Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY
  • Patent number: 10837985
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an electric current through a bus bar comprises a compensation coil and a magnetic field sensor. The bus bar has a through-hole dividing the electric current flowing through the bus bar into at least two partial currents flowing around the through-hole. The compensation coil is disposed in the through-hole and generates a compensation field. The compensation field compensates a plurality of magnetic fields generated by the partial currents and/or an external magnetic field such that a magnetic flux density of a resulting magnetic field at a predetermined position of the through-hole does not exceed a predetermined threshold. The magnetic field sensor is disposed in the through-hole and detects the magnetic flux density of the resulting magnetic field at the predetermined position. The magnetic field sensor emits an output signal corresponding to the detected magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Marco Wolf, Christian Berger
  • Patent number: 10837842
    Abstract: A substrate for a sensor assembly of a resistance thermometer is disclosed. The substrate is comprised of spinel and magnesium oxide and has a thermal coefficient of expansion approximately equal to the thermal coefficient of expansion of platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SENSORS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Heinrich Zitzmann, Horst Sirtl, Dirk Nusse
  • Patent number: 10840645
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having walls defining a cavity and a divider in the cavity including upper and lower panels separated by a gap and separating the cavity into upper and lower module channels receiving corresponding pluggable modules. The receptacle connector assembly includes a communication connector in the cavity having a housing holding upper and lower contact modules. The receptacle connector assembly includes a light pipe assembly including a first light pipe member coupled to the communication connector and a second light pipe member coupled to the divider. The second light pipe member receives light from the first light pipe member at a separable mating interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eric David Briant
  • Patent number: 10837838
    Abstract: A substrate for a sensor assembly of a resistance thermometer is disclosed. The substrate is comprised of aluminum oxide and zirconium dioxide and has a thermal coefficient of expansion approximately equal to the terminal coefficient of expansion of platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SENSORS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Heinrich Zitzmann, Horst Sirtl, Dirk Nusse
  • Patent number: 10833435
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connection system (7) for an electrical device, such as an electrical terminal block, said electrical connection system (7) comprising: a conductive bar (21) including an electrical contact region (45) arranged to cooperate with a conductive portion (13?) of an electrical conductor (13) in a connected position, and an engagement zone (35) arranged to engage with a portion (15?) of a support rail (15) in an engaged position; a leaf spring (23); and a retaining device (49) arranged to retain the support rail (15) in the engaged position, the conductive bar (21) consisting of a conductive strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Romain Villard, Yannick Villardier
  • Patent number: 10833458
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing having a terminal channel with a power terminal in the terminal channel. The electrical connector includes a temperature sensor assembly positioned in the chamber. The temperature sensor assembly includes a sealing pad holding the power terminal and a thermal shunt held by the sealing pad. A temperature sensor is coupled to the thermal shunt. The sealing pad is electrically insulative and has a terminal opening receiving the power terminal. The sealing pad is thermally coupled to the power terminal and thermally coupled to the thermal shunt. The thermal shunt has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the sealing pad. The temperature sensor monitors the temperature of the power terminal through a thermal path defined by the sealing pad and the thermal shunt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Bruce Sarraf, Nathan Philip Myer
  • Patent number: 10825631
    Abstract: A solenoid assembly includes the solenoid armature assembly having a flux tube or magnetic bearing having an opposed first end and a second end. The armature assembly additionally includes an armature having an opposed third end and a fourth end and movable within the flux tube or magnetic bearing along a mutual axis. The fourth end of the armature is slidably movable beyond the second end of the flux tube or magnetic bearing. A top plate facing the fourth end of the armature, the top plate having an opening for slidably receiving the central core. A slot is included in at least one of the flux tube or magnetic bearing, the armature, and the top plate to improve or decrease release time between the movable contacts and the stationary contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Marcus Priest
  • Patent number: 10823764
    Abstract: A Hall Effect sensor, including a toroid including a gap having opposed surfaces, which are substantially planar and substantially parallel to one another. The toroid further includes a central plane bisecting the opposed surfaces. A first Hall element sensor defining a first sensor plane is positioned at least partially within the gap of the toroid at a first angle and a second Hall element sensor is positioned at least partially within the gap of the toroid at a second angle substantially mutually perpendicular to each of the opposed surfaces. The central plane is substantially perpendicular to the opposed surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Steve Felisilda Delacruz, Frank Peter Wahl, III, Matthew Mishrikey
  • Patent number: 10826214
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a housing having a mating end for mating with a plug connector and a mounting end for mounting to a circuit board. The housing has side walls and end walls with contacts in contacts arrays along both side walls. The contacts have mating ends and terminating ends. The housing has a card slot open at the mating end for receiving plug connector defined by interior surfaces of the side walls. The mating ends of the contacts are exposed in the card slot for mating electrical connection with the plug connector. The housing has alignment tabs extending inward into the card slot from the interior surface for aligning the plug connector within the card slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Randall Robert Henry
  • Patent number: 10826233
    Abstract: An electrical connector having a latch which extends from the first housing surface of the housing. A mounting portion extends from the latch arm to the first housing surface. A first mounting surface of the mounting portion extends at a first angle from the first housing surface in a direction toward the mating connector latching end. The first mounting surface extends from the first latch arm surface at a second angle. The length of the mounting portion as measured between a vertex of the first angle and a vertex of the second angle along the first housing surface is greater than the distance that the first latch arm surface is spaced from the first housing surface. The latch arm is pivotable about the mounting portion. The latch and the mounting portion have low stress concentrations when the latch arm is pivoted about the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chong Hun Yi, Richard C. Batley, III
  • Patent number: 10819063
    Abstract: An electrical terminal having a terminal attachment portion, a wire attachment portion and a transition portion. The wire attachment portion is configured to receive wires of a cable therein. The transition portion extends between the terminal attachment portion and the wire attachment portion. A flow barrier is provided on the transition portion proximate an end of the transition portion. The flow barrier constrains an adhesive/sealant applied to the wires positioned in the wire attachment portion from flowing from the wire attachment portion to the terminal attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Inho Myong
  • Patent number: 10811800
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a housing having a first end mounted to an integrated circuit substrate over an integrated circuit component and a second end supporting a heat sink used to dissipate heat from the integrated circuit component. The housing includes a pocket receiving a cable module having a connector housing holding conductors and cables connected to the conductors. The connector housing has a mating end facing the integrated circuit substrate with the conductors arranged at the mating end for interfacing with integrated circuit conductors. A thermal shield is received in the pocket having an opening receiving the cables. The thermal shield has a thermal shielding wall positioned between the cables and the heat sink to provide a thermal barrier between the cables and the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Jeffery Walter Mason, Michael David Herring
  • Patent number: 10811798
    Abstract: A card edge cable connector assembly includes a cable connector having a cable connector housing having a top, a bottom, a front, and a rear. The cable connector has a mating end and a cable end. The cable connector housing holds signal contacts and ground contacts. Cables are electrically connected to corresponding signal and ground contacts and extend from the cable end. The card edge cable connector assembly includes cable connector holder extending from the cable connector having a support wall with a support surface configured to engage a planar surface of a circuit card proximate to an edge slot at an edge of the circuit card to support the cable connector on the circuit card such that the cable connector and the cables are located in the edge slot of the circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jared Evan Rossman
  • Patent number: 10811817
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating end and a wire end with a base and terminal channels extending through the base into the mating end. The terminal channels receive terminals mated with a mating electrical connector. The base has a wire support supporting wires extending from the terminals. The wire support includes support walls forming wire channels. A wire dress cover is coupled to the wire support and includes an end wall and wire pushers extending from the end wall. The wire pushers load the wires into the wire channels. The wire pushers are received in the wire channels to hold the wires in the wire channels. The wires are supported at the rear by the wire pushers and at both sides by the support walls to provide strain relief for the wires in the wire support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin John Peterson, William John Remaley, Sameh Lotfy Mankaryos, Paul David Roman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10811794
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes a housing having a mounting end mounted to a host circuit board and a mating end having a card slot receiving a circuit card. Upper and lower contacts are received in upper and lower contact channels of the housing. The upper and lower contacts include corresponding mounting ends and mating ends with the mounting ends mounted to the host circuit board and the mating ends having first and second mating interfaces defining first and second points of contact with the same contact pad of the circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Kevin Michael Thackston, Andrew Monroe Martin
  • Patent number: 10811801
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of conductors held within the housing. The conductors are configured to electrically connect to mating conductors of a mating connector. The conductors each extend a length between a mating end and a mounting end of the respective conductor. One or more of the conductors include a copper alloy core, a copper plating layer, and a protective outer layer. The copper plating layer surrounds the copper alloy core, and is composed of a different material than the copper alloy core. The protective outer layer is disposed on and surrounds the copper plating layer. The protective outer layer is composed of a non-conductive polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Justin Dennis Pickel, John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, David Patrick Orris, Daniel Briner Shreffler, David Allison Trout, Arturo Pachon Munoz
  • Patent number: 10806032
    Abstract: An electronic system for a fluid property sensor comprises a fluid printed circuit board adapted to analyze a property of a fluid, an external connector, and an intermediate printed circuit board. The intermediate printed circuit board is electrically connected between the fluid printed circuit board and the external connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE AS, MEAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Maciej Ziemak, Ion Grozea, Marcin Rusak, Bengt Eliassen, Conrad Judersleben, Jose Fernandez, Niklas Jansson, Rafael Ferrer Ruiz
  • Patent number: 10794734
    Abstract: A debubbling sleeve for a fluid sensor of a sensor system is disclosed. The debubbling sleeve has a receptacle closed circumferentially around a sleeve bottom and a first passageway extending through the sleeve bottom. The receptacle contains the fluid sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY NORAG AS
    Inventor: Frank Thomsen
  • Patent number: 10790601
    Abstract: Pass through plates have a body with an opposed first surface and second surface and an attachment member extending therethrough. The attachment member includes a wall structure configured to accommodate placement of an electrical conductor therein. The attachment member may include a recessed section configured to accommodate an outer section of the electrical conductor to prevent rotational movement of the electrical conductor therein. A retaining element is configured to contact the electrical conductor and retain axial placement of the electrical conductor within the attachment member when the electrical conductor is installed in the wall structure. The retaining element may comprise one or more latch elements extending along the attachment member wall and configured to move radially. The retaining element may be configured to contact a portion of the electrical conductor once installed in the attachment member. The attachment element and retaining element are integral with the pass through plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Donkervoet, David Allen Klein, Rohan Narang
  • Patent number: 10790618
    Abstract: A header connector includes signal contacts, header shields and a header housing holding the signal contacts and the header shields. The signal contacts each have a base, a mating pin and a mounting portion. The header shields have walls defining shield pockets receiving corresponding pairs of the signal contacts to provide electrical shielding for the pairs of signal contacts. Each header shield has a base and a mounting portion. The header housing has a front shell and a rear shell. The front shell is dielectric and the rear shell is conductive and providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The front shell holds the signal contacts. The rear shell holds the header shields and is electrically connected to each of the header shields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arturo Pachon Munoz, Sean Patrick McCarthy, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick