CN1229289A - Docking-style cable connector assembly - Google Patents

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CN1229289A
CN1229289A CN99100952A CN99100952A CN1229289A CN 1229289 A CN1229289 A CN 1229289A CN 99100952 A CN99100952 A CN 99100952A CN 99100952 A CN99100952 A CN 99100952A CN 1229289 A CN1229289 A CN 1229289A
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A docking-style cable connector is able to be cooperated with a connector of a corresponding circuit board, a pair of guide pins are provided at two sides of the circuit board connector, a housing of the circuit board connector is provided with a pair of concave portions aligned with the guide pins and suitable for storing the guide pins; the cable connector comprises a pair of latch pieces biased by a spring and capable of being operated by one hand so that the cable connector is fitting and fitting-releasing with the circuit board connector. Releasing latchs are provided, when the guide pins are inserted into guide holes, the latch pieces are detached from the guide pins. The latchs are released along a direction, thereby the contact between the latch pieces and the guide pins can be released.

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The dock cable connector assembly
Present invention relates in general to interengageable connector assembly, more particularly, the present invention relates to the dock cable connector assembly, it is convenient to the joint and the disengagement of cable connector and corresponding connector.
In traditional connector assembly, interengageable dock connector interconnects as retaining element by screw usually.As for screw connection structure, the madial wall of a connector must be provided with screw, must be provided with screw rod on the another one connector, and this screw rod matches with described screw.
To be bonded together screw rod and corresponding connector, necessary rotary screw, match with screw in the back to be bonded together at two connectors.Two connectors are thrown off, and necessary rotary screw is so that each connector is thrown off.The problem of this structure is, the connection between two connectors and throw off and can not finish by a hand and an operation.The another one shortcoming is, needs additional space at the portion of the handle of screw rod, and needs the required space of instrument of rotary screw.
The purpose of this invention is to provide the coupling assembling that has overcome above-mentioned shortcoming, this assembly is used for the dock cable connector.
Therefore, general purpose of the present invention provides a kind of dock cable connector, being connected and disengagement between the corresponding connector on it is convenient to cable connector and is installed in circuit board.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of cable connector assembly, and it does not need instrument just can be installed together two connectors, does not need to hold the large space of this instrument yet.
Further purpose of the present invention provides a kind of dock cable connector, and it can match with the connector of corresponding circuit board, and the connector of this circuit board has two row's joints, and this joint is extending after the crooked angle on the circuit board; The both sides of circuit board connector have a pair of guide finger; Cable connector has a housing, and this housing has a pair of recess, and this recess is aimed at guide finger, and is suitable for holding this guide finger; Cable connector comprises a pair of pulling plug element by spring biasing, and this pulling plug element can be operated by a hand, makes cable connector and two arrange joints and matches and throw off.
In order to achieve the above object, a connector of electric coupler component of the present invention has the guide finger that at least one extends from this connector, and the another one connector comprises and the contacted pulling plug element of guide finger.Guide finger extends from the matching surface of a connector, and the another one connector comprises pilot hole, and pilot hole is facing to guide finger, and can hold guide finger, the another one connector comprises the pulling plug element, and when guide finger inserted pilot hole, the pulling plug element contacted with guide finger and disengages.Be provided with the release pulling plug, so that pulling plug element and guide finger disengage.Sliding along direction discharges pulling plug, can remove contacting of pulling plug element and guide finger.
In addition, connector assembly of the present invention can comprise the guide finger of different size and different length, with to cable connector assembly polarization feature.Circuit board connector comprises a pair of guide finger, and cable connector comprises a pair of pilot hole, and pilot hole is facing to guide finger, and can hold guide finger.The pulling plug element is provided with pilot hole relevantly, and has hook shaped ends, and this hook shaped ends is positioned at the far-end of pulling plug element, to contact with guide finger.Hook shaped ends is extended along the outside of guide finger in pilot hole, pulling plug in the effect below-center offset of spring in link position.
Be provided with the release pulling plug, to remove contacting of pulling plug element and guide finger, this release pulling plug comprises drive part, and this drive part is against the root of pulling plug element, by the release pulling plug is slided backward along the direction of cable connector, can remove the contact condition of pulling plug element.Drive part makes the pulling plug element outwardly-bent, to remove contacting of pulling plug element and guide finger.
