Patents by Inventor Zongjie Tao
Zongjie 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).
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Patent number: 11753265Abstract: A stamping strip reel replacing system includes an autonomous mobile robot and an automatic guide vehicle. The autonomous mobile robot is adapted to autonomously move to a position where a reel driving shaft for mounting the reel is located, and includes a grabbing tool for grabbing the reel. The automatic guide vehicle moves together with the autonomous mobile robot, and carries an empty reel wound with no stamping strip. The autonomous mobile robot is further adapted to unload a full reel wound with the stamping strip from the reel driving shaft and place the unloaded full reel onto the automatic guide vehicle by operating the grabbing tool. The autonomous mobile robot is further adapted to grab the empty reel from the automatic guide vehicle and mount the grabbed empty reel onto the reel driving shaft by operating the grabbing tool.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Fengchun Xie, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Josef Sinder, Zongjie Tao, Xiaochen Yu, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Jiankun Zhou, Tim Darr
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Patent number: 11597623Abstract: A cable tension control device includes a pair of first active rollers clamping a cable therebetween, a first driver driving the first active rollers, a pair of second active rollers clamping the cable therebetween at an upstream position from the first active rollers, a second driver driving the second active rollers, a floating roller arranged between the first active rollers and the second active rollers and exerting a pushing force on the cable, and an actuator driving the floating roller to move vertically to adjust the pushing force exerted on the cable. A tension force applied on the cable is controlled to be equal to a predetermined tension force by controlling the pushing force and by controlling a speed difference between a first speed at which the first active rollers convey the cable forward and a second speed at which the second active rollers convey the cable forward.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, TE Connectivity Co. Ltd.Inventors: Zongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Zhonghua Xu
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Patent number: 11377249Abstract: A labeling system includes a pasting unit having a first mechanical arm adapted to pick up a label to be pasted, at least one visual device configured to guide the first mechanical arm to paste the label on an object, and at least one scanning device adapted to scan the label pasted on the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Zongjie Tao
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Patent number: 11372057Abstract: A flexible flat cable testing system includes a first connector including a row of first contacts electrically contacting first ends of a row of wires of a flexible flat cable, a second connector including a row of second contacts electrically contacting second ends of the row of wires, a short circuit test unit including output ports electrically connected to the row of first contacts and input ports electrically connected to the row of second contacts, a potential reader reading a potential level of each of the input ports, and a judgment unit determining whether or not a quality of the flexible flat cable is qualified according to the potential level of each of the input ports. The judgment unit determines that the quality of the flexible flat cable is qualified if the potential level of each of the input ports is equal to a high level output by each of the output ports.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Zhonghua Xu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Zongjie Tao
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Patent number: 11296474Abstract: A flexible strip assembly system includes a first conveyor conveying a first layer of material, a pick-up device picking up a conductor and placing the conductor at a predefined position on an upper surface of the first layer of material, a second conveyor conveying a second layer of material, and a first pair of guiding rollers. The conductor is conveyed under driving of the first layer of material. The first pair of guiding rollers press and stick the second layer of material to the first layer of material and the conductor on the upper surface of the first layer of material to form a flexible strip with the conductor clamped between the first layer of material and the second layer of material. At least one of the upper surface of the first layer of material and a lower surface of the second layer of material has an adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Zhonghua Xu, Zongjie Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20220023932Abstract: A cable bending system comprises at least one bending module. The bending module includes an active actuator having a first body, and an active rod mounted in the first body. The active rod is movable in a first direction perpendicular to an axial direction of a cable to be bent. A passive actuator of the bending module includes a second body connected to the first body and defines a shaping cavity open to the active rod. The active rod pushes a portion of the cable into the shaping cavity of the second body in the first direction for bending the portion of the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Zongjie Tao, Jian Cao, Lvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 11204603Abstract: A terminal insertion quality monitoring system includes an acceleration sensor disposed on a gripper of a terminal insertion equipment and configured to detect a dynamic acceleration of the gripper while using the gripper to insert a terminal into a housing, a control parameter acquisition device configured to acquire a plurality of control parameters of the terminal insertion equipment while inserting the terminal into the housing, and an artificial intelligence system adapted to classify the detected dynamic acceleration and the acquired control parameters into a plurality of different insertion modes by analyzing and calculating the detected dynamic acceleration and the acquired control parameters. The different insertion modes have a plurality of different grades of terminal insertion quality.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: TE Connectivity Corporation, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Hongtao Liu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Zongjie Tao, Changjun Wang, Lei Zhou, Lvhai Hu
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Publication number: 20210354945Abstract: A stamping strip reel replacing system includes an autonomous mobile robot and an automatic guide vehicle. The autonomous mobile robot is adapted to autonomously move to a position where a reel driving shaft for mounting the reel is located, and includes a grabbing tool for grabbing the reel. The automatic guide vehicle moves together with the autonomous mobile robot, and carries an empty reel wound with no stamping strip. The autonomous mobile robot is further adapted to unload a full reel wound with the stamping strip from the reel driving shaft and place the unloaded full reel onto the automatic guide vehicle by operating the grabbing tool. The autonomous mobile robot is further adapted to grab the empty reel from the automatic guide vehicle and mount the grabbed empty reel onto the reel driving shaft by operating the grabbing tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Fengchun Xie, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Josef Sinder, Zongjie Tao, Xiaochen Yu, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Jiankun Zhou, Tim Darr
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Publication number: 20210354190Abstract: A stamping strip manufacturing system comprises a stamping machine forming terminals in a strip by stamping. A supply reel around which a strip to be stamped is wound supplies the strip to be stamped to the stamping machine, and a recovery reel around which the stamped strip is wound recovers the stamped strip. A strip cutting and welding device of the system cuts off an unqualified strip segment of the strip having an unqualified terminal and welds two cut ends of the cut strip to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Fengchun Xie, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Josef Sinder, Zongjie Tao, Xiaochen Yu, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Jiankun Zhou, Tim Darr
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Publication number: 20210354189Abstract: A stamping strip manufacturing system comprises a stamping machine forming terminals in a strip by stamping, a supply reel around which the strip to be stamped is wound for supplying the strip to be stamped to the stamping machine, and a recovery reel around which the stamped strip is wound for recovering the stamped strip. The system further includes an autonomous mobile robot on which a cutting tool and a welding tool are mounted. The autonomous mobile robot is adapted to cut off an unqualified strip segment of the stamped strip having an unqualified terminal by operating the cutting tool, and to weld two cut ends of the cut strip to each other by operating the welding tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Fengchun Xie, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Josef Sinder, Zongjie Tao, Xiaochen Yu, Swapnilsinh Solanki, Jiankun Zhou, Tim Darr
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Patent number: 11175236Abstract: An image acquisition system includes a feeding unit supplying a product, a product pickup platform onto which the product is supplied by the feeding unit, and a camera capturing an image of the product on the product pickup platform. The camera identifies a position and an angle of the product based on the image. The image acquisition system includes a robot gripping the product from the product pickup platform based on the position and the angle identified by the camera and an image acquisition platform onto which the product is placed by the robot. An imaging microscope of the image acquisition system captures an image of a surface of the product facing upwards on the image acquisition platform and a computer stores the image of the surface of the product captured by the imaging microscope.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Hongtao Liu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Changjun Wang, Lei Zhou, Zongjie Tao
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Publication number: 20210148997Abstract: A cable inspection apparatus includes an image capturing device and a determination device. The image capturing device includes a ring camera frame and a plurality of cameras mounted on the ring camera frame and distributed at intervals on a circumference of the ring camera frame. The cameras simultaneously capture images of a cable to be inspected extending through the ring camera frame from a plurality of different angles. The determination device determines whether or not a portion of the cable is qualified according to the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Zongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Yuhang Shang, Hongze Li
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Publication number: 20210130028Abstract: A labeling system includes a pasting unit having a first mechanical arm adapted to pick up a label to be pasted, at least one visual device configured to guide the first mechanical arm to paste the label on an object, and at least one scanning device adapted to scan the label pasted on the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, Zongjie Tao
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Publication number: 20210055358Abstract: A flexible flat cable testing system includes a first connector including a row of first contacts electrically contacting first ends of a row of wires of a flexible flat cable, a second connector including a row of second contacts electrically contacting second ends of the row of wires, a short circuit test unit including output ports electrically connected to the row of first contacts and input ports electrically connected to the row of second contacts, a potential reader reading a potential level of each of the input ports, and a judgment unit determining whether or not a quality of the flexible flat cable is qualified according to the potential level of each of the input ports. The judgment unit determines that the quality of the flexible flat cable is qualified if the potential level of each of the input ports is equal to a high level output by each of the output ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Zhonghau Xu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Zongjie Tao
