Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
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Publication number: 20220224054Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulation housing, a plurality of grounding terminal columns and a plurality of hybrid terminal columns. The plurality of grounding terminal columns are arranged on the insulation housing and comprises a plurality of first grounding terminals. The plurality of hybrid terminal columns are arranged on the insulation housing adjacent respective ones of the plurality of grounding terminal columns and includes a plurality of second grounding terminals and a plurality of differential signal terminal pairs. Each of the differential signal terminal pairs is located between two adjacent second grounding terminals in one hybrid terminal column and is adjacent to two first grounding terminals of the grounding terminal columns adjacent to the one hybrid terminal column at both sides thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Fengping (Alex) Xu, Wei (Zach) Peng
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Patent number: 11381020Abstract: An electrical terminal having a base section, a first contact leg and a second contact leg. The contact legs extend from the base section. The first contact leg has a first generally planar portion. A first curved resilient contact portion extends from a first side of the first planar portion, and a first positioning wall extending from a second side of the first planar portion. The first side of the first planar portion is opposed to the second side of the first planar portion. The second contact leg has a second generally planar portion. A second curved resilient contact portion extends from a first side of the second planar portion, and a second positioning wall extends from a second side of the second planar portion. The first side of the second planar portion is opposed to the second side of the second planar portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventor: Brian Keith Weaver
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Patent number: 11382231Abstract: A socket connector assembly for a communication system includes a socket connector having a socket housing holding socket contacts having deflectable spring beams. The socket connector assembly includes a cable assembly coupled to the socket connector having an outer housing holding a paddle card with paddle card contacts interfacing with the separable mating interfaces of the socket contacts. The cable assembly includes cables terminated to the paddle card coupled to corresponding paddle card contacts. The socket connector assembly includes a spring plate coupled to the outer housing secured to the host circuit board to press the cable assembly downward toward the host circuit board to compress the deflectable spring beams of the socket contacts.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Junya Tsuji, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Christopher William Blackburn
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Patent number: 11381038Abstract: A contact assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and ground contacts. The contacts include intermediate portions extending between mating and terminating ends. The ground terminating end has a leadframe ground bus connecting each of the ground contacts. The electrical connector includes a contact holder holding the contacts. The electrical connector includes cables terminated to the leadframe including signal conductors terminated to corresponding signal terminating ends. The leadframe ground bus is terminated to each of the ground shields to electrically common the ground shields. The electrical connector includes an external ground bus separate and discrete from the leadframe ground bus terminated to each of the ground shields at an opposite side of the cables from the leadframe ground bus to electrically common the ground shields.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventor: Sandeep Patel
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Patent number: 11377249Abstract: A labeling system includes a pasting unit having a first mechanical arm adapted to pick up a label to be pasted, at least one visual device configured to guide the first mechanical arm to paste the label on an object, and at least one scanning device adapted to scan the label pasted on the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Zongjie Tao
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Patent number: 11374363Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Jacob Rita, Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 11374339Abstract: A pluggable module includes an outer housing having a cavity between an upper wall and a lower wall. A circuit card is received in the cavity having a card edge configured to be received in a card slot of a communication connector. A circuit card holder engages the circuit card and holds the circuit card in the cavity of the outer housing. The circuit card holder includes a locating fin at a top of the circuit card holder. The locating fin has a sacrificial upper edge configured to engage the outer housing to locate the circuit card holder and the circuit card in the cavity. The sacrificial upper edge is deformed when engaging the outer housing to press the circuit card holder and the circuit card in a downward biasing direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt, Kevin Wesley Stauffer, David Robert Baechtle
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Patent number: 11359094Abstract: A silicone composite for high temperature insulation applications is disclosed. The composite is formed of a silicone and a thermally decomposable inorganic filler which are compounded together. The compounded material is then injection molded, overmolded, compression molded, cast, laminated, extruded, or dispensed. When the silicone composite is exposed to a high temperature, it forms an inorganic composite and maintains its insulating properties and dimensional stability.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBHInventors: Dejie Tao, Lei Wang, Yiliang Wu, Ting Gao, Andre Martin Dressel, Marco Wolf, Mei Dong
