Patents by Inventor Zongjie (Jason) Tao

Zongjie (Jason) Tao 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).

  • Publication number: 20240131696
    Abstract: A robot operating device includes a mobile vehicle, a guide rail installed on the mobile vehicle, and a plurality of robots slidably installed on the guide rail and movable along the guide rail. The mobile vehicles each include a mobile base having a roller at a bottom thereof, and a fixed bracket installed on the mobile base. The guide rail is fixedly installed on the fixed bracket and extends in a horizontal direction. The plurality of robots are adapted to manipulate a product manufacturing machine to manufacture products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong Zhang, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Zongjie (Jason) Tao
  • Publication number: 20240131610
    Abstract: A welding head includes a first welding head part having a first welding end adapted to contact a welded member, and a second welding head part having a second welding end adapted to contact the welded member. The first welding head part and the second welding head part are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction and are movable relative to each other in a vertical direction. The first and second welding head parts are sized and oriented such that, when welding the welded member, a bottom surface of one of the first welding end or the second welding end abuts a top side of the welded member, and a side surface of the other of the first welding end or the second welding end abuts one side of the welded member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20240109337
    Abstract: A label printing and attaching system includes a label printing device and a label attaching device. The label printing device has an ink tape supply mechanism for supplying an ink tape with a label pattern. A label tape supply mechanism of the label printing device is adapted to supply a label tape that includes a carrier tape and blank label paper adhered to the carrier tape. The label printing device further includes a heat transfer machine adapted to heat transfer the label pattern on the ink tape onto the blank label paper of the label tape to obtain a desired label. The label attaching device has a label picker adapted to pick up the label with the printed label pattern from the label tape, and a moving device adapted to move the label picker to place the picked label with the printed label pattern onto a product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Hongzhou (Andy) Shen, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Guoqiang Liu, Ziqiang Xiong, Kai Fu, Xueyun Zhu, Yi Li, Xuyan Yu
  • Patent number: 11945658
    Abstract: A platform for processing a workpiece includes a transmission mechanism, a plurality of workstations and a plurality of movable vehicles. The transmission mechanism transports the workpiece to be processed to one of the plurality of workstations. Each movable vehicle includes a processing module and a docking interface adapted to connect with a docking station of each workstation. The movable vehicles are each adapted to move in and out of each workstation, and each processing module is adapted to process the workpiece transmitted to the workstation after the movable vehicle is moved in and positioned in the workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Qingdao) Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Wenhe Ma, Peng Ji, Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Tao Xu
  • Patent number: 11933824
    Abstract: A power monitor comprises a current/voltage transformer, an electric energy meter connected in series with the current/voltage transformer, and at least one current regulating element connected between the current/voltage transformer and the electric energy meter. The current/voltage transformer connects the electric energy meter to a load to monitor the electric energy consumed by the load by the electric energy meter. When a current flowing from the current/voltage transformer to the electric energy meter is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the at least one current regulating element reduces the current to less than a rated maximum current of the electric energy meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230364697
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Hongzhou (Andy) Shen, Yun Luo, Haidong Wu
  • Publication number: 20230264291
    Abstract: A welding system for welding a wire to a welding pad includes a moving device movable in at least two directions, a welding head mounted on the moving device and a visual devise. The welding head is adapted to clamp the wire. The visual device guides the moving device to move the welding head to a predetermined position. In operation, the moving device moves the welding head to a clamping position aligned with the wire, and moves the clamped wire to a welding position aligned with the welding pad under the guidance of the visual device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20230037715
    Abstract: A vacuum adsorption system includes a cylinder including a cylinder block, a piston, and a piston rod mounted in the cylinder block, and a vacuum pressure control device controlling a vacuum pressure in an inner cavity of the cylinder block. The piston rod has a vacuum suction hole communicating with the inner cavity. The vacuum pressure in the inner cavity is controlled so that a contact force applied by the piston rod on an object adsorbed by the vacuum suction hole of the piston rod is less than or equal to a predetermined contact force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20220308100
    Abstract: A power monitor comprises a current/voltage transformer, an electric energy meter connected in series with the current/voltage transformer, and at least one current regulating element connected between the current/voltage transformer and the electric energy meter. The current/voltage transformer connects the electric energy meter to a load to monitor the electric energy consumed by the load by the electric energy meter. When a current flowing from the current/voltage transformer to the electric energy meter is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the at least one current regulating element reduces the current to less than a rated maximum current of the electric energy meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20220237768
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20220219912
    Abstract: A platform for processing a workpiece includes a transmission mechanism, a plurality of workstations and a plurality of movable vehicles. The transmission mechanism transports the workpiece to be processed to one of the plurality of workstations. Each movable vehicle includes a processing module and a docking interface adapted to connect with a docking station of each workstation. The movable vehicles are each adapted to move in and out of each workstation, and each processing module is adapted to process the workpiece transmitted to the workstation after the movable vehicle is moved in and positioned in the workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, Tyco Electronics (Qingdao) Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Wenhe Ma, Peng Ji, Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Tao Xu