Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics
  • Welding system
    Patent number: 11637407
    Abstract: A welding system comprises a welding module and a moving module adapted to move the welding module to a predetermined welding position. The welding module includes a guiding device and a welding tool. The guiding device has a plurality of tubular guiding heads arranged in a row, ends of the plurality of tubular guiding heads are disposed close to joints of a plurality of cables so as to guide a plurality of welding wires to the joints of the plurality of cables. The welding tool has a plurality of tooth-shaped welding heads arranged in a row, ends of the plurality of tooth-shaped welding heads are disposed close to the joints of the plurality of cables and configured to simultaneously heat the plurality of welding wires guided to the joints of the plurality of cables, so as to simultaneously weld the joints of the plurality of cables onto a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Changjun Wang, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Yun Liu, Fengchun Xie
  • Part packing system and method
    Patent number: 11628961
    Abstract: A part packing system includes a bag holding machine including a part funnel having an opening configured to receive an end of a part and having a bag end manipulator holding first and second bag end gripper mechanisms that receive an end of the bag therebetween to open the end of the bag to form a mouth at the end of the bag. The bag end manipulator moves the first and second bag end gripper mechanisms to position the mouth of the bag immediately downstream of the opening of the part funnel. A part loading machine including a part manipulator holding the part and moving the part to a loading position upstream of the part funnel and moving the part gripper mechanism to load an end of the part through the opening in the part funnel into the mouth of the bag to load the part into the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Swapnilsinh Solanki, An Yang, Lvhai Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Sonny O. Osunkwo
  • Cable and Cable Assembly
    Publication number: 20230114286
    Abstract: A cable includes a pair of conductors extending longitudinally and spaced apart from each other, an inner insulating layer circumferentially wrapped around an outside of the conductors and fixing the conductors, a conductive shielding layer circumferentially wrapped around an outside of the inner insulating layer, and an outer insulating layer circumferentially wrapped around an outer peripheral surface of the conductive shielding layer. At least one of the conductive shielding layer and the outer insulating layer includes a pair of diametrically opposed circumferential halves. Each circumferential half surrounds a part of a circumference of the inner insulating layer and extends longitudinally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiwei (Jack) Guo, Hainan (Harlan) Lu
  • Connector Assembly
    Publication number: 20230116329
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a housing having a flange along a circumferential direction, the flange has a groove spaced radially from the housing, and a sealing element disposed in the groove and forming a seal between the flange and a panel that has an opening receiving the housing. The sealing element is pressed against the panel when the housing partially passes through the opening of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dalei (Otto) Chen, Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang
  • Electrical Connection Device
    Publication number: 20230109845
    Abstract: An electrical connection device includes a first jaw and a second jaw facing the first jaw in a closed state. The first jaw has a first insertion surface perpendicular to an insertion direction into a connection casing, a first surface facing the second jaw that is substantially parallel to the insertion direction, and an opposite first surface opposite the first insertion surface. The first jaw has a first recess. The second jaw has a second surface facing the first jaw and extending substantially parallel to the insertion direction, a second insertion surface introduced over the connection casing and perpendicular to the insertion direction, and an opposite second surface opposite to the second insertion surface. The second jaw has a second recess facing the first recess in the closed state. The first recess and/or the second recess has a rod at the first edge and/or the second edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics France SAS
    Inventors: Veronique Brenca, Imad Smirani, Xavier Rouillard
  • Connector assembly
    Patent number: 11626691
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector including a first connector body, and a shaft connected to the first connector body. A lever is rotatably connected to the shaft and is selectively fixable to the first connector body in a caught state. A second connector of the assembly includes a second connector body insertable into the first connector body, a releasing element defined on the second connector body for releasing the lever from the caught state, and a biasing element defined on the second connector body for rotating the lever after being released from the caught state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun Taek Lim, Ki Ho Choi
  • Connector
    Publication number: 20230101670
    Abstract: A connector for electrical connection between a wire and a conductive load includes a housing and an elastic conductive component having a portion extending through the housing. The elastic conductive component is connectable to the wire. The elastic conductive component is movable up and down relative to the housing to connect with or separate from the conductive load, electrically connecting or disconnecting an electrical connection between the wire and the conductive load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Zhong, Tian (Sam) Xia, Weifeng Bian
  • Cable Core Wire Orientation Adjustment System
    Publication number: 20230099847
    Abstract: A cable core wire orientation adjustment system includes a cable rotation module adjusting two core wires of a cable exposed from an end of the cable to a predetermined orientation by rotating the end of the cable. The cable core wire orientation adjustment system can automatically adjust the orientation of the two exposed core wires at the end of the cable, improving the orientation adjustment efficiency of the cable core wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Connector Assembly Device
    Publication number: 20230096164
    Abstract: A connector assembly device includes a terminal clamping device clamping and fixing a terminal of a connector and an insertion module. The insertion module includes a housing clamping device clamping and fixing a housing of the connector, a terminal guide device having a conical guide hole guiding the terminal into the housing, and a linear moving device driving the housing clamping device and the terminal guide device to move towards the terminal. The terminal is inserted into the housing through the conical guide hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Detection System
    Publication number: 20230094099
    Abstract: A detection system includes an imaging device and a control device connected in communication with the imaging device. The imaging device captures a 3D image of a connector including a housing, a terminal, and a cable. The control device calculates a height of a connection end of the cable crimped to the terminal relative to a bottom surface of the housing according to the 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Qing (Carrie) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lei (Alex) Zhou
  • Socket
    Publication number: 20230102245
