JP3147228B2 - Wire termination equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wire terminal processing apparatus for manufacturing a wire having been subjected to a terminal treatment, such as a terminal-equipped wire (hereinafter, also simply referred to as "product") constituting a wire harness. And a long wire can be handled in the same manner as a short wire.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a conventional electric wire terminal processing apparatus, FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the electric wire conveying apparatus, and FIG. 6 is a plan view of FIG. In these figures, 1 is a frame of the entire apparatus, 2 and 2 'are measuring scale supply rollers constituting an electric wire supply apparatus, 3 is a cutting and peeling apparatus, 4, 4' are terminal crimping apparatuses, and 5 is a rotary movement. A conveying device provided with a plurality of sets of conveying claws 5b at a predetermined pitch on an endless conveying chain 5a, 6 is a product receiver, and 7 is a product sorting hopper. In addition, 8,
8 'denotes a chain of terminal fittings, and 9, 9' denote terminal reels.

The electric wire W is measured and supplied by a predetermined length by the measuring supply rollers 2 and 2 ', and is gripped and fixed at the starting end of the conveying device 5 by a conveying claw 5b.
, And the insulating coating of the terminal is stripped off. Next, the stripped electric wire W is conveyed to the terminal crimping device 4 by intermittent movement of the conveying chain 5a, and the terminal fitting 8 is crimped on the conductor exposed by the stripping. The terminal-attached electric wire W 'is further intermittently conveyed by the conveying claws 5b, released from the conveying claws 5b, 5b at the end of the conveying device 5 and temporarily stocked in the product sorting hopper 7, as shown in FIG. . When crimping terminal fittings to both ends of the electric wire W, another terminal crimping device 4 'is crimped by placing another terminal crimping device 4' opposite to the cutting and peeling device 3 with the transport chain 5a interposed therebetween. . The terminal fitting 8 ′ may be different in size from the terminal fitting 8.

In the above-described wire terminal processing apparatus A, the product (wire W 'with terminal) is intermittently transported to the end side of the transport device 5 with one end gripped by the transport claw 5b and temporarily stocked in the product sorting hopper 7. As shown in FIGS. 7A to 7C, when one lot of several tens to several hundreds accumulates, the hopper 7 is tilted by an actuator (not shown), and a product bundle of one lot is manufactured. It is moved to receiver 6.

[0005]

In the conventional electric wire terminal processing apparatus A, the product is transported by gripping one end. Therefore, the terminal-equipped wire W 'has a total length of 20 to 40 cm.
If it is relatively short, it moves to the product receiver 6 side without difficulty. However, when the length becomes 50 cm or more, the free end side does not move due to frictional resistance with the gantry 1 and is scraped by hand each time, as in a wire with terminal W ″ indicated by a virtual line in FIG. It was difficult to manufacture a long product without human intervention.
Has been made to solve the above drawbacks, when the terminal processing and conveying of the wire, conveying the elongated wire as with short wires, to provide a terminal processing unit of the wire that can be processed
Aim .

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object , an electric wire terminal processing apparatus according to the present invention cuts an electric wire sent from an electric wire supply device into a predetermined length, and uses a conveying device to end the electric wire. After the terminal is intermittently conveyed in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the electric wire and subjected to desired terminal treatments such as removal of terminal insulation coating and crimping of terminal fittings, the terminal-treated electric wire is transferred to the conveying device. In the wire terminal processing device, which is released from the product receiver and stocked in the product receiver and takes out a bundle of terminal-processed wires for each predetermined lot, the product receiver has a long length.
The sub-product receiver is detachably provided, and is turned in the direction in which the electric wire is sent out to receive the free end of the electric wire sent out from the electric wire supply device on the side opposite to the electric wire supply device with the transfer device interposed therebetween. The moving belt conveyor is detachably arranged side by side with the product receiver, so that the free end side of the electric wire receives the pulling force in the rotating direction of the belt conveyor and is orthogonal to the conveying direction by the conveying device. State, so that the terminal-treated wire is moved in parallel to the product receiving side,
Wire wrapping between the belt conveyor and the product receiver
It is characterized in that a protection cover is provided .

