Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
  • Publication number: 20230096164
    Abstract: A connector assembly device includes a terminal clamping device clamping and fixing a terminal of a connector and an insertion module. The insertion module includes a housing clamping device clamping and fixing a housing of the connector, a terminal guide device having a conical guide hole guiding the terminal into the housing, and a linear moving device driving the housing clamping device and the terminal guide device to move towards the terminal. The terminal is inserted into the housing through the conical guide hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230099847
    Abstract: A cable core wire orientation adjustment system includes a cable rotation module adjusting two core wires of a cable exposed from an end of the cable to a predetermined orientation by rotating the end of the cable. The cable core wire orientation adjustment system can automatically adjust the orientation of the two exposed core wires at the end of the cable, improving the orientation adjustment efficiency of the cable core wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230094516
    Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle system includes an automatic guided vehicle and a docking station for docking with the automatic guided vehicle. One of the automatic guided vehicle and the docking station has a pair of first vertical guide surfaces and the other has a pair of rows of rollers. The first vertical guide surfaces extend a predetermined length along a first horizontal direction and are spaced by a predetermined distance in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. The rows of rollers are in rolling contact with the first vertical guide surfaces to guide the automatic guided vehicle to a predetermined position in the docking station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230090091
    Abstract: A pressurizing device includes a pressurizing plate having a first pressurizing plate surface and a second pressurizing plate surface opposite to each other. The first pressurizing plate surface presses an electronic element located on a first circuit board surface of a circuit board. The pressurizing device includes a plurality of peripheral pressurizing units applying pressure to a peripheral region of the second pressurizing plate surface and a plurality of central pressurizing units applying pressure to a central region of the second pressurizing plate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Wei (David) Zhao, Zhiqiang (Simon) Li, Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang, Guoxiao (Neo) Shen, Christopher Blackburn
  • Publication number: 20230064235
    Abstract: A connector for plugging into a bus bar comprises a housing with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a connecting channel between the first side wall and the second side wall. A plurality of power terminals each having an electrical connection part are provided inside the connecting channel and are adapted to electrically connect with the bus bar. A plurality of grounding terminals are each disposed on the first side wall and the second side wall outside the connecting channel respectively. Each of the grounding terminals have an elastic first finger. An auxiliary support member is provided and supports the first finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Jiaoyong (Mac) Liu, Hongqiang (Sean) Han, Jie (Roger) Luo, Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20230054693
    Abstract: A thermoset sealant film includes an epoxy and a hardener. The hardener is integrated with the epoxy and remains physically distinct from the epoxy in a formed state of the thermoset sealant film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Hyo Chang (Chris) Yun, Lei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230056567
    Abstract: A spring clip has a first beam and a second beam connected to the first beam. The second beam is resiliently deflectable toward the first beam from a relaxed position distal from the first beam to a compressed position proximal to the first beam. The second beam has a spring latch disposed at an end of the second beam and extending toward the first beam. The spring latch engages the first beam to secure the second beam in the compressed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Raybold, John Mark Myer, Ryan David Hetrick
  • Publication number: 20230056932
    Abstract: A housing of a connector includes a first section and a second section connected to the first section and extending from the first section. The first section has a first dielectric constant. The second section has a second dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Hyo Chang (Chris) Yun, Mohammad Nikfal, Xiaoming Luo
  • Publication number: 20230046887
    Abstract: A contact includes a cantilever beam and a protection tab. The cantilever beam extends from a beam connected end to a beam free end along an insertion direction. The protection tab extends from a tab connected end to a tab free end in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The tab free end is positioned adjacent to the beam free end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Nathan William Swanger, Nicholas Lee Evans, Neil Franklin Schroll, Guenther Mumper, John Wesley Hall, Brandt Jochen
  • Publication number: 20230049830
    Abstract: A cable processing system includes a cable supply unit supplying a cable. A cable coiling unit of the system coils the supplied cable into a cable coil. The coiled cable is bundled by a cable coil binding unit. A cable coil loading unit loads the bundled cable coil, and a cable coil conveying unit conveys the bundled cable coil to the cable coil loading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230037715
    Abstract: A vacuum adsorption system includes a cylinder including a cylinder block, a piston, and a piston rod mounted in the cylinder block, and a vacuum pressure control device controlling a vacuum pressure in an inner cavity of the cylinder block. The piston rod has a vacuum suction hole communicating with the inner cavity. The vacuum pressure in the inner cavity is controlled so that a contact force applied by the piston rod on an object adsorbed by the vacuum suction hole of the piston rod is less than or equal to a predetermined contact force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230041336
