This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 107128646, filed on Aug. 16, 2018. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of specification.
The invention relates to a crimping module and a crimping hand tool.
Coaxial cables are widely applied and are often used in fields such as signal transmission, cable television system, etc. The term coaxial comes from the two conductors inside sharing a central axis. In general, cable materials used for the coaxial cables are divided into several types based on different functions and usage manners such audio transmission, broadband network connection, or cable television signal distribution. Nevertheless, due to the variety of specifications and sizes of the coaxial cables, when connectors are required to be bonded to cables, crimping pliers of different types for cables and connectors of different specifications are required to be prepared in order to crimp the connectors and cables of different specifications together.
In this way, since the number of replacement parts of a crimping hand tool is usually excessive, the crimping hand tool may not be conveniently carried around, and the replacement parts may be easily lost. As such, a user may not enjoy a convenient using experience when using the crimping hand tool. Therefore, how a crimping hand tool may be designed based on a simple structure to enhance portability and convenience of the crimping hand tool for users is an important issue in this field.
The invention provides a crimping module and a crimping hand tool having a simple structure and capable of providing enhanced portability and facilitating operation for a user.
A crimping module provided by an embodiment of the invention is suited to a crimping hand tool. The crimping module includes a base, an adjustment member, and a crimping member. The base is adapted to be moved along an axis. The adjustment member is rotatably disposed at the base along the axis. The crimping member is movably assembled to the base along the axis. The crimping member penetrates and is screwed with the adjustment member. The adjustment member is adapted to be rotated about the axis to drive the crimping member to move along the axis, so as to adjust a position of the crimping member in the crimping hand tool. After a cable and a connector are received in the crimping hand tool, the crimping hand tool is adapted to drive the base by a force, so as to crimp the cable and the connector together via the crimping member.
A crimping hand tool provided by an embodiment of the invention is configured to crimp a cable and a connector together. The crimping hand tool includes a first body, a second body, a crimping module, and a linking member. The second body is pivoted to the first body, and at least one of the first body and the second body is adapted to be open and close with respect to each other. The crimping module includes a base, an adjustment member, and a crimping member. The base is adapted to be moved along an axis. The adjustment member is rotatably disposed at the base along the axis. The crimping member is movably assembled to the base along the axis. The crimping member penetrates the adjustment member and being screwed therewith. The base has a first limiting structure, and the crimping member has a second limiting structure. When the adjustment member is applied by a force to rotate about the axis and drives the crimping member, the first limiting structure and the second limiting structure are fitted to each other so that the crimping member moves along the axis only without rotating. The linking member is pivoted to the first body and the base. After the cable and the connector are received in the second body, the first body and the second body are pivoted with respect to each other by a force to move the base along the axis through the linking member and crimp the cable and the connector together by the crimping member.
In an embodiment of the invention, the base has a first limiting structure, and the crimping member has a second limiting structure fitted to the first limiting structure so that the crimping member moves along the axis only without rotating while being driven by rotation of the adjustment member.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first limiting structure is an opening hole of the base, and the opening hole has a non-circular inner contour. The second limiting structure is a shaft of the crimping member, and a cross section of the shaft has a non-circular outer contour. The shaft penetrates the opening hole, and the non-circular inner contour is fitted to the non-circular outer contour.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first limiting structure is a groove in the base extending along the axis. The second limiting structure is a protruding portion of the crimping member movably coupled to the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, the base includes a first member and a second member. The first member is movably assembled to a body of the crimping hand tool along the axis, and the first member having the first limiting structure. The second member is assembled to the first member. The crimping member movably penetrates in the first member and the second member along the axis, and the adjustment member is rotatably disposed at the second member about the axis.
In an embodiment of the invention, the second member has a third limiting structure, and the adjustment member is limited by the third limiting structure and rotates about the axis only without moving along the axis.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first limiting structure is an opening hole of the first member, and the opening hole has a non-circular inner contour. The second limiting structure is a shaft of the crimping member, and a cross section of the shaft body has the non-circular outer contour. The shaft penetrates the opening hole, and the non-circular inner contour is fitted to the non-circular outer contour.
