CN109273894A - A kind of high-tension connector - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention belongs to new-energy automobile connector technique fields, disclose a kind of high-tension connector, it includes plug and socket, plug includes insulative head and the plugging hole component that is installed on insulative head, socket includes insulating base and the inserted sheet that is fixedly arranged on insulating base, and socket further includes the protective plate for being relatively arranged on the plastic casing of inserted sheet two sides and being set between two plastic casings, is provided with card slot on the inside of plastic casing, when plastic casing nature, protective plate is stuck in card slot；Plug further includes the glue core for being set to plugging hole component two sides, and when plug is inserted into socket, glue core can strut plastic casing, and protective plate is driven to move along inserted sheet, so that inserted sheet exposes from the upper end of protective plate and is inserted into plugging hole component.When plastic casing nature, protective plate is stuck in card slot, and when touching protective plate with hand, protective plate will not be moved down, and safely and effectively plays the function of tentacle protection.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to new-energy automobile connector technique field more particularly to a kind of high-tension connectors.
Background technique
On New-energy electric vehicle, electric car direct-current charge port to battery, battery to block terminal, block terminal are to automatically controlled
Main power transmission pass through high-tension connector realize.To guarantee connection safety, avoid getting an electric shock, connector is usually taken certain
Safeguard procedures.
Fig. 1 show a kind of structural schematic diagram of the socket of existing high-tension connector, which includes 1 ' of insulating base, inserts
3 ' of 2 ' of piece and insulation crust, wherein 2 ' of inserted sheet is set on 1 ' of insulating base and connect with conducting wire, is used for power transmission；Insulation is outer
3 ' of shell is set to the periphery of 2 ' of inserted sheet, and vertically distance is size H for the top of 3 ' of insulation crust and the top of 2 ' of inserted sheet.Insulation is outer
3 ' of shell can protect 2 ' of inserted sheet, realize tentacle protection.However, the high-tension connector has the disadvantage that
1, in 3 ' of insulation crust there are larger space, the case where being easy to happen 2 ' tentacle of inserted sheet, lead to tentacle protection failure.
2, realize that tentacle safeguard function relies primarily on the size H between 2 top ' of 3 top ' of insulation crust and inserted sheet to protect
Card then needs to increase size H to effectively be protected, and causes spatially product size increase.
Therefore, it needs to design a kind of high-tension connector, to solve the above problems.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of high-tension connectors, can effectively realize tentacle protection.
To achieve this purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme:
A kind of high-tension connector, including plug and socket, the plug include insulative head and are installed on the insulative head
Plugging hole component, the socket includes insulating base and the inserted sheet that is fixedly arranged on the insulating base；
The socket further include be relatively arranged on the plastic casing of the inserted sheet two sides and be set to two plastic casings it
Between protective plate, be provided with card slot on the inside of the plastic casing, when the plastic casing nature, the protective plate is stuck in described
In card slot；
The plug further includes the glue core for being set to the plugging hole component two sides, when the plug is inserted into the socket, institute
The plastic casing can be strutted by stating glue core, and the protective plate is driven to move along the inserted sheet, so that the inserted sheet is prevented from described
Expose and be inserted into the plugging hole component in the upper end of backplate.
Preferably, vertically offering the through-hole passed through for the inserted sheet on the protective plate.
Preferably, being provided with the first clamping for being clamped with the glue core at the close apical position of the protective plate
Portion is provided with the second clamping portion for being clamped with the card slot at bottom position.
Preferably, first clamping portion, second clamping portion are staggered up and down, and are arranged in pairs respectively.
Preferably, being provided with the first protrusion and the second protrusion on the inside of the plastic casing, first protrusion is relative to institute
It states the second protrusion and forms the card slot between the top of the plastic casing, first protrusion and second protrusion.
Preferably, the top surface of second protrusion and the bottom surface of the protective plate are in horizontally disposed.
Preferably, the bottom surface of second protrusion tilts upwards.
Preferably, the top surface of first protrusion tilts down, when the plug is inserted into the socket, the glue core with
The top surface contact of first protrusion.
Preferably, third protrusion is provided on the outside of the glue core, for compressing the top surface of first protrusion.
Preferably, buckle is provided on the inside of the glue core, for engaging with first clamping portion.
Beneficial effects of the present invention:
The present invention is arranged protective plate between two plastic casings, comes by being oppositely arranged two plastic casings in inserted sheet two sides
Realize tentacle protection.Card slot is provided on the inside of plastic casing, when plastic casing nature, protective plate is stuck in card slot, with
When hand touches protective plate, protective plate will not be moved down, and safely, effectively play the function of tentacle protection；When plug insertion is inserted
When seat, the glue core on plug can strut plastic casing, so that protective plate be made to be detached from card slot, the glue core being gradually inserted is able to drive anti-
Backplate is moved along inserted sheet, and inserted sheet gradually exposes from the upper end of protective plate, and is electrically connected with the plugging hole component of plug, so that realizing should
High-tension connector conducts.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the structural schematic diagram of the socket of prior art high-voltage connector；
Fig. 2 is the structural schematic diagram when plug and socket of high-tension connector provided by the invention is not connected；
Fig. 3 is the enlarged drawing in Fig. 2 of the present invention at A；
Fig. 4 is structural schematic diagram of the plug and socket of high-tension connector provided by the invention when being initially inserted into state；
Fig. 5 is the enlarged drawing in Fig. 4 of the present invention at B；
Fig. 6 is structural schematic diagram of the high-tension connector provided by the invention in card slot opening state；
Fig. 7 is the enlarged drawing in Fig. 6 of the present invention at C；
Fig. 8 is structural schematic diagram of the high-tension connector provided by the invention in the final plugging state of plug and socket；
Fig. 9 is the enlarged drawing of the part-structure in Fig. 8 of the present invention at D.
In figure:
1 ', insulating base；2 ' inserted sheets；3 ', insulation crust；
1, plug；11, insulative head；12, plugging hole component；13, glue core；131, third protrusion；132, it buckles；2, socket；21,
Insulating base；22, inserted sheet；23, plastic casing；231, the first protrusion；232, the second protrusion；24, protective plate；241, through-hole；242,
One clamping portion；243, the second clamping portion；25, shell.
Specific embodiment
To further illustrate the technical scheme of the present invention below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
High-tension connector is mainly used on New-energy electric vehicle, such as electric car direct-current charge port is to battery, electricity
Pond is connected to block terminal, block terminal to automatically controlled main power transmission etc., this connection meets transmission electric current in 250A or so, and voltage exists
600V-1000V has the transmittability of tolerance high-voltage great-current, while meeting the insulating capacity between phase line, and therefore, it is necessary to protect
Reliable prevention of electric shock performance is demonstrate,proved, to guarantee safety work and service ability.
Therefore, the present invention provides a kind of high-tension connectors, as shown in Fig. 2, the high-tension connector includes plug 1 and socket
2, wherein plug 1 includes insulative head 11 and the plugging hole component 12 being installed on insulative head 11, and socket 2 is including insulating base 21 and admittedly
Inserted sheet 22 on insulating base 21, by inserted sheet 22 and plugging hole component 12 plug together with separate realize electrical connection lead through and off
It opens.
To realize prevention of electric shock, specifically, referring to shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, socket 2 further includes being relatively arranged on 22 liang of inserted sheet
The plastic casing 23 of side and the protective plate 24 being set between two plastic casings 23.The outer side wall of plastic casing 23 is equipped with shell 25, outside
There are certain gap between shell 25 and plastic casing 23, can in the case where not influencing plastic casing 23 and deforming to plastic casing 23 into
Row protection.The inside of plastic casing 23 is provided with card slot, and when 23 nature of plastic casing, protective plate 24 is stuck in card slot, with hand
When touching protective plate 24, protective plate 24 will not be moved down, and safely, effectively play the function of tentacle protection；Plug 1 further includes
It is set to the glue core 13 of 12 two sides of plugging hole component, when plug 1 is inserted into socket 2, the glue core 13 on plug 1 can strut plastic casing
23, so that protective plate 24 be made to be detached from card slot, the glue core 13 being gradually inserted is able to drive protective plate 24 and moves along inserted sheet 22, inserted sheet 22
Gradually expose from the upper end of protective plate 24, and be electrically connected with the plugging hole component of plug 1 12, to realize the electricity of the high-tension connector
Conducting.
With continued reference to vertically offering the through-hole 241 passed through for inserted sheet 22 shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, on protective plate 24.Protection
It is provided with the first clamping portion 242 for being clamped with glue core 13 at the close apical position of plate 24, is arranged at bottom position
There is the second clamping portion 243 for being clamped with card slot.First clamping portion 242, the second about 243 clamping portion are staggered, and respectively
It is arranged in pairs.The inside of plastic casing 23 is provided with the first protrusion 231 and the second protrusion 232, the first protrusion 231 are convex relative to second
232 are played close to the top of plastic casing 23, is formed between the first protrusion 231 and the second protrusion 232 and is caught in for the second clamping portion 243
Above-mentioned card slot.The outside of glue core 13 is provided with third protrusion 131, for compressing the top surface of the first protrusion 231 to strut two
Plastic casing 23 enables two plastic casings 23 to be moved away from card slot, so that plastic casing 23 is deformed, the fastening state of card slot
It is opened.The inside of glue core 13 is provided with buckle 132, for engaging with the first clamping portion 242, when plug 1 extracts socket 2,
Buckle 132 is able to drive protective plate 24 and moves up, and is engaged until being moved to protective plate 24 by card slot.
The top surface of second protrusion 232 with the bottom surface of protective plate 24 be in it is horizontally disposed, do not plug together shape in plug 1 and socket 2
When state, when applying pressure to protective plate 24, the top surface of the second protrusion 232 not will cause two plastic cement only by power straight down
Shell 23 separates, and therefore, protective plate 24 is not easily disconnected from card slot, has effectively acted as the effect of electrical shock protection.
Structural representation for the plug 1 and socket 2 of the high-tension connector when being initially inserted into state as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5
Figure, when being initially inserted into state, the second clamping portion 243 of protective plate 24 is stuck in card slot, plug 1 move down so that protective plate 24 the
One clamping portion 242 is caught in the buckle 132 of glue core 13.To enable the first clamping portion 242 to be easily caught in buckle 132, the first card
The top surface of socket part 242 tilts upwards along the direction close to inserted sheet 22, as a result, when buckle 132 and the top surface of the first clamping portion 242 connect
When touching, with moving down for buckle 132, the pressure perpendicular to top surface, two the first clamping portions 242 are applied to the first clamping portion 242
It moves closer under the effect of the pressure, until being stuck in buckle 132.
Structural schematic diagram when being as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7 23 opening state of plastic casing, this state pass through 13 outside of glue core
Third protrusion 131 squeezes the top surface of the first protrusion 231, to strut two plastic casings 23, makes two plastic casings 23 in card
It can be moved away from, be deformed at slot, so that card slot be made to open.Since the movement of third protrusion 131 is to move straight down,
Therefore, the vertically movable of third protrusion 131 is changed into being moved away from for two the first protrusions 231, the first protrusion 231 for convenience
Top surface tilted down along close to the direction of inserted sheet 22.When plug 1 continues underthrust, third protrusion 131 and the first protrusion 231
Top surface contact, due to the top surface inclination of the first protrusion 231, by the pressure perpendicular to top surface, so that the of two plastic casings 23
One protrusion 231 can be moved away from, thus card slot is opened.
It is as shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9 the structural schematic diagram of plug 1 and the final plugging state of socket 2.After card slot is opened,
Protective plate 24 can move under the promotion of glue core 13 along inserted sheet 22, and inserted sheet 22 gradually exposes from the top of protective plate 24, and inserts
In in plugging hole component 12, until sufficiently plugging together with plugging hole component 12, high-tension connector realization as a result, is conducted.
When extracting plug 1 from socket 2, glue core 13 moves up under the action of pulling capacity, due to protective plate 24
The first clamping portion 242 clasped by the buckle 132 on glue core 13, glue core 13 is able to drive protective plate 24 when mobile and moves up,
Come back to protective position.To enable glue core 13 to strut plastic casing 23 when moving up, so that protective plate 24 can be again by card
Slot engages, and in the present embodiment, the bottom surface of the second protrusion 232 tilts upwards along the direction close to inserted sheet 22.As a result, on glue core 13
When shifting, third protrusion 131 can be outwardly against the second protrusion 232, so that plastic casing 23 is softened, protective plate 24 comes back to figure
At position shown in 5.
Then, plug 1 continues to move up, at this point, protective plate 24 should be detached from buckle 132, therefore, in the present embodiment, the first card
The bottom surface of socket part 242 is tilted down along the direction close to inserted sheet 22, can be to the bottom surface of the first clamping portion 242 when glue core 13 moves up
It is formed and is squeezed, so that the first clamping portion 242 is deformed inward, to be detached from glue core 13.It in the present embodiment, is guarantee card slot to anti-
The snap-in function of backplate 24 is reliable, and the top surface of the bottom surface of the first protrusion 231 and the second clamping portion 243 is horizontal plane, so that
When first clamping portion 242 is detached from buckle 132, card slot will not be adversely affected.
Obviously, the above embodiment of the present invention is just for the sake of clearly illustrating examples made by the present invention, and being not is pair
The restriction of embodiments of the present invention.For those of ordinary skill in the art, may be used also on the basis of the above description
To make other variations or changes in different ways.There is no necessity and possibility to exhaust all the enbodiments.It is all this
Made any modifications, equivalent replacements, and improvements etc., should be included in the claims in the present invention within the spirit and principle of invention
Protection scope within.
Claims (10)
1. a kind of high-tension connector, including plug (1) and socket (2), the plug (1) includes insulative head (11) and is installed on institute
The plugging hole component (12) on insulative head (11) is stated, the socket (2) includes insulating base (21) and is fixedly arranged on the insulating base (21)
On inserted sheet (22), it is characterised in that:
The socket (2) further includes being relatively arranged on the plastic casing (23) of the inserted sheet (22) two sides and being set to two modelings
Protective plate (24) between rubber shell (23) is provided with card slot, the natural shape of the plastic casing (23) on the inside of the plastic casing (23)
When state, the protective plate (24) is stuck in the card slot；
The plug (1) further includes the glue core (13) for being set to the plugging hole component (12) two sides, described in plug (1) insertion
When socket (2), the glue core (13) can strut the plastic casing (23), and drive the protective plate (24) along the inserted sheet
(22) mobile, so that the inserted sheet (22) exposes from the upper end of the protective plate (24) and is inserted into the plugging hole component (12).
2. high-tension connector according to claim 1, which is characterized in that vertically offer and be used on the protective plate (24)
The through-hole (241) that the inserted sheet (22) passes through.
3. high-tension connector according to claim 1, which is characterized in that at the close apical position of the protective plate (24)
Be provided with the first clamping portion (242) for being clamped with the glue core (13), be provided at the bottom position for it is described
The second clamping portion (243) of card slot clamping.
4. high-tension connector according to claim 3, which is characterized in that first clamping portion (242), second card
Socket part (243) is staggered up and down, and is arranged in pairs respectively.
5. high-tension connector according to claim 3 or 4, which is characterized in that be provided with the on the inside of the plastic casing (23)
One raised (231) and second raised (232), described first raised (231) are relative to described second raised (232) close to the modeling
The top of rubber shell (23) forms the card slot between described first raised (231) and second raised (232).
6. high-tension connector according to claim 5, which is characterized in that the top surface of second raised (232) with it is described
The bottom surface of protective plate (24) is in horizontally disposed.
7. high-tension connector according to claim 5, which is characterized in that the bottom surface of second raised (232) is to updip
Tiltedly.
8. high-tension connector according to claim 5, which is characterized in that the top surface of described first raised (231) dips down
Tiltedly, when the plug (1) is inserted into socket (2), the glue core (13) contacts with the top surface of described first raised (231).
9. high-tension connector according to claim 8, which is characterized in that it is convex to be provided with third on the outside of the glue core (13)
It rises (131), for compressing the top surface of described first raised (231).
10. high-tension connector according to claim 5, which is characterized in that be provided with buckle on the inside of the glue core (13)
(132), for engaging with first clamping portion (242).
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