CN112787129A

CN112787129A - Novel electric connector

Info

Publication number: CN112787129A
Application number: CN202110242671.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张朝涛
Original assignee: Shenzhen Bubujing Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Bubujing Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-03-05
Filing date: 2021-03-05
Publication date: 2021-05-11

Abstract

The invention provides a novel electric connector, which comprises an insulating body, and a grounding terminal, a power supply terminal and a signal terminal which are arranged in the insulating body, wherein the grounding terminal, the power supply terminal and the signal terminal are arranged on a base material on the same plane, and the grounding terminal, the power supply terminal and the signal terminal are provided with a convex hull forming contact part or a contact part formed by convex hull forming and then blanking on the base material, so that work stations can be effectively reduced, the production efficiency is improved, the problems of signal interruption or no contact and the like when the electric connector is in contact with a wire end can be prevented, and the risk that the end bullet comes out of plastic in the use process of the product can be prevented.

Description

Novel electric connector

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of connectors, in particular to a novel electric connector capable of being inserted forwards and backwards.

Background

With the development of electronic technology, USB Type C connectors are commonly used in or around electronic products, such as mobile phones, PDAs, computers, MP3, etc., for switching signals or power,

in the invention patent with application number 201610389114.9, an electrical connector is disclosed, in which a ground terminal, a power element and a signal element of the electrical connector are integrally formed, and the abutting portions of the electrical connector are all of a tear structure, so that the assembly of parts is reduced, and the overall strength of the electrical connector is improved.

The problems of the structure in practical use are as follows: (1) when the line end is contacted, the signal is easy to be interrupted or poorly contacted; (2) the electrical connector is easy to cause the terminals (the grounding terminal, the power element and the signal element) to pop out of the plastic surface (the insulation body) in the plugging process, so that the electrical connector is damaged.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a novel electric connector, which can effectively reduce work stations (one work station can be generally completed by one or more work stations, and one work station can comprise a plurality of work stations), improve the production efficiency, simultaneously prevent the poor problems of signal interruption or no contact and the like when the electric connector is in contact with a wire end, and prevent the risk that a terminal bullet comes out of plastic in the use process of a product.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a novel electrical connector, which includes an insulating body, and a ground terminal, a power terminal, and a signal terminal disposed in the insulating body, wherein the ground terminal, the power terminal, and the signal terminal are disposed on a substrate on the same plane, and the ground terminal, the power terminal, and the signal terminal are disposed on the substrate and provided with a contact portion formed by a convex hull, or a contact portion formed by first convex hull molding and then blanking, or a contact portion formed by first blanking and then convex hull, and the contact portions of the ground terminal, the power terminal, and the signal terminal are disposed on the upper side and the lower side of the insulating body correspondingly and are arranged in a reverse arrangement or a symmetrical arrangement.

Based on the technical scheme, the ground terminal, the power terminal and the signal terminal are further improved to be provided with welding feet extending out of the insulating body.

Based on the above technical solution, a further improvement is that the upper side and the lower side of the insulation body are provided with at least two contact portions.

Based on the technical scheme, the further improvement is that the insulation body is injection molded on the grounding terminal, the power supply terminal and the signal terminal.

Based on the technical scheme, the ground terminal, the power terminal and the signal terminal are further improved in that the terminal heads of the ground terminal, the power terminal and the signal terminal are bent flat structures.

Based on the above technical solution, a further improvement is that the power terminal includes two that are located at two sides of the signal terminal, and the ground terminal includes two that are located at outer sides of adjacent power terminals, respectively.

Based on the above technical solution, a further improvement is that the contact portion of the one ground terminal protrudes toward the upper side of the corresponding base material, and the contact portion of the other ground terminal protrudes toward the lower side of the corresponding base material.

