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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1993
Filed:
May. 29, 1990
Michael D Strong, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Michael A Yeomans, Camp Hill, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method of determining the quality of a crimped electrical connection by collecting force and displacement data during the crimping cycle and comparing that data with data that represents standard crimped connections of known high quality. Of the collected data, selected portions are related to corresponding portions of the standard data and, if a deviation exists of more than a specific amount, a reject signal is generated and displayed to the machine operator. The standard data is continually updated to account for slowly changing environmental conditions that occur over a relatively long period of operation.