[0007] In the present invention, the product receiver has a long
A sub-product receiver is detachably disposed, and a belt conveyor that rotates in a direction in which electric wires are sent out is disposed on a side opposite to the electric wire supply device with the transfer device interposed therebetween, so that the belt conveyor is detachably disposed alongside the product receiver. Accordingly, the free end of the electric wire receives a tensile force in the direction of rotation by the rotation of the belt conveyor, and is corrected and held as a whole in a straight line parallel to the feeding direction. Following the movement, the whole moves smoothly to the end side of the transport device and is stocked in the product receiver. Therefore, a long wire can be handled in the same manner as a short wire. Further, by providing the entanglement preventing cover of the electric wire between the receiving belt conveyor and product
Since there is no electric wire involved, the electric wire moves smoothly from the belt conveyor to the product receiver.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an electric wire terminal processing apparatus showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. The description is simplified by using the same reference numerals for the same components. A cutting and peeling device 3 and a terminal crimping device 4 are juxtaposed from the right end on the rear side of the transport device 5 that crosses the center of the gantry 1, and another terminal crimping device is disposed on the front side facing the cutting and peeling device 3. 4 '
Further, an electric wire supply device (measuring scale supply rollers 2, 2 ') is arranged behind the cutting and peeling device 3.

The above configuration is the same as that of the prior art. However, in the electric wire terminal processing apparatus B of the present invention, a multi-lot sorting apparatus 10 for products is provided on the left end side of the gantry 1, that is, on the end side of the transport apparatus 5. In addition, a conveyor device 17 for long wires is provided in front of the transport device 5. The multi-lot sorting device 10
Short main product receiver 11 and long sub product receiver 11 '
Consisting of Each of the product receivers 11 and 11 'is configured to be movable by a caster or the like (not shown). The main product receiver 11 is laid sideways on the gantry 1, and the sub product receivers 11' are arranged in a row in front of the main product receiver 11 '. You.

The main and sub-product receivers 11 and 11 'are provided at upper portions thereof with guide slope portions 11 located on the side of the transfer device 5.
a and a wide horizontal plate portion 11b on which a product is placed. The horizontal plate portion 11b is provided with a horizontal slit 12, from which an electric wire carrier 13 having a plurality of lot sorting grooves 14 can freely come and go. It is provided in. That is, one horizontal slit 12 is provided in the short main product receiver 11 and a plurality of horizontal slits are provided in the long sub product receiver 11 ′ at predetermined intervals. The wire carrier 13 is movable toward the horizontal slit 12. The movable air cylinder 15 is provided to be movable up and down by a fixed air cylinder 16.
It is provided so as to be able to reciprocate.

The conveyor device 17 comprises a belt conveyor 18 parallel to the long sub-product receiver 11 'and a gantry 19 thereof.
An electric wire entanglement prevention cover 20 is provided on the conveyor 17 on the side of the guide slope 11a.

In the above configuration, the terminal-treated electric wire, that is, the electric wire with terminal W ', which is a product, is released from the conveying claw 5b at the terminal side of the conveying device 5 and descends by its own weight, as shown in FIG. After passing through the guide slope portion 11a, the wire carrier 13 is housed in the lot sorting groove 14 on the right end side of the electric wire carrier 13.

Therefore, when the set number of products W ', that is, one lot, is accumulated, as shown in FIGS. 3A to 3D, the positions of the products W' are sequentially changed on the product receivers 11 and 11 '. First, as shown in (A), the electric wire carrier 13 is moved laterally in the direction of the arrow M by one pitch (the width dimension 1 of the lot sorting groove 14) by the operation of the fixed air cylinder 16. Next, as shown in (B), the operation of the movable air cylinder 15 causes the electric wire carrier 13 to drop below the horizontal plate portion 11b as indicated by the arrow N, and the product W 'for one lot is placed in the product receiver 11 (horizontal plate portion). 11b) left on top. In this state, the movable air cylinder 15 is moved in the direction of arrow M 'as shown in (C), and when returning to the original position, the electric wire carrier 13 is moved in the direction of arrow N' as shown in (D). To raise. As a result, one of the product lot W 'group is UtsuriMuko the position P ₂ of the next from the first position P _1. The electric wire carrier 13 shown in the embodiment is 4
(A)-(D)
By repeating this cycle operation, a maximum of 5 product lots can be sorted.

