Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.
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Publication number: 20150212267Abstract: An optical assembly comprising: (a) a substrate having a first planar surface; (b) an optical component connected to the substrate and having a second planar surface parallel to the first surface and at least one first optical axis; (c) a plurality of optical fiber stubs having a certain diameter and being disposed at least partially between the substrate and the optical component; (d) at least one of the substrate or the optical component having one or more grooves on the first or second surfaces, respectively, such that each groove is configured to receive one of the plurality of fiber stubs such that each of the fiber stubs protrudes a first distance from the first or second surface to space the first surface the first distance from the second surface; and (e) a least one optical conduit having a second optical axis, the optical conduit being disposed on the first or second surface such that the second optical axis is optically aligned with the first optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicants: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V., Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Terry Patrick Bowen, Craig Warren Hornung, Sandeep Razdan, William A. Weeks, Michael Tryson, Jibin Sun, Haipeng Zhang, Jonathan Edward Lee, Michael Frank Cina, Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis
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Patent number: 8818144Abstract: A process for preparing a subassembly, the process comprising: (a) defining the location of one or more grooves for receiving optical conduits on the top planar surface of a wafer or panel, the grooves corresponding to multiple interposers on the wafer or panel; and (b) etching the grooves into the wafer or panel, each groove having sidewalls and first and second terminal ends and a first facet at each terminal end perpendicular to the side walls, each first facet having a first angle relative to the top planar surface, each groove being shared by a pair of transmitting and receiving interposers on the wafer or panel prior to being diced such that the first and second terminal ends of each groove correspond to transmitting and receiving interposers, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Terry Patrick Bowen, Jan Willem Rietveld
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Patent number: 8764310Abstract: A method and apparatus for aligning optical transports in a ferrule. The transports are aliened in the ferrule by mounting the ferrule on a jig having grooves into which the ends of the optical transports are inserted for transversely aligning the fibers in the ferrule. A row of transports is placed in the ferrule cavity with the front ends of the transports extending past the ferrule and into the grooves of the jig, thereby laterally aligning the transports with the grooves. The fibers are affixed to the ferrule. The ferrule can then be removed from the jig and the front ends of the transports that extended into the grooves of the jig cleaved flush with the front face of the ferrule.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld, Joseph Gerardus Maria Vos
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Patent number: 8699012Abstract: A measurement system comprising an analog position sensitive device is provided that can measure the XY position of a plurality of light beams at very high resolution. In accordance with one exemplary associated method, a connector bearing one or more optical fibers is fixedly positioned before a position sensing detector so that light emanating from the ends of the optical fibers will strike the position sensing detector. A light beam is passed through at least one opening in the connector, such as a guide pin hole onto the detecting surface of the PSD to establish the position of the connector. Next, each optical fiber in the connector is individually illuminated sequentially so that the light emanating from the fiber falls on the position sensing detector. The locations of all of these light beams striking the PSD are compared to position of the light beam passed through the guide pins and/or to each other to determine if all the fibers are in the correct positions relative to the connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld
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Patent number: 8602608Abstract: A light module includes a light engine that has an LED package having power terminals. A base ring assembly holds the light engine. The base ring assembly has a base ring configured to be mounted to a supporting structure. The base ring has a securing feature. The base ring assembly has a contact holder that holds power contacts. The power contacts are spring biased against the power terminals to create a separable power connection with the power terminals. A top cover assembly is coupled to the base ring. The top cover assembly has a collar surrounding the base ring. The top cover assembly has a securing feature that engages the securing feature of the base ring to couple the collar to the base ring. The collar has a cavity and the optical component is received in the cavity. The optical component is positioned to receive light from the LED package and the optical component is configured to emit the light generated by the LED package.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Erik Derks, Olaf Leijnse, Ron Hendrix
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Patent number: 8582945Abstract: Methods and apparatus for aligning optical transports, such as waveguides and optical fibers, in a ferrule of an optical connector. The ferrule has an open side through which optical transports may be inserted into a transport cavity in the ferrule from a direction transverse the longitudinal direction of the optical transports and ferrule. To assemble the optical transports in the ferrule, the ferrule is positioned with its front face abutting and aligned with a jig that has an opening substantially identical to the ferrule cavity. The jig has grooves in a bottom surface of the cavity into which the optical transports will be inserted for transversely aligning the optical transports. The optical transports are then dropped into the aligned cavities of the ferrule and jig through the open sides of the ferrule and jig so that the front ends of the optical transports sit at least partially in the V-shaped grooves of the jig, thereby aligning the transports in the transverse dimension.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld, Jacco Elenbaas
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Patent number: 8348478Abstract: A light module includes a light engine that has an LED package having power terminals. A base ring assembly holds the light engine. The base ring assembly has a base ring configured to be mounted to a supporting structure. The base ring has a securing feature. The base ring assembly has a contact holder that holds power contacts. The power contacts are spring biased against the power terminals to create a separable power connection with the power terminals. A top cover assembly is coupled to the base ring. The top cover assembly has a collar surrounding the base ring. The top cover assembly has a securing feature that engages the securing feature of the base ring to couple the collar to the base ring. The collar has a cavity and the optical component is received in the cavity. The optical component is positioned to receive light from the LED package and the optical component is configured to emit the light generated by the LED package.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignees: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V., Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Bruce Pelton, Olaf Leijnse, Jasper Van Der Krogt, Matthew Edward Mostoller, Robert D. Rix, Erik Derks
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Patent number: 8292659Abstract: An electrical connector includes a male electrical connector and a female electrical connector. The male electrical connector includes an electrical connector housing that receives a plurality of contact modules provided with first mating contacts. The female electrical connector includes an electrical connector housing that receives a plurality of contact modules provided with second mating contacts that mate with the first mating contacts. Each of the electrical connector housings has a plurality of electrically insulating plates. The electrically insulating plates extend in a plane substantially perpendicular to a plane of insertion of the contact modules into the electrical connector housings. The electrically insulating plates support at least the first mating contacts.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventor: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin
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Publication number: 20120051056Abstract: A light module includes a light engine that has an LED package having power terminals. A base ring assembly holds the light engine. The base ring assembly has a base ring configured to be mounted to a supporting structure. The base ring has a securing feature. The base ring assembly has a contact holder that holds power contacts. The power contacts are spring biased against the power terminals to create a separable power connection with the power terminals. A top cover assembly is coupled to the base ring. The top cover assembly has a collar surrounding the base ring. The top cover assembly has a securing feature that engages the securing feature of the base ring to couple the collar to the base ring. The collar has a cavity and the optical component is received in the cavity. The optical component is positioned to receive light from the LED package and the optical component is configured to emit the light generated by the LED package.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: ERIK DERKS, OLAF LEIJNSE, RON HENDRIX
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Publication number: 20120014649Abstract: Methods and apparatus for aligning optical transports, such as waveguides and optical fibers, in a ferrule of an optical connector. The ferrule has an open side through which optical transports may be inserted into a transport cavity in the ferrule from a direction transverse the longitudinal direction of the optical transports and ferrule. To assemble the optical transports in the ferrule, the ferrule is positioned with its front face abutting and aligned with a jig that has an opening substantially identical to the ferrule cavity. The jig has grooves in a bottom surface of the cavity into which the optical transports will be inserted for transversely aligning the optical transports. The optical transports are then dropped into the aligned cavities of the ferrule and jig through the open sides of the ferrule and jig so that the front ends of the optical transports sit at least partially in the V-shaped grooves of the jig, thereby aligning the transports in the transverse dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld, Jacco Elenbaas
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Publication number: 20120014650Abstract: Method and apparatus for aligning optical transports in a ferrule. The ferrule has an open side through which optical transports may be laterally placed in a transport cavity. The transports are aligned in the ferrule by mounting the ferrule on a jig having grooves into which the ends of the optical transports are inserted for transversely aligning the fibers in the ferrule. A row of transports is placed in the ferrule cavity with the front ends of the transports extending past the ferrule and into the grooves of the jig, thereby laterally aligning the transports with the grooves. The fibers are affixed to the ferrule. The ferrule can then be removed from the jig and the front ends of the transports that extended into the grooves of the jig cleaved flush with the front face of the ferrule. Additional rows of transports may be aligned in the ferrule in the same manner using different jigs. C-shaped grooves can be employed to separate the horizontal alignment from the vertical alignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld, Joseph Gerardus Maria Vos
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Publication number: 20120008900Abstract: The invention concerns a technique for routing an optical fiber through a bend so that it can traverse a hinge or other mechanical connector having a bend radius smaller than the minimum bend radius of the fiber. Particularly, the radius of curvature of an optical fiber traversing a bend can be maximized by routing the fiber so as to have a route component parallel to the axis about which the fiber must bend. For instance, in a hinged connection in which the optical fiber must bend around the axis of the hinge, the optical fiber may be routed over the arc around the hinge with a route component parallel to the axis of the hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventor: Paul Schneider
