CN102195159A

CN102195159A - Connector

Info

Publication number: CN102195159A
Application number: CN2011100209812A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 横尾弘之
Original assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd
Current assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd
Priority date: 2010-03-03
Filing date: 2011-01-13
Publication date: 2011-09-21
Also published as: CN103474802B; KR20110100131A; TWI425724B; JP2011181439A; CN103474802A; TW201136056A; JP5016695B2; KR101219621B1

Abstract

The invention discloses a connector. In a connector for FPC/FFC, an actuator (30) comprises a clamping part (32) and a leaning part (33). The clamping part (32) is in a position where the insertion of the FPC/FFC (50) is not obstructed when the actuator (30) is in an open position, and the clamping part (32) is in a position closer to a clamped part (54) than the inserted FPC/FFC (50) when the actuator (30) is in a closed position, therefore, the clamping part (32) can clamp the clamped part (54) even the FPC/FFC (50) moves forwards. The leaning part (33) is behind the clamping part (32) when the actuator (30) is in the closed position and leans against a main surface (upper surface (50a)) of the FPC/FFC (50) when the clamping part (32) clamps the clamped part (54).

Description

Connector

Technical field

The present invention relates to the connector that is connected with the connecting object thing of the such tabular or sheet of FPC (Flexible Printed CirCuit) or FFC (Flexible FlatCable).

Background technology

Connector as the connecting object thing that prevents tabular or sheet comes off for example has open at patent documentation 1 (TOHKEMY 2004-71314 communique) or patent documentation 2 (TOHKEMY 2009-283309 communique).

The connector of patent documentation 1 comprises the actuator with projection and actuator is supported is the housing that can rotate.On housing, be formed with and the corresponding receiving orifice of the projection of actuator.When the insertion mouth of the front end of connector inserted FPC/FFC and actuator is forwards lied down, the projection of actuator was inserted into via the hole of FPC/FFC in the receiving orifice of housing.Thus, prevent coming off of FPC/FFC.

Yet in the connector of patent documentation 1 record, in the time will extracting FPC/FFC by force or when impacting FPC/FFC etc., actuator might be opened and FPC/FFC comes off.For anti-the kind here preferably do not come off and must make projection elongated, but projection can produce the problem that hinders FPC/FFC to insert to connector when elongated.

The connector of patent documentation 2 comprises: housing, and it has the lock arm that is provided with fastener; Actuator, it is supported to rotating by housing.On actuator, be provided with the cam part that makes the lock arm bending.When opening actuator, cam part makes the lock arm bending, and makes fastener displacement upward.Thus, FPC/FFC can insert to connector.Be inserted at FPC/FFC under the state of connector, when actuator was lied down, fastener turned back to the position of regulation.At this moment, fastener is positioned at the stop hole of FPC/FFC.Thus, prevent coming off of FPC/FFC.

The connector of these patent documentation 2 records makes the lock arm bending by the operation of actuator, therefore existing problems aspect intensity.

Summary of the invention

The object of the invention is to provide the structure of a kind of drawing by force of withstanding the connecting object thing or impact and no problem connector aspect intensity.

An aspect of of the present present invention provides a kind of connector.Described connector has the mouth of insertion at front end.Described connector is connected with a connecting object thing that inserts from described insertion mouthful rearward end.Described connecting object thing is tabular or sheet.Described connecting object thing has contact site and by fastener.Described connector comprises: the contact with contact portion; The housing that keeps described contact; Support to closing the actuator that rotates between position and the open position by described housing.Described actuator corresponding to make described actuator from described open position towards the described rotating operation that closes rotated position, and the described contact portion of described contact is connected with the described contact site of described connecting object thing.Described actuator possesses fastener and abutting part.Described abutting part is in described being positioned at when closing the position than described fastener by the rear and at least when described fastener is ended described connecting object thing described by the fastener card and the interarea butt of described connecting object thing at described actuator.

According to the present invention, owing to be arranged on being ended by the fastener card and the abutting part of actuator and the interarea butt of connecting object thing of fastener on the actuator and connecting object thing, even therefore (for example extract the connecting object thing by force, FPC/FFC) or impact the connecting object thing, also need not increase the length of fastener and can prevent that mistake from opening the situation of actuator.

By the explanation of the following preferred forms of reference accompanying drawing discussion, can correctly understand purpose of the present invention, and understand its structure more completely.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the main parallax stereogram that the connector of embodiments of the present invention is shown.At this, the actuator that comprises in the connector is in open position.

Fig. 2 is the back of the body parallax stereogram that the connector of Fig. 1 is shown.At this, actuator is in open position.

Fig. 3 is the cutaway view that the connector of Fig. 2 is shown along the III--III line.At this, actuator is in open position, and FPC/FFC also is not inserted into and inserts mouth.

Fig. 4 is the cutaway view along the connector of the Fig. 2 shown in the IV--IV line.At this, actuator is in open position, and FPC/FFC is inserted into and inserts mouth.

Fig. 5 is the main parallax stereogram that the connector of Fig. 1 is shown.At this, actuator is in and closes the position.

Fig. 6 is the cutaway view that the connector of Fig. 5 is shown along the VI--VI line.At this, actuator is in and closes the position, and FPC/FFC is inserted into and inserts mouth.

Fig. 7 is the cutaway view that the connector of Fig. 5 is shown along the VII--VII line.At this, actuator is in and closes the position, and FPC/FFC is inserted into and inserts mouth.

Fig. 8 is the stereogram that the housing of Fig. 1 is shown.

Fig. 9 is the stereogram that the actuator of Fig. 1 is shown.

Figure 10 is the cutaway view that the actuator of Fig. 9 is shown along the X--X line.

Figure 11 is the ground plan that the FPC/FFC that can be connected with the connector of Fig. 1 is shown.

Figure 12 is the ground plan of variation that the FPC/FFC of Figure 11 is shown.

Embodiment

Can realize the present invention with various deformation or variety of way,, below describe specific execution mode shown in the drawings in detail as an example wherein.Drawings and the embodiments are not defined as the present invention specific mode disclosed herein, and whole variation of carrying out in the disclosed scope of the scope of claims, equivalent, replacement example are also contained in its object.

Referring to figs. 1 through Fig. 7, the connector 1 of embodiments of the present invention is installed on circuit substrate (not shown), and is connected with FPC/FFC (connecting object thing) 50.At this, as Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 6, Fig. 7 and shown in Figure 11, can have upper surface 50a and lower surface 50b with the FPC/FFC50 that the connector 1 of present embodiment is connected as two interareas, near the edge portion (directions X end, the right-hand member of Fig. 3) 51 of lower surface 50b, be formed with a plurality of contact sites (a plurality of signal terminal) 52.And, be formed with the recess 53 that is absorbed in to Y direction inboard at left and right directions (Y direction) two ends of FPC/FFC50.That is, recess 53 is arranged to clip a plurality of contact sites 52 from the Y direction.As described later, the edge of edge portion 51 sides of this recess 53 is as being worked by fastener 54.

Referring again to Fig. 1 to Fig. 7, connector 1 has front end 2 and rear end 3, and has the insertion mouth 4 that is used for for the FPC/FFC50 insertion at front end 2.Connector 1 is connected with a FPC/FFC50 who inserts from these insertion mouth 4 rearward end 3.Below, be described in detail the structure of described connector 1 and the method that is connected with FPC/FFC50.

The connector 1 of present embodiment comprises: the housing 10 that is formed by the insulating properties material; The a plurality of contacts 20 that form by metal; The actuator 30 that forms by the insulating properties material; Be connected and fixed on the metal compactor 40 of circuit substrate (not shown).

With reference to Fig. 3, Fig. 4 and Fig. 6～Fig. 8, be formed with peristome 11 at the front end 10a of housing 10.Peristome 11 connects housing 10 on directions X, and has elongated shape when seeing the front end 10a of housing 10 along directions X on the Y direction.The insertion mouth 4 of 11 pairs of above-mentioned connectors 1 of peristome of present embodiment limits.Work as bearing by inserting mouthful bearing plane 12 of 4 FPC/FFC50 that insert in the bottom surface of peristome 11 (that is, inserting mouth 4).As shown in Figure 8, near the Y of bearing plane 12 direction two ends, be formed with and keep out of the way hole 13 to-Z direction (below) depression.The hole that is formed with maintenance contact 20 on the 10b of the rear end of housing 10 is a maintaining part 14.Described maintaining part 14 is until bearing plane 12.In addition, bearing portion 15 forms and clip bearing plane 12 on the Y direction.Bearing portion 15 is towards the groove of Y direction outside depression and the groove that extends to Z direction (top).

With reference to Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, each contact 20 comprises: the lower jaw portion 22 that is provided with contact portion 21; Maxilla portion 23; Linking part 24 with

lower jaw portion

22 and 23 bindings of maxilla portion; Linking part 24 is carried out flexibly mounted maintained portion 25; From maintained portion 25 downside (directions X and-Z direction) anchor portion 26 of extending rearward.Linking part 24 constitutes the shape of tuning fork-like and lower jaw portion 22 and maxilla portion 23 is linked.Maintained portion 25 is kept by maintaining part 14.Anchor portion 26 is connected and fixed with corresponding signal terminal (not shown) on the circuit substrate (not shown).

In the present embodiment, because linking part 24 carries out elastic bearing by maintained portion 25, so maxilla portion 23 and lower jaw portion 22 are the action that a class is rotated at the center with the part that the maintained portion 25 by linking part 24 is kept.Therefore, in the time of promoting maxilla portion 23 upward, lower jaw portion 22 also is raised, thereby contact portion 21 is moved upward.

Actuator 30 is held in and can and is closed between the position (with reference to Fig. 5 to Fig. 7) and rotate at open position (referring to figs. 1 through Fig. 4) by housing 10.This actuator 30 makes the contact portion 21 of contact 20 be connected with the contact site 52 of FPC/FFC50 in the contact portion 21 that makes contact 20 when open position court closes rotated position.

The actuator 30 of present embodiment constitute by towards the rear (directions X) lie down and from open position towards closing rotated position.That is, the direction of the rotation of the actuator the connector of direction and the patent documentation 1 towards the rotation of closing the position from open position of the actuator 30 of present embodiment is opposite.

Refer again to Fig. 9 and Figure 10, the actuator 30 of present embodiment possesses: (Y direction both ends) outstanding laterally rotating shaft 31 at both ends, the left and right sides; Be positioned at two ends, the left and right sides neighbouring fastener 32 and abutting part 33; Resettlement section 34 corresponding to contact 20 formation; Be arranged on the lifting parts 35 in the resettlement section 34; Encirclement portion 36.

Specifically, the rotating shaft 31 of present embodiment is at actuator 30 and is positioned at actuator 30 foremost when closing the position, and by the bearing portion 15 of housing 10 be held in can rotate and along the vertical direction (Z direction) move.

Fastener 32 has the shape of overshooting shape, and (Z direction) is outstanding downwards when actuator 30 is in open position, moves corresponding to the rotation of actuator 30.The hole 13 of keeping out of the way that is arranged on the housing 10 is used to make moving of fastener 32 to carry out smoothly, and keeping out of the way hole 13 self is not to leave no choice but end with fastener 32 cards.Therefore, keeping out of the way hole 13 can be not dark as the connector of patent documentation 1.

Specifically, from Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 as can be known, when actuator 30 was in open position, the fastener 32 of present embodiment was positioned at the position that does not hinder FPC/FFC50 to insert.On the other hand, as shown in Figure 7, be in when closing the position inserting under the state of FPC/FFC50 when actuator 30, the fastener 32 of present embodiment be positioned at than FPC/FFC50 by fastener 54 on the front.That is, under inserting the state of FPC/FFC50 and actuator 30 is in when closing the position, the fastener 32 of present embodiment is positioned at recess 53.Therefore, and when FPC/FFC50 will be forwards mobile (, in the time of extracting FPC/FFC50), ended by fastener 32 cards by fastener 54.

Especially the fastener 32 of present embodiment is positioned near the rotating shaft 31.Therefore, can reduce size on the fore-and-aft direction (directions X) of connector 1.And, from Fig. 7 and Figure 10 as can be known, along in the cross section on XZ plane, when actuator 30 is in when closing the position, fastener 32 be positioned at center 31c than rotating shaft 31 more than 2/3 by the rear.Under situation about so constituting, when actuator 30 is in open position, can reduce hindering FPC/FFC50 to inserting mouthful 4 possibilities of inserting.Consider described effect as can be known, be in when closing the position that the major part of preferred fastener 32 (more preferably whole) is positioned at center 31c than rotating shaft 31 by the rear at actuator 30.

With reference to Fig. 7 and Figure 10, abutting part 33 has and is in when closing the position and parallel plane of YX at actuator 30, and is positioned at than fastener 32 by rear (directions X).Especially in the present embodiment, when actuator 30 is in when closing the position, abutting part 33 is positioned at than rotating shaft 31 by the rear.When fastener 32 is with being ended by fastener 54 cards of FPC/FFC50 at least extracting FPC/FFC50 etc. by force, the upper surface 50a butt of this abutting part 33 and FPC/FFC50.Therefore, from being applied by 54 pairs of fasteners 32 of fastener fastener 32 when-the power that directions X (the place ahead) is pushed, abutting part 33 is pressed against the upper surface 50a of FPC/FFC50, even therefore do not increase the outstanding length of fastener 32, FPC/FFC50 can not come off from fastener 32 yet.And, need not be in order to make actuator 30 open (moving to open position) towards closing the locality application of force to actuator 30.Especially the abutting part 33 of present embodiment is with the 21 clamping FPC/FFC50 of contact portion of contact 20, therefore not only at fastener 32 during with being ended of FPC/FFC50 by fastener 54 cards, and actuator 30 be in abutting part 33 when closing the position also always with the upper surface 50a butt of FPC/FFC50.

With reference to Fig. 9 and Figure 10, resettlement section 34 forms the parallel plane slit-shaped with XZ.As Fig. 3 and shown in Figure 6, accommodate to these resettlement section 34 parts the maxilla portion 23 of contact 20.

