CN1846333B - Connector shell for a multiple wire cable assembly - Google Patents
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Abstract
The connector shell for a multiple wire cable assembly having multiple ground conductors and signal conductors comprises a housing (18) having a ground potential, and a multitude of contact elements (46) arranged in a longitudinal array (44). The contact elements (46) are provided for making electrical contact to contact elements of a mating connector and comprise (i) grounding contact elements (40) for connecting to the ground conductors of the multiple wire cable assembly and (ii) signal contact elements (42) for connecting to the signal conductors of the multiple wire cable assembly. A longitudinal grounding plate (24) extends along and in the longitudinal direction of the array (44) of the contact elements (46), the grounding plate (24) having two lateral edges (28) at least one of which is provided for electrical connection to the ground potential of the housing (18). The grounding plate (24) comprises throughholes (62) through which the grounding contact elements (40) extend. Atthe throughholes (62), the grounding contact elements (40) are electrically connected to the grounding plate (24).
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to have the connector shell of the multiple wire cable assembly of many earth connections and holding wire.This connector shell specifically is used for the multiple signals connector of telecommunications industry.
Background technology
Basically, for coaxial cable is connected on the electron device part, use connector and terminal socket, they are about its longitudinal axis rotation symmetry.The design of these terminal sockets provides and the essentially identical resistive performance of the resistive performance of cable, but also good shield effectiveness is provided.At US-A-4,943,245, US-A-4,923,412 and DE3732520 in rotation symmetrical coaxial cable terminal socket is disclosed.Because the design of the substantially cylindrical of these known termination sockets, they not too are fit to miniaturization.Therefore, with respect to the quantity of the coaxial cable termination sockets in volume required or space, the socket connector that is used to hold several this known termination sockets only has quite little density.Yet at electronic equipment, particularly at the higher signal density that need to cause the requirement connection that Information Technology Equipment proposed as telecommunications multiplexer and so on, promptly a large amount of cables connects in limited space more.
In order to be designed for the high density socket connector of coaxial cable termination sockets, confirmed that the box-shaped coaxial cable terminal socket both had been suitable for the miniaturization of terminal socket, be suitable for terminal socket being arranged side by side in socket connector again.
US-A-4,762,508 disclose a kind of socket connector that is used to hold the box-shaped coaxial cable terminal socket.In each of the terminal socket that is used for coaxial cable, two contacts (signal and ground connection) are by abreast, abreast and be spaced apart and arranged in the housing that comprises shielding.Several this terminal sockets are arranged in the independent compartment or holding portion of the socket connector body of being made by insulating material.Connect body and be inserted in the capping, this capping is made by metal material, and is designed to have shielding.
A kind of similar design of the socket connector that is used for several coaxial cable termination sockets is disclosed among the EP-B-0284245.At the document and US-B-6, in 203,369, coaxial cable termination sockets has been described, this terminal socket has two signalling contacts of the holding wire that is used for two coaxial cables; With a common ground contact, this common ground contact is set between two signalling contacts and with the shielding of two coaxial contacts and is connected.And, at US-A-5,184,965, described the box-shaped coaxial cable terminal socket that is also referred to as SCI connector (shielding controlled impedance connector) among DE-C-4116168 and the DE-C-4116166.
Have box-like design, some shortcoming that promptly has a coaxial cable termination sockets of non-coaxial design causes the signal reflex increase to the high-frequency signal in the megahertz scope of the loss of signal transmission and terminal socket.
Although aspect high-density packages, the box-shaped coaxial cable terminal socket is gratifying, has restriction aspect the speed of the signal that passes terminal socket transmission and the frequency.In gigahertz range, frequency is high more, and it is big more to decay.
In the prior art, attempt to control the problems referred to above with being connected of bus-bar by ground connection or ground connection high-voltage line.A possibility of doing like this is to make the braid of each coaxial cable and screen interconnection, and they are connected on the metal tape as the earthing contact on the connector.This set can't provide plus earth for each cable, especially under the situation of a large amount of cables.
