NASA's Langley Research Center has created a collection of innovations for rapid, precise, and verified crimps. Wiring crimp failures can be a threat to safety and may lead to a loss of critical functions in high-risk applications, such as aerospace. In addition to the safety concerns, diagnosing and repairing poor crimp connections can be costly. Langley's crimping innovations increase quality and reduce risk by using ultrasound to provide real-time, nondestructive verification of wire-crimp integrity while the crimp is being formed. This technology can be applied to electromechanical crimping machines, where the appropriate force required to form a crimped connection is determined in real time. Such an application prevents over- or under-crimping, and prevents excessive tool wear. Langley has also created a means and method to calibrate and verify the mechanical and electrical settings for an ultrasonically enhanced crimp tool.
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机译:美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的兰利研究中心(Langley Research Center)创建了一系列创新产品,可实现快速,精确和经过验证的压接。接线压接故障可能会对安全造成威胁,并可能导致航空航天等高风险应用中的关键功能丧失。除了安全方面的考虑,诊断和维修不良的压接连接可能会很昂贵。兰利(Langley)的压接创新通过使用超声波在压接形成时提供实时,无损的压接完整性检查来提高质量并降低风险。该技术可应用于机电压接机,其中实时确定形成压接连接所需的适当力。这样的应用可以防止过度卷曲或卷曲不足,并防止过度的工具磨损。兰利还创建了一种方法和方法,用于校准和验证超声增强压接工具的机械和电气设置。
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