JPS5847833B2 - Connection wire manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing connecting wires, and more particularly to an apparatus for manufacturing connecting wires that connect appliances in panels such as electrical control panels, switchboards, and distribution boards.

The connecting wire manufactured by this type of device has wiring information such as the connecting wire 1 shown in Fig. 1, incense stick numbers 2A, 2A', appliance positions 2B, 213', and appliance terminal numbers 2C, 2.
C' is marked near both ends, and crimp terminals 3, 3' are crimped at both ends.

As an apparatus for manufacturing the connecting wire 1 shown in FIG. 1, there has conventionally been a manufacturing apparatus having a structure as shown in FIG.

In the figure, 4 is the electric wire used, 5 is a wire feeding section and a length measuring section, 6 is a cutting and peeling section, 7 is a marking section, 8 is a crimping machine, 9 is a take-out device, and 10 is a control device.

The conventional device shown in FIG. 2 operates as follows.

That is, the electric wire 4 is fed to a predetermined length by the wire feeding and length measuring section 5, cut by the cutting and peeling section 6, the insulation coating is removed from the terminal by a specified length, and the wire is held near both ends of the conveying jig K. Transported to the next process.

In the next process, the wires held in the transport jig are marked with wiring information at designated locations near the terminals.

The connecting wire 1 marked with wiring information is sent to the next process by a transport jig.

Crimping machine 8A where specified crimp terminals are set in the next process
, 8B, and 8C, the terminal 3 is crimped on one end, and then the conveying jig is moved, and a designated terminal 3' is crimped on the other end in the same manner.

The connecting wire 1 with the terminals 3 and 3' crimped thereon is taken out from the conveying jig by the taking out device 9.

The conveyance jig securely holds the wire 4 from the time it is cut until it is taken out by the extension device 9, and is moved to the designated positions of the peeling device, marking device, and each crimping machine so that it is positioned.
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The terminals 3 and 3' to be crimped onto the ends of the connecting wire 1 differ depending on the mating device to be connected.

For this reason, according to the structure of the conventional device as described above, the combination of crimp terminal type and crimping machine is fixed, so crimping machines are required for the number of terminal types, which increases the exclusive area of the device, and the device Production costs increase.

In addition, it requires the purchase and storage of many types of crimp terminals, and the purchase price, storage location, and storage costs are also large.

Furthermore, the connecting wires have the disadvantage that they have different lengths and are inconvenient to handle after being manufactured because they are in a separate state.

This invention was made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional ones, and provides a manufacturing device that requires only one terminal crimping machine, making the entire device smaller, and reducing device manufacturing costs. The crimp terminals required for each connection wire are processed or shaped from hoop materials, arranged in the order of use, and sequentially supplied to the crimping machine, thereby eliminating the need to purchase and store multiple types of crimp terminals. To provide a device that prevents the wires from coming apart by tying them together in specified numbers after manufacturing the connecting wires, making it easier to handle the wiring.

An example of the present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 11 indicates an electric wire necessary for manufacturing the connecting electric wire 1.

The electric wire 11 is a group of various electric wires 11A. with different colors and wire diameters necessary for manufacturing all the connecting electric wires. It is supplied from a reel wound with ~11C.

The manufacturing device consists of the following structural elements.