At US-A-5,829,991, US-A-5,775,924, US-A-4,340,265 and EP-B-0508255 in the electric connector that is used for several coaxial cables has been described, each electric connector all has the earthing device of the form that is clip and clamp members, is used for mechanically contacting, electrically contacting the screen or the braid of single coaxial cable.Yet, under the situation of this set, can not transmit very at a high speed and high-frequency signal.And the assembling of known socket connector with clamp earthing device is very consuming time, and unusual trouble.
At US-A-4, disclose in 889,500 with so that the use of the cellular grounding base that the outer conductor of several coaxial cables engages.This kind setting comprises many parts, and because manufacturing and assembling are all very expensive and complicated, so can't satisfy the requirement of the economical plan of coaxial cable terminations.
From EP-A-0897202, DE-C-4344328 and DE-A-3341356, the known outer conductor that contacts coaxial cable by means of the specific earthing contact that is the corrugated bushing shape.In order to make connector be fit to the coaxial cable of different-diameter, the corrugated bushing that this is known is arranged in the coaxial connector.Particularly, the corrugated bushing of adjacent coaxial connector is not connected to each other each other.
And, in the prior art, the housing of known use ground connection high-voltage line and the coaxial cable termination sockets that is used to connect similar box-like being connected of bus-bar.At US-B-6,171,143 and EP-A-0952637 in the example of this socket connector is disclosed.This socket connector is suitable for holding a plurality of coaxial cable termination sockets, and comprises two relative longitudinal flutings, and this groove is suitable for the several portions of the outer conductive shell of exposed terminal socket.These exposed portions contact with several golden fingers of two Connection Elements that form metal tape.These Connection Elements make the case member of the known socket connector of conduction be electrically connected with terminal socket.
And, from JP-A-11074037, becoming known for the another kind of socket connector of several coaxial cable termination sockets, it has the metal shell that is used to hold terminal socket.Between terminal socket and metal shell, insert the elastic cylinder tubular element that rises by the metal level bag, thereby at the row of contacts side surfaces adjacent terminal sockets.
Known another kind of connector from EP-A-0311041.This known connector comprises two matching connector parts, and one of them comprises that the inside is provided with the housing of sheet metal.This sheet metal has the contact element of one, and this contact element is bent to outside the plane of sheet metal, is used to contact the ground connection contact pin of another matching connector part.And this sheet metal has some large through-holes, and these through holes extend through the terminal connector that has signal contact element, and wherein when two connector parts combined, signal contact element was held the signal pin that matching connector divides.Known another kind is used to hold the socket connector of terminal socket of the cable of multiple wire cable assembly from WO-A-03/012934.In the shell of this socket connector, between adjacent terminal sockets, arranged the waved elements that electric conducting material is done, as the jockey of ground connection high-voltage line and bus-bar.
To be suitable for the very requirement of the connector of high-speed transfer signal in order satisfying to providing, must to improve ground connection, particularly grounded circuit.
Summary of the invention
An object of the present invention is to provide the connector shell that is used for multiple wire cable assembly, it has the electric conductivity of raising, thereby is suitable for very high speed transmission of signals.
According to the present invention, a kind of connector shell with multiple wire cable assembly of many earth connections and holding wire is provided, this connector shell comprises:
Has earthy housing;
Longitudinally be listed as a plurality of contact elements of arranging, this contact element is provided for electrically contacting with the contact element of matching connector, and comprises:
(I) earthing contact element, it is used to be connected to the earth connection of multiple wire cable assembly, and
(II) signal contact element, it is used to be connected to the holding wire of multiple wire cable assembly,
Vertical ground strip, it is along the longitudinal extension of the row of contact element, and this ground strip has two lateral edge, and one of them is for establishing on the earth potential that is electrically connected to housing,
Wherein this ground strip comprises the through hole that the earthing contact element is extended through, and
In this through hole, this earthing contact element is electrically connected with ground strip.
