Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Tokai Electric Wire Company, Ltd.

Ckd Corporation

Sumitomo Electric, Ltd.

Sinkichi Miwa

Michio Fukuda

Yosinobu Ohta

Toshifumi Okunishi

Saburo Kusumi

Yukihiko Ogawa

Hiroaki Kodama

Takeji Ito

Tetsuo Kubo

Kazuo Nishikawa

A stripping apparatus for stripping coated electric wires b has a pair of clamping plates movable into and out of contact with each other and provided with cutting edges formed at a constant pitch in their opposing contactable edges. The corresponding cutting edges in both clamping plates cooperate with each other in defining, when the clamping plates are held in contact with each other, cutting gaps of different sizes. The clamping plates are adapted to clamp and sever, at their cutting edges, the end portion of the coating d on the coated electric wire at least partially. Means are provided for causing a relative movement between the coated electric wire and the clamping plates thereby to remove the severed end portion of the coating from the core wire of the coated electric wire. The clamping plates are adapted to be moved also in the direction substantially perpendicular to the coated electric wire to bring to the cutting position one of the cutting gaps having the size corresponding to the diameter of the coated electric wire to be stripped. This stripping apparatus can cope with the demand for stripping of coated electric wires of various different diameters. A pair of resilient plates are attached to the rear surfaces of the clamping plates and overlie the cutting gaps for ejecting the severed end portions of the coating therefrom upon movement of the clamping plates away from each other from their cutting position.

Stripping device for stripping coated wire

An apparatus for automatically crimping terminals to electric wires by a cooperation between a pressing punch driven through a press ram and a stationary anvil. The apparatus has a crimp height adjusting mechanism which includes a tapered spacer movable perpendicularly to the press ram, a stopper member having a complementary tapered surface and slidably placed on the tapered spacer so as to be able to move only vertically as the tapered spacer is moved. The stopper member has an upper surface adapted to be contacted by a portion of the press ram thereby determining the stroke end of the press ram. The tapered spacer is slidingly moved in a controlled manner by an electric motor, so that the heightwise position of the stopper member is changed to allow a delicate adjustment of the lower stroke end of the press ram. In consequence, the crimp height is automatically adjusted minutely in accordance with the diameter of the electric wire to be processed.

Terminal crimping apparatus

An improved apparatus for automatically producing cable with terminals crimped thereto is disclosed which includes a cable storing section, for storing various kinds of cables, a cable selecting section for selecting a required cable, a cable measuring and cutting section, a cable sheath stripping section for removing insulative sheath at the foremost end parts of the cable, a terminal crimping section having a plurality of terminal pressure connecting machines arranged in line along a conveyor, and a control circuit. The control circuit automatically controls selection of kinds of cables and terminals and their working conditions at every time when operations are achieved in each of the sections. The cable measuring and cutting section is provided with a direct measuring mechanism in which a distance of movement of the measuring head is measured while it is stretched under the effect of tension. The cable sheath stripping section is preferably provided with a stripping length adjusting mechanism which serves to adjustably determine the length of naked wire portion of the cable at the foremost end parts thereof with insulative sheath removed therefrom.

Apparatus for automatically producing cable with crimped terminals

In an improved method for inspecting crimp bonded terminals, instead of inspecting visually, contour images of crimp bonded terminals are picked up and scanned to provide necessary data and processing operations are performed on the data to make a decision automatically on the acceptance or rejection of the crimp bonded terminals, thereby elevating the inspection efficiency and improving the accuracy of deciding the acceptance or rejection of the crimp bonded terminals.

Method for inspecting crimp bonded terminals

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