US 6,866,718 B2Granted

Applicator for applying material to wires of a wire group

AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

InventorsHisato Chujo, Koshi Abe, Hirotake Baba, Kenichi Uchiyama

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Abstract

A sealant applicator 1 is provided for applying a waterproofing treatment to a wire assembly, a plurality of wires are aligned in a line according to their diameters in a holder 4 provided on a wire laying board 3. Positioning members 21 of a main unit 2 are fitted to the holder 4. A pair of nozzles 22 are opposed to each other at the opposite sides of the aligned wires, and is caused to discharge a specified amount of the sealant by a feeding mechanism 26 while being moved in a wire alignment direction by a moving mechanism 27 and being brought closer to the wires by a relatively moving mechanism 25. This enables a variation of clearances between the wires and the nozzles to be reduced and the sealant to be uniformly applied.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An applicator for applying a material to wires (W) of a wire group (WG), the applicator, comprising:

a pair of nozzles (22) wherein said nozzles are substantially opposed to each other at opposite sides of a holder (4) for holding the wires (W) of the wire group (WG) in a wire alignment direction (Z), the nozzles (22) being provided for discharging a material (S),
a moving mechanism (27) for moving the pair of nozzles (22) in the wire alignment direction (Z),
a feeding mechanism (26) for feeding the material (S) to the nozzles (22) such that a specified amount of the material (S) is discharged from the nozzles (22), and
a relative moving means (25) for moving the nozzles (22) toward and away from each other or relative to each other such that the spacing between the nozzles (22) corresponds to the diameter of the wire(s) (W) held therebetween.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/272,864Filed 16 Oct 2002 · division
Priority: JP 11-1921336 Jul 1999
Published: US 2003/0037726 A127 Feb 2003
Granted: 15 Mar 2005
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H01B 13/32
Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables: filling or coating with impervious material
H01B 13/01263
For manufacturing wire harnesses: tying, wrapping, binding, lacing, strapping or sheathing harnesses
Y02A 30/14
Adapting or protecting infrastructure or their operation: extreme weather resilient electric power supply systems, e.g. strengthening power lines…
Y10S 118/22
Coating apparatus: wire and cord miscellaneous