Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
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Publication number: 20230283033Abstract: A cutting device for cutting an initial product into a plurality of products comprises a base, a cutter seat and a cutter. The initial product includes an insulator and a plurality of groups of terminals fixed on the insulator. The base of the cutting device includes a plurality of slots arranged side by side, and a first positioning slot formed on an inner sidewall of each of the slots of the base and adapted to position one of the terminals of the initial product. The cutter seat is inserted into one of the plurality of slots and defines a blade slit. The cutter is adapted to be inserted into the blade slit to cut off the insulator of the initial product to form the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20230264291Abstract: A welding system for welding a wire to a welding pad includes a moving device movable in at least two directions, a welding head mounted on the moving device and a visual devise. The welding head is adapted to clamp the wire. The visual device guides the moving device to move the welding head to a predetermined position. In operation, the moving device moves the welding head to a clamping position aligned with the wire, and moves the clamped wire to a welding position aligned with the welding pad under the guidance of the visual device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20230249303Abstract: A carrier transmission device comprises a slide rail, a rack and a pair of gears. The slide rail extends along a transmission direction of a carrier to be transmitted and is adapted to slidingly guide the carrier. The rack extends along the transmission direction and is connectable to, or integrally formed on, the carrier. The pair of gears are spaced by a predetermined distance in the transmission direction and are adapted to engage with the rack and drive the carrier to move in the transmission direction on the slide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20230253749Abstract: A fixing system includes a wire clamping device and a fixture. The wire clamping device is adapted to clamp and fix a plurality of wires. The fixture includes a base plate, a wire fixing member adapted to fix the plurality of wires clamped by the wire clamping device on the base plate, and a circuit board fixing member adapted to fix a circuit board on a front face of the base plate. The wire fixing member and the circuit board fixing member are arranged so as to align cores or conductors of the plurality of wires clamped by the wire clamping device with a plurality of wire welding pads of the circuit board placed on the base plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Rong Zhang, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lei (Alex) Zhou, Xianghao (Jorge) Bao
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Publication number: 20230249295Abstract: A loading workstation comprises a docking station including a first transmission device adapted to transmit a carrier for loading components, and a mobile vehicle. The mobile vehicle includes a second transmission device, a feeding device and a loading device. The second transmission device is adapted to dock with the first transmission device to allow the carrier to be continuously transmitted on the first transmission device and the second transmission device. The feeding device is adapted to supply components to be loaded. The loading device is adapted to load the supplied components onto the carrier that has been transferred to the second transmission device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics ( Shanghai ) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Jian Cao, An ( Joshua ) Yang, Lvhai ( Samuel ) Hu, Dangdan ( Emily ) Zhang, Fengchum ( Fred ) Xie, Yun ( Shanghai ) Liu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Xianghao (Jorge ) Bao
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Publication number: 20230245508Abstract: A sensing assembly includes a plurality of sensors and a multiplexer having a plurality of input channels and a multiplexer output channel. The plurality of input channels include a plurality of sensor input channels each connected to one of the sensors and a plurality of framing input channels. The multiplexer outputs an output sequence of a series of individual values received at the input channels at the multiplexer output channel. The output sequence has a plurality of sensor values received from the sensors between a framing start value and a framing end value received at the framing input channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: David Bruce Sarraf, William Russell
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Patent number: 11715902Abstract: A low insertion force contact terminal which has a conductor mating portion, a securing portion and a substrate mating portion. The conductor mating portion is configured to terminate a conductor therein. The securing portion is configured to secure the terminal in a terminal receiving cavity of a housing. The substrate mating portion extends from the securing portion. The substrate mating portion has at least two sections which have curved portions thereon. The at least two sections move independently, which allows the curved portions to exert a normal force on walls of through holes of a substrate to which the contact terminal is mated which is sufficient to provide a stable electrical connection while allowing for a low insertion force.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity India Private Limited, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Vinayakumar Shettar, John Marsh, Lawrence John Brekosky
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Publication number: 20230231351Abstract: A system for separating terminals (e.g., electrical terminals) from a terminal strip includes a shear tool movably mounted to a frame for selectively shearing the terminal from the terminal strip. A primary shear depressor is provided for driving the shear tool from an initial position to an intermediate position during which the terminal is sheared from the terminal strip. A secondary shear depressor is movably mounted to the primary shear depressor for driving the shear tool from the intermediate position after the terminal has been sheared from the terminal strip, to a final position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventor: David Alan College
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Publication number: 20230221714Abstract: An artificial intelligence diagnosis system includes a diagnosis model responsive to data received from a plurality of sensors. Each of the sensors is a part of an input channel further including a converter operative to process the received sensor data. A system manager is provided and is operative with an allocator to selectively distribute sensor data to the converters. The system manager operates with the converters such that a converter which is allocated with the sensor data processes the allocated sensor data and inputs the processed sensor data into the artificial intelligence diagnosis model. A converter which is not allocated with the sensor data generates virtual sensor data according to an instruction of the allocator and inputs the virtual sensor data into the artificial intelligence diagnosis model.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Zhonghua Xu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Rong Zhang, Lei Wang, Chien-lin Chen
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Publication number: 20230223721Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing defining a front opening for receiving a mating connector in a mating direction, an electrical terminal arranged within an interior of the housing, and a terminal position assurance (TPA) device received within a rear opening of the housing in an installation direction. The TPA device includes a body defining a central opening for receiving a cable to be attached to the terminal, and an elastic element defined on a front end of the body. The elastic element includes a contact surface protruding from the front end of the body for engaging with the terminal in an installation direction of the TPA device. The contact surface engages with the terminal before the TPA device reaches an installed position within the housing in the installation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Hurley Chester Moll, Clara Rhodes, Kevin John Peterson, Aaron James de Chazal
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Publication number: 20230208061Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a contact receiving passageway extending through a mating end of the housing in a longitudinal direction and a contact disposed in the contact receiving passageway. The housing has a window extending through a wall of the housing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The contact has a mating section disposed at the mating end and a contact section extending from the mating section. An exposed portion of the contact section is exposed to an area exterior of the housing through the window.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventor: Michael Dale Brown
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Patent number: 11688965Abstract: The present application discloses an electric connection assembly having a support and a connector, wherein the support comprises a support body; the support body is provided with a mounting groove; the connector is configured to be in contact electrical connection with a mating connector; the connector comprises a mounting part; part or all of the mounting part is detachably received within the mounting groove; the support and the connector are formed separately and connected to each other. Compared with the prior art, the electric connection assembly of the present disclosure implements the function of supporting, holding and assembling integrally the corresponding connectors by means of the support provided with a mounting groove. Correspondingly, the entire structure of the electric connection assembly is simplified and convenient to be assembled.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD.Inventors: Litao Dong, Ziwei Li, Weiping Zhao, Haifeng Liu
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Patent number: 11680994Abstract: The present invention relates to a detection device for detecting a position of a conductor, a wire processing equipment, and a method for detecting a position of a conductor in wire processing. The detection device has: a bracket; and a plurality of conductive probes provided on the bracket and spaced from each other. The conductive probes have a detection position, and the detection device is configured to determine whether the detected conductor is at a predetermined position by detecting whether the conductive probes at the detection position are electrically connected through the conductor; when at least two conductive probes are electrically connected with each other through the detected conductor, the detected conductor is determined in the predetermined position; when no two conductive probes are electrically connected with each other through the detected conductor, the detected conductor is determined not in the predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTEInventors: Zhen Wang, Yiqun (Cham) Zhu, Siegfried Beck
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Publication number: 20230166910Abstract: A pallet lifting rack includes a pair of lifting devices. Each of the lifting devices has a frame, a movable bracket mounted on the frame and movable in a vertical direction relative to the frame, a support member connected to the movable bracket, and a driving device driving the movable bracket and the support member to move along the vertical direction. The support members of the pair of lifting devices support a bottom surface of a pallet from a pair of sides of the pallet, so that the pallet is supported on the support members and movable to different height positions in the vertical direction by the support members.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianghao (Jorge) Bao, Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Rong Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Ming (Reuben) Ni, Lei (Leo) Yang
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Publication number: 20230155336Abstract: A cable assembly comprises a conductive cable including an exposed conductive first section having a first cross-section, and a second section adjacent the first second and having a second cross-section distinct from the first cross-section. A ferrule is positioned over the conductive cable and includes a body defining a seam formed therethrough in an axial direction. The ferrule defines a first body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the first portion of the conductive cable, and a second body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the second portion of the conductive cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventor: Neil Franklin Schroll
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Publication number: 20230145849Abstract: A cable supply system includes a cable supply device supplying a cable, a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device, and a control device controlling a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device. The control device controls the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device according to a cable supply speed of the cable supply device such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20230131397Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a latch and a terminal mounted in the housing. The terminal has a locking hole with a locking hole front portion in a terminal insertion direction along which the terminal is inserted into the housing and a locking hole rear portion in the terminal insertion direction. A size of the locking hole front portion is larger than a size of the locking hole rear portion. The latch elastically protrudes into the locking hole to lock the terminal in the housing. The latch has a latch front portion in the terminal insertion direction and a latch rear portion in the terminal insertion direction. A size of the latch front portion is larger than a size of the latch rear portion. The size of the latch rear portion is smaller than the size of the locking hole front portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Italia Distribution S.r.l.Inventors: Yongjia (Winter) Wang, Liang Zhang, Subhash Maheshbabu, Federico Lupo, Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang
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Publication number: 20230132348Abstract: A product inspection system includes a separating device separating a pair of adjacent products in a row of products by a predetermined distance, an image capturing device simultaneously capturing a plurality of images of a plurality of surfaces of all the products of the row of products that have been separated by the separating device, and a rotating device simultaneously rotating the products in the row of products separated by the separating device. The surfaces to be inspected of each product in the row of products are successively rotated to an orientation facing the image capturing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Qing (Carrie) Zhou, Rong Zhang
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Publication number: 20230110836Abstract: A connector shield for a flat flexible cable comprises a housing defining a connector space on a first end thereof for receiving a signal cable connector, and a cable space on a second end thereof for at least partially receiving an end of the flat flexible cable. The cable space defines a width greater than that of the connector space and a height less than that of the connector space. A plurality of contact elements extend from the housing and into the cable space for electrically contacting a conductive element of the flat flexible cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Kevin Stauffer, James Michael Raudenbush, John Mark Myer, Joshua T. Shoemaker
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Publication number: 20230100250Abstract: A protective shroud includes a shroud body, a protective door movably installed on the shroud body, and a buffer mechanism connected between the shroud body and the protective door. The buffer mechanism slows down a moving speed of the protective door. The protective door is moved between an open position and a closed position in a vertical direction to open or close the shroud body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yuting He