CN103326160A - Connector - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a connector possessing a shell of which the upper and lower orientations do not need to be determined. The connector comprises the shell (11) of which the height is lower, and the shell is equipped with a wider first opening (18) in which a to-be-embedded connecting part at the opposite side can be inserted, on one surface, and a second opening (19) communicated with the first opening (18) on the other surface opposite to the surface, wherein one surface of the shell (11) is the front surface (12). When the wider first opening (18) is horizontal, the shell is symmetrical left and right by taking the surface (28) vertically penetrating the center of the front surface as the shaft, and is symmetrical up and down by taking the surface (29) horizontally penetrating the center of the front surface (12).

Description

Connector

Technical field

The present invention relates to connect flexible printing substrate (Flexible Printed Circuits: be designated hereinafter simply as " FPC ".) or flexible flat cable (Flexible Flat Cable: be designated hereinafter simply as " FFC ".) connector, at length say, relate to the housing in the assembling procedure of the connector by omitting automation above-below direction the differentiation operation and can enhance productivity, suppress the connector of manufacturing cost.

Background technology

In recent years, because the progress of electronic equipment, with development high performances such as the mobile terminal devices headed by the mobile phone, and development of small-scale.In order to connect being installed between various electronic component modules in this electronic equipment or the printed base plate, using the flat pattern flexible cable is FPC or FFC.And the connector that connects this FPC or FFC also develops slimming, with the save space in the electronic equipment of realizing installing in conjunction with the progress of electronic equipment.

The FPC connector of plug FPC for example, is disclosed in following patent documentation 1.According to following patent documentation 1 disclosed FPC connector, form the terminal insert port of inserting for FPC, have the Socket casing that loads in as the insulating properties on the printed base plate of contact object thing, this Socket casing is being below the 1.5mm as the setting height(from bottom) in the printed base plate of contact object thing.

And, use in the connector at the FPC of following patent documentation 1, except Socket casing, also have a plurality of contacts and the margining tablet that are welded on the printed base plate, by these structure members assemblings FPC connector.At present, carry out the situation of assembling of connector by automation equipment more and more.For example, make the housing production line of flowing through, successively this is flow through the housing that comes contact and margining tablet etc. are installed, thereby carry out this assembling.

[patent documentation 1] Japanese kokai publication hei 2004-213917 communique

Like this, in the situation that by automation equipment assembly and connection device, in this automation equipment, require under fixing state, supplying with for example housing of basic structure member.And in the assembling procedure of connector, normal operation is used for automatically supplying with the parts feeder of housing, this parts feeder have differentiate housing towards mechanism, be used for making its become identical towards mechanism.

Use parts feeder differentiate housing towards or make its become identical towards situation under, if housing towards about opposite, then for example make parts feeder have bar-like member, by the structure for this bar-like member hooking is set at housing, counter-rotating about can carrying out, become correct towards.This is because form left-right symmetric with the housing of connector as the shape of most housings of representative take above-mentioned patent documentation 1 disclosed FPC.

On the other hand, take above-mentioned patent documentation 1 disclosed FPC with the housing of connector as representative, the shape of housing deliberately forms asymmetric up and down.This is the differentiation for the above-below direction that is easy to carry out housing.About forming so the asymmetric housing of above-below direction, in assembling procedure, when in parts feeder, transferring, differentiate for housing when opposite up and down, take off housing from production line temporarily, again utilize parts feeder to transfer, carry out the differentiation of above-below direction.Therefore, carry out a plurality of housings up and down towards differentiation need the time, the problem that exists the amount of the housing that next assembling procedure is supplied with to reduce, its result, production efficiency reduces, and production cost improves.

Summary of the invention

The present invention finishes for the problem that solves this prior art and have, the object of the invention is to, provide following connector: become vertical plane take the center by housing as the symmetrical shape of benchmark by making the housing that consists of connector, and become the laterally zygomorphic shape take horizontal plane as benchmark, can omit the up and down differentiation operation in the parts feeder, production efficiency improves, and, suppressed manufacturing cost.

In order to solve above-mentioned problem, the connector of the 1st mode of the present invention has housing, this housing is provided with the 1st opening that inserts for the connecting portion for the treatment of chimeric the other side's side at a face, be provided with the 2nd opening with described the 1st open communication with opposed another face of a described face, described connector is characterised in that, if a described face of described housing is front surface, when described the 1st opening of configuration is level, described housing constitutes about the face left-right symmetric at the center by described front surface vertically, and constitutes about the face at the center by described front surface flatly symmetrical up and down.

