US 7,243,415 B2 · Equipment for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable

Abstract

An equipping installation introduces fitted-out cable ends into plug housings and is arranged downstream from a fitting-out installation. A contact for the first plug housing is arranged at the leading cable end and a contact for the second plug housing is arranged at the trailing cable end. A feeder unit takes over the cable loop fitted-out to a finished state from a second transfer unit and transfers the leading cable end to a positioning unit and the trailing cable end either to a rotatable store or, after the positioning unit is again free of cable, to the positioning unit in accordance with a cable plan. An equipping unit takes over the cable ends in succession at the positioning unit and introduces the cable ends into the corresponding plug housings.

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Dependent claims

An equipment for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable, wherein an equipping unit introduces the cable ends into cells of the plug housings, comprising:

a positioning unit for positioning a contact on the end of a cable prior to introducing the contact into a cell of a housing, said positioning unit including a turning unit and a scanning unit;
said scanning unit detecting an actual position of to contact, the actual position representing a twist of to contact about a longitudinal axis of the cable;
and
said turning unit being responsive to said detected actual position from said scanning unit for rotating the cable end about the longitudinal axis to bring the contact into a desired position corresponding with the housing cell to be equipped.

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Equipment for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable

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Equipment for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable

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