Development of Parallel Robot Cables by OKI Electric Cable
Use of high-flex robot cables on industrial machines such as factory automation is for their capability in supporting repetitive operation. In order to achieve this, usually a number of cables and air tubes are stored in the cable veyor. But this method requires wiring one cable at a time resulting in a poor productivity as well as leading to incorrect wiring with low bending performance. To over comes this issue each cable needed to be adhered but the use of durable and flexible adhesion in order to maintain the original sliding characteristics of the individual cable was difficult. Read more
Industry’s first ultra thin, ultra long Flexible Printed Circuit
FPC is used to enable the thin wiring possessing to its thin, light, highly flexible and highly dense characteristics. But due to unavailability of thin FPCs, thin cables have been used instead as a wiring material for narrow and long places. The conventional thin wire has inherent issues namely that the thinner the cable the more complex harness-making process becomes which increases the chances for incorrect wiring. Based on this OKI Electric Cable has announced the development of an ultra thin, ultra long flexible printed circuit (FPC). The new FPC has achieved a narrow width of 2mm and a length of up to 3 meter which was so far difficult to make. Read more
