CN108631099B

CN108631099B - Electrical connector

Info

Publication number: CN108631099B
Application number: CN201710172714.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 唐志辉; 胡军华; 许志清
Original assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hongteng Precision Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hongteng Precision Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-03-22
Filing date: 2017-03-22
Publication date: 2021-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 2037-03-22
Also published as: TW201836218A; CN108631099A

Abstract

The utility model provides an electric connector, its is equipped with at least one butt joint socket, electric connector include insulator and accept in terminal module in the insulator, the insulator includes first insulator and the second insulator of mutual equipment, first insulator is for printing opacity material to make, the second insulator is for non-printing opacity material to make.

Description

Electrical connector

[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device

The present invention relates to an electrical connector, and more particularly, to an electrical connector with a light-transmitting structure.

[ background of the invention ]

In prior art, taiwan patent publication No. TW201705626 discloses an electrical connector, which includes an insulating body and a terminal module accommodated in the insulating body, wherein the insulating body is made of a transparent material. The whole body of the insulating body is made of a light-transmitting material, and because the electric connector needs to be welded at a high temperature, the whole insulating body needs to transmit light and have certain high-temperature resistance, the material selection is very limited, and only expensive materials can be selected, so that the manufacturing cost is high.

[ summary of the invention ]

The object of the present invention is to provide a new low cost electrical connector to meet both the light transmission and high temperature resistance requirements of the electrical connector.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the utility model provides an electric connector, its is equipped with at least one butt joint socket, electric connector include insulator and accept in terminal module in the insulator, the insulator includes first insulator and the second insulator of mutual equipment, first insulator is for printing opacity material to make, the second insulator is for non-printing opacity material to make.

Furthermore, the first insulating body and the second insulating body are assembled up and down, the first insulating body comprises at least one first insulating body accommodating cavity, the terminal module comprises a first insulating body terminal module accommodated in the first insulating body accommodating cavity, the electric connector further comprises a light-emitting element, and light emitted by the light-emitting element can penetrate through the first insulating body.

Furthermore, the first insulating body accommodating cavity comprises a first accommodating cavity and a second accommodating cavity which are stacked up and down, the first insulating body terminal module comprises a first terminal module and a second terminal module which is accommodated in the second accommodating cavity, the first terminal module comprises a circuit board and a first conductive terminal which is accommodated in the first accommodating cavity, and the light-emitting element is arranged on the circuit board.

Furthermore, the electric connector further comprises a coil assembled on the circuit board, a shielding shell arranged outside the insulating body and an LED lamp accommodated in the insulating body.

Furthermore, the electric connector further comprises a shielding sheet accommodated in the insulating body, and the shielding sheet is partially hollowed to form a plurality of light-transmitting openings so that light emitted by the light-emitting element reaches the first insulating body.

Furthermore, the shielding sheet comprises a middle shielding shell accommodated in the first insulating body and a grounding sheet formed by bending and extending downwards from the rear end of the middle shielding shell.

Furthermore, middle shielding shell accept in first insulator accepts the intracavity, middle shielding shell is including being equipped with at least one printing opacity open-ended upper shield shell, the grounding strip include with connecting portion that upper shield shell is connected reach the extension portion that forms from connecting portion extension, middle shielding shell, connecting portion and extension portion are around forming at least one the printing opacity opening.

Furthermore, the second insulating body comprises at least one second insulating body accommodating cavity, and the terminal module comprises a second insulating body terminal module accommodated in the second insulating body accommodating cavity.

Furthermore, the first and second insulating bodies are respectively provided with a buckle device for mutual positioning, the buckle device comprises a sliding groove and a clamping portion formed on the lower surface of the first insulating body, and a sliding block and a clamping portion formed on the upper surface of the second insulating body, the sliding groove is matched with the sliding block, and the clamping portion is matched with the clamping portion.

Further, the first insulating body is made of a transparent material, and the second insulating body is made of a non-transparent material.

