Electrical control panel wire harness assembly pegs

• US 10,242,771 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Design Ready Controls, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Design Ready Controls, Inc.
• Inventors: Coviello, Mario Daniel, Rausch, Zachary Tyler, Schmidtke, Troy
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Anita M
• Application Number:
  US15/238,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20180053584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 952 Days
• Field of Search: 248 742
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/83 Use of a magnetic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01209 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01245 using a layout board

Abstract

A peg apparatus is described that is suitable for use with an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of an assembled wire harness.

Claims

1. A peg for a wire harness assembly peg board, said peg comprising:

a base having a bottom portion suitable for coupling to a wire harness peg board;

a main body extending upward from the base;

a bi-directional wire receiving portion for receiving a wire, said wire receiving portion being congruent with a mid-portion of said main body;

a passive, bi-directional wire retaining portion that is congruent with said wire receiving portion and also congruent with an upper portion of said main body;

said wire retaining portion extending between said mid-portion and said upper portion of said main body;

said wire retaining portion further includes a pliable portion that restricts movement of the wire in a lateral direction;

wherein said bi-directional wire retaining portion restricts movement of the wire in an upward and downward direction; and

wherein said wire retaining portion includes pliable rubber folds that grip the wire, wherein a thickness of at least two of the pliable rubber folds is different.

2. The peg as recited in claim 1, further including an alignment pin extending from the bottom portion of the base.

3. The peg as recited in claim 1, further including a magnet associated with the bottom portion of the base.

4. The peg as recited in claim 1, further including a wire channel diverter coupled to the main body of the peg.

5. A peg for a wire harness assembly peg board, said peg comprising:

a base having a bottom portion suitable for coupling to a wire harness peg board;

a main body extending upward from the base;

a bi-directional wire receiving portion for receiving a wire, said wire receiving portion being congruent with a mid-portion of said main body;

a passive, bi-directional wire retaining portion that is congruent with said wire receiving portion and an upper portion of said main body;

said wire retaining portion extending between said mid-portion and said upper portion of said main body;

said wire retaining portion further includes a pliable portion that restricts movement of the wire in a lateral direction;

wherein said bi-directional wire retaining portion restricts movement of the wire in an upward and downward direction;

a wire channel diverter coupled to the main body of the peg; and

wherein said wire retaining portion includes pliable rubber folds that grip the wire, and wherein a thickness of at least two of the pliable rubber folds is different.

6. The peg as recited in claim 5, further including an alignment pin extending from the bottom portion of the base.

7. The peg as recited in claim 5, further including a magnet associated with the bottom portion of the base.