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EP0444032B1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur herstellung von kabelbäumen - Google Patents

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EP0444032B1
EP0444032B1 EP89906723A EP89906723A EP0444032B1 EP 0444032 B1 EP0444032 B1 EP 0444032B1 EP 89906723 A EP89906723 A EP 89906723A EP 89906723 A EP89906723 A EP 89906723A EP 0444032 B1 EP0444032 B1 EP 0444032B1
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laying board
cable
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connector housing
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Gerd Schlaich
Herbert Emmerich
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Merz Metall und Kunststoffverarbeitungs GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/28—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for wire processing before connecting to contact members, not provided for in groups H01R43/02 - H01R43/26
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B13/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables
    • H01B13/012—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables for manufacturing wire harnesses
    • H01B13/01236—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables for manufacturing wire harnesses the wires being disposed by machine
    • H01B13/01245—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables for manufacturing wire harnesses the wires being disposed by machine using a layout board

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing cable harnesses, in particular in crimping technology, and to an apparatus for carrying out this method, according to the preamble of claim 9.
  • Such a method and such a device are known from DE-A-36 08 243.
  • EP-A-8155 a method and a device are known in which the laying board is rotatable, the rotating movement serving to eject a finished cable harness and corresponding laying aids.
  • wire harness assembly In wire harness assembly, most of the operations are currently carried out manually in industrial production. A few pilot plants have become known in which the cables are laid using an industrial robot; in particular for the production of wire harnesses in the so-called crimping technique, however, no system is known in which all work processes can be automated, at least in principle: There are rigidly automated assembly machines or stop devices with which cables can be cut to length and provided with crimp contacts on one or both sides. However, all of the operations that follow the assembly are usually carried out manually.
  • the connector assembly in particular is very time-consuming, and the availability is low.
  • the contact one or both sides
  • the line is automatically laid, whereby the contacts are inserted into the connector housing.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for the production of wire harnesses in particular in crimping technology, d. H. of wire harnesses, which are at least partially provided with so-called crimp contacts, in which all work steps can be automated with high availability.
  • a solution to this problem according to the invention is characterized by its developments in the claims.
  • the invention is based on the basic idea that, deviating from the previous procedure, the receptacle devices for the plug housings should not be arranged on the actual working surface of the laying board, but on a boundary surface. Only the laying aids, which are designed in a known manner, are arranged on the actual working surface of the laying board.
  • the device that is absolutely necessary for a fully automated production of a wire harness namely the so-called stop device, and to transfer the individual cables into the area of the stop device in each case by moving the laying board.
  • a multi-axis positioning device is not required.
  • an industrial robot guides the stop device, so that, due to the method according to the invention, a corresponding worker is working Device (claims 9 ff.) On a complex industrial robot that can position heavy tools can be dispensed with.
  • the cables can also be tied on the laying board with a fixed tying tool or with a laying tool guided by an industrial robot.
  • a laying board 1 is arranged to be movable in the x and y directions.
  • the plane spanned by the x and y directions is a vertical plane in relation to a stationary system.
  • the receptacles 2 for the plug housing of the wiring harness are not arranged on the actual working surface of the laying board 1, but on a narrow side. Only the so-called laying aids 3 for guiding the lines 8 are located on the work surface.
  • a laying nozzle 6 In front of the laying board there is a laying nozzle 6 which is movable perpendicular to the directions of movement of the laying board.
  • a line feed unit 4 is attached to the laying nozzle 6.
  • the unit 4 can convey a line 8 taken from a cable drum 7 both forwards and backwards, ie in the two directions of the double arrow z.
  • Various units 5 are provided behind the laying board, which have to strip the cables and attach the required connectors to the cables.
  • These units are shown offset from the actual laying unit 6 in FIG. 1b, but of course these units can also be designed in alignment and / or displaceable in the x direction.
  • an automatic parts supply device for plug connectors, cable ties, etc. which is not shown in FIG. 1, is attached in the area of the laying board.
  • the receiving devices 2 on the top of the laying board 1 can be equipped with corresponding plugs.
  • the handling movement between the parts supply system and the laying board 1 can either be carried out by a separate industrial robot (also not shown) or by pneumatic, hydraulic or electrical handling modules.
  • the devices 2 on the top of the vertically attached laying board are equipped with appropriate connector housings.
  • the laying board is then positioned in front of a laying nozzle which shoots through a line from the laying nozzle through a contact chamber of a plug housing.
