CN1256016A - Surface mounting connector assembly for docking-style intermediate connector - Google Patents
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Abstract
An intermediate connector for engaging a surface mount connector and a cable connector contains conductive terminals in a body portion. The body portion is cooperatively defined by distinct and separate terminal contact support portions that are affixed to opposite ends of the connector terminals. The support portions may be affixed to the connector terminals from different directions and thus eliminates the need for a complex, molded connector housing. The support portions and the terminals are held together and aligned together by a retainer and a spacer is provided to maintain a desired spacing between the terminals of the connector.
Description
Background of invention
Present invention relates in general to be installed in the surface mount connector assembly on the circuit board, more particularly, the present invention relates to a kind of improved surface mount connector assembly, it is connected on the circuit of circuit board such as the multicore cable connector of I/O (I/O) the connector marginal portion along circuit board.
Traditional surface-mount connector comprises that an electric insulation housing and several place the conductive terminal in the connector shell.Extend connector shell and be welded on the conductive pad on the circuit board forming on each terminal.The welding afterbody is welded on by reflow soldering or spot welding method on the surface of circuit board, and wherein, the terminal of surface-mount connector is passed in the through hole that forms on the circuit board and extends.When adopting the through hole mounting means, the through hole in the both sides of circuit board has occupied the valuable space of circuit board, and this space can hold circuit and element originally.
These surface-mount connectors can match with other connector.These surface-mount connectors are usually so directed, that is: its mating part is upwardly extending orthoscopic or is parallel to the right-angle type of circuit board.When the number of terminal increases and the size of connector when remaining unchanged, the spacing of each terminal must correspondingly reduce.Often adopt surface soldered under these circumstances, the welding afterbody of connector is set on the two sides of connector case.
In this structure, the right angle mating part of surface-mount connector has the terminal that extends out from the rear side of connector.These terminals must have longer length than the terminal from the front side that is arranged on connector, thereby cause being difficult to keeping the preset space length of the welding afterbody that extends out from the front side of connector.
In addition, the soldered end of welding afterbody be exposed to corresponding cable connector cooperative end part around, this may cause being difficult to cooperate with cable connector in electric wire side, and cable connector may be subjected to unforeseeable impact, thereby causes damaging the soldered end of welding afterbody.In addition, in engagement process, cable connector is connected on the surface-mount connector and may produces active force to the soldered end of welding afterbody, these power may cause the fracture of soldered part.
In addition, under the situation that adopts the through-hole type surface-mount connector, the through hole that forms on circuit board makes the connector that can not adopt mounted on surface or any other type in the both sides of circuit board.Therefore, the space on this structure waste circuit board correspondingly, is unfavorable for adopting the situation of the dock that can find in notebook computer and kneetop computer.
Summary of the invention
The present invention aims to provide the surface-mount connector that has overcome above-mentioned shortcoming.
Therefore; general purpose of the present invention provides a kind of surface mount connector assembly and installation method thereof; this surface mount connector assembly is installed in the edge that is adjacent to circuit board; can protect the soldered end of the welding afterbody of surface-mount connector, make it avoid the power that in the engagement process of connector and cable connector, is produced.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of surface mount connector assembly, it has the element of the surface-mount connector at the edge that is installed in circuit board, this assembly has right angle transition connector, this transition connector and surface-mount connector perpendicular alignmnet, this assembly has the inner chamber that holds several terminals, to match with the terminal of surface-mount connector, this inner chamber holds whole surface-mount connector and welding afterbody thereof, and this welding afterbody is installed on the circuit board.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of surface mount connector assembly, this surface mount connector assembly is installed in the edge that is adjacent to circuit board, this assembly has the right angle body, this body extends and strides across the edge of circuit board above circuit board, this right angle body has several terminals, its contact portion strides across the edge of circuit board and away from circuit board, to match with corresponding dock connector.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of surface mount connector assembly that is used to dock, this surface mount connector assembly comprises surface-mount connector portion that is installed in the edge that is adjacent to circuit board and the two row's connector portions that match with surface-mount connector, this two rows connector portion holds several terminals, be positioned at the top of circuit board and stride across circuit board, to match with corresponding cable connector.
In order to reach above-mentioned and other purpose, according to a main aspect of the present invention, a kind of surface mount connector assembly is provided, this surface mount connector assembly is installed in the edge that is adjacent to circuit board, can match with multicore cable connector, the terminal of this cable connector is several independently electric wires.This connector assembly comprises: a surface-mount connector, and it is installed on the surface of circuit board; With a transition connector, surface-mount connector and transition connector all have the mating part separately that can cooperatively interact, the transition connector has the two row's connector parts that stride across the circuit board extension, and has the conductive terminal that several are arranged on this connector part, to match with the corresponding terminal of cable connector.
Main according to another preferred aspect, the transition connector is fixed on the circuit board by matching with surface-mount connector, and two row's connector parts match with multicore cable connector.Two row's connector parts extend above circuit board and stride across circuit board, are parallel in essence on the horizontal plane of circuit board so that terminal contact remains on one, and these are different with traditional PC bayonet nut connector.
Main according to another preferred aspect, surface-mount connector has insulation shell and is arranged on several interior terminals of housing, each terminal insulation one welding afterbody, this welding afterbody stretches out from the bottom surface of housing, on the conductive pad that is welded on circuit board.The transition connector directly is fixed on the circuit board by the installation elements such as mounting screw, this transition connector comprises a housing, this housing has an inner chamber, and this inner chamber is receiving surface mounted connector and terminal welding afterbody thereof in itself, and this welding afterbody is welded on the circuit board.This structure has covered the welding afterbody, the welding afterbody is not exposed to the outside.
In the embodiment that recommends, the transition connector is fixed on the circuit board by mounting screw, and this screw extends through circuit board and transition connector.Under this mode, surface-mount connector can be installed in respectively on the surface, front and back (up and down) of circuit board, and corresponding a pair of transition connector matches with surface-mount connector, further is fixed on the circuit board by this cooperation.
Because the transition connector directly is fixed on the circuit board, the power that is produced in the engagement process of cable connector and transition connector directly is passed to circuit board.Because the welding afterbody extends along the both sides of surface-mount connector, is installed in the welding afterbody that can observe surface-mount connector on the circuit board afterwards.By the whole connector case of surface-mount connector being contained in the cooperation inner chamber of transition connector; and so that the welding afterbody is not exposed to the outside, can protect the soldered end of surface-mount connector and welding afterbody thereof by the covering surfaces mounted connector.The transition connector with can easily finish follow-up cooperation of surface-mount connector.
Main according to another preferred aspect, transition connector comprise two row's connector ends, and this end is along holding with the direction that corresponding dock connector matches and supporting several conductive terminals.This end is positioned at the top of circuit board and strides across the edge of circuit board, like this, can match with the dock connector such as multi-core connector.Two row connector ends and terminal along continuous straight runs thereof extend, and stride across the edge of circuit board.Each terminal has the end of branching, and the setting of being separated by of these two ends has the contact portion of aligning, this contact portion with the engagement process of corresponding cable connector in play cleaning action.
By the detailed description below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, above and other objects of the present invention, feature and advantage will come into plain view.
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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 decomposition diagram 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, connect so that the I/O formula 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 a pair of terminal;
Fig. 5 is the cross-sectional view of surface-mount connector as shown in Figure 1, and this surface-mount connector matches 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 part is removed on the part; 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.
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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; With can cooperate angle coupling 6, 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, to form open ended connector.
Terminal 8 longitudinally is installed in the connector case 2 with preset space length P, and each contact portion 10 of terminal 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.
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 mating 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 longer, 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 mating 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.
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 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.Should be noted that two deployings that metal cap 29 can be engaged in connector 16 close on the part 15 and on every side, and be suitable for contacting with the respective metal cover 31 of the part 30 that cooperatively interacts of cable connector 4.
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 movable contact portion 36 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 38, to hold the guide finger 22 that extends from the connector case 16 of transition connector 6 in the both sides of the metal cap 34 of cable connector.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.In case chimeric finishing, fastening hook 40 contacts with the neck 25 of guide finger, thus with head 26 tablings, keep the chimeric of connector 4,16 with this.
Pulling plug element 39 has elasticity, but transverse curvature.Discharge pulling plug 41 and be provided with, can be subjected to drive forcing pulling plug element 39 outwardly-bent, to discharge chimeric between cable connector 4 and the transition connector 16 along pulling plug element 39.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.
By the joint of cable connector 4 and transition connector 6, the contact portion 19 of the terminal 17 of transition connector contacts with the contact portion 35 of cable connector terminal.Back one terminal has been accepted the cleaning action of contact portion 19, and therefore, each electric wire 37 of cable 3 is connected with the suitable related circuit on the circuit board 2.In case the bond-off of cable connector 4 and transition connector 6, release pulling plug 41 slides backward along the direction of arrow 43.The drive part 44 that forms at the far-end that discharges pulling plug 41 is attached on the sweep 45, and sweep 45 is positioned at the root of pulling plug element 39.When release pulling plug 41 slided backward as shown in the figure, drive part 44 contacted with sweep 45, makes pulling plug element 39 outwardly-bent, so that fastening hook 40 and guide finger 22 disengage, caused at last throwing off.
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, with convenient along direction bending, on the soft clamp bar 46 that connects terminal 37 and connector that prevents that excessive power is applied to insulation perpendicular to the hypotenuse 47 of connector case 32.
