CN115548790A - Connector, installation orientation detection method and display system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a connector, a mounting orientation detection method, and a display system. The connector includes: a first connection head (40) located on the first component (10) and comprising a first and a second orientation contact arranged in pairs; and a second connector (50) located on the second part (20), adapted to cooperate with the first connector to establish an electrical and communication connection between the first part (10) and the second part (20), and comprising a detection contact; wherein the connector is configured to: the detection contact is connected with the first orientation contact to provide a first potential at the first orientation contact when the first connector is mated with the second connector in the first mounting orientation; when the first connector is mated with the second connector in a second mounting orientation opposite to the second mounting orientation, the detection contact is connected with the second orientation contact to provide a second potential different from the first potential. The connector according to the present disclosure is capable of detecting the mounting orientation of the device.

Description

Connector, installation orientation detection method and display system

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to mounting of a display, and more particularly, to a connector for a display and a method of detecting a mounting orientation of a display.

Background

Industrial devices are typically provided with a controller configured to control the operation of the industrial device, such as may be mounted to a field device, and a display. The display is arranged to display the status or control condition of the industrial equipment for monitoring of the equipment by the user.

The display is typically connected to the controller by a plug. Conventional displays have a predetermined display mode, and thus the display is mounted to the controller in a predetermined orientation. To prevent the display from being mounted to the controller in a wrong orientation, the interface of the display and the controller is arranged to allow for unidirectional insertion. However, such a one-way insertion interface is vulnerable to damage, and particularly, when the mounting orientation of the controller and the display is not proper during use of the device, the user forcibly mounts the controller and the display with force, which may cause the connector of the controller and the display to be damaged. It is desirable to improve the connector structure between the display and the controller.

Disclosure of Invention

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a connector, a mounting orientation detection method for a connector, a computer readable medium, and a display system, which aim to solve one or more of the above problems and other potential problems.

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a connector is provided. The connector includes: a first connection head located on the first component and comprising a first and a second orientation contact arranged in pairs; and a second connector head on the second part, adapted to cooperate with said first connector head to establish an electrical and communication connection between said first and second parts, and comprising a detection contact; wherein the connector is configured to: the detection contact is connected with the first orientation contact to provide a first potential at the first orientation contact when the first connector is mated with the second connector in a first mounting orientation; the detection contact is connected with the second orientation contact to provide a second potential different from the first potential when the first connector is mated with the second connector in a second mounting orientation opposite to the second mounting orientation.

According to the connector of the embodiment of the present disclosure, the mounting orientation of the component can be easily detected by the first potential and the second potential which are different from each other.

In an embodiment according to the disclosure, the first and second orientation contacts are arranged at a position outside the geometrical center of the first connection head and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometrical center of the first connection head, the detection contact being configured at a position matching one of the first and second orientation contacts. Thus, the connector can allow bidirectional insertion between the components.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first and second directional contacts are coupled to two different nodes of a detection loop of the first component, wherein the detection loop comprises a voltage dividing resistor to provide the two nodes with different potentials through the voltage dividing resistor. Thereby, the first potential and the second potential can be determined in a simple manner.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first connection head comprises a ground contact, wherein the ground contact is connected to one of the two nodes.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first connection head comprises a power contact, wherein the power contact is connected to the other of the two nodes. In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, one of the ground contacts and the power contacts is disposed at a geometric center of the first connection head, and the other of the ground contacts and the power contacts is arranged in pairs with rotational symmetry with respect to the geometric center of the first connection head.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the second connector comprises power contacts and ground contacts, wherein the power contacts and ground contacts of the second connector are coupled with the power contacts and ground contacts of the first connector, respectively, to provide electrical power to the first connector when the first connector is mated with the second connector in the first mounting orientation and the second mounting orientation. In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, one of the ground contacts and the power contacts is disposed at a geometric center of the second connector header, and the other of the ground contacts and the power contacts is arranged in pairs with rotational symmetry with respect to the geometric center of the second connector header.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the contacts of the first connector at a position outside the geometric center of the first connector are arranged in pairs and rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connector such that an electrical and communication connection is achieved with the second connector when the first connector is mounted in the first mounting orientation or the second mounting orientation.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the contact of one of the first connector and the second connector is in the form of a pin, and the contact of the other of the first connector and the second connector is in the form of a socket matching the pin.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first component comprises a display for a controller and the second component comprises a controller for an industrial device.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first connector head comprises signal contacts and the second connector head comprises signal contacts adapted to mate with the signal contacts of the first connector head.

