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(11) EP 0 037 202 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
02.12.1981 Bulletin 1981/48

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.10.1981 Bulletin 1981/40

(21) Application number: 81301099

(22) Date of filing: 17.03.1981
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI NL SE

(30) Priority: 31.03.1980 US 135740

(71) Applicant: AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation)
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(72) Inventors:
  • Davis, Newton Gardner
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  • Loomis, Phillip Eugene
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  • Shughart, Mervin Leonard
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(54) A method of, and apparatus for, producing wired electrical connectors


(57) Wires (14) are inserted into slotted plate terminals (not shown) of miniature connectors (10) at wire insertion stations (18, 20, 22).
In order to avoid the overcrowding of wire insertion tooling (44) at the insertion stations (18, 20, 22), each connector (10) is advanced sequentially through the stations (18, 20, 22) at each of which only some of the terminals thereof are wired, the terminals wired at each station (18, 20, 22) being separated by at least one other terminal of the connector (10). The apparatus comprises sliding shuttles (66) in which the connectors (10) are intermittently advanced through the stations (18, 20, 22).






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