In an embodiment of the invention, the crimping member has a crimping portion. The shaft is a screw shaft, and the crimping portion is located at one end of the screw shaft away from the base. The screw shaft penetrates the adjustment member located at the second member and the first member. The screw shaft is screwed with the adjustment member, and a cross section of the screw shaft has the non-circular outer contour.
In an embodiment of the invention, a bottom portion of the screw shaft has a plane movably coupled to another plane in the opening hole along the axis.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first limiting structure is a groove in the first member extending along the axis. The second limiting structure is a protruding portion of the crimping member movably coupled to the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first limiting structure is an opening hole of the second member, and the opening hole has a non-circular inner contour. The second limiting structure is a shaft of the crimping member, and a cross section of the shaft has a non-circular outer contour. The shaft penetrates the opening hole, and the non-circular inner contour is fitted to the non-circular outer contour.
To sum up, the crimping module is disposed in the body of the crimping hand tool, and the crimping module includes the movable base and the adjustment member and the crimping member assembled on the base. Since the crimping member penetrates the base and is screwed with the adjustment member, the position of the crimping member in the body can be changed through operating on the adjustment member. That is, through the adjustment member, the user may enable the crimping member to be adjusted to a corresponding state matched with the required sizes and specifications. In this way, even if the sizes and specifications of the coaxial cable change, the user only has to perform the adjustment action, and then the crimping member is enabled to be matched with the different sizes and specifications of the coaxial cable. It thus can be seen that a simple structure may enable the state of the crimping hand tool to be changed to correspond to the coaxial cable. Therefore, inconvenience caused by the need of preparing different replacement parts at any time is avoided, and convenience and crimping efficiency of the crimping hand tool are enhanced.
To make the aforementioned more comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with drawings are described in detail as follows.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
The linking assembly 140 includes a linking member 141 and a linking member 142 located at two opposite sides of the first body 110 along the X-axis. Herein, one end of the linking member 141 and one end of the linking member 142 are pivoted to the first body 110 through a connection member 135 of the connection assembly 130, and another end of the linking member 141 and another end of the linking member 142 are pivoted to the crimping module 150 through a connection member 136 of the connection assembly 130. Note that the connection member 136 is further coupled to an expansion hole 122a of the part 122 and an expansion hole 123a of the part 123. The expansion hole 122a and the expansion hole 123a substantially extend along a Y-axis, similar to a movable axial direction of the base in the second body 120, and thereby, rotational movement of the linking assembly 140 may be converted into linear movement of a base.
Accordingly, when the first body 110 and the second body 120 are applied by a force to pivot to be a close state, the linking assembly 140 drives the crimping module 150, so the crimping module 150 may smoothly move in the concave channel structure of the second body 120 along the Y-axis, and a crimping action is thereby performed. When the cable 320 of the coaxial cable 300 is sleeved into the connector 310, the cable 320 of the coaxial cable 300 and the connector 310 are placed into the concave channel structure, so that the cable 320 and the connector 310 may be crimped together through the crimping action, as shown in
Specifically, the first member 151 of the base B1 has a first limiting structure 151a, and the first limiting structure 151a may be, for example, an opening hole with a non-circular inner contour. The crimping member 154 has a crimping portion 154a and a shaft 154b. The shaft 154b is a screw shaft, and the crimping portion 154a is located at one end of the screw shaft away from the base B1. The screw shaft is configured to be fitted to an internal thread of the adjustment member 153, so that the rotational movement of the adjustment member 153 may be converted into linear movement of the screw shaft. Further, a bottom portion of the shaft 154b of the crimping member 154 has a second limiting structure 154d, such as the crimping member 154 depicted from another view angle in
As described above, since the shaft 154b and the adjustment member 153 are matched with each other, as such, when a user rotates the adjustment member 153, the crimping member 154 is driven at the same time. Nevertheless, with presence of the first limiting structure 151a and the second limiting structure 154d, the crimping member 154 can move only without rotating when being driven. That is, with reference to
In addition, the second region A2 of the second member 152 is defined by a third limiting structure 152b and a third limiting structure 152c of the second member 152. The adjustment member 153 located in the second region A2 is thereby limited to be located between the third limiting structure 152b and the third limiting structure 152c, so movement of the adjustment member 153 is limited to rotate about the Y-axis only without moving along the Y-axis.
