Tyco Electronics Corporation

The Whitaker Corporation

Mark Elton Unger, Iii

Dale Eugene Stough, Jr

Michael Edward Hallman

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.

Terminal crimping system with wire alignment aid

A machine (40) is disclosed for inserting discrete wires (100) of a cable (98) into insulation displacement contacts (20, 22) of a connector (10) having two mutually offset rows (16, 18) of contacts on the same side of the connector. The machine (40) includes first and second side by side insertion blades (238, 240) and a connector holder (48) that positions the connector to be terminated with respect to the two insertion blades. The first insertion blade (238) inserts wires into insulation displacement contacts (20) of the first row (16) of contacts and the second insertion blade (240) inserts wires in the contacts (22) of the second row (18) of contacts. A movable carriage (46) incrementally moves the connector holder (48) so that each of the contacts in the two rows are alternately positioned in alignment with their respective insertion blades for insertion of the wires. A wire guide member (204) is provided that temporarily deflects an already inserted wire (360) of the second row (18) to one side while inserting a wire (362) in the next adjacent contact (20') of the first row (16).

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Tower City, PA, United States of America

Mark Elton Unger, Iii