Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics
  • Patent number: 11695265
    Abstract: A heat shrink component includes a heat shrink layer and a heating unit in thermal contact with at least a part of the heat shrink layer and heating the heat shrink layer to a heat shrink temperature. The heat shrink component has a first dimension in an expanded state and a second dimension in a shrunk state after heating, the first dimension is larger than the second dimension. The heating unit includes an electrically conductive lead heated by an electrical current flowing through the electrically conductive lead and a heat spreading layer arranged in thermal contact with the electrically conductive lead and distributing a heat generated by the electrically conductive lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Simonsohn, Christian Heindl
  • Patent number: 11695230
    Abstract: A connector includes a pair of terminals. Each of the terminals includes a first sub-terminal having a first fixation part and a plurality of first elastic arms extending from the first fixation part, and a second sub-terminal having a second fixation part and a plurality of second elastic arms extending from the second fixation part. The first fixation part of the first sub-terminal is laminated on the second fixation part of the second sub-terminal, and the plurality of first elastic arms and the plurality of second elastic arms are alternately arranged in a row for electrically contacting with a shared bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaoyong Liu, Jie Luo, Guangming Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230208067
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing, two power supply terminals, and an insert inserted into the housing. The insert includes a base to which the two power supply terminals are mounted, and two support arms extending from the base. Free ends of the two support arms are positioned to support a respective power supply terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaoyong (Mac) Liu, Hongqiang (Sean) Han
  • Patent number: 11688965
    Abstract: The present application discloses an electric connection assembly having a support and a connector, wherein the support comprises a support body; the support body is provided with a mounting groove; the connector is configured to be in contact electrical connection with a mating connector; the connector comprises a mounting part; part or all of the mounting part is detachably received within the mounting groove; the support and the connector are formed separately and connected to each other. Compared with the prior art, the electric connection assembly of the present disclosure implements the function of supporting, holding and assembling integrally the corresponding connectors by means of the support provided with a mounting groove. Correspondingly, the entire structure of the electric connection assembly is simplified and convenient to be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Litao Dong, Ziwei Li, Weiping Zhao, Haifeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230198203
    Abstract: An electric connector connectable to a mating electric connector includes and inner part, an outer part and a self-locking mechanism. The inner part is adapted to be connected to an electrical conductor. The outer part is adapted to connect to the mating electric connector. The inner and outer parts are connected coaxially and rotatably to one another. The self-locking mechanism selectively blocks rotation of one of the inner or outer parts with respect to the other one of the inner or outer parts in a first circumferential direction, and permits rotation of one of the inner or outer parts with respect to the other one of the inner or outer parts in a second circumferential direction opposite the first circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics UK LTD
    Inventors: Tomasz Kopinski, Jonathan Mark Eyles
  • Patent number: 11682839
    Abstract: An antenna includes a substrate, a first circular metal strip disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second circular metal strip disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The first circular metal strip has a first end used as a feed end and a second end connected to a first end of a radio frequency resistor. The second circular metal strip has a first end used as a grounding terminal and a second end connected to a second end of the radio frequency resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaoyong Wang, Yuming Song
  • Patent number: 11680994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detection device for detecting a position of a conductor, a wire processing equipment, and a method for detecting a position of a conductor in wire processing. The detection device has: a bracket; and a plurality of conductive probes provided on the bracket and spaced from each other. The conductive probes have a detection position, and the detection device is configured to determine whether the detected conductor is at a predetermined position by detecting whether the conductive probes at the detection position are electrically connected through the conductor; when at least two conductive probes are electrically connected with each other through the detected conductor, the detected conductor is determined in the predetermined position; when no two conductive probes are electrically connected with each other through the detected conductor, the detected conductor is determined not in the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTE
    Inventors: Zhen Wang, Yiqun (Cham) Zhu, Siegfried Beck
  • Patent number: 11677184
    Abstract: A connector configured to be fitted with a mating connector includes a main housing, a sub-housing supported on the main housing to be slidable in a fitting direction with respect to the main housing in which the connector is fitted with the mating connector, and an operating member pivotably and slidably supported on the main housing. The main housing moves closer to the mating connector when the operating member is pivoted from a first posture to a second posture. The sub-housing moves in the fitting direction when the operating member slides from the second posture in a direction different from the fitting direction. The sub-housing has an erroneous fitting prevention part abutting against the mating connector in a state of incomplete fitting of the connector with the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomokazu Yamane, Seiji Komatsu, Ryutaro Tokitsu, Kensuke Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11677169
    Abstract: An insulation displacement contact is for piercing through an insulation of a cable or wire in a cutting direction and electrically contacting an electrically conductive core of the cable or wire. The insulation displacement contact includes a contact body having a piercing section for piercing the insulation and a contact slot receiving the core of the cable or wire. The contact slot extends along the cutting direction from the piercing section into the contact body. The contact body has a pair of blades separated by the contact slot. The blades have a pair of attachment slots extending from the piercing section into the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Nederland BV, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.