In this way, a distance D1 between the crimping portion 154a of the crimping member 153 and the third limiting structure 152b is to be changed as affected by rotation of the adjustment member 153. In other words, since a position of the crimping member 154 in the second body 120 can be accordingly changed, the crimping hand tool 100 of this embodiment can be adapted to different sizes of the coaxial cable 300. That is, the user does not have to carry crimping members of different sizes and specifications for replacement and is able to complete the required crimping action as the crimping hand tool 100 may be adapted to different specifications of the coaxial cable 300. Therefore, the crimping hand tool 100 delivers a more convenient using experience.
Note that the crimping member 154 also includes a protruding portion 154c located at one end (opposite to the crimping portion 154a) of the shaft 154b. When the shaft 154b of the crimping member 154 passes through the opening hole of the first member 151, the protruding portion 154c substantially interferes with the third limiting structure 152c along the Y-axis to prevent the crimping member 154 from being detached from the base B1. In assembly practices, an assembler may first insert the shaft 154b into the first member 151 and then install a pin into the shaft 154b through the opening hole on a top portion of the first member 151 to form the protruding portion 154c. Nevertheless, assembly means used to assemble the crimping module are not limited by the invention.
The crimping hand tool 100 further includes an elastic member 160. With reference to
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Here, the first body 110, the linking members 141 and 142, the base 651, and the adjustment member 653 are the same with members illustrated in the above embodiments, wherein different from the foregoing embodiment, in the crimping module 650 and the second body 620 of this embodiment, the limiting member 621 is a recess or a rail extending along an axis in the second body 620, and the crimping portion 654a has a pillar movably coupled to the recess so as to move along the axis (a process shown from
According to the disposition of the members above, when the adjustment member 653 being forced by an user to be rotated, the crimping member 654 moves along the axis only without rotating about the axis because of the crimping member 654 being partially interfered with the limiting member 621 and having only one degree of freedom of movement along the axis. That's to say, the limiting member 621 is a fixed structure in the second body 620 differing from the limiting member, the base B1, being moved in the second body in the above embodiments.
In view of the foregoing, in the embodiments of the invention, the crimping module is disposed in the body of the crimping hand tool, and the crimping module includes the movable base and the adjustment member and the crimping member assembled on the base. Since the crimping member is inserted in the base and is screwed with the adjustment member, the position of the crimping member in the body can be changed through operating on the adjustment member. Further, the limiting structures fitted to each other exist between the base and the crimping member of the crimping module. Hence, when the user rotates the adjustment member to drive the crimping member, the limiting structures may effectively prevent the crimping member from rotating along with rotation of the adjustment member. That is, the crimping member is limited to generate linear movement only, so that adjustment on the crimping module may be smoothly performed.
Through the adjustment member, the user may enable the crimping member to be adjusted to a corresponding state matched with the required sizes and specifications. In this way, even if the sizes and specifications of the coaxial cable change, the user only has to perform the adjustment action, and then the crimping member is enabled to be matched with the different sizes and specifications of the coaxial cable. It thus can be seen that a simple structure may enable the state of the crimping hand tool to be changed to correspond to the coaxial cable. Therefore, inconvenience caused by the need of preparing different replacement parts at any time is avoided, and convenience and crimping efficiency of the crimping hand tool are enhanced.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the disclosed embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the disclosure covers modifications and variations provided that they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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