US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) on Aug. 4 for "Pin wheel and terminal material strip conveying device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,176, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Pin wheel and terminal material strip conveying device" was invented by An (Joshua) Yang (Shanghai), Lvhai (Samuel) Hu (Shanghai) and Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pin wheel includes an outer wheel having an inner cavity extending through the outer wheel along an axial direction and a plurality of radial through-holes communicated with the inner cavity, an inner wheel assembled in the inner cavity to rotate together with the outer wheel, a pl...