ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,218, issued on April 21, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Wiring harness assembly cell" was invented by Nuno Jose Lopes Carrolo (Lisbon, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring harness assembly cell includes an automation zone housing a robot for performing automated assembly operations on a series of wiring harness assembly boards. A plurality of wiring harness assembly stations is located about the automation zone, each including one or more wiring harness assembly boards holding the wiring harnesses. Manual operator zones are located outside the automation zone that are associated with ...