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Publication number: 20210032068Abstract: A cable tension control device includes a pair of first active rollers clamping a cable therebetween, a first driver driving the first active rollers, a pair of second active rollers clamping the cable therebetween at an upstream position from the first active rollers, a second driver driving the second active rollers, a floating roller arranged between the first active rollers and the second active rollers and exerting a pushing force on the cable, and an actuator driving the floating roller to move vertically to adjust the pushing force exerted on the cable. A tension force applied on the cable is controlled to be equal to a predetermined tension force by controlling the pushing force and by controlling a speed difference between a first speed at which the first active rollers convey the cable forward and a second speed at which the second active rollers convey the cable forward.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Zongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yingcong Deng, Zhonghua Xu
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Publication number: 20200366043Abstract: A flexible strip assembly system includes a first conveyor conveying a first layer of material, a pick-up device picking up a conductor and placing the conductor at a predefined position on an upper surface of the first layer of material, a second conveyor conveying a second layer of material, and a first pair of guiding rollers. The conductor is conveyed under driving of the first layer of material. The first pair of guiding rollers press and stick the second layer of material to the first layer of material and the conductor on the upper surface of the first layer of material to form a flexible strip with the conductor clamped between the first layer of material and the second layer of material. At least one of the upper surface of the first layer of material and a lower surface of the second layer of material has an adhesive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Zhonghua Xu, Zongjie Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20200298400Abstract: A control system for a manipulator includes a position indicator provided on a flange for mounting a tool of the manipulator, a position detector provided near the manipulator and configured to detect a position information of the position indicator in real time, a computer calculating a position data of the position indicator in real time according to the position information, a cloud server calculating a working parameter of a joint of the manipulator in real time by an artificial intelligence neural network according to the position data, and a controller controlling the joint in real time based on the working parameter. The artificial intelligence neural network is a self-learning neural network that calculates and automatically adjusts a weight among a plurality of neurons based on the position data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Zongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Publication number: 20200080944Abstract: An image acquisition system includes a feeding unit supplying a product, a product pickup platform onto which the product is supplied by the feeding unit, and a camera capturing an image of the product on the product pickup platform. The camera identifies a position and an angle of the product based on the image. The image acquisition system includes a robot gripping the product from the product pickup platform based on the position and the angle identified by the camera and an image acquisition platform onto which the product is placed by the robot. An imaging microscope of the image acquisition system captures an image of a surface of the product facing upwards on the image acquisition platform and a computer stores the image of the surface of the product captured by the imaging microscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Hongtao Liu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Changjun Wang, Lei Zhou, Zongjie Tao
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Publication number: 20200081429Abstract: A terminal insertion quality monitoring system includes an acceleration sensor disposed on a gripper of a terminal insertion equipment and configured to detect a dynamic acceleration of the gripper while using the gripper to insert a terminal into a housing, a control parameter acquisition device configured to acquire a plurality of control parameters of the terminal insertion equipment while inserting the terminal into the housing, and an artificial intelligence system adapted to classify the detected dynamic acceleration and the acquired control parameters into a plurality of different insertion modes by analyzing and calculating the detected dynamic acceleration and the acquired control parameters. The different insertion modes have a plurality of different grades of terminal insertion quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Hongtao Liu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Zongjie Tao, Changjun Wang, Lei Zhou, Lvhai Hu
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Publication number: 20200075210Abstract: A magnetic adsorption device includes an electromagnet, a pickup member made of a magnetizable material and disposed in a magnetic field of the electromagnet, and a magnetic shield sleeve sleeved on the pickup member and movable back and forth with respect to the pickup member. The pickup member is adapted to adsorb an electronic device by a magnetic force. A length of a portion of the pickup member exposed from the magnetic shield sleeve is adjustable by moving the magnetic shield sleeve to adjust the magnetic force of the pickup member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Chun Wei Huang, Zongjie Tao, Lvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu