Patent ID: 6393689
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A system for fitting at least one pin into a connector, said system comprising:a frame; a first unit supported by said frame and fed with a continuous wire having a plurality of portions, said continuous wire including an end portion, each of said plurality of portions being arranged one after another and linked together by frangible regions at which each of said plurality of portions is separable one from another to form said at least one pin, said first unit advancing and guiding said continuous wire along a rectilinear direction of advance; a second unit supported by said frame and mounted on a rotary shaft, said rotary shaft being perpendicular to said rectilinear direction of advance, said second unit being for fitting said at least one pin into said connector; and a driving means for rotating said second unit around said rotary shaft from a first position to a second position, wherein: a. in said first position, said first and second units are aligned along said rectilinear direction of advance of said continuous wire so that said end portion of said continuous wire is introduced into said second unit by said first unit along said rectilinear direction of advance of said continuous wire, b. rotation of said second unit from said first position to said second position causes separation of said end portion from said continuous wire by fracturing one of said frangible regions to form said at least one pin, and c. in said second position, after said rotation of said second unit which has caused said end portion to be separated from said continuous wire to form said at least one pin, said second unit is transverse to said rectilinear direction of advance of said continuous wire of said first unit in order to allow said at least one pin to be fitted into said connector.