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| 8141246 | Methods and devices for joining cables Methods for ultrasonically joining portions of a medical lead are provided. One method includes providing a conductor, a fitting and a coil electrode. The conductor has a distal portion that includes an inner conductive portion and an outer insulative portion. The f... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7406764 | Method of determining the acceptability of the press contacting of a terminal using reference data A method of determining the acceptability of a press contact of a wire between press contact blades of a terminal. The method includes the steps of storing a reference data of a relationship between displacements of the press contact blades when the wire is brought ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7373719 | Method and process for manufacturing a terminal block A method of manufacturing a terminal block for a telecommunication cable comprising the steps of providing a mold having a first half and a second half, each forming a respective body cavity configured to form a terminal block and configured to receive a substrate c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7322623 | Sawtooth terminal blade gripper and method of gripping A gripping apparatus is disclosed. The gripping apparatus includes a first finger including a plurality of first sawteeth along a first longitudinal end and a receiving area being located between adjacent sawteeth and a second finger including a plurality of complem... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316058 | Coaxial cable stripper A coaxial cable stripper, which includes a hollow cylindrical body, which has two transverse through holes and two longitudinal sliding slots, a spring member fixedly mounted inside the hollow cylindrical body, and two movable cutter holders respectively supported o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305758 | Manufacturing device of electric wire with terminal and manufacturing method of electric wire with terminal A terminal crimping device is used to manufacture an electric wire with terminal by crimping a terminal fitting onto an end portion of an electric wire. This device includes: an electric wire holding portion to hold the end portion of the electric wire at a predeter... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7228625 | Method for attaching an electrical cable to a connector shield An intermediate portion of the outer insulation of a shielded electrical cable is removed near an end of the cable. A remaining small segment of the outer insulation at the cable end is moved axially inward along the cable to bunch up an exposed conductive braid of ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7134190 | Wire harness manufacturing machine The present invention is an automated wire harness machine (40) capable of manufacturing a wire harness (42) unique in-part due to the automation process. The novel wire harness is generally a plurality of bundled, preferably un-stripped, insulated wir... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7073255 | Method for producing ribbon cable using flash curing A method of manufacturing a ribbon cable, comprising providing a set of insulated wires and aligning said insulated wires in a predetermined arrangement. The insulated wires are warmed sufficiently for said insulation to be become soft and adhesive, are pressed toge... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7070445 | Cable assembly Provided is a communications cable assembly and method of making the same. The cable includes a plurality of conductive wires coated with an insulative jacket and bound within a cover. Located at a first end of the cable is a first connector that includes a pluralit... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7028401 | Junction box and wire harness connection method A method is provided of connecting wires of a wiring harness to a junction box to form branch circuits. An electrical conductor material is formed in parallel strips in a Y-axis direction on one surface of an insulator board, and wires are arranged in an X-axis dire... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024760 | Method and apparatus for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable An apparatus and a method for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cables includes an equipping installation downstream of a fitting-out installation and introduces each fitted-out cable end into a first or second plug housing according to an installation sequenc... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7017267 | Method and apparatus for zone cabling Disclosed herein is a factory installed wiring guide that guides conductors into position for quality termination and crimp and which provides strain relief (support) for the wires or fibers and the outer sheath of the cable to create a quality cable or sub-cable as... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6954981 | Wire connection apparatus A wire connection apparatus having a connector holder, a press-contacting device such as a stuffer, and a guide member. The wire connection apparatus has a wire end alignment mechanism which includes a vertical surface of the connector holder, the press-contacting d... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6910912 | Wire connector A wire connector includes a main body, an upper cover, an upper cutter, a lower cover, and a lower cutter. Thus, the oblique jaw portions of the pliers are closely urged on the oblique faces of the action portions of the upper cover and the lower cover, so that the ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6905359 | RJ-type modular connector speed crimp An RJ-type connector provides simple connection to a wire or cable. The connector consists of a standard RJ-type connector shell which has a hollow interior, an open end and a substantially closed end. One or more feed-through holes is created longitudinally through... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6845553 | System for preparing wire harness production In preparing a wire harness production, modified wire harness wiring pattern information is generated. The generated information relates to second patterns, in which some parts of a first pattern are altered. Each of the second patterns is simulated for practicality... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6810580 | System for forming conductor wire on a substrate board A wiring system is provided. Using the system, a wire conductor is stuck on a surface of a substrate by causing a three-dimensional relative movement between a wiring head for guiding the wire conductor and the substrate such that the wiring head relatively moves al... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6732430 | Method of manufacturing wiring member, and electric connection box A method of manufacturing a wiring member including winding an electric wire into a desired pattern in a set of wire holding members, each of the wire holding members inserted into a rotary shaft and containing a plurality of wire retaining sections; cutting the ele... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6662444 | Method and apparatus of manufacturing wiring harness A press-fitting unit includes a vertically movable press blade for press-fitting a stripped end of an electrical wire to a terminal disposed in a connector. A connector retaining bar movable in a horizontal direction is disposed to be opposed to the press... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6643926 | Method for joining a shield terminal to a shielded cable In a shield terminal joining structure for joining a shield terminal to a prescribed grounding position along a shielded cable that is formed by an inner core wire made of a conductor, an inner insulation covering that covers the inner core wire, a braid ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6640425 | Apparatus for producing wire harnesses for automotive vehicles An apparatus for producing wire harnesses for automotive vehicles is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gripper (10) including a wire feeder (15) for holding a plurality of insulator-sheathed electric wire elements (a) juxtaposed on a plane, a cutter (20... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6609298 | Pressure contact blades adaptable to extrafine strands In an extrafine-strand-adaptable contact pressure blade, parts of the mutually opposed right and left side wall portions of a pressure contact part having a substantially U-shaped vertical section are formed by blanking so as to project inwardly in part i... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6532652 | Method for manufacturing wire harness with branch connection terminals In a method for fabricating a wire harness with branch terminals, a flexible flat cable (FFC) (11) is first prepared by arranging multiple conductive strips (12) in parallel to each other at a predetermined interval, and by laminating a pair of base films... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6490785 | Manufacturing apparatus of wire harness In a manufacturing apparatus of a wire harness in which pallet P, on which a plurality of connectors C are juxtaposed, is moved by a pallet feeding section 1 and a pressure-contact terminal of connector C is automatically positioned at a pressure-contact ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6467164 | Method for connecting a terminal fitting and a flat conductor, a terminal connection apparatus and a terminal fitting A method is provided for connecting a terminal fitting and a flat conductor to achieve a high contact pressure between the terminal fitting and a conductive path. A FFC (10) has an insulation sheet (12) adjacent the end stripped to expose a conductor (11)... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6381839 | Tool and method for assembly of IDC strain relief caps A method secures wire to an electrical contact using an insulation displacement contact (IDC) strain relief cap. The electrical contact has a bifurcated end for engaging and retaining the wire and is engaged with the strain relief cap in securing the wire... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6370769 | Automated assembly of connector to cable having twisted wire pairs A cable having at least two twisted wire pairs, each of the wires in the twisted wire pairs having wire jacket with a respectively different color, is automatically assembled by automatically detecting the colors of the wire jackets and automatically posi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6360436 | Method of manufacturing wire harnesses A crimping apparatus for producing sub-harnesses is described that includes a pair of frames, each provided with a centrally disposed crimper. Pairs of movable connector tables are provided on each frame, as well as locking devices for securing the connec... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6247230 | Impact tool head with cutting blades An improved impact tool head having separate and distinct pressing and cutting blades integrally molded therein. The impact tool head allows for independent and optimal material and dimensional design of the pressing blades and the cutting blades to minim... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6240629 | Tool for connecting a flexfoil and a pin-line contact member A connecting tool for guiding a flexfoil into a connector element. The tool includes a guiding part that directs the flexfoil into the opening in the connector element. The tool also includes a crimping part that urges the clamps of the connector element ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6230406 | Flexible bond harness and manufacturing method therefor A flexible bond harness including a flexible ground subassembly and a rigid ground subassembly which are joined together by a barrel connector. The flexible ground assembly has a first terminal connector which is mounted to the distal end portion of a sub... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6176731 | Electrical connector housing with cavity and terminal fitting with insulation displacement contact blades and method of attaching a wire thereto A blade type terminal fitting (7) has blades (14A, 14B) which cut through wire insulation (16) to contact a wire core (17). To prevent widening of the blades (14A, 14B) as the wire is pressed in, a jig (18) includes pressing members (20) to prevent outwar... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169961 | Method and apparatus for producing an insulation displacement terminal and the same An insulation displacement terminal of a high quality and high performance produced by designing the terminal in accordance with data measurement under a condition similar to an actual insulation displacement connection. An extent of insertion of insulati... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6169934 | Wire harness manufacturing system A wire harness manufacturing system which issue a working instruction for manufacturing a wire harness to a worker using a network composed of an upstream network and a downstream network, comprising: a clamping pole having a plurality of wire clamps; a j... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6163958 | Method for making vehicular wire harness having juxtaposed wires A plurality of insulator-sheathed electric wire elements (a) are secured together to a connector (C) by an insulation displacement manner by means of juxtaposing the electric wire elements (a) on a plane, passing the wire elements (a) through a gripper (1... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6151776 | Method for installation of devices having different heights An installation method for installing machines of different heights at an installation site includes provision of a flexible power cord of particular length, affixed to an upper region of each machine. The power cord is terminated in a power-rated male co... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6145192 | Device and method for fitting individual wires to IDC contacts The device has a base frame having a lever arm that is pivotably mounted at one end and, at its other end, carries a pressure punch. The press punch is moved on a circular path toward individual wires as a result of a manual actuation of the lever arm, an... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6058604 | Cable for allowing mass storage device address selection A cable constructed with insulation displacement connectors produces cables which connect data storage devices to a host system. The cable allows automatic address selection of data storage devices depending on the presence or absence of a CSEL terminal p... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6058603 | Method for terminating non-metallic transmission cables This invention relates to non-metallic, corrosion-resistant strength systems for underwater power and communications systems and methods for terminating such cables. The strength system comprises two non-metallic strength members; each strength member is ... | 05/09/2000 |
