Patents Assigned to TE Connectivity Corporation
  • Heat sink assembly for an electrical connector
    Patent number: 10575442
    Abstract: A heat sink assembly for a pluggable module having a housing includes a plurality of discrete heat sink members in thermal communication with more than one wall of the housing. The heat sink members transfer heat from the pluggable module to the surrounding environment. The heat sink assembly also includes a spring member configured to exert a force on the plurality of discrete heat sink members for forcing the heat sink members into thermal engagement with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alan Weir Bucher
  • Lead frame module for electrical connector
    Patent number: 10574002
    Abstract: A lead frame module includes a lead frame including ground conductors and signal conductors interleaved with the ground conductors side-by-side. The ground and signal conductors have transition portions extending between mating ends and terminating ends. A dielectric holder supports the lead frame and at least partially surrounds the transition portions of the ground and signal conductors. The dielectric holder has a first side and a second side with wells in the first side open to the transition portions of the ground conductors. A printed metal layer is formed in situ on the first side of the dielectric holder and at least partially fills the wells and engages the ground conductors in the wells to electrically connect to the ground conductors. The printed metal layer electrically connect a plurality of the ground conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Michael Joseph Tryson, Michael John Phillips
  • Shielding structure for a contact module of an electrical connector
    Patent number: 10566740
    Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Electrical connector having conformal pin organizer
    Patent number: 10566718
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mounting end mounted to a circuit board and contact channels receiving signal contacts. The signal contacts have mating ends and terminating ends. Each terminating end has a shoulder, a neck extending from the shoulder and a pin extending from the neck. The neck is narrower than the complaint pin and the shoulder. A conformal pin organizer is coupled to the mounting end of the housing. The conformal pin organizer has signal openings receiving the terminating ends and deflecting portions extending into the signal openings. The conformal pin organizer is positioned along the terminating ends such that the deflecting portions engage the necks of the corresponding terminating ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Charles Raymond Gingrich, III
  • Crimp tooling for terminal crimping machine
    Patent number: 10566755
    Abstract: Crimp tooling includes upper tooling for forming a terminal around a wire during crimping. The upper tooling includes a wire crimper and a wire crimper holder for holding the wire crimper. The wire crimper holder is removably coupled directly to a terminator ram of a terminal crimping machine and being driven by the terminator ram. The crimp tooling includes lower tooling assembly for supporting the terminal during crimping. The lower tooling assembly includes a base having a plate and an anvil supported by the plate. The base is removably coupled directly to the terminal crimping machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Morris, Christopher John Karrasch
  • Welding System
    Publication number: 20200052451
    Abstract: A welding system comprises a welding module and a moving module adapted to move the welding module to a predetermined welding position. The welding module includes a guiding device and a welding tool. The guiding device has a plurality of tubular guiding heads arranged in a row, ends of the plurality of tubular guiding heads are disposed close to joints of a plurality of cables so as to guide a plurality of welding wires to the joints of the plurality of cables. The welding tool has a plurality of tooth-shaped welding heads arranged in a row, ends of the plurality of tooth-shaped welding heads are disposed close to the joints of the plurality of cables and configured to simultaneously heat the plurality of welding wires guided to the joints of the plurality of cables, so as to simultaneously weld the joints of the plurality of cables onto a circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Changjun Wang, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu, Fengchun Xie
  • Communication system having coaxial connector module and fiber optic module
    Patent number: 10558000
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a coaxial connector module and a fiber optic module coupled to the coaxial connector module. The coaxial connector module includes a connector body and coaxial contacts in contact channels. The connector body has a mating interface and fastener openings open at the mating interface to receive fasteners and a window at the mating interface. The fiber optic module includes a housing coupled to the mating interface of the connector body having a cavity and fastener openings receiving the fasteners to couple the housing to the connector body at the mating interface. The fiber optic module includes a fiber optic connector received in the cavity having a mating end and a fiber optic cable extending therefrom. The fiber optic connector is received in the window for mating with a mating fiber optic connector of the mating connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, David James Fabian
  • Card edge connector having improved mating interface
    Patent number: 10559920
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes a contact assembly received in a cavity of a housing having a card slot in a shroud configured to receive a card edge of a module circuit board of a pluggable module. The contact assembly has upper and lower contacts having mating ends. The card edge connector includes upper biasing members at a top wall of the shroud associated with corresponding upper contacts each having an outer biasing surface engaging the pluggable module when mated with the card edge connector and having an inner biasing surface engaging the contact assembly proximate to the corresponding upper contact. The upper biasing member is movable from a released position to a compressed position. The upper biasing member moves the upper contact from an unmated position to a mated position as the upper biasing member is moved from the released position to the compressed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce Allen Champion, Eric David Briant
