Cable management fixture and soldering equipment

Abstract

The present application discloses a cable management fixture and a soldering apparatus comprising a base, a cable holder, and a guider. Each of conducting wires extending from the end of the cable passes through a corresponding one of said guide structures and protrudes outward, forming a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices. The cable is mainly placed on the base, an end of the cable may be pulled onto the cable holder, and a plurality of conducting wires may pass through the cable holder, move in the direction of the guider and pass through corresponding ones of the guide structures so that the plurality of conducting wires form a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices, therefore the positions of the plurality of conducting wires are not required to be repeatedly reordered. Such an arrangement may shorten the time required to solder a product in a soldering production process and avoid problems in production caused by the disorder of conducting wires caused by any human negligence.

Description

1 CABLE MANAGEMENT FIXTURE AND SOLDERING EQUIPMENT TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of soldering instruments, in particular to a cable management fixture and a soldering apparatus. 5 BACKGROUND

[0002] Reviewing the development of the electronics industry process in recent years in circuit boards, PCB boards and PCB soldering technology, it can be noted that reflow soldering technology is a very obvious trend. In principle, reflow soldering 10 can also be used for traditional through-hole components, which is commonly referred to as through-hole reflow soldering. The advantage is that it is possible to complete all solder joints at the same time so that the production cost is minimized.

[0003] However, the current soldering apparatus performs soldering generally by way of heating mechanisms such as iron, laser, hot air, etc. In the soldering process, 15 because there is no structure to manage the order of different wires in a cable, different wires are usually manually positioned online, therefore it is inevitable for operators to fine-tune the position of wires in real-time during the soldering process, which will require more time to solder a single product. 20 SUMMARY

[0004] The present application aims to provide a cable management fixture and a soldering apparatus to solve the technical problem that an operator may attempt to improve the life cycle of the soldering apparatus by placing a wire on the wire fixture of the apparatus, thereby ignoring the resulting potential safety problem, increasing 25 the potential risk of injuring the operator.

[0005] In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions.

[0006] A cable management fixture, said cable management fixture comprises: HK 20107330 B 2

[0007] a base for arranging a cable, a plurality of conducting wires being arranged within said cable;

[0008] a cable holder arranged on said base;

[0009] a guider arranged on said base opposite to said cable holder, wherein said guider is provided with guide structures whose number is greater than or equal to the 5 number of said conducting wires, and an end of said cable is connected to and fixed to said cable holder, so that each of conducting wires extending from the end of the cable passes through a corresponding one of said guide structures and protrudes outward, forming a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices.

[0010] Further, said guide structures are through grooves provided on said guider and 10 penetrating said guider, and said through grooves are arranged in a direction from said cable holder to said guider; and said conducting wires pass through said through grooves and protrude outward.

[0011] Further, said guider is provided with an engagement groove, and each of said guide structures comprises: 15

[0012] an engagement block fitted in said engagement groove and provided with one through groove penetrating said engagement block in the direction from said cable holder to said guider, said conducting wires being arranged in said through groove and passing through said through groove,

[0013] wherein said engagement blocks of a plurality of said guide structures can be 20 put together sequentially and fitted in said engagement groove to fill a space of said engagement groove.

[0014] Further, said guider is provided with an engagement groove, and each of said guide structures comprises:

[0015] an engagement block fitted in said engagement groove and provided with a 25 plurality of through grooves penetrating said engagement block in the direction from said cable holder to said guider, a plurality of said conducting wires being arranged in a plurality of said through grooves respectively and each passing through a corresponding one of said through grooves. HK 20107330 B 3

[0016] Further, a groove wall of said through groove is provided with a protrusion, said protrusion being used for limiting the position of a conducting wire passing through said through groove.

[0017] Further, the width of said through grooves is gradually decreased in the direction from the groove bottom of said through grooves to the groove opening of said 5 through grooves.

[0018] Further, said cable management fixture further comprises:

[0019] a fixing cover of which one end is hinged to said guider, said fixing cover being able to rotate to cover said through groove.

