Device for determining a crimp height of a crimped electrical connection

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9362700
APP PUB NO 20150047182A1
SERIAL NO

14457852

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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 form 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.

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  • TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Charlton, John Dunaway Harrisburg, US 4 14
Fry, Charles David New Bloomfield, US 28 351
Maalouf, Khalil John Chambersburg, US 8 185
Nicholas, Keith Lynn Harrisburg, US 6 22
Stull, David Michael Etters, US 13 21

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