  • Electrical connector system having a PCB connector footprint
    Patent number: 10559929
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate and a PCB connector footprint defined along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis being subdivided into PCB column grouping footprints in columns parallel to the longitudinal axis. The PCB includes signal vias arranged in pairs along a signal pair axis. The pairs of signal vias are aligned in the columns parallel to the longitudinal axis and in rows parallel to the lateral axis. The signal pair axis is non-parallel to the lateral and longitudinal axes. The PCB includes ground vias with at least one ground via arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias within the PCB column grouping footprints and at least one ground via is arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias in adjacent PCB column grouping footprints. This orientation is to allow more spacing between the signal vias and some ground vias to enhance signal integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Arturo Pachon Munoz, Sean Patrick McCarthy
  • Insulation crimp with lead-in projection
    Patent number: 10553963
    Abstract: An electrical contact includes a contact portion for mating with a mating contact, a wire barrel and an insulation barrel. The insulation barrel has a lead-in projection extending from the insulation barrel toward the wire barrel. The insulation barrel has a first crimping arm and a second crimping arm, with the first crimping arm positioned closer to the wire barrel than the second crimping arm. The lead-in projection is attached to and extends from the first crimping arm. The lead-in projection has a free end which extends proximate to the wire barrel and proximate to an electrical conductor of an electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel. The wire barrel is crimped to the electrical conductor of the electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel and the insulation barrel is crimped to an insulation sleeve of the electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chong Hun Yi, Michael Christopher D'Imperio, Stanrich Dwayne Fernandes, Rodney Thomas Smith
  • Electrical connector for a circuit card assembly of a communication system
    Patent number: 10553968
    Abstract: An electrical connector for a circuit card assembly includes a receptacle housing and a mating housing movable relative to the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction. The electrical connector includes contact modules each having a leadframe having signal contacts with a mating conductor, a mounting conductor and a flexible conductor between the mating conductor and the mounting conductor. Each contact module includes an inner dielectric body and an outer dielectric body separate and discrete from the inner dielectric body. The flexible conductors extend between the inner and outer dielectric bodies to allow relative movement of the inner dielectric body in the connector mating direction relative to the outer dielectric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Card edge connector having a contact positioner
    Patent number: 10553971
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes a contact assembly received in a cavity of a housing. The contact assembly has a contact positioner holding upper and lower contacts. The contact positioner has an upper wall with upper contact channels holding mating beams of the upper contacts and a lower wall with lower contact channels holding mating beams of the lower contacts. A positioner card slot is defined between the walls receiving a card edge of a module circuit board. The upper wall has pre-load beams in the upper contact channels engaging the mating beams of the upper contacts to pre-load the upper contacts in an inward biasing direction and the lower wall has pre-load beams in the lower contact channels engaging the mating beams of the lower contacts to pre-load the lower contacts in an inward biasing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Michael Eugene Shirk, Randall Robert Henry
  • Modular enclosure and an assembly for constructing a modular enclosure
    Patent number: 10548232
    Abstract: Modular enclosure includes a plurality of structural elements coupled to one another to at least partially define a cavity. The structural elements form a plurality of sub-assemblies in which each sub-assembly includes a corner section having a slot and first and second joint sections. Each of the first and second joint sections include an elongated body extending between two joint ends. The elongated body has an open-sided channel that extends along a length of the elongated body and opens to an exterior of the elongated body. The open-sided channel extends through each of the joint ends. The slot of the corner section is aligned with the open-sided channels of the first and second joint sections and a wall section is received by the slot and each of the open-sided channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas D. Ratzlaff, Paul Craig Tally, Roenna Nepomuceno del Rosario, Setha Yim
  • Vertical communication system
    Patent number: 10547133
    Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle connector assembly and a pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage and a communication connector received in the receptacle cage and mounted to a host circuit board. The communication connector includes a connector housing holding contacts and extending between a front and a rear with a bottom of the connector housing mounted to the host circuit board and a longitudinal card slot open at a top of the connector housing. The pluggable module is received in the module channel in a loading direction and includes a module body and a plug board having a mating edge. The plug board is held in the module body in a vertical orientation with the mating edge at a bottom of the plug board being received in the card slot with the contact pads electrically coupled to corresponding contacts of the communication connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Latch assembly for a plug connector
