Pre-assembled connectors plug in to automation trends
Mobile machinery in agriculture and construction challenges automation specialists, said binder. The increasing degree of automation, agricultural and construction machinery is becoming a more and more important field of application for advanced sensors and actuators. They are used for inclination, position, or level detection, but also for actuators or valve controls.
Furthermore, displays, lighting, operating devices, and diagnostics modules have to be connected within the mobile machines, such as tractors and their attachments to combine harvesters and crop choppers to excavators, cranes, or dump trucks. The safe and fast connection of automation components is becoming immensely important, said binder.
Proven technologies, such as Deutsch DT or AMP Superseal, meet automation components and binder provides industrial circular connectors that are ready to connector for the Deutsch DT, AMP Superseal and AMP CPC model series. These, in combination with connectors from the binder portfolio are part of its Plug&Play product selection, together with connectors pre-assembled with cables also available if required.
Cable switches with wiring options tailored to different applications enable connector systems of different designs to be combined in order to customise connectivity for mobile machines. For customers, this range can reduce the cabling effort and ensure a tamper-proof design, said binder.
Connector types such as the Deutsch DT, and the Superseal and CPC series from the manufacturer AMP have become established in such agricultural applications. The international standard for agricultural technology, ISOBUS according to ISO 11783, also defines certain interfaces in this market sector.
Integrating advanced sensor/actuator technology with the industry-proven connection technologies is a key challenge for machine engineers.
In order to ease this task for system integrators, binder offers both Deutsch-DT, and AMP Superseal and CPC connectors as part of its Plug&Play portfolio, in addition to its own series. This provides the user with the ability to combine a wide variety of connector types as needed. The products for agricultural and construction machinery meet IP67 protection degree requirements when mated. They are equipped with a process-safe cable overmould to relieve the wires from tension forces. The connectors are suitable for use on moving assemblies, with designs which feature cables suitable for power track chains.
To meet individual designs, tailored to the respective field of application, binder’s Plug&Play portfolio allows various connector systems – in overmoulded form – to be combined to create customised solutions. This already applies to quantities as low as one. Since splitter cables are often in demand in addition to simple patch cables, the range also includes cable switches with a wide variety of wiring options.
The binder Plug&Play portfolio offers the possibility to realise overmoulded Y distributions with ratios of 1:2, 1:4, 1:6 and 2:6. Users can choose the connector types. The variability of connection provides them with a wide range of options. The maximum possible pin counts vary, depending on the distribution ratio, between eight and 18. Cable diameters range from 3.5 to 10mm and the largest possible wire gauge is either 0.5mm² (1:2) or 1.0mm².
