Patents Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY
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Patent number: 11441885Abstract: A sensor device for measuring a rotational position of an element that is rotatable about an axis of rotation includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and a plurality of receiving members receiving the magnetic field. Each of the receiving members has a pair of conductors that together delimit a pair of surrounded areas. Each of the surrounded areas tapers in and against a circumferential direction at ends of the surrounded areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, TE CONNECTIVIYU BELGIUM BVInventors: Tom Ocket, Tobias Becker, Moritz Harz
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Patent number: 11444514Abstract: A sensor module for mounting in a motor includes a holder adapted to be mounted in a wet chamber of the motor, a temperature sensor adapted to be mounted in a dry chamber of the motor, a rotational position sensor mounted on the holder, a connector interface adapted to be plugged into a corresponding connector, and a sealing element arranged between the rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is spaced apart from the holder. The rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor are connected via a plurality of signal lines to the connector interface. The sealing element is sealingly penetrated by the signal lines from one of the rotational position sensor and the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED ET AL.Inventors: Sebastian Wiechert, Manivasakan Ravinthiran, Bram Embo, Pooventhan A, Shivaprasad B, Ignace Vankeirisbilck, Kiranpal Singh, Manjunatha D V
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Patent number: 11443998Abstract: An electronic assembly includes an electronic package including a package substrate and an integrated circuit component mounted to an upper surface. The electronic package includes upper package contacts electrically connected to the integrated circuit component. The electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly including an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces. The interposer assembly defining a separable interface. The electronic assembly includes optical modules coupled to the separable interface of the interposer assembly and having an optical module substrate having module contacts and an optical engine mounted to the optical module substrate electrically connected to the module contacts. The optical module is mounted to the interposer assembly such that the module contacts are electrically connected to the upper mating interfaces of the interposer contacts. Each optical module includes at least one optical fiber terminated to the optical engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Jeffery Walter Mason, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Clarence Leon Yu, Michael David Herring
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Patent number: 11437760Abstract: A coaxial connector assembly has a housing with at least one contact receiving cavity which extends from a mating end to a contact assembly receiving end. The contact receiving cavity has a mounting section proximate the contact assembly receiving end. A contact assembly is positioned in the contact receiving cavity. The contact assembly has a front flange proximate a mating portion of the contact assembly. A positioning member is inserted on the mating portion of the contact assembly. The positioning member cooperates with the flange to position the positioning member on the mating portion of the contact assembly. The positioning member cooperates with a wall of the contact receiving cavity to limit the movement of the mating portion of the contact assembly in a direction which is transverse to a longitudinal axis of the contact assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Charles Raymond Gingrich, III, Francis John Blasick, Keith Edwin Miller
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Patent number: 11439042Abstract: A heat exchange assembly includes a thermal bridge including upper and lower bridge elements including upper and lower plates arranged in plate stacks. The lower plates include lower fin plates and lower spacer plates with lower ends configured to be mechanically and thermally coupled to the electrical component. The upper plates include upper fin plates and upper spacer plates with upper ends configured to be mechanically and thermally coupled to a heat exchanger. The upper and lower fin plates are interleaved. The heat exchange assembly includes installation spring elements coupled between the upper and lower plates and biased against the upper and lower plates during installation. The installation spring elements are removable after the upper and lower plates are coupled to the electrical component and the heat exchanger to remove the biasing force between the upper and lower plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventor: Alan Weir Bucher
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Patent number: 11437748Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for mating with a mating connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a housing with a cable receiving portion and a mating portion. The housing has a first surface and an oppositely facing second surface. A mating projection extends from the first surface in a direction away from the second surface. The mating projection has a circular cross-sectional configuration. The mating projection has an angled wall which extends from the first surface to a mating face, the angled wall is angled relative to a plane of the first surface and a plane of the mating face. The mating face has contacts extending therethrough. The contacts have circular engagement sections arranged concentrically about a center of the mating face. A securing recess is provided in the angled wall, the securing recess extends about the outside circumference of the angled wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Rodney T. Smith, Keith E. Miller, Kyle M. Doll, Tim R. Chevalier
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Patent number: 11431114Abstract: An enclosed connection system for mechanically and electrically connecting first and second cables each including an elongate electrical conductor covered by an insulation layer, includes an electrical connector, an enclosure, and a protective end cap. The electrical connector is configured to form a connection with the first and second cables wherein the conductors of the first and second cables are electrically connected by the electrical connector. The enclosure is configured to receive and cover the connection and to protect the electrical connector. The enclosure includes a plurality of enclosure ports each configured to receive a cable. The protective end cap is configured to selectively cover at least a selected one of the enclosure ports.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventor: John Anthony Newman
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Patent number: 11398694Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes first and second plug connectors each including a plug housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall forming a cavity. The side walls include a housing securing feature. The plug connector assembly includes a flex jumper assembly coupled between the plug connectors having a flex circuit extending between first and second paddle cards. The paddle cards each include a rigid substrate having a mating end and side edges extending to a flex circuit end. The rigid substrate includes a plug connector securing feature at the side edge engaging the housing securing feature to retain the paddle card in the corresponding plug housing. The flex circuit is flexible between the first and second paddle cards.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Randall Robert Henry, Linda Ellen Shields, Michael John Phillips, Brandon Michael Matthews
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Patent number: 11394159Abstract: A coaxial connector assembly includes a connector module having a connector body that includes contact channels. The coaxial connector assembly includes coaxial contacts received in the corresponding contact channels having a center contact, a conductive shell coaxial with the center contact and an insulator between the center contact and the conductive shell. The coaxial connector assembly includes positioning adapters received in the corresponding contact channels having an adapter body forming an adapter bore that receives the coaxial contact. The adapter body engages the retention feature to position the coaxial contact relative to the adapter body and engages the connector body to position the coaxial contact in the contact cavity. The adapter component enables multiple coaxial contact sizes to be used in the same connector module contact channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Francis John Blasick, Denver Harley Wilson
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Patent number: 11383187Abstract: A suction tube filter arrangement includes a suction tube defining a suction tube direction and a filter member extending along the suction tube direction. The suction tube is at least partially arranged inside the filter member.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: MEAS FRANCE, TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE ASInventors: Maciej Ziemak, Girish Chebbi, Rafael Ferrer Ruiz
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Patent number: 11381038Abstract: A contact assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and ground contacts. The contacts include intermediate portions extending between mating and terminating ends. The ground terminating end has a leadframe ground bus connecting each of the ground contacts. The electrical connector includes a contact holder holding the contacts. The electrical connector includes cables terminated to the leadframe including signal conductors terminated to corresponding signal terminating ends. The leadframe ground bus is terminated to each of the ground shields to electrically common the ground shields. The electrical connector includes an external ground bus separate and discrete from the leadframe ground bus terminated to each of the ground shields at an opposite side of the cables from the leadframe ground bus to electrically common the ground shields.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventor: Sandeep Patel
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Patent number: 11374363Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Jacob Rita, Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 11374339Abstract: A pluggable module includes an outer housing having a cavity between an upper wall and a lower wall. A circuit card is received in the cavity having a card edge configured to be received in a card slot of a communication connector. A circuit card holder engages the circuit card and holds the circuit card in the cavity of the outer housing. The circuit card holder includes a locating fin at a top of the circuit card holder. The locating fin has a sacrificial upper edge configured to engage the outer housing to locate the circuit card holder and the circuit card in the cavity. The sacrificial upper edge is deformed when engaging the outer housing to press the circuit card holder and the circuit card in a downward biasing direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt, Kevin Wesley Stauffer, David Robert Baechtle
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Patent number: 11366081Abstract: An assembly for determining a type of a fluid, the assembly configured to be mounted to a tank containing the fluid, comprises an ultrasound sending/receiving subassembly and a processor module. The ultrasound sending/receiving subassembly is configured to send a plurality of ultrasound signals into the fluid and receive the ultrasound signals reflected from the fluid. An ultrasound signal of the plurality of ultrasound signals has at least a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency. The processor module is adapted to determine an attenuation of the ultrasound signal at the first frequency and at the second frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE ASInventors: Viktor Kolesnikov, Hakon Boe
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Patent number: 11360276Abstract: An optoelectronic assembly includes an optical module assembly including a fiber optic connector and an optical engine on an optical engine substrate. The fiber optic connector has a ferrule holding optical fibers optically coupled to the optical engine. The optical engine substrate includes a contact array of optical engine contacts at a bottom of the optical engine substrate. The optical module assembly includes a heat transfer element thermally coupled to the optical engine. The optical module assembly includes a backshell configured to be coupled to a circuit board. The backshell holds the heat transfer element in thermal contact with the optical engine. The optoelectronic assembly includes an interposer assembly electrically connected to the contact array of optical engine contacts having compressible interposer contacts with separable mating interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Patent number: 11359094Abstract: A silicone composite for high temperature insulation applications is disclosed. The composite is formed of a silicone and a thermally decomposable inorganic filler which are compounded together. The compounded material is then injection molded, overmolded, compression molded, cast, laminated, extruded, or dispensed. When the silicone composite is exposed to a high temperature, it forms an inorganic composite and maintains its insulating properties and dimensional stability.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBHInventors: Dejie Tao, Lei Wang, Yiliang Wu, Ting Gao, Andre Martin Dressel, Marco Wolf, Mei Dong
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Patent number: 11353429Abstract: A system for detecting the presence of bubbles in a solution includes an ultrasonic receiver, receiving a pair of signals having different frequencies after passage through the solution, and a computing unit. The computing unit computes a signal value for each of the signals, the signal value representing a defined signal property, compares the signal values for the signals with each other and/or each with a predefined reference value, and computes a deviation of the signal values from each other and/or between the signal values and the predefined reference value. The computing unit generates a bubble confirmation signal that confirms the presence of bubbles in the solution if the deviation is greater than a predefined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE ASInventors: Hakon Boe, Bjornar Berge Lie
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Patent number: 11355872Abstract: A mezzanine power pin includes a dual layer pin body extending between a pin top having an upper power interface and a pin bottom having a lower power interface. The dual layer pin body has a base metal core and an outer metal oxide layer combined with the base metal core defining an outermost layer of the dual layer pin body. The mezzanine power pin includes an upper fastener coupled to the pin top to mechanically and electrically connect an upper component to the upper power interface. The mezzanine power pin includes a lower fastener coupled to the pin bottom to mechanically and electrically connect a lower component to the lower power interface. The base metal core is configured to electrically connect the upper component and the lower component through the base metal core.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: David Patrick Orris, Martin William Bayes
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Patent number: 11355877Abstract: A power connector system for a circuit card assembly includes a board power connector and a cable power connector coupled to the board power connector. The board power connector includes a board housing having cavities that hold power contacts and signal contact channels on the bottom that hold signal contacts. The cable power connector has a cable housing having contact silos holding cable power contacts terminated to power cables. The contact silos and the cable power contacts are received in the cavities of the board housing to mate the cable power contacts with the board power contacts. The cable housing includes a platform below the contact silos holding cable signal contacts at the bottom of the cable housing outside of the contact silos for mating with the board signal contacts when the cable power connector is mated with the board power connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Matthew Schumacher
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Patent number: 11355902Abstract: A power connector includes first and second power terminals having first and second contact stacks and first and second plates for termination to corresponding power element. The contact stacks have contacts separate and discrete from each other and from the plate. Each contact has a base and a mating beam. The bases are aligned and mechanically and electrically coupled to the plate. A housing has an end wall and a fastener that mechanically and electrically couples the bases to the plate. The power terminals are arranged such that the first and second mating beams oppose each other across a mating slot that receives a bus bar with the first mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a first bus rail at a first side of the bus bar and the second mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a second bus rail at a second side of the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Jevon Ryan Corban, David Patrick Orris, Michael James Horning, Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr., Douglas Edward Shirk, David Robert Baechtle