A tape winding method includes an oblique winding step, in which a tape set is arranged obliquely so that each tape is wound obliquely at a predetermined angle, the tape spacing is adjusted so that a winding tape pitch is smaller than or equal to a tape width, and in this state, oblique winding is performed while moving the tape set by a movement amount, wherein the movement amount per turn of the oblique winding is defined by multiplying a sum of the winding tape pitch and a winding tape width of one tape by a number of tapes.

The efficiency of the tape winding task is improved while a desired lapping width (R11) is secured. A tape winding method includes a winding start step (step S11 to step S14), a lapped winding step (step S15 and step S16) of performing lapped winding in which adjacent tapes (21) partially overlap each other, while the tape set (2) is moved by an amount of movement per lapped winding that is a sum of a tape spacing (T11) and a lapping width (R11), and a winding end step.

In a winding device for wrapping an elongated bundled item and method for wrapping a bundled item with an adhesive tape in a winding device for wrapping an elongated bundled item with an adhesive tape, a roll for a predetermined length of adhesive tape is held in the winding head. The predetermined length is dimensioned for one portion of the item to be wrapped. A cutting of the adhesive tape on the bundled item can be avoided hereby.

The invention relates to a method for jacketing elongate articles, such as lines or cable harnesses in particular, by means of an adhesive tape comprising a tape-shaped substrate, which substrate has, on at least one side, a thermally curable, meltable, preferably pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhesive layer comprising an epoxide-functionalized acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer which has on average more than 1.5 epoxide groups per molecule and comprising the reaction product of phthalic anhydride and diethylene-triamine, the adhesive tape being led in a helix around the elongate article or the elongate article being enveloped by the adhesive tape in the axial direction, the elongate article together with the enveloping adhesive tape being brought into the desired arrangement, in particular into the cable harness plan, the elongate article being held in this arrangement, and the curable adhesive mass being cured by supplying thermal energy, in particular at a temperature of up to 110 C.

A wiring harness assembly cell includes an automation zone housing a robot for performing automated assembly operations on a series of wiring harness assembly boards. A plurality of wiring harness assembly stations is located about the automation zone, each including one or more wiring harness assembly boards holding the wiring harnesses. Manual operator zones are located outside the automation zone that are associated with the wiring harness assembly stations. The wiring harness assembly stations are reconfigurable between a first configuration in which a first wiring harness assembly board faces the manual operator zone such that it is accessible to a manual operator, and a second configuration in which it faces the automation zone such that it is accessible to the robot. The robot is moved within the automation zone between a plurality of assembly locations where it accesses and operates on the respectively the plurality of wiring harness assembly stations.

A clamp attachment device includes: a first chuck for clamping and holding a cable clamp; a chuck movement section for moving the first chuck and thereby overlapping the cable clamp with one or more component electric wires; a second chuck for clamping and holding the cable clamp and the one or more component electric wires together while they are overlapped with each other; and a taping section for winding a tape around the cable clamp held by the first chuck, wherein the taping section further winds the tape around the cable clamp and the one or more component electric wires starting from a taped portion while the cable clamp and the one or more component electric wires are held by the second chuck, wherein the tape has been wound around the cable clamp in the taped portion.