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 12:
13. A crimping machine with a spiral conveyor for feeding a plurality of contact sleeves provided for crimping with a cable, wherein the spiral conveyor comprises a feed rail, by which the contact sleeves of the crimping machine are fed in a predetermined orientation, and wherein a first optical sensor is provided for acquiring first image data of a contact sleeve at the feed rail; and/or
a second optical sensor is provided for acquiring second image data of a cable, wherein
the crimping machine comprises an insulation-stripping device for stripping the insulation of the cable provided for crimping with the contact sleeve and an opening for manually feeding the cable for insulation stripping and subsequent crimping of the cable, wherein the second optical sensor is provided at the opening; and wherein
at least one third optical sensor is provided at the opening for acquiring image data of a cable crimped with a contact sleeve.