    Inventors: Marco Zucca, Subhash Mungarwadi, Olaf Leijnse
  • Patent number: 11673176
    Abstract: A servo-driven Z-shape bending device includes a base, a Z-shape bending module disposed on the base, a servo-drive mechanism disposed on the base, and a terminal feeding mechanism disposed on the base. The Z-shape bending module is configured to perform a bending operation on a terminal to be bent to form a Z-shaped terminal. The servo-drive mechanism is configured to servo-drive the Z-shape bending module to perform the bending operation. The terminal feeding mechanism is configured to feed the terminal to be bent to the Z-shape bending module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan Leagure Automechanism Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics Polska Sp. z.o.o
    Inventors: Fengchun Xie, Jaroslaw Kowalski, Andrzej Przybylski, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Yingcong Deng, Jian Cao, Radoslaw Mrozik, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Haidong Wu
  • Publication number: 20230178919
    Abstract: A contact assembly includes a plurality of contacts serving as a socket in a laminated state and a spring. The contacts each have a mating portion forming the socket and a caught portion caught on a caught portion of another one of the contacts in a lamination direction of the contacts. At least two of the contacts adjacent to each other in the lamination direction have electrical continuity with each other via the spring that is compressible in the lamination direction between the caught portion of each of the contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Yuki Tsutsui, Junto Hoshiba
  • Publication number: 20230166910
    Abstract: A pallet lifting rack includes a pair of lifting devices. Each of the lifting devices has a frame, a movable bracket mounted on the frame and movable in a vertical direction relative to the frame, a support member connected to the movable bracket, and a driving device driving the movable bracket and the support member to move along the vertical direction. The support members of the pair of lifting devices support a bottom surface of a pallet from a pair of sides of the pallet, so that the pallet is supported on the support members and movable to different height positions in the vertical direction by the support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianghao (Jorge) Bao, Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Rong Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Ming (Reuben) Ni, Lei (Leo) Yang
  • Patent number: 11664617
    Abstract: An elastic terminal includes a first base having an annular shape and a plurality of elastic sheets extending from the first base in an axial direction. A slit is formed between a pair of adjacent elastic sheets. The plurality of elastic sheets include a plurality of sets of elastic sheets, each elastic sheet of each set of elastic sheets has a plurality of electrical contact portions protruding inwardly radially. The electrical contact portions of one set of elastic sheets are arranged on a same circumference and the electrical contact portions of different sets of elastic sheets are staggered with respect to each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Guangming Zhao
  • Patent number: 11664615
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a terminal area projecting from an end face of the circuit board. The terminal area is flush with a front side and a back side of the circuit board and has a thickness equal to the circuit board. The terminal area has a plurality of sides covered with an electrically conductive material, the sides including a first surface flush with a front side of the circuit board, a second surface flush with a back side of the circuit board, and a pair of side surfaces that intersect the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Yohei Sakurai, Daisuke Dobashi
  • Patent number: 11664619
    Abstract: An interposer includes a housing having a plurality of through-holes penetrating a first surface and a second surface and a signal contact pair composed of a pair of signal contacts. Each of the signal contacts includes a base portion press-fitted in one of the through-holes, a first contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the first surface, and a second contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the second surface. The pair of signal contacts are positioned adjacently to each other widthwise and are each asymmetrical with respect to a width direction. The signal contact pair has a plane-symmetrical shape with respect to the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11652316
    Abstract: A retention clip providing mechanical strain relief of a cable in a connector comprises two curved spring sections each having a free end and a base, the two curved spring sections separated from each other at their respective free ends by a cable insertion gap. A center section of the retention cable extends from the base of one of the two curved spring sections to the base of the other one of the two curved spring sections and includes a cable insertion opening. The cable insertion gap and the cable insertion opening are aligned providing a through-opening extending through the retention clip in a cable insertion direction, and each of the free ends has at least one discontinuity in a direction along its edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Nederland BV, Tyco Electronics Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Freddy Jean Philip Dendas, Frank Rosenkranz
  • Patent number: 11652311
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector matable with the first connector. The first connector has a first housing and a pair of first conductive terminals disposed in the first housing each having a pair of first elastic terminals arranged symmetrically in a vertical direction. Each pair of first elastic terminals has a pair of front ends adapted to be brought into elastic and electrical contact with a pair of first wires inserted into the first connector. The second connector has a second housing and a pair of second conductive terminals disposed in the second housing each having a rear end adapted to be brought into elastic and electrical contact with a second wire inserted into the second connector. The pair of first elastic terminals each have a rear end adapted to clamp a front end of one of the second conductive terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Ming Shi, Xiaozhi Fu, Dingbing Fan, Shuzhi Wang, Hongtao Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230142379
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing having an accommodation space with an opening on a front surface facing a mating connector side and a rear surface facing away from the mating connector side, an outer shell covering the housing including the rear surface of the housing, a contact accommodated in the accommodation space, and an inner shell positioned in the accommodation space and covering the contact. A spring portion that elastically presses the inner shell forward is provided between a portion of the outer shell along the rear surface of the housing and the inner shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20230142831
    Abstract: A linear motor connector system comprises a first linear motor, a second linear motor, and a first connector. The first connector includes a first plug holder electrically connected to the first linear motor and positioned in a recessed portion formed on an exterior face of a connecting portion of the first linear motor. The first connector further includes a first tab holder electrically connected to the second linear motor. The first tab holder is positioned in a recessed portion formed on an exterior face of a connecting portion of the second linear motor and faces the first plug holder along a direction of connection of the linear motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Masaaki Saito
  • Publication number: 20230145849
    Abstract: A cable supply system includes a cable supply device supplying a cable, a cable buffer device storing a portion of the cable supplied from the cable supply device, and a control device controlling a cable storage amount of the cable buffer device. The control device controls the cable storage amount of the cable buffer device according to a cable supply speed of the cable supply device such that a cable output speed output from the cable buffer device is equal to a predetermined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu