US 11,891,201 B2
Cable bundle taping device
An Yang, Shanghai (CN); Lvhai Hu, Shanghai (CN); Dandan Zhang, Shanghai (CN); Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Bellevue, WA (US); Jian Cao, Shanghai (CN); Yun Liu, Shanghai (CN); Yuting He, Kunshan (CN); Haidong Wu, Kunshan (CN); and Hui Xiao, Kunshan (CN)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH); and Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd., Kunshan (CN)
Filed by Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Shanghai (CN); TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH); and Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd., Kunshan (CN)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/069,286.
Claims priority of application No. 201911028642.1 (CN), filed on Oct. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0122510 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. B65B 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 27/06 (2013.01) 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable bundle taping device adapted to wind a tape on a coiled cable bundle, comprising:
a support frame;
a conveying device mounted on the support frame and adapted to convey the tape to a standby position;
a first driving wheel rotatably mounted on the support frame and having a slot extending radially inward from an outer edge of the first driving wheel;
a shutter device mounted on the support frame near the standby position, the shutter device is opened by the coiled cable bundle to allow the coiled cable bundle to enter into or move out of the slot, the end of the tape is bonded to the coiled cable bundle while the coiled cable bundle opens the shutter device and enters into the slot; and
a tape binding mechanism arranged on a side of at least one sidewall of the first driving wheel near a bottom of the slot and opposite to the tape in the standby position, the coiled cable bundle is bonded to an end of the tape at the standby position and pushed to the bottom of the slot, the tape is wound on the coiled cable bundle by rotating the tape binding mechanism under driving of the first driving wheel.