Patents Assigned to Connected Corporation
  • Publication number: 20200412073
    Abstract: High-speed connectors are identically configured each comprising a housing with a first interconnection feature at one location of the housing and a second interconnection feature at another location of the housing with a channel interposed between the first and second interconnection features. The first interconnection feature of the connector is configured to attach with the second interconnection feature of an identical connector and vise versa. The housing channel includes opposed wall sections with shields attached thereto that connect with one another when the connectors are combined. A plurality of electrical terminals is disposed within each housing channel and extend a length from a channel floor to a channel opening. The electrical terminals form an electrical/mechanical contact between interconnecting electrical terminal pairs when the connectors are joined together. In an example, two or more points of electrical/mechanical contact are formed between interconnecting electrical terminal pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher George Daily, Matthew Edward Mostoller
  • Patent number: 10879638
    Abstract: A socket connector includes a socket assembly having a socket frame, a socket substrate coupled to the socket frame and socket contacts terminated to the socket substrate. The socket substrate has first and second upper mating areas including first and second socket substrate conductors for mating with an electronic package and an electrical component, respectively. The socket contacts define an interface with the electronic package. The socket assembly is configured to electrically connect the electronic package with both a host circuit board and the electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Alex An, Takeshi Nakashima, Naoki Hashimoto, Shigeru Aihara
  • Patent number: 10875075
    Abstract: An automatic feeding system adapted to arrange a variety of components having different shapes comprises a storage apparatus and a first conveying device. The storage apparatus includes loaded storage devices loaded with the components and unloaded storage devices unloaded with the components. The first conveying apparatus includes a pair of first support frames disposed opposite to each other, a loading conveying apparatus mounted between the first support frames and configured to convey the unloaded storage devices to a loading position to load the components thereon and change the unloaded storage devices to loaded storage devices, and an unloading conveying apparatus mounted between the first support frames and configured to receive the loaded storage devices conveyed from the loading position. The unloading conveying apparatus conveys the unloaded storage devices to the loading conveying apparatus after the components on the loaded storage devices are picked up by a pick-up apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Changjun Wang, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Lvhai Hu
  • Patent number: 10866091
    Abstract: A concentricity detection system is adapted to detect a concentricity of an annular component. The concentricity detection system includes a support base having a recess on a top surface, a transparent plate received and positioned in the recess, a vision detection device located above the support base and facing the transparent plate, and a backlight source located below the support base and facing the transparent plate. The annular component is disposed in the recess of the support base and supported on a top surface of the transparent plate. The vision detection device is configured to detect the concentricity of the annular component supported on the transparent plate. A through hole is formed in a bottom portion of the recess and a light from the backlight source passes through the support base via the through hole and the transparent plate to provide backlighting for the annular component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Zhou, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20200381841
    Abstract: A connector for connecting an antenna array includes an insulation body, a plurality of feed terminals on the insulation body electrically contacting a plurality of feed lines of the antenna array, and a plurality of ground terminals on the insulation body electrically contacting a ground layer of the antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Jiahui Chen, Michael Tryson, Hiroshi Shirai, Zhiqiang Li, Biaobing Lv
  • Patent number: 10850631
    Abstract: A receptacle connector for a charging inlet assembly includes a housing and a terminal assembly coupled to the housing including cap extending from a pin. The pin is positioned in a terminal channel of the housing for mating with a charging connector. The pin has a rear flange and a rear mounting post with a base of the cap coupled thereto. A pad extends from the base configured to be coupled to a power cable. The receptacle connector includes a secondary lock assembly having a locking wall engaging and blocking rearward movement of the rear flange of the pin in a locked position. The locking wall is disengaged from the rear flange of the pin in an unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Philip Myer, Aaron James de Chazal
  • Patent number: 10845678
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging device configured to capture an image of an object, a display device configured to display the image captured by the imaging device, a base having a support rod extending in a vertical direction, and a mechanical arm mechanism mounted on the support rod. The mechanical arm mechanism has a plurality of motion degrees of freedom. The display device or the imaging device is connected to an end arm of the mechanical arm mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Zhou, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu
  • Patent number: 10847943
    Abstract: A 4-way indent tool includes a indenter actuator cam arm being movable between an unactuated position and an actuated position to actuate four indenters to crimp a terminal. The 4-way indent tool includes a drive assembly movable along the drive screw between a retracted position and an advanced position. The drive assembly has a drive nut on a drive screw and a coupler operably coupled between the drive nut and the indenter actuator cam arm. The coupler moves the indenter actuator cam arm. The coupler has a spring loaded coupling between the drive nut and the indenter actuator cam arm compressed as the coupler is moved between the retracted position and the advanced position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler Benjamin Weber, Richard Lloyd Schaeffer
  • Publication number: 20200366043
    Abstract: A flexible strip assembly system includes a first conveyor conveying a first layer of material, a pick-up device picking up a conductor and placing the conductor at a predefined position on an upper surface of the first layer of material, a second conveyor conveying a second layer of material, and a first pair of guiding rollers. The conductor is conveyed under driving of the first layer of material. The first pair of guiding rollers press and stick the second layer of material to the first layer of material and the conductor on the upper surface of the first layer of material to form a flexible strip with the conductor clamped between the first layer of material and the second layer of material. At least one of the upper surface of the first layer of material and a lower surface of the second layer of material has an adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Zhonghua Xu, Zongjie Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 10840680
    Abstract: A cable preparation machine includes a blade assembly having a plurality of arms and braid blades mounted to the corresponding arms. The arms and the braid blades are disposed about a cable opening configured to receive an end of a cable therein along a cable axis. The arms are movable relative to each other between retracted positions and advanced positions. The arms move the braid blades closer to each other within the cable opening as the arms are moved from the retracted positions to the advanced positions. The braid blades have edges configured to engage a cable braid of the cable. The braid blades are driven inward by the arms moving to the advanced positions to pinch the cable braid inward against an inner insulator of the cable and flare outward an end of the cable braid forward of the braid blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Houser, Gary Lee Deck, Michael Morris, Christopher John Gavlak
