Wire canister for a robotic wire harness assembly system

摘要

A wire canister capable of being used by robots during the assembly of a wire harness. The wire canister is capable of accepting, storing and dispensing random lengths of wire, i.e., a wire segment. The leading and trailing ends of the wire segment are constrained in such a way that the ends of the wire segment may be readily acquired by the manipulator of a robot and presented to other supporting equipment for purposes of performing operations on the ends of the wire segment.