David E Stull

US Patent:

20150047182, Feb 19, 2015

Filed:

Aug 12, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/457852

Inventors:

- Berwyn PA, US
Khalil John Maalouf - Chambersburg PA, US
David Michael Stull - Etters PA, US
Charles David Fry - New Bloomfield PA, US

International Classification:

H01R 43/048

US Classification:

29753

Abstract:

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.