Cable connector has housing, and this housing has surrounded the pulling plug element and discharged pulling plug, and the rear portion of this housing has a hypotenuse, and this hypotenuse makes cable tilt ground crooked backward.
When two connectors were connected, along with guide finger inserts pilot hole, the pulling plug element deformed, automatically to contact with guide finger.Slide to remove the mode that contacts with guide finger along with discharging pulling plug, the pulling plug element also deforms, and two connectors are thrown off easily.
By following detailed description, above and other objects of the present invention, feature and advantage will come into plain view.
In the detailed description below, describe with reference to accompanying drawing, the wherein identical identical part of mark representative, accompanying drawing comprises:
Fig. 1 is the perspective view according to the surface mount connector assembly of a preferred embodiment of the surface-mount connector of principles of construction of the present invention, it shows surface-mount connector and is installed in mode on the circuit board, show the mounting means of rigging-angle connector, so that I/O formula joint to be provided;
Fig. 2 is the cross-sectional view of surface-mount connector as shown in Figure 1;
Fig. 3 is the vertical view of surface-mount connector as shown in Figure 1;
Fig. 4 is the perspective view of a pair of terminal, and this terminal is used in as illustrated in fig. 1 and 2 the surface-mount connector, is opposed facing one terminal.
Fig. 5 is the cross-sectional view of surface-mount connector as shown in Figure 1, and this surface-mount connector engages with corresponding rigging-angle connector.
Fig. 6 is the vertical view of the rigging-angle connector of correspondence as shown in Figure 5;
Fig. 7 is the fragmentary, perspective view of the contact portion of terminal, and this terminal is used for rigging-angle connector as shown in Figure 5;
Fig. 8 is the longitudinal cross-section figure of an aerial lug, and this connector is used for connector assembly as shown in Figure 1, is connected with the horizontal coupling part of as shown in Figure 5 rigging-angle connector;
Fig. 9 is the partial cutaway vertical view of aerial lug as shown in Figure 8, and for the sake of clarity, the cover on the part partly is removed; With
Figure 10 is a diagrammatic top view, shows several surface mount connector assemblies and all links to each other with corresponding rigging-angle connector, and aim at the external cable connector.
Fig. 1 is the perspective view of surface mount connector assembly, and by mark 1 expression, it comprises the embodiment according to a recommendation of the surface-mount connector 5 of principles of construction of the present invention to this surface mount connector assembly on the whole.Surface-mount connector of the present invention is particularly suitable for circuit and the one group of electric wire on the connection circuit plate 2, and this electric wire wraps in the cable 3 and is connected to a power lug, as directed I/O joint 4.Plug-in type angle coupling 6 matches with surface-mount connector 5, forms the connector with two row's terminal structures, and this structure can match with I/O formula cable joint 4.
The mode that surface connector assembly 1 is installed in the mode on the printed circuit board (PCB) 2 and the cable joint 4 of an end that is connected to cable 3 is matched with surperficial connector assembly 1 all has two kinds.A kind of mode is shown in the lower right corner of Fig. 1, and only a surperficial connector 5 is installed on the circuit board, therefore, only matches with an angle coupling 6.Another mode is shown in the upper left corner of Fig. 1, and two surperficial connectors 5 are installed on two surfaces of circuit board 2, therefore, match with two angle couplings 6.Each angle coupling 6 matches with a corresponding cable joint 4.
Surface mount connector assembly 1 comprises surface-mount connector 5, and this surface-mount connector 5 is installed on the surface of printed circuit board (PCB) 2, matches with angle coupling 6, and this angle coupling 6 is engaged in the top of surperficial connector 5.
Can be clear that from Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 surface-mount connector 5 comprises connector case 7 and several conductive terminals 8 of being made by insulating material, this conductive terminal 8 is installed on the connector case 7 with preset space length P.Connector case 7 is rectangular on the whole, can comprise two grooves 9, and this groove 9 is arranged on the connector case 7, and at the upper surface of connector case 7 opening is arranged, and can insert joint to form.
Terminal 8 longitudinally is installed on the connector case 7 with preset space length P, and each contact portion 10 of connector case 7 is faced (Fig. 2) mutually in the both sides of groove 9.Terminal 8 has two rows, and every row aligns, as shown in Figure 4.Two locking terminals 8 all are installed in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, in groove 9, are mounted to tangible two row 64a, 65a and 64b, 65b respectively.As can be seen, each terminal 8 has welding afterbody 11, and the extension mode of this welding afterbody 11 on the bottom surface of connector case 7 is concordant with the bottom surface of connector case 7 in itself.
Groove 9 two interior welding afterbodys 11 of arranging terminals 8 are stretched from an epitaxial lateral overgrowth of connector case 7, and the welding afterbodys 11 of two row's terminals 8 in the another one groove 9 are stretched from an other epitaxial lateral overgrowth of connector case 7.In this relation, the welding afterbody 11a that contact portion 10a is arranged in the terminal 8a of the first engaging groove 9a extends to the side (right side of Fig. 2) of connector case 7, and contact portion 10b is arranged in the welding afterbody 11b of terminal 8b of another one engaging groove 9b to an other side (left side of Fig. 2) extension of connector case 7.
See Fig. 4 now, it shows a pair of terminal of facing mutually of connector 5, and they divide two rows to be provided with in each groove 9.Each terminal comprises terminal bodies 12, a pair of contact portion 13a and 13b, and welding afterbody 11.Locate in a manner described in order to make welding afterbody 11, the width of the welding afterbody 11 of each terminal 8 approximately is half of width of the terminal bodies 12 faced accordingly, like this, the mode that the welding afterbodys 11 of the row's terminal 8 in groove 9 extend to the outside of connector case 7 is, this welding afterbody 11 is located in the same groove 9 other one below of terminal bodies 12 of arranging each terminal 8 of terminals.This relation of passing is provided convenience by recess or breach 62, and recess 62 is arranged on the low order end of terminal bodies 12.Consequently, the spacing of welding afterbody 11 is half of spacing P of terminal 8, i.e. 1/2P.
The contact portion 10 of terminal 8 has specific shape, comprises two contact portion 10a that separate and 10b, and particularly, two contact portion 10a that separate and 10b are parallel to each other.The contact portion 10b length that one of them contact portion 10a that separates separates than another one is big, like this, divide 13a and 13b promptly also to aim in the arc-shaped contact part that the far-end of contact portion 10a that respectively separates and 10b forms along vertical aligning of contact portion 10 along vertical.Can find out that in Fig. 2 contact portion 13a and 13b omit in the engaging groove 9 of indentation connector case.
In the process of the marginal portion that surface mount connector assembly 1 is installed in printed circuit board (PCB) 2, at first surface-mount connector 5 is installed on the surface of circuit board 2, as shown in Figure 1, be installed on the marginal portion 70 of circuit board 2.The welding afterbody 11 of connector 5 extends to the outside of connector case 7 along the both sides (being the fore-and-aft direction among Fig. 1) of connector case 7.Welding afterbody 11 is aimed at the corresponding conductive pad (not shown) that forms on circuit board 2.Then,,, welding afterbody 11 and conductive pad are carried out surface soldered, connector 5 is fixed on the circuit board 2 as reflow soldering with any desirable welding manner.The spacing of welding afterbody 11 is half of spacing P of terminal contact portion 10, therefore, has reduced the shared space of connector 5 and welding afterbody 11.Therefore, can realize and being connected of the highly dense intensity of circuit board 2, shared space is reduced.
Surface-mount connector 5 simple in structure consists essentially of above-mentioned connector case 7 and several conductive terminals 8.The profile of welding afterbody 11 is also simple, and the bottom surface in the outside of connector case 7 along connector case 7 stretches out.This structure has prevented that welding afterbody 11 is long, and is convenient to the manufacturing of the welding afterbody 11 of terminal 8.Also can make and adopt common reflow soldering method to be welded on the surface of circuit board 2 easily according to the distribute spacing between the preset space length P maintenance welding afterbody 11 welding afterbody 11.
In addition, welding afterbody 11 extends in the both sides of connector case 7, and like this, welding afterbody 11 and circuit board contact mat just all are exposed to the outside of connector case 7.Therefore, can adopt visual monitoring and other method to carry out any monitoring with situation about exactly connector 5 being installed on the circuit board smoothly, connector case 7 does not hinder the sight line of human observer.
