Patent ID: 7461448

Claim:
A crimping tool with a quick-change crimp head for sealing and electrically crimping electrical contacts to insulated wires, said crimping tool comprising: a base unit, said base unit including a receptacle, said receptacle being configured to actuate and removably and replaceably receive said quick-change crimp head; a crimping die holder body; a plurality of crimp-seal and continuity-crimping dies mounted for movement in said crimping die holder body between an open configuration and a fully crimped configuration, said crimp-seal dies having arcuate die faces, said arcuate die faces defining a substantially closed generally cylindrical form when said dies are in said fully crimped configuration; and actuators mounted in said base unit, said actuators being adapted to cause said movement; a sensor system configured to prevent said crimping tool from unintentionally repeating a crimping operation on said electrical contact and to verify continuity-crimp depth of indentation.