[0020] Further, said cable holder is provided with a connecting channel, said cable 10 holder is provided with at least two limiting holes connected with said connecting channel, the axes of said at least two limiting holes are located at both ends of a radial direction of said cable, and said cable management fixture further comprises:

[0021] at least two limiters, the number of the limiters corresponding to the number of said limiting holes, said limiters being connected in said limiting holes to clamp a 15 cable in said connecting channel.

[0022] Further, an inner wall of said connecting channel on the end facing away from said guider has a slope so that the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel on the end facing away from said guider is larger than the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel on the end facing toward said guider. 20

[0023] Further, said guider is hinged to said base, and said guider is able to rotate relative to said cable holder.

[0024] Further, said cable management fixture further comprises:

[0025] a winding structure hinged to said base, said cable being wound on said winding structure. 25

[0026] Further, said winding structure comprises:

[0027] a bearing of which the inner ring being hinged to said base; and

[0028] a roller coaxially and fixedly connected with the outer ring of said bearing, said cable being wound on the outer circumferential wall of said roller.

[0029] Further, said cable management fixture further comprises: 30 HK 20107330 B 4

[0030] a plurality of guide pin elements arranged at intervals about the rotation axis of said winding structure to limit the position of said cable.

[0031] Further, in a plane parallel to the rotation axis of said winding structure, the width of said guide pin element on a side facing away from said base is greater than the width of said guide pin element on a side facing toward said base. 5

[0032] In order to achieve the above purpose, the present application also proposes a soldering apparatus, said soldering apparatus comprising said cable management fixture as described above, and

[0033] a rack on which said base is arranged.

[0034] Compared to the prior art, the present application has the following beneficial 10 effects:

[0035] a cable holder 20 and a guider are provided on the base. Among them, the cable is mainly placed on the base and may be wound and placed on the base by way of some auxiliary fixing structures, or may be wired on the base according to a preset route to form a special routing path. An end of the cable may be pulled onto the 15 cable holder which is mainly used for fixing the relative position of the end of the cable so as to facilitate stable extracting of a plurality of conducting wires in the cable. Upon the end of the cable is restrained to the cable holder, a plurality of conducting wires may pass through the cable holder, move in the direction of the guider and pass through corresponding ones of the guide structures. 20

[0036] In the present application, a preset number of guide structures may be provided on the guider in advance according to production requirements. After a plurality of guide structures respectively fix corresponding wires, the plurality of conducting wires may be ordered, so that the plurality of conducting wires form a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices, therefore the positions of the 25 plurality of conducting wires are not required to be repeatedly reordered, problems in production caused by the disorder of conducting wires caused by any human negligence are avoided.

[0037] After the cable management fixture of the present application is applied to an automatic soldering apparatus, an operator only needs to fix a plurality of conducting 30 wires onto the ordered guide structures at once before starting the soldering operation. In the soldering process, the order of wires will not be disordered by HK 20107330 B 5 shaky hands. The operator is less likely to suffer burns or other personal injuries since it is no need to contact the conducting wires during the soldering process. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0038] In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical 5 solutions in the prior art more clearly, a brief description of the drawings to be used in the embodiments will be given below. It is obvious that, the drawings in the following description are merely some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained from these drawings without any creative work by those of ordinary skill in the art. 10

[0039] FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0040] FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view from another angle of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0041] Figure. 3 is a top view of FIG. 2; 15

[0042] Figure. 4 is a front view of FIG. 2;

[0043] FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view at M in FIG. 1;

[0044] FIG. 6 is a schematic sectional view of a guider of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0045] FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a fixing cover of a cable management 20 fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0046] FIG. 8 is a sectional view of another example of a guider of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0047] FIG. 9 is a sectional view of yet another example of a guider of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention; 25

[0048] FIG. 10 is a sectional view of yet another example of a guider of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0049] FIG. 11 is a sectional view of yet another example of a guider of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention; HK 20107330 B 6

[0050] FIG. 12 is a schematic sectional view of a cable holder of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0051] FIG. 13 is a schematic structural view of a guide structure of another example of a cable management fixture according to an embodiment of the present invention; and 5

[0052] FIG. 14 is a schematic structural view of a soldering apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0053] Reference numerals:

[0054] 100 cable management fixture; 10 base; 20 cable holder; 30 guider; 31 guide structure; 311 engagement block; 312 protrusion; 40 limiter; 50 sloping surface; 60 10 winding structure; 61 bearing; 62 roller; 70 guide pin element; 80 fixing cover; 200 soldering apparatus; 210 rack; 201 through groove; 202 engagement groove; 203 connecting channel. DETAILED DESCRIPTION 15

[0055] The solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and fully below in conjunction with the drawing in the embodiments of the present invention. It's obvious that the described embodiments are merely a part of the embodiments and not all the embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all the other embodiments obtained by a 20 person of ordinary skill in the art without creative work fall into the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0056] It should be noted that all directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, back, etc.) in the embodiments of the present application are merely used to explain the relative position relationships and movements, etc. among various 25 components under a specific posture (as shown in the drawings) and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are also changed accordingly.

[0057] It should also be noted that when an element is referred to be "fixed" or "arranged" on another element, it may be directly on the another element or intervening elements may be present at the same time. When an element is referred 30 HK 20107330 B 7 to be "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected to another element or intervening elements may be present at the same time.

[0058] In addition, descriptions involving "first", "second" and the like in the present invention are for descriptive purposes only, and are not to be understood as indicating or implying their relative importance or implicitly indicating the number 5 of the indicated technical features. Therefore, a feature defined as "first", "second" may explicitly or implicitly that at least one such feature is included. Moreover, technical solutions of the embodiments may be combined with each other only to the extent that the combination can be realized by a person skilled in the art. If a combination of the technical solutions is contradictory or unable to be realized, it 10 should be considered that such a combination of the technical solutions does not exist and is not within the scope of protection claimed by the present invention.

[0059] As shown in FIGs. 1 to 14, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. 15

[0060] Reviewing the development of the electronics industry process in recent years in circuit boards, PCB boards and PCB soldering technology, it can be noted that reflow soldering technology is a very obvious trend. In principle, reflow soldering can also be used for traditional through-hole components, which is commonly referred to as through-hole reflow soldering. The advantage is that it is possible to 20 complete all solder joints at the same time, so that the production cost is minimized.

[0061] However, the current soldering apparatus performs soldering generally by way of heating mechanisms such as iron, laser, hot air, etc. In the soldering process, because there is no structure to manage the order of different wires in a cable, different wires are usually manually positioned online, therefore it is inevitable for 25 operators to fine-tune the position of wires in real-time during the soldering process, which will require more time to solder a single product.

[0062] Moreover, operators may ignore safety protection when adjusting the positions of conducting wires, which will increase the probability of work-related injuries.

[0063] In view of this, the present application proposes a cable management fixture 30 100 to solve the above-mentioned technical problems.

[0064] Referring to FIGs. 1 to 5 and 14, the cable management fixture 100 comprises: HK 20107330 B 8

[0065] a base 10 for arranging a cable, a plurality of conducting wires being arranged within said cable;

[0066] a cable holder 20 arranged on said base 10;

[0067] a guider 30 arranged on said base 10 opposite to said cable holder 20, wherein said guider 30 is provided with guide structures 31 whose number is greater than or 5 equal to the number of said conducting wires, and an end of said cable is connected to and fixed to said cable holder 20, so that each of conducting wires extending from the end of the cable passes through a corresponding one of said guide structures 31 and protrudes outward, forming a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices. 10

[0068] In this embodiment, the base 10 may be a PCB board or may be a substrate board assembled with the soldering apparatus 200 (e.g. the rack 210 in FIG. 14). A cable holder 20 and a guider 30 are provided on the base 10. Among them, the cable is mainly placed on the base 10 and may be wound and placed on the base 10 by way of some auxiliary fixing structures, or may be wired on the base 10 according 15 to a preset route to form a special routing path. An end of the cable may be pulled onto the cable holder 20 which is mainly used for fixing the relative position of the end of the cable so as to facilitate stable extracting of a plurality of conducting wires in the cable. Upon the end of the cable is restrained to the cable holder 20, a plurality of conducting wires may pass through the cable holder 20, move in the direction of 20 the guider 30 and pass through corresponding ones of the guide structures 31, forming a conducting wire array facilitating connecting with external devices.

