Wire End Ferrule Magazine With Transport Wheel Separation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing crimping tools for wire terminations face cumbersome handling and process safety issues, particularly when inserting stranded wires, leading to potential misalignment and poor crimping connections.
Innovation Solution
A magazine with a rotating transport wheel featuring recesses that guide wire terminations into assembly positions, where the connecting bridges are severed by edges acting as cutting knives, ensuring precise separation and improved handling through a funnel-shaped conductor feed opening and a positioning system for accurate alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If wire terminations are inserted individually into the magazine, then the magazine can be refilled, but the handling becomes cumbersome and process safety deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wire termination strip is segmented into individual wire terminations by connecting bridges, allowing the magazine to accept continuous strips while the transport wheel separates and processes individual units. This segmentation enables easy refilling of continuous strips while maintaining process safety through controlled individual handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The transport wheel acts as an intermediary between the magazine storage and the crimping station. It receives wire terminations from the magazine, separates them from connecting bridges, and delivers them individually to the crimping station, thereby ensuring process safety while allowing easy magazine refilling.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the hand tool remains stationary, then the crimping operation is stable, but stranded wires cannot be properly inserted leading to misalignment
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces dynamic movement through the rotating transport wheel that actively feeds and positions wire terminations. This dynamic feeding mechanism compensates for the stationary hand tool, ensuring precise alignment of stranded wires with the crimping area while maintaining operational stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The transport wheel performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning wire terminations and separating connecting bridges before the crimping operation. This preliminary positioning ensures that when the stationary hand tool performs crimping, the wires are already correctly aligned, eliminating misalignment issues.
3Ease of operation
If connecting bridges are not severed, then wire terminations remain connected for easy handling, but separation is required for individual crimping
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine accepts continuous wire termination strips for easy loading, and the transport wheel continuously separates and feeds individual wire terminations to the crimping station. This continuous action maintains handling ease during loading while ensuring efficient individual processing during crimping.
Solution Approach 2:
The transport wheel performs periodic separation of connecting bridges at regular intervals as it rotates, allowing wire terminations to be fed one by one to the crimping station. This periodic separation maintains the connected state for easy handling during loading while enabling efficient individual crimping operations.
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AI summary
A magazine for processing wire end ferrules, which are connected to one another via connection pieces to form a wire end ferrule strip, having a housing with at least one housing base and an inlet opening for introducing the wire end ferrule strip. A transport wheel is rotatably mounted in the housing and has multiple recesses for receiving individual wire end ferrules of a wire end ferrule strip, neighboring recesses separated from one another by a rim. An opening is formed in the housing base and the wire end ferrules can be successively brought into an assembly position via a rotation of the transport wheel to a position in which a wire end ferrule is arranged above the opening and a connection piece between the wire end ferrule and the neighboring wire end ferrule is at least partially cut through by the rim of the corresponding recess.