According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of mounting orientation detection for a connector is provided. The connector is according to any one of the first aspect, the method comprising: acquiring a detection potential from the detection contact of the second connector; and determining a mounting orientation of the first component based on the detected potential.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the method may further comprise: providing data signals to the first component in a first sequence in response to the detected potential equaling a first potential; in response to the detected potential equaling a second potential, providing a data signal to the first component in a second sequence different from the first sequence.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a display system is provided. The display system includes: a display; a controller adapted to be coupled with the display; and a connector configured to connect the display to the controller, wherein the connector is according to any one of the preceding first aspects, wherein a first connector of the connector is located on the display and a second connector of the connector is located on the controller, the controller being configured to: causing the display to display data from the controller in a first mode when the display is mounted to the controller in a first mounting orientation; processing the data to cause the display to display data from the controller in a first mode based on detection of the mounting orientation for the display while the display is mounted to the controller in a second mounting orientation.

Drawings

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, several embodiments of the present disclosure are shown by way of example and not limitation.

Fig. 1 shows an overall schematic diagram of a display system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of a display system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 3a and 3b show schematic structural views of a first connector and a second connector of a connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, respectively.

Fig. 4 illustrates a contact interface definition diagram for a first connection header of a connector according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Fig. 5a and 5b show a detection loop and a contact interface schematic of a first connection head of a connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, respectively.

Fig. 6 shows a contact interface schematic of a second header of a connector according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Fig. 7a and 7b show structural diagrams of a first connection head and a second connection head, respectively, of a connector according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 8 shows a contact interface definition diagram of the first connector according to the embodiment shown in fig. 7 a.

Fig. 9 shows a flow diagram of a mounting orientation detection method for a connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Like or corresponding reference characters indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

The term "include" and variations thereof as used herein is meant to be inclusive in an open-ended manner, i.e., "including but not limited to". Unless specifically stated otherwise, the term "or" means "and/or". The term "based on" means "based at least in part on". The terms "one example embodiment" and "one embodiment" mean "at least one example embodiment". The term "another embodiment" means "at least one additional embodiment". The terms "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," and the like are used to indicate placement or positional relationships based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, merely for convenience in describing the principles of the disclosure, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the elements so referred to must be in a particular orientation, constructed or operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be taken as limiting the disclosure.

As previously mentioned, the interface between the display and the controller may be arranged by mechanical means to allow only one-way insertion, in which case the interface between the display and the controller is prone to damage in the event of violent insertion by the user. In this regard, the applicant of the present application provides a new connector structure that allows bi-directional insertion between a display and a controller. However, even though bidirectional insertion between the display and the controller is allowed by the design of the mechanical structure of the pin, there is still a problem of abnormality in data display between the display and the controller. For example, when mounted in a predetermined first orientation between the display and the controller, the display typically displays data in a normal mode; when mounted in a second orientation between the display and the controller, the display may display data in a reverse order, resulting in an abnormal display of data. Therefore, in addition to improvement in the mechanical structure of the connector between the display and the controller, the problem of data display between the display and the controller must be solved.

According to the connector of the embodiment of the present disclosure, a design allowing bidirectional insertion and capable of detecting the mounting orientation between the display and the controller is provided, which is simple in structure and easy to implement. A connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is worth noting that although the embodiments of the present disclosure describe the connector structure according to the embodiments of the present disclosure taking the connector between the display and the controller as an example, the connector structure of the embodiments of the present disclosure may not be limited to the display and the controller, but may be equally applied to other interface devices related to mounting orientation and data communication.

Fig. 1 shows an overall structural schematic diagram of a display system 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of a display system 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 1, the display system 100 includes a display 10 and a controller 20. The display 10 may be configured to provide a data display for user monitoring. The controller 20 may be configured for status detection and control of the field industrial device such that the device operates in a predetermined designed manner. The controller 20 is adapted to be coupled to and communicate with the display 10. The controller 20 may be connected or mounted to a field device, for example. The display 10 may be connected with the controller 20 via a connector 30.

