CN115966932A

CN115966932A - Power connector, power connector assembly and power supply equipment

Info

Publication number: CN115966932A
Application number: CN202111138544.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谈松林; 张于虎; 刘明非; 张林林; 付岩享; 康海峰
Original assignee: Zte Intelligent Technology Nanjing Co ltd
Current assignee: Zte Intelligent Technology Nanjing Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-27
Filing date: 2021-09-27
Publication date: 2023-04-14
Also published as: WO2023045274A1

Abstract

The application provides power connector, power connector subassembly and power supply unit, including insulator seat, signal subassembly, a plurality of power contact, a plurality of terminal, signal subassembly and a plurality of power contact set up respectively in the insulator seat, are provided with the mounting hole of staggered floor range on the power contact. The power connector of the application can arrange more terminals in a relatively small width size range, improves the wiring capacity of the power connector, and meanwhile can be used in a cascade mode side by side to meet various application scenes.

Description

Power connector, power connector assembly and power supply equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of connector technology, and in particular, to a power connector, a power connector assembly, and a power supply device.

Background

With the rapid development and application of communication technology, communication equipment gradually develops towards modularization and miniaturization, which puts higher requirements on the performance and size of electronic components. A power connector is a commonly used electronic device in communication equipment, and is widely used in power supply equipment. The miniaturization of communication devices is accompanied by the miniaturization of power supply devices, which has made higher demands on the size and integration of power connectors.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a power connector, a power connector assembly and power supply equipment, which can arrange more terminals in a relatively small width size range so as to improve the wiring capacity of the connector and expand application scenes.

According to a first aspect of the present application, there is provided a power connector comprising an insulative housing, a signal assembly, a plurality of power contacts, a plurality of terminals;

the signal assembly and the plurality of power contact pieces are respectively arranged on the insulating base;

at least one of the power contacts comprises a first contact region and a second contact region, the first contact region and the second contact region being disposed at different levels;

the first contact area and the second contact area are respectively provided with a mounting hole;

the terminal is fixedly mounted on the power contact piece through the mounting hole.

According to a second aspect of the present application, there is provided a power connector assembly comprising a plurality of power connectors of the first aspect, a connecting body through which adjacent ones of the power connectors are connected.

According to a third aspect of the present application, there is provided a power supply apparatus comprising a plurality of power connectors of the first aspect.

The utility model provides a power connector, including the insulator, signal assembly, a plurality of power contact, a plurality of terminal, signal assembly and a plurality of power contact set up respectively in the insulator, at least one power contact includes first contact zone and second contact zone, first contact zone and second contact zone set up at different horizontal planes, first contact zone is equipped with the mounting hole respectively with the second contact zone, therefore, the last mounting hole staggered arrangement of power contact, make arrange more terminals in relatively less width size within range, thereby improve power connector wiring ability, and then guaranteed simultaneously that power connector is small, the advantage that performance is good, and simultaneously, a plurality of power connectors can cascade the use side by side, in order to satisfy various application scenarios.

Additional features and advantages of the application will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by the practice of the application. The objectives and other advantages of the application may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a power connector according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a power connector without terminals mounted thereon according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of the above FIG. 2A;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the structure of FIG. 2 described above;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged partial view of the above FIG. 4 at B;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a power connector connected to a wire according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a power connector according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a power connector according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional schematic view of a power connector according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged partial schematic view of FIG. 9 taken at C;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a power connector assembly according to an embodiment of the present application.

Reference numerals are as follows:

power connector-100; an insulating base-110; signal component-120; a power contact-130; a terminal-140; a gold finger-150; a nut-160; bolt-170; -180 a wire; projection-111; a first groove-112; a separator-113; a second recess-114; an extension segment-115; a locating post-116; a fixing hole-117; a cable clamp-121; signal contacts 122; a through hole setting part-131; an insertion portion-132; mounting holes-133; a first mounting hole-133 a; a second mounting hole-133 b; third mounting holes-133 c; fourth mounting holes-133 d; fifth mounting holes-133 e; a sixth mounting hole-133 f; a resilient arm-134; power connector assembly-200; linker-210.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad application. In the present application, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, and the drawings described above, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in this application will be understood to be a specific case for those of ordinary skill in the art.

In the existing power connector, terminal mounting holes are arranged in a straight line, and the terminals occupy large length and size, so that the power connector is large in size and limited in wiring capacity, and cannot be applied to application scenes suitable for parallel cascade connection of a plurality of power connectors.

In order to solve the related technical problem, an embodiment of the present application provides a connector that is not linearly arranged, and a plurality of power connectors of the embodiment of the present application may be cascaded side by side for use, so as to satisfy various application scenarios.

