CN105990724B - Cable assembly with improved cable retention - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a cable connector assembly, which comprises a metal shell, a circuit board accommodated in the metal shell, a plurality of first conductive terminals and a cable, wherein the first conductive terminals and the cable are electrically connected with the front end of the circuit board and exposed on the outer surface of the metal shell.
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[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device
The present invention relates to a cable assembly, and more particularly, to a cable assembly for a mobile electronic device.
[ background of the invention ]
A conventional cable connector assembly, such as that shown in taiwan patent publication No. I452784, discloses a plug connector including a connection projection having first and second major opposing sides; by virtue of the plurality of electrical contacts carried by the connector tab, the plurality of contacts including a first set of external contacts formed on the first major side and a second set of external contacts formed on the second major side, the plug connector further includes a circuit board electrically connected to the electrical contacts, and a cable directly soldered to the circuit board. In a conventional cable connector assembly, a cable is generally soldered to a circuit board by hand, but with higher and higher transmission speed requirements, the demand is higher and higher, the manual soldering is time-consuming and labor-consuming, the yield is low, and when a thicker cable is required to transmit a higher speed or more core wires are required to realize more functions, the production requirements cannot be met by the existing manual soldering.
Accordingly, there is a need for an improved cable connector that overcomes the above-mentioned deficiencies in the prior art.
[ summary of the invention ]
The present invention is directed to a cable assembly with improved yield and production efficiency.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a cable connector assembly, which includes a metal housing, a circuit board housed in the metal housing, a plurality of first conductive terminals and a cable electrically connected to a front end of the circuit board and exposed to an outer surface of the metal housing, and a plurality of second conductive terminals electrically connected to the circuit board and the cable, wherein the second conductive terminals include a contact portion, a soldering portion and a connecting portion connecting the contact portion and the soldering portion, the contact portion of the second conductive terminal is electrically connected to the circuit board, and the cable is electrically connected to the soldering portion of the second conductive terminal.
Furthermore, the cable connector assembly further comprises a cable arranging block for fixing the second conductive terminal.
Furthermore, the wire arranging block comprises a base part and a main body part extending forwards from the base part, and a plurality of terminal accommodating grooves for accommodating the second conductive terminals are formed in the main body part.
Furthermore, the main body part is inwards recessed from the front end of the main body part to form a drawer-shaped accommodating space, the base part is provided with a plurality of wire clamping grooves for accommodating the cables, and the terminal accommodating grooves are communicated with the wire clamping grooves and the accommodating space.
Furthermore, the contact parts of the second conductive terminals extend out of the terminal accommodating grooves and are suspended in the accommodating space of the flat cable block, the tail part of the circuit board is accommodated in the accommodating space of the flat cable block, and the contact parts of the second conductive terminals are welded on the circuit board.
Furthermore, the second conductive terminal comprises a signal terminal, a power terminal and a ground terminal.
Furthermore, the contact parts of the second conductive terminals are arranged in one row, the welding parts are arranged in the other row, and the plane of the welding parts is higher than the plane of the contact parts.
Further, the cable connector assembly can be inserted into the receptacle connector mated with the cable connector assembly along the front surface and the back surface, and the upper surface and the lower surface of the front end of the metal shell both recess inwards to form frame openings for exposing the first conductive terminals on the upper surface and the lower surface of the metal shell.
Furthermore, the circuit board is provided with a first conducting strip and a second conducting strip which are respectively and electrically connected with the first conducting terminal and the second conducting terminal, the circuit board is also provided with a plurality of chips, and the chips and the second conducting strips are respectively arranged on different surfaces of the circuit board.
Furthermore, the cable connector further comprises a cover assembled at the rear end of the metal shell and the front end of the cable.
Compared with the prior art, the cable connector assembly has the following advantages: the manufacturing process realizes semi-automation, and the yield and the production efficiency are improved.
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Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a cable connector assembly according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the cable connector assembly shown in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is another perspective exploded view of the cable connector assembly shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a partially assembled view of the cable connector assembly shown in fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is another perspective view of the cable connector assembly of fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is another perspective view of the cable connector assembly of fig. 5.