[0069] It can be understood that in the present application, a preset number of guide structures 31 may be provided on the guider 30 in advance according to production requirements. After a plurality of guide structures 31 respectively fix corresponding 25 wires, the plurality of conducting wires may be ordered, so that the plurality of conducting wires form a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices, therefore the positions of the plurality of conducting wires are not required to be repeatedly reordered. Such an arrangement may shorten the time required to solder a product in a soldering production process and avoid problems in production caused 30 by the disorder of conducting wires caused by any human negligence. HK 20107330 B 9

[0070] After the cable management fixture 100 of the present application is 100 applied to an automatic soldering apparatus 200, an operator only needs to fix a plurality of conducting wires onto the ordered guide structures 31 at once before starting the soldering operation, and the operator does not need to reorder the conducting wires during the whole soldering process. In the soldering process, the order of wires will 5 not be disordered by shaky hands. The operator is less likely to suffer burns or other personal injuries since it is no need to contact the conducting wires during the soldering process.

[0071] In the soldering process, there will also be potential safety hazards caused by the negligence of the operator if the operator is required to manually order the 10 conducting wires frequently. For example, the operator may directly place the conducting wires near or inside the soldering apparatus 200 in order to facilitate rapid setting and ordering of the conducting wires. If the operator does not remove the remaining conducting wires in time after ordering the conducting wires, the remaining conducting wires may be entangled with the components of the apparatus 15 (e.g., soldering joints, motor shafts, etc.), which may cause serious safety hazards to the operation of the soldering apparatus 200 or cause damage to the soldering joints. Therefore, the above-mentioned structures of the present application can effectively avoid such problems.

[0072] It is worth mentioning that a propulsion structure (not shown) for automatically 20 pulling the cable may also be provided on the base 10 of the present application. The propulsion structure can automatically pull the connecting wires in the direction of the cable holder 20, whether the soldering is performed manually or automatically by the soldering apparatus 200.

[0073] Because the cable has a plurality of sheath layers protecting the conducting 25 wires which is mainly consisted of an insulating layer, a shielding layer, a sealing layer, etc., a segment of sheath layers needs to be cut off in the soldering process. Therefore, in the present application, a portion of the sheath layers of the cable may be cut off and then the cable may be placed on the base 10.

[0074] It may be understood that a plurality of conducting wires inside the cable may 30 be provided with different colors, and the corresponding guide structures 31 may be HK 20107330 B 10 provided with different colors to facilitate the identification of conducting wires of different colors.

[0075] Referring to FIGs. 5 and 6, as an example, said guide structures 31 are through grooves 201 provided on said guider 30 and penetrating said guider 30, and said through grooves 201 are arranged in a direction from said cable holder 20 to said 5 guider 30; and said conducting wire passes through said through groove 201 and protrudes outward. In the present embodiment, the guide structures 31 may be through grooves 201 provided in the guider 30 in the pulling direction of the conducting wires. After the conducting wires are passed through and set in the through grooves 201, the position of the conducting wires may be limited with the 10 through grooves 201. It may be understood that the size of the through groove 201 is only required to be slightly larger than the diameter of the conducting wires, so as to avoid the rocking amplitude of the conducting wires in the through grooves 201, preventing the conducting wires from separating from the through grooves 201, and at the same time, the transfer of the conducting wires will not be interfered, pulling 15 of the conducting wires are facilitated in such a way that the conducting wires are continuously passed through the through grooves 201.

[0076] It may be understood that the cross-sectional shape of the through groove 201 may be a "U” shaped, or through holes may be directly opened in the guider 30 to form the above-mentioned through grooves 201. 20

[0077] As an example, said guider is provided with an engagement groove 202, and each of said guide structures 31 comprises:

[0078] an engagement block 311 fitted in said engagement groove 202 and provided with one through groove 201 penetrating said engagement block 311 in the direction from said cable holder 20 to said guider 30, said conducting wires being arranged in 25 said through groove 201 and passing through said through groove 201,

[0079] wherein said engagement blocks 311 of a plurality of said guide structures 31 can be put together sequentially and fitted in said engagement groove 202 to fill a space of said engagement groove 202.

[0080] In this embodiment, since the specifications of cables are different, the number 30 of conducting wires inside cables of different specifications and the functions of conducting wires may be different. In order to improve the versatility of the cable HK 20107330 B 11 management fixture 100 of the present application, an engagement groove 202 may be provided on the guider 30, and at least one engagement block 311 may be provided to fit with the engagement groove 202, and through groove 201 is provided on the engagement block 311. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, 9 and 11, a plurality of through grooves 201 may be provided on the engagement block 311 in this 5 embodiment. Specifically, different numbers of through grooves 201 may be arranged on engagement blocks 311 of the same specification, so that engagement blocks 311 with the corresponding number of through grooves 201 may be selected and assembled in the engagement groove 202 according to the cable specification, thus reducing the mold designing and manufacturing cost. 10

[0081] As an example, said guider is provided with an engagement groove 202, and each of said guide structures 31 comprises:

[0082] an engagement block 311 fitted in said engagement groove 202 and provided with a plurality of through grooves 201 penetrating said engagement block 311 in the direction from said cable holder 20 to said guider 30, a plurality of said 15 conducting wires being arranged in a plurality of said through grooves 201 respectively and each passing through a corresponding one of said through grooves 201.

[0083] In this embodiment, since the specifications of cables are different, the number of conducting wires inside cables of different specifications and the functions of 20 conducting wires may be different. In order to improve the versatility of the cable management fixture 100 of the present application, an engagement groove 202 may be provided on the guider 30, and at least one engagement block 311 may be provided to fit with the engagement groove 202 so that through grooves 201 are provided on the engagement block 311. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, through 25 grooves 201 may be provided on each of the engagement blocks 311, and an operator may prepare a corresponding number of engagement blocks 311 according to the number of the conducting wires of the cable, and arrange a plurality of engagement blocks 311 side by side in the engagement groove 202, thereby reducing the mold designing and manufacturing cost. 30 HK 20107330 B 12

[0084] It will be understood that in order to stably fit the engagement blocks 311 in the engagement groove 202, a snap-fit structure may be provided between the engagement block 311 and the engagement groove 202.

[0085] Referring to FIG.9, as an example, a groove wall of said through groove 201 is provided with a protrusion 312, and said protrusion 312 is used for limiting the 5 position of a conducting wire passing through said through groove 201. In this embodiment, in order to prevent the conducting wires from separating from the through grooves 201, protrusions 312 may be provided on the groove walls of the through grooves 201 and the number of the protrusions 312 may be one or more. For example, if the number of protrusions 312 is one, in the radial direction of the 10 guider, the distance between the tip of the protrusion 312 and a groove wall of the through grooves 201 is slightly smaller than the diameter of the conducting wire; if the number of protrusions 312 is two, the two protrusions 312 may be arranged symmetrically, and in the radial direction of the guider, the distance between the tips of the two protrusions 312 is slightly less than the diameter of the conducting wire; 15 and if the number of protrusions 312 is more than two, a plurality of protrusions 312 may be staggered on the groove walls of the through grooves 201, and in the radial direction of the guider, the distances between the tips of the protrusions 312 and the groove wall of the through grooves 201 are slightly smaller than the diameter of the conducting wires. When conducting wires are arranged in the through grooves 201, 20 the protrusions 312 are positioned at the upper end of the conducting wires, so as to confine the conducting wires between the groove bottoms of the through grooves 201 and the protrusions 312, so as to avoid the conducting wires from separated from the through grooves 201 due to the pulling force during soldering operations.

[0086] Referring to FIGs. 10 and 11, as an example, the width of said through grooves 25 is gradually decreased in the direction from the groove bottom of said through grooves 201 to the groove opening of said through grooves 201. In this embodiment, the width of the groove opening or the width of the middle position of the through grooves 201 may be reduced to prevent the conducting wires from separating from the through grooves 201. Specifically, the groove walls of the through grooves 201 30 may gradually converge in the direction from the groove bottom of the through grooves 201 to the groove opening of the through grooves 201. When conducting wires are arranged in the through grooves 201, since the width of the middle HK 20107330 B 13 positions of the through grooves 201 is slightly smaller than the diameter of the conducting wires, the conducting wires are confined within the groove bottoms of the through grooves 201, so as to avoid the conducting wires from being separated from the through grooves 201 due to the pulling force during soldering operations.