As shown in fig. 2, the display 10 may include a display module 12 and an interface module 14. The display module 12 may include a data driving and display unit for providing a data display. In some embodiments, the interface module 14 may include a parallelizer (Deserializer) to convert serial data into parallel data to speed up data processing on the display 10 side. It should be understood that this is merely exemplary. The interface module may include other interfaces according to the protocol of the display. The controller 20 may include a microprocessor 22 and an interface module 24. The microprocessor 22 may generate data that may be displayed by the display 10 and provide the data to be displayed to the display 10 via the interface module 24. In some embodiments, interface module 24 may include a Serializer (Serializer) to convert data into serial data to facilitate transmission of the data. The interface module 14 of the display 10 may be coupled with the interface module 24 of the controller 20 to enable data communication. It is to be understood that this is merely exemplary; the interface module may include other interfaces according to the protocol of the display. In some embodiments, the display 10 may also draw electrical power from the controller 20 and be powered by the controller 20, which may be particularly suitable for less powerful displays. Since the display 10 and the controller 20 are well known to those skilled in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted, and emphasis will be placed on the interface between the display 10 and the controller 20.

The structure of a connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 3 a-6. The connector 30 may include a first connector 40 and a second connector 50. Fig. 3 a-3 b show the overall structure of the first connector 40 and the second connector 50 according to the embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 3 a-3 b, the first connector 40 may be in the form of a socket. In the illustrated embodiment, the first connection head 40 includes a circular circumferential wall 42 and a recess 44 surrounded by the circumferential wall 42. The recess 44 may be provided with a plurality of receptacle 46 contacts to receive the pin 56 contacts of the second connector 50. The second connector 50 may be in the form of a plug. In the illustrated embodiment, the second connector 50 includes a base 54 and pin 56 contacts extending from the base 54. The base 54 is adapted to form fit with the recess 44, and the pin 56 may mate with the receptacle 46 to form an electrical interface in a state where the base 54 is received in the recess 44.

In the illustrated embodiment, the first connector 40 is formed as a socket, and the contacts of the first connector 40 are formed as receptacles 46; the second connector 50 is formed as a plug adapted to be received by a socket and the contacts of the second connector 50 are formed as pins 56. It should be understood that this is merely exemplary, and that the first connector 40 and the second connector 50 may be interchanged, as well as implementations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. Similarly, although in the illustrated embodiment, the circumferential wall 42 is shown as circular, the recess 44 is formed as rectangular, and the base 54 is formed as rectangular, these shapes are merely exemplary, and any other suitable shape may be employed. Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the receptacles 46, pins 56 are formed as squares, which are merely exemplary and may take any other suitable shape.

In some embodiments, the first connector 40 may be part of the display 10, for example the first connector 40 may be integrated in the display 10. In other embodiments, the first connector 40 may be attached to the display 10 by a converter head or suitable wires. Similarly, the second connector 50 may be part of the controller 20, e.g., the second connector 50 may be integrated into the controller 20. In other embodiments, the second connector 50 may be attached to the controller 20 by a transducer head or suitable wiring.

In the illustrated embodiment, the first connector 40 and the second connector 50 are formed in a 9-pin configuration. It should be understood that the number of pins is merely exemplary and other numbers of pin configurations may be formed. It is worth noting that in the embodiment of fig. 3 a-6, the inventive concept according to the embodiments of the present disclosure is illustrated by taking the interface structure of 9 pins as an example, and based on the teaching of the present disclosure, the inventive concept of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be similarly applied to the interface structure of other pins.

Fig. 4 shows a contact interface definition diagram of the first connection head 40 of the connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 5a and 5b show a detection loop and a contact interface schematic of the first connector 40 of the connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, respectively. Fig. 6 shows a schematic view of a contact interface of the second header 50 of the connector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. It is worth mentioning that, although fig. 4 only shows the distribution of the individual contacts of the contact interface of the first connector 40, for the sake of simplifying the description, the distribution of the individual contacts of the contact interface of the second connector 50 is not shown; however, considering that the first connector 40 and the second connector 50 form an interface circuit, the distribution of the respective contacts of the contact interface of the second connector 50 can be easily obtained based on the contact interface definition diagram of the first connector 40.

As shown in fig. 4, 5a, 5b, the first connection head 40 comprises a first orientation contact DETEC _1 and a second orientation contact DETEC _2 arranged in pairs. As shown in fig. 6, the second connector 50 includes a detection contact DETEC.

In some embodiments, when the first connector 40 is mated with the second connector 50 in the first mounting orientation, the detection contact DETEC connects with the first orientation contact DETEC _1 to provide a first potential at the first orientation contact DETEC _ 1; when the first connector 40 is mated with the second connector 50 in a second mounting orientation opposite to each other from the second mounting orientation, the detection contact DETEC is connected with the second orientation contact DETEC _2 to provide a second potential different from the first potential.

Thereby, by providing the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2, and by forming a detection loop with the detection contact DETEC. The detection contact DETEC may acquire a first potential at the first orientation contact DETEC _1 when the display 10 is mounted in a first mounting orientation with respect to the controller 20, and may acquire a second potential at the first orientation contact DETEC _1 when the display 10 is mounted in an opposite second mounting orientation with respect to the controller 20. Since the first potential and the second potential are different from each other, the mounting orientation of the display 10 can be conveniently determined, and the data displayed by the display 10 can be adjusted based on the mounting orientation to ensure correct display of the data.

In some embodiments, the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2 may be arranged at positions other than the geometric center of the first connection head 40 and arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connection head 40. The detection contact DETEC may be configured at a position that matches one of the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2. In this case, the structure for installing the directional circuit can be simplified.

In particular, the potential detection can be realized by providing only one detection contact DETEC, for example. Furthermore, since the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2 may be arranged at a position outside the geometric center of the first connection head 40 and rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connection head 40, this can ensure that the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2 can characterize the orientation of the display 10, and that one of the first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2 can always be detected with the detection contact DETEC regardless of the orientation of the display 10.

In some embodiments, the first potential may be a high potential and the second potential may be a different potential than the first potential. In some embodiments, the second potential may be a ground potential, in which case the structure of the circuit may be further simplified.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 5a, the detection loop comprises a voltage dividing resistor R1, the first and second directional contacts DETEC _1, DETEC _2 being coupled to two different nodes P1, P2 of the detection loop of the first component 10. Thus, the arrangement of the detection circuit can be conveniently realized by a single resistor.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4 and 5b, the first connector 40 may include a ground contact GND. The ground contact GND is connected to one of the two nodes P2. The first connector 40 may include power contacts VCC _ INPUT and VCC _ INPUT arranged in pairs. As shown in fig. 6, the second connector 50 may comprise a ground contact GND adapted to be connected to the ground of the controller 20, similar to the first connector 40. The second connector 50 may comprise power contacts VCC _ OUTPUT and VCC _ OUTPUT arranged in pairs, for example connected to a power supply module of the controller 20 and adapted to draw electrical power from a power supply. When the display 10 is mated with the controller 20, one of the power contacts VCC _ INPUT and VCC _ INPUT of the first connector block 40 mates with a correspondingly positioned power contact of the power contacts VCC _ OUTPUT and VCC _ OUTPUT in the second connector block 50, thereby providing electrical power to the power contact VCC _ INPUT of the first connector block 40. In particular, as shown in fig. 5a, the potential of nodes P1 and P2 can be conveniently detected by a detection loop formed by power contact VCC _ INPUT, ground contact GND, and voltage dividing resistor R1.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, the ground contact GND of the first connector block 40 is arranged at the geometric center of the first connector block 40, and the power contacts VCC _ INPUT and VCC _ INPUT of the first connector block 40 are arranged in pairs and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connector block 40. Thereby, the number of contacts can be further reduced and the structure of the connector can be simplified. It is worth noting that this is merely exemplary. In other embodiments, the power contacts of the first connector 40 are arranged at the geometric center of the first connector 40, and the ground contacts of the first connector 40 are arranged in pairs and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connector 40.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4 and 5b, the first connector 40 may further comprise two pairs of signal contacts SERDES _ N, SERDES _ P arranged in pairs. The two pairs of signal contacts SERDES _ N, SERDES _ P are arranged at positions outside the geometric center of the first connector 40 and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connector 40, so that a communicative connection is made with the second connector 50 when the first connector 40 is mounted in the first mounting orientation or the second mounting orientation.

Fig. 7a and 7b show structural diagrams of a first connection head and a second connection head, respectively, of a connector according to another embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 8 shows a contact interface definition diagram of the first connector according to the embodiment shown in fig. 7 a. The embodiment of fig. 7 a-8 is similar to the embodiment of fig. 3 a-6, except that the first connector 40 and the second connector 50 are formed as a 16-pin structure.

As shown in fig. 7 a-8, the first connector block 40 is formed as a socket, and the contacts of the first connector block 40 are formed as receptacles 46; the second connector 50 is formed as a plug adapted to be received by a socket and the contacts of the second connector 50 are formed as pins 56. The size of the plug and receptacle may be adaptively set according to the number of contacts. In contrast to the embodiment of fig. 3 a-6, the first connection head 40 and the second connection head 50 may comprise more extension contacts RES for further extending the functionality of the connector. Considering the similarity with the embodiment of fig. 3a to 6, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the first connection head 40 comprises a first orientation contact DETEC _1 and a second orientation contact DETEC _2 arranged in pairs. The first and second orientation contacts DETEC _1 and DETEC _2 may be arranged at positions other than the geometric center of the first connection terminal 40 and arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connection terminal 40.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the first connector block 40 may comprise a ground contact GND and a pair of power contacts VCC. The ground contact GND of the first connection head 40 is arranged at the geometric center of the first connection head 40, and the power contacts VCC and VCC of the first connection head 40 are arranged in pairs and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connection head 40.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the first connector 40 may further comprise two pairs of signal contacts SERDES _ N, SERDES _ P arranged in pairs. The two pairs of signal contacts SERDES _ N, SERDES _ P are arranged at positions outside the geometric center of the first connection head 40 and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connection head 40.

Furthermore, in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the first connection head 40 also comprises a plurality of extension contacts RES for further extending the functionality of the connector.

It is worth mentioning that the above-mentioned first directional contact DETEC _1, second directional contact DETEC _2, ground contact GND, pairs of power contacts VCC and VCC, pairs of signal contacts SERDES _ N, SERDES _ P are only exemplary illustrations, and other possible arrangements of the contacts may be envisaged by a person skilled in the art in light of the teachings of the present disclosure, which are also covered within the spirit according to the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 shows a flow diagram of a method 900 of installation orientation detection for a connector, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 9, method 900 includes: at 902, a detection potential at the detection contact DETEC from the second connection header 50 is acquired. At 904, a mounting orientation of the first component (10) is determined based on the detected potential.

In some embodiments, a decision whether to issue an alarm signal may be based on the determined mounting orientation of the display 10. For example, in some cases, in the event that the mounting orientation of the display 10 is determined to be improper, a visual or audible alarm signal is issued to prompt the user to perform a re-installation.

In some embodiments, the method 900 further comprises: at 906, in response to the acquired detected potential being equal to the first potential, data signals are provided to the display 10 in a first sequence to cause the display 10 to display data in a predetermined normal mode. At 908, in response to the captured detected potential being equal to the second potential, the data signal is provided to the display 10 in a second sequence different from the first sequence to cause the display 10 to display data in a predetermined normal mode. Thereby, a normal display of data can be provided regardless of the mounting orientation of the display 10.

Further, while operations are depicted in a particular order, this should be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. Under certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Likewise, while several specific implementation details are included in the above discussion, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the disclosure. Certain features that are described in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single implementation. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single implementation can also be implemented in multiple implementations separately or in any suitable subcombination.

Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.

The foregoing description of the embodiments of the present disclosure has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the described embodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen in order to best explain the principles of the embodiments, the practical application, or technical improvements to the market, or to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodiments disclosed herein.

Claims (15)

1. A connector, comprising:

a first connection head (40) located on the first component (10) and comprising a first and a second orientation contact arranged in pairs; and

-a second connector (50) located on the second component (20), adapted to cooperate with said first connector (40) to establish an electrical and communication connection between said first (10) and second (20) components, and comprising a detection contact;

wherein the connector is configured to: -when the first connector head (40) is mated with the second connector head (50) in a first mounting orientation, the detection contact is connected with the first orientation contact to provide a first potential at the first orientation contact; the detection contact is connected with the second orientation contact to provide a second potential different from the first potential when the first connector (40) is mated with the second connector (50) in a second mounting orientation opposite to the second mounting orientation.

2. Connector according to claim 1, wherein the first and second orientation contacts are arranged at a position outside the geometric centre of the first connection head (40) and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric centre of the first connection head (40), the detection contact being configured at a position matching one of the first and second orientation contacts.

3. Connector according to claim 1, wherein the first and second directional contacts are coupled to two different nodes (P1, P2) of a detection loop of the first component (10), wherein the detection loop comprises a divider resistance (R1) to provide the two nodes with different potentials through the divider resistance (R1).

4. Connector according to claim 3, wherein the first connection head (40) comprises a ground contact, wherein the ground contact is connected to one of the two nodes (P2).

5. Connector according to claim 4, wherein the first connection head (40) comprises a power contact, wherein the power contact is connected to the other (P1) of the two nodes.

6. Connector according to claim 5, wherein one of the ground contacts and the power contacts is arranged at a geometrical center of the first connection block (40), and the other of the ground contacts and the power contacts is arranged in pairs with rotational symmetry with respect to the geometrical center of the first connection block (40).

7. The connector of claim 1, wherein the second connector head (50) includes power and ground contacts, wherein the power and ground contacts of the second connector head (50) are coupled with the power and ground contacts of the first connector head (40), respectively, to provide electrical power to the first connector head (40) when the first connector head (40) is mated with the second connector head (50) in the first and second mounting orientations.

8. The connector according to claim 7, wherein one of the ground contacts and the power contacts is provided at a geometric center of the second connection header (50), and the other of the ground contacts and the power contacts is arranged in pairs with rotational symmetry with respect to the geometric center of the second connection header (50).

9. Connector according to claim 1, wherein the contacts of the first connector head (40) at positions outside the geometric center of the first connector head (40) are arranged in pairs and are arranged rotationally symmetrically with respect to the geometric center of the first connector head (40) such that an electrical and communication connection is achieved with the second connector head (50) when the first connector head (40) is mounted in the first mounting orientation or the second mounting orientation.

10. Connector according to any of claims 1-9, wherein the contacts of one of the first connector head (40) and the second connector head (50) are in the form of pins and the contacts of the other of the first connector head (40) and the second connector head (50) are in the form of sockets that match the pins.

11. Connector according to any of claims 1-9, wherein the first part (10) comprises a display for a controller and the second part (20) comprises a controller for an industrial device.

12. Connector according to any of claims 1-9, wherein the first connector head (40) comprises signal contacts and the second connector head (50) comprises signal contacts adapted to mate with the signal contacts of the first connector head (40).

13. A mounting orientation detection method for a connector, the connector being according to any one of claims 1-12, the method comprising:

acquiring a detection potential from the second connector (50) at the detection contact; and

determining a mounting orientation of the first component (10) based on the detected potential.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing data signals to the first component (10) in a first sequence in response to the detected potential equaling a first potential;

in response to the detection potential being equal to a second potential, providing a data signal to the first component (10) in a second sequence different from the first sequence.

15. A display system, comprising:

a display (10);

a controller (20) adapted to be coupled with the display (10); and

a connector configured to connect the display (10) to the controller (20), wherein the connector is according to any one of claims 1-10, wherein a first connector head (40) of the connector is located on the display (10) and a second connector head (50) of the connector is located on the controller (20),

the controller (20) is configured to: causing the display (10) to display data from the controller (20) in a first mode when the display (10) is mounted to the controller (20) in a first mounting orientation; processing the data to cause the display (10) to display data from the controller (20) in a first mode based on detection of the mounting orientation for the display (10) while the display (10) is mounted to the controller (20) in a second mounting orientation.

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