How to insert male contacts vertically into the housing of an electrical connector?
Context
Electrical connectors are used across many industries to ensure reliable power and signal transmission.
Connectors exist in a wide range of shapes, materials, sizes, and pin counts depending on the application, from automotive harnesses to aerospace and industrial electronics.
Challenge
Modern connector pins have increasingly complex geometries and must be inserted vertically into the connector housing with high precision. Because of their shape, pins can present multiple orientations during feeding, while only one correct orientation allows proper clipping and locking into the connector cavity.
In addition, connector types may contain a high number of pins, making fast and reliable pick-and-place operations essential to maintain production throughput. Each pin must therefore be identified, oriented, picked, and inserted accurately without deformation or misalignment.
Precise feeding, orientation control, and high-speed vertical insertion are critical to ensure electrical reliability, connector integrity, and assembly quality.
Solution
Asyril’s flexible feeding solutions automate the orientation and presentation of connector pins for high-speed vertical insertion into electrical connectors thanks to hole-pattern design of Asycube vibration plates.
Powered by Asycube and EYE+, the system reliably identifies and positions complex pin geometries with the correct orientation, ensuring precise insertion and consistent assembly quality.
Manufacturers benefit from increased throughput, reduced rejects, and greater flexibility when handling multiple connector variants.
