Patents Assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
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Patent number: 11735882Abstract: A system for mounting an electrical terminal applicator to a cassette containing a plurality of terminals is provided. The system includes a support plate for fixedly attaching to the applicator, and a yoke releasably attached to the support plate. The yoke and support plate define an attachment therebetween providing at least one degree of freedom of motion of the support plate relative to the yoke in an attached state. The yoke is further configured to be movably mounted to the cassette with at least one additional degree of freedom of motion.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Matthew Steven Houser, David Michael Stull, Jack DePasquale
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Patent number: 11729898Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a layered substrate having a plurality of layers having an electrical connector footprint configured to receive an electrical connector. The printed circuit board includes pair anti-pads passing through the layered substrate around pairs of signal vias. The printed circuit board includes ground vias passing through the layered substrate. The ground vias are configured to receive ground pins of the electrical connector. The ground vias are located outside of the pair anti-pads. The printed circuit board includes SI vias passing through the layered substrate. The SI vias form an SI fence surrounding the corresponding pair anti-pad.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Justin Dennis Pickel, Margaret Mahoney Fernandes, Timothy Robert Minnick
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Patent number: 11714008Abstract: A method of detecting temperature of an electrical terminal. The method includes: applying a material patch to a surface of the electrical terminal, the thermal mass of the material patch is less than 25 percent of the thermal mass of the electrical terminal, whereby the material patch does not appreciably increase the electrical resistance or thermal capacitance of the electrical terminal; and remotely sensing a change in the material patch with an electrically isolated circuit which is external to the electrical terminal to determine if the electrical terminal is operating at a safe temperature to optimize current flow across the electrical terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: David Bruce Sarraf, Marjorie Kay Myers, Mark Wartenberg
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Patent number: 11715911Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector signal contacts arranged in pairs and ground contacts are interspersed with the pairs of the signal contacts. Each signal contact includes a signal contact body having first and second sides extending between a signal mating end and a signal terminating end. Each ground contact includes a ground contact body having first and second sides extending between a ground mating end and a ground terminating end. The contact assembly includes a ground shield assembly including a ground shield spanning across the contacts and ground connective elements electrically connected to the ground shield and the corresponding ground contacts. The ground connective elements are compressible.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS (BERMUDA) NO. 7 LIMITEDInventors: Michael Joseph Tryson, Michael John Phillips, Dustin Grant Rowe, Asroc Chen
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Patent number: 11715923Abstract: A metal foil flaring apparatus includes a frame, a flaring mechanism mounted on the frame and having a flaring mouth adapted to open and close, and a first driver mounted on the frame and adapted to drive the flaring mouth to open and close. The flaring mouth has a cone shape gradually contracted toward a front end of the flaring mouth. The front end of the flaring mouth is adapted to be forwardly inserted in a first direction between an inner insulation layer of a cable and a metal foil wrapped around the inner insulation layer when the flaring mouth is closed, flaring the metal foil outwardly into the cone shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu, Sun Kyu Pak
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Patent number: 11707755Abstract: A painting system includes a conveying mechanism adapted to convey a workpiece to be painted to a painting station, a holding and rotating mechanism mounted at the painting station and adapted to hold and rotate the workpiece, and a robot having a nozzle adapted to spray a paint on the workpiece held by the holding and rotating mechanism. The robot is configured to spray the paint onto the workpiece while the holding and rotating mechanism rotates the workpiece, spraying a layer of the paint on an outer surface of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rong Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Haidong Wu, Yuting He
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Patent number: 11708908Abstract: A gasket assembly includes a substrate, such as a portion of a body of an electrical connector. The substrate defines a mating surface to which a gasket or gasket seal is mechanically fixed. The gasket defines at least one recess or other mounting feature thereon for engaging with a complementary feature of the substrate for fixing the gasket to the substrate. According to an embodiment, the gasket defines a sealing face or sealing wall opposing and/or abutting the mating surface of the substrate, and a sidewall extending from the sealing wall and defined about a perimeter thereof. The sealing wall and sidewall define a circumferential recess configured to receive a peripheral edge of the substrate for securing the gasket to and generally over the mating surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Thomas Robert DeWitte, Zoran Krnetic, Lindsey E. Gatesman, David James Rhein, Eric D. Shields