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Publication number: 20110228259Abstract: A measurement system comprising an analog position sensitive device is provided that can measure the XY position of a plurality of light beams at very high resolution. In accordance with one exemplary associated method, a connector bearing one or more optical fibers is fixedly positioned before a position sensing detector so that light emanating from the ends of the optical fibers will strike the position sensing detector. A light beam is passed through at least one opening in the connector, such as a guide pin hole onto the detecting surface of the PSD to establish the position of the connector. Next, each optical fiber in the connector is individually illuminated sequentially so that the light emanating from the fiber falls on the position sensing detector. The locations of all of these light beams striking the PSD are compared to position of the light beam passed through the guide pins and/or to each other to determine if all the fibers are in the correct positions relative to the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Jan Willem Rietveld
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Publication number: 20100178811Abstract: An electrical connector includes a male electrical connector and a female electrical connector. The male electrical connector includes an electrical connector housing that receives a plurality of contact modules provided with first mating contacts. The female electrical connector includes an electrical connector housing that receives a plurality of contact modules provided with second mating contacts that mate with the first mating contacts. Each of the electrical connector housings has a plurality of electrically insulating plates. The electrically insulating plates extend in a plane substantially perpendicular to a plane of insertion of the contact modules into the electrical connector housings. The electrically insulating plates support at least the first mating contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V.Inventor: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin
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Patent number: 7656648Abstract: A bus-bar having a prismatic housing, an elongate conductor extending along a length of the housing, and a resilient retainer which extends along a length of the housing and retains the conductor in the housing is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignees: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Malcolm Cant, Jan Van Tilburg, Peter Dirk Jaeger
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Publication number: 20090285535Abstract: An optical interface for interfacing a first optical component and a second optical component, said optical interface comprising an optical clear material having at least the following features: (a) a first lens for interfacing with said first optical component; (b) a second lens for interfacing with said second optical component; (c) a reflective surface optically coupling said first and second lenses; and (d) wherein at least said first lens is eccentric, said second lens is eccentric, or said reflective surface is curved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Sjoerd Geert Cornelis van Geffen, Jeroen-Antonius Maria Duis
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Patent number: 7581972Abstract: A busbar connection system includes at least two pluggable connectors spaced apart from each other a predetermined distance. Each of the pluggable connectors has an opening for receiving a conductor. At least one contact member for contacting the conductor is provided inside each of the openings. The contact member is rotatable about an axis in a direction transverse to a mating direction of the conductors. At least one urging member engages the contact member and biases the contact member in the direction transverse to the mating direction of the conductors.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventor: Ron Daamen
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Patent number: 7235432Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an electrical conductor element with a housing and a conductor element, whereby the housing is made by a molding process and the conductor is embedded in the housing, whereby the conductor is produced by an electroforming process on a metallic layer. The conductor and the metallic layer are covered with the housing by a molding process, and the metallic layer is removed from the conductor and the molding housing. This method advantageously combines the well known molding process and the well known electroforming process for providing a reliable process for producing an electrical conductor element.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventor: Johannes Marinus Jacobus Den Otter
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Patent number: 7140895Abstract: A receptacle connector comprises at least one receptacle contact. The receptacle contact includes a contact member and at least one spring member. The contact member is formed for receipt of a plug contact along a mating plane. The contact member is resiliently displaceable in a direction substantial lateral to the mating plane by the spring member.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin, Peter Dirk Jaeger
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Patent number: 7092592Abstract: An optical cross-connect system (30) for interconnecting optical pathways of a horizontal node with each vertical node, the system comprising a three dimensional array of optical pathways in which one end of each optical pathway is presented on a first face (31), and the other end of each optical pathway is presented on a second face (32) such that the first and second faces (31 and 32) present rows and columns of optical pathway groupings, and wherein the horizontal nodes are defined along the rows of the first face (31) and the vertical nodes are defined along the columns of the second face (32).Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland B.V.Inventors: Robert Verhagen, Willy Rietveld