Have housing and in housing, longitudinally be listed as a plurality of contact elements of arranging according to connector shell of the present invention.Preferably, these contact elements are configured to adjacent lines, and comprise earthing contact element and signal contact element.Most preferably, these contact elements comprise contact pin.
Contact element according to connector shell of the present invention is provided for electrically contacting with the contact element formation of matching connector.Therefore, this contact element forms the interconnecting parts of connector.
In order to make the common ground of all earthing contact elements, in this housing, arranged vertical ground strip.This ground strip extends along the row of contact element, and comprises two longitudinal edges and two transverse edges.
According to the present invention, one of them longitudinal edge is electrically connected on the earth potential of housing.Preferably, this realizes by means of comprising as the housing of the electric conducting material of metal and so on with the ground strip that the electric conducting material of housing electrically contacts.
Preferably, the plane that all extends through ground strip or limit according to all earthing contact elements of connector shell of the present invention by ground strip.This earthing contact element and ground strip Mechanical Contact and electrically contact, because the earthing contact element extends through the through hole of ground strip, wherein the earthing contact element is electrically connected with ground strip in this through hole.Signal contact element does not need to extend through the plane of ground strip or ground strip.For example, signal contact element can be walked around ground strip or can extend above it and outside its lateral edge.
Because setting of the present invention, all earthing contact elements that are used for the ground connection purpose all are connected to ground strip, and this ground strip is connected on the earth potential of housing along one of them longitudinal edge again.This means that short grounded circuit is arranged, this path is horizontally through ground strip from each earthing contact element and arrives at least one ground connection longitudinal edge.Since the grounded circuit that these are very short, thereby impedance is very little, so signal can transmit in the connector shell high speed.
The signal contact element of connector shell of the present invention can extend through ground strip or pass through near the ground strip.Under latter event, signal contact element can be for example along the longitudinal edge setting in the ground strip outside.If signal contact element extends through ground strip, then do not electrically contact between signal contact element and the ground strip.For example, signal contact element can extend through the cut-away area of building in the ground strip, wherein several signal contact element can extend through a common cut-away area, and perhaps each signal contact element all extends through an excision zone of the ground strip relevant with the corresponding signal contact element.In this cut-away area, signal contact element is opened with the marginating compartment that is designed to the cut-away area of through hole.Between the edge of signal contact element and relevant cut-away area or through hole, be provided with a gap.As alternate ways, if signal contact element is protected by electrical insulating material (for example sheath), then this insulating material can contact the edge of cut-away area, rather than the EDGE CONTACT of signal contact element self and cut-away area.
Preferably, ground strip has a cut-away area, and this cut-away area is along the longitudinal extension of ground strip, and all signal contact element of the signal contact element of delegation or all row are all extended through.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the longitudinal row of contact element comprises the contact element of four adjacent lines, and the row in two outsides comprises the earthing contact element, and the row of two inboards then comprises signal contact element.In this set, ground strip can be designed as and is similar to the framework with longitudinal edge and transverse edge, wherein the central cut-away area that all extends through around the signal contact element of two inner row that make contact element of all edges.The earthing contact element is established being set to very short grounded circuit of vertical outside of contact element, has therefore improved the electrical property of connector shell.
For example, by welding, can be grounded the electrical connection between the ground strip of contact element and its through hole.Yet,, preferably be press-fitted contact between earthing contact element and the grounding plate for the assembly connector shell.In being press-fitted contact, the earthing contact element is accommodated in the respective through hole of ground strip with friction mode.Being press-fitted contact element is known, particularly known compliant pin for a person skilled in the art substantially, and it just forever is connected with ground strip by means of frictional engagement.
In another embodiment of the present invention, ground strip comprises supporting course that non-conducting material is done and the conductive layer that is supported by this supporting course.In this set, conductive layer extends in the through hole that holds the ground connection contact pin.Therefore, these through holes are designed to passage known substantially in the printed circuit board (PCB).