Compared with the prior art, the insulating body is formed by mutually assembling the first insulating body and the second insulating body, the first insulating body is made of a light-transmitting material, the second insulating body is made of a non-light-transmitting material, different parts are made of different materials, different requirements of different parts of the electric connector on the materials are met respectively, and the cost is reduced to the maximum extent while the overall requirements of the electric connector are met.

[ description of the drawings ]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an electrical connector according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the electrical connector shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is another perspective view of the electrical connector shown in fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a further exploded perspective view of the electrical connector of fig. 2 with the shield housing removed.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the first and second insulative bodies of the electrical connector of fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is another angular view of the electrical connector of fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is an assembly view of the housing and the terminal module of the electrical connector shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is an assembly view of the insulating body and the terminal module shown in fig. 7 assembled together and then assembled with the middle shield.

Fig. 9 is an assembled view of the dielectric body in the electrical connector of fig. 1.

Fig. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the electrical connector of fig. 1 taken along line a-a.

[ description of main element symbols ]

Socket 10 for butt joint of insulating body 1

First insulating body 11 of electric connector 100

First receiving cavity 111 and second receiving cavity 112

Upper wall 113 and lower wall 114

Chute 1141 containing part 1142

Barrier 1143 transverse receiving section 1144

Vertical receiving portion 1145 detent portion 1147

Left wall 116 dividing wall 117

Lamp slot 119 second insulation body 12

Top wall 121 slider 1211

Transverse slider 1212 and vertical slider 1213

Latch 1217 side wall 122

Third accommodating cavity 123 terminal module 2

First terminal module 21 circuit board 211

First conductive terminal 212 first terminal block 213

Light emitting element 214 coil 215

Plastic block 221 of second terminal module 22

Second conductive terminal 222 and third conductive terminal 223

Third terminal module 23 of terminal positioning piece 224

Second terminal block 232 of housing 231

Shield case 3 front case 31

Front shell 312 of upper shell 311

Upper spacer 3122 with aperture 3121

Lower spacer 3123 spring arm 3124

Rear shell 321 of rear shell 32

Left shell 322 and right shell 323

Positioning piece 33 LED lamp 5

Intermediate shield shell 61 of shield 6

Upper shield shell 611 main body part 6111

First light-transmitting opening 6112 elastic sheet 6113

Flanging 6114 side shielding shell 612

Grounding strip 62 of clamping part 6121

Connecting portion 621 expanding portion 622

Upper portion 6221 and lower portion 6222

Tilting 623 second light-transmitting opening 63

The following detailed description will further illustrate the invention in conjunction with the above-described figures.

[ detailed description ] embodiments

Referring to fig. 1 to 10, which illustrate an electrical connector 100 according to the present invention, the electrical connector 100 is an RJ45 and USB stacked connector, and includes an insulating body 1 having a plurality of mating sockets 10, a terminal module 2 accommodated in the insulating body, an LED lamp 5 held in the insulating body 2, and a shielding shell 3 covering the insulating body 1. The mating direction of the electrical connector 100 is defined as a front-back direction, the vertical direction perpendicular to the mating direction is defined as a longitudinal direction, and the horizontal direction perpendicular to the mating direction is defined as a transverse direction.

Referring to fig. 3 to 9, in the present invention, the electrical connector 100 is provided with three docking sockets 10, which are an RJ45 connector socket, a USB 3.0 connector socket and a USB type C connector socket from top to bottom. The insulating body 1 includes a first insulating body 11 and a second insulating body 12 assembled up and down. The first insulating body 11 is made of a transparent material, and the second insulating body 12 is made of a non-transparent material. The first insulating body 11 is provided with a first receiving cavity 111, a second receiving cavity 112, a partition 117 clamped between the first receiving cavity 111 and the second receiving cavity 112, and an upper wall 113, a lower wall 114, a left wall 116 and a right wall 117 surrounding the first receiving cavity 111 and the second receiving cavity 112. The first insulating body 11 is further provided with two lamp slots 119 for accommodating the LED lamps 5, and the lamp slots 119 are located at the left and right sides above the first accommodating cavity 111. The second insulating body 12 is provided with a top wall 121, left and right side walls 122, and a third accommodating cavity 123 surrounded by the top wall 121 and the two side walls 122. The first receiving cavity 111 and the second receiving cavity 112 are collectively referred to as a first insulating body receiving cavity, and the third receiving cavity 123 is also referred to as a second insulating body receiving cavity.

