Cable Line End Aligning Machine with Funnel Guides
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machines for aligning cable line ends fail to achieve precise alignment and reduce stresses in the cores due to inadequate clamping and processing methods, leading to suboptimal handling during further processing steps.
Innovation Solution
The aligning machine features elongate blind holes connected to funnel-shaped guides that taper into the holes, allowing the accommodating component to move coaxially and perpendicularly to the cable's longitudinal axis, enabling stress-free alignment and precise positioning of line ends through controlled rotational movements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional clamping devices and accommodating components are used for aligning cable line ends, then the alignment process can be performed, but precise alignment cannot be achieved and stresses remain in the cores
Solution Approach 1:
The accommodating component is made movable relative to the clamping device with multiple degrees of freedom (displacement along the longitudinal axis and rotation in a perpendicular plane), allowing dynamic adjustment to achieve precise alignment while relieving stresses in the line ends
Solution Approach 2:
The solution adds rotational movement in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis as an additional degree of freedom, enabling alignment in multiple dimensions simultaneously and achieving precise positioning that conventional single-axis devices cannot provide
2Device complexity
If the accommodating component is fixed relative to the clamping device, then the device structure is simple, but precise alignment and stress reduction cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The accommodating component is designed to move relative to the clamping device along the longitudinal axis and rotate in a perpendicular plane, providing the necessary degrees of freedom for precise alignment while maintaining a relatively simple device structure
Solution Approach 2:
The device allows change in positional parameters (displacement and rotation angle) of the accommodating component relative to the clamping device, enabling precise alignment adaptation without fundamentally complicating the overall device structure
Data Source
AI summary
Aligning machines for individual line ends (2) of cable (3) provide enhanced stress-free and precise alignment of line ends (2) of the cable (3) prior to the further processing thereof. Cable (3) is fixed in a clamp (5) opposite a rotor (4) provided with recesses (6, 7) for the exposed line ends (2). This rotor (4) is provided with a corresponding number of preferably parallel elongate blind holes (7) that connect to funnel-shaped guides (6) for the line ends (2). The rotor (4) and the clamp (5) for the cable (3) are movably mounted relative to one another.