Yet more preferably, this ground strip is made of metal, and therefore is designed to sheet metal.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, this ground strip can be integral part or its part of shell.Yet preferably ground strip and shell are separated and can be installed on the shell by bolt.At the electric pad that can be provided for the potential difference between bonding sheet and the shell between ground strip and the shell.These pads are known to those skilled in the art substantially.
As has already been mentioned above such, shell has earth potential.This earth potential can be by means of along the conductive layer of the wall setting of shell and realize.Therefore, shell can comprise the wall that non-conducting material is done, and this wall is coated with and forms earthy conductive material layer.In order to obtain the shielding of suitable electromagnetic interference (EMI), the form of the Faraday cage that the inside of shell is should the design cost those skilled in the art known substantially.In this, most preferably shell is a metallic walls.
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In the accompanying drawings,
Accompanying drawing 1 shows the inside according to described half connector shell of the preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Accompanying drawing 2 shows the preferred embodiment of design of the ground strip of four lines contact element row;
Accompanying drawing 3 is the connector shell that is fully assembled resulting cutaway views of line III-III along accompanying drawing 1; And
Accompanying drawing 4 is the resulting cross sectional view of line IV-IV along accompanying drawing 3.
Embodiment
The inside that is used for the connector shell 10 of multiple wire cable assembly 12 shown in Figure 1, in the present embodiment, this multiple wire cable assembly 12 comprises two multiple conductor cables 14, and every multiple conductor cable all has several threads 16, and it comprises earth connection and holding wire (both is not shown).In the present embodiment, cable 14 is a coaxial cable.Yet, also can use other known in communications applications type cable, for example biaxial cable or row disturb cable (drain wire cable).The type of cable and the present invention are irrelevant.Connector shell 10 comprises housing 18, and this housing comprises two and half housings 20,22, in the accompanying drawing 1 one of them has been shown, and partly shows two in accompanying drawing 3. Half housing 20,22 of housing 18 is made of metal, so it is designed to the form of Faraday cage.As the alternative of solid sheet metal housing 20,22, this housing can be made by the non-conducting material with conductive material layer (for example, synthetic material).This conductive material layer should be set at the inboard of half housing 20,22, so that contact with the ground strip that will be described below (electricity and machinery).
At the relative downside place of the upside with holding multiple wire cable assembly 12 of connector shell 10, in housing 18, be provided with an opening, this opening is covered by the ground strip 24 and the socket connector 26 of conduction.This ground strip 24 is shown specifically in accompanying drawing 2, and it has the rectangle that comprises two lateral edge 28 and two transverse edges 30.The further feature of this ground strip 24 will be explained hereinafter.
And, in ground strip 24 fronts, in the opening of housing 18, arranged the socket connector 26 that is connected to by means of bolt 34 on the housing 18.Socket connector 26 comprises the seat 36 that electrical insulating material is done, and several earthing contact elements 40 and the signal contact element 42 of row and column are arranged in this 36 supporting, thereby forms the row 44 of contact element 46.In the present embodiment, these row 44 comprise four lines contact element 46, two behavior earthing contact elements 40 wherein, and two row then are signal contact element 42 in addition.
In the present embodiment, each contact element 46 all comprises contact pin zone 48 (male portion); Can with the zone line 50 of ground strip 24 frictional engagement (only be like this to ground connection contact element 40); With the another part 52 (socket or female part) that electrically contacts with the contact pin zone that cooperates contact element of matching connector element (not shown).This female part is inserted in the seat 36.26 couples of those skilled in the art of socket connector as described above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings are known substantially.