[0087] Referring to FIG. 7, as an example, said cable management fixture 100 further 5 comprises:

[0088] a fixing cover 80 of which one end is hinged to said guider 30, said fixing cover 80 being able to rotate to cover said through grooves 201.

[0089] In this embodiment, in order to prevent the conducting wires from separating from the through grooves 201, a fixing cover 80 may be provided on the guider 30 10 and the fixing cover 80 is able to rotate to cover the groove openings of the through grooves 201. When conducting wires are arranged in the through grooves 201, the cover body is rotated to the position where the through grooves 201 are located, and the groove openings of the through grooves 201 are closed by the fixing cover 80, so that the conducting wires are confined within the through grooves 201, avoiding 15 the conducting wires from being separated from the through grooves 201 due to the pulling force during soldering operations.

[0090] Referring to FIG. 12, as an example, said cable holder 20 is provided with a connecting channel 203, said cable holder 20 is provided with at least two limiting holes (not shown) connected with said connecting channel 203, the axes of said at 20 least two limiting holes are located at both ends of a radial direction of said cable, and said cable management fixture 100 further comprises:

[0091] at least two limiters 40, the number of the limiters 40 corresponding to the number of said limiting holes, said limiters being connected in said limiting holes to clamp a cable in said connecting channel 203. 25

[0092] In this embodiment, in order to clamp the cable more stably, two limiting holes arranged at intervals may be provided on the cable holder 20, and limiters 40 are passed through the limiting holes. Since the limiters 40 extend into the connecting channel 203, the cable may be confined in a limited space by the two limiters 40, thereby preventing the cable from easily separating from the cable holder 20 due to 30 the significant rocking of the cable resulting from the large space of the connecting channel 203. HK 20107330 B 14

[0093] Referring to FIG. 12, as an example, an inner wall of said connecting channel 203 on the end facing away from said guider 30 has a slope so that the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel 203 on the end facing away from said guider 30 is larger than the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel 203 on the end facing toward said guider 30. 5

[0094] In this embodiment, in order to facilitate the operator to quickly assemble the cable in the connecting channel 203, the inner wall of the connecting channel 203 on a side facing away from the guider 30 may be provided as a sloping surface 50 with a slope. In the pulling direction of the conducting wires, the size of a channel opening of the connecting channel 203 on the end facing away from the guider 30 10 is larger than the size of a channel opening of the connecting channel 203 on the end facing toward the guider 30. Therefore, the operator can quickly fix the cable within the connecting channel 203 by way of the sloping surface 50 during the process of placing the end of the cable in the connecting channel 203.

[0095] Referring to FIG. 13, as an example, said guider 30 is hinged to said base 10, 15 and said guider 30 is able 30 rotate relative to said cable holder 20. In this embodiment, in order to facilitate the operator to adjust the angle of the guider 30 as desired, the guider 30 may be hinged to the base 10 and the operator can adjust the relative angle between the guider 30 and the cable holder 20 according to the route of the conducting wires. For example, by adjusting the guider 30 by 30 degrees 20 with respect to the length direction of the cable holder 20, the conducting wires are bent 30 degrees through the guide structures 31 after passing through the cable holder 20.

[0096] Referring to FIGs. 1 and 2, as an example, said cable management fixture 100 further comprises: 25

[0097] a winding structure 60 hinged to said base 10, said cable being wound on said winding structure 60.

[0098] In this embodiment, a winding structure 60 may be provided on the base 10 to facilitate the placement of the cable onto the base 10, and the conducting wires may be wound around the axis of the winding structure 60, so as to facilitate the 30 placement of the cable with a longer length onto the base 10. HK 20107330 B 15

[0099] It will be understood that the winding structure 60 may be a cylindrical structure, the winding structure 60 may be hinged to the base 10, or the winding structure 60 may itself have a member which can rotate about an axis relative to the base 10, so that the winding structure 60 can quickly unwind the cable while pulling the cable.

[00100] Referring to FIGs. 1 and 2, as an example, said winding structure 60 comprises: 5

[00101] a bearing 61 of which the inner ring being hinged to said base 10; and

[00102] a roller 62 coaxially and fixedly connected with the outer ring of said bearing 61, said cable being wound on the outer circumferential wall of said roller 62.