    Abstract: A cable processing device includes a cable clamping device for clamping a cable to be processed. The device further includes a core wire straightening device for straightening exposed core wires of the fixed cable, and a core wire separating device for separating the straightened two core wires by a predetermined spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230041384
    Abstract: A cable holding system for positioning a cable relative to a cable processing machine comprises a cable holding device for selectively clamping onto a cable to be processed, and a receiver. The receiver includes an opening for selectively receiving the cable holding device in a predetermined orientation, and a mounting base for fixing the location of the receiver relative to the cable processing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Ondo, Craig Roper, Isaac Cruz, Todd Matthew Troutman
  • Publication number: 20230044199
    Abstract: A press-fit terminal for connecting a first component and a second component includes a first elastic portion for engaging with the first component, a second elastic portion for engaging with the second component, and an intermediate portion arranged between the first and second elastic portions in an axial direction of the terminal. The intermediate portion comprises a first plurality of radially extending arms for engaging with the first component and a second plurality of radially extending arms for engaging with the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventor: Galen M. Martin
  • Publication number: 20230023420
    Abstract: A charging inlet for an electric vehicle includes a housing, a terminal arranged within the housing for engaging with a corresponding mating terminal of a charging plug, and a sensor connectable to a monitoring system of the electric vehicle for detecting the presence of a charging plug installed within the charging inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics Canada ULC, TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Nathan Philip Myer, Christopher Couch, Tomas Mockovciak
  • Publication number: 20230018581
    Abstract: A wire termination apparatus for terminating an electrical terminal to a wire or cable include an upper tooling member which is movable between an open position and a closed position. A lower tooling member is attached to a base member of a frame of the wire termination apparatus. A process analyzer determines if a crimped terminal is properly crimped to a wire or cable. If the process analyzer determines that the terminal has not been properly crimped to the wire cable, the removal of the defectively crimped terminal and wire or cable from the wire termination apparatus is prevented until a code or key is entered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GMBH
    Inventor: Christopher John KARRASCH
  • Publication number: 20230021095
    Abstract: A product inspection system includes an image acquisition system having a camera generating an inspection image of a product arranged between a plurality of mirrors. The inspection image has a plurality of sub images of different sides of the product. The inspection system has a calibration member with a plurality of correction patterns on different sides; the camera receives light from the calibration member reflected by the mirrors to generate a calibration image of the calibration member. A computer of the product inspection system receives the inspection image and the calibration image and determines a relative mirror position relationship between the mirrors. The computer forms a single spliced image of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Rong Zhang, Qing (Carrie) Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230012270
    Abstract: A terminal system includes a first terminal assembly, a sleeve disposed around the first terminal assembly, and a second terminal assembly matable with the first terminal assembly along a longitudinal direction. The sleeve is movable with respect to the first terminal assembly from an insertion position to an end position along the longitudinal direction toward the second terminal assembly while the first terminal assembly remains stationary in a mated position with the second terminal assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Stack
  • Publication number: 20230005645
    Abstract: A flexible flat cable manufacturing system comprises a tape conveying device conveying an adhesive tape along a first direction, and a wire conveying device conveying a row of wires along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to a width direction of the conveyed adhesive tape. A wire pressing device presses and pastes the part of the row of wires facing the adhesive tape onto the adhesive tape. A wire cutting device cuts the row of wires to obtain a row of wire segments pasted on the adhesive tape and separated from the row of wires and produces a flexible flat cable including the adhesive tape and the wire segments pasted on the adhesive tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhonghua Xu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yuting He, Haidong Wu
  • Publication number: 20220404522
    Abstract: A cable detection system for detecting an end of a cable having a plurality of exposed different sections includes an illumination device and a camera. The illumination device emits an illuminating light to the end of the cable. The illumination device simultaneously emits a parallel light and a diffuse light to the end of the cable. The camera captures an image of the end of the cable. The parallel light sharpens a boundary between the different sections of the cable in the image, and the diffuse light clarifies a surface of the different sections in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Sonny O. Osunkwo, Sai Tarun Kosaraju, Cong Lin, Tianshu Wu