• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.189-194
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• 2008

This paper presents vision based inspection system for defects of industrial wire harness. Five type of nonconformities facter such as barrel deform, projected wire, overcoating, rack of wire length, over-strip is considered. Developed inspectio algorithmn has been tested on real specimens from a wire harness factory. Experimental results show that the inspection algorithm an has a good performance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.96-105
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• 2013

This paper presents a standardization method for designing wire harness systems, based on the control types and functional blocks, for use in commercial vehicles. With a rapid increase in the installation of systems with added new features, it is very important to develop a reliable wire harness design in a short time by standardizing wire harness designs and reusing the standard design. Because the function of a system, particularly, for commercial vehicles, varies significantly on the basis of the requirements, regulations, and options, it is not effective to establish one standard design for one system. In addition, a system with the same function may differ in terms of the input conditions and output loads on the basis of the installed vehicle types, and it is not practical to standardize a harness design targeting an entire system. In this study, the wire harness designs of a system were classified into six categories based on the control types of the system: switch driven, control of a switch, control of an electronic control unit, unit driven, control of a unit, and connector operation. Then, a wire harness design of each system was divided into three blocks according to their functions: the control, drive, and monitoring blocks. The standard wire harness designs were made for each functional block of each control type. The advantage of this proposed method is that an effective and practical design can be obtained, which covers the diversities in the same system for different grades of commercial vehicles with a reduction in the number of wire harness supplements.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.140-149
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• 2023

Wire harness is a component for efficient control when electronic parts are required such as construction machinery and electric vehicles. With emerging issues such as autonomous driving and automation in construction, a wire harness composed of multiple cables has become an essential part because more electronic parts are required. However, when a wire harness failure occurs, systems can be stopped, accidents can occur, and economic damage can be significant. Therefore, in this paper, we developed a digital fault screening system that could easily and quickly diagnose faults in the wire harness. The principle of the developed system was to sequentially send pulse signals to the wire harness and use returned signals to perform fault detection. As a result of diagnosing faults using the developed failure detection system, a detection accuracy of 99.9 % was confirmed through the experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.245-249
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• 2009

According to the increase of intelligent vehicles many automotive electric components are installed. The wire harness which connects those also increases. The crimping process for compressing the copper wire bundle into the terminal is a key process to assure the good quality of wire harness. For the case of inadequate forming condition many shape failures such as less-filling, over-filling are happen in the crimping process. Even though the quality of crimping shape is satisfactory the quality check for electrical resistance of wire harness is sometime not satisfied the qualification due to large variation of electrical resistance of wire harness under climate test. This large variation is thought to be related with the malfunction automotive electric system and caused by the internal stress of wire, which occurred during the crimping process. In this paper we develop the 3D-FEM simulation scheme and design methodology of optimum terminal shape. Also the effect of terminal shape on the residual stress is discussed.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.184-188
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• 2003

The harness design process consists of repetitious routines to decide the wire configuration in its interior. A slight change in one of the wire's configuration will require a total reconfiguration of the entire wire system. Therefore, the harness design is extremely time consuming and is vulnerable to human errors by an engineer. Based on both electrical and mechanical area, Wiring Harness system is in complicated area. Existing systems are, therefore, not exactly suitable for practical use. This paper presents a novel framework for ameliorating existing system's defects. In this paper, Visio and Visual Basic was interfaced to process wire bundle information and wire bundle location to alleviate problems mentioned beforehand concerning harness design; at the same time developing the automation of the entire design process based on the feature based design method, optional print, and management of documents for reuse.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.854-857
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• 2012

차량용 Wire Harness 전기 장치가 안전과 편의를 위해 차량에 복잡하게 설치되며 자동차 내 외부에의 정보와 제어신호를 잘못 전달해서 발생하는 돌발 교통사고와 Harness의 가공 잘못으로 정격전류 흐름의 방해로 인한 사고로 부터의 안정성을 검토하는 검사시스템 단계의 최적화를 위함이다. 본 논문은 Wire Harness 검사단계 중 Harness Tester를 통해 전선 부분의 도통검사 및 커넥터 체결시 Harness Tester 에 대한 검사 방법 중 Harness Editor 사용하여 7 개의 파일로 변환하던 것을 XML 파일 시스템으로 바꾸어 검사 함으로써 검사단계에서의 손실을 줄일 수 있다. 또한 모바일 기기와 호환 가능하도록 하여 무선으로 Wire Harness를 Open, Short, Extra, add 테스트 하는 방법을 연구 하였다.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.305-310
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• 2010

Recently industry of motor vehicle is making a gradual progress of automotive electric components. According to this step, wire harness equipped at motor vehicle is also increased. The most important component at the wire harness is electric connector. At the manufacturing process of electric connector, exactly at the crimping process, design variables, such as clamping-height, clamping-width and clamping die shape are critical parameters to assure satisfactory harness shape in clamping process of electric connector. In this study we have performed FEM simulation for clamping process and clarified the effect of design variables on compression rate of wire.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.77-92
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• 1986

Wire harness assembly is one of the most labor intensive processes in manufa- tuing, but the process has not been fully automated yet. In this paper a variety of concepts for flexible automated assembly system are suggested to design a robot- based wire harness assembly cell. All concepts are featuring an automatic, fedkng of wires, terminating routing, inserting and bundling. Based upon possible assembly methods and procedures, six alternative systems are proposed and, finally, evaluated10 from the view point of system performance such as flexibility, reliability assembly time and equipment cost.

• IE interfaces
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 1996

A wire harness is an assembly cables and/or wires to transmit signals between electronic assemblies in automobiles and electronic appliances. Inspection of such a wire harness is to check the sequence of assembled cabled each of which is identified by its own color. This paper presents an automated visual inspection system for wire harnesses incorporating back-propagation neural network as a color identification device. The tests performed by using real test specimens show that the inspection system works well enough.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.199-205
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• 2013

In this study, the methodology for the fatigue life prediction using finite element method(FEM) in wire, bundle and assembly level of the wire harness system and the development of the fatigue life test machine for the numerical analysis are investigated. To obtain stress-life(S-N) histories of the componential wires of the system, five kinds of wires are prepared and applied to the repeated bending motion using developed fatigue life test equipment. Equivalent model of the wire from the rule of mixtures theory is used for the material modeling of sheath and wire core combination. Contact conditions among the wires, taping conditions are established through the bundle level test and numerical bundle analysis. Wire and bundle level results are adopted for the assembly level analysis. For the assembly level analysis, real wire harness system including bundle and grommet is numerically modeled and applied contact condition between wires with real opening motion. The fatigue life more than 700,000 cycles of the assembly is obtained from the FEM, and it is confirmed that the result has good agreement with the experimental result.