CN1897359A

CN1897359A - Electric connector with enhanced clipping function

Info

Publication number: CN1897359A
Application number: CNA2005100815978A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 韦冠仰
Original assignee: P Two Electronic Technology Suzhou Co Ltd; P Two Industries Inc
Current assignee: P Two Electronic Technology Suzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2005-07-15
Filing date: 2005-07-15
Publication date: 2007-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 2025-07-15
Also published as: CN100583563C

Abstract

An electric connector with strengthened clamp capability, comprising of: the main body seat, the camouflage crust, the plural number of conducting terminal, and the clamp groupware. The clamp groupware fixes on the main body seat corresponding with the conducting terminal, the camouflage crust tables the main body and covers the outside of the main body seat with the opposite direction of the clamp groupware inserting direction; the clamp groupware sets the plural number of the press-connecting slice, which forms the superposition in the main body seat with the spring slice of the camouflage crust and interferes at the first direction mutually, in order that the clamp groupware and the camouflage crust is not easy to deviate from the main body seat or create the displacement.

Description

Electric connector with enhanced clipping function

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of electric connector, particularly relate to and use electric connection flexible flat cable, the electric connector for socket that has high chucking power and plug performance repeatedly.

Background technology

Tradition is used the electric connector that electrically connects flexible flat cable, particularly be applied in the low profile socket connector of liquid crystal panel (Liquid Crystal Display Panel), its structure mainly is made of a plastics matter noumenal seat, a metal shell and a plurality of conducting terminal.This class connector is owing to the requirement of slimming, and many sides with the plastic body seat remove, and make plastic body seat and the common formation of metal shell one plant space.After butt connector inserted, to reach electric connection, opposite side was then against metal shell and ground connection against conducting terminal for connecting portion one side of butt connector.In order to make low profile socket connector have better chucking power and grounding function, prevent that the improper of butt connector from getting loose, Republic of China's patent has disclosed a kind of socket connector No. 91217332, this socket connector is to utilize on the wall of metal shell one side, several shell fragments that in the plant space, extend, are oppositely arranged with conducting terminal of one-body molded formation, after butt connector inserts, the connecting portion both sides of butt connector are by conducting terminal and shell fragment clamping firmly, and have increased the effect that ground connection connects.But this comparatively speaking design can form metal shell and destroy, and causes grip strength to reduce on the contrary, even metal shell is thickened design, effect is also not obvious.

In addition, also there is employing between conducting terminal and metal shell, to set up ground plate, utilizes ground plate to contact the mode that makes metal shell ground connection with metal shell again, to replace original direct mode with metal shell ground connection.This method makes the connecting portion of butt connector simultaneously by conducting terminal and ground strip clamping, thereby has improved the not good defective of grip strength after butt connector inserts.But, because ground plate is how fixing by reaching between two side ends and the plastic body seat, when the inserted terminal subnumber increase of socket connector, the length of ground plate increases, compared to both sides, the ground plate of mid portion is often outwards breaking away under the plug repeatedly gradually, forms at last and destroys.Simultaneously,, also be short-circuited easily or other breakoff phenomenon because conflict between the two is not good against the ground plate of metal shell.

In addition, fix owing to lacking reverse interference at the metal shell in the plastic body seat outside from the other direction device, also the phenomenon that displacement gets loose takes place in regular meeting under using repeatedly.

Summary of the invention

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of electric connector, to increase the gripping performance between electric connector and the butt connector with enhanced clipping function.

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of electric connector, make to cover between shell and the clamp assemblies on mounting direction, to form mutual fixing and interfere, avoid the two to get loose, prolonged electric connector useful life because of improper external force effect with enhanced clipping function.

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of electric connector, make the clamp assemblies each several part evenly fixing, form stable contact force with enhanced clipping function.

The present invention is a kind of electric connector with enhanced clipping function, this electric connector by noumenal seat, cover shell, plural conductive terminal and four major parts of clamp assemblies and form.Wherein, clamp assemblies is relative with conducting terminal and wears and be fixed in the noumenal seat, and it is chimeric and be coated on the noumenal seat outside with noumenal seat from the direction opposite with the clamp assemblies direction of insertion to cover shell; Clamp assemblies is provided with a plurality of compressing pieces, this compressing piece and the shell fragment that covers shell in noumenal seat on slot form and overlap, and both form on first direction mutually and interfere, and make clamp assemblies and cover shell and be difficult for breaking away from noumenal seat or phenomenon such as be subjected to displacement, become flexible; In addition, by the above-mentioned interference fixed structure, have better chucking power between clamp assemblies and conducting terminal, this is more conducive to the fixing of butt connector.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the three-dimensional combination figure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the top view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is the assembly exploded view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is the rear structure part enlarged drawing of noumenal seat of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is the sectional drawing of the second figure B-B line segment.

Fig. 6 is the sectional drawing of the second figure A-A line segment.

Fig. 7 is an another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is an embodiment more of the present invention.

Fig. 9 is the assembly exploded view of another embodiment of the present invention.

The figure number explanation

100 electric connectors

10 noumenal seats, 11 noumenal seat rear sides

Slot 112 terminal slots on 111

113 inner faces, 114 projections

115 spacing breach 116 salient points

121 conduits, 122 embedded holes

13 accommodation spaces

20 conducting terminals, 21 central portions

22 contact jaws, 23 welding endss

30 clamp assemblies, 31 clamping terminals

32 terminal group, 33 compressing pieces

311 clamping terminal contact sites, 331 juts

342 second gaps, 341 first gaps

40 cover shell 41 covers the shell side

411 breach, 412 grounding elastic parts

42 shell fragments, 421 fixing holes

43 chimeric 44 grounding parts

A1 first direction A2 second direction

The A3 third direction

Embodiment

For making content of the present invention be obtained to understand more specifically, now illustrate one to several preferred embodiments, and cooperate legend to be described in detail as follows; In addition, except following detailed, the present invention also can be performed among other embodiment widely.

Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 are respectively three-dimensional combination figure, top view and the assembly exploded view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.Electric connector 100 comprises noumenal seat 10, be to be the integrally formed framework that slightly is the L type of plastics, noumenal seat rear side 11 is provided with slot 111 and a plurality of terminal slots 112, and terminal slots 112 extends on the inner face 113 of noumenal seat 10, and noumenal seat 10 left and right sides are provided with conduit 121 and embedded hole 122.Plural conductive terminal 20 is separately independently, and on first direction A1, equidistantly arrange, and plant by central portion 21 and to be fixed in the terminal slots 112, its contact jaw 22 extends the inner face 113 that is placed in noumenal seat 10 and outwards slightly becomes crooked, another welding ends 23 then extends to noumenal seat 10 is outside, contacts so that form fixedly with circuit board.

Clamp assemblies 30 is inserted and is fixed in the slot 111 by the rear side 11 of noumenal seat 10.Clamp assemblies 30 extends connection on electric connector second direction A2, and on the first direction A1 vertical with second direction A2 extended a plurality of clamping terminals 31 and a plurality of compressing piece 33, clamping terminal 31 leading edges are provided with crooked clamping terminal contact site 311, and compressing piece 33 is provided with upwards or the jut 331 that protrudes downwards.In this preferred embodiment, needs according to product design, per two clamping terminals 31 are considered as a terminal group 32, compressing piece 33 then is spaced apart and arranged between terminal group 32 and the terminal group 32, thereby then form second gap 342 between 341, the two clamping terminals 321 of formation first gap between compressing piece 33 and the clamping terminal 31.

Cover shell 40, it is the metal shell of frame type body, it is from inserting the rightabout and the noumenal seat 10 chimeric bags of formation of noumenal seat 10 and be overlying on noumenal seat 10 outsides with conducting terminal 20 and clamp assemblies 30, and by inner face 113 common formation one accommodation spaces 13 of a side 41 of covering shell 40, in order to the plant butt connector with noumenal seat 10.The grounding elastic part 412 that on the side 41 of covering shell 40, is provided with a plurality of breach 411 and extends to accommodation space 13 inner inclination, on the side of side 41, be provided with a plurality of can be corresponding to the shell fragment 42 of compressing piece 33 positions of clamp assemblies 30, and be provided with chimeric 43 and grounding parts 44 covering shell 40 both sides.The electric connector with enhanced clipping function of indication of the present invention is promptly by previously described noumenal seat 10, plural conductive terminal 20, clamp assemblies 30 and cover four primary clusterings such as shell 40 and constituted.