See Fig. 1 now again, rigging-angle connector 6 is parts of whole surface mount component 1, to provide plug-in connector or transition connector between the cable connector of surface-mount connector 5 and correspondence, in the connector of I/O (I/O) formula, cable connector comprises several terminal electric wires.This right angle transition connector 6 is engaged in the top of surface-mount connector 5, comprise a pair of insertion portion 60, this insertion portion 60 is arranged in the shell mating part 14, and shell mating part 14 comprises inner chamber 61, and the size of inner chamber 61 is whole connector cases 7 of receiving surface mounted connector 5 in itself.
Under this mode, the bottom surface 16a of transition connector 6 is resisted against on the circuit board 2, as illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 in itself.The housing 16 of transition connector 6 not only comprises mating part 14, and extends to the one side as shown in Figure 5 and comprise two row's holding portions 15, and holding portion 15 is as second mating part that cooperates with cable connector 4.This two rows holding portion 15 holds and supports the contact portion 19 of several conductive terminals 17, and provides support and be provided with the surface of tangible two locking terminals 17, and every locking terminal 17 has two row's terminals 17.The structure of the contact portion 19 of terminal 17 remains on the top of circuit board, and the edge 70 of process circuit board 2.
The installing space of the terminal 17 of transition connector 6 also is P, this distribute spacing with the contact portion 10 of surface-mount connector terminal 8 is identical, and has formed two locking terminals, 8 corresponding two locking terminals in two engaging grooves 9 with surface-mount connector 5.Be provided with other contact portion 18 in the end of terminal 17, terminal 17 is extended enough distances in first mating part 14 and inner chamber 61, and inner chamber 61 is positioned at the 16a place, bottom surface of connector shell 16.
Contact portion 18 is extended along the insertion portion 60 of first mating part 14, to form the whole insertion end of transition connector 6, transition connector 6 contacts with the corresponding contact portion 10 of surface-mount connector 8, and terminal 8 is arranged in the accommodation hole 9 of surface-mount connector 5.Other end at transition connector terminal 17 is provided with second contact portion 19, and this second contact portion 19 has specific shape, is the state of turning back in two row's holding portions 15, as Fig. 5 and shown in Figure 7.These contact portions transition connector 6 two row holding portions 15 near face mutually in couples.These contact portions remain on the top of circuit board 2, and the edge 70 of extend past circuit board 2.
As Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 6, the both ends of the housing 16 of transition connector 6 comprise end block 20, and are provided with transition connector 6 is installed in element on the circuit board 2.Each end block 20 comprises the screw 21 along vertically extending.Each end block has connector guide finger 22, and guide finger 22 is facing to the front of connector case 16.These guide fingers are arranged on the both sides of connector case 16, and corresponding cable connector 4 guiding are engaged in the transition connector 6.As shown in Figure 6, guide finger 22 can comprise round bar 24, and this round bar 24 is connected to the insertion far-end 26 of round bar 24 integratedly by neck 25.The size of insertion end 26 can be different, and the size of an insertion end 26b can have utmost point characteristic with generation greater than another one insertion end 26a, thereby guarantee the correct orientation of cable connector 4 and transition connector 16; The axial length of each guide finger can be different, and a guide finger can be bigger than another one guide finger length.The difference that size also can be arranged in the pilot hole of cable connector, thus can guarantee exactly that two connectors 6,4 are combined together.Insertion end 26 is hemisphere on the whole, with operation pulling plug mechanism, hereinafter will describe in detail.
The method that rigging-angle connector 6 is fixed on the circuit board 2 is at first connector 6 to be engaged in the top of surface-mount connector 5, to finish surface mount connector assembly 1.Transition connector 6 is fixed on one of mode on surface-mount connector 5 and the circuit board shown in the middle part of Fig. 1.Transition connector 6 is engaged on two corresponding surface-mount connectors 5 as follows, that is: the whole connector case 7 of connector 5 is contained in first mating part 14 of transition connector case 16.Under this mode, the welding portion of welding afterbody 11 also is contained in the inner chamber 61 of first mating part 14, like this, the end of the welding afterbody 11 of surface-mount connector shell 7 (being welding portion) all is connected device shell 16 and covers, in order to avoid be exposed in the external environment condition.
This fit system of transition connector 6 matches the contact portion 18 of terminal 17 1 ends respectively with the corresponding contact portion 10 of surface-mount connector terminal 8.In case match, a contact portion 13a who is arranged among two contact portion 13a, the 13b on the contact portion 10 of surface-mount connector 5 has just cleaned the surface of transition connector contact portion 18, thereby has removed the surface contaminant of dirt or other type.Therefore, the structure of terminal has self-cleaning function, can guarantee good electrical contact.
In addition, the spacing of the spacing of contact portion 10 and contact portion 18 is twices of spacing of the welding afterbody 11 of surface-mount connector 5, therefore, and the spacing broad between the adjacent contact portion 10,18.Therefore, this terminal structure can be avoided the short circuit between the adjacent end of each connector.
The transition connector 6 that matches with surface-mount connector 5 can directly be fixed on the circuit board 2 by screw 28, and screw 28 passes the screw 21 and the hole 27 of end block 20, and end block 20 is positioned at the two ends of connector case 16, and hole 27 is arranged on the printed circuit board (PCB) 2.By directly transition connector 6 being fixed on the circuit board 2, any external force that is applied on the transition connector 6 owing to installation cable connector 4 all directly is passed on the circuit board 2, and is not passed on the surperficial connector 5.This structure has avoided power is passed to the welding portion of the welding afterbody 11 of surperficial connector 5.
When transition connector 6 matched with surperficial connector 5, two deployings that are arranged on transition connector 6 tops were closed part 15 and are begun to extend from connector case 16, and be parallel to circuit board 2 along the direction of guide finger 22 and extend, and through the edge 70 of circuit board 2.Therefore, the installation of cable connector 4 is not subjected to the interference at the edge 70 of circuit board 2, thereby has made things convenient for fitting operation.In case cable connector 4 is engaged to transition connector 6; the power that is applied to transition connector 6 by connector 4 can be directly passed to a side of circuit board 2 as mentioned above; like this, applied force is not applied on the surface-mount connector 5, with the welding portion of protection welding afterbody 11.Match with surperficial connector 5 by rigging-angle connector 6, the contact portion 18 of the terminal 17 of transition connector 6 is interconnected to concern one to one, and the connected state that part 15 is in conduction is closed in the conductive pad (not shown) of circuit board 2 and two deployings of rigging-angle connector 6.
Therefore, cable connector 4 closes part 15 with two deployings and matches, and the electric wire of cable 3 is communicated with effectively with the conductive pad (and circuit) of circuit board 2.The contact portion 19 of transition connector terminal is positioned at two deployings and closes part 15.Can be clear that from Fig. 7 these terminals also comprise paired the contact portion 19a that separates, 19b, contact portion 19a, 19b have length that weak point is arranged, and aim in a horizontal plane, and this horizontal plane is parallel to the surface of circuit board 2 in itself.Contact portion 19a, 19b separately helps the contact portion of the correspondence of cleaning circuit connector 4, and mode is identical with above-mentioned mode for surface-mount connector terminal 8.Two deployings that metal cap 29 can be engaged in connector 16 are closed on the part 15 and on every side, and are suitable for contacting with the respective metal cover 31 of the part 30 that cooperatively interacts of cable connector 4.By circuit connector 4 is matched with transition connector 6, the contact portion 19 of transition connector 17 is combined together with the contact portion 35 of cable connector, and each electric wire 37 of cable 3 is connected with the suitable related circuit of circuit board 2.
As Fig. 8 and shown in Figure 9, the structure of cable connector 4 makes it close part 15 with two deployings of transition connector and matches.Cable connector 4 comprises connector case 32, and it has several terminals 33.The both sides up and down of connector case 32 are covered by metal cap 34.Connector case 32 comprises the mating part 30 of end, and it stretches out from metal cap 34.Metal cap 31 cooperates with the periphery of mating part 30, extends in the outside of mating part 30.
The terminal 33 of cable connector 4 is provided with on connector case 32 abreast, and it is identical with the spacing of the terminal 8 of surface-mount connector 5 that spacing P is set.As shown in Figure 8, terminal 33 comprises contact portion 35, and this contact portion 35 is positioned at the both sides up and down of mating part 30, contact part 19 and contact with two covers of transition connector 6 respectively, and two covers of transition connector 6 contacts parts 19 and is positioned at two deployings and closes part 15.Terminal 33 is provided with the soft part 36 that connects of insulation, and it is positioned at connector case 32.As known in the prior art, the insulated electric conductor 37 that is positioned at the cable 3 of metal cap 34 is connected to terminal 33, and traditional mode is to make electric wire 37 press to terminal 33.
