Patent ID: 9362700
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: H01R,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A terminal crimping device comprising: crimp tooling defining a crimp zone configured to receive a wire and a terminal configured to be crimped to the wire by the crimp tooling during a crimp stroke of the crimp tooling to form a crimped terminal; an ultrasound module ultrasonically coupled to the crimp tooling, the ultrasound module transmitting acoustic waves through the wire and the crimped terminal when present, the ultrasound module receiving echo acoustic signals being reflected back to the ultrasound module and generating echo signals based on the echo acoustic signals; and a crimp quality module receiving the echo signals from the ultrasound module, the crimp quality module determining a crimp height of the crimped terminal based on the reflected echo acoustic signals received by the ultrasound module.