Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY
  • Patent number: 12034496
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes cables extending between a first end configured to be coupled to a first communication component and a second end configured to be coupled to a second communication component. Each cable defines a data channel including a first portion extending to the first end and a second portion extending to the second end. The cable assembly includes an in-line active module coupled to the cables at an intermediate location between the first end and the second end. The in-line active module includes a repeater device restoring signals transmitting along the channels at the intermediate location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Kyle Robert Sammon
  • Patent number: 12027281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metallic structure with desired combinations of mechanical and electrical characteristics formed of a higher electrical conductivity element with a mechanically stronger element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Martin W. Bayes, Gokce Gulsoy, David Patrick Orris, David Bruce Sarraf, Chad William Morgan, Jevon Ryan Corban
  • Patent number: 12021341
    Abstract: A power connector assembly transferring power between a supply connector assembly and a tap connector assembly includes a front interface module mated with the supply connector assembly and a rear interface module mounted to a host circuit board. The power connector assembly includes a power tap module between the front interface module and the rear interface module having power tap contacts each electrically connected to corresponding front and rear power contacts. Each power tap contact includes a tap interface exterior of the front housing and exterior of the rear housing configured to be terminated to the tap connector assembly. The power tap contact electrically connecting the front power contact and the tap connector assembly to transfer power from the supply connector assembly to the tap connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael James Horning, Harshita Guduru
  • Patent number: 12021332
    Abstract: A connector terminating an end of an electrical cable includes an outer surface, and a radio frequency (RF) sensor tag is secured to the connector outer surface and includes a temperature sensor and an antenna. In response to the RF sensor tag receiving an interrogation signal from a remote RF reader, the temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the connector and generate a temperature data signal, and the antenna is configured to transmit the temperature data signal to the remote RF reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH ET AL.
    Inventors: Harry George Yaworski, Brendan Normoyle, Jonathan Roberts, Cristian S. Regus, Stephen Wiseman
  • Patent number: 12003054
    Abstract: A terminal system includes a first terminal assembly, a sleeve disposed around the first terminal assembly, and a second terminal assembly matable with the first terminal assembly along a longitudinal direction. The sleeve is movable with respect to the first terminal assembly from an insertion position to an end position along the longitudinal direction toward the second terminal assembly while the first terminal assembly remains stationary in a mated position with the second terminal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Daniel Stack
  • Patent number: 12003061
    Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card having cable conductors at a cable end and cables terminated to the circuit card having signal conductors and ground shields surrounding the corresponding signal conductors to provide electrical shielding for the signal conductors. The signal conductors include exposed portions terminated to corresponding cable conductors. The cable card assembly includes a ground bus electrically connected to the ground shields. The ground bus includes a molded body having tunnels receiving the exposed portions of corresponding signal conductors. The molded body is contoured to control impedance along the exposed portions of the signal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Megha Shanbhag, Ping Wei
  • Patent number: 11949189
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
  • Patent number: 11943886
    Abstract: An electronic assembly includes an electronic package having an integrated circuit component and interposer assemblies with compressible interposer contacts electrically connected thereto. Cable connector modules are coupled to the interposer assemblies. A cover assembly is coupled to the upper surface of the electronic package over the cable connector modules. The cover assembly includes bridge assemblies having plates in a plate stack that are independently movable. A load plate engages upper edges of the plates of the bridge assemblies and press against the plates to drive the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules using compression hardware. The cable connector modules compress the interposer contacts of the interposer assemblies when the load plate presses the plates of the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Brian Patrick Costello, Alex Michael Sharf
  • Patent number: 11933683
    Abstract: A strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a doped silicon material, a conductive shield, and an isolation element disposed between the resistor and the conductive shield. The isolation element electrically isolates the resistor from the conductive shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Eric Wagner, James Hoffman, Kim Young-Deok
  • Patent number: 11924970
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
  • Patent number: 11923638
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald, Douglas Edward Shirk
  • Patent number: 11916341
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Chad William Morgan, David Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Patent number: 11908594
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an electrical cable accessory system for covering an electrical cable and/or cable connection. The electrical cable accessory system includes a pre-expanded cable accessory unit and a time-temperature indicator associated with the pre-expanded cable accessory unit. The pre-expanded cable accessory unit includes a pre-expanded cable accessory formed of an elastomeric material and a removable holdout mounted within the elastomeric cable accessory, wherein the holdout is operative to maintain the elastomeric cable accessory in an expanded state and to permit the elastomeric cable accessory to elastically contract when the holdout is removed from the elastomeric cable accessory. The time-temperature indicator is configured to undergo a visible change in appearance in response to a cumulative heat exposure and signal to a viewer when the elastomeric material of the pre-expanded elastomeric cable accessory unit has experienced a threshold cumulative heat exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Harry George Yaworski, Kavitha Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11909147
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Patent number: 11906801
    Abstract: An optical receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having housing walls defining a contact cavity and an optical cavity. The receptacle housing includes an upper wall and a lower wall at a front of the receptacle housing defining a card slot receiving a mating edge of an optical module circuit board of a pluggable optical generator module. The upper wall includes an upper wall opening above the card slot. A contact assembly having receptacle contacts is received in the contact cavity to supply power to the pluggable optical generator module to operate a light source of the pluggable optical generator module. A receive optical connector is coupled to the receptacle housing above the upper wall opening and mated with a supply optical connector of the pluggable optical generator module to receive optical signals from the supply optical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventor: Eric David Briant
  • Patent number: 11901098
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an assembly adapted for mitigating dry band arcing on power distribution line insulators. The assembly includes a polymeric insulator for power distribution line having a core, two end fittings affixed to opposing ends of the core, and a housing circumferentially surrounding the core. The housing including an upper end section and a lower end section each overlapping a respective end fitting, and a series of axially spaced apart annular sheds projecting radially outwardly from an outer surface of the housing. The device further includes a cover having a main body including a sidewall and a top wall, the sidewall and the top wall together define a cavity. A lower edge of the sidewall defines a lower opening and the top wall includes an upper opening, both the lower and upper openings being in communication with the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Kiran Pusthay, Senthil A. Kumar
  • Patent number: 11899245
    Abstract: An optical receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing defining a contact cavity, an optical cavity, and a card slot at a front of the receptacle housing configured to receive an edge of an optical module circuit board. A contact assembly having receptacle contacts is received in the contact cavity and extend into the card slot to supply power to the pluggable optical generator module to operate a light source. The optical receptacle connector includes a receive optical connector coupled to the receptacle housing having a ferrule holding at least one optical fiber configured to be mated with a supply optical connector of the pluggable optical generator module to receive optical signals from the supply optical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventor: Eric David Briant
  • Patent number: 11901671
    Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes an array of contacts including signal contacts and ground contacts. The ground contacts are interspersed with the signal contacts to provide electrical shielding between corresponding signal contacts. Each signal contact includes a signal contact body having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a first edge between the first and second sides, and a second edge between the first and second sides opposite the first edge. The signal contact body includes a signal mating end and a signal terminating end. Each signal contact includes a mating ball formed at the signal mating end of the signal contact body. The mating ball is generally spherical shaped. The mating ball and the signal contact body are a homogeneous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Tryson
  • Patent number: 11894629
    Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K., TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Megan Hoarfrost Beers, Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Jennifer Love, Clarence Leon Yu, Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 11888269
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having cage walls defining first, second, and third module channels in a stacked arrangement. The cage walls include a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a first separator panel, and a second separator panel. The first and second side wall extend along opposite sides of the first, second and third module channels. The first separator panel is located between the first and second module channels. The second separator panel is located between the second and third module channels. The receptacle connector assembly includes a first receptacle module in the first module channel for mating with a first plug module, a second receptacle module in the second module channel for mating with a second plug module, and a third receptacle module in the third module channel for mating with a third plug module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventor: Alex Michael Sharf