Patent · US Expired

Block loading apparatus

US4835844A · kind A · utility

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9References

17Claims

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Assignee

AMP LLC · US

Inventors

Michael Gerst · Worms, DE
Horst Knapp · Groß-Zimmern, DE
Werner Maack · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 19, 1988
Grant date	Jun 6, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 19, 2008

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/53261
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The apparatus is for loading electrical terminals (T) on leads (L) into cavities (TC) in an electrical connector block (B). The apparatus comprises a lead clamp (240) which is actuable to clamp a lead (L). The lead clamp (240) is mounted on a first slide (369) which is movable along a vertical axis (Z--Z) relative to a second slide (408), which is in turn movable along a first horizontal axis (Y--Y) relative to a carriage (402) which is slidable along a second horizontal axis (X--X) at right angles to the first horizontal axis (Y--Y). Drive motors (414, 410 and 416) are actuable according to a harness making program, to cause the lead clamp (240) to insert a terminal (T) on a lead (L) gripped by the lead clamp (240), into any terminal receiving cavity (TC) which has been selected in accordance with a program.

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