A workstation and method for the installation of a pulling head assembly onto one or more conductors of a cabling system are provided. The workstation incorporates one or more of: a conductor clamp that holds the conductors of the cabling system in place during the installation of the pulling head assembly; a cutting guide having indicia marks that indicate the lengths to which to cut the conductors in order to achieve a staggered pattern of pulling eyes attached to the conductors in the pulling head assembly; a stripping tool that is used to remove a portion of the insulation from the terminal end of each conductor so that the end of the conductor may be inserted into the pulling eye; and a crimping tool that is used to crimp the pulling eyes onto the terminal ends of each of the conductors.

Methods and apparatus for temporarily holding one end of a wire on a harness form board during automated transfer from one robot to another robot. The apparatus includes a wire holding device which is designed to facilitate the transfer of a wire end from a first end effector of a first robot to a second end effector of a second robot. The wire holding devices have different structures, but share the common feature that opening of the wire holding device (to enable wire insertion) involves applying a contact force which overcomes a spring force that urges the wire holding device to be closed. The end effectors are designed and their movements are controlled in a manner such that the moving end effector applies the contact force necessary to overcome the closure-inducing spring force being exerted.

Methods and apparatus for temporarily holding one end of a wire on a harness form board during automated transfer from one robot to another robot. The apparatus includes a wire holding device which is designed to facilitate the transfer of a wire end from a first end effector of a first robot to a second end effector of a second robot. The wire holding devices have different structures, but share the common feature that opening of the wire holding device (to enable wire insertion) involves applying a contact force which overcomes a spring force that urges the wire holding device to be closed. The end effectors are designed and their movements are controlled in a manner such that the moving end effector applies the contact force necessary to overcome the closure-inducing spring force being exerted.

An automated wire kitting system for assembling wire leads for a wired connector comprises a terminal delivery system configured to obtain a target terminal from a plurality of different types of terminals for wire leads and a crimp press comprising a plurality of dies and being configured to obtain a wire having an exposed portion where the wire's insulation has been removed, receive the target terminal from the terminal delivery system, engage a target die of the plurality of dies corresponding to a type of the target terminal, and crimp the target terminal onto the exposed portion of the wire using the target die of the plurality of dies to assemble a wire lead.

An automated wire kitting system for assembling wire leads for a wired connector comprises a terminal delivery system configured to obtain a target terminal from a plurality of different types of terminals for wire leads and a crimp press comprising a plurality of dies and being configured to obtain a wire having an exposed portion where the wire's insulation has been removed, receive the target terminal from the terminal delivery system, engage a target die of the plurality of dies corresponding to a type of the target terminal, and crimp the target terminal onto the exposed portion of the wire using the target die of the plurality of dies to assemble a wire lead.

The present disclosure provides a ferrule support assembly for a stripper-crimper machine and other similar devices. The ferrule support assembly can include an axle configured to be received within a drum of a ferrule reel, a first support plate configured to be coupled to the stripper-crimper machine, and a second support plate opposite the first support plate. The first support plate and the second support plate can include an axle notch configured to engage the axle extending between the first and second support plates.

A method for crimping an electrical cable with a shielding braid and an insulation enclosing the shielding braid includes removing the insulation at a predetermined area to expose an exposed portion of the shielding braid. The method includes crimping an inner crimp sleeve onto the insulation adjacent to the predetermined area and then bending back the exposed portion of the shielding braid at least sectionally over the inner crimp sleeve.

A terminal crimping device 1 comprises a terminal cutting device 260 configured to cut off a terminal 130 provided on a band-shaped terminal carrier 140 from the terminal carrier, a terminal carrying unit 270 configured to carry the terminal 130 separated from the terminal carrier 140 by the cutting unit 260 to a terminal crimping work unit 14, a cable carrier 210 for carrying the electric cable 110 to the terminal crimping work unit 14, a crimping device 280 configured to crimp the terminal 130 carried to the terminal crimping work unit 14 by the terminal carrying unit 210 to the tip end of the electric wire 112 of the electric cable 110 carried to the terminal crimping work unit 14 by the cable carrying unit 210.

A terminal crimping device 1 comprises a terminal cutting device 260 configured to cut off a terminal 130 provided on a band-shaped terminal carrier 140 from the terminal carrier, a terminal carrying unit 270 configured to carry the terminal 130 separated from the terminal carrier 140 by the cutting unit 260 to a terminal crimping work unit 14, a cable carrier 210 for carrying the electric cable 110 to the terminal crimping work unit 14, a crimping device 280 configured to crimp the terminal 130 carried to the terminal crimping work unit 14 by the terminal carrying unit 210 to the tip end of the electric wire 112 of the electric cable 110 carried to the terminal crimping work unit 14 by the cable carrying unit 210.

A manufacturing method for an electric wire having a terminal includes a step of connecting a plurality of core wires by an ultrasonic connection process to form a connected core wire. In the step, the core wires are formed into the connected core wire having a cross-sectional shape having a width and a height in a plane orthogonal to an axis of the connected core wire, the width is not longer than a length obtained by subtracting two times a thickness of the terminal from a width of an arch groove of a crimper of a crimping apparatus in a state that a space between a support surface of an anvil of the crimping apparatus and the arch groove defines a predetermined crimped shape.