Automated Cable Assembly Carrier for High-Voltage Line Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automated cable assembly systems for high-voltage lines, particularly in motor vehicles, often result in relative movement of line ends during assembly, which can damage sensitive cables and complicate the process.
Innovation Solution
A system with a carrier and conveyor device that holds line ends at a lateral distance, allowing simultaneous movement and controlled feeding of both ends into processing stations, using a pull-out system with gripping elements to maintain stability and prevent individual line end movement, enabling gentle and automated assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If line ends are held separately and fed individually to processing stations, then assembly flexibility is improved, but relative movement between line ends occurs causing damage to sensitive cables
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines both line ends into a single carrier unit that is transported together through the assembly system. The carrier holds multiple line ends in fixed positions, ensuring they move as one unit to processing stations without relative movement between them, thereby preventing damage while maintaining assembly flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier acts as an intermediary device between the line ends and the processing stations. It provides a stable platform that holds line ends at predetermined positions, allowing individual processing of each line end while preventing harmful relative movement through the fixed carrier structure.
2Ease of operation
If line is held loosely and hanging in the form of a loop, then handling ease is improved, but instability and unwanted movements occur during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the line into discrete sections that are individually mounted on the carrier at specific positions. This segmentation allows each section to be handled and processed independently while the carrier maintains overall stability, preventing unwanted movements during assembly operations.
3Productivity
If multiple line ends are transported separately on different carriers, then processing independence is improved, but system complexity and potential for misalignment increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple line ends are combined on a single carrier with predetermined positioning, allowing them to be transported together as one unit. This approach maintains processing independence for each line end while reducing system complexity by eliminating the need for multiple separate carriers and their associated synchronization mechanisms.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an installation (2) for automatically assembling particularly electrical lines that are received in a carrier (12). The carrier (12) is arranged on a platform using a pull-out system (14) and conveyed along with this, with the aid of a conveyor device (8), in a conveyor direction (F) to at least one processing station. The pull-out system allows the carrier and therefore the line (6) to be displaced in an advancement direction (Z) to the processing station (4). The line (6) comprises two end sections (18 A, B) with two line ends (16 A, B) that are successively introduced into a processing position (26) of the processing station (4). This takes place with the advancing motion of the carrier (12), wherein the line ends (16 A, B) are locationally fixed with respect to one another. The line end (16 A, B) that is not introduced into the processing station (4) is guided into a free space (28) next to the processing station (4).