CABLE HARNESS ASSEMBLY BOARD AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME

• US 3,653,411 A
• Filed: 02/11/1970
• Issued: 04/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earle Gifford Jenney, Frank Howard Mosher
• Original Assignee: Earle Gifford Jenney, Frank Howard Mosher
• Inventors: Mosher, Frank Howard, Jenney, Earle Gifford
• Primary Examiner(s): Larson, Lowell A.
• Application Number:
  US05/010,374
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 140/92.1 269/289,305,311,319 248/DIG.3 211/60 29/23B,23J
• US Class Current: 140/92.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01227 using a layout board
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53243 Multiple, independent conductors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53265 with work-holder for assembly

Abstract

A harness cable assembly board includes one or more modular boards having pin receiving holes therein spaced in a predetermined grid pattern. Harness cable layouts for a plurality of different cable assembly configurations are detachably secured to the assembly board as are cable assembly guide pins which are removably inserted in the pin receiving holes. The same modular board may be used for a variety of different cable configurations and the layouts may be repetitively used with any of a plurality of modular boards.

Claims

1. An assembly board for the construction of a plurality of differently configured harness cable assemblies of the type including bundles of individual insulated electrical conductors built up from a predetermined pattern disposed on a corresponding guide means, said board comprising:

a plurality of substantially rigid sheets disposed in abutting edge to edge relationship to form a single planar sheet, each rigid sheet having a plurality of pin receiving holes spaced in a predetermined grid pattern on at least one face thereof, the edges of said rigid sheets being so spaced from said grid pattern and being so formed such that each of said rigid sheets forms a modular section of said single planar sheet having one continuous grid pattern of said holes on at least one face thereof when said sections are disposed in said abutting edge to edge relation, any edge of one section being capable of being disposed contiguous with any edge of any other section to form said single planar sheet, and a plurality of harness assembly guide pins, each a adapted to be closely received in a corresponding one of said holes selected in accordance with the assembly pattern provided by the corresponding separate guide means, said pins being detachably insertable in selected ones of said holes in accordance with said predetermined pattern.

2. The assembly board of claim 1 wherein each of said holes is spaced from the next adjacent hole along said grid pattern substantially the same distance to form a regular grid pattern including a plurality of parallel lines crossing a second plurality of parallel lines at an angle, said edges being spaced from the next adjacent grid pattern along a line parallel to one of said plurality of lines a distance substantially one half of said same distance.

3. The method of making an assembly board for the construction of a plurality of differently configured harness cable assemblies of the type including bundles of individual insulated electrical conductors built up from a predetermined pattern, comprising the steps of:

removably securing a plurality of rigid sheets of material in contiguous edge to edge relation forming a planar assembly board including a plurality of pin receiving holes spaced in a regular grid pattern on at least one face of said planar board, removably attaching a first harness cable guide means including a sheet of flexible material having a predetermined cable assembly pattern affixed thereon to the one face of said planar board, and removably attaching a plurality of harness assembly guide pins to said planar board by passing said guide pins through said guide means into said holes selected in accordance with the assembly pattern provided by said guide means.

4. The method of claim 3 further including the steps of:

detaching said guide pins from said planar board, detaching said guide means from said planar board, rearranging said plurality of rigid sheets in contiguous edge to edge relation forming a rearranged planar assembly board including a plurality of pin receiving holes spaced according to said grid pattern on at least one face thereof, removably attaching a second harness cable guide means including a sheet of flexible material having a predetermined cable assembly pattern affixed thereon to said rearranged planar assembly, and removably attaching a plurality of harness assembly guide pins to said rearranged planar assembly by passing said guide pins through said guide means into said holes selected in accordance with the assembly pattern provided by said second guide means.