Patents Assigned to Circuitmaster Designs Limited
  • Patent number: 9240661
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a feeding mechanism for displacing the carrier strip along a feed path; an image capture means adapted to capture an image of a portion of the feed path; and, an image processing means connected to the image capture means and being adapted to (a) determine the position of at least one terminal on the feed path from the image; (b) determine the pitch of the strip either from the image or from a pre-stored value; and, (c) calculate an alignment displacement of the strip along the feed path from the position and pitch such that a further terminal on the strip lies within a crimping zone on the feed path; the image processing means being connected to the feeding mechanism and adapted to provide a control signal thereto such that the feeding mechanism displaces the carrier strip along the feed path by the alignment displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: CIRCUITMASTER DESIGNS LIMITED
    Inventor: Andy Bainbridge
  • Publication number: 20130063591
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding crimp terminals on a carrier strip into a crimping press, the separation between the terminals along the strip being the pitch of the strip, the apparatus comprising a feeding mechanism for displacing the carrier strip along a feed path; an image capture means adapted to capture an image of a portion of the feed path; and, an image processing means connected to the image capture means and being adapted to (a) determine the position of at least one terminal on the feed path from the image; (b) determine the pitch of the strip either from the image or from a pre-stored value; and, (c) calculate an alignment displacement of the strip along the feed path from the position and pitch such that a further terminal on the strip lies within a crimping zone on the feed path; the image processing means being connected to the feeding mechanism and adapted to provide a control signal thereto such that the feeding mechanism displaces the carrier strip along the feed path by the alignment displacemen
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: CIRCUITMASTER DESIGNS LIMITED
    Inventor: Andy Bainbridge
  • Patent number: 6885613
    Abstract: There is disclosed apparatus for monitoring a solder wave comprising a board of insulating material simulating a printed circuit board, an array of spaced electrical contact elements on the underside of the board across the entire width thereof, means for measuring the dwell time of each contact in the wave as the board is conveyed over the wave, and means for displaying the measured dwell times to show the contact area and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Circuitmaster Designs Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Bainbridge, Patrick John McWiggin