That is, a selection supply device 12 that selects and supplies the wires necessary for manufacturing, a length measurement device 13 that measures the length of the wires sent from the selection supply device 12, a cutting device 14 that cuts the wires sent to a specified length, and a cutting device 14 that cuts the wires sent to a specified length. Hold the wire and next? transport to the
a transport jig 15 that can be positioned at a designated position;
A stripping device 16 that increases and removes the insulation coating by a specified length at the end of the electric wire on the transfer jig 15, a marking device 17 that has the function of selecting specified characters and symbols to add wiring information to the electric wire, and a crimp terminal are manufactured. 18 hoop materials for
A material supply device 19 that holds and supplies the hoop material, a cutting die for processing and shaping the hoop material into the required shape and dimensions of the crimp terminal, and a cutting die 20 that holds and supplies the hoop material to an arbitrary position f based on the commands of the control device.
Rotary table 21, rotary table 21 that can be positioned
A press 22 for processing or shaping a crimp terminal of a specified shape and size on a terminal material using the positioned modified mold.
2, a crimping machine 24 for crimping the crimp terminal 23 processed into a certain shape in Step 2 onto the end of the electric wire, a take-out device 25 for removing the manufactured connecting wire 1 from the transport jig, and a binding table 26 for temporarily placing the connecting wire 1 until it is bundled. , a binding machine 27 for binding the connecting wires on a binding table 26.

Next, the operation of the manufacturing apparatus shown in FIG. 3 will be explained.

First, based on the operation command of the control device 10 not shown in FIG. Select and send to the length measuring device 13.

The electric wire 11 sent to the length measuring device 13 is cut by the cutting device 14 after being sent to the specified length, and both ends are held by the conveying jig 15 and sent to the successive processes.

The transport jig 15 is stopped and positioned at a designated position.

The electrical wire 11 on the positioned jig 15 has its terminal insulation coating removed by a specified length by the stripping device 16.

The wire whose end portion has been stripped is transported by the transport jig 15 to the position of the marking device 17 and positioned.

The marking device 17 selects arbitrary alphanumeric characters and symbols by the control device, and marks near the terminal of the electric wire 11.

In parallel with the above operations, the hoop material 18 of the terminal material is supplied by the material supply device 19 from the mold 20, the rotary table 21, and the press 22 to a certain terminal processing or shaping device.

A die 20 for processing and forming a terminal is held on a rotary table 21, and in order to process and form a terminal 3 (FIG. 1) necessary for the terminal of a connecting wire 1, it is selected and positioned in a press, and the die 20 is placed in a press 22. By this operation, a crimp terminal is formed on the hoop material 18 as shown in FIG.

23A in Fig. 4 is a round terminal, 23B is a large open terminal, 23
C is an example of a small open terminal, 23D is a small round terminal, and 23E is a square terminal.

The processed and shaped crimp terminals 23 are sequentially sent forward by the feeding mechanism of the crimping machine 24.

The terminal 23 processed or shaped as shown in FIG. 4 is manufactured so that the designated terminal 23 matches the electric wire 11 marked in the previous step, and is supplied to the crimping machine 24.

A specified crimp terminal 23 is cut by the crimping machine 24 and crimped to one end of the electric wire 11 .

The conveyance jig 15 further moves to cut and crimp the crimp terminal 23 at the other end as well.

Completed connection wire 1 with markings and terminals attached
is taken out from the conveyance jig 15 by the expansion device 25,
They are arranged on the binding table 26.

When the specified number of bundled wires are arranged on the binding table 26, the binding machine 27 bundles the connecting wires 1 as shown in FIG.

The bundled connecting wires are moved to a predetermined location by a transport device (not shown) provided at the bottom or side of the binding table 26.

In this way, the connecting wires 11 are processed completely automatically, from wire supply to bundling, according to commands from the control device.

Although the above has been illustrated and explained for one embodiment, (1) The effect is the same whether the electric wire is packaged in a drum or in a bundle.

(2) The marking device was explained using an example of directly marking the wire, but there are other methods in which the marking device is marked on a tube and inserted into the wire.
The effect is the same regardless of the method of selecting the ring mark and inserting it into the wire.

(3) Although we have shown an example in which a rotary table is used as a device for holding and selecting molds for terminal processing and a certain shape, the effect will be the same even if a linear moving table with molds for a certain shape arranged in a straight line is used. be.

(4) The same effect can be obtained by using a terminal processing/shaping device that separates the shaping and shaping of the terminal crimping portion.

