Cable supply system
AssigneesTyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
InventorsAn (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Abstract
A cable supply system includes a cable supply device supplying a cable, a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device, and a control device controlling a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device. The control device controls the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device according to a cable supply speed of the cable supply device such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.
Claims20
A cable supply system, comprising:
- a cable supply device supplying a cable;
- a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device, the cable buffer device has a movable pulley, a fixed pulley, and an electric cylinder, a piston rod of the electric cylinder is connected to the movable pulley to drive the movable pulley to move relative to the fixed pulley and apply a predetermined tension to the cable;
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- a control device controlling a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device, the control device controls the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device according to a cable supply speed of the cable supply device such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.
A cable supply system, comprising:
- a cable supply device supplying a cable;
- a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device, the cable buffer device has a movable pulley, a fixed pulley, and an electric cylinder, a piston rod of the electric cylinder is connected to the movable pulley to drive the movable pulley to move relative to the fixed pulley and apply a predetermined tension to the cable;
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- a control device controlling a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device, the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device is controlled to match a cable supply speed of the cable supply device such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.
A cable supply system, comprising:
- a cable supply device supplying a cable, the cable supply device has a cable supply reel with a cable wound on the cable supply reel, a clamping device clamping the cable supply reel, and a drive motor mounted on the clamping device and driving the cable supply reel to rotate and supply the cable;
- a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device;
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- a control device controlling a cable supply speed of the cable supply device by controlling the speed of the drive motor and a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device, the control device controls the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device according to the cable supply speed such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.