Abstract: A crimping cassette for a crimping device of a cable processing apparatus includes a crimping tool having stationary and movable tool parts configured to act together in a crimping operation of the crimping device. The crimping cassette further includes a holding device having at least two claws for attaching to a mounting part in a mounting area of the claws, the mounting part being directly or indirectly fixed to the stationary tool part. The holding device has a locked closed position in which the claws are firmly clamped to the mounting part; an unlocked closed position in which the claws loosely grip the mounting part for allowing an adjustment movement of the stationary tool part within a spatially limited adjustment range; and an open position in which the claws release the mounting part such that the stationary tool part is separable from the holding device.

Abstract: A method for stripping a part of a shielding foil of a sheathed cable includes the following steps: provide the sheathed cable with the shielding foil that has a predetermined breaking point running along a circumference of the shielding foil; bend a subarea of the sheathed cable with the shielding foil in a first direction to apply a tearing stress at the predetermined breaking point that tears the shielding foil on a part of the circumference of the shielding foil; move a first part of the sheathed cable in an elliptical, particularly circular, movement to apply the tearing stress across essentially the entire circumference of the shielding foil, so that the shielding foil tears at the predetermined breaking point across the entire circumference of the shielding foil; and remove from the sheathed cable the part of the shielding foil that was stripped from the sheathed cable.

Abstract: A double gripper for gripping and handling cable ends of two cables of a twisted cable harness in a fitting station for provisioning plug housings includes two gripper jaws each with an upper member arranged above a lower jaw member. The double gripper further includes two engagement members arranged between the upper and lower jaw members with which the cables are supported. The engagement members can be moved independently from the gripper jaws. A distance between the cables can be varied by moving the engagement members between the cables transverse to longitudinal axes of the cables. Each of the engagement members is formed as a wedge with at least one effective wedge surface.

Abstract: A method for connecting a first cable to a second cable with an adhesive tape to form a cable chain includes: arranging a free end region of the first cable parallel to and spaced from a first end region of the second cable; providing the adhesive tape folded in its longitudinal direction to form opening tabs at its first and opposite second ends with an adhesively coated side of the adhesive tape partially adhering to itself; and enclosing a part of the first cable free end region and a part of the second cable first end region with the adhesive tape such that the first cable free end region has a greater distance from the first adhesive tape end and the second adhesive tape end than the second cable first end region and is detachably connected to the second cable first end region.

Abstract: A crimping tool exchange device exchanges a first crimping tool for a second crimping tool, wherein each crimping tool, when at a processing position in a crimping press, produces a crimp connection connecting a conductor end of a cable to a crimp contact. The device includes first and second exchange units retaining the first and second crimping tools respectively. When one of the exchange units is arranged in an exchange position the retained crimping tool can be moved in a first direction between the processing position and the one exchange unit. The first exchange unit is moved linearly from the exchange position in a second direction, and the second exchange unit is moved linearly from the exchange position in a third direction that is different from the second direction, the second direction being at an angle relative to the third direction.

Abstract: A method for aligning a crimper of a first tool of a crimping press relative to an anvil of a second tool of the crimping press, wherein the crimper and the anvil make a crimp connection jointly by moving the crimper relative to the anvil in a first direction, includes: determining a lateral offset of a center line of the crimper to a center line of the anvil in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the center line of the crimper runs through a center of the crimper and in the first direction and wherein the center line of the anvil runs through a center of the anvil and in the first direction; and moving the crimper relative to the anvil in the second direction for lowering the lateral offset.

Abstract: A cable changer includes a cable guide for retaining a plurality of cables at different heights, and a cable feed apparatus for feeding one of the cables to a cable processing machine, the height of the cable guide being adjustable relative to the cable feed apparatus, such that the cable feed apparatus can feed different cables of the cable guide to the cable processing machine depending on the height of the cable guide relative to the cable feed apparatus. The cable guide has height alignment elements and the cable feed apparatus has height determination elements that are complementary to the height alignment elements, the height alignment elements and the height determination elements locking the cable guide at one of a plurality of specified heights relative to the cable feed apparatus when the height determination elements are connected to some of the height alignment elements.

Abstract: A cable processing device includes at least one processing unit for assembling a cable and a sorting unit that can be actuated with a selection signal to output a cable received from the processing unit at least on a first side or on a second side according to the selection signal.

Abstract: A cable processing machine control system includes middleware for data exchange with data brokers of multiple cable processing machines, and a wearable communication device for data exchange with the middleware. When a user of the cable processing machine control system has logged into the wearable communication device, depending on a role of the user that is assigned by the middleware, different information is displayed for the user on the wearable communication device via the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user and/or different action possibilities for controlling the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user are provided for the user on the wearable communication device.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting a cable end of a cable, with and without a connected crimp contact, includes a mirror apparatus with a central axis along which the cable end can be arranged for checking the cable end. The mirror apparatus includes a plurality of mirror elements arranged at a predetermined angle to each other and arranged at a predetermined angle to the central axis, each mirror element having a mirror arranged along the central axis for viewing the cable end from a different viewpoint. The inspection apparatus includes a camera for generating images of the cable end from the different viewing angles of the mirrors. At least a portion of each of the mirror elements is held in a respective position in the mirror apparatus by magnets.

Abstract: A method for removing insulation from inner conductors of a cable having a first section with a cable sheath removed and a second section with the cable sheath not removed utilizes a stripping device to perform the following steps: inserting the first section between a first rotatable roller and a second rotatable roller of the stripping device; moving the first roller and/or the second roller toward each other to clamp the first section between the rollers; moving the cable in a first direction that moves the second section away from the rollers; moving the cable in a second direction opposite the first direction that moves the second section toward the rollers; moving stripping blades toward the first section to cut into the insulation of the inner conductors; and moving the cable in the first direction to remove at least part of the insulation from the inner conductors.

Abstract: A cable processing apparatus has a crimping device loadable with an exchangeable crimping cassette, the cable processing apparatus including a crimping cassette exchanging device. The crimping cassette exchanging device includes carriages, each carriage having a crimping cassette holding device adapted to attach to and to detach from a crimping cassette; a horizontal carriage guide for providing a substantially horizontal guided movement of the carriages; a vertical carriage guide for providing a substantially vertical guided movement of a carriage from an initial vertical position to the crimping device or vice-versa, wherein the vertical carriage guide is arranged relative to the horizontal carriage guide such that one of the carriages is vertically movable at a time; a carriage shifting device adapted to controllably perform the horizontal guided movement; and a carriage lifting device adapted to controllably perform the vertical guided movement.

Abstract: A method for aligning a crimper of a first tool relative to an anvil of a second tool in a crimping press, wherein a crimp connection is made by jointly by moving the crimper relative to the anvil in a first direction, includes: moving the crimper relative to the anvil in the first direction until the anvil is partially inside a cavity of the crimper; moving the anvil relative to the crimper in a second direction transverse to the first direction until detecting contact between the anvil and the crimper; moving the anvil relative to the crimper opposite to the second direction until detecting contact between the anvil and the crimper for determining a gap width between the anvil and the crimper; and moving the anvil relative to the crimper in the second direction by a distance which is equal to half of the determined gap width.

Abstract: A cable processing machine includes a cable feeding device for moving a cable in a feed direction. The cable feeding device has a first guide element and a second guide element, between which elements the cable is guided at least in an operating mode of the cable processing machine. The spacing between the two guide elements is selectively variable. A method for laying a cable in the cable processing machine includes moving one or both of the guide elements relative to one another when the cable processing machine is shifted between the operating mode and a cable laying mode.

Abstract: A cable end holding device for holding a cable end of a cable for a crimp process includes a cable holding element for holding the cable end and a vertical position alteration device having two lever elements for altering the vertical position of the cable holding element in a manner decoupled from a movement of a stamp during the crimp process. The lever elements extend mutually parallel along a longitudinal direction of the lever elements and are arranged mutually offset in height and in a width direction perpendicular to the vertical and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The lever elements each are rotatably mounted about a first axis of rotation extending along the width direction, the two first axes of rotation extending mutually parallel.

Abstract: A method for processing a cable includes a drawing-out step and a placement step. In the drawing-out step, a loop of the cable is drawn out over a guide body arranged on a loop placement surface. The loop is drawn out to a specified length using a driven dog. In the placement step, the loop is placed onto the loop placement surface by the dog. In the process, the loop is placed over the guide body.

Abstract: An inspection device for inspecting a cable end of a cable, with and without a connected crimp contact, includes a mirror arrangement having a central axis along which the cable end can be arranged for inspection. The mirror arrangement includes a plurality of mirrors arranged at a predetermined angle to one another and at a predetermined angle to the central axis, each mirror viewing the cable end from a different angle. The inspection device includes a camera for generating images of the cable end from the different viewing angles of the mirrors. A transparent disk is arranged between the camera and the mirror arrangement to prevent dirt and/or dust from moving from the mirror arrangement to the camera. A compressed air cleaning device cleans the disk and/or the mirrors with compressed air ejected along the disk and/or along at least a part of the mirrors.

Abstract: A device and a method manipulate an inner conductor from several inner conductors at a stripped end of a sheathed cable. The device includes a manipulation device pivotable from an initial position about a pivot axis extending perpendicular to the axial direction of the cable end alignable relative to the manipulation device in a plane extending perpendicular to the cable end axis. The manipulation device includes a needle movable towards an inner conductor end in the initial position along a needle axis; and an inner conductor gripper gripping the inner conductor end. The method includes aligning the cable end relative to the manipulation device to align the needle axis with the inner conductor axis; moving the needle towards the inner conductor end, and establishing needle and inner conductor end contact; pivoting the manipulation device about the pivot axis; and gripping the inner conductor end by the inner conductor gripper.

Abstract: A cable processing device has at least one workstation designed as a changing station for processing cable ends of cables. This changing station includes two processing modules for optionally processing the cable end of the cable in one of the processing modules. The processing modules allocated to the changing station can be adjusted between a working position and a waiting position by an adjustment mechanism. The processing modules of the changing station are arranged on a carrier that is mounted on a machine frame such that the carrier is pivotable about a vertical axis of rotation. As a result of a 180° rotation about the axis of rotation, one of the processing modules is moved from the working position to the waiting position, while the other processing module is simultaneously moved from the waiting position to the working position.

Abstract: A cutting unit for stripping cables in a stripping station includes a base body and a knife holder attached thereto for holding stripping knives. The knife holder is firmly glued to the base body by an epoxy-resin adhesive, whereby the stripping knives are electrically isolated from the base body. The stripping knives are screw-connected with the knife holders. For the reading-out of electrical signals for detection of contact with a conductor the cutting unit has a printed circuit board that is electrically connected with the knife holders by contact screws.