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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Khalil John Maalouf, Chambersburg, PA (US);
John Dunaway Charlton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
David Michael Stull, Etters, PA (US);
Charles David Fry, New Bloomfield, PA (US);
TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A terminal crimping device includes crimp tooling comprising an anvil and a ram. A crimp zone is defined between the anvil and the ram. The crimp zone is configured to receive a wire and a terminal. The crimp tooling crimps the terminal to the wire during a crimp stroke. The terminal crimping device also includes an ultrasonic transducer module having at least one ultrasonic transducer held by at least one of the anvil or the ram. The ultrasonic transducer generates a plurality of ultrasonic pulses during the crimp stroke and directs the ultrasonic pluses through the terminal. The ultrasonic transducer receives the ultrasonic pulses and generates ultrasonic data based on the received ultrasonic pulses. The terminal crimp tooling also includes a crimp quality module communicatively coupled to the ultrasonic transducer module. The crimp quality module performs coherent processing of the ultrasonic data to determine a crimp quality.