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US 12,509,894 B2Granted
Portable hot swaged coupling device for connecting articles
AssigneeLife Coded, LLC
InventorsJohn J. Meyer, Benjamin C. Nichols
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Abstract
A method of spicing together and joining ends of a first member and a second member includes the steps of: arranging the ends of the first member and the second member in side-by-side manner; placing a coupling sleeve over the ends of the first member and the second member; and using a portable, hot-swaged coupling device to heat and crimp the coupling sleeve about the ends of the first and second member, thereby joining the ends of the first and second members.
Claims22
A hot-swaged coupling device for connecting a first member to a second member comprising:
- a housing;
- a first jaw and a second jaw each of which is movably coupled to the housing and moves between an open position and a closed position, the first jaw having a first surface and the second jaw having a second surface that faces the first surface;
- first and second dies, the first die being disposed along the first surface, while the second die being disposed along the second surface, wherein in the closed position of the first and second jaws, the first and second dies seat against one another and define an enclosed opening, wherein each of the first die and the second die has an exposed inner surface for receiving and forming a coupling sleeve about ends of the first member and the second member when the first and second jaws are in the closed position and the first member and the second member are in abutting relationship;
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- a heating mechanism for heating the coupling sleeve.
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A hot-swaged coupling device for connecting a first member to a second member comprising:
- a housing;
- a first jaw and a second jaw each of which is movably coupled to the housing and moves between an open position and a closed position;
- first and second dies, the first die being supported by the first jaw, while the second die being supported by the second jaw, wherein in the closed position of the first and second jaws, the first and second dies seat against one another and define an enclosed opening, wherein each of the first die and the second die has an exposed inner surface for receiving and forming a coupling sleeve about ends of the first member and the second member when the first and second jaws are in the closed position and the first member and the second member are in abutting relationship;
- a heating mechanism for heating the coupling sleeve;
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- an electrical contact sensor device comprising a first component that is configured to transmit an electrical pulse to the first member and a second component that acts as an electrical pulse sensor and is configured to detect and measure the sensed electrical pulse in the second member.
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A hot-swaged coupling device for connecting a first member to a second member comprising:
- a housing;
- a first jaw and a second jaw each of which is movably coupled to the housing and moves between an open position and a closed position, the first jaw having a first surface and the second jaw having a second surface that faces the first surface;
- first and second dies, the first die being disposed along the first surface, while the second die being disposed along the second surface, wherein in the closed position of the first and second jaws, the first and second dies seat against one another and define an enclosed opening, wherein each of the first die and the second die has an exposed inner surface for receiving and forming a coupling sleeve about ends of the first member and the second member when the first and second jaws are in the closed position and the first member and the second member are in abutting relationship;
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- a heating mechanism for heating the coupling sleeve;
- wherein the housing is coupled to a robotic arm that is operatively coupled to a mobile platform that can be driven and controlled by a user using a remote user interface;
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- a vision system for capturing images and/or a live, real-time video feed of the first and second dies for viewing of the coupling sleeve, wherein the captured images and/or the live, real-time video feed are fed to a processing neural network that is configured to identify the first and second members to assist in placement of the first and second jaws.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.