Compared with the prior art, the innovation of the invention is as follows: the utility model discloses a plastic material, including ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal, and ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal are provided with convex closure fashioned contact site or the fashioned contact site of unloading behind the protruding closure shaping earlier or the fashioned contact site of protruding closure behind the shaping of unloading earlier on the substrate, can effectively reduce worker's station (a process generally can be accomplished by one or more worker's station, a worker's station can contain a plurality of stations), and the production efficiency is improved, can prevent the signal interruption or bad problems such as contactless when electric connector and line terminal contact simultaneously, prevent the risk that the product was gone out the plastic to the end bullet in the use.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective assembled view of the electrical connector of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective assembled view of the electrical connector of FIG. 1 with the housing removed;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a male molded conductive terminal;

fig. 4 is a perspective view of the conductive terminal including a blanking forming diagram;

fig. 5 is a perspective view of a ground terminal in the conductive terminal of fig. 3;

fig. 6 is a perspective view of power and signal terminals in the conductive terminal shown in fig. 3.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. These embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and structural, methodological, or functional changes made by those skilled in the art according to these embodiments are included in the scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, which are preferred embodiments of the electrical connector of the present invention, the electrical connector includes an insulating housing 1, a housing 2 covering the insulating housing 1, and a plurality of conductive terminals embedded in the insulating housing 1, wherein the conductive terminals include a ground terminal 3, a power terminal 4, and a signal terminal 5.

Ground terminal 3, power supply terminal 4 and signal terminal 5 set up on the substrate of coplanar (time substrate is electrically conductive substrate), and ground terminal 3, power supply terminal 4 and signal terminal 5 are provided with convex closure fashioned contact site 6 or earlier convex closure fashioned back unloading fashioned contact site 7 or earlier unloading fashioned back convex closure fashioned contact site 7 on the substrate, ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal's contact site correspond and be the setting of arranging in reverse direction or the setting of arranging symmetrically at insulator's upside and downside.

The insulating body 1 is injection molded on the grounding terminal 3, the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5. The ground, power and signal terminals also have solder tails 8 extending from the insulating body. The terminal heads of the grounding terminal, the power terminal and the signal terminal are bent flat structures 9.

The front end of the shell 2 is provided with an oval butt joint frame port which is consistent with a butt joint frame port of a standard USB Type-C socket connector and is used for being matched with the positive and negative insertion of the butt joint plug connector, and the USB socket connector has the advantage of convenience in use of positive and negative insertion.

The insulating body 1 is injection molded on the ground terminal 3, the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5 as an integral structure, and includes an injection molded housing rear end 10 and a front end 11, as shown in fig. 2, wherein the contact portions 6 of the ground terminal 3, the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5 on the substrate include a first contact portion 12, a second contact portion 13 and a third contact portion 14.

The contact part has two structures: as shown in fig. 3, the contact portion 6, the ground terminal 3, the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5 are all formed by a same metal material strip through one-step forming by a stamping process, so that the number of dies is reduced, the coplanarity of products is easily ensured, and the production cost is reduced.

As shown in fig. 4, the contact portion has another structure, i.e., the contact portion 7 is formed by molding a convex hull and then blanking, or the contact portion 7 is formed by molding a convex hull and then blanking, (the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5 are formed by molding a convex hull and then blanking, or are formed by molding a convex hull and then blanking, and the ground terminal 3 is directly formed by convex hull).

As shown in fig. 5, the ground terminal 3 is made of a metal strip by one-step forming through a stamping process, and includes a conductive base material 15, a contact portion 6, and a terminal head portion having a bent flat structure 9.

As shown in fig. 6, the power terminal 4 and the signal terminal 5 are formed by performing convex hull forming and then blanking forming or by performing convex hull forming and then blanking forming, and are made of a metal material strip by one-step forming through a stamping process.

The grounding terminal 3 is made of a metal material belt through one-step forming through a stamping process and comprises a conductive base material 15 and a contact part 6, the head part of the terminal is of a bent flat structure 9, the insulating body 1 is formed on the grounding terminal 3 in an injection molding mode, and the contact part of the grounding terminal corresponds to the upper side and the lower side of the insulating body and is arranged in a reverse mode or is arranged symmetrically so as to be in contact with the grounding terminal of the butting connector.

The power supply terminals include two that are located signal terminal both sides, ground terminal includes two that are located adjacent power supply terminal outside respectively.

The contact portion of one of the ground terminals protrudes upward of the corresponding base material, and the contact portion of the other ground terminal protrudes downward of the corresponding base material.

The base materials 15 of the ground terminal 3, the power element 4 and the signal element 5 are located on the same plane, and the first contact portion 12, the second contact portion 13 and the third contact portion 14 of the ground terminal 3, the power element 4 and the signal element 5 are correspondingly arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the front end portion 11 of the insulating body 1 in a reverse arrangement mode. The contact parts of the grounding terminal 3, the power element 4 and the signal element 5 are respectively positioned on the horizontal plane with the same height on the upper side and the lower side of the front end part 11, and only three contact parts are respectively arranged, so that the number of terminals is greatly saved and the production cost is reduced under the condition of meeting the electric quantity transmission. Accordingly, the number, type and arrangement sequence of the butt joint parts can be designed according to actual conditions. The positions of the butt-joint parts of the grounding terminal 3, the power element 4 and the signal element 5 on the insulating body 1 are the same as the positions of the butt-joint parts of the corresponding terminals on the standard USB Type-C socket connector, and the positions of the signal element 5 are the same as the positions of the detection terminals on the standard USB Type-C socket connector.

The ground terminal 3, the power element 4 and the solder tail 8 of the signal element 5 are positioned on the same plane so as to be positioned and mounted on a circuit board (not shown); the fixing parts and the contact parts of the grounding terminal 3, the power element 4 and the signal element 5 are positioned on the same plane, so that the insulating body 1 is convenient to mold.

The conductive terminal is formed by one-step forming of the same metal material belt through a stamping process in the injection molding process, so that the number of dies is saved, the coplanarity of products is easy to guarantee, and the production cost is reduced; and the conductive terminal is embedded and molded in the insulating body 1 to form a whole, when assembling, only the insulating body 1 molded with the conductive terminal is inserted into the shell 2, the product is simple to assemble, the automatic production is convenient, the product structure is reliable, and the quality is stable.

Because the grounding terminal, the power supply terminal and the signal terminal are arranged on the base material on the same plane, and the grounding terminal, the power supply terminal and the signal terminal are provided with the contact part formed by convex hulls on the base material or the contact part formed by convex hulls after convex hulls are formed firstly or the contact part formed by convex hulls after blanking is formed firstly, work stations (one work station can be generally completed by one or more work stations, and one work station can comprise a plurality of work stations) can be effectively reduced, the production efficiency is improved, the bad problems of signal interruption or no contact and the like when the electric connector is in contact with a wire end can be prevented, and the risk that the end bullet comes out of plastic in the use process of the product can be prevented. .

It should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment contains only a single technical solution, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should make the description as a whole, and the technical solutions in the embodiments can also be combined appropriately to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

The above-listed detailed description is only a specific description of a possible embodiment of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and equivalent embodiments or modifications made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a novel electric connector, its characterized in that includes insulator and sets up ground terminal, power supply terminal and the signal terminal in insulator, ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal set up on coplanar's substrate, and ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal be provided with convex closure fashioned contact site or the fashioned contact site of unloading behind the shaping of earlier convex closure or the fashioned contact site of convex closure behind the shaping of earlier unloading on the substrate, the contact site of ground terminal, power supply terminal and signal terminal corresponds and is reverse the setting of arranging or the symmetry is arranged at insulator's upside and downside.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1 wherein said ground, power and signal terminals further have solder tails extending from the insulative body.

3. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein said upper and lower sides of said housing each have at least two of said contacts.

4. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the housing is injection molded over the ground, power and signal terminals.

5. The electrical connector of claim 1 wherein the terminal heads of the ground, power and signal terminals are of a bent flat configuration.

6. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein said power terminals include two on either side of the signal terminals and said ground terminals include two outside of adjacent power terminals, respectively.

7. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein the contact portion of one of the ground terminals protrudes toward the top of the corresponding substrate, and the contact portion of the other ground terminal protrudes toward the bottom of the corresponding substrate.