The power connector of the embodiment of the application, including the insulator, the signal subassembly, a plurality of power contact, a plurality of terminals, signal subassembly and a plurality of power contact set up respectively in the insulator, at least one power contact includes first contact zone and second contact zone, first contact zone and second contact zone set up at different horizontal planes, first contact zone is equipped with the mounting hole respectively with the second contact zone, therefore, the last mounting hole staggered arrangement of power contact, make arrange more terminals in relatively less width size within range, thereby improve power connector wiring ability, and then guaranteed simultaneously that the power connector is small, advantage that performance is good, and simultaneously side by side, a plurality of power connectors can cascade the use, in order to satisfy various application scenarios.

A power connector 100 according to a first embodiment of the present application is described below with reference to fig. 1-6.

The power connector 100 includes an insulating housing 110, a signal assembly 120, a plurality of power contacts 130, and a plurality of terminals 140, wherein the terminals 140 may be right-angle OT terminals or right-angle peep copper terminals, the head portions of the OT terminals or the peep copper terminals have through holes, and the tail portions of the OT terminals or the peep copper terminals may be connected to a conductive wire 180. The power contacts 130, the terminals 140 and the signal assembly 120 are disposed on the insulating base 110, wherein the signal assembly 120 includes a signal contact 122 and a cable clamp plate 121, the signal contact 122 is assembled and fixed to a signal port of the insulating base 110, and the cable clamp plate 121 is connected to the signal port, so that the signal contact 122 is located in the cable clamp plate 121. The at least one power contact 130 includes a first contact region and a second contact region, which are disposed at different levels, and the first contact region and the second contact region are respectively provided with the mounting holes 133, so that the mounting holes 133 are staggered. The first contact area and the second contact area are disposed on different vertical planes, so that the mounting holes 133 are staggered, thereby further arranging more terminals within a relatively small width dimension. The number of the mounting holes formed in the first contact area is different from that of the mounting holes formed in the second contact area, for example, 2 mounting holes are formed in the first contact area, and 1 mounting hole is formed in the second contact area.

In an embodiment, each of the plurality of power contacts 130 has at least one mounting hole 133, and the plurality of mounting holes 133 are arranged in a staggered manner, for example, one power contact 130 may have 6 mounting holes 133, and three mounting holes 133 may be arranged in a staggered manner, or in a staggered manner, of course, the mounting holes 133 may be arranged in a staggered manner. The power connector 100 further includes a gold finger 150 and an insertion opening, and the gold finger 150 is inserted into the insertion opening.

Referring to fig. 7 to 8, the power contacts 130 and the mounting holes 133 of the power connector 100 may be arranged according to actual requirements, and the embodiment takes 4 power contacts 130 and 6 mounting holes 133 as an example for illustration. The power connector 100 has 4 power contacts 130, each of the left 3 power contacts 130 has a mounting hole 133, which is a first mounting hole 133a, a second mounting hole 133b, and a third mounting hole 133c, the right power contact 130 has 3 mounting holes 133, which are a fourth mounting hole 133d, a fifth mounting hole 133e, and a sixth mounting hole 133f, the right 3 mounting holes are arranged in a cross manner, and are arranged in a triangular manner in the X/Y direction, the left 3 mounting holes have a certain height difference in the Z direction with respect to the fourth mounting hole 133d and the fifth mounting hole 133e, and a staggered layout is formed, so that the six mounting holes form a staggered and staggered layout, and further more terminals 140 are arranged in a relatively small width size range.

In one embodiment, the power contact 130 includes a through hole disposing portion 131 and an inserting portion 132, the through hole disposing portion 131 is disposed with at least one mounting hole 133, and the inserting portion 132 is disposed in the insulating base 110. At least one power contact 130 of the plurality of power contacts 130 has a first surface and a second surface, the first surface and the second surface have a height difference, and the first surface and the second surface are both provided with at least one mounting hole 133, for example, the first surface is provided with two mounting holes 133, the second surface is provided with one mounting hole 133, and the three mounting holes 133 are arranged in a cross manner and distributed in a triangular arrangement.

Referring to fig. 9-10, in an embodiment, the power contact 130 is snap-connected to the insulating base 110, and specifically, the power contact 130 is provided with an elastic arm 134, the insulating base 110 is correspondingly provided with a protrusion 111, and the elastic arm 134 is snap-connected to the protrusion 111 during installation, so that the power contact is installed on the insulating base 110.

Referring to fig. 4-5, the power connector 100 further includes a nut 160 and a bolt 170, the insulating base 110 is provided with a plurality of first grooves 112, the nut 160 is located in the first groove 112, and the bolt 170 passes through the mounting hole 133 and is connected with the nut 160 to fix the terminal 140 to the power contact 130. Specifically, the through hole of the head of the terminal 140 and the mounting hole 133 are coaxially arranged, and the bolt 170 sequentially passes through the through hole of the head, the mounting hole 133 and the nut 160 to be in threaded connection, so that the terminal 140 is fixed to the power contact 130, and the problems that the connector falls off in the transportation process and the nut 160 is pushed out in the use process can be effectively solved. The nut 160 may be a square nut, a hexagonal nut, or the like, and the present embodiment does not specifically limit the type of the nut 160.

Referring to fig. 2 to 3, in one embodiment, a partition 113 is disposed between adjacent power contacts 130, the partition 113 has a second groove 114, and the second groove 114 of the adjacent partition 113 forms an accommodating space for accommodating the terminal 140, thereby saving an installation space, accommodating a larger terminal 140 in a smaller-sized connector, and ensuring the strength of the partition 113. The partition 113 extends along the plane of the mounting hole 133 to form an extension 115, and the extension 115 increases the creepage distance between the adjacent power contacts 130, and allows a certain distance between the adjacent power connectors 100 when a plurality of power connectors 100 are connected, thereby having a certain constraint effect on the terminated wires 180.

In an embodiment, the insulating base 110 is provided with a fixing hole 117 and a positioning column 116, when the power connector 100 is mounted on an external panel, the positioning column 116 is used for positioning and is connected with the external panel through the fixing hole 117, and the fixing hole 117 and the external panel can be connected through a screw, so that the fixing hole 117 and the screw are quickly positioned, and the mounting is facilitated. Both sides of the insulating base 110 are provided with a fixing hole 117 and a positioning post 116, which play a role of fool-proofing.

During assembly, the insulating base 110 and the nut 160 are both integrally injection-molded, the nut 160 is installed in the first groove 112 of the insulating base 110, then the power contact 130 is buckled with the insulating base, the signal contact 122 is assembled, the power connector 100 is positioned through the positioning column 116 and then fixed with the installation panel through the bolt 170, the terminal of the wire 180 which is well pressed and connected with the power contact 130 on the power connector 100 is fixedly connected through the bolt 160, the tin-stained signal wire is welded with the signal contact 122, the signal cable pressing plate 121 penetrates through the signal wire to be buckled with the insulating base 110, and finally the golden finger 150 is inserted to realize conduction between the end of the golden finger 150 and the signal wire.

Referring to fig. 8, a power connector assembly 200 according to a second embodiment of the present application is described below.

The power connector assembly 200 includes a plurality of the power connectors 100 and a connecting body 210, wherein adjacent power connectors 100 are connected by the connecting body 210, and the connecting body 210 may be a copper bar. Specifically, the copper bar is provided with a plurality of through holes, the through holes on the copper bar and the through holes of the terminals 140 are coaxially arranged, and the bolts 170 sequentially penetrate through the through holes of the copper bar, the terminals 140 and the power contact pieces 130 to be connected with the nuts 160 in the grooves of the insulating base 110, so that the adjacent power connectors 100 are cascaded. The power connector 100 in this embodiment is the same as the first embodiment, and the description thereof is omitted.

The present application also provides a power supply apparatus including the power connector 100 described above.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art can make various equivalent modifications or substitutions without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and such equivalent modifications or substitutions are to be included within the scope of the present invention defined by the claims.

Claims

1. A power connector is characterized by comprising an insulating seat, a signal assembly, a plurality of power contact pieces and a plurality of terminals;

at least one of the power contacts comprises a first contact area and a second contact area, the first contact area and the second contact area being disposed at different levels;

the terminal is fixedly arranged on the power contact piece through the mounting hole.

2. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the number of mounting holes of the first contact area is different from the number of mounting holes of the second contact area.

3. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the power contact includes a through hole setting portion, an insertion portion;

the through hole setting part is provided with at least one mounting hole, and the inserting part is arranged in the insulating seat.

4. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the mounting holes of the first contact area are staggered from the mounting holes of the second contact area.

5. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the power connector comprises a gold finger, an insertion opening, and the gold finger is inserted into the insertion opening.

6. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the power contact is provided with a resilient arm, the insulating base is correspondingly provided with a protrusion, and the resilient arm is connected with the protrusion in a snap-fit manner.

7. The power connector of claim 5, further comprising a nut and a bolt, wherein the insulating base is provided with a first groove, and the nut is located in the first groove;

the bolt penetrates through the mounting hole to be connected with the nut so as to fix the terminal on the power contact piece.

8. The power connector of claim 1, wherein a spacer is disposed between adjacent ones of said power contacts, said spacer having a second recess.

9. The power connector of claim 7, wherein said bulkhead extends along a plane of said mounting hole to form an extension.

10. The power connector of claim 1, wherein the insulating base is provided with a fixing hole and a positioning post, the positioning post is used for positioning with an external panel when the power connector is installed, and the fixing hole is used for fixing with the external panel.

11. A power connector assembly comprising a plurality of power connectors as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9, a connecting body through which adjacent ones of said power connectors are connected.

12. A power supply device, characterized in that it comprises a power connector according to any one of claims 1-9.