Testing device for electrical car networks

One of the production steps in DSE Draexlmaier Company (http://www. draexlmaier.de/), which is - besides other activities - a global player in producing electrical car networks is to make a final test of their products after manufacture process. The problem was connected with designing a mechatronic fixing and checking device for plugs of electrical car networks. The available testing device, on hand by DSE Draexlmaier, was completely analysed and simulated. The device should test the air tightness in order to make sure that the electrical isolation is waterproof. Additionally, two electrical connections should be checked during the test. The main aim of this project was to make an improvement of the whole device in order to decrease the production costs and to make it smaller than the existing one. The resulting concepts were modelled in CATIA^®V5 and animated with CoCreate OneSpace Designer^®2002 programs. Both assumptions were taken into consideration in the designing process and as the final result solution which serves required expectations and constitutes the basis for the possible future manufacture implementation has been achieved.