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Patent number: 11360276Abstract: An optoelectronic assembly includes an optical module assembly including a fiber optic connector and an optical engine on an optical engine substrate. The fiber optic connector has a ferrule holding optical fibers optically coupled to the optical engine. The optical engine substrate includes a contact array of optical engine contacts at a bottom of the optical engine substrate. The optical module assembly includes a heat transfer element thermally coupled to the optical engine. The optical module assembly includes a backshell configured to be coupled to a circuit board. The backshell holds the heat transfer element in thermal contact with the optical engine. The optoelectronic assembly includes an interposer assembly electrically connected to the contact array of optical engine contacts having compressible interposer contacts with separable mating interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Patent number: 11355902Abstract: A power connector includes first and second power terminals having first and second contact stacks and first and second plates for termination to corresponding power element. The contact stacks have contacts separate and discrete from each other and from the plate. Each contact has a base and a mating beam. The bases are aligned and mechanically and electrically coupled to the plate. A housing has an end wall and a fastener that mechanically and electrically couples the bases to the plate. The power terminals are arranged such that the first and second mating beams oppose each other across a mating slot that receives a bus bar with the first mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a first bus rail at a first side of the bus bar and the second mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a second bus rail at a second side of the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Jevon Ryan Corban, David Patrick Orris, Michael James Horning, Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr., Douglas Edward Shirk, David Robert Baechtle
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Patent number: 11355872Abstract: A mezzanine power pin includes a dual layer pin body extending between a pin top having an upper power interface and a pin bottom having a lower power interface. The dual layer pin body has a base metal core and an outer metal oxide layer combined with the base metal core defining an outermost layer of the dual layer pin body. The mezzanine power pin includes an upper fastener coupled to the pin top to mechanically and electrically connect an upper component to the upper power interface. The mezzanine power pin includes a lower fastener coupled to the pin bottom to mechanically and electrically connect a lower component to the lower power interface. The base metal core is configured to electrically connect the upper component and the lower component through the base metal core.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: David Patrick Orris, Martin William Bayes
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Patent number: 11351690Abstract: A cutter for cutting a linear element includes a support frame, a pair of blade holders disposed opposite to each other and movably disposed on the support frame, a pair of blades facing each other and each disposed on one of the pair of blade holders, a pair of holding blocks facing each other and each disposed on one of the pair of blade holders, and a driving device disposed on the support frame. The driving device drives the pair of blade holders to move synchronously in a direction approaching each other or a direction separating away from each other. The pair of holding blocks clamp the linear element and the pair of blades cut off the linear element clamped by the pair of holding blocks while the pair of blade holders move synchronously in the direction approaching each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignees: Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Measurement Specialties (Chengdu) Ltd.Inventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Fengchun Xie, Lvhai Hu, Bo Pang, Haidong Wu, Jianyong Fan, Rong Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 11355877Abstract: A power connector system for a circuit card assembly includes a board power connector and a cable power connector coupled to the board power connector. The board power connector includes a board housing having cavities that hold power contacts and signal contact channels on the bottom that hold signal contacts. The cable power connector has a cable housing having contact silos holding cable power contacts terminated to power cables. The contact silos and the cable power contacts are received in the cavities of the board housing to mate the cable power contacts with the board power contacts. The cable housing includes a platform below the contact silos holding cable signal contacts at the bottom of the cable housing outside of the contact silos for mating with the board signal contacts when the cable power connector is mated with the board power connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Matthew Schumacher
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Publication number: 20220174836Abstract: A back plate configured to support a circuit board includes a body. The body defines a central recess formed into a top surface thereof, and a raised main support column extending from the central recess and adapted to support the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicants: Tyco Electronics AMP Qingdao Ltd, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Jinqiang (Jeff) Wang, Zhiqiang (Simon) Li, Guoxiao (Neo) Shen, Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang, Brian Patrick Costello
