An illustrative wire processing machine includes at least one blade configured for at least one of cutting a conductor or at least piercing an insulation layer on the conductor. At least one gripper assembly includes a gripper configured to at least temporarily grasp a portion of a conductor during a wire processing operation. A generator, which is part of the gripper assembly, is configured to radiate a field toward a conductor. The gripper assembly also includes a detector that is configured to detect at least some of the field propagated along the conductor. A processor is configured to determine when a change in the propagated field detected by the detector indicates contact between a conductor and the blade.

An apparatus for removing an insulating layer on a length portion of wire for forming a coil winding of an electrical machine, the apparatus comprising a wire guide for guiding through the wire in a wire moving direction, a slider arrangement having a plurality of sliders arranged around the wire and configured to displaced radially back and forth relative to the wire, wherein a cutting slider with a cutting edge for scraping the insulation and a counter bearing slider for counter-holding the wire during scraping are provided in such a way that the cutting slider and the counter bearing slider are opposite one another and can be moved towards and away from one another; and a cam disk with a recess or opening through which the wire is guided by wire guide. The cam disk being rotatable by a cam disk drive. Also a method and a computer program.

According to the method of stripping a portion of a wire of the invention, the insulated wire including the wire core are first flattened before the insulation is stripped away. The flattening eases the stripping as the insulation is partially cracked and dissociated of the wire core, and the stripping is more efficiently applied on a flat surface. A wire stripping machine and a transponder antenna with stripped portions are also claim as being part of the invention.

A stripping apparatus and a stripping station capable of reducing cycle time for steps of stripping an insulation coating from a conducting wire material are provided. A stripping apparatus configured to strip an insulation coating WL from a conducting wire material W, including the insulation coating WL and cross-section of which orthogonal to a longitudinal direction has a rectangular shape, the stripping apparatus includes: an upper mold 150 provided with a stripping blade configured to strip the insulation coating WL; a lower mold 110 configured to support the conducting wire material W from a lower side thereof; a pressing member 130 configured to prevent displacement of the conducting wire material W; and a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the conducting wire material W around a rotational axis C1 that is parallel to a axial center of the conducting wire material W.

A device (2) for stripping insulation means (35) from flat-bundled wire means (22), the device (2) including a first jaw assembly (10), wherein the first jaw assembly (10) clamps the insulation means (35) at a clamping or penetrating region (39) of the insulation means (35), the first jaw assembly (10) including blade means (13, 15) for penetrating and/or weakening the insulation means (35) at said clamping or penetrating region (39), wherein part of the insulation means (35) is removed by relative movement between a gripped portion (41) of the insulation means (39) by a member (6) and the blade means (13, 15) when the blade means (13, 15) is in contact with the insulation means (35).

A method for the automated processing of an end of a cable, which has an inner part and a sleeve surrounding the inner part, wherein one section of the sleeve is radially widened. The radially widened section of the sleeve is severed by the exertion of an axial cutting force in one region. A device suitable for implementing this method for the radial widening of a section of the sleeve and a cutting device having a first cutting body and a second cutting body, which can be moved toward each other in the axial direction with respect to the cable end and, as a result, sever the radially widened section of the sleeve in one region.

An illustrative example conductor monitoring device includes a generator configured to radiate a field into a conductor. A detector is configured to detect at least some of the field propagated along the conductor. A processor is configured to determine when a change in the propagated field detected by the detector indicates contact between the conductor and a conductive blade of a wire processing machine. The example conductor monitoring device is capable of providing information regarding the condition of a conductor that has gone through a wire handling process that involves cutting the wire and stripping insulation from near the end of the cut wire, for example. The information regarding the condition of the wire is obtained without making contact with the wire and without interfering with or requiring any alteration of the wire handling process or machine.

A device for forming a notch for stripping includes a cutting mechanism which includes an electrically conductive cutter blade; a contact detecting section for detecting contact between an outermost conductor of the coated electric wire and the cutter blade based on a variable capacitance between the outermost conductor and the cutter blade; and a movement mechanism for adjusting a position of the cutter blade and thus positioning the cutter blade to a position corresponding to a specified notch depth for forming the notch, upon detecting the contact between the cutter blade and the outermost conductor by the contact detecting section during movement of the cutter blade.

Techniques, systems and articles are described for preparing electrical cables for connections to a power grid. In one example, a system includes a cable preparation device configured to cut one or more layers of an electrical cable and a computing device configured to control the cable preparation device to cut the one or more layers of the electrical cable. The computing device may determine one or more target cutting distances and determine whether an actual cutting distance satisfies the target cutting distance. The computing device may detect defects in the electrical cable. The computing device may further determine whether the cable preparation device should be serviced.

A coat removing method of removing a coat of a coated optical fiber 3 made of a glass fiber 3a and the coat of polyimide resin 3b covering the glass fiber 3a includes holding the coated optical fiber 3 with fiber clamps 5 and 7 at two locations spaced by a predetermined distance in a length direction of the coated optical fiber 3, applying tension to the coated optical fiber 3 in the length direction, pressing a coat removal blade 29 to the coated optical fiber 3 in the tension-applied state in a direction crossing the length direction, to bend the coated optical fiber 3, and moving the coat removal blade 29 in the length direction along the coated optical fiber 3 in the bent state, thereby removing the coat.