Patents by Inventor Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250144743Abstract: A welding device includes a thin film and an ultrasonic welding machine including an ultrasonic welding head welding a first component and a second component of a product together. The thin film is pressed against the product by the ultrasonic welding head and covers a welding area and a non-welding area of the product. The thin film absorbs a vibration energy located in the non-welding area to prevent the vibration energy from being concentrated in the welding area of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianghao (Jorge) Bao, Jian Cao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Sun Kyu Pak, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Mulang Song, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu
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Patent number: 12287637Abstract: An autonomous product picking system includes product pick up stations at different locations within a facility having call stations with activation buttons at a user interface activated by an operator to transmit call requests when the products are needed to be picked up and to transmit completion signals when the products have been picked up. An automatic guided vehicle is movable within the facility between the product pick up stations and a product drop off station. A system control module guides the AGV within the facility and includes a system communication module communicatively coupled to the AGV and the call stations. The system communication module receives the call requests and the completion signals from the call stations when the activation buttons are activated.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Swapnilsinh Solanki, Xinping Deng, Jiankun Zhou, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Fabio E. Massaro
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Patent number: 12272900Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12266454Abstract: A hot pressing machine for continuously hot pressing a flexible flat cable includes a plurality of hot pressing units arranged at intervals along a feeding direction of the flexible flat cable. A central controller of the machine is operably connected to the plurality of hot pressing units and is configured to control the plurality of hot pressing units to synchronously hot press the flexible flat cable located in the plurality of hot pressing units.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Zhonghua Xu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu
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Patent number: 12257649Abstract: A soldering iron head includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a positioning slot formed on the bottom surface and extending between the first side surface and the second side surface. The positioning slot is adapted to accommodate and position an exposed end conductor of a cable. The cross section of the positioning slot is trapezoidal in shape, absent a lower bottom. An upper bottom facing side of the trapezoidal cross section of the positioning slot gradually increases in width from the first side surface to the second side surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shangha) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., LtdInventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Hongzhou (Andy) Shen, Yun Luo, Haidong Wu
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Patent number: 12242275Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12236569Abstract: A method for welding a workpiece with a vision guided welding platform. The welding platform comprises a welding tool, and a camera for guiding the movement of the welding tool from a start point to an end point. The method includes the steps of adjusting a focal length of the camera such that a focal plane of the camera is located on a surface of the workpiece and obtaining a surface image of the workpiece. The method further includes the steps of determining a current focal length of the camera, determining a corrected pixel length of a pixel in the surface image and determining the number of pixels between the start point and the end point of each movement of the welding tool. Using the corrected pixel length, a distance between the start and end points is determined and the welding tool is guided to move therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20250042054Abstract: A product cutting system includes a cutting device disposed at a cutting station for cutting a product and a conveying device transporting the product to be cut to the cutting station. The cutting device is separate from the conveying device and can cooperate with a plurality of different conveying devices to cut a plurality of different products.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Zhuhai) Ltd, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Wei Zheng, Hao Li, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Ming (Micky) Jiang, Liqing (Mary) Ma
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Publication number: 20250018490Abstract: A hot press welding head includes a main body having a front side surface and a rear side surface opposite to each other in its transverse direction, and a curved bottom surface between bottom edges of the front side surface and the rear side surface. The bottom edge of the front side surface is lower than the bottom edge of the rear side surface in a height direction of the main body. Multiple positioning slots are formed on the curved bottom surface. The multiple positioning slots are arranged in a row along a longitudinal direction of the main body for simultaneously positioning multiple welded wires. The positioning slot extends along the transverse direction of the main body between the front side surface and the rear side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20250018507Abstract: A terminal strip cutting and welding system includes a conveying module transporting a terminal strip to a cutting station and a welding station, a cutting module located at the cutting station and cutting a front end of a carrier strip of the terminal strip, and a welding module located at the welding station and welding the front end of the carrier strip of one terminal strip with a rear end of a carrier strip of another terminal strip. The welding connects the one terminal strip and another terminal strip into a continuous terminal strip. A distance between a pair of adjacent terminals on the continuous terminal strip is equal to a predetermined pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lei (Alex) Zhou, Leandro Santos
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Publication number: 20250019111Abstract: A label pasting device includes a clamping mechanism and a rotating mechanism. The clamping mechanism has a vacuum suction hole and a pair of grippers. The vacuum suction hole adsorbs onto a vertical part of a T-shaped label to pick up the T-shaped label. The grippers are openable and closable to fold and paste the vertical part of the T-shaped label onto a cable. The rotating mechanism has a fixed plate and a rotatable plate. The fixed plate supports an upper half of a horizontal part of the T-shaped label from a back. The rotatable plate is openable and closable relative to the fixed plate to fold and paste a lower half of the horizontal part of the T-shaped label onto the upper half.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12195289Abstract: A reel handling machine includes first and second re-reeling assemblies coupled to a frame. The re-reeling assemblies each include a reel mount supporting a first reel and a re-reel mount supporting a second reel. The re-reeling assemblies operated to unwind a product strip from the first reel and rewind the product strip on the second reel. The reel handling machine includes a reel manipulator positioned proximate to the re-reeling assemblies configured to automatically remove the second reel from the re-reel mount after the product strip is rewound on the second reel and move the second reel to a remote location.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Anthony L. Swann, Craig Roper, Sun Kyu Pak, Edward Niswander Meyers, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12187572Abstract: A binding device binds a material strip reel on which a contact material strip is wound. The binding device includes a frame, a tape supply unit installed on the frame for supplying an adhesive tape, a first damper and a second damper mounted on the frame for clamping the adhesive tape, and a first roller and a second roller installed on the frame. The first roller and the second roller push and paste the adhesive tape between the first damper and the second damper onto a pair of opposite sides of the material strip reel.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12179300Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd.Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yuting He
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Publication number: 20240426762Abstract: A product detection system includes a cabinet having an upper cabinet and a lower cabinet, a product detection device installed in the upper cabinet and detecting a quality of a product, and a control device installed in the lower cabinet and electrically connected to the product detection device. The product detection device includes a product conveying device conveying a product and a plurality of imaging devices arranged at different positions in a conveying direction of the product. The imaging devices capture images of the product from a plurality of different orientations. The control device includes a quality judgment module determining whether a quality of the product is qualified based on the captured images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qing (Carrie) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lei (Alex) Zhou
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Publication number: 20240416523Abstract: A mobile robot calibration device comprises a first positioning block and a second positioning block. The first positioning block has a positioning protrusion, and the second positioning block has a positioning slot. The positioning protrusion complements, and is adapted to mate with, the positioning slot. One of the first positioning block or the second positioning block is adapted to be installed on a flange or tool at an end of a mobile robot, and the other is adapted to be installed on a support base (e.g., a workbench).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianghao (Jorge) Bao, Jian Cao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Senmiao Hu, Yong (Bill) Wang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu
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Publication number: 20240417184Abstract: A detection device includes an installation plate, a lever member rotatably installed on the installation plate and rotatable between a first position and a second position, and a sensor installed on the installation plate and detecting whether the lever member is in the second position. The lever member is rotated from the first position to the second position under a pushing of an object when the object is supplied to a predetermined workstation. The lever member can be automatically reset to the first position under gravity when no object is supplied to the predetermined workstation. It is determined that the object is supplied to the predetermined workstation if the sensor detects that the lever member is in the second position and, if the sensor does not detect that the lever member is in the second position, it is determined that no object is supplied to the predetermined workstation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Zhuhai) Ltd, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Wei Zhang, Hao Li, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Ming (Micky) Jiang, Liqing (Mary) Ma
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Publication number: 20240408693Abstract: A hot press electrode includes a non-diamond substrate having a diamond edge part. The edge part is formed on an edge of the substrate and is adapted to press a wire and heat the wire to achieve a hot press welding of the wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20240405495Abstract: A cable unwinding device includes a cable clamp for clamping and fixing a cable, a core ware clamp for clamping two twisted core wires of the cable, a rotating device, and a translation device. The rotating device drives the core wire clamp to rotate around the central axis of the cable. The translation device drives the core wire clamp to move in a first horizontal direction parallel to the central axis of the cable. As the rotating device drives the core wire clamp to rotate around the central axis of the cable, the translation device drives the core wire clamp to move along the first horizontal direction, such that the two twisted core wires are untwisted and straightened.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12139357Abstract: A material strip collection mechanism coiling fed material strip on a reel includes a vertically positioned reel bracket rotatable about a vertical axis between a first configuration and a second configuration. The mechanism further includes a first arm holding the reel and a second arm each rotatable to drive the reel and coil the material strip on the reel. With the reel bracket in the first configuration, the first arm is in a material strip collection position to allow the material strip to be coiled on each empty reel held by the first arm to form a full reel, while the second arm is in a standby position to allow the full reel held by the second arm to be replaced with a new empty reel.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu