direction, hot pressing machine adapted hot press multiple layers of the flat flexible cable overlapping in the vertical direction, each layer of the flat flexible cable arranged between an adjacent two of the plurality of hot pressing plates;
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- a central controller operably connected to the plurality of hot pressing units and controlling the plurality of hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units.
A hot pressing machine for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable, comprising:
- a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable, each hot pressing unit includes a hot pressing controller operably connected to at least one hot pressing plate, the hot pressing controller is adapted to determine a control curve indicative of a relationship between temperature and time and control a pressure applied by the at least one hot pressing plate based on the determined control curve;
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- a central controller operably connected to the plurality of hot pressing units and controlling the plurality of hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.