And the connector of the 2nd mode is characterised in that, in the connector of the 1st mode, is provided with a plurality of intercommunicating pores that make described the 1st opening and described the 2nd open communication at described housing, in described intercommunicating pore the contact is housed.

And the connector of the 3rd mode is characterised in that, in the connector of the 1st mode, describedly treats that chimeric the other side's side is FPC or FFC.

And, the connector of the 4th mode is characterised in that, in the connector of any one mode in the 1st～3 mode, on described housing, any one surperficial both ends in the surface that is provided with described the 1st opening or described the 2nd opening are formed with a pair of holding section, in described holding section reinforced sheet are housed.

Connector according to the 1st mode, housing up and down and about structure form, not only profile is symmetrical, and inner structure is also symmetrical respectively, so, when the wider opening of the connecting portion insertion that supplies the other side's side that configures housing is level, even identical shaped with also becoming up and down towards conduct arbitrarily, so, in the manufacturing process of connector, need to before housing is installed the operation of miscellaneous part, not differentiate housing up and down towards, can improve operating efficiency.Therefore, compared with the past, can transport more housing to subsequent processing at short notice, manufacturing efficient can be improved, and manufacturing cost can be cut down.

And according to the connector of the 2nd mode, the intercommunicating pore that the housing of contact is housed also forms up and down and left-right symmetric, so, can with housing up and down towards the installing of irrespectively carrying out the contact, can improve manufacturing efficient, cut down manufacturing cost.

And, according to the connector of the 3rd mode, can access the connector high with the chimeric versatility of FPC or FFC, can enlarge scope of design.

And, connector according to the 4th mode, when the installations such as installing connector and substrate during engaged reinforced sheet, the holding section that the housing of this reinforced sheet is housed forms up and down and left-right symmetric, so, can with housing up and down towards the installing of irrespectively carrying out reinforced sheet, can improve manufacturing efficient, cut down manufacturing cost.

Description of drawings

Figure 1A is the stereogram from side observation of the connector of execution mode 1, and Figure 1B is the connector of observing from the opposing party.

Fig. 2 A is the stereogram from side observation of the housing of execution mode 1, and Fig. 2 B is the stereogram of observing from the opposing party.

Fig. 3 A is the front view of housing, and Fig. 3 B is rearview.

Fig. 4 A is the vertical view of housing, and Fig. 4 B is upward view.

Fig. 5 A is the end view from side observation of housing, and Fig. 5 B is the end view of observing from the opposing party.

Fig. 6 A is the cutaway view of the VIA-VIA line of Fig. 2 A, and Fig. 6 B is the cutaway view of the VIB-VIB line of Fig. 2 A.

Fig. 7 A is the stereogram of contact, and Fig. 7 B is end view.

Fig. 8 A is the stereogram of reinforced sheet, and Fig. 8 B is end view.

Fig. 9 A is the assembling procedure of contact is installed in explanation at housing the cutaway view corresponding with Fig. 6 A, and Fig. 9 B is that explanation is at the cutaway view corresponding with Fig. 6 B of the assembling procedure of housing installing reinforced sheet.

Figure 10 A is the cutaway view corresponding with Fig. 6 A of the housing of execution mode 2, and Figure 10 B is the end view corresponding with Fig. 7 B of the contact of execution mode 2, and Figure 10 C is the cutaway view corresponding with Fig. 9 A of the connector of execution mode 2.

Label declaration

10,10A: connector; 11,11A: housing; 12,12A: front surface; 13,13A: rear surface; 14: one sides; 15: another side; 16: upper surface; 17,17A: bottom surface; 18,18A: the 1st opening; 19,19A: the 2nd opening; 20,20A: intercommunicating pore; 21,21A: next door; 22: link slot; 23: the tapering; 24,24A: holding contact section; 25: the holding section; 26: slot; 27: engaging protrusion; 28: vertical plane; 29: horizontal plane; 30,30A: contact; 31,31A: contact main body; 32,32A: contact site; 33: protuberance; 34: jut; 35: fixed part; 36: reinforced sheet; 37: the reinforced sheet main body; 38: Embedded Division; 39: clamping part; 40: projection; 41: fixed part.

Embodiment

Below, with reference to accompanying drawing embodiments of the present invention are described.But, execution mode illustration shown below be used for connector that technological thought of the present invention is specialized, be not the meaning that the present invention is defined in this, can be applied to equally other execution modes that claims comprise.

[execution mode 1]

With reference to Fig. 1～Fig. 9 the connector of embodiments of the present invention 1 is described.The connector 10 of execution mode 1 and FPC(omit diagram) is connected, as shown in Figure 1, by the housing 11 that inserts for FPC and connect, be contained in the interior a plurality of contacts 30 of housing 11, a pair of reinforced sheet 36 that is contained in the both side ends of housing 11 consists of.

And connector 10 constitutes, and, inserts FPC and it is connected with contact 30 in housing 11 with 30 welding of a plurality of contacts and be installed on the printed base plate etc. by scolding tin etc.At this moment, also weld with printed base plate etc. if be contained in the reinforced sheet 36 at the two ends of housing 11, then mounted connector 10 more securely.Below, each structure member is described.

At first, with reference to Fig. 2～Fig. 6 housing 11 is described.Housing 11 forms highly lower rectangular shape, is made of front surface 12, rear surface 13, one or the other side 14,15, upper surface 16 and bottom surface 17.Be formed with the 1st wider opening 18 as the part of inserting for FPC at front surface 12, be formed with a plurality of the 2nd opening 19(of inserting for a plurality of contacts 30 with reference to Fig. 3 B with front surface 12 opposed rear surfaces 13).And the intercommunicating pore 20 that the 1st opening 18 of front surface 12 is communicated with the 2nd opening 19 of rear surface 13 is formed on the inside of housing 11.

In the intercommunicating pore 20 of housing 11 interior formation, corresponding to a plurality of the 2nd openings 19 that form on the rear surface 13, form next door 21 in the inside of housing 11, divide in the mode that can assemble a plurality of contacts 30.And, each next door 21 is formed into the inboard a little of front surface 12 from the rear surface 13 of housing, the link slot that can insert FPC 22 of its central portion is formed on along the transverse width of the 1st opening 18 between housing 11 central authorities in each next door 21 and the rear surface (with reference to Fig. 6 A).

And, in intercommunicating pore 20, be provided with the holding contact section 24 for installing contact 30.Holding contact section comes holding contact 30 by each next door 21 of rear surface 13 sides with the part of the upper and lower in each next door 21 that is formed with link slot 22.In addition, the 1st opening 18 that arranges on the front surface 12 forms with transverse width and the thickness of the FPC that inserted, forms narrowlyer than the width of the short transverse of intercommunicating pore 20.And, about the entrance of the 1st opening 18, in order to be easy to insert FPC, and form up and down tapering 23 along the transverse width of the 1st opening 18.

And, because housing 11 is highly lower rectangular shapes, so the upper surface 16 of housing 11 and the surface area of bottom surface 17 form maximumly.And, be respectively equipped be used to the holding section 25 of installing reinforced sheet 36 described later in one or the other side 14,15.Holding section 25 is formed on the two ends of the 1st opening 18 of the front surface 12 of housing 11, and the slot 26 of the slit-shaped that the upside of housing 11 and downside form is formed near the substantial middle section of housing 11, is formed with engaging protrusion 27 at the center of these slots 26.

And in the time of below bottom surface 17 is configured in, the housing 11 of execution mode 1 constitutes about face 28 left-right symmetric at the center by front surface 12 vertically, and, the face about the center by front surface 12 flatly of constituting symmetry 29 about.Therefore, such as Fig. 3～shown in Figure 6, housing 11 is about each face 28,29 of vertical and level, upper surface 16 and bottom surface 17 form up and down and left-right symmetric (with reference to Fig. 3 and Fig. 5) with identical shaped, and, a side 14 and another side 15 also form up and down and left-right symmetric with identical shaped, a pair of holding section 25 of strengthening thin slice 36 is housed also forms up and down and symmetrical shape (with reference to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4).And then, the shape of housing 11 inside also forms up and down and left-right symmetric with identical shaped, and each shape of the holding contact section 24 that forms in the 1st opening 18, the 2nd opening 19, intercommunicating pore 20 and the intercommunicating pore 20 also forms up and down and left-right symmetric (with reference to Fig. 3 and Fig. 6).

Then, with reference to Fig. 7 contact 30 is described.Contact 30 forms the plate body of specific thickness, extend by contact main body 31, from the above and below of this contact main body 31 arrange form two strands contact site 32, contact main body 31 to the outstanding protuberance 33 of the opposition side of contact site 32, below this protuberance 33, extend and arrange and consist of by the fixed part 35 that scolding tin etc. is welded on the printed base plate.

When FPC was inserted in the inboard that forms two strands contact site 32a, 32b, contact site 32 came clamping FPC by contact site 32a, 32b up and down.At this moment, the gap of two strands contact site 32a, 32b forms slightly narrowlyer than the thickness of FPC, and when inserting FPC, up and down contact site 32a, 32b are open, and comes clamping FPC by the elastic force that produce this moment.

Fixed part 35 forms below the protuberance 33 of giving prominence to formation from contact site 32 opposition sides of contact main body 31 and extends.This fixed part 35 is following parts: when connector 10 is installed on the printed base plate, by welding such as scolding tin and be fixed on the printed base plate, and be electrically connected with it.

And, being formed with jut 34 on the top of contact main body 31, when being inserted in the housing 11 in contact 30, by this jut 34 is pressed in the housing 11, contact 30 positions at housing 11, fixing and installing.

Then, with reference to Fig. 8 reinforced sheet 36 is described.Reinforced sheet 36 has the reinforced sheet main body 37 that forms plate body that is made of the metal-made material, from a side of this reinforced sheet main body 37 to substantial middle section form the Embedded Division 38 of concavity, at a pair of clamping part 39 setting up and down of this Embedded Division 38.In addition, be formed with projection 40 in Embedded Division 38 sides of the clamping part 39a of upside, and, be formed with at the downside of the clamping part 39b of downside and reinforced sheet main body 37 and extend the fixed part 41 that specific length is set.In addition, Embedded Division 38 is parts chimeric with the engaging protrusion 27 of the holding section 25 of housing 11, and a pair of clamping part 39a, 39b are the parts of engaging protrusion 27 of the holding section 25 of clamping housing 11.

Then, mainly with reference to Fig. 1 and Fig. 9 the assembling of connector 10 is described.The connector 10 of execution mode 1 is to assemble by molded and shaped or each parts that the rolling punch process forms and by automation equipment in production line configuration.

At first, at housing 11 installing contact 30 and reinforced sheets 36, make a plurality of housings 11 become identical towards.At this moment, housing 11 is fed into parts feeder and is transferred in transfer line, becomes to fix towards and enter subsequent processing in this handover.At this moment, as mentioned above, about the housing 11 of execution mode 1 forms about the face 28,29 vertical and level take the center of front surface 12 as benchmark and left-right symmetric.Therefore, even the up and down structure of housing 11 is opposite, also become identical shaped, so, do not need to utilize parts feeder to differentiate up and down, do not need to carry out as in the past following operation: the housing that will transfer under opposite up and down state takes off from production line, again supplies to parts feeder, again differentiates up and down.

And, because housing 11 forms left-right symmetric, so, do not need to carry out housing 11 about differentiate, and, as in the past, only just can only carry out the front and back differentiation by horizontally rotating.Therefore, the amount of the housing 11 that time per unit can be sent to subsequent processing increases, and production efficiency improves, and, can suppress manufacturing cost.

Then, housing 11 is shifted into the operation of installing contact 30.Then, from forming two strands contact site 32, contact 30 is inserted into a plurality of the 2nd openings 19 that form in the rear surface of housing 11 and installs contact 30.At this moment, vertically insert contact 30, two strands up and down contact site 32a, the 32b that forms on the contact 30 inserts along the holding contact section 24 that forms in the intercommunicating pore 20 of housing 11, and then, the projection 40 that contact site 32a on the top of contact main body 31 forms is pressed in the housing 11, thus, the installing of contact 30 is finished.By this holding contact section 24 and projection 40, prevent that contact 30 from coming off from housing 11, and contact 30 is positioned.And what installed contact 30 is oriented, and the fixed part 35 that forms on the contact 30 becomes downside (with reference to Fig. 9 A).

Then, housing 11 is shifted into the operation of installing reinforced sheet 36.Reinforced sheet 36 is installed on the holding section 25, and this holding section 25 is formed on one of housing 11 and another side 14,15.Embed the engaging protrusion 27 of the holding section 25 of housing 11 by the Embedded Division 38 that makes reinforced sheet 36, make this engaging protrusion 27 of clamping part 39 clampings of reinforced sheet 36, thereby carry out this installing.At this moment, by clamping part 39a, 39b up and down, the slot 26 on the holding section 25 of being located at housing 11 is engaged.And the projection 40 that forms in the inboard of the clamping part 39a of the upside of reinforced sheet 36 is pressed in the engaging protrusion 27 of housing 11 and is fixed.In addition, being oriented of reinforced sheet 36 installing, the fixed part 41 that forms at the downside of the clamping part 39b of the downside of reinforced sheet 36 and reinforced sheet main body 37 becomes downside (with reference to Fig. 9 B).So far, the assembling of connector 10 is finished.

In addition, in the connector of execution mode 1, the situation that connects FPC at connector has been described, but has been not limited to this, also can be connected with FFC etc.