Fig. 1 shows two lip-deep surface-mount connectors 5 that are installed in circuit board 2 and the transition connector 6 that matches 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 match with a corresponding transition connector 6.
In the embodiment that recommends, connector case 7 is provided with two row's mating grooves 9.Yet, should be appreciated that the present invention also comprises the mating groove 9 that only adopts to be arranged on the surface-mount connector shell 7.
As mentioned above, according to the present invention, can broad owing to be arranged on the spacing of the contact portion in the mating 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 match 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.
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.
As shown in Figure 8, the structure of cable connector 4 makes it close part 15 with two deployings of transition connector to match.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 movable contact portion 36 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.Cable connector 4 comprises the pilot hole (not shown), and guide finger 22 extends out from transition connector 6.
By the joint of cable connector 4 and transition connector 6, the contact portion 19 of the terminal 17 of transition connector contacts with the contact portion 35 of cable connector terminal.The implication that discharges is, is provided with pulling plug 44 in the outside of cable connector 4, thereby an element is provided, and makes the operator can hold and make cable connector 4 to throw off in transition connector 6 easily.
Fig. 1 shows two lip-deep surface-mount connectors 5 that are installed in circuit board 2 and the transition connector 6 that matches 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 match with a corresponding transition connector 6.
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. surface mount connector assembly, its edge along printed circuit board (PCB) is installed on the printed circuit board (PCB), and to match with corresponding dock connector, this surface mount connector assembly comprises:
One surface-mount connector, it has insulation shell and is arranged at least one interior accommodation section of housing, each accommodation section comprises several conductive terminals that are arranged in it, each terminal has contact portion and the welding afterbody that is arranged in the described housing accommodation section, this welding afterbody extends described housing along the both sides of housing, to be installed on the corresponding conductive traces, this conductive traces is arranged on the marginal portion that is adjacent to described circuit board of the first surface of described circuit board, and the first surface of described circuit board extends in a plane of being scheduled to;
One transition connector, it has tangible first end and second end, this first end is connected by a body with second end, first end and second end are mutually with angle offset, this transition connector has first and second mating parts, this first and second mating part is separately positioned on first end and second end, described transition connector further comprises several conductive terminals, this conductive terminal passes described body and extends between described first end and second end, each described transition connector terminal has first and second contact portions, and this first and second contact portion is separately positioned on described first and second mating parts;
Described first mating part can match with described surface-mount connector, described first mating part comprises an inner chamber, this inner chamber can hold whole described surface-mount connector in itself and be arranged on the interior described terminal welding afterbody of described surface-mount connector, first contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector is arranged in the described inner chamber, one with the plane of described circuit board plane with angle offset in extend;
Second contact portion of described transition connector comprises two row's connector parts, extend the marginal portion that this two rows connector part strides across circuit board, this two rows connector part is in a plane and supporting second contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector in a position, this plane is parallel to the described plane of described circuit board in itself, this position strides across the marginal portion of described circuit board, to match with described corresponding dock connector.
2. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described transition connector comprises described transition connector directly is fixed on element on the described circuit board, with opposing the dock connector of described correspondence match with described transition connector with disconnecting process in the power that produced, described direct retaining element comprises at least one mounting screw and at least one installing hole, this installing hole is arranged in the described transition connector, pass to hold described mounting screw, the direction of described installing hole and described circuit board are with angle offset.
3. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein, when described transition connector matched with described surface-mount connector, the installing hole of described transition connector was aimed at the corresponding installing hole that forms on described circuit board.
4. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, second contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector branches.
5. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein, second contact portion of the terminal of each described transition connector comprises two contact heads, and the setting of being separated by of these two contact heads is aimed at mutually along the described plane of second mating part of described transition connector; Described two row's parts support described contact head, and the Support Position is the marginal portion that strides across described circuit board.
6. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, first mating part of described transition connector is the insertion section, it is contained in the accommodation section of described surface-mount connector, and supporting first contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector in a plane, the plane of this plane and described circuit board is with angle offset.
7. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein, described two row's parts are supporting second contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector in a position, and this position strides across the marginal portion of described circuit board.
8. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described two row's parts are supporting second contact portion of the terminal of described transition connector in a position, and this position strides across the marginal portion of described circuit board.
9. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein, described direct retaining element comprises second mounting screw and second installing hole that forms on the transition connector, this second installing hole holds described second mounting screw.
10. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein, the described transition connector installing hole and second installing hole are arranged on the two ends of described transition connector.
11. surface mount connector assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein, first mating part of described transition connector defines the insertion section of described transition connector, and second mating part of described transition connector defines two row accommodation sections of described transition connector.