  • the penetrated line is stripped in one of the stripping and stop devices 5 attached above and behind the movable laying board and provided with a plug.
  • they are at the same height as the connectors in the receptacles. Since the stop devices 5 are fixed in place or movable in the x direction, the laying board can be positioned both by an independent movement and by a movement of the stop devices in such a way that the necessary spatial points for stripping and stripping the lines 8 are approached.
  • the line pre-assembled in this way is withdrawn with the aid of the delivery unit mounted in the area of the laying nozzle (which can be moved in two directions), so that the struck contact automatically engages in the plug housing.
  • the line is laid by a two-axis xy movement of the laying board.
  • the end of the line is cut off in the laying nozzle and the second end of the line is fastened to the laying board.
  • the second cable ends are either stripped manually and provided with contacts or stripped and stripped using an industrial robot.
  • the bundling of the cable harness can be carried out both manually and fully automatically, for example with an automatically operated tying gun. Further it is also possible to use a fixed setting gun.
  • the laying nozzle is advantageously attached directly in front of the associated stop machine.
  • the laying nozzle only has to be moved in an axis which is movable perpendicular to the two axes of the laying board.
  • either the laying nozzles or the stop machines are mounted on an axis that can be moved in the x direction in order to combine any cables with any contacts.
  • the laying nozzles can be moved in the z direction in order to be able to carry out corresponding evasive movements.
  • the conveyor 4 still has the function of clamping the line during the striking process. Furthermore, the mobility in the z direction of the unit 4 or 6 ensures that the smallest possible distance is maintained when the line is threaded into the plug connection between the individual elements.
  • the cable feed in the z direction promotes the cable through connectors into the corresponding stripping or stripping machine.
  • the device according to the invention or the method that can be implemented with this device has the advantage that lines are not only automatically prefabricated, but can also be installed fully automatically.
  • FIGS. 2a and 2b show a further embodiment of the invention.
  • the same parts as in the embodiment shown in Figure 1 are given the same reference numerals.
  • the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 2 there is no laying nozzle, but rather an industrial robot 11 with the working area 11 ′.
  • the industrial robot 11 removes tools 14, such as, for example, laying tools from a corresponding magazine 14 ′, and in turn uses these tools 14 to lay the cable 8 removed from a cable drum 7.
  • the configuration of the cable harness to be produced can be entered in a CAD work station and converted by means of a calculation program in such a way that all the connector housings come to lie in a line.
  • the multi-axis positioning device (industrial robot) 11 positions the connector housing receptacles 2 provided in a corresponding magazine 2 'on the upper edge of the in turn vertically arranged laying board 1. The industrial robot then positions the laying aids 3 removed from a magazine 3' on the actual work surface.
  • the industrial robot 11 loads the holding devices 2 on the laying board 1 with a gripper 14 from the corresponding supply magazine with plug housings which are provided in a magazine 10.
  • the industrial robot 11 changes a laying tool from the magazine 14 ', moves to the stripping device 5', so that the cable end guided with the laying tool is stripped.
  • the industrial robot drives to a stop device 5, which attaches a crimp contact to the stripped cable end.
  • the robot now uses the laying tool to attach the attached cable end and lay the cable according to the path specified by the control.
  • the cable 8 is pulled out of the cable barrel 7 through the laying tool.
  • the cable After reaching the second connector housing, the cable is cut off in the tool.
  • the industrial robot 11 and the laying board 1 perform a synchronous movement to the stripping device 5 ′ and then to the permanently installed stop devices 5.
  • the cable is first provided with a contact on the attachment machine and then joined using the industrial robot, or the cable is pushed through the connector housing, provided with a contact and then "pulled back" into the connector housing.
  • a cable is pushed in the laying tool, the laying and contacting process for the other cables runs as already described.
  • the robot retrieves a setting tool from the tool changing magazine 14 '.
  • the wiring harness is connected to the one specified by the control Locations tied, the cable ties are made available to the tying tool by a cable tie supply device 19 provided.
  • the free cable ends created in the first exemplary embodiment can be automatically laid by a device which is constructed in accordance with the second exemplary embodiment. It is only necessary to modify the second embodiment in such a way that the cables are not removed from a cable barrel, but that the laying tool grips the free cable ends and otherwise moves accordingly.
  • the method and the device according to the invention have the advantage, through the use of a double-sided laying board, on the narrow side of which the connector housing receptacles are arranged, that both cable ends are provided with crimp contacts and in connector housings without a pre-assembled cable being temporarily stored or generated can be inserted in that the working distance laying tool-plug-stop device is minimized by the "standing" arrangement of the laying board.

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