Automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorTakashi Saga
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Abstract
An automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus that has an aligning portion for aligning automotive fuses to be inserted and attached into a fuse box. The aligned automotive fuses are aligned in the same arrangement they assume when inserted and attached within the fuse box. The automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus includes a feeding portion for feeding predetermined automotive fuses to the aligning portion. The automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus further includes a hand-type inserting and attaching portion that is separable from the feeding portion, for inserting and attaching a group of automotive fuses into the fuse box by conveyably clamping with one hand the group of automotive fuses aligned by the aligning portion.
Claims20
An automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus comprising:
- a feeding magazine which includes;
- (a) aligning means for aligning automotive fuses to be inserted and attached into a fuse box, in such an arrangement as to be inserted and attached within the fuse box, and
- (b) feeding means for feeding predetermined automotive fuses to the aligning means;
- and
- hand-type inserting and attaching means for
- (i) collectively retaining, by way of a one hand operation, a group of automotive fuses aligned by said aligning means, such that the collectively retained group of automotive fuses can be conveyed to a fuse box,
- (ii) inserting the collectively retained group of automotive fuses so as to be received by the fuse box, and
- (iii) releasing the collectively retained group of automotive fuses received by the fuse box such that said hand-type inserting and attaching means is separable from the group of automotive fuses received by the fuse box.
An automotive fuse inserting and attaching apparatus comprising:
- a feeding magazine having a feeding portion and an alignment portion, said feeding portion including a plurality of grooves extending parallel with one another and adapted to guide automotive fuses, said alignment portion being positioned at a terminal end of said grooves so as to collectively receive the automotive fuses from said feeding portion in a particular alignment arrangement which alignment arrangement corresponds with a fuse box arrangement the automotive fuses assume in a fuse box upon insertion therein;
- a hand-type inserting and attaching magazine which includes;
- a single hand grip member,
- a main magazine body attached to said single hand grip member,
- a clamping mechanism supported by said main magazine body, said clamping mechanism including a plurality of clamps adjustable between a fuse clamp retention position and a fuse release position, said clamps being aligned with the aligned automotive fuses collectively received in said alignment portion, and
- operating means for triggering a change in position of said plurality of clamps with respect to said fuse clamp retention position and said fuse release position whereby an operator can collectively retain the automotive fuses in the particular alignment arrangement, remove the particular arrangement of automotive fuses together with the retaining inserting and attaching mechanism, convey the particular arrangement of automotive fuses and retaining inserting and attaching mechanism to the fuse box, insert the fuses into the fuse box, release said clamps and separate said inserting and attaching mechanism from the fuses retained in the fuse box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.