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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2010
John D. Charlton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Keith L. Nicholas, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Robert A. Dubler, Harrisburg, PA (US);
John D. Charlton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Keith L. Nicholas, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Robert A. Dubler, Harrisburg, PA (US);
TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A crimping apparatus includes a ram having crimp tooling for crimping a terminal to a wire during a crimp stroke and a force sensor detecting a crimp force during the crimp stroke. The crimping apparatus also includes a controller that monitors the crimp quality of a crimp based on a frequency profile of the crimp. Optionally, the controller may create the frequency profile based on a force profile using a frequency transform algorithm. The frequency transform algorithm may be a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm.