Terminal crimping system with wire alignment aid
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsMichael Edward Hallman, Mark Elton Unger, III
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Abstract
A terminal crimping system for a crimping machine includes an anvil, a movable ram, an image acquisition device, and a display device. The anvil is located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon. The terminal has a wire crimp barrel configured to receive a wire therein. The ram has crimp tooling configured to crimp the wire crimp barrel of the terminal to the wire during a crimp stroke of the ram. The image acquisition device is configured to be mounted on the crimping machine above the crimping zone. The image acquisition device is positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the wire crimp barrel of the terminal in the crimping zone. The display device is configured to display the image.
Claims21
A terminal crimping system for a crimping machine comprising:
- an anvil located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon, the terminal having a wire crimp barrel configured to receive an end portion of a wire therein,
- a movable ram having crimp tooling configured to crimp the wire crimp barrel of the terminal to the end portion of the wire during a crimp stroke of the ram,
- an image acquisition device configured to be mounted on the crimping machine above the crimping zone, the image acquisition device positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the terminal in the crimping zone, and
- a display device configured to display the image, wherein the image acquisition device has a macro capability and the image displayed on the display device is magnified.
A terminal crimping system comprising:
- an image acquisition device configured to be mounted on a crimping machine including an anvil located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon, the crimping machine further including a movable ram having crimp tooling configured to crimp the terminal to a wire received in the terminal, the image acquisition device mounted above the crimping zone and positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the terminal in the crimping zone,
- a display device configured to display the image, and
- an alignment module configured to superimpose an alignment line of the wire on the image that is displayed to allow the terminal to be aligned with the wire by adjusting at least one of a position or an orientation of the terminal to align the terminal relative to the alignment line of the wire prior to crimping the terminal to the wire.
A terminal crimping system comprising:
- an image acquisition device configured to be mounted on a crimping machine including an anvil located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon, the crimping machine further including a movable ram having crimp tooling configured to crimp the terminal to a wire received in the terminal, the image acquisition device mounted above the crimping zone and positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the terminal in the crimping zone,
- a display device configured to display the image, and
- an alignment module configured to superimpose an alignment line of the terminal on the image that is displayed to allow the wire to be aligned with the terminal by adjusting at least one of a position or an orientation of the wire to align the wire relative to the alignment line of the terminal prior to crimping the terminal to the wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.