    Abstract: A socket includes a housing and a plurality of contacts. The housing has a bottom plate with a first face and a second face that are parallel to each other. Contact supporting holes penetrate the first face and the second face. The housing has a frame body disposed upright on an edge of the first face and extending along the edge. The contacts are disposed in the contact supporting holes and supported by the bottom plate in a state in which the contacts protrude from both the first face and the second face. The contacts include a first contact having a first base inserted into one of the contact supporting holes, a first contact portion having a pair of first protrusions protruding from one edge of the first base, and a second contact portion having a pair of second protrusions protruding from another edge of the first base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Masayuki Aizawa, Naoki Hashimoto
  • Substrate for Contacting at Least One Electrical Pin of a Charging Inlet
    Publication number: 20230096310
    Abstract: A substrate for contacting an electrical pin arranged in a housing includes a base having a recess receiving the electrical pin, a metal leadframe having a contacting region electrically and/or thermally contacting the electrical pin, and a contact pin extending along a mating direction in a plane parallel to the metal leadframe and configured to electrically contact a mating contact pin of a mating connector. The metal leadframe is rigidly fixed to the base to prevent a relative movement between the metal leadframe and the substrate. The substrate is movable with respect to the housing along a locking direction from an unlocked position where the substrate is not locked to the housing to a locked position in which the substrate is locked to the housing. A movement of the contacting region with respect to the electrical pin is prevented in the locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics France SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pamart, Bruno Dupont, Romain Anselmini
  • Protective Shroud and Machine
    Publication number: 20230100250
    Abstract: A protective shroud includes a shroud body, a protective door movably installed on the shroud body, and a buffer mechanism connected between the shroud body and the protective door. The buffer mechanism slows down a moving speed of the protective door. The protective door is moved between an open position and a closed position in a vertical direction to open or close the shroud body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd, TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yuting He
  • Automatic Guided Vehicle System
    Publication number: 20230094516
    Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle system includes an automatic guided vehicle and a docking station for docking with the automatic guided vehicle. One of the automatic guided vehicle and the docking station has a pair of first vertical guide surfaces and the other has a pair of rows of rollers. The first vertical guide surfaces extend a predetermined length along a first horizontal direction and are spaced by a predetermined distance in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. The rows of rollers are in rolling contact with the first vertical guide surfaces to guide the automatic guided vehicle to a predetermined position in the docking station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Protective cover for a terminal block assembly
    Patent number: 11616319
    Abstract: A safety electrical assembly includes an electrical apparatus having a connecting zone with a plurality of terminals each connected to a cable, each of the terminals having a connecting opening formed within an insulating housing of the electrical apparatus, a protective cover cooperating with the electrical apparatus in a mounted position, and a main opening for the cables connected to the terminals extending from an exterior area to an interior area of the safety electrical assembly. The interior area is defined between the electrical apparatus and the protective cover. The connecting openings are disposed in the interior area. The main opening is arranged so that a direct trajectory from any point of the main opening oriented toward any point of any connecting opening intersects an obstacle of the safety electrical assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics France SAS
    Inventors: Yannick Villardier, Romain Villard
  • Pressurizing Device and Electronic Device Including Pressurizing Device
    Publication number: 20230090091
    Abstract: A pressurizing device includes a pressurizing plate having a first pressurizing plate surface and a second pressurizing plate surface opposite to each other. The first pressurizing plate surface presses an electronic element located on a first circuit board surface of a circuit board. The pressurizing device includes a plurality of peripheral pressurizing units applying pressure to a peripheral region of the second pressurizing plate surface and a plurality of central pressurizing units applying pressure to a central region of the second pressurizing plate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Wei (David) Zhao, Zhiqiang (Simon) Li, Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang, Guoxiao (Neo) Shen, Christopher Blackburn
  • Tool for soldering an electrical conductor with a connection device
    Patent number: 11611161
    Abstract: A tool for soldering an electrical conductor with a connection device includes a deformation unit plastically deforming the connection device around the electrical conductor. The deformation unit has a fixed deformation module and a movable deformation module that is movable with respect to the fixed deformation module. The fixed deformation module has an anvil with an electrical contact area on which the electrical conductor and the connection device are disposed. An electric current circulates through the electrical conductor and the connection device by passing through an electrically conductive first part of the anvil that is electrically insulated from a rest of the anvil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics France SAS
    Inventor: Alain Bednarek
  • Connector Housing and a Connector
    Publication number: 20230081142
    Abstract: A connector housing includes a body having a first accommodating cavity accommodating a first terminal. A first insertion hole penetrates a first surface of the body and communicates with the first accommodating cavity. A guiding portion of the body surrounds at least a portion of the first insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenfang (Felix) Zhang, Yongjian (Justin) Huang, Tongbao (Tim) Ding
  • Socket
    Publication number: 20230080167
    Abstract: A socket includes a housing with a bottom plate portion and a frame body portion standing at edges of the bottom plate portion and extending along the edges. The frame body portion serves as a locator in an in-plane direction of the bottom plate portion in mounting an electronic component. The bottom plate portion and the frame body portion are integrally molded into the housing. The socket includes a plurality of contacts supported by the bottom plate portion. The socket includes a spring member including a supported portion supported by a first side of the frame body portion and a spring portion that elastically deforms by being pushed by the electronic component, pressing the electronic component against a second side opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Masashi Inoue
  • Terminal and a Connector
    Publication number: 20230076375
    Abstract: A terminal includes a bottom wall having a through hole, a pair of sidewalls disposed on a pair of sides of the bottom wall, and a first elastic arm extending from a first side of the through hole in a direction away from the bottom wall. The sidewalls and the first elastic arm contact a pin inserted into the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongjian (Justin) Huang, Tongbao (Tim) Ding, Wenfang (Felix) Zhang