As Fig. 3, Fig. 6 and shown in Figure 10, lifting parts 35 has the core shift shape, and the inwall that will constitute resettlement section 34 in each resettlement section 34 links on the Y direction each other.That is, lifting parts 35 is positioned at resettlement section 34.This lifting parts 35 corresponding to make actuator 30 from open position towards closing the rotating operation of rotated position, and resettlement section 34 in, the maxilla portion 23 of contact 20 is promoted (Fig. 6 reference).When lifting parts 35 promotes maxilla portion 23, as mentioned above, make contact portion 21 displacement upward that is arranged in the lower jaw portion 22.

As Fig. 6 and shown in Figure 10, when actuator 30 is in when closing the position, encirclement portion 36 constitutes the rear portion of actuators 30, and surrounds the top of the rear end 10b of housing 10.Surround by this, and the top of the maintained portion 25 of contact 20 is also protected, encirclement.

As shown in Figure 3, when actuator 30 was in open position, the insertion mouth 4 insertion FPC/FFC50 with respect to the connector 1 that possesses said structure became state shown in Figure 4.At this moment, fastener 32 is positioned at the top of the recess 53 of FPC/FFC50.Under this state, when making actuator 30 courts close rotated position, as shown in Figure 6, the maxilla portion 23 by lifting parts 35 improves contacts 20 makes contact portion 21 displacement upward thus.Thus, FPC/FFC50 is sandwiched between abutting part 33 and the contact portion 21, and contact portion 21 is achieved with being electrically connected also of contact site 52.At this moment, as shown in Figure 7,, therefore can prevent above-mentioned coming off because fastener 32 is positioned at recess 53.

More than, narrate execution mode and clear specifically the present invention, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

For example, in the above-described embodiment since between abutting part 33 and contact portion 21 clamping FPC/FFC50, therefore be in when closing the position upper surface 50a butt of abutting part 33 and FPC/FFC50 when actuator 30.Yet, the object of pushing beyond the abutting parts 33 such as contact beyond the contact 20 or elastomer also can be set, in this case, abutting part 33 when preventing preferably not the rotating of actuator 30 and the FPC/FFC50 butt get final product, be not actuator 30 be in when closing the position must with the FPC/FFC50 butt.

In addition, the FPC/FFC50 as being connected with above-mentioned connector 1 has recess 53 at two ends, the left and right sides, but also can be for example shown in Figure 12, will have the FPC/FFC50 ' of protuberance 55 at two ends, the left and right sides as connecting object.In this case, in the edge of protuberance 55 away from the edge of edge portion 51 as being worked by fastener 56.

Although understand the execution mode of the best of the present invention, but those skilled in the art can be out of shape execution mode in the scope that does not break away from thought of the present invention as can be known, and this kind execution mode also belongs to scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. a connector has the mouth of insertion at front end, and is connected with a connecting object thing that inserts from described insertion mouthful rearward end, wherein,

Described connector comprises: the contact with contact portion; The housing that keeps described contact; Support to closing the actuator that rotates between position and the open position by described housing,

Described actuator corresponding to make described actuator from described open position towards the described rotating operation that closes rotated position, and the described contact portion of described contact is connected with the contact site of described connecting object thing,

Described actuator possesses fastener and abutting part,

Described abutting part is in described being positioned at when closing the position than described fastener by the rear and at least at described fastener during with being ended by the fastener card of described connecting object thing and the interarea butt of described connecting object thing at described actuator.

2. connector according to claim 1, wherein,

Under inserting the state of described connecting object thing and described actuator be in described when closing the position, the described interarea butt of described abutting part and described connecting object thing.

3. connector according to claim 1 and 2, wherein,

On described housing, be formed with bearing portion,

Described actuator has the rotating shaft of being accommodated by described bearing portion,

Be in describedly when closing the position at described actuator, described abutting part is positioned at than described rotating shaft by the rear.

4. connector according to claim 3, wherein,

Described fastener is positioned near the described rotating shaft.

5. connector according to claim 4, wherein,

Along with the cross section of the left and right directions plane orthogonal of described connector in, be in describedly when closing the position at described actuator, described fastener is positioned at than described rotating shaft by the rear.

6. connector according to claim 1 and 2, wherein,

Described actuator by lying down towards the rear from described open position towards the described rotated position of closing.

7. connector according to claim 1 and 2, wherein,

Described fastener is arranged near the left and right directions two ends of described actuator.

8. connector according to claim 1 and 2, wherein,

When described actuator is in described open position, described fastener is positioned at the position that does not hinder described connecting object thing to insert, and inserting under the state of described connecting object thing and be in described when closing the position at described actuator, described fastener be positioned at than described connecting object thing described by fastener on the front, thus, even described connecting object thing will forwards move, described fastener is also ended by the fastener card described.