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Patent number: 11349234Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having contact chambers between a top and a bottom configured to be mounted to a circuit board. A rear wall of the housing includes lead slots open at the top to receive leads of an electrical component. The electrical connector includes a cover coupled to the top of the housing above the leads. The electrical connector includes contacts received in corresponding contact chambers. Each contact includes a base having a solder pad at a bottom configured to be soldered to a circuit board conductor of the circuit board. Each contact includes contact beams extending from the base to form a socket proximate to the top of the housing that receives the lead of the electrical component from above to electrically connect to the lead of the electrical component.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD.Inventors: Christopher P. Devine, Hua Li, Wenke He, Wanfa Su
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Patent number: 11349236Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle connector assembly including a receptacle cage and a communication connector having an inner receptacle connector and an outer receptacle connector. The communication system includes a pluggable module received in the receptacle cage to mate with the communication connector. The pluggable module includes a pluggable body defining a module cavity. The pluggable module includes a module circuit board having mating pads at a mating edge of the module circuit board plugged into the inner receptacle connector and connector pads at a mounting location remote from the mating edge. The pluggable module includes a plug connector mounted to the mounting location. The plug connector includes plug contacts extending between a plug mating end and a plug mounting end. The plug mating end is plugged into the outer receptacle connector.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Christopher William Blackburn
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Patent number: 11349237Abstract: A card edge connector includes a housing having upper and lower card slots receiving upper and lower module circuit cards of a pluggable module. The card edge connector includes a contact assembly having a contact positioner holding upper and lower contacts. A guide feature guides mating of the contact assembly in the housing. A latching feature latchably secures the contact assembly to the housing. The upper contacts are arranged in first and second upper contact arrays. The lower contacts are arranged in first and second lower contact arrays. Contact tails of the upper and lower contacts are positioned at the bottom of the housing for surface mounting to the host circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, John Eugene Westman, Michael Eugene Shirk, Michael David Herring, Zachary Galbraith
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Patent number: 11349238Abstract: A power connector assembly includes a power card edge connector and a bladed power connector. The power card edge connector includes a housing mounted to a first circuit board and having a card slot with power contacts surface mounted to the first circuit board. The bladed power connector includes a dielectric frame extending between a first end configured to face a second circuit board and a second end received in the card slot. The bladed power connector includes a first blade at a first side of the dielectric frame and a second blade at a second side of the dielectric frame. The blades include mating edges and a terminating ends opposite the mating edges. The terminating ends includes press-fit pins configured to be press-fit into the second circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: David Patrick Orris, Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr.
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Patent number: 11349241Abstract: A power socket includes a power socket body extending between a first end and a second end and having a tube being tubular shaped along at least a portion of the power socket body. The power socket includes a power pin termination at the first end and a cable termination at the second end. The power pin termination includes a socket configured to receive a mating end of a power pin and a spring band contact received in the socket having a plurality of mating interfaces. A first edge of the power socket body is rolled inward to form a retaining lip to retain the spring band contact in the socket. The cable termination includes a deformation terminated to an end of a cable conductor of a cable to electrically connect the power socket to the cable. The deformation transforms the tube from a tubular to a deformed shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventor: David Patrick Orris
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Patent number: 11341286Abstract: A tamper sensor assembly that includes a substrate with a protective bulk section including tamper circuitry and a hardware section configured to receive hardware circuitry and extending from the protective bulk section; the hardware circuitry electrically connected to the tamper circuitry to alter operation of the hardware circuitry responsive to modification of the tamper circuitry. The substrate additionally includes an attachment section extending from the hardware section. The tamper sensor assembly also includes a first fold in the substrate to position a first portion of the hardware section to extend along the protective bulk section, and a second fold in the substrate to position a second portion of the hardware section to extend along the first portion of the hardware section.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Kenneth Jermstad, Michael Ritchie, Marcus Updyke, Anthony Ball