12. surface mount connector assembly, its edge along printed circuit board (PCB) is installed on the printed circuit board (PCB), this surface mount connector assembly partly extends the edge of circuit board with a predetermined distance, match with a corresponding connector in a position at the edge that strides across described circuit board, this surface mount connector assembly comprises:
One surface-mount connector, its edge that is adjacent to described circuit board are installed on the surface of described circuit board; One transition connector, it can match with described surface-mount connector, and so that a mating part of described connector assembly to be provided, this connector assembly can match with described corresponding connector, be arranged on the top of described circuit board, and the edge that strides across described circuit board extends a distance;
Described surface-mount connector has an elongated housing, be provided with several conductive terminals in this housing, the terminal of described surface-mount connector has corresponding welding afterbody, this welding afterbody extends described housing along the bottom surface of housing, can be welded on the described circuit board along the outside of described housing, the terminal of described surface-mount connector further has contact portion, the both sides alignment of the accommodation section that these contact portions form in described housing;
Described transition connector comprises that an elongated transition connects body, this body has first cooperative end part, this end has at least one insertion section, this insertion section can be inserted in the accommodation section of described surface-mount connector, described transition connects body and further has second cooperative end part, this end parts parallel is extended in described circuit board, be an angle with the accommodation section of described surface-mount connector, this second cooperative end part comprises two row's connector parts, this part is extended above described circuit board, the edge that strides across described circuit board stretches out, and several terminals are extended between first and second cooperative end part of described transition connector.
13. surface mount component as claimed in claim 12, further comprise described transition connector directly is fixed on element on the described circuit board, described retaining element comprises a pair of installing hole and a pair of mounting screw that is arranged on described transition connector both sides, when described connector assembly was installed on the described circuit board, mounting screw was contained in respectively in described installing hole and the installing hole that forms on described circuit board.
14. surface mount component as claimed in claim 12, wherein, the terminal of described transition connector comprises first and second contact portions, this first and second contact portion is separately positioned on described first and second mating parts of described transition connector, described second contact portion is supported by described two row's connector parts, this part is positioned at the top of described circuit board, strides across the edge of described circuit board fully.
15. surface mount component as claimed in claim 14, wherein, second contact portion of described transition connector comprises significantly paired contact head, the setting of being separated by of described contact head, and along continuous straight runs aligns mutually.
16. surface mount component as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described surface-mount connector comprises a pair of accommodation section that is arranged in the described housing, and first cooperative end part of the described first transition connector comprises a pair of insertion section, and this insertion section is contained in the described accommodation section.
17. surface mount connector assembly, its edge that is adjacent to printed circuit board (PCB) is installed on the printed circuit board (PCB), this surface mount connector assembly partly extends the edge of circuit board with a predetermined distance, match with a corresponding connector in a position at the edge that strides across described circuit board, this surface mount connector assembly comprises:
One surface-mount connector, its edge that is adjacent to described circuit board are installed on the surface of described circuit board; One transition connector, it can match with described surface-mount connector, and so that a mating part of described connector assembly to be provided, this connector assembly can match with described corresponding connector, be arranged on the top of described circuit board, and the edge that strides across described circuit board extends a distance;
Described surface-mount connector has an elongated housing, be provided with several conductive terminals in this housing, the terminal of described surface-mount connector has corresponding welding afterbody, this welding afterbody extends described housing along the bottom surface of housing, can be welded on the described circuit board along the outside of described housing, the terminal of described surface-mount connector further has contact portion, the both sides alignment of the accommodation section that these contact portions form in described housing;
Described transition connector comprises that an elongated transition connects body, this body has first cooperative end part, this end has at least one insertion section, this insertion section can be inserted in the accommodation section of described surface-mount connector, described transition connects body and further has second cooperative end part, this end parts parallel is extended in described circuit board, be an angle with the accommodation section of described surface-mount connector, this second cooperative end part comprises two row's connector parts, this part is extended above described circuit board, the edge that strides across described circuit board stretches out, and several terminals are extended between first and second cooperative end part of described transition connector; With
Described transition connector directly is fixed on element on the described circuit board, with prevent described corresponding connector match with described connector assembly and disconnecting process in the power that produced the welding afterbody of described surface-mount connector is produced adverse influence, described retaining element comprises a pair of installing hole and a pair of mounting screw that is arranged on described transition connector both sides, when described connector assembly was installed on the described circuit board, mounting screw was contained in respectively in described installing hole and the installing hole that forms on described circuit board.
18. surface mount component as claimed in claim 17, wherein, the terminal of described transition connector comprises first and second contact portions, this first and second contact portion is separately positioned on described first and second mating parts of described transition connector, described second contact portion is supported by described two row's connector parts, this part is positioned at the top of described circuit board, strides across the edge of described circuit board fully.
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