Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY
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Patent number: 11129290Abstract: A power delivery module includes a frame having rails defining an opening that receives an electronic package. A bottom of the frame is mounted to a host circuit board and faces an upper surface of the electronic package. The frame is a layered structure including a power plate, a ground plate, and an insulator electrically isolating the power plate from the ground plate. The power deliver module includes module power contacts electrically connected to the power plate and extending from the bottom for electrical connection to package power contacts of the electronic package. Module ground contacts are electrically connected to the ground plate and extend from the bottom for electrical connection to package ground contacts of the electronic package. The module power contacts and the module ground contacts deliver power to the electronic package.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventor: Brian Patrick Costello
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Patent number: 11128078Abstract: A current carrying clip contact and electrical connector have a first stationary beam and a movable beam. The first stationary beam has first planar tab engagement section and a first lead-in surface which extends from the first planar tab engagement section. The has a second planar tab engagement section, an arcuate retention section extending from the second planar tab engagement section, and a second lead-in surface extending from the arcuate retention section. The arcuate retention section of the movable beam is movable across a plane of the first planar tab engagement section of the first stationary beam as a mating tab is inserted between the first stationary beam and the movable beam.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Brian Keith Weaver, Vincent Ruminski, Divya Shukla, Michael Christopher D'Imperio, Gary Altemose
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Patent number: 11118992Abstract: Pressure sensor assemblies comprise a sensor body having a membrane within the body for placement in communication with a fluid from an external source and determining a pressure of the fluid. A support is connected with the body and includes a channel extending therethrough for receiving the fluid, wherein the channel is in fluid-flow communication with the membrane. A substrate is connected with the support and comprises a channel extending therethrough for receiving the fluid from an external source. The support may be formed from a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is between a coefficient of thermal expansion of the support and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the external fluid source connected with the substrate. One of the substrate or the support comprises a fluid pressure mitigation feature for mitigating the transmission of a pressure spike in the fluid to protect the sensor membrane.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignees: MEASUREMENT SPECIALTIES, INC., TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Martin Pfeiffer, Predrag Drljaca, Jean-Francois Le Néal, David Eric Wagner, Schahrazède Mouaziz
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Patent number: 11121511Abstract: A electrical connector includes an inner conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to an electrical component and a second mating end and an outer conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to the electrical component and a second mating end. The outer conductor has a bore receiving the inner conductor. The inner conductor is coaxial with the outer conductor. A shielding gasket is separate and discrete from the outer conductor and coupled to the first mating end of the outer conductor. The shielding gasket has an outer surface facing the electrical component and configured to interface with the electrical component. The shielding gasket provides perimeter shielding around the first mating end of the inner conductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: 11108179Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and contact modules held by the housing. The contact modules include ground shields having ground contacts. The contact modules have a dielectric carrier that holds signal contacts. The ground contacts are configured for mating with corresponding ground contacts of a complementary mating connector, and are plated with a ground contact plating that includes at least one ground contact plating material. An interface between the ground contacts held and the corresponding ground contacts of the complementary mating connector has a first contact resistance. The signal contacts are configured for mating with corresponding signal contacts of the mating connector, and are plated with a signal contact plating. An interface between the signal contacts held and the signal contacts of the complimentary mating connector has a second contact resistance. The second contact resistance is lower than the first contact resistance.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Michael James Horning, Arturo Pachon Munoz, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick
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Patent number: 11092317Abstract: A lighting receptacle assembly for mounting to a fixture housing of a light fixture and for mating with a sensor connector having a photocontrol component includes a receptacle connector, a base seal, a mounting nut, a mounting plate, a seal bushing and a locking washer. The receptacle connector including a base holding receptacle contacts and a threaded shaft. The base seal is coupled to the base and the mounting nut is threadably coupled to the threaded shaft. The mounting plate has an opening receiving the threaded shaft. The seal bushing has an opening receiving the threaded shaft being compressed between the mounting plate and the fixture housing. The locking washer has an opening receiving the threaded shaft configured to engage the fixture housing and including a locking feature configured to resist rotation of the lighting receptacle assembly relative to the fixture housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Matthew Edward Mostoller, Edward John Howard