As shown in Figure 9, be provided with pilot hole or guiding recess 38 in the both sides of the metal cap 34 of cable connector, to hold the guide finger 22 that extends from the connector case 16 of transition connector 6.Be provided with fastening hook 40 in pilot hole 38, fastening hook 40 is arranged on the far-end of pulling plug element 39.When cable connector 4 matched with transition connector 6, mating part 30 was subjected to the guiding of guide finger 22 and pilot hole 38, thus with two deployings of transition connector 6 close part 15 over against with contact.Finish in case engage, fastening hook 40 contacts with the neck 25 of guide finger, thereby is meshed with head 26, keeps the joint of connector 4,16 with this.
Pulling plug element 39 has elasticity, can be outwardly-bent, and fastening hook 40 can rise and cross insertion end 26a, 26b, to contact with the neck 25 of guide finger.Discharge pulling plug 41 and be provided with, can be subjected to drive to force pulling plug element 39 outwardly-bent along pulling plug element 39, with the engagement of release with guide finger 22, and the joint between cable connector 4 and the transition connector 16.Discharge the sidewall extension of pulling plug 41 along metal cap 34, the direction of engagement that can be parallel to connector 4 is slided.Discharge pulling plug 41 and under the effect of helical spring 42, be offset to mating part 30 forward, and can manually slide, with the active force of opposing helical spring 42 along the direction of arrow 43.
In order to make the bond-off of cable connector 4 and transition connector 6, discharge pulling plug 41 and can be only slide backward in the direction of the effect lower edge of hand arrow 43.The drive part 44 that forms at the far-end that discharges pulling plug 41 is adjacent to the cam surface of sweep 45, and sweep 45 is adjacent to the root of pulling plug element 39.When discharging pulling plug 41 and slide backward as shown in the figure, drive part 44 will contact with sweep 45, make pulling plug element 39 outwardly-bent, so that fastening hook 40 and guide finger 22 disengage, thereby two connectors 4 and 6 be thrown off fully.
As shown in Figure 9, cable 3 can be fixed on an end of metal cap 34 by clamp bar 46.Be provided with hypotenuse 47 in the end of shell, so that cable 3 extends along the direction that favours hypotenuse 47.As shown in figure 10, hypotenuse 47 is being considered the setting of following situation, that is: several surface mount connector assemblies 1 all are installed on the circuit board 2, and the space in the outside at the edge of circuit board 2 is narrow and small, and be subjected to as the wall of the part of the whole housing of containment circuit board 2 or the restriction of door 48, for example, this housing is the housing of portable computer.In this case, several cables 3 laterally extend along door or wall 48 respectively.Therefore, cable 3 stretches out from cable connector 4, along the direction bending perpendicular to the hypotenuse 47 of connector case 32, on the soft clamp bar 46 that connects terminal 37 and connector that prevents that excessive power is applied to insulation.
Fig. 1 shows two lip-deep surface-mount connectors 5 that are installed in circuit board 2 and the transition connector 6 that engages with surface-mount connector 5.Two lip-deep transition connectors 6 that are arranged on surface-mount connector 5 are fixed on the circuit board 2 by plain screw 28.By two such connector assemblies 1 being installed on two surfaces of circuit board 2, effective utilization has been finished on two surfaces of circuit board 2.Should be appreciated that surperficial connector 5 can only be installed on the surface of circuit board 2, and engage with a corresponding transition connector 6.
Transition connector 6 is fixed on the element on the circuit board 2 and not only is confined to screw 28.Also can adopt other retaining element, as be arranged on the gim peg on the housing 16 of transition connector.By adopting screw 28, transition connector 6 can easily be connected and throw off with surface-mount connector 5, thereby is convenient to change and revise.The screw 28 that adopts among Fig. 1 can be connected in the hole of transition connector 6 on opposite, and like this, two such transition connectors 6 that are installed on the apparent surface of circuit board can be fixed by a public screw 28 simultaneously.
In the embodiment that recommends, connector case 7 is provided with two row's engaging grooves 9.Yet, should be appreciated that the present invention also comprises the engaging groove 9 that only adopts to be arranged on the connector case 7.
As mentioned above, according to the present invention, can broad owing to be arranged on the spacing of the contact portion in the engaging groove of surface-mount connector, can successfully avoid the short circuit phenomenon of adjacent contact part.In addition, because the spacing of welding afterbody can be less, can realize the connection of the highly dense intensity on the circuit board.