The lower wall 114 of the first insulating body 11 includes a sliding slot 1141 recessed inward from the front end surface thereof and a locking portion 1147 protruding outward from the middle portion thereof. The sliding groove 1141 communicates with the front end surface of the first insulating body 11. The sliding slots 1141 are located below two sides of the second receiving cavity 112. The chute 1141 includes a receiving portion 1142 in the middle and a blocking portion 1143 surrounding the receiving portion 1142. The receiving portion 1142 is L-shaped, and includes a horizontal receiving portion 1144 and a vertical receiving portion 1145. The detent 1147 is a protrusion extending obliquely backward and downward. The top wall 121 of the second insulating body 12 includes two sliders 1211 protruding upward from two sides thereof and a locking portion 1217 protruding outward from a middle portion thereof. The locking portion 1217 is a projection formed to extend obliquely upward and forward. The slider 1211 is accommodated in the accommodating portion 1142 of the chute 1141. The slider 1211 includes a horizontal slider 1212 and a vertical slider 1213. The horizontal slider 1212 is accommodated in the horizontal accommodating portion 1144, the vertical slider 1213 is accommodated in the vertical accommodating portion 1145, and the blocking portion 1143 of the first insulating body 11 is limited with the horizontal slider 1212, so as to prevent the second insulating body 12 from falling off from the chute 1141. In this embodiment, when the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12 are assembled, the slider 1211 of the second insulating body 12 slides into the sliding slot 1141 from front to back until the detent portion 1147 is locked with the locking portion 1217. The sliding groove 1141 and the sliding block 1211, and the detent portion 1147 and the locking portion 1217 can be referred to as a locking device. In other embodiments, the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12 may also adopt other structures of snap-fit devices that snap into each other, and are not limited to the specific structure in this embodiment.

In the present invention, the first insulating body 11 is made of a transparent material, so that light can smoothly penetrate through the first insulating body 11, thereby achieving the requirement of light transmission at the upper portion of the electrical connector 100. In the invention, the second insulating body 12 is made of non-transparent material, so that the transparent requirement is met, and the use amount of the transparent material is reduced, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing the cost. Moreover, the second insulator 12 is located at the lower part of the insulator 1, close to the welding part, the second insulator 12 needs a material with strong high temperature resistance, if the insulator 1 is made of a transparent material, the material which is transparent and high temperature resistant needs to be selected, the selection is very limited, and often only a material with high price can be selected. In the invention, the insulation body 1 is formed by assembling the first insulation body 11 and the second insulation body 12 which are made of different materials, on one hand, the first insulation body 11 only needs to be made of a transparent material, and a low-temperature material with lower unit price can be selected because the first insulation body 11 is far away from a welding part, and on the other hand, the second insulation body 12 is located at a position without light transmission requirements and needs high temperature resistance, so the second insulation body 12 can be made of a high-temperature material with lower unit price, the overall performance and the quality of the electric connector 100 are ensured, meanwhile, the material cost is reduced to the greatest extent, the manufacture is simple, and the manufacture is convenient. In this embodiment, the first insulating body 11 is made of PC material, and the second insulating body 12 is made of PBT material. In other embodiments, other materials may be selected as desired. In the present invention, the first insulating body 11 is made of a transparent material to meet the requirement of light transmission, in other embodiments, the first insulating body 11 can also be made of other light-transmitting materials, and the second insulating body is made of other non-light-transmitting materials as long as the light transmission can meet the requirement.

Referring to fig. 1, 4 and 6, the terminal module 2 includes a first terminal module 21, a second terminal module 22 and a third terminal module 23. The first terminal module 21 and the second terminal module 22 are also referred to as a first insulation body terminal module, and the third terminal module 23 is also referred to as a second insulation body terminal module. The first terminal module 21 is accommodated in the first accommodating cavity 111, the second terminal module 22 is accommodated in the second accommodating cavity 112, and the third terminal module 23 is accommodated in the third accommodating cavity 123. The first terminal module 21 includes a circuit board 211, a first conductive terminal 212 assembled on the circuit board 211, a light emitting device 214, a coil 215 assembled on the circuit board 211, and a first terminal block 213 assembled on the circuit board 211. The second terminal module 22 includes a plastic block 221, a second conductive terminal 222 and a third conductive terminal 223 accommodated in the plastic block 221, and a terminal positioning member 224 for fixing the tail portions of the second conductive terminal 222 and the third conductive terminal 223. The third terminal module 23 is a USB Type C board end connector, and includes a housing 231 and a second terminal block 232 accommodated in the housing 231.

Referring to fig. 4, 6, 8 and 10, the electrical connector 100 further includes a shielding member 6 accommodated in the insulating housing 1. The shielding member 6 is provided with a plurality of light-transmitting openings so that the light emitted from the light-emitting element 214 reaches the first insulating body 11. The shielding element includes a middle shielding shell 61 accommodated in the second accommodating cavity 112 and a grounding strip 62 formed by bending and extending the tail of the middle shielding shell 61. The middle shield shell 61 includes an upper shield shell 611 and two side shield shells 612 extending downward from the left and right sides of the upper shield shell 611. The upper shielding shell 611 is provided with a main body 6111, a first light transmitting opening 6112 penetrating the main body 6111 from top to bottom, a turned edge 6114 formed by turning over the front end face of the main body 6111 outwards, and a spring 6113 formed by turning over the front part of the main body 6111 outwards. The outer sides of the two side shielding sheets 612 protrude outwards to form a clamping part 6121. The ground strip 62 includes a connection portion 621 connected to the middle portion of the upper shielding shell 611, an expansion portion 622 formed by extending downward from the connection portion 621, and a turn-up 623 formed by turning back the bottom of the expansion portion 622. The expanding portion 622 includes an upper portion 6221 and a lower portion 6222, the lower portion 6222 having a transverse length greater than that of the upper portion 6221, and the upper portion 6221 having a transverse length greater than that of the connecting portion 621. The connection part 621 connects the middle of the tail of the upper shield shell 611. The shield 6 further includes a second light-transmitting opening 63 surrounded by the upper shield shell 611, the side shield shell 612, the connecting portion 621, and the expansion portion 622. The two second light-transmitting openings 63 are respectively located at the left and right sides of the connecting portion 621. The first light transmission opening 6112 and the second light transmission opening 63 are collectively referred to as a light transmission opening. In this embodiment, the expanding portion 622 is step-shaped, and has two symmetrical sides, in other embodiments, the expanding portion 622 may have other shapes, for example, the side edge thereof is gradually changed into arc or inclined surface, and the two sides thereof may also be asymmetrical. The shielding member 6 may also be provided with light-transmitting openings at other suitable hollow places, for example, the side shielding shell 612 is provided with light-transmitting openings, or the number of the light-transmitting openings is changed by a suitable amount, for example, the upper shielding shell 6111 is provided with more than two light-transmitting openings on the left and right, and so on. In the invention, by adding a proper amount of light-transmitting openings, the light transmittance of the whole electric connector 100 is increased while the strength of the shielding piece 6 is maintained, and the light-transmitting requirement of the electric connector 100 cannot be realized because the light-tight shielding piece 6 blocks light rays.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the shielding shell 3 includes a front shell 31 and a rear shell 32. The front housing 31 includes an upper housing 311 and a front housing 312. The front housing 312 is provided with three openings 3121 corresponding to the three docking sockets, and an upper spacer 3122 and a lower spacer 3123 between the adjacent openings 3121. The middle portion of the lower spacer 3123 extends inward to form a spring arm 3124. In the invention, the middle shielding shell 61 of the shielding element 6 is sleeved outside the second terminal module 22, and the middle shielding shell 61 and the elastic arm 3124 on the front shell 31 together form a shielding shell of the USB 3.0 docking socket, so that the whole structure is simple and compact, and the manufacture is convenient. The rear case 32 includes a rear case 321, a left case 322, and a right case 323. The front housing 31 and the rear housing 32 are respectively provided with positioning members 33 which are mutually snap-positioned.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an electric connector, its is equipped with at least one butt joint socket, electric connector include insulator and accept in terminal module in the insulator, its characterized in that: the insulation body comprises a first insulation body and a second insulation body which are assembled with each other, the first insulation body is made of a light-transmitting material, the second insulation body is made of a non-light-transmitting material, the first insulation body comprises at least one first insulation body accommodating cavity, the electric connector further comprises a light-emitting element and a shielding sheet accommodated in the insulation body, a plurality of light-transmitting openings are formed in the partial hollow of the shielding sheet so that light emitted by the light-emitting element can reach the first insulation body, the shielding sheet comprises a middle shielding shell and a grounding sheet formed by bending and extending downwards from the rear end of the middle shielding shell, the middle shielding shell comprises an upper shielding shell with at least one light-transmitting opening, the grounding sheet comprises a connecting part connected with the upper shielding shell and an extension part formed by extending from the connecting part, and the middle shielding shell comprises a first insulation body, a second insulation body, a light-transmitting material is arranged on the first insulation body, the first insulation body and a second insulation body are made of a non-light-transmitting material, the second insulation body is made of a non-transmitting material, the second insulation body, the first insulation body is made of a non-transmitting material, the first insulation body comprises at least one first insulation body, the first insulation body comprises at least one first insulation body, the, The connecting part and the expansion part surround to form at least one light-transmitting opening.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the first insulating body and the second insulating body are assembled up and down, the terminal module comprises a first insulating body terminal module contained in a first insulating body containing cavity, and light rays emitted by the light-emitting element can penetrate through the first insulating body.

3. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein: the first insulating body accommodating cavity comprises a first accommodating cavity and a second accommodating cavity which are stacked up and down, the first insulating body terminal module comprises a first terminal module and a second terminal module which is accommodated in the second accommodating cavity, the first terminal module comprises a circuit board and a first conductive terminal which is accommodated in the first accommodating cavity, and the light-emitting element is arranged on the circuit board.

4. The electrical connector of claim 3, wherein: the electric connector also comprises a coil assembled on the circuit board, a shielding shell arranged outside the insulating body and an LED lamp accommodated in the insulating body.

5. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein: the middle shielding shell is accommodated in the first insulating body.

6. The electrical connector of claim 5, wherein: the middle shielding shell is contained in the first insulating body containing cavity.

7. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the second insulating body comprises at least one second insulating body accommodating cavity, and the terminal module comprises a second insulating body terminal module accommodated in the second insulating body accommodating cavity.

8. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the first and second insulating bodies are respectively provided with a buckling device which is positioned mutually, the buckling device comprises a sliding groove and a clamping part which are formed on the lower surface of the first insulating body, and a sliding block and a clamping part which are formed on the upper surface of the second insulating body, the sliding groove is matched with the sliding block, and the clamping part is matched with the clamping part.

9. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the first insulating body is made of a transparent material, and the second insulating body is made of a non-transparent material.