Patent ID: 11913774
Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method for ensuring and/or checking the quality of a crimp making use of a crimping machine for crimping a cable with a contact sleeve and making use of a first optical sensor for detecting and/or recording first image data of the contact sleeve and making use of evaluation electronics, the method comprising:
selecting a predetermined cable and a predetermined contact sleeve for a predetermined crimping;
setting a predetermined suitable crimping height;
setting a predetermined suitable insulation stripping of the cable;
programming the evaluation electronics for the predetermined cable and the predetermined contact sleeve, wherein first reference data is selected by the evaluation electronics from a large number of predetermined first reference data;
acquiring the first image data of the contact sleeve by the first optical sensor;
carrying out, via the evaluation electronics, a first comparison of the first image data of the first optical sensor with the first reference data of a predetermined contact sleeve;
checking the first comparison for the presence of a predetermined first criterion; and
if the predetermined first criterion is satisfied, outputting a first signal,
wherein the acquiring of the first image data and the carrying out of the first comparison and the checking of the first comparison for the presence of the predetermined first criterion and the outputting of the first signal are carried out before the cable is crimped with the contact sleeve.