Electrical connector assembly machine
AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorKensaku Sato
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly machine for loading an insulating housing having a plurality of parallel apertures with a plurality of contacts. It consists of a housing support for supporting the insulating housing; a table having a plurality of parallel channels at equal intervals and in registration with the parallel apertures for receiving the contacts; a pusher disposed over the table so as to be movable vertically and laterally along the parallel channels and having a plurality of grooves for receiving conductor sections of the contacts when the pusher is lowered. The grooves each have at the front edge a jaw portion for pushing forward crimped strain relief tabs of the contact.
Claims2
An electrical connector assembly machine for loading a plurality of insulating housings each having a plurality of parallel apertures with a plurality of contacts, each having terminated a conductor, which comprises:
- a housing support with a crosswise cut-out for receiving said insulating housings slidable along a shoulder of said crosswise cut-out;
- a flat table having on its top surface a plurality of parallel channels at equal intervals and in registration with said parallel apertures for receiving said contacts;
- an elongated pusher disposed over said table so as to be movable vertically and laterally along said parallel channels and having a plurality of grooves spaced lengthwise at intervals equal to those of said parallel channels for receiving said conductors adjacent said contacts when said pusher is lowered;
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- said grooves each having at the front edge a jaw portion for pushing forward a rear edge of said contact when said pusher is moved forward along said parallel channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.