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| Cable assembly with improved | 1000 | | 1 |
| Tongue part | 11 | | 12 |
| | 13 | | 2 |
| First | 21 | Second | 22 |
| Chip and method for manufacturing the same | 23 | First | 3 |
| Insulating positioning block | 4 | | 6 |
| | 61 | | 610 |
| | 62 | | 620 |
| Accommodating | 621 | Second | 7 |
| | 71 | | 711、721、731 |
| Connecting | 712、722、732 | Weld | 713、723、733 |
| | 72 | | 73 |
| Cable with a | 8 | | 81 |
| | 82 | | 83 |
| | 9 |
The following detailed description will further illustrate the invention in conjunction with the above-described figures.
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Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the cable connector assembly 1000 includes a metal housing 1, a circuit board 2 accommodated in the metal housing 1, an insulating positioning block 4 formed between the circuit board 2 and the metal housing 1, a plurality of first conductive terminals 3 and second conductive terminals 7 electrically connected to a front end of the circuit board 2 and exposed to an outer surface of the metal housing 1, a cable arrangement block 6 for fixing the second conductive terminals 7, a cable 8 electrically connected to the second conductive terminals 7, and a cover 9 covering a rear end of the assembled metal housing 1 and a front end of the cable 8. In the present invention, the cable connector assembly 100 can be inserted into mating connectors (not shown) along the front and back surfaces, respectively.
The metal shell 1 includes a tail portion 12 and a tongue portion 11 extending forward from the tail portion 12. The front part of the tongue 11 has a receiving space (not labeled), and the front end of the circuit board 2 is received in the receiving space of the tongue 11 of the metal shell 1. The upper and lower surfaces of the front end of the metal shell 1 are both recessed inwards to form a frame opening 13 for exposing the first conductive terminal 3 on the upper and lower surfaces of the metal shell 1.
The circuit board 2 has a plurality of chips 23, and the front and rear ends thereof are respectively provided with a first conductive sheet 21 electrically connected to the first conductive terminal 3 and a second conductive sheet 22 electrically connected to the second conductive terminal 7. The second conductive sheet 22 and the chip 23 are disposed on different surfaces of the circuit board 2. The first conductive terminals 3 can be connected to the first conductive sheet 21 by hot-melt welding. In other embodiments, the conductive terminals can be fixed to the front end of the circuit board 21 by other methods, for example, a whole piece of copper foil (not shown) can be pressed on the first conductive sheet 21 at the front end to be conducted with the first conductive sheet 21 on the circuit board 2, and then the copper foil is etched into a plurality of first conductive terminals 3.
The flat cable block 6 comprises a base part 61 and a main body part 62 extending forwards from the base part 61, the main body part 62 is recessed inwards from the front end thereof to form a drawer-shaped accommodating space 621 for accommodating the tail part of the circuit board 2, the base part 61 is recessed downwards from the upper surface thereof to form a plurality of cable clamping grooves 610 for accommodating the cables 8, and the main body part 62 is internally provided with a terminal accommodating groove 620 communicating the cable clamping grooves 610 and the accommodating space 621.
The upper and lower surfaces thereof are respectively provided with a plurality of card wire slots 610 formed by inward recess of the rear surface thereof and terminal receiving slots 620 formed by inward recess of the front surface thereof and communicated with the card wire slots.
The second conductive terminal 7 includes a pair of signal terminals 72, and a power supply terminal 71 and a ground terminal 73 located at both ends of the signal terminals 72. The second conductive terminal 7 includes contact portions 711, 721, 731, soldering portions 713, 723, 733, and connecting portions 712, 722, 732 connecting the contact portions 711, 721, 731 and the soldering portions 713, 723, 733, respectively, in this embodiment, the contact portions 711, 721, 731 are arranged in one row, the soldering portions 713, 723, 733 are arranged in another row, the plane where the soldering portions 713, 723, 733 are located is higher than the plane where the contact portions 711, 721, 731 are located, and in other embodiments, the terminal form of the second conductive terminal 7 may be modified according to actual conditions.
In the present embodiment, the cable 8 has 4 core wires, and includes a power supply line 81, a ground line 83, and two signal lines 82 corresponding to the second conductive terminals 7.
When assembling, the second conductive terminal 7 is assembled in the cable arranging block 6, the connecting parts 712, 722 and 732 of the second conductive terminal 7 are accommodated in the terminal accommodating groove 620 in the cable arranging block 6, the contact parts 711, 721 and 731 of the second conductive terminal extend out of the terminal accommodating groove 620 and are suspended in the accommodating space 621, and the welding parts 713, 723 and 733 of the second conductive terminal are accommodated in the wire clamping groove 610; then, the tail of the circuit board 2 accommodated in the metal housing 1 is placed in the accommodating space 621, and the contact portions 711, 721, and 731 of the second conductive terminal 7 are respectively welded on the corresponding second conductive sheets 22 on the circuit board 2; then, welding 4 core wires of the cable 8 to the welding parts 713, 723 and 733 of the second conductive terminal 7 respectively; finally, the cover 9 is overmolded on the rear end of the metal housing 1 and the front end of the cable 8.
In the invention, the second conductive terminal 7 can directly realize the switching between the connector (not marked) and the wire 8, the second conductive terminal 7 can directly realize the automatic welding with the second conductive sheet 22 on the circuit board 2 by the surface mounting technology, and then is welded with the wire 8, or is welded with the second conductive sheet 22 after being welded with the wire 8. The invention can also add the wire arranging block 6, position the second conductive terminal through the wire arranging block 6, shape the second conductive terminal 7 in the wire arranging block 6 first, then weld the second conductive terminal 7 with the second conductive sheet 22 and wire 8 separately. By means of the switching, the problem that a thick cable 8 is difficult to weld on the circuit board 2 is solved, automatic welding in two welding processes can be achieved successfully through the switching, continuous semi-automation is achieved, and production efficiency and product quality are improved. In addition, in the present invention, the chip 23 and the second conductive sheet 22 on the circuit board 2 are respectively disposed on the upper and lower surfaces, so that when the second conductive terminal 7 is soldered on the second conductive sheet 22, the chip 23 is located on the lower surface and is not affected by the soldering, and therefore, an additional protection device is not required to protect the chip 23.
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1. A cable connector assembly comprises a metal shell, a circuit board contained in the metal shell, a plurality of first conductive terminals and cables, wherein the first conductive terminals are electrically connected with the front end of the circuit board and exposed on the outer surface of the metal shell, and the cable connector assembly is characterized in that: the cable connector assembly further comprises a plurality of second conductive terminals electrically connected with the circuit board and the cable, each second conductive terminal comprises a contact part, a welding part and a connecting part connected with the contact part and the welding part, the contact parts of the second conductive terminals are electrically connected to the circuit board, the cable is electrically connected to the welding part of the second conductive terminals, the cable connector assembly further comprises a cable arranging block for fixing the second conductive terminals, the cable arranging block comprises a base part and a main body part extending forwards from the base part, the main body part is inwards recessed from the front end of the main body part to form a drawer-shaped accommodating space, and the width of the contact parts is smaller than that of the welding part.
2. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the main body portion is provided with a plurality of terminal accommodating grooves for accommodating the second conductive terminals.
3. The cable connector assembly of claim 2, wherein: the base is provided with a plurality of wire clamping grooves for accommodating the cables, and the terminal accommodating grooves are communicated with the wire clamping grooves and the accommodating space.
4. The cable connector assembly of claim 3, wherein: the contact parts of the second conductive terminals extend out of the terminal accommodating grooves and are suspended in the accommodating spaces of the flat cable blocks, the tail parts of the circuit board are accommodated in the accommodating spaces of the flat cable blocks, and the contact parts of the second conductive terminals are welded on the circuit board.
5. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the second conductive terminal comprises a signal terminal, a power supply terminal and a grounding terminal.
6. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the contact parts of the second conductive terminals are respectively arranged in one row, the welding parts are respectively arranged in the other row, and the plane of the welding parts is higher than the plane of the contact parts.
7. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the cable connector assembly can be inserted into a socket connector matched with the cable connector assembly along the front surface and the back surface respectively, and the upper surface and the lower surface of the front end of the metal shell are both inwards sunken to form frame openings for exposing the first conductive terminals on the upper surface and the lower surface of the metal shell.
8. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the circuit board is provided with a first conductive sheet and a second conductive sheet which are electrically connected with the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal respectively, the circuit board is also provided with a plurality of chips, and the chips and the second conductive sheets are arranged on different surfaces of the circuit board respectively.
9. The cable connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the cable connector also comprises a cover body assembled at the rear end of the metal shell and the front end of the cable.
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