Electric wire producing control device and electric wire measuring and cutting apparatus including the control device

• US 5,594,980 A
• Filed: 11/08/1994
• Issued: 01/21/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Oono, Kengo, Yamashiro, Toshikatsu, Tamura, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Briggs, William R.
• Application Number:
  US08/337,382
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 29/33 M, 29/755, 29/593, 29/747, 29/564.1, 29/564.4, 29/564.6, 364/468, 364/469
• US Class Current: 29/33.00M
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4183 characterised by data acquisition, e.g. workpiece identification
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32022 Ordering, remote ordering, enter article and operations needed, create jobfile
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32023 Print label, instructions for operator and job code for machining parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36371 Barcode reader
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5193 Electrical connector or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53243 Multiple, independent conductors

Abstract

In the present invention, wire producing data is recorded on a production label 60 using a bar code. Prior to operating an apparatus, an operator inputs bar codes on a plurality of production labels 60 to a control section 51 by a bar code reader 41. In the control section 51, wire producing data corresponding to the bar codes are read out of a memory 72, and the wire producing data are stored in an FIFO table 521. If the operation is started, the wire producing data stored in the FIFO table 521 are read out in the order stored, and the driving of a processor 11 is controlled in accordance with the contents of the wire producing data. Accordingly, the processor 11 can be continuously operated by first inputting the plurality of bar codes, thereby to make it possible to produce measured and processed electric wires efficiently.

Claims

1. An electric wire producing control device comprising:

a wire producing data file in which a plurality of wire producing data and a plurality of index codes attached to the respective wire producing data for identifying the wire producing data are registered;

first reading means for reading, from a record medium on which any one of the index codes attached to said respective wire producing data is recorded, the index code;

second reading means for accessing said wire producing data file when the index code read by said first reading means is applied and reading out the wire producing data to which the same index code as the read index code is attached;

storing means capable of storing a plurality of wire producing data for assigning the wire producing data read out by said second reading means priorities and storing the wire producing data, and outputting the wire producing data in the order of descending priorities; and

control means for sequentially reading out the wire producing data from said storing means and carrying out control of production processing of electric wires on the basis of the wire producing data read out.

2. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 1, wherein

said storing means comprises a first in first out memory for sequentially storing, when the plurality of wire producing data are read out by said second reading means, the wire producing data in the order read out and sequentially outputting the wire producing data in the order stored.

3. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 1, wherein

said wire producing data file registers, when data related to electric wires to be produced is inputted, the data as wire producing data, and attaches to the registered wire producing data an index code for identifying the wire producing data, and outputs a record medium on which the index code is recorded.

4. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 2, wherein

said wire producing data file registers, when data related to electric wires to be produced is inputted, the data as wire producing data, and attaches to the registered wire producing data an index code for identifying the wire producing data, and outputs a record medium on which the index code is recorded.

5. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 1, wherein

said record medium is predetermined paper,

said index code is recorded using a bar code, and

said reading means comprises a bar code reader.

6. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 2, wherein

said record medium is predetermined paper,

said index code is recorded using a bar code, and

said reading means comprises a bar code reader.

7. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 3, wherein

said record medium is predetermined paper,

said index code is recorded using a bar code, and

said reading means comprises a bar code reader.

8. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 4, wherein

said record medium is predetermined paper,

said index code is recorded using a bar code, and

said reading means comprises a bar code reader.

9. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 1, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

10. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 2, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

11. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 3, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

12. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 4, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

13. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 5, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

14. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 6, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

15. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 7, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

16. A processor connected to and controlled by said electric wire producing control device according to claim 8, comprising

electric wire feeding means for feeding an electric wire,

electric wire cutting means for cutting the electric wire fed by said electric wire feeding means,

stripping means for removing insulative sheaths at both ends of the electric wire cut by said electric wire cutting means, and

terminal crimping means for crimping terminals against both ends of the electric wire from which the insulative sheaths are removed by said stripping means.

17. An electric wire producing control device comprising:

reading means for reading wire producing data which is recorded on a record medium;

data storing means capable of storing a plurality of wire producing data and assigning, if the wire producing data is read from the record medium by said reading means, the wire producing data its priority for reading and storing the wire producing data; and

control means for sequentially reading out the plurality of wire producing data stored in said data storing means in the order of descending priorities for reading and carrying out control of production processing of electric wires on the basis of each of the wire producing data read out.

18. The electric wire producing control device according to claim 17, wherein

said record medium is predetermined paper,

said wire producing data is recorded using a bar code, and

said reading means is constituted by a bar code reader.