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Patent number: 11710585Abstract: A method of removing a foil shield from a cable includes positioning the cable proximate a heating source, monitoring a characteristic of the cable or the heating source with at least one sensor, heating the foil shield in a designated area to weaken the foil shield, and removing an outer insulation of the cable and the foil shield.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Matthew Steven Houser, Joseph Stachura, Mark Andrew Ondo, Matthew Orlowski, Amgad Ghaly, Alexandra Spitler
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Patent number: 11710950Abstract: A cutting blade assembly for use with a rotating cable preparation device includes a cutting blade defining a cutting edge and adapted to attach to a rotating member of the cable preparation device. The cutting blade assembly is selectively movable in a cutting direction for at least partially cutting a cable held by the device. The assembly further comprises a blade stop positioned adjacent to the cutting edge of the blade and defining a stop surface. The stop surface is arranged at a predetermined distance from the cutting edge of the blade in a depth direction of the blade, and extends in a direction generally perpendicular to the cutting direction and generally parallel to an axis of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Michael Morris, Christopher John Gavlak, Thomas Emery Backenstoes, Isaac Cruz
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Patent number: 11710918Abstract: A communication system includes a circuit board assembly including a mating circuit board having a mating edge and a plurality of mating pads at the mating edge, the circuit board assembly having an electrical component electrically coupled to the mating circuit board. The communication system includes a cable receptacle connector removably coupled to the mating edge of the mating circuit board. The cable receptacle connector includes a connector housing having a connector cavity and a card slot. A cable extends from the connector housing. The cable receptacle connector includes signal contacts each having a mating end mated with the corresponding mating pads and a terminating end electrically connected to a cable conductor of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Michael David Herring, Christopher William Blackburn, Matthew Ryan Schmitt
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Patent number: 11709972Abstract: A substrate for a tamper sensor includes a plurality of walls and a tab. The walls define a protective volume with an open side. The walls have a plurality of open edges adjacent the open side and a plurality of interior edges different from the open edges. The tab extends from one of the interior edges of one of the walls and is disposed within the protective volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Anthony Ball, Kenneth Jermstad, Michael Ritchie, Marcus Updyke
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Patent number: 11710935Abstract: A power connector system includes a busbar having a conductive plate. The conductive plate has first side and a second side. The conductive plate has a thickness profile between the first side and the second side. The conductive plate has a busbar opening therethrough between the first side and the second side. The power connector system includes a busbar connector received in the busbar opening of the conductive plate. The busbar connector includes a busbar housing and a busbar contact received in a socket of the busbar housing. The busbar housing is electrically conductive and electrically connected to the conductive plate in the busbar opening. The busbar contact is electrically conductive and electrically connected to the busbar housing in the socket. The busbar contact has a mating interface configured to mechanically and electrically connect to an electrical component plugged into the socket.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, William Charles McGee, III
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Publication number: 20230230722Abstract: A power cable having a central ground conductor. Phase interweave power conductors are positioned about the central ground conductor. Individual phase interweave power conductors have the same diameter. The individual phase interweave power conductors have a cross sectional area which is optimized. Each of the individual phase interweave power conductors is configured to support 100% cross sectional usage to maximize power carrying capability. The power cable reduces the skin effect of the power cable and the proximity effect of the power cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventor: Bruce Raymond CONWAY
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Patent number: 11699878Abstract: A power connector includes a terminal block holding terminals in terminal channels with terminating ends configured to be electrically coupled to corresponding wires at separable interfaces. The power connector includes a rear insert covering the terminating ends of the terminals having wire ports configured to receive the corresponding wires during a wire poke-in process. The power connector includes biasing members associated with the terminals each including a pusher configured to be biased against the wire to push the wire into direct physical contact with the separable interface of the corresponding terminal. The power connector includes a release mechanism includes a plurality of pusher release elements. The release mechanism is actuated to release the pushers of each of the biasing members from the corresponding wires.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Matthew Edward Mostoller, Christopher George Daily
