Device for the assembly of printed circuit boards

Abstract

A device for the assembly of printed circuit boards with contacts having one or more terminal posts for insertion into corresponding holes in the printed circuit board in different orientations, the device comprising a guide block which executes a raising and lowering movement perpendicular to the printed circuit board; a transport device operated by the guide block for supplying the contacts secured to a carrier strip, with a cutting device operated by the guide block for the removal of the carrier strip; a setting finger operated by the guide block for holding and inserting one of the contacts with terminal posts into the printed circuit board, characterised in that the setting finger is coupled to the guide block and executes with the guide block a corresponding movement perpendicular to the printed circuit board, and the setting finger is connected to a curved groove cylinder the axis of which coincides with the perpendicular movement direction and which has at least one curved groove on its cylinder jacket, the setting finger and curved groove cylinder are rotatable about this axis and that a fixed carrier arrangement is provided with at least one post which engages into the curved groove, whereby a rotation corresponding to the curved groove from setting finger and curved groove cylinder is imposed as a function of the perpendicular movement.

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