CN110765049A - Configuration method of extensible interface structure - Google Patents
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Abstract
A configuration method of an expandable interface structure is suitable for a slot on an internal mainboard of an electronic device, the expandable interface structure comprises an adapter card module and a plurality of electric connecting pieces, the adapter card module comprises a main adapter card and a plurality of sub adapter cards, the main adapter card and the plurality of sub adapter cards are respectively connected with the electric connecting pieces, and the electric connecting pieces are used for realizing mutual electric connection. Therefore, the invention connects the board-to-board stacked building block structure of a plurality of sub-adapter cards by the main adapter card, so that the expandable interface structure can infinitely expand the traditional M.2 interface, and provides a plurality of interfaces which can be continuously changed and combined, namely, the M.2 can be converted into a high-resolution multimedia interface or a serial digital interface and the like, thereby achieving the purpose of elastic expansion.
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to an expandable interface structure, and more particularly, to a board-to-board stacking type building block structure with a main adapter card connected with a plurality of sub-adapter cards, and more particularly, to a configuration method of an expandable interface structure capable of infinitely expanding a conventional m.2 interface, providing a plurality of interfaces that can be continuously changed and combined, and converting m.2 into HDMI or SDI …, etc., to generate a plurality of lines, thereby achieving flexible expansion.
Background
M.2, or Next Generation specification (NGFF), is a new standard specification customized for Solid State Drive (SSD) by multiple electronic manufacturers, and can fully support the current mainstream SATA and PCIe interfaces and replace the common mSATA interface. In addition, the m.2 (also called NGFF) interface is light, thin, short, small, power-saving, and fast in transmission speed, and the standard designs of different sizes can make SSD application more flexible.
Therefore, the m.2 connector is installed in the electronic device for the SSD card to plug in, so that the data access mode of the electronic device is evolved from the conventional hard disk to the solid state disk with smaller volume and faster speed. However, the interface of the m.2 connector in the market is too small, which makes it very troublesome to convert to a different interface, even if the multi-layer process can only temporarily solve the problem, but the overall structure lacks flexibility, and cannot be converted into various interfaces, or more paths are provided, which is not favorable for the user to match and assemble. In addition, the direction of the slot opening of the insertion slot of the m.2 connector is parallel to the surface of the circuit board, so that the SSD card inserted into the m.2 connector is also parallel to the surface of the circuit board, but the slot opening occupies a considerable allocation space on the circuit board, so that the circuit board must reserve an area for accommodating the SSD card, and thus the area of the circuit board for mounting electronic components is reduced, thereby affecting the use efficiency of the circuit board.
In view of this, an expansion device is proposed in the market, which is mainly to provide a plurality of slave connectors on a circuit board, and connect a master connector on the circuit board of the electronic device through a transmission line to expand the master connector for use with the plurality of slave connectors (for example, taiwan patent No. M469664). For example, USB hubs are now commonly available in the market. However, such products are usually used to expand the number of connectors of the same interface, for example, the USB hub expands a USB master connector into a plurality of USB slave connectors. There is no expansion device available in the market that can expand a master connector into multiple slave connectors with different interfaces. If the user wants to use different interfaces to connect the electronic device, it is very troublesome to use an additional adapter to convert the slave connector into the required interface.
Thus, the existing expansion module still cannot completely solve the problems of the number, the assembly flexibility and the variety of the connectors on the electronic device. Therefore, the user can not meet the requirement of the user in actual use.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention is directed to overcoming the above-mentioned problems encountered in the prior art and providing a configuration method of an expandable interface structure, which can infinitely expand the conventional m.2 (Next-generation function, NGFF) interface, and provide a plurality of interfaces that can be continuously changed and combined, i.e., m.2 can be converted into HDMI or SDI …, etc., to generate a plurality of lines, thereby achieving the purpose of flexible expansion.
A secondary objective of the present invention is to provide a method for configuring an expandable interface structure that is light, thin, small, occupies little space, can assist a product to achieve a miniaturized design, and can effectively increase the capacities of a memory and a hard disk.
To achieve the above object, the present invention is a configuration method of an extensible interface structure, which is suitable for a slot on an internal motherboard of an electronic device, the configuration method at least comprising the following steps: (A) arranging a main adapter card, inserting the main adapter card into the slot of the mainboard through the adapter card pin arranged on the main adapter card so as to mutually transmit telecommunication signals with the mainboard, and arranging a first electric connector on the back of the main adapter card; and (B) arranging a plurality of sub-adapter cards, each sub-adapter card having a first surface and a second surface, and a second electrical connector on the first surface, and a third electrical connector on the second surface opposite to the second electrical connector, detachably connecting the second electrical connector on the first surface of the sub-adapter card adjacent to the main adapter card with the first electrical connector to position the sub-adapter card adjacent to the main adapter card on the back surface of the main adapter card, detachably connecting the third electrical connector on the second surface of the sub-adapter card with the second electrical connector of another adjacent sub-adapter card to position the other sub-adapter card on the second surface of the sub-adapter card adjacent to the main adapter card, and so on to complete the expansion assembly of the required number of sub-adapter cards, so as to perform the mutual transmission of the electrical signals between the main adapter card and each sub-adapter card, on each sub-adapter card near to one side of each sub-adapter card parallel to each third electrical connector, each sub-adapter card is provided with a plurality of connectors to provide connection of a plurality of external devices.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the main adapter card and the plurality of sub adapter cards are m.2 (Next-generation factor, NGFF) interfaces.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, each sub adapter card is at least provided with more than 2 connectors.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the connectors disposed on the sub adapter cards are Serial Digital Interface (SDI) connectors, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connectors, DVI (Digital Visual Interface) connectors, VGA connectors, YGPC Interface connectors, or YPbPr Interface connectors.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the first electrical connector is a male connector or a female connector connected with the second electrical connector.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the third electrical connector is a male connector or a female connector connected with the second electrical connector.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, when the plurality of sub-adapter cards are assembled in an expansion mode, the third electrical connector on the second surface of the terminal sub-adapter card can be omitted.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device is a computer, an industrial computer, or a server of various types.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the adapter pin is inserted into the PCI Express slot.
In the above embodiment of the present invention, each sub-adapter is connected to the external device through the connector, and performs mutual transmission of the electrical signals, each connector transmits the electrical signals to the second electrical connector through the circuit connected to each sub-adapter, and is plugged into the first electrical connector and the third electrical connector through the second electrical connector, so that the electrical signals are finally transmitted to the main adapter, the main adapter transmits the electrical signals to the adapter pins through the circuit connected to the first electrical connector, and transmits the electrical signals to the main board through the adapter pins plugged into the slots of the main board, so that the electrical signals of the connectors of each sub-adapter are transmitted to the main board.
The invention can expand the traditional M.2 (Next-generation function, NGFF) interface infinitely by the board-to-board stacked building block structure of the main adapter card connected with a plurality of sub-adapter cards, provides a plurality of interfaces which can be changed and combined continuously, namely, the M.2 can be converted into HDMI or SDI … and the like to generate a plurality of circuits so as to achieve the aim of elastic expansion, compared with the known M.2 adapter cards, the invention has the advantages of light weight, short and small occupied mechanism space, capability of assisting the product to achieve the miniaturization design and capability of effectively increasing the capacities of an internal memory and a hard disk.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method for configuring an extensible interface structure according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the extensible interface architecture of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a combination diagram of the extensible interface architecture of the present invention.
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second electrical connections 21 a … 21 n;
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The drawings disclosed herein are for convenience only to illustrate the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention to the exact forms, aspects and dimensional proportions shown, which are optional.
Please refer to fig. 1 to fig. 3, which are a flow chart of a configuration method of the extensible interface structure of the present invention, an exploded view of the extensible interface structure of the present invention, and a combined view of the extensible interface structure of the present invention. As shown in the figure: the invention relates to a configuration method of an expandable interface structure, wherein the expandable interface structure 1 is inserted into a slot on an internal mainboard of an electronic device and comprises an adapter card module and a plurality of electric connecting pieces, the adapter card module comprises a main adapter card 10 and a plurality of sub adapter cards 20 a … 20 n, the main adapter card 10 and the sub adapter cards 20 a … 20 n are respectively connected with the electric connecting pieces, and the electric connecting pieces are used for realizing mutual electric connection. The electronic device may be a computer, an industrial computer, or a server in various types, and is not limited thereto.
Based on the extensible interface architecture 1, the present invention discloses a configuration method of the extensible interface architecture 1, and referring to the architecture shown in fig. 2 and 3, the configuration method starts at step s 11.
In step s11, a main adapter card 10 is provided, which is inserted into a slot (e.g. PCI Express slot) of the motherboard via an adapter pin 11 provided on the main adapter card 10 to transmit electrical signals with the motherboard, and a first electrical connector 12 is provided on the back side of the main adapter card 10.
Next, in step s12, a plurality of sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n are provided, each sub-adapter card 20 a … 20 n having a first surface and a second surface, and a second electrical connector 21 a … 21 n is provided on the first surface, and a third electrical connector 22 a is provided on the second surface opposite to the second electrical connector 21 a … 21 n, the sub-adapter card 20 a adjacent to the main adapter card 10 is detachably coupled to the first electrical connector 12 by the second electrical connector 21 a on the first surface thereof so as to position the sub-adapter card 20 a on the back surface of the main adapter card 10, and the other sub-adapter card 20 n is detachably coupled to the second electrical connector 21 n adjacent to the other sub-adapter card 20 n by the third electrical connector 22 a on the second surface thereof so as to position the other sub-adapter card 20 n on the second surface of the sub-adapter card 20 a adjacent to the main adapter card 10, so as to complete the expansion assembly of the required number of sub-adapter cards, so as to perform the mutual transmission of the main adapter card 10 and the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n; in the expansion assembly of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n, the third electrical connector on the second side of the terminal sub-adapter card 20 n can be further omitted. On each of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n near the side of each of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n parallel to each of the third electrical connectors 22 a, each of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n is provided with a plurality of connectors 23 a … 23 n for providing connection of a plurality of external devices (not shown); the connectors 23 a … 23 n provided on each sub adapter card 20 a … 20 n are provided on a side of each sub adapter card 20 a … 20 n away from the main adapter card 10. Thus, a new configuration method of the extensible interface structure is formed by the above-mentioned disclosed process.