As shown in accompanying drawing 1, every cable 16 all has terminal connector 54, and this terminal connector 54 has the housing 56 that electric conducting material is done.In housing 56, be provided with the signal contact element (not shown), this signal contact element and housing 56 electric insulations, and be electrically connected with one of them signal contact element 42.And, in housing 56, also be provided with earthing contact element (not shown), the signal contact element electric insulation of this earthing contact element and housing 56 and be electrically connected to housing 56 and one of them earthing contact element 40 of the row 44 of contact element 46 on.In accompanying drawing 1 and accompanying drawing 3, terminal connector 54 is the SCI connector, and it comprises a signal contact element and an earthing contact element.Yet, also can use the terminal connector, particularly terminal SCI connector of other type, as the terminal SCI connector that for example comprises two signal contact element and a common ground contact element.And the lead of cable 16 also can be directly connected on the contact element 46 by for example wrap wire.
As institute from accompanying drawing 1 and 3 as can be seen, terminal connector 54 holds the contact element 46 of contact element row 44.Because this set, the holding wire of cable 16 is electrically connected with signal contact element 42, and the earth connection of cable 16 is connected with the earthing contact element 40 of contact element row 44.As shown in accompanying drawing 3, by means of the projecting rib 58 of giving prominence to and be set at housing 56 tops of terminal connector 54 from the inner surface of half housing 20,22, make terminal connector 54 keep putting in place, unexpectedly break away from from contact element 46 so that prevent terminal connector 54.
One of main aspect of the present invention is an earthing contact element 40 and being electrically connected of ground strip 24, and being electrically connected of ground strip 24 and housing 18.
As institute from accompanying drawing 2 as can be seen, the shape of ground strip 24 is similar to a framework, and this framework has central cut-out 60 and two hole 62 of working, and wherein this through hole 62 is set near the cut-out 60, and adjacent with lateral edge 28.The size of cut-out 60 makes all signal contact element 42 in the middle body of the row 44 be arranged on contact element 46 all extend through cut-out 60, and can not contact (again referring to accompanying drawing 3) with ground strip 24.In contrast be, the size that the independent through hole 62 of ground connection 24 has make the mid portion 50 of earthing contact element 40 in through hole 62 with ground strip 24 frictional engagement (referring to accompanying drawing 4).Therefore therefore, all earthing contact elements 40 all are grounding to the inner surface of half housing 20,22 and contact on the ground strip 24 of (referring to accompanying drawing 3), and along two lateral edge 28 ground connection of this grounded metal sheet 24.Yet, should be noted in the discussion above that for the present invention only need one of them lateral edge 28 of ground strip 24 to be electrically connected with the earth potential of housing 18, in the present embodiment, the earth potential of housing 18 is provided by one of them half housing 20,22.
As institute from accompanying drawing 2 as can be seen, shorter along the grounded circuit of ground strip 24, promptly the distance between through hole 62 and the lateral edge 28 is shorter, owing to can carry out the signal transmission with very high speed like this, thereby improved the electrical property of connector shell 10.
Should be noted in the discussion above that the design of 2 described ground strips 24 with reference to the accompanying drawings only is an alternative design during several may design.For example, contact element row 44 also can comprise two earthing contact element rows and two signal contact element rows, and wherein, two earthing contact element row settings adjacent one another are also are set between two signal contact element rows.In this set, can also be: ground strip comprises plurality of single through hole at the lateral edge place of its ground connection, the signal contact element that makes near the signal contact element rows the lateral edge of the ground connection that is positioned at ground strip with under the situation that through hole contacts is not extending through, and ground strip comprises cut-out at its lateral edge place relative with the lateral edge of ground connection, and this cut-out extends through the signal contact element of another signal contact element rows.
At last, can also in every capable contact element row 44, be arranged alternately small through hole and large through-hole.Small through hole and earthing contact element frictional engagement, large through-hole then make signal contact element with under ground strip mechanical connection and the situation about being electrically connected not extend through.
Although invention has been described and explanation for the embodiment that specifies with reference to the present invention, do not wish to limit the present invention among the illustrated embodiment.Those skilled in the art will recognize that, under the situation that does not break away from the true scope of the present invention that is defined by the following claims, can make multiple variants and modifications.Therefore, wish that all such variants and modifications all comprise within the scope of the invention because of the scope that falls into claims and equivalent thereof.
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1. connector shell that is used to have the multiple wire cable assembly (14) of many earth connections and holding wire, this connector shell comprises:
Has earthy housing (18);
Along a plurality of contact elements (46) that file (44) is arranged, the contact element that this contact element (46) is set for a matching connector electrically contacts, and comprises:
I) earthing contact element (40), this earthing contact element (40) is used to be connected to the earth connection of the cable (16) of multiple wire cable assembly (14); And
Ii) signal contact element (42), this signal contact element (42) is used to be connected to the holding wire of the cable (16) of multiple wire cable assembly (14),
A plurality of terminal connectors (54), each terminal connector have terminal connector housing (56), in this terminal connector housing (56), are provided with signal contact element and earthing contact element,
Along vertical ground strip (24) of the longitudinal extension of the row (44) of contact element (46), this ground strip (24) has two lateral edge (28), and at least one in described two lateral edge (28) is used to be electrically connected to the earth potential of housing (18),
Wherein, this ground strip (24) comprises some through holes (62) that earthing contact element (40) is extended through,
Locate at this through hole (62), earthing contact element (40) is electrically connected with ground strip (24), and is bonded in this through hole in the mode of friction, and
Each the earthing contact element of terminal connector (54) and the signal contact element electric insulation of terminal connector (54) also are electrically connected to terminal connector housing (56) and are arranged in longitudinally on the earthing contact element (40) of a plurality of contact elements (46) in the row (44); Perhaps, the earth connection of cable (16) is connected with the earthing contact element (40) of a plurality of contact elements (46) in being arranged in longitudinally row (44).
2. connector shell according to claim 1, wherein, described ground strip (24) has at least one cut-away area (60), and this at least one cut-away area (60) with under the situation that ground strip (24) contacts is not extending through signal contact element (42).
3. according to connector shell as claimed in claim 2, wherein, described at least one cut-away area (60) is designed to the some through holes in the ground strip (24), and described through hole extends through signal contact element (42) under the situation of the edge electric insulation of this signal contact element (42) and respective through hole.
4. according to claim 2 or 3 described connector shells, wherein, the cut-away area (60) that described signal contact element (42) extends through with described signal contact element (42) respectively or the marginating compartment of through hole are opened.
5. connector shell according to claim 1, wherein, earthing contact element (40) is accommodated in the respective through hole (62) of ground strip (24) with friction mode, thereby forms Mechanical Contact and electrically contact with ground strip (24) in respective through hole (62).
6. according to connector shell as claimed in claim 1, wherein, earthing contact element (40) comprises some ground connection contact pins (48) at least.
7. connector shell according to claim 6, wherein, described ground connection contact pin (48) is designed to compliant pin.
8. connector shell according to claim 1, wherein, described housing (18) comprises the first half housings (20) and the second half housings (22), at least this first half housing (20) comprises electric conducting material, and ground strip (24) along the lateral edge (28) of its ground connection with this first half housing (20) Mechanical Contact with electrically contact.
9. connector shell according to claim 1, it also comprises socket connector (26), this socket connector (26) has several described contact elements (46), and wherein each described contact element (46) all comprises contact insert pin (48) and is used to hold the socket (52) of the contact insert pin of a matching connector.
10. connector shell according to claim 1, wherein, described contact element is provided for holding terminal connector, and this terminal connector has:
(1) housing done of electric conducting material; At least one signal contact element, this signal contact element be disposed in this housing and with this housing electric insulation, and be electrically connected on the signal element in the array of described contact element; And
(2) at least one earthing contact element, this earthing contact element is disposed in this housing and with this housing and is electrically connected, and with the signal contact element electric insulation of this housing, and be electrically connected with earthing contact element in the array of described contact element.
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