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Patent number: 11095248Abstract: A solar junction box for a solar panel having at least one photovoltaic cell and a foil electrically connected to the at least one cell including a housing having a base and a cover coupled to the base. The base and the cover define a cavity. The base has a mounting wall including a mounting surface configured to be mounted to the solar panel including a foil opening at the mounting surface. A contact assembly is received in the cavity having a terminal including a foil contact configured to be terminated to the foil. The foil contact has a transition leg transitioning into the foil opening to interface with the foil and a mating leg configured to be mated with the foil. The mating leg extends at or beyond the mounting wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Matthew Edward Mostoller, Christopher George Daily
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Patent number: 11095075Abstract: An electrical device including a plug connector. The plug connector includes a first flexible substrate having a plurality of signal contacts, the first flexible substrate extending from a terminating end to a mating end and configured to be flexible between the terminating end and mating end. A second flexible substrate extends in parallel spaced relation to the first flexible substrate to form a cavity between the first flexible substrate and second flexible substrate. The second flexible substrate having a plurality of signal contacts. The second flexible substrate extends from a terminating end to a mating end and configured to be flexible between the terminating end and mating end. The plug connector includes a rigid section disposed in the cavity at the mating end, the first flexible substrate moves in relation to the rigid section.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Sandeep Patel, Dustin Grant Rowe, Bruce Allen Champion, Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: 11095076Abstract: A cable connector includes a cable having wire pairs and contacts in contact pairs. The contacts of the contact pairs may be simultaneously crimped to the corresponding wires by a crimp tool. Pair holders hold the contact pairs with an overmolded body molded around supporting bases of the contacts of the contact pair to fix relative positions of the contacts. The cable connector includes a pair shield having shield elements forming shield pockets receiving wire pairs, contact pairs, and pair holders. The cable connector includes a retainer having a retainer cavity that receives the wire pairs and the pair shield. The retainer includes a contact support to support the pair holders and the contact pairs. The cable connector includes an outer shell having an outer shell cavity that receives the retainer and provides electrical shielding for the contact pairs.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Nicholas Paul Ruffini, Kevin Michael Thackston, Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Scott Eric Walton, Thomas Gregory Gartlan
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Patent number: 11089675Abstract: A tamper sensor that includes a substrate and a conductive layer placed on the substrate. The tamper sensor also includes an insulation layer that is stacked on the conductive layer to form a layered tamper circuit. In addition, the substrate of the tamper sensor is the only substrate of the tamper sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Jermstad, Michael Ritchie, Marcus Updyke, Anthony Ball
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Patent number: 11088715Abstract: A communication system having a circuit board with an airflow opening includes a receptacle cage configured to be mounted to the circuit board adjacent a communication connector. The receptacle cage has walls including a front wall, a rear wall and sidewalls defining a cavity. A module channel is defined in the cavity configured to receive a pluggable module. The module channel has a module port at the front wall that receives the pluggable module. An airflow channel is defined by at least one of the walls of the receptacle cage located between the module channel and the circuit board. The airflow channel is configured to be in flow communication with the airflow opening in the circuit board for cooling the pluggable module in the module channel. The airflow channel has an airflow port at the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventor: Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: 11081821Abstract: A communication system includes a circuit board having circuit board signal and ground contacts on the upper surface. The communication system includes a cable assembly having a housing holding a cable module with cables. A ground shield and signal contacts are electrically connected to the cables. The ground shield includes ground beams with ground mating interfaces coupled to corresponding circuit board ground contacts. Each signal contact has a terminating pad terminated to the cable conductor and a signal beam with a signal mating interface coupled to the circuit board signal contact. The housing includes contact channels receiving the signal and ground beams with the mating interfaces exposed for interfacing with the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Jeffery Walter Mason, Bruce Allen Champion, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Patent number: 11069458Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor and an insulator surrounding the first conductor and the second conductor. The insulator has an outer surface and extends along a longitudinal axis for a length of the electrical cable. The conductor assembly has a coating layer on the outer surface of the insulator being conductive defining an inner electrical shield of the electrical cable. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and has an inner edge and an outer edge. The outer edge is wrapped over the inner edge to form a flap covering the inner edge and extending along the longitudinal axis. The cable shield engages the inner electrical shield and forms an outer electrical shield exterior of the inner electrical shield.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Chad William Morgan
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Patent number: 11063391Abstract: A communication system includes first and second circuit card assemblies each having a PCB and an electrical connector having a mating end and contacts. The first electrical connector has a receptacle housing and a mating housing received in the receptacle housing with cam levers therebetween. The second electrical connector has a header housing and driving elements interfacing with the cam levers to actuate the mating housing relative to the receptacle housing. The PCB includes a slot receiving the other PCB in a board loading direction and the header housing is coupled to the receptacle housing in the board loading direction to interface the driving elements with the cam levers. The mating housing is movable away from the second mating end to a preloaded position by the driving elements and is movable toward the second mating end to a mated position by the driving elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventor: John Joseph Consoli
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Patent number: 11053795Abstract: A compressor having a front housing in which a crank chamber is formed. A cylinder block is coupled to an opposite surface facing the front housing and includes reciprocating pistons in a plurality of cylinder bores. A rear housing is coupled to an opposite surface facing the cylinder block, the rear housing includes a suction chamber and a discharge chamber formed therein. A rotating shaft 400 is inserted via centers of the front housing and the cylinder block, the shaft inserted into a swash plate. A diameter maintenance part is configured to constantly maintain a diameter based on an axis direction of the piston 220. A sensor part is configured to sense a speed and a stroke of the piston in accordance with a change in position of a position determination part positioned on one side of the diameter maintenance part.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Jung Myung Kwak, Yong Hee Kim, Daniel Domke, Simon Schemer, Peter Kurt Zawadzky
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Patent number: 11058033Abstract: Receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage and a thermal-transfer module that is coupled to a thermal side of the receptacle cage. The thermal-transfer module has a base portion and a plurality of heat-transfer fins coupled to the base portion. The thermal-transfer module is configured to absorb thermal energy from a pluggable transceiver in the receptacle cage and transfer the thermal energy through the base portion and to the heat-transfer fins. The receptacle assembly also includes a retention clip configured to hold the thermal-transfer module to the receptacle cage. The retention clip includes a resilient beam that extends across the thermal-transfer module. The resilient beam directly engages at least some of the heat-transfer fins and applies a resilient force against the heat-transfer fins.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongqiang Han, Jiwang Jin, Wenyu Liu, Nikhil Shankar, Alex Michael Sharf, Chenxi Wang
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Patent number: 11056868Abstract: A monitoring accessory for an electrical apparatus provided with a connection terminal capable of being connected to an electric cable, the monitoring accessory comprising a frame provided with a cooperation system configured to cooperate with the electrical apparatus in a mounted position, a current sensor arranged to measure a current intensity passing through the electric cable, when the electric cable is connected to the connection terminal, the current sensor comprising a measuring portion forming a loop capable of surrounding a section of the electric cable, the measuring portion being provided with a closing system capable of holding the loop in a closed position and forming a passage space for said section of the electric cable inside the loop in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Anna-Line Escoffier, Annie Virlouvet, Laurence Pionchon
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Patent number: 11054063Abstract: Clamping device includes a clamp frame that is configured to move between an open configuration, in which the clamp frame is configured to receive at least one longitudinal element, and a closed configuration, in which the clamp frame wraps around and holds the at least one longitudinal element. The clamp frame includes a coupling end having an inner surface and a coupling base having an outer surface. The inner and outer surfaces have profiles that form a locked engagement to hold the clamp frame in the closed configuration. The clamping device also includes a secondary locking mechanism that secures the coupling end and the coupling base to each other. The secondary locking mechanism is activated after the clamp frame is held in the closed configuration by the locked engagement.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD.Inventors: Thomas D. Ratzlaff, Paul Craig Tally, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Roy MacNaughton, Nicholas John Swatko
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Patent number: 11051425Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle assembly and a pluggable module. The receptacle assembly has a receptacle housing includes walls forming a module cavity with a communication connector at a back end thereof. The receptacle assembly has a liquid cooling assembly having a liquid cooling channel coupled to the receptacle housing and a fitting in flow communication with the liquid cooling channel. The pluggable module is receivable in the module cavity and has a pluggable body holding a module circuit board and a liquid cooling assembly coupled to the pluggable body. The liquid cooling assembly includes a liquid cooling channel in thermal communication with the pluggable body and a module fitting mated with the fitting of the receptacle assembly to couple the liquid cooling channel of the pluggable module in flow communication with the liquid cooling channel of the receptacle assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventor: Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: D926143Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Chong Hun Yi, Richard C. Batley, III