In the above product lot sorting process,
As the target terminal, if the electric wire W 'is short, only the main product receiver 11 is sufficient. On the other hand, in the case of a long object, the terminal-equipped electric wire W ′ intermittently moved by the conveying device 5 is moved and stopped by rotating the belt conveyor 18 of the conveyor device 17 in the arrow Q direction. Since the pulling force is always applied in the direction of the arrow Q, the gripping and fixing portion and the free end of the transport claw 5b are linear. As a result, since the product moves in parallel in the transport direction accompanying the movement of the transport device 5, long products can be sequentially and smoothly transferred to the product receivers 11 and 11 '. As described above, the belt conveyor 18 moves the article from one side to the other (in the direction of the arrow Q) by its rotation as described above. In the present invention, this moving action of the belt conveyor is combined with the wire conveying device 5. By doing
It is used as a pulling means in a direction perpendicular to the direction of transporting the electric wires.

In the above, the multi-lot sorting apparatus 10 is described as an example in which the short main product receiver 11 and the long sub-product receiver 11 'are combined. The receiver 11 'may be omitted, in which case the conveyor device 17 may be removed. Also,
The sub-product receiver 11 ′ does not necessarily need to be formed as a long integrated product, but may be assembled as a unit using short products such as the main product receiver 11 as a unit. The products to be divided into lots are not limited to the above-mentioned electric wires with terminals, but may be those subjected to a desired terminal treatment, for example, those obtained by simply removing the insulation coating, or those provided with press-fit terminals.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, the electric wire fed from the electric wire supply device is cut to a predetermined length, and the end of the electric wire is gripped by the conveying device so as to be perpendicular to the axis of the electric wire. After carrying out the desired terminal treatment such as removal of the insulation coating of the terminal and crimping of the terminal fittings, the terminal-treated wire is released from the transporting device and stocked in the product receiver. in the terminal processing unit of the wire which is to take out the bundle of terminals processed wires for each lot, the product receiving
In order to receive the free end of the electric wire sent from the electric wire supply device on the side opposite to the electric wire supply device with the transfer device interposed therebetween, a long product receiver is detachably disposed . Remove the belt conveyor that rotates in the feeding direction
Arranged freely along with the product receiver , whereby the free end side of the electric wire receives a tensile force in the rotating direction of the belt conveyor and becomes in a state orthogonal to the conveying direction by the conveying device, and the terminal-treated electric wire Are moved parallel to the product receiving side, so that the entire wire smoothly moves parallel to the terminal side of the transport device following the rotational movement of a chain belt or the like. It is also possible to process electric wires of a long object, and the range of manufacture of wire harnesses composed of electric wires of various lengths is widened. In addition, a cover is provided between the belt conveyor and the
Takara there is no involvement of the wire, the wire is you move on smoothly received product from the belt conveyor.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a lot sorting device showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG.

3 (A) to 3 (D) are explanatory views of a lot sorting process of electric wires with terminals.

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a conventional electric wire terminal processing apparatus.

5 is a partially enlarged perspective view of the product transfer device and the product receiving stand of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic plan view of FIG.

7 (A) to 7 (C) are explanatory diagrams of a conventional lot sorting process of electric wires with terminals.

[Explanation of symbols]

 W electric wire W 'electric wire with terminal 2, 2' measuring scale supply roller (electric wire supply device) 3 cutting and peeling device 4, 4 'terminal crimping device 5 transfer device 8, 8' terminal fitting 13 electric wire carrier 14 lot sorting groove 18 belt Conveyor

Continuation of the front page (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) H01B 13/00 H01B 13/012 H01R 43/052

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An electric wire fed from an electric wire supply device is cut into a predetermined length, and an end of the electric wire is gripped by a conveying device and intermittently conveyed in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the electric wire to insulate the terminal. After performing desired terminal treatments such as coating removal and crimping of terminal fittings, the terminal-treated wires are released from the transfer device and stocked in a product receiver, and a bundle of terminal-treated wires is bundled for each predetermined lot. In the wire terminal processing device to be taken out , a long sub-product receiver is removably arranged on the product receiver.
Was set, the opposite side of the sandwiched therebetween wire feeder conveying device, removably belt conveyor which rotates the unwinding direction of the wire to receive the free end of the wire fed out from the electric wire supplying device Arranged side by side with the product tray,
Thus, the free end side of the electric wire receives a tensile force in the rotating direction of the belt conveyor and becomes in a state orthogonal to the conveying direction by the conveying device, so that the terminal-treated electric wire moves in parallel to the product receiving side. , The belt conveyor and the product receiver
And a cover for preventing electric wire from getting caught between the terminal and the terminal.