(5) Equipment for wire selection and supply, length measurement, and marking are combined into the first half of the terminal processing line, and the terminal processing, shaping, wire cutting, stripping, terminal crimping, and binding devices are divided into two equipment configurations as the second half of the line. Good too.

(6) Install a wire winding device or a cutting and binding device after the first half of the line, and after gathering the wires, check the marking symbols and crimp the necessary crimp terminals with another crimping machine or hand tool. A semi-automatic method is also possible.

(7) If the terminal has a special size and shape that cannot be processed with a single crimping machine or crimp type, it can be processed by checking the marking symbol after bundling and crimping the terminal with another crimping machine or manual tool as above. is possible.

As described above, according to the present invention, the device is equipped with a device that continuously processes or shapes crimp terminals of different shapes and sizes, and a bundling device is added, so that only one crimping machine is required. It is compact and can be manufactured at low cost.

In addition, there is no need to purchase and store various crimp terminals, the terminals can be purchased only with hoop materials, making it cheaper, and storage space and management become easier.

In addition, since the connecting wires are bundled using a binding machine,
This has the effect of making handling up to wiring work and connection work easier.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example of a connecting wire, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional connecting wire manufacturing device, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a plan view schematically showing the structure of an embodiment of a connecting wire manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view schematically showing a state in which the connecting wires are bundled. 1...Connection wire, 2...Mark, 3,
3'...Crimp terminal, 10...Control device, 11...Electric wire, 11A, 11B, 11C...
...Electric wire group, 12...Selective supply device, 13
... Length measuring device, 14 ... Cutting device, 1
5... Conveyance jig, 16... Peeling device,
17... Marking device, 18... Hoop material, 19... Material supply device, 20...
...Original type, 21...Rotary table, 22.
...Press, 23...Crimp terminal, 24.
... Crimping machine, 25 ... Removal device, 26
...Banding stand, 27...Banding machine.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Has the function of holding various wire ends and selecting the wires necessary for production, has a tension mechanism for supplying the selected wires, and has the function of sending the selected wires. A wire selection supply device, a wire length measuring device with a function to measure wire length, a device to cut a wire sent to a specified length, and a stripping device with a function to remove the insulation coating of the cut wire end by a specified length. A device, a wire conveying device that has the function of holding and transporting the wire near both ends of the cut wire, and selecting designated characters and symbols that are wiring information near both ends of the cut wire,
It has a marking device to add and two or more sets of processing or shaping jigs for supplying terminals of specified shape and dimensions to the wire ends, and the processing or shaping jigs are arbitrarily selected according to instructions to form the terminal material. A crimp terminal processing and shaping device having a function of processing and forming a terminal of a specified shape and size on a hoop material, and a device that holds a hoop-shaped terminal material and supplies the hoop material to the crimp terminal processing and shaping device. , a terminal crimping device having a function of supplying and crimping the crimp terminal processed and shaped by the above device to a predetermined wire end; and a terminal crimping device having a function of supplying and crimping the crimp terminal processed and shaped by the above device, and taking out the wires that have been measured, cut, marked, and terminal-attached as described above and bundling them in a predetermined number of wires. Input information such as wire type, length, wiring connection information, crimp terminal shape, dimensions, bundling unit, etc. on connecting wires from a wire binding device having a function and a paper tape or other information medium or preset mechanism, and connect each of the above devices. The controller is equipped with a control device that issues operation commands to each of the above-mentioned automatic devices, and by issuing an operation command from the control device, the specified electric wire is pulled out and set in the above-mentioned automatic machine, and the wire is cut to a length according to the input information and stripped. Mark wiring connection information, etc., and if terminals require terminals, process and shape terminals of the specified shape and dimensions, and crimp them onto the terminals of the connecting wires.
A connecting wire manufacturing device comprising the above-mentioned devices for continuously manufacturing connecting wires and bundling these connecting wires in designated numbers.