US 12,112,863 B2
Taping head
Lopes José Carrolo Nuno, Lisbon (PT); Qiu Jianliang, Lisbon (PT); Rubén Marco Medeiros Ferreira Da Silva, Odivelas (PT); and Miguel Sousa Borges Monteiro Pires, Lisbon (PT)
Assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies Limited, St. Michael (BB)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/973,709.
Claims priority of application No. 21205051 (EP), filed on Oct. 27, 2021; and application No. 22203260 (EP), filed on Oct. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129360 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H01B 13/012 (2006.01); B65B 13/18 (2006.01); B65H 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 13/01281 (2013.01) [B65H 35/008 (2013.01); B65B 13/18 (2013.01); B65B 13/185 (2013.01); B65B 13/187 (2013.01); B65H 2701/377 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A taping head for taping a wire harness with tape of a roll of tape, said taping head comprising:
a base plate with a first aperture for receiving the wire harness,
a rotatable tape dispenser with a second aperture, the rotatable tape dispenser rotatably mounted to the base plate and configured to rotate the roll of tape about a center of the first and second apertures, and
a clamping unit configured to clamp a free end of the tape, wherein the clamping unit includes an anvil fixedly mounted to the rotatable tape dispenser and a clamping element movably mounted to the base plate.