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Patent number: 11699896Abstract: A cable processing system comprises a stripping device for stripping a segment of an outer cladding layer of a cable. The stripping device includes a support frame, and a mounting plate movably mounted on the support frame between a start position and an end position in the axial direction of the cable. The mounting plate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in an axial direction of the cable. A plurality of cutting units are mounted on the first surface of the mounting plate for cutting off the outer cladding layer in a circumferential direction of the cable. A plurality of stripping units are mounted on the second surface of the mounting plate for slicing the outer cladding layer in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.Inventors: An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 11695234Abstract: A pluggable module includes a housing and cables arranged as a cable bundle extending from a module cavity of the housing. Each cable includes first and second conductors and an insulator surrounding the conductors. Each cable is obround shaped having generally flat first and second ends and semi-circular first and second sides between the first and second ends. The pluggable module includes a cable organizer coupled to the cable bundle to position the cables relative to each other. The cable organizer has cable channels receiving and holding the cables such that at least a first subset of the cables are oriented with the first and second ends non-parallel to the first and second ends of a second subset of the cables.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Stewart Simpson, Craig Warren Hornung
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Patent number: 11690199Abstract: A battery distribution unit includes a housing having a bottom mounted to a battery case of a battery module and having a component cavity with a contactor therein. The contactor has fixed contacts having terminating ends extending from a bottom end of a contactor housing. The BDU includes terminals at the bottom end of the contactor coupled to the terminating ends and a heat exchanger cap at the bottom end of the contactor. The heat exchanger cap is provided in the component cavity in thermal communication with the fixed contacts and in thermal communication with the battery case of the battery module to dissipate heat from the fixed contacts into the battery case of the battery module.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Eletronicos LTDA, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Shanoo Revankar, Amadeu Luiz Fazani Cavallieri, Jeremy Christin Patterson, David Bruce Sarraf, Weiping Zhao, Xiaobao Geng
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Patent number: 11688959Abstract: A connector for providing an electrical connection between at least one terminating mating terminal to a substrate. The connector includes a housing having at least one terminal receiving cavity. A receptacle terminal is positioned in the at least one terminal receiving cavity. The receptacle terminal has a latching projection which cooperates with the at least one mating terminal to retain the at least one mating terminal in electrical engagement with the receptacle terminal when the at least one mating terminal is fully inserted in the at least one terminal receiving cavity. A release mechanism is provided in the housing in line with the latching projection of the receptacle terminal, the release mechanism is configured to cooperate with the receptacle terminal to depress the latching projection when the at least one mating terminal is to be removed from the at least one terminal receiving cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Nicholas Paul Ruffini, Destin Shimmel
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Patent number: 11687082Abstract: A traffic management system for controlling an AGV includes a sensor arranged proximate to an intersection between first and second passages in a logistics facility. The sensor transmits sensing beams into the second passage to detect presence of a vehicle in the second passage. The sensor transmits sensor signals based on the presence of the vehicle in the second passage. The traffic management system includes a traffic controller receiving the sensor signals and communicating with the AGV causing the AGV to stop at a stopping location in the first passage and restrict movement of the AGV into the second passage when the object is detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Swapnilsinh Solanki, Anthony L. Swann
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Patent number: 11688977Abstract: An electrical connector having a connector housing and a lever. The connector housing has a first wall, a second wall and side walls which extend between the first wall and the second wall. Multiple contacts are positioned in contact receiving cavities of the housing. The multiple contacts have wires which extend therefrom. A lever is rotatably mounted relative to the connector housing. The lever has lever arms and a lever handle. The lever arms extend from the side walls of the housing and the lever handle extends between the lever arms. A wire guide is positioned on the lever. The lever is rotatable between a pre-insertion position and an insertion position. When the lever is in the insertion position, the wire guide engages the wires which extend from the housing to direct the wires to a designated position.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, TE Connectivity India Private LimitedInventors: Vinayakumar Shettar, Ramesh S, Stephen J. Descioli, Melani Cindric, Richard T. Shell