[execution mode 2]

In the connector of execution mode 1, following situation has been described: in order to connect FPC or FFC in the other side's side, have and form the housing that to install the contact, this contact has and forms two strands contact site, but, in the connector of execution mode 2, describe having the situation that forms the housing that to install the contact with bar-shaped contact site.According to execution mode 2, the embodiment that has pointed out the other side's side to be not limited to FPC or FFC, can also to be connected with connector with board connector or electric wire.In addition, in the connector of execution mode 2, to part mark same numeral and the detailed identical with the connector of execution mode 1.

As shown in figure 10, the connector 10A of execution mode 2 by the housing 11A that inserts for the other side's side-connector (not shown) and connect, be installed in a plurality of contact 30A in the housing 11A, a pair of reinforced sheet 36 that is installed in the both side ends of housing 11A consists of.

Shown in Figure 10 A, housing 11A forms highly lower rectangular shape, be formed with i.e. wider the 1st opening 18A of the part inserted for the contact of the other side side at front surface 12A, be formed with a plurality of the 2nd opening 19A(of inserting for a plurality of contact 30A with reference to Fig. 3 B with the opposed rear surface 13A of front surface 12A).And the intercommunicating pore 20A that the 1st opening 18A of front surface 12A is communicated with the 2nd opening 19A of rear surface 13A is formed on the inside of housing 11A.

Among the intercommunicating pore 20A that in housing 11A, forms, corresponding to upper a plurality of the 2nd opening 19A that form of rear surface 13A, form next door 21A in the inside of housing 11A, divide in the mode that can install a plurality of contact 30A.And, in intercommunicating pore 20A, be provided with the 24A of holding contact section for installing contact 30A.

In addition, be respectively equipped with for the holding section 25 of installing reinforced sheet 36 in one or the other side of housing 11A, this point is identical with the housing 11 of execution mode 1, so description thereof is omitted.

And, the housing 11A of execution mode 2 and the housing 11 of execution mode 1 are same, in the time of below bottom surface 17A is configured in, constitute about vertically passing through face 28 left-right symmetric (with reference to Fig. 3) at the center of front surface 12A, and, the face about the center by front surface 12A flatly of constituting symmetry 29 about.Thus, the housing of execution mode 2 also can access the effect of the housing of execution mode 1.

Then, shown in Figure 10 B, contact 30A forms the plate body of specific thickness, bar-shaped contact site 32A, the contact main body 31A that partly extends setting by contact main body 31A, from the substantial middle of this contact main body 31A to the outstanding protuberance 33 of the opposition side of contact site 32A, below this protuberance 33, extend and arrange and consist of by the fixed part 35 that scolding tin etc. is welded on the printed base plate.

Contact site 32A forms bar-shaped, and when being inserted into the other side's side-connector, the contact of the other side's side contacts with contact site 32A.In addition, fixed part 35 is identical with the contact 30 of execution mode 1 with jut 34, so description thereof is omitted.And then the reinforced sheet of the execution mode 2 also reinforced sheet 36 with execution mode 1 is identical, so description thereof is omitted.

And, can carry out by the assembling procedure identical with the connector of execution mode 1 assembling (with reference to Figure 10 C) of the connector 10A of execution mode 2, can access the effect identical with the assembling of the connector 10 of execution mode 1.

In addition, in execution mode 2, contact site 32A is formed bar-shaped, still, the shape of contact site is not limited to this, can change according to the other side's side.

And the shape of execution mode 1,2 housing is not limited to above-mentioned shape, as long as have up and down and symmetrical structure, can form arbitrary shape.

And execution mode 1,2 contact also can not be whole identical sizes, and for example, the contact that also can prepare to grow and shorter contact alternately are installed in them on the housing.Thus, when connecting FPC etc. at connector, the clamping part of the contact of alternative arrangement replaces clamping FPC etc., so, can access higher confining force, can carry out stable connection.

Claims (4)

1. connector, this connector has housing, and this housing is provided with the 1st opening that inserts for the connecting portion for the treatment of chimeric the other side's side at a face, is being provided with the 2nd opening with described the 1st open communication with opposed another face of a described face, described connector is characterised in that

If a described face of described housing is front surface, when being configured to described the 1st opening level, described housing constitutes about the face left-right symmetric at the center by described front surface vertically, and constitutes about the face at the center by described front surface flatly symmetrical up and down.

2. connector according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Be provided with a plurality of intercommunicating pores that make described the 1st opening and described the 2nd open communication at described housing,

In described intercommunicating pore, the contact is housed.

3. connector according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Describedly treat that chimeric the other side's side is flexible printing substrate or flexible flat cable.

4. the described connector of any one according to claim 1～3 is characterized in that,

On described housing, any one the surperficial both ends in the surface that is provided with described the 1st opening or described the 2nd opening are formed with a pair of holding section,

In described holding section reinforced sheet is housed.

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