Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics UK LTD
  • Publication number: 20190363424
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a base, a transparent cover, an electronic circuit mounted to the base, and an antenna. The electronic circuit is connectable with a light emitting element adapted to emit a light through the transparent cover and/or a light receiving element adapted to receive a light through the transparent cover. The antenna has a radiating patch following a contour of an inner surface of the transparent cover and connected to the electronic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., TE Connectivity Nederland BV, TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Catchpole, Wijnand Van Gils, Leonard Henry Radzilowski, Yiliang Wu, Luc Van Dommelen
  • Publication number: 20190356068
    Abstract: A bushing comprises an insulating body having a first body end portion, a second body end portion, and a body center portion connecting the first body end portion and the second body end portion, and a bushing conductor coaxially extending within and mechanically coupled to the insulating body. The bushing conductor includes a first connecting portion having a first end face at the first body end portion, a second connecting portion having a second end face at the second body end portion, and a center portion electrically and mechanically connecting the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion. The first connecting portion is elastically deformable with respect to the first body end portion along a radial direction and/or the second connecting portion is elastically deformable with respect to the second body end portion along the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Thilo Simonsohn, Tortsten Friedrich, Martin Hofmann, Laurence Mortimer
  • Publication number: 20190348772
    Abstract: A bushing adapter comprises an insert having a bore extending through the insert along a length direction of the insert and a fastening member extending through the bore. The insert is configured to be attached to a bushing conductor of a bushing. The fastening member has an operating portion positioned outside of the bore at a bushing internal end of the fastening member and a fastening portion positioned outside of the bore at a bushing external end of the fastening member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH, Carrier Kheops BAC, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Martin Hofmann, Hervé Cheron, Torsten Friedrich, Yves Cadoret, Laurence Mortimer
  • Patent number: 10262820
    Abstract: A high voltage circuit breaker comprises a vacuum interrupter module, a drive module, and an actuator. The vacuum interrupter module has a vacuum interrupter housing and a pair of electrical contacts disposed in the vacuum interrupter housing. At least one of the pair of electrical contacts is movable relative to the other of the pair of electrical contacts to engage and disengage the electrical contacts from one another for switching a high voltage on and off. The drive module has a drive module housing and a drive member coupled with the at least one movable electrical contact. A central part of the drive member is disposed in the drive module housing and insulated from an ambient air. The actuator is coupled to the drive member and moves the pair of electrical contacts relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Robert Phillpotts, Elizabeth Da Silva Domingues, Thomas Moore
  • Patent number: 10250024
    Abstract: There is provided a cable breakout support, comprising a clamp for clamping to a trunking, and a clip for clipping to a cable breakout of a cable bundle supported in the trunking. Each clamp comprises at least two trunk fittings for fitting to at least two respective bulbous longitudinal edges of the trunking; and a clip fitting for connecting to a respective clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics UK LTD, Tyco Electronics Corporation India PVT Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Eyles, Praveen Kurundwad, Dharmendra Jain, Srivani Chandoor, Suresh Kumar Muthuswamy, Shivaprakash Kainthaje
  • Patent number: 10224658
    Abstract: An electrical contact device comprises a contact body and a mating contact receiver. The mating contact receiver is mountable on the contact body in at least two positions and receives a mating contact device along two different axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: John Marsh, Ruediger Meier, Jochen Fertig, Holger Stange
  • Patent number: 10218103
    Abstract: A contact stud is disclosed. The contact stud has a protector, a connection section, and a base section. The connection section is insertable into a terminal along an insertion direction. The connection section has a contact region protected by the protector from an insulative coating applied to a remainder of the connection section. The base section is mounted on a grounding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Rudiger Ostermann, Hartmut Ripper, Mile Trajkov, John Marsh
  • Publication number: 20190008045
    Abstract: A socket assembly comprises a base frame formed of a thermally conductive material holding a light emitting diode (LED) package to a support structure, a contact element electrically contacting the LED package, and an isolator PCB. The LED package includes an LED PCB having an LED mounted on the LED PCB. The base frame includes a base mounted to the support structure and mechanically engaging the LED PCB so that the LED package is attached to the support structure with a predetermined holding force. The contact element electrically connects the isolator PCB to the LED PCB. The isolator PCB supplies electrical power to the LED. The isolator PCB has a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is in heat transmitting contact with the base frame and the electronic component is disposed on the first surface of the isolator PCB and electrically connected to the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Nederland BV, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Jeroen Iedema, Olaf Leijnse, Peter Poorter, Jonathan Catchpole
  • Publication number: 20180362231
    Abstract: A cable tie comprises a belt, a head connected to the belt and having a passageway for receiving the belt, and a lock disposed in the head. The lock is displaceable parallel to a plane of the passageway along a stroke and has a protrusion configured to lock the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.
    Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Philip Hammond
  • Patent number: 10135158
    Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector has a first body and a second body. The second body is mechanically coupled to the first body in a coupling state and enters the coupling state through a lateral side of the first body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Simel SAS, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Bruno Peltier, Gary Barnett
  • Publication number: 20180278035
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for mounting a cable on an electrically conductive structure comprises a mounting bracket and a cover mounted on the mounting bracket and movable with respect to the mounting bracket between a bracket mounting position and a cable mounting position. The mounting bracket has a mounting element receptacle and a cable holding device receptacle. The mounting element receptacle receives a mounting element that attaches the mounting bracket to the electrically conductive structure. The cable holding device receptacle receives a cable holding device that holds the cable. The mounting element receptacle is accessible from a cover side of the mounting bracket and the cable holding device receptacle is covered by the cover in the bracket mounting position. The mounting element receptacle is covered by the cover and the cable holding device receptacle is accessible from the cover side of the mounting bracket in the cable mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Tomasz Kopinski
  • Patent number: 10035910
    Abstract: A polymer composition is disclosed. The polymer composition comprises 30 to 40% by weight of a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer, 15 to 25% by weight of an ethylene acrylic elastomer, and an organic phosphorus-based flame retardant comprising a metal salt of a dialkyl phosphinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventor: Sreeni Kurup
  • Patent number: 9951889
    Abstract: A cable tie system has a cable tie member and a cable retaining member. The cable tie member has a base with an inner facing surface and an outer facing surface, a pair of cable tie strips connected to the base and projecting outward from the inner facing surface, and a locking member connected to the base and projecting outward from outer facing surface. The cable retaining member has a retainer housing with a top surface, a bottom surface, a pair of tie strip receiving passageways complimentary to the cable tie strips, a resilient tie strip engaging arm positioned in each tie strip receiving passageway and in releasable contact with one of the cable tie strips when the cable tie strips are positioned in the tie strip receiving passageways, and a release member connected to an end of each resilient tie strip engaging arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Martyn Reed, Roy MacNaughton
  • Patent number: 9882369
    Abstract: A multi-layer heat-shrinkable tubular sleeve (100) comprises an outer layer (110) and an inner layer (120). The outer layer (110) is arranged around the inner layer (120). The outer layer (110) comprises a partially crystalline thermoplastic material with a major part of partially crystalline thermoplastic material with a crystallinity of more than 60%. The inner layer (120) comprises a partially crystalline thermoplastic material or an elastomeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH
    Inventors: David Francis Pearce, Richard Graf, Thomas Rohde, John David Stoker, Timothy S. Smith
  • Patent number: 9859630
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conductive connection assembly (5), a method for manufacturing the same and a kit for a body (23) comprising carbon fibre-reinforced material, e.g. for a vehicle comprising a carbon fibre-reinforced body (23), with an electrical structural network for conducting electric discharges. The conductive connection assembly (5) includes a conductive interconnection element (1) with a conductive braid material (B). Furthermore, a kit is provided, the kit including at least two conductive connection assemblies (5) that are provided with differently shaped interconnection elements (1). Finally, a method that comprises the step of reshaping longitudinal ends (3, 4) of a braid material (B) is provided according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.
    Inventors: Roy MacNaughton, Matthew Stubbs
  • Publication number: 20170324183
    Abstract: An electrical contact device comprises a contact body and a mating contact receiver. The mating contact receiver is mountable on the contact body in at least two positions and receives a mating contact device along two different axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: John Marsh, Ruediger Meier, Jochen Fertig, Holger Stange
  • Patent number: 9800009
    Abstract: A terminal crimping device includes crimp tooling and a seal depressor fixed to the crimp tooling. The crimp tooling and the seal depressor move with a movable ram along a crimp stroke towards and away from a base that receives a wire assembly and a terminal thereon. The crimp tooling crimps the terminal to both a wire and a compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke. The seal depressor has a contact tab that engages and at least partially depresses the compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke to hold the compression seal in place as the crimp tooling crimps the terminal to the wire assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK, LTD.
    Inventors: David Michael Stull, Matt J. Clifford, Guenter Sowa
  • Patent number: 9793631
    Abstract: A flexible circuit to wire transition member and method which transitions wires connected to a standard wire termination connector to a flexible circuit. The transition member includes a housing with a flexible circuit receiving recess provide proximate a first surface of the housing. A wire receiving recess is provided in the housing proximate a first surface of the housing. A contact extends between the flexible circuit receiving recess and the wire receiving recess, the contact provides an electrical connection between a flexible circuit received in the flexible circuit receiving recess and a wire received in the wire receiving recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD.
    Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Kyle Gary Annis, Eric Douglas Springston, II, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Robert John William Hudd, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Philip James Hammond
  • Patent number: 9793620
    Abstract: A connector assembly for electrically contacting a blade connector to a second connector The connector assembly includes a blade connector which has a contact surface plane that is electrically connected to the second connector in the mated state. In order to improve mechanical and electrical properties of the overall connector assembly and, in particular, of the blade connector, the assembly further includes a mounting cage in which the blade connector is captively held and which has at least one clamping device that presses the second connector onto the contact surface plane of the blade connector in the mated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: John Marsh, Markus Eckel, Rudiger Meier, Harald Ulrich, Holger Stange, Jochen Fertig, Konstantin Zech
  • Publication number: 20170256374
    Abstract: A high voltage circuit breaker comprises a vacuum interrupter module, a drive module, and an actuator. The vacuum interrupter module has a vacuum interrupter housing and a pair of electrical contacts disposed in the vacuum interrupter housing. At least one of the pair of electrical contacts is movable relative to the other of the pair of electrical contacts to engage and disengage the electrical contacts from one another for switching a high voltage on and off. The drive module has a drive module housing and a drive member coupled with the at least one movable electrical contact. A central part of the drive member is disposed in the drive module housing and insulated from an ambient air. The actuator is coupled to the drive member and moves the pair of electrical contacts relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Robert Phillpotts, Elizabeth Da Silva Domingues, Thomas Moore