The last slot 111 of noumenal seat 10 is to be used for planting and fixed clamp assembly 30, a plurality of clamping terminals 31 are extended in the noumenal seat 10, and clamping terminal contact site 311 is provided with respect to the contact jaw 22 of conducting terminal 20, the contact site of butt connector that makes insertion gets loose because of chucking power is not enough to avoid butt connector simultaneously by conducting terminal 20 and the 31 subtend clampings of clamping terminal.As shown in Figure 3, for abundant fixed clamp assembly 30, on last slot 111, be provided with plurality of bump 114, its position cooperates the shape setting of clamp assemblies 30, when clamp assemblies 30 is inserted slot 111, each projection 114 just in time contacts at the inner edge in first gap 341 and second gap 342, clearly to define the position of each clamping terminal 31 and compressing piece 33.In this preferred embodiment, projection 114 is the upper and lower sides that are used for connecting slot 111, to guarantee to go up the intensity of slot 111 upper and lower sides, avoid distortion, projection 114 can be extended to another side by arbitrary side of last slot 111 but not be connected with another side, particularly contacts at the projection in second gap 342 but in other embodiments,, can extend to another side by arbitrary side of last slot 111, and directly be crimped on junction between the two clamping terminals 31.

Fig. 4 is the part enlarged drawing of noumenal seat 10 rear structures, and a part of upper side wall perspective is handled.In the drawings, the back side top of each projection 114, form the spacing breach 115 that cooperates clamp assemblies 30 thickness in addition, after making clamp assemblies 30 insert slot 111, the inner margin portion in first gap 341 and second gap 342 can embed in the spacing breach 115, make clamp assemblies 30 spacing, and fixed clamp assembly 30 is in the first half of last slot 111 at above-below direction (third direction A3 just).Fig. 5 is the profile of the B-B line segment of Fig. 2, and as can be seen from Figure, after clamp assemblies 30 was inserted slot 111, clamp assemblies 30 can embed in the spacing breach 115, and 31 of clamping terminals can extend to accommodation space 13, and dispose with conducting terminal 20 subtends.Owing to spacingly lack 115 effect, clamp assemblies 30 can be retained on the first half of slot 111, and Lower Half then forms the space that part is not filled up, the space that below each compressing piece 33, forms particularly, and the shell fragment 42 that just in time can supply to cover shell 40 is ccontaining.When cover shell 40 with noumenal seat 10 chimeric mutually after, cover chimeric 43 embedded hole 122 that inserts noumenal seat 10 of shell 40 both sides, make and cover shell 40 both sides and form fixing, and each shell fragment 42 just in time can be inserted in slot 111 interior positions corresponding to each compressing piece 33, makes shell fragment 42 and compressing piece 33 form overlapping on third direction A3.Fig. 6 is the profile of the A-A line segment of Fig. 2, and as can be seen from Figure, clamp assemblies 30 is positioned at the first half of slot 111, and the shell fragment 42 that covers shell 40 can be inserted in the space of slot 111 Lower Halves, and overlaps with compressing piece 33.The button that both are constituted by the jut on the fixing hole 421 that is provided with on the shell fragment 42 and the compressing piece 33 331 is held mechanism and is formed interference mutually in addition, make clamp assemblies 30 with cover shell 40 on first direction A1, forms detain mutually hold fixing, thus, the two is broken away from by the direction of packing into covering shell 40 to avoid clamp assemblies 30, and all even stressed fixing of each part on longitudinally, reduce get loose, bad destruction such as displacement takes place, relative enhancing for the chucking power of butt connector.

In other embodiments, for stationarity between shell 40, noumenal seat 10 and the clamp assemblies 30 is covered in enhancing, can also be on noumenal seat 10 slot 111 1 sides, set up a salient point 116 corresponding to each fixing hole 421 place, form with fixing hole 421 and to interfere, fix strengthening, as shown in Figure 7.In addition, cover the top that the shell fragment 42 of shell 40 also can insert compressing piece 33.As shown in Figure 8, the spacing breach 115 of the projection 114 of last slot 111 is moved to the back side lower part, can be limited in Lower Half so clamp assemblies 30 inserts after going up slot 111, the shell fragment 42 that covers shell 40 then overlaps above compressing piece 33, and interference mutually.

The fixing hole 421 of shell fragment 42 and the jut 331 of compressing piece 33 be provided with that quantity can according to the actual size of electric connector 100 and the pin number be selected all to be provided with or be provided with at interval, decide on user's demand, for example the mode of Fig. 9 is to take to be provided with at interval.Simultaneously, to the clamping terminal 31 of clamp assemblies 30 and the arrangement mode of compressing piece 33, look the actual needs of connector, also can be designed to one to one design at interval, just a clamping terminal 31 and a compressing piece 33 are provided with at interval, but not per two clamping terminals 31 are joined the mode of a compressing piece 33.

Clamp assemblies 30 of the present invention the gripping performance that purpose is to increase butt connector is set, then directly utilize the grounding parts that covers grounding elastic part 412 set on the side 41 of shell 40 and butt connector to be connected as for the ground connection coupling part, be connected on the circuit board earthed circuit via the grounding parts 44 that covers shell 40 again.

In sum, connector of the present invention has splendid gripping performance, and has strengthened the fixing between each assembly of connector, particularly at the connector with slim framework, has more tangible benefit.Range of application of the present invention not only limits in the embodiment previously described, and goal of the invention every and of the present invention and the effect that can reach are identical or similar, or belong to distortion of the present invention or improvement, all should belong to the scope that the present invention is contained.The present invention really meets the regulation of Patent Law, and filing an application in the whence in accordance with the law, expects early to grant a patent.

Claims

1. electric connector with enhanced clipping function comprises:

Noumenal seat, it is provided with slot and a plurality of terminal slots;

Cover skin, be coated on this noumenal seat outside, and constitute an accommodation space, and be provided with a plurality of shell fragments with this noumenal seat is common;

The plural conductive terminal is inserted in this terminal slots;

Clamp assemblies extends and to be provided with a plurality of clamping terminals and a plurality of compressing piece, be inserted in this in the slot, and this compressing piece of mat is in contact with one another with this shell fragment, makes this clamp assemblies and this cover shell formation electric connection and interference mutually on first direction.

2. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 1, wherein this covers outer field shell fragment system and inserts on this in slot, and forms overlapping with this compressing piece.

3. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 1, wherein this covers outer field shell fragment and is provided with fixing hole, and this compressing piece is provided with jut, hold mechanism by the button that fixing hole and jut constituted, make this clamp assemblies and this cover shell formation electric connection and interference mutually on first direction.

4. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the compressing piece of this clamp assemblies is to be disposed between per two clamping terminals, and extend along equidirectional with the clamping terminal, and form first gap between compressing piece and the clamping terminal, form second gap between the two clamping terminals.

5. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 1 wherein more comprises this and covers and outer extend to grounding parts to rear side.

6. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 1 wherein more is included in slot on this and covers the side that outer field shell fragment contacts with this and be provided with salient point, and forms with the fixing hole of shell fragment and to interfere.

7. the electric connector of tool enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 4, wherein more comprise the projection that is provided with a plurality of connections side up and down of slot on this, should go up in the slot when this clamp assemblies inserts, projection promptly keeps off putting between this first gap and reaches between second gap.

8. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 4, a side that wherein more comprises this projection and be by last slot extends to another side, and is not connected with another side.

9. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 8 wherein more comprises this projection and leans junction at two clamping terminals by the below.

10. the electric connector with enhanced clipping function as claimed in claim 7 wherein more is contained in this first projection rear side and is provided with a spacing breach, and is spacing up and down so that this clamp assemblies is carried out.