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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1999
Hiroo Suzuki, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Nobuaki Yamakawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Akihiro Mizuno, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wire measuring and cutting apparatus is provided with an U-turn guide section which serves to guide a wire W being fed into a guide passage for bending the wire W in a substantially U-shaped manner. In the section , a movable guide part is constituted by a pair of guide pieces which are pivoted so as to open and close together. The U-turn guide section is provided with a displacement mechanism . The mechanism can maintain the pair of guide pieces in the closed position. While, the mechanism can displace the guide pieces for the opened position together with feeding inertia of the wire W in process of measuring the length of the wire W. With this structure, the guide pieces can be opened at high speed due to the feeding inertia in addition to the driving force of the mechanism to open the pieces and there is no need to stop feeding the wire W during the measurement of the wire W.