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(11) EP 0 675 577 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.05.1997 Bulletin 1997/21

(43) Date of publication A2:
04.10.1995 Bulletin 1995/40

(21) Application number: 95200437.2

(22) Date of filing: 23.02.1995
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6: H01R 43/042
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 29.03.1994 JP 81156/94

(71) Applicants:
  • HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Shinagawa-ku Tokyo (JP)
  • Sumitomo Wiring System, Ltd.
    Yokkaichi-shi Mie-ken (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ichitou, Toshikatsu, c/o Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo (JP)
  • Ishioka, Hideyuki, c/o Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo (JP)
  • Okamura, Takahiro, c/o Sumimoto Wiring System, Ltd
    Yokkaichi-shi, Mie (JP)
  • Nakamura, Atsuro, c/o Sumimoto Wiring System, Ltd
    Yokkaichi-shi, Mie (JP)
  • Takehana, Shinichi
    Ueda-shi, Nagano (JP)
  • Yokozawa, Hirokazu
    Chiisagata-gun, Nagano (JP)
  • Hizawa, Toshiharu
    Chiisagata-gun, Nagano (JP)

(74) Representative: Jilderda, Anne Ayolt 
LIOC B.V. P.O. Box 85096
NL-3508 AB Utrecht
NL-3508 AB Utrecht (NL)

   


(54) Cable feeding device for automatic connecting apparatus


(57) A cable feeding device for an automatic connecting apparatus includes: guiding sections (2A - 2E) disposed between a cable supplying device (30, 35) and a cutting section (15), each of the guiding sections being adapted to guide one cable (C), which is pulled out from the cable supplying device (30), linearly toward the cutting section (15); and a length-measuring section (14) for feeding out a predetermined length of the cable while measuring the length of the cable at an intermediate position or a forward position of the guiding section, wherein the guiding sections are arranged such that the cables (C) become parallel in an identical imaginary plane, the guiding sections being attached to a shifting/driving section (8) and being movable by a distance corresponding to an integral multiple of a pitch between the guiding sections in a direction in which the guiding sections are arranged, one of the guiding sections being selected to be located on a line connecting the length-measuring section (14) and the cutting section (15).






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