[00103] In this embodiment, a bearing 61 may be hinged to the base 10 to further facilitate the placement of the cable onto the base 10. For example, a shaft may be 10 fixedly connected in the inner ring of the bearing 61, and the shaft may be fixed to the base 10. Correspondingly, a roller 62 which is able to rotate by the shaft may be fixedly connected to the outer ring of the bearing 61. When the cable is being wound around the circumferential wall of the roller 62, the roller 62 may be pushed to rotate in a first direction (e.g. clockwise direction) to facilitate rapid winding of the cable. 15 During soldering operations, an end of the cable is continuously pulled by a pulling force, and during this process, the roller 62 is also forced to rotate in a second direction (e.g. counterclockwise direction) to facilitate rapid routing movement of the cable.

[00104] It may be understood that in order to facilitate the rotation of the bearing 61, a 20 grip lever or the like may be provided at the outer ring portion of the bearing 61 so as to facilitate an operator to push the roller 62 to rotate, or a transmission structure such as a gear set may be provided at the outer ring portion of the bearing 61 so as to facilitate transmission connection with a driving device such as a motor and automatically drive the roller 62 to rotate with the driving device. 25

[00105] Referring to FIG. 2, as an example, said cable management fixture 100 further comprises:

[00106] a plurality of guide pin elements 70 arranged at intervals about the rotation axis of said winding structure 60 to limit the position of said cable.

[00107] In this embodiment, in order to prevent the cable wound on the winding 30 structure 60 from slacking, a plurality of guide pin elements 70 may be provided at HK 20107330 B 16 peripheral positions of the winding structure 60, and the plurality of guide pin elements 70 surround to form a space which limits the slacking space of the cable in the wound state and prevents the cable from separating from the winding structure 60. Specifically, the plurality of guide pin elements 70 may be arranged at intervals with the axis of the winding structure 60 as the center line, so as to limit the position 5 of the cable circumferentially and effectively maintain the wound state of the cable.

[00108] It can be understood that rope-shaped articles such as a strap may also be provided on the winding structure, and the position of the cable may be limited using the rope-shaped articles and the wound state of the cable may be effectively maintained. 10

[00109] As an example, in a plane parallel to the rotation axis of said winding structure 60, the width of said guide pin element 70 on a side facing away from said base 10 is greater than the width of said guide pin element 70 on a side facing toward said base 10.

[00110] In this embodiment, in order to prevent the cable in the wound state from 15 separating from the rotation axis of the winding structure 60, the guide pin elements 70 are arranged in a shape of being thin at the lower end and thick at the upper end, and by arranging the ends of the guide pin elements 70 distal to the base 10 as close as possible to the circumferential wall of the roller 62, the limit position of the cable on the rotation axis of the winding structure 60 is limited. 20

[00111] As for the shape of the guide pin elements 70, the cross-sectional shape may be a "T" shape or a "7" shape.

[00112] Referring to FIG. 14, the present application also proposes a soldering apparatus 200. Said soldering apparatus 200 comprises the cable management fixture 100 described above and a rack 210, and said base 10 is arranged on said rack 210. The 25 specific structure of the cable management fixture 100 refers to the above- mentioned embodiments. Since the soldering apparatus adopts all the technical solutions of all the above-mentioned embodiments, it has at least all the beneficial effects brought by the technical solutions of the above-mentioned embodiments, and will not be repeatedly described here. 30

[00113] While the embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these embodiments are susceptible HK 20107330 B 17 to various modification, alteration, substitution or changes without departing from the principle and spirit of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the following claims and the equivalents thereof.