  • Publication number: 20200350132
    Abstract: Electromechanical relay constructions comprise an external housing, a pair of switchable electrical contacts disposed within the housing, an element for activating the pair of electrical contacts, and a temperature sensing element disposed within the housing adjacent the electrical contracts. The temperature sensing element provides a signal for determining the temperature within the relay housing. The relay may comprise two or more temperature sensing elements disposed within the housing a desired distance from one another. The temperature sensing element may be attached to a member or substrate disposed within the housing, may be attached to an existing internal structure of the housing, or may be attached to one of the contacts. The temperature sensing element may be selected from the group consisting of resistance temperature detectors, negative temperature coefficient thermistors, thermopile sensors, thermocouples, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Raymond King, Marc Keener, Leigh Marolf
  • Publication number: 20200350701
    Abstract: An electrical connection assembly includes a cable having a conductor, a metallic textile in electrical contact with the conductor, and a crimp element creating a pressure between the conductor and the metallic textile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Tyco Electronics Belgium EC BVBA, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., TE Connectivity India Private Limited, TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Muth, Jens Nickel, Jan Van Cauwenberge, Vinayakumar Shettar, John Marsh, John Mark Myer
  • Patent number: 10822173
    Abstract: A linking system adapted to link a plurality of products comprises a supply device having a tray with a slide slot adapted to load a first row of products therein, a gripping device having a gripper adapted to grip the first row of products and a moving mechanism adapted to move the gripper, and a holder adapted to hold the first row of products. The gripping device is adapted to move the first row of products from the supply device to a holding position on the holder and the holder is adapted to hold the first row of products at the holding position. The gripping device is further adapted to grip a second row of products from the supply device and link the second row of products to the first row of products held by the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai Hu, Fengchun Xie, Yun Liu, Xiaochen Yu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 10819008
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 10816731
    Abstract: An automatic fiber stripping system comprises a first stripping module, a second stripping module, and a heating device. The first stripping module and the second stripping module each have a stripping belt, a driven belt wheel, a driving belt wheel, and a stripping tool including a pressing portion. The stripping belts are tightened on the pressing portions and the stripping tools press the stripping belts on each of two opposite sides of an optical cable. A blade portion of one of the stripping tools cuts a notch in at least one of two side edges of an outer coating layer of the optical cable. The heating device heats and softens the outer coating layer of the optical cable. The stripping belts are driven to move relative to the optical cable by the driving belt wheels so as to strip off a segment of the outer coating layer from the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Shenzhen AMI Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengchun Xie, Qinglong Zeng, Yu Zhang, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 10819057
    Abstract: An electrical terminal with a contact portion and a spring arm and a method of insertion. The contact portion has a mating terminal receiving cavity. The spring arm extends from a bottom wall into the mating terminal receiving cavity. The spring arm has a fixed end, a free end and a transition section extending between the fixed end and the free end. The bottom wall has an opening with a front wall and a rear wall. The spring arm extends from the front wall toward the rear wall. A coined area is provided proximate the rear wall of the opening on the bottom wall. The spring arm acts initially as a single supported cantilever beam and then, upon deflection, acts as a double supported beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic Anthony Farole, Richard Benjamin Emenheiser
  • Patent number: 10814356
    Abstract: A cleaning system comprises a first cleaning tank, a carrying and moving unit, a first cleaning spray head, and a rolling brush unit. The carrying and moving unit is configured to move a polishing film to be cleaned into the first cleaning tank and hold the polishing film in the first cleaning tank. The first cleaning spray head is configured to spray a cleaning liquid on the polishing film held in the first cleaning tank. The rolling brush unit is configured to brush the polishing film while the first cleaning spray head sprays the cleaning liquid on the polishing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Innogetic Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Liming Xin, Yun Liu, Fengchun Xie, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lei Zhou, Kok Wai Wong
  • Patent number: 10807178
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus comprises a first fixing device and a second fixing device. The first fixing device has at least one first positioning groove adapted to position at least one first elongated member and fixes the at least one first elongated member. The second fixing device has at least one second positioning groove adapted to position at least one second elongated member and fixes the at least one second elongated member. Each first positioning groove is aligned with a corresponding second positioning groove so that the first elongated member fixed in the first positioning groove is axially aligned with the second elongated member fixed in the corresponding second positioning groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Measurement Specialties (Chengdu) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingcong Deng, Lan Gong, Qian Ying, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu, Lin Ye, Yong Yan, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Qinglong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20200298400
    Abstract: A control system for a manipulator includes a position indicator provided on a flange for mounting a tool of the manipulator, a position detector provided near the manipulator and configured to detect a position information of the position indicator in real time, a computer calculating a position data of the position indicator in real time according to the position information, a cloud server calculating a working parameter of a joint of the manipulator in real time by an artificial intelligence neural network according to the position data, and a controller controlling the joint in real time based on the working parameter. The artificial intelligence neural network is a self-learning neural network that calculates and automatically adjusts a weight among a plurality of neurons based on the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Zongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20200290843
    Abstract: A system for a mobile robot to autonomously take an elevator includes an elevator button pressing module mounted on an elevator floor control panel of the elevator. The elevator button pressing module communicates with the mobile robot wirelessly and is adapted to press a pair of elevator buttons on the elevator floor control panel according to an instruction issued by the mobile robot to call an elevator car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Kunshan Sanxin Plastic Industry Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Fengchun Xie, Mingyang Weng