WIRE-PROCESSING DEVICE WITH DEPOSIT UNIT

• US 20120090723A1
• Filed: 09/29/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komax Holding AG
• Original Assignee: Komax Holding AG
• Inventors: Fischer, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,640,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 140/123
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/28 for wire processing before connecting to contact members, not provided for in groups H01R43/02 - H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 1/1248 Machines

Abstract

A swivel-arm with a gripper in a wire-processing machine transfers a processed wire to a collection tray. The collection tray and an unloading tray have a channel-like shape. The swivel-arm swivels the processed, trailing wire-end over the collection tray, whereby the wire, with the aid of the conveyor belt that runs in the direction of the arrow, falls into the collection tray. The collection tray serves as temporary store and collects a specified number of completed processed wires that corresponds to a production lot, and transfers the production lot to the unloading tray.

Claims

1. A wire-processing device, comprising:

one or more processing stations; and

a deposit unit, the deposit unit comprising a collection tray and an unloading tray, the collection tray comprising a surface, the surface comprising a plurality of elevations, the elevations comprising ribs, studs or reinforcements, the elevations being configured to receive processed wires from the one or more processing stations before the processed wires are moved into the unloading tray by a swiveling of the collection tray.

2. The wire-processing device of claim 1, the elevations comprising ribs.

3. The wire-processing device of claim 2, the ribs having a height of 0.5 mm to 1 mm and a distance between the ribs of 80 mm.

4. The wire-processing device of claim 1, the elevations comprising studs.

5. The wire-processing device of claim 4, the studs having a height of 0.2 mm.

6. The wire-processing device of claim 1, the elevations comprising reinforcements.

7. The wire-processing device of claim 6, the reinforcements having a height of 0.2 mm.

8. The wire-processing device of claim 1, the collection tray further comprising a loading section, the loading section comprising the surface comprising the plurality of elevations, the loading section being couplable to a wall of the collection tray having no elevations.

9. The wire-processing device of claim 8, the loading section having a length related to the length of the processed wires.

10. A wire-processing device with processing stations for processing a wire, with a deposit unit to collect processed wires, wherein the deposit unit has a collection tray and an unloading tray, and the processed wires of a production lot can be deposited in the collection tray and can then be transferred to the unloading tray, and the collection tray has on a surface that faces the wires a surface structure in the form of elevations, on points of which the wires rest, and over which the wires move into the unloading tray when the collection tray is swiveled, the elevations comprising ribs or studs or reinforcements.