Device for Determining a Crimp Height of a Crimped Electrical Connection

摘要

A terminal crimping device includes crimp tooling defining a crimp zone configured to receive a wire and a terminal. The terminal is configured to be crimped to the wire by the tooling during a crimp stroke of the crimp tooling to from a crimped terminal. The crimp tooling includes an ultrasound module ultrasonically coupled to the crimp tooling and the wire and the crimped terminal when present. The ultrasound module transmits acoustic signals through the crimped terminal and the wire. The ultrasound module also receives echo acoustic signals being reflected back to the ultrasound module. The ultrasound module generates echo signals based on the echo acoustic signals. The terminal crimping device also includes a crimp quality module that receives the echo signals from the ultrasound module and determines a crimp height of the crimped terminal based on the reflected echo acoustic signals received by the ultrasound module.

主权项

1. A terminal crimping device comprising:
crimp tooling defining a crimp zone configured to receive a wire and a terminal configured to be crimped to the wire by the crimp tooling during a crimp stroke of the crimp tooling to form a crimped terminal; an ultrasound module ultrasonically coupled to the crimp tooling, the ultrasound module transmitting acoustic waves through the wire and the crimped terminal when present, the ultrasound module receiving echo acoustic signals being reflected back to the ultrasound module and generating echo signals based on the echo acoustic signals; and a crimp quality module receiving the echo signals from the ultrasound module, the crimp quality module determining a crimp height of the crimped terminal based on the reflected echo acoustic signals received by the ultrasound module.