[00114] The above-mentioned are merely partial or preferred embodiments of the present invention. Neither the text nor the drawings limit the scope of protection of 5 the present invention, and equivalent structure transformations or direct / indirect application in other related technical fields made using the specification and the drawings of the present invention under the conception of the present invention as a whole are therefore all contained in the scope of protection of the present invention. 10 HK 20107330 B 1 WHAT IS CLAIMED IS: 1. A cable management fixture characterized in that said cable management fixture comprises: a base for arranging a cable, a plurality of conducting wires being arranged within said cable; 5 a cable holder arranged on said base; a guider arranged on said base opposite to said cable holder, wherein said guider is provided with guide structures whose number is greater than or equal to a number of said conducting wires, and wherein said guider is provided with an engagement groove, and each of said guide structures comprises: an engagement block fitted in said engagement groove, 10 and an end of said cable is connected to and fixed to said cable holder, so that each of conducting wires extending from the end of the cable passes through a corresponding one of said guide structures and protrudes outward, forming a conducting wire array for connecting with external devices, wherein said guider is hinged to said base, and said guider is able to rotate relative to 15 said cable holder; said cable holder is provided with a connecting channel, said cable holder is provided with at least two limiting holes connected with said connecting channel, the axes of said at least two limiting holes are located at both ends of a radial direction of said cable, and said cable management fixture further comprises: 20 at least two limiters, the number of the limiters corresponding to the number of said limiting holes, said limiters being connected in said limiting holes to clamp a cable in said connecting channel; an inner wall of said connecting channel on the end facing away from said guider has a slope so that the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel on the end facing away 25 from said guider is larger than the size of a channel opening of said connecting channel on the end facing toward said guider; HK 20107330 B 2 said guide structures are through grooves provided on said guider and penetrating said guider, and said through grooves are arranged in a direction from said cable holder to said guider; and said conducting wires pass through said through grooves and protrude outward; and a groove wall of said through groove is provided with a protrusion, said protrusion being used for limiting the position of a conducting wire passing through said through groove. 5 2. The cable management fixture of claim 1 characterized in that the engagement block is provided with one through groove penetrating said engagement block in the direction from said cable holder to said guider, said conducting wires being arranged in said through groove and passing through said through groove, 10 wherein said engagement blocks of a plurality of said guide structures can be put together sequentially and fitted in said engagement groove to fill a space of said engagement groove. 3. The cable management fixture of claim 1 characterized in that 15 the engagement block is provided with a plurality of through grooves penetrating said engagement block in the direction from said cable holder to said guider, a plurality of said conducting wires being arranged in a plurality of said through grooves respectively and each passing through a corresponding one of said through grooves. 20 4. The cable management fixture of claim 3 characterized in that the width of said through grooves is gradually decreased in the direction from the groove bottom of said through grooves to the groove opening of said through grooves. 25 5. The cable management fixture of any one of claims 1 to 3 characterized in that said cable management fixture further comprises: a fixing cover of which one end is hinged to said guider, said fixing cover being able to rotate to cover said through groove. HK 20107330 B 3 6. The cable management fixture of claim 1 characterized in that said cable management fixture further comprises: a winding structure hinged to said base, said cable being wound on said winding structure. 5 7. The cable management fixture of claim 6 characterized in that said winding structure comprises: a bearing of which the inner ring being hinged to said base; and a roller coaxially and fixedly connected with the outer ring of said bearing, said cable being wound on the outer circumferential wall of said roller. 10 8. The cable management fixture of claim 6 characterized in that said cable management fixture further comprises: a plurality of guide pin elements arranged at intervals about the rotation axis of said winding structure to limit the position of said cable. 15 9. The cable management fixture of claim 8 characterized in that in a plane parallel to the rotation axis of said winding structure, the width of said guide pin element on a side facing away from said base is greater than the width of said guide pin element on a side facing toward said base. 20 10. A soldering apparatus characterized in that said soldering apparatus comprises the cable management fixture of any one of claims 1 to 9, and a rack on which said base is arranged. HK 20107330 B 1 10 70 60 62 61 M 100 60 FIG 1 5 HK 20107330 B 2 100 10 62 6170 20 203 30 31 60 FIG 2 62 70 1061 20 31 30 40 100 FIG 3 HK 20107330 B 3 62 10 704030 FIG 4 10 203 30 31 20 40 FIG 5 30 311 201 202 5 FIG 6 HK 20107330 B 4 30 311 201 80 FIG 7 30 311 201 FIG 8 5 30 311 201 312 FIG 9 HK 20107330 B 5 30 311 201 FIG 10 30 311 201 FIG 11 5 FIG 12 HK 20107330 B 6 31 20 40 30 FIG 13 200 210 FIG 14 5 HK 20107330 B

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