The first and third electrical connectors 12 and 22 a are male or female connectors that are mated with the second electrical connector 21 a … 21 n.
In fig. 2 and 3, each sub-adapter 20 a … 20 n is provided with 2 connectors 23 a … 23 n, which may be Serial Digital Interface (SDI) connectors, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connectors, DVI (Digital Visual Interface), VGA (Video Graphics Array) connectors, YGPC Interface connectors, YPbPr Interface connectors, etc., which are only examples, and the number of the connectors 23 a … 23 n provided in each sub-adapter 20 a … 20 n is not limited.
When the card is activated, the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n are connected to an external device (not shown) through the connectors 23 a … 23 n and transmit the signals to each other, the connectors 23 a … 23 n transmit the signals to the second electrical connector 21 a … 21 n through the circuits connected to the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n, and the second electrical connector 21 a … 21 n is plugged into the first electrical connector 12 and the third electrical connector 22 a, so that the signals are finally transmitted to the main adapter card 10, the main adapter card 10 transmits the signals to the adapter pins 11 through the circuits connected to the first electrical connector 12, and transmits the signals to the main board through the adapter pins 11 plugged into the slots of the main board, so that the signals of the connectors 23 a … 23 n of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … 20 n and the signals of the connectors 23 a … n of the sub-adapter cards 20 a … n are transmitted to the main board The mainboard is mutually transmitted, so that the invention can infinitely expand the traditional M.2 (Next-Generation form factor, NGFF) interface, provide a plurality of interfaces which can be continuously changed and combined, namely, the M.2 can be converted into HDMI or SDI …, etc., and a plurality of circuits are generated, thereby achieving the purpose of elastic expansion.
To sum up, the present invention is a configuration method of an expandable interface structure, which can effectively improve the disadvantages of the prior art, and connect a plurality of board-to-board stacked building block structures of sub-adapter cards by a main adapter card, so that the expandable interface structure can expand the traditional m.2 interface infinitely, provide a plurality of interfaces which can be changed and combined continuously, that is, convert m.2 into HDMI, SDI …, etc., to generate a plurality of circuits, so as to achieve the purpose of flexible expansion.
However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention should not be limited thereby; therefore, all the equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims and the content of the specification of the present invention should be covered by the scope of the present invention.
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1. A configuration method of an expandable interface structure is suitable for a slot on an internal mainboard of an electronic device, and is characterized in that the configuration method at least comprises the following steps:
(A) arranging a main adapter card, inserting the main adapter card into the slot of the mainboard through the adapter card pin arranged on the main adapter card so as to mutually transmit telecommunication signals with the mainboard, and arranging a first electric connector on the back of the main adapter card; and
(B) arranging a plurality of sub-adapter cards, each sub-adapter card is provided with a first surface and a second surface, a second electric connector is arranged on the first surface, a third electric connector is arranged on a second surface opposite to the second electric connector, the sub-adapter cards adjacent to the main adapter card are detachably combined with the first electric connector through the second electric connector on the first surface so as to position the sub-adapter cards adjacent to the main adapter card on the back surface of the main adapter card, the third electric connector on the second surface is detachably combined with the second electric connector of another adjacent sub-adapter card so as to position the other sub-adapter card on the second surface of the sub-adapter card adjacent to the main adapter card, and the expansion assembly of the required number of the sub-adapter cards is finished so as to carry out the mutual transmission of the electric signals of the main adapter card and the sub-adapter cards, and on each sub-adapter card close to one side of each sub-adapter card parallel to each third electric connector, each sub-adapter card is provided with a plurality of connectors to provide connection of a plurality of external devices.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the main adapter card and the plurality of sub adapter cards are m.2 interfaces.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein each sub adapter card has at least 2 connectors.
4. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the connectors on the sub-adapters are serial digital interface connectors, high-resolution multimedia interface connectors, digital video interface connectors, video graphics array connectors, YGPC interface connectors, or YPbPr interface connectors.
5. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the first electrical connector is a male or female connector that mates with the second electrical connector.
6. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the third electrical connection is a male or female connector that mates with the second electrical connection.
7. The method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the plurality of sub-adapter cards are assembled in an expanded state, and the third electrical connector on the second side of the final sub-adapter card is omitted.
8. The method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the electronic device is a computer, an industrial computer or a server of any type.
9. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the adapter pins are inserted into PCI Express slots.
10. The method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each sub adapter card is connected to the external device through a connector provided thereon and performs mutual transmission of the electrical signals, each connector connects to the circuit on each sub adapter card and transmits the electrical signals to the second electrical connector, and is connected to the first electrical connector and the third electrical connector through the second electrical connector to finally transmit the electrical signals to the main adapter card, the main adapter card transmits the electrical signals to the adapter card pins through the circuit connected to the first electrical connector, and transmits the electrical signals to the main board through the adapter pins inserted into the slots of the main board, so that the electrical signals of the connectors provided on each sub adapter card are transmitted to the main board.
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