| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5616048 |
Electrical connector with electrical contact and strain relief |
April 1, 1997 |
| An electrical connector assembly (100) which includes electrical contacts (10) of the insulation displacement type, an inner housing (20), an outer housing (40), and a strain relief meter (50). The assembly (100) is assembled by first securely placing the electrical contacts (10) within |
| 5560466 |
Safety guard system for machine having a ram |
October 1, 1996 |
| A safety guard system provided for a machine having a ram which is movable toward and away from a work zone and an actuator which is operable for driving the ram through a ram stroke toward the work zone. The safety guard system includes a safety guard mounted for movement along a guard |
| 5408860 |
Ram drive mechanism having a pivoted drive link |
April 25, 1995 |
| A ram drive mechanism for an automated terminal crimping machine of the type having a rotating crank shaft with an offset crank pin (2) protruding therefrom and orbiting about the rotation axis of the crank shaft. The mechanism includes a ram (20) mounted for reciprocating motion in a fi |
| 5367767 |
Apparatus and method for positioning and forming a drain wire of a cable |
November 29, 1994 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for automatically positioning and forming a drain wire of a cable and then positioning the formed drain wire for automatic termination to a connector. Each cable is in turn rotated until a sensing whisker senses that the drain wire is in a known positi |
| 5219303 |
Mid-cable electrical termination |
June 15, 1993 |
| An initially integral terminal useful for terminating to flat conductor cable includes upper and lower plate sections coextending from a hinge to define a cable-receiving region therebetween, with first and second portions of both plate sections defining opposed cooperative arrays of |
| 5218894 |
Apparatus and method for cutting a pin header |
June 15, 1993 |
| A machine for cutting pin headers of a desired length from a standard length of pin header stock is disclosed. A vertically disposed track is provided for receiving the standard lengths of pin header stock. The stock is allowed to fall by gravity to a cutting station where a single cutti |
| 5213139 |
Tool for flattening a cable |
May 25, 1993 |
| The present invention is a hand operated tool for flattening a portion of a ribbon cable preparatory to installing a cable tap. The tool includes a set of rollers which are closeable upon the cable. The rollers are then rotated, first in one direction and then the other while varying the |
| 5212883 |
Cable maker having conductor puller for wire feeding |
May 25, 1993 |
| Conductor feeding apparatus for selectively feeding conductors selected from a group or from feeding all of the conductors in the group comprises first and second clamping assemblies which are moveable towards and away from each other between remote and proximate positions. Each clamping |
| 5152051 |
Tool for terminating an electrical cable to a connector |
October 6, 1992 |
| A hand operated tool for terminating the conductors of a hybrid cable to insulation displacement contacts contained in a connector. The tool includes a ratchet actuated cam which drives a ram and presser plate toward an abutting member upon which the connector assembly is secured. Fr |
| 5115904 |
Apparatus for rotating an electrical lead about its axis |
May 26, 1992 |
| Apparatus for rotating an electrical lead through an angle of 180 degrees comprises a frame in surrounding relationship to a conveyor clamp in which the lead is held, rotating assemblies and a control system. The rotating assemblies are in alignment with each other and on each side of th |
| 5033188 |
Method of making an electrical harness |
July 23, 1991 |
| An automated method of making an electrical harness of the type having a plurality of discrete wires includes one end of some or all of the wires terminating in a conductor. A wire of a desired type is automatically selected from a plurality of wires that are available for use. The wire |
| 4997173 |
Rotary wire selection and feed apparatus |
March 5, 1991 |
| The present invention relates to a wire selection and feed apparatus for use in an automated machine for making electrical cables. The apparatus includes a rotary turret having a plurality of wire holders angularly spaced about its periphery. The desired wire is selected by rotating the |
| 4970777 |
Apparatus for connector block loading of electrical leads |
November 20, 1990 |
| Apparatus (30) includes means (28,29) to position a block (12) having multiple apertures (14) with a given aperture positioned along a loading axis (IA); a series of linear driving motors (32,40,56,112) are sequentially operated to grasp, hold and transport a terminal wire (24) and i |
| 4967470 |
Alignment apparatus for positioning a connector housing during wire insertion |
November 6, 1990 |
| Apparatus for accurately aligning a cavity in a plastic connector housing for insertion of an electrical terminal and attached wire during a block loading operation. The apparatus includes a two part terminal guiding member having a funnel shaped hole through which the terminal and wire |
| 4961815 |
Tape wrapping apparatus for wrapping a bundle of wires |
October 9, 1990 |
| The present invention is an apparatus and method of wrapping a binding tape about a bundle of wires in an automated environment. A tape handling system is provided that de-reels and stores slack tape prior to performing the tape wrap operation. This slack type is then provided to the tap |
| 4879934 |
Selective wire feed for a plurality of wires |
November 14, 1989 |
| A selective wire feed for feeding any one of a plurality of wires which are arranged in pairs, each pair having a first wire and a second wire. Each wire pair has a feeding unit associated therewith which comprises a driven belt and two idler belts. The idler belts are movable between a |
| 4817781 |
Resilient belt type conveyor having improved loading and unloading features |
April 4, 1989 |
| Conveyer for wires comprises first and second endless belts which are in side by side coplanar relationship. The conveyer has a feeding stretch which comprises portions of the belts which are in opposed confronting relationship. The feeding stretch portion of the first belt is longer tha |
| 4649636 |
Wire deploying apparatus and method of using |
March 17, 1987 |
| Apparatus for deploying end portions of an insulated signal wire and ground wires juxtaposed therewith, to locate said wire end portions in respective wire receiving channels of electrical contacts on opposite sides of an insulating electrical connector body, comprises means for combing |
| 4411062 |
Apparatus and method for terminating ribbon cable |
October 25, 1983 |
| Apparatus for terminating ribbon cable to a two row connector having insulation displacing terminals facing opposite sides comprises a conductor programming station on a carriage, a connector positioning carriage, and a terminating station. The conductor programming station has combs |
| 4363167 |
Method of terminating leading ends of a plurality of wires |
December 14, 1982 |
| Method and apparatus for cutting and stripping a plurality of wires, applying terminals to the ends of the wires, and inserting wires en masse into the cavities in a connector housing. A shuttle having telescoping tubes which contain the wires therein is attached to carriage which tr |
| 4351110 |
Apparatus for terminating ribbon cable |
September 28, 1982 |
| An apparatus for programming conductors in a flat ribbon cable into two parallel planes and terminating the conductors in a two-sided connector is disclosed. The apparatus while manually operated is adaptable to semi-automatic operation. |
| 4136440 |
Electrical harness fabrication method and apparatus |
January 30, 1979 |
| Apparatus and method for fabricating a multi-wire harness assembly are disclosed. The harness consists of a multi-contact electrical connector with a plurality of wires of diverse lengths attached thereto. The free ends of the wires have been differentially stripped for the application o |
| 4132251 |
Apparatus for deploying twisted wires |
January 2, 1979 |
| Apparatus for deploying a plurality of twisted pairs of wires and separating the two wires of each pair comprises a templet having recesses extending thereacross in one direction. Each recess has one portion which is dimensioned to receive a single twisted pair of wires and the one p |