    Patent number: 10547142
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a housing having a latch pocket holding a latch including a main body and a latch beam. The latch beam includes a latch hook received in a latch opening of a mating connector. An actuator is operably coupled to the latch to move the latch to a released position. The actuator includes a push button and a pull tab separate from the push button and movable in a rearward pulling direction relative to the push button. The latch hook is rotated from a latched position to the released position when the push button is actuated and when the pull tab is pulled in the rearward pulling direction without loading the latch against the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Michael John Phillips
  • Flexing mounting clip for an electrical assembly
    Patent number: 10541493
    Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a housing at a front side of a panel that extends between mating and receiving ends. The mating end extends through an opening of the panel from the front side to a rear side of the panel. A mounting clip extends between a front end and a rear end and includes a passage therethrough that receives the mating end of the housing. First and second sides of the body define the passage and includes a locking feature extending therefrom the first side into the passage. The clip moves between unlocked and locked positions by sliding the rear end of the clip along the rear side of the panel and the body is flexed outward to allow the locking feature to bypass the housing. The mating end of the housing is coupled with an electrical connector in a locking operation to secure the housing to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Franklin Stack, Rohan Narang, David Allen Klein
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 10535971
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact leadframe of unitary construction including first contacts extending to second contacts via corresponding leads, and an overmolded contact module housing formed over the leadframe, forming a connector module. The connector further includes the housing embedding the leads and surrounding the first contacts, the second contacts extending from the housing. The connector further includes a first surface of the first contacts in contact with the housing, and an opposed second surface of the first contacts being exposed. The connector includes a plurality of connector modules positioned in an aligned arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TE CONNECTIVITY NEDERLAND BV
    Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Keith Edwin Miller, Kevin Michael Thackston, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin
  • Electrical device having an impedance control body
    Patent number: 10535956
    Abstract: An electrical device includes an organizer having a dielectric body including an upper surface and a lower surface supporting ends of cables having signal wires and having conductors on the upper surface and on the lower surface being electrically connected to corresponding signal wires. The electrical device includes an impedance control body separate and discrete from the dielectric body and coupled to the dielectric body of the organizer. The impedance control body has an upper pad on the upper surface covering the conductors and signal wire on the upper surface and a lower pad on the lower surface covering the conductors and signal wires on the lower surface. The impedance control body has a connecting tab passing through a void in the organizer between the upper pad and the lower pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Dustin Grant Rowe, Robert Harrison Wertz, Jr., Julia Anne Lachman, Jeff Swartzbaugh, Christopher Michael Pogash
  • Carrier
    Publication number: 20200015359
    Abstract: A carrier includes a base on which a circuit board is mounted, a loading device mounted on the base, a first pressing device mounted on the base, and a second pressing device mounted on the base. The loading device is configured to load an electronic device on the base. The first pressing device is configured to press a first lead end protruding from the electronic device on the circuit board to electrically contact the circuit board. The second pressing device is configured to press a second lead end of the electronic device on the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Measurement Specialties (Chengdu) Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengchun Xie, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Qinglong Zeng, Lan Gong, Qian Ying, Yingcong Deng, Yun Liu
  • Heat Shrinkable Tube Assembly System
    Publication number: 20200009783
    Abstract: An assembly system includes a feeding mechanism adapted to feed a heat shrinkable tube, a cutting mechanism, a clamping mechanism, a robot, and a vision system. The cutting mechanism is adapted to cut off a section of heat shrinkable tube with a predetermined length from the heat shrinkable tube fed by the feeding mechanism. The clamping mechanism is adapted to clamp the heat shrinkable tube during cutting the heat shrinkable tube with the cutting mechanism. The robot is adapted to grip the section of heat shrinkable tube cut off from the heat shrinkable tube. The vision system is adapted to guide the robot to sleeve the section of heat shrinkable tube onto a wire of an electrical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Corporation, Shenzhen AMI Technology Co., Ltd., Measurement Specialities (Chengdu) Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengchun Xie, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Qinglong Zeng, Lan Gong, Qian Ying