Because surface mount connector assembly is installed in a marginal portion of circuit board, and can engage with cable connector, the assembling of circuit board and connector assembly is convenient in the installation site of this surface mount connector assembly.
In addition, the whole connector case of surface-mount connector is contained in the mating part of transition connector, and the welding portion of welding afterbody is capped to prevent to be exposed to the outside, and therefore, surface-mount connector and welding afterbody thereof can successfully be protected.
As mentioned above, according to the present invention, be arranged on guide finger 22 on the transition connector 6 can be automatically be arranged on cable connector 4 on pulling plug element 39 engage.Discharge the bond-off that pulling plug 41 can make pulling plug element 39 by sliding, therefore, only an action with a hand and hand just can realize engaging and throwing off, thereby has made things convenient for the operation of electric coupler component 1.In addition, the hypotenuse 47 at the rear portion of the cover by being arranged on cable connector 4, cable 3 can retreat tiltedly crooked, therefore, can reduce the rear operating space of cable connector 4, reduce to discharge the required operating space of pulling plug 41, be convenient to highly dense intensity ground mounted connector assembly at 70 places, edge of circuit board 2.
Although diagram and preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art, under the situation that does not break away from true spirit of the present invention and scope, can the present invention is changed and revises.

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1. connector assembly, near the circuit board connector (6) in edge (70) that is installed on circuit board (2) is linked to each other with cable connector (4), have several conductive terminals (17) and several contact portions (19) relevant in the circuit board connector (6) with conductive terminal (17), cable connector (4) has several conductive terminals (33), this conductive terminal (33) links to each other with the end of each electric wire (37) of multicore cable (3), and have several contact portions (35), this contact portion (35) is faced mutually with the connector terminal (17) of described circuit board, and this connector assembly comprises:
First guide finger (22), it begins to stretch out from described circuit board connector (6);
Housing (34), it surrounds described cable connector (33);
This housing (34) comprises first recess (38), and it aims at the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector, and can hold the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector;
Elasticity pulling plug element (39), it is arranged in the recess (38) of the housing of described cable connector, and has hook portion (40), this hook portion is positioned at the far-end of pulling plug element, to contact with the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector, described pulling plug element (39) under pressure can be flexibly outwardly-bent;
Pulling plug releasing member (41), it is arranged in the described housing (34), and aims at described pulling plug element (39), and described pulling plug releasing member (41) can axially sliding backward along described cable connector (4);
One end of described pulling plug releasing member (41) has drive head (44), this drive head (44) is adjacent to described pulling plug element (39), like this, moving backward of described pulling plug releasing member (41) makes described pulling plug element (39) outwardly-bent, to throw off with the guide finger (22) of circuit board connector.
2. connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described pulling plug element (39) has hook portion (40) at its far-end, the guide finger of described circuit board connector (22) has neck (25), when the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector inserted the housing recess (38) of described cable connector, neck (25) contacted with described hook portion (40).
3. connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the housing of described cable connector (34) has the rear portion that holds multicore cable (3), this rear portion has end face (47), this end face (47) is an angle with respect to the central axis of cable connector (4), described cable (3) totally vertically extends described housing on described end face (47), make described cable (3) with an angle of inclination bending.
4. connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the guide finger of described circuit board connector (22) has insertion end (26), this insertion end (26) has domed ends, when the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector inserts the housing recess (38) of described cable connector, this domed ends contacts with described pulling plug element (39), make described pulling plug element (39) outwardly-bent, thereby allow the guide finger (22) of described circuit board connector to insert the housing recess (38) of described cable connector fully.
5. connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described circuit board connector (6) comprises second guide finger (22), described first and second guide fingers (22) are arranged on the both sides of described circuit board connector (6); With
Described cable connector (4) comprises second recess (38), and described first and second recesses (38) are arranged on the both sides of described cable connector (4).
6. connector assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein, described pulling plug element (39) comprises cam surface (45), this cam surface (45) is arranged on contiguous described release pulling plug (41) and locates, the end of this release pulling plug (41) comprises the head (44) of increasing, and this head (44) is faced mutually with the cam surface (45) of described pulling plug element;
Wherein, when described release pulling plug (41) when sliding backward, the head of the increasing of described pulling plug releasing member (44) is in contact with one another with the cam surface (45) of described pulling plug element, makes described pulling plug element outwardly-bent, to remove contacting of pulling plug element and described guide finger (22).
7. connector assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein, described circuit board connector (6) comprises second guide finger (22), described first and second guide fingers (22) are arranged on the both sides of described circuit board connector (6); With
Described cable connector (4) comprises second recess (38), and described first and second recesses (38) are arranged on the both sides of described cable connector (4).
8. a connector conjugative component links to each other first and second connectors (6,4), and first connector (6) has connection body (16), and this connection body (16) supports several first conductive terminals (17); Second connector (4) has the connection body that supports several second conductive terminals (33), first and second connectors (6,4) have first and second mating surfaces of facing mutually respectively, first and second mating surfaces match as follows, that is: when first and second connectors (6,4) when engaging, described first and second terminals (17,33) contact, this connector conjugative component comprises:
At least one guide finger (22), it connects body (16) from described first and begins to stretch out, the described first connector mating surface of guide finger (22) extend past, comprise barrel portion generally (24) with first diameter and neck (25) with second diameter, second diameter is less than first diameter, and neck (25) further is arranged on the insertion end (26) of the guide finger (22) of contiguous described circuit board connector and locates;
At least one pilot hole (38), it is arranged on the described second connection body (34), aims at the guide finger (22) of described first connector;
When described first and second connectors (6,4) when engaging, the size of pilot hole (38) is held described guide finger (22);
Described second connector (4) comprises the relevant therewith pulling plug element (39) along pilot hole (38) extension, pulling plug element (39) has the junction surface (40) that extends to described pilot hole (38), when described first and second connectors (6, when 4) engaging, junction surface (40) contact with described neck (25);
Described second connector (4) also comprises release pulling plug (41), it connects described second, and the pulling plug element (39) along described second connector extends in the body (34), when not contacting described pulling plug element (39), described release pulling plug (41) is offset to first operating position, when described release pulling plug (41) the described pulling plug element of contact (39), slide into second operating position, the described pulling plug element (39) and the guide finger (22) of described first connector are disengaged, thereby described first and second connectors (6,4) are thrown off.
9. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 8, wherein, described release pulling plug (41) comprises drive part (44), and pulling plug element (39) comprises cam surface (45), and this cam surface (45) is faced mutually with the drive part (44) of described release pulling plug;
Wherein, when described release pulling plug (41) moved to second operating position, the drive part of described release pulling plug (44) was in contact with one another with the cam surface (45) of described pulling plug element, to remove contacting of described pulling plug element (39) and described guide finger (22).
10. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the insertion end (26) of described guide finger (22) is hemisphere, described pulling plug element (39) comprises hook portion (40), when the guide finger (22) of described first connector inserts the pilot hole (38) of described second connector, described pulling plug element (39) is outwardly-bent, and then the hook portion (40) of described pulling plug element (39) is back to the neck (25) of described guide finger (22) contact.
11. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 9, wherein, the cam surface of described pulling plug element (45) comprises an angled surface, and the drive part of described release pulling plug (41) comprises the head (44) of increasing, and this head (44) is positioned at the far-end that discharges pulling plug (41).
12. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 8, wherein, described first connector (6) comprises second guide finger (22), and described each guide finger (22) is arranged on the both sides of the described first connection body (16); With
Described second connector (4) comprises second pilot hole (38), and described each pilot hole (38) is arranged on the both sides of described second connector (4).
13. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 8, wherein, described second connector (4) comprises back (47), this back (47) is an angle with respect to second mating surface (30), described second connects body (34) comprises a passage, this passage is an angle with respect to the back (47) of described second connector (4), make the cable (3) that is inserted in second connector (4) point to the described second connector mating surface with an angle backward, described passage makes described cable (3) leave the described second connection body (34) perpendicular to the back (47) of described second connector.
14. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 8 further comprises a spring (42), it makes described release pulling plug (41) be offset to described first operating position.
15. connector conjugative component as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described first and second guide fingers (22) comprise the first and second insertion end (26a respectively, 26b), the described first and second insertion end (26a, diameter difference 26b), thus guarantee described cable connector (4) utmost point characteristic arranged;
First and second recesses (38) of described circuit board connector also have different diameters, thus guarantee described circuit board connector (6) utmost point characteristic arranged.
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