CN209860187U

CN209860187U - TYPE-C connector and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN209860187U
Application number: CN201920867436.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈军; 邓白频
Original assignee: Farsighted Industrial Science And Technology Ltd Of Essence Of Shenzhen
Current assignee: Farsighted Industrial Science And Technology Ltd Of Essence Of Shenzhen
Priority date: 2019-06-05
Filing date: 2019-06-05
Publication date: 2019-12-27
Anticipated expiration: 2029-06-05

Abstract

The utility model discloses a TYPE-C connector and electronic equipment, this TYPE-C connector include row's of going up the terminal subassembly and arrange the terminal subassembly down, it locates in row's of going up shaping plastic part to go up the terminal subassembly, it locates in row's of going down shaping plastic part to arrange the terminal subassembly down, it all is equipped with the joint portion on the terminal that is used for the terminal that charges and is used for signal transmission in the row's of going down terminal subassembly, the joint portion with the terminal fixed connection that the function corresponds in the row's of going up terminal subassembly, go up row's shaping plastic part with it locates in the post shaping plastic part to arrange the shaping plastic part down, the tip of arranging the terminal subassembly down extends the welding pin, the welding pin exposes the outside of post. The utility model discloses can solve the pin and arrange intensive, the high problem of the paster degree of difficulty.

Description

TYPE-C connector and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a connector technical field especially relates to a TYPE-C connector and electronic equipment.

Background

The TYPE-C connector is widely used in the field of electronic products due to its stable electrical performance, and is one of the widely used connectors due to its advantages of fast transmission speed, supporting hot plugging, no separation of front and back sides, and the like. At present, the TYPE-C connector is commonly used in various electronic devices, such as mobile phones and notebooks.

Type C connector is including two rows of terminals about including usually, goes up row of terminal and moulds plastics in last plastic body, and lower row of terminal is moulded plastics in plastic body down, goes up and carries out secondary in-mould shaping again after plastic body and the lower plastic body combination, and it is fixed to pack into the iron-clad with the product after the secondary in-mould at last. In order to realize the effect of quick charging, the existing Type C connector is mostly applied to 16PIN (PINs) and 24PIN at present, the 16PIN Type-C connector is mainly applied to a mobile phone and a mobile power supply, and the full-function 24PIN Type-C connector is basically applied to a computer.

Because the Type C connector is small in size, for a 24PIN Type-C connector, 24 PINs are usually arranged in a matrix of double-row PINs 12-12, especially in a plug-in welding process, the PINs are densely arranged, the requirement on a patch is high, and the production efficiency and the production cost are influenced. For the 16-PIN TYPE-C connector, two groups of TX/RX fast transmission are cancelled, and the total number of PINs is 8, so that the welding PINs are changed into a single row of 16PIN, but the welding PINs are arranged together, and the problems of dense PIN arrangement and high pasting difficulty also exist.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a TYPE-C connector to solve the pin and arrange intensive, the high problem of the paster degree of difficulty.

The utility model provides a TYPE-C connector, includes row's of going up terminal subassembly and lower row of terminal subassembly, it locates in the last row of shaping plastic part to go up the terminal subassembly, it locates in the lower row of shaping plastic part to go up the terminal subassembly, all be equipped with the joint portion on the terminal that is used for the terminal that charges and is used for signal transmission in the lower row of terminal subassembly, the joint portion with the terminal fixed connection that the function corresponds in the row of going up terminal subassembly, go up row's shaping plastic part with it locates in the post forming plastic part to go up, the tip of lower row of terminal subassembly extends the welding pin, the welding pin exposes the outside of post forming plastic part.

According to the TYPE-C connector provided by the utility model, the terminals for charging and the terminals for signal transmission in the lower row terminal component are provided with the combining parts, the parallel electrical connection between the upper row terminal assembly and the lower row terminal assembly is realized through the fixed connection between the combining part and the functionally corresponding terminals in the upper row terminal assembly, in the terminal design, the number of terminals can be reduced, and in addition, the soldering pins are located at the end of the lower row of terminal assemblies, and exposed outside the secondary molding plastic part, the same function can be realized by using a small number of welding pins, the welding pins in traditional dense arrangement are combined, so that the problems of dense pin arrangement and high patch difficulty in the prior art are solved, the manufacturing cost and the manufacturing difficulty can be reduced, the process difficulty of plug-in welding can be particularly reduced, and the production yield and efficiency of products are improved.

In addition, according to the utility model provides a TYPE-C connector can also have following additional technical characteristics:

further, the upper row terminal assembly comprises an upper row GND terminal, an upper row VBUS terminal, an upper row CC terminal, an upper row DP terminal and an upper row DN terminal, the upper row GND terminal and the upper row VBUS terminal are used for charging, the upper row DP terminal and the upper row DN terminal are used for signal transmission, the upper row GND terminal and the upper row VBUS terminal are both in U-shaped structures, the upper row CC terminal and the upper row DP terminal are both in L-shaped structures, the upper row DN terminal, the upper row DP terminal, the upper row CC terminal, the upper row VBUS terminal and the upper row GND terminal are sequentially arranged from inside to outside, the lower row terminal assembly comprises a first GND terminal, a first VBUS terminal, a DN terminal, a lower row DP terminal, a first CC terminal, a second VBUS terminal and a second GND terminal which are sequentially arranged from one side to the other side, the first GND terminal, the first VBUS terminal, the second VBUS terminal, and the second GND terminal are terminals for charging, and the DN terminal row and the DP terminal row are terminals for signal transmission.

Furthermore, one end of the first GND terminal is bent to extend out of a first GND terminal combination portion, one end of the second GND terminal is bent in two directions to extend out of a second GND terminal combination portion and a sixth welding pin, and the upper row of GND terminals are fixedly connected with the first GND terminal combination portion and the second GND terminal combination portion respectively.

Furthermore, one end of the first VBUS terminal is bent towards two directions to extend out of a first VBUS terminal combining portion and a first welding pin, one end of the second VBUS terminal is bent to extend out of a second VBUS terminal combining portion, and the upper row of VBUS terminals are fixedly connected with the first VBUS terminal combining portion and the second VBUS terminal combining portion respectively.

Furthermore, one end of the lower-row DN terminal is bent towards two directions respectively to extend a lower-row DN terminal combination part and a second welding pin, and the upper-row DN terminal is fixedly connected with the lower-row DN terminal combination part.

Furthermore, one end of the lower-row DP terminal is bent towards two directions to extend out of a lower-row DP terminal combining part and a third welding pin, and the upper-row DP terminal is fixedly connected with the lower-row DP terminal combining part.

Furthermore, one end of the first CC terminal is bent to extend out of a first CC terminal combination part, the other end of the first CC terminal is bent to extend out of a fourth welding pin, the upper row of CC terminals is fixedly connected with the first CC terminal combination part to lead out the upper row of CC terminals, and one end of the second CC terminal is bent to extend out of a fifth welding pin.

Furthermore, the extending directions of the first bonding pin, the second bonding pin, the third bonding pin, the fourth bonding pin, the fifth bonding pin and the sixth bonding pin are the same and are arranged in parallel.

Furthermore, a middle steel sheet is arranged between the upper row of molded plastic parts and the lower row of molded plastic parts, a steel sheet positioning hole is formed in the middle steel sheet, positioning columns are correspondingly arranged on the lower row of molded plastic parts and used for being inserted into the steel sheet positioning hole, and L-shaped locking bosses are respectively arranged on two sides of the middle steel sheet.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device using the above TYPE-C connector.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a TYPE-C connector according to a first embodiment of the present invention after assembly;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of an upper row of terminal assemblies;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of the lower row terminal assembly in a first view;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the lower row terminal assembly shown in a second view;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the upper row of terminal assemblies and the lower row of terminal assemblies welded together;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the structure of the upper row of terminal assemblies and the upper row of molded plastic parts;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of the lower row of terminal assemblies and the lower row of molded plastic parts;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of a middle steel sheet;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the structure of the lower row of terminal assemblies, the lower row of molded plastic parts and the middle steel sheet;

fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of the TYPE-C connector according to the first embodiment of the present invention (without the iron shell) after assembly.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the invention are given in the accompanying drawings. The invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. As used herein, the terms "vertical," "horizontal," "left," "right," "up," "down," and the like are for illustrative purposes only and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

Please refer to fig. 1 to 11, the TYPE-C connector according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes an upper row of terminal assemblies 10 and a lower row of terminal assemblies 20, wherein the upper row of terminal assemblies 10 is disposed in the upper row of molded plastic part 30, the lower row of terminal assemblies 20 is disposed in the lower row of molded plastic part 40, a combination portion 50 is disposed on the terminals for charging and the terminals for signal transmission in the lower row of terminal assemblies 20, the combination portion 50 is fixedly connected to the terminals corresponding to the functions in the upper row of terminal assemblies 10, the upper row of molded plastic part 30 is disposed in the secondary molded plastic part 70 with the lower row of molded plastic part 40, a welding pin 80 extends from the end of the lower row of terminal assemblies 20, and the welding pin 80 is exposed outside the secondary molded plastic part 70.

Specifically, the upper row terminal assembly 10 includes an upper row GND terminal 11, an upper row VBUS terminal 12, an upper row CC terminal 13, an upper row DP terminal 14, and an upper row DN terminal 15. The upper row GND terminal 11 and the upper row VBUS terminal 12 are terminals for charging, the upper row DP terminal 14 and the upper row DN terminal 15 are terminals for signal transmission, and the upper row CC terminal 13 is a terminal for positive and negative identification.

The upper row of GND terminal 11 and the upper row of VBUS terminal 12 are both U-shaped structures, the upper row of CC terminal 13 and the upper row of DP terminal 14 are both L-shaped structures, and the upper row of DN terminal 15, the upper row of DP terminal 14, the upper row of CC terminal 13, the upper row of VBUS terminal 12 and the upper row of GND terminal 11 are sequentially arranged from inside to outside. In specific implementation, a metal material may be cut on a plane to obtain an upper row of terminal assemblies 10, an upper row of terminal welding grooves 31 is formed on the upper row of molded plastic members 30, the upper row of terminal assemblies 10 are placed in the upper row of terminal welding grooves 31, and then injection molding is performed.

The lower terminal assembly 20 includes a first GND terminal 21, a first VBUS terminal 22, a lower DN terminal 23, a lower DP terminal 24, a first CC terminal 25, a second CC terminal 26, a second VBUS terminal 27, and a second GND terminal 28, which are sequentially disposed from one side to the other side. The first GND terminal 21, the first VBUS terminal 22, the second VBUS terminal 27, and the second GND terminal 28 are terminals for charging, the DN terminal 23 and the DP terminal 24 are terminals for signal transmission, and the first CC terminal 25 and the second CC terminal 26 are terminals for positive and negative identification. In specific implementation, the lower terminal assembly 20 may be obtained by a blanking and bending process, the lower terminal welding groove 41 is formed on the lower molded plastic part 40, the lower terminal assembly 20 is placed in the lower terminal welding groove 41, and then injection molding is performed.

One end of the first GND terminal 21 is bent to extend out of the first GND terminal combination portion 211, one end of the second GND terminal 28 is bent in two directions to extend out of the second GND terminal combination portion 281 and the sixth soldering pin 282, and the upper row GND terminal 11 is fixedly connected with the first GND terminal combination portion 211 and the second GND terminal combination portion 281. In specific implementation, the upper row GND terminal 11 may be welded and fixed to the first GND terminal connection portion 211 and the second GND terminal connection portion 281, respectively, by laser spot welding, soldering, or mutual engagement and engagement.

One end of the first VBUS terminal 22 is bent towards two directions to extend out of a first VBUS terminal combining portion 221 and a first welding pin 222, one end of the second VBUS terminal 27 is bent to extend out of a second VBUS terminal combining portion 271, and the upper row of VBUS terminals 12 are fixedly connected with the first VBUS terminal combining portion 221 and the second VBUS terminal combining portion 271 respectively. In specific implementation, the upper row of VBUS terminals 12 can be welded and fixed to the first VBUS terminal connection portion 221 and the second VBUS terminal connection portion 271 by laser spot welding, soldering or mutual engagement and buckling.

One end of the lower-row DN terminal 23 is respectively bent towards two directions to extend a lower-row DN terminal combining part 231 and a second welding pin 232, and the upper-row DN terminal 15 is fixedly connected with the lower-row DN terminal combining part 231. In specific implementation, the upper row DN terminal 15 and the lower row DN terminal combining portion 231 can be welded and fixed by means of laser spot welding, soldering or mutual occlusion and buckling.

One end of the lower DP terminal 24 is bent in two directions to extend out of a lower DP terminal connection portion 241 and a third solder pin 242, and the upper DP terminal 14 is fixedly connected to the lower DP terminal connection portion 241. In specific implementation, the upper DP terminal 14 and the lower DP terminal connecting portion 241 may be welded and fixed by laser spot welding, soldering, or mutual engagement and engagement.

One end of the first CC terminal 25 is bent to extend out of a first CC terminal combining portion 251, the other end of the first CC terminal 25 is bent to extend out of a fourth welding pin 252, and the upper row of CC terminals 13 is fixedly connected with the first CC terminal combining portion 251 to lead out the upper row of CC terminals 13. In specific implementation, the upper row of CC terminals 13 and the first CC terminal connection portion 251 may be welded and fixed by laser spot welding, soldering, or mutual engagement and engagement.

One end of the second CC terminal 26 is bent to extend out of the fifth soldering pin 261. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the first CC terminal combination portion 251 is disposed on the first CC terminal 25 in the lower row, and the first CC terminal combination portion 251 is fixedly connected to the upper row of CC terminals 13, and mainly plays a role of leading out the upper row of CC terminals 13 (in terms of operation, the first CC terminal 25 belongs to the upper row of CC terminals, but in terms of position, the first CC terminal 25 is disposed in the lower row), so as to realize the positive and negative identification of the upper row of CC terminals 13 (including the first CC terminal 25) and the second CC terminal 26.

In the present embodiment, the first GND terminal combining portion 211, the second GND terminal combining portion 281, the first VBUS terminal combining portion 221, the second VBUS terminal combining portion 271, the lower row DN terminal combining portion 231, and the lower row DP terminal combining portion 241 all belong to the combining portion 50 provided on the lower row terminal assembly 20.

The TYPE-C connector proposed in this embodiment only needs to be provided with the terminals of the upper row GND terminal 11, the upper row VBUS terminal 12, the upper row CC terminal 13, the upper row DP terminal 14, the upper row DN terminal 15, the first GND terminal 21, the first VBUS terminal 22, the lower row DN terminal 23, the lower row DP terminal 24, the second CC terminal 26, the second VBUS terminal 27, and the second GND terminal 28 (wherein, the first CC terminal 25 only plays a role of leading out the upper row CC terminal 13), and can also achieve the functions of fast charging and signal transmission, and compared with the conventional 24PIN and 16PIN schemes, the number of terminals is reduced.

The first soldering pin 222, the second soldering pin 232, the third soldering pin 242, the fourth soldering pin 252, the fifth soldering pin 261 and the sixth soldering pin 282 all belong to the soldering pin 80, specifically