Apparatus for processing information of a wiring harness

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US006438435B1
(12) United States Patent
(10) Patent N0.: US 6,438,435 B1
Wada et al 45 Date of Patent‘ A 20 2002
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(54) APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING 5,483,459 A * 1/1996 Tamura .................... .. 702/158
INFORMATION ()F A WIRING HARNESS 5,506,950 A 4/1996 Hughes et al. ............ .. 345/326
5,514,966 A * 5/1996 Kawamura et a1. . 324/539
(75) Inventors: Akio Wada, Hyogo; Kaneyoshi 5,623,753 A 4/1997 Tamura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 29/33
Shimizu, Osaka, of FORAE I*G N PATENHTa ZDaOmaC CUI M8.1E. N. . T. . . S. . . . . . . . ..
(73) Assignee: J .S.T. Mfg. Co. Ltd., Osaka (JP)
EP 304 866 3/1989
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this EP 424 189 4/1991
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 JP 62466700 10/1987
U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. JP 63-058712 3/1988
* cited by examiner
(21) Appl. No.: 09/111,191
Primary Examiner—Ramesh Patel
(22) Filed: Jul. 7, 1998 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Merchant & Gould PC.
(30) Foreign Application Priority Data (57) ABSTRACT
Jul. 7, 1997 (JP) ........................................... .. 9-181138 An apparatus and a method both-capable of easily generat
ing diagrams for manufacturing Wiring harnesses. Entities of
(51) Int. Cl.7 .............................................. .. G06F 19/00 connectors, binding parts and Wirings are stored in a hard
(52) us. Cl. ........................... .. 700/97; 700/98; 700/95; disk 20. A Wiring arrangement diagram is generated With a
700/83; 700/17 CPU 22 in accordance With the entities, values and/or
(58) Field of Search ............................ .. 700/17, 83, 95, characters thus inputted. The Wiring arrangement diagram is
700/96, 97, 98, 213, 115, 116; 29/851, displayed on a display 6. A desired Wiring arrangement can
861, 853, 749, 255, 757, 866, 867, 564.8, be generated by carrying out amendment and/or modi?ca
564.6, 564.4 tions of the arrangement thus displayed using a mouse 2
and/or a keyboard 6. A Wiring table and an independent
(56) References Cited Wiring harness diagram both considering connection infor
mation of each terminal betWeen each of the connectors are
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
generated With the CPU 22 as Wiring harness information in
3,946,768 A * 3/1976 Fiorentino ............... .. 140/921 accordance With the entities, values and/or characters and so
4,912,644 A * 3/1990 Aoyama et al. .. 700/98 on in the desired Wiring arrangement diagram. At that time,
5,033,188 A * 7/1991 Polliard et al. ............. .. 29/861 a judgement is carried out Whether or not the independent
5,050,093 A * 9/1991 Reddy e161. ............... .. 702/36 Wiring harness diagram thus generated complies With a
5,067,379 A * 11/1991 Butler et al. 83/18 predetermined rule. The Wiring table and the independent
5,083,369 A * 1/1992 Creda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 29/857 Wiring harness diagram thus generated are outputted from a
5,109,479 A * 4/1992 Williams 345/425
printer 14.
5,127,062 A * 6/1992 Creda ...... .. 382/100
5,140,873 A * 8/1992 SchWartZman 81/9.43
5,282,311 A * 2/1994 Tamura ..................... .. 29/825 18 Claims, 31 Drawing Sheets
THE FIRST EMBODIMENT
BASIC ENTITIES
STORING MEANS
ENTITIES
INPUT MEANS
8 1O 14
WIRING ARRANGE- WIRING HARNESS
NUMERAL VALUE MENT DIAGRAM INFORMATION PRINTER
4\T INPUT MEANS GENERATING GENERATING
MEANS MEANS
2
JUDGING MEANS /1
6 DISPLAY MEANS
U.S. Patent Aug. 20,2002 Sheet 1 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1

U.S. Patent Aug. 20, 2002 Sheet 3 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1
FIG.3
FLOW CHART OF WIRING HARNESS
INFORMATION PROCESSING
( START )
G
INPUT WIRING /s1
ARRANGEMENT DIAGRAM
GENERATE WIRING /S2
LENGTH TABLE
53
< PARTIALLY ‘(Y E s
SPECIFIED ? / I
NQ GENERATE WIRING
ARRANGEMENT /s4
GENERATE WIRING /S6 DIAGRAM 0F
TABLE SPECIFIED CONNECTORS
w
GENERATE INDEPENDENT s7 GENERATE INDEPENDENT
WIRING HARNESS / WIRING HARNESS /s5
DIAGRAM DIAGRAM OF SPECIFIED
CONNECTORS
J
( END )

U.S. Patent Aug. 20, 2002 Sheet 6 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1
FIG.6A
REMARKED OPPONENT TYPES OF COLORS OF
CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- ELECTRIC ELECTRIC
TERMINAL TERMINAL CABLE CABLE
I’ J51B-1 J V J2080M—3 I m1 061AWG26I FYELLOM
I?J51B-2J m2080M—4 I IULIOBIAWGZQI IYRED I
V J5‘1B—3 J |TJ2080M—5 J HILI 061M624“ ITBLUEJ
NUMBER
HOW TO OF PARTS COLOR OF
FIX TERM|NALS NUMBER CONNECTOR
ICRIMPINGI I 3 J W5ZR-8MJ F GREEN J
J2080M
52
J51B
FIG.6B
FJMB-I l FJZOBUM-U WLHHHAWGQI IYELLOWI
FJ51B-2 J WZOBOM-4j Wuomwezs] I RED l
FJ51B-3 J |fJ2080M—5 | HILIUISIAWGZQI FBLUEJ
54 J2080M
52
J51B
U.S. Patent Aug. 20, 2002 Sheet 7 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1
FIG.7
REMARKED OPPONENT TYPES OF COLORS OF
CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- ELECTRIC ELECTRIC
TERMINAL TERMINAL CABLE CABLE
I J2080M-1 F F I1 J
IfJ2080M-2 I I T
UZOBOM-FIJ I J51B-1 j WL1061AWG26J ITELLOW
I'J2080M—4 | F J51B-2 j IIIWBIAWGZQI F RED
I_J2080M—5 | J51B-3 IUL1061AWG26 I'BLUE_]
NUMBER
HOW TO 0,: PARTS COLOR OF
FIX TERM|NALS NUMBER CONNECTOR
FJRIMPING F 5 J I05ZR—-8M F RED J
U.S. Patent Aug. 20, 2002 Sheet 8 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1
‘[0 PROPERTIES OF CONNECTION
TYPES OF COLORS
CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- CONNECTION OF
TERMINAL TERMINAL LINE LINE
»FJ10II-3J F Jmz-IJ HIL1061AWG2§| IGREYJ
F J100-4 I F J102-2 J HIL1061AWI?I IiBLUE I
PROPERTIES OF CONNECTION
TYPES OF COLORS
74 /b 76 CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- CONNECTION OF
85 40 TERMINAL TERMINAL LINE LINE
86 I .1101-1 J |TJ100-1_| IULIIIMAWGQI MELLOVIII
I104 “7° 92 FJ101_2 J FJ100_ 2J Wosmwazg] FREOJ
d 98 J105
20 I PROPERTIES OF CONNECTOR
87 CONNECTOR-CONNECTOR- TYPES OF cOLORs
7'’ TERMINAL TERMINAL LINE OF LINE
88f I J105-1 J I J101-3J [uuomwegl FBLUEJ
J101 F J105-2 I I J10I—4 J IULIOGIAWGZIII [BLUE]
NUMBER PARTS PARTS
HOW To OF NUMBER OF NUMBER OF
FIX TERMINAL HOUSING CONTACT
FORIMPINGI I 2 J FXHP-QJ ISXH-IIIIIT-PILGI
\IRROPERTIES OF CONNECTION
CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- TYPES OF COLORS
TERMINAL TERMINAL LINE OF LINE
F J‘I01-3J I JIM-1A EILIIIIIIAWGLI I BLUEJ
F J101—4_| F JIM-2A IUL106IAWG2J6I I BLUEJ
PROPERTIES OF CONNECTOR
CONNECTOR- CONNECTOR- TYPES OF COLORS
TERMINAL TERMINAL LINE OF LINE
I J101-1 J I J100-1 l Wuomwml l?sLLovll
FJIOI-ZJI I J100-2 ] WLIIIIIIAIIMI] I RED |
TIMI-s I FJ105-1J WIIIIIIAWIIMJ FBLuE I
TJIIII-IJ FJIIII-ZJ [uTwmAwezel I_BLUEJ
I J101—5_I F I F I I l
NUMBER
HOW TO 0|: PARTS COLORS OF
FIX TERMINAL NUMBER CONNECTOR
IORIMPINQI 5 J IOIIZIHIIUI GREEN J
U.S. Patent
Aug. 20, 2002 Sheet 9 0f 31 US 6,438,435 B1
FIG.9
GENERATING A CONNECTION LENGTH TABLE
( )
START
SET VALUE OFAS 1,
DESIGNATE CONNECTOR 8200 SET VALUE OF" i "AS
HAVING IDENTITIER / "i+1 DESIGNATE S206
"CONNECTOR. i" AS UPCOMING CONNECTOR /
OBJECT CONNECTOR AS COMPARISON
CONNECTOR
s20?
NOf j>i /
\ max
. . /$2°1 YES
I=I '
RECORD EACH LENGTH S208
OF ELECTRIC CABLE /
SET VALUE OFAS .
"H 1 DESIGNATE BETWEEN CONNECTORS
CONNECTOR HAVING /$202
IDENTITIER "CONNECTOR.
j" AS COMPARISON CORRECT LENGTH OF /$209
CONNECTOR ELECTRIC CABLES
8203
< j>i YES REARRANGE WIRING /$210
max LENGTH TABLE
NO
IS OBJECT CONNEC- $204
TOR "CONNECTOR. i"
NO
CONNECTED TO COMPAR
SION CONNECTOR
"CONNECTOR. j" '2
Y E 8
RECORD CONNECTION
BETWEEN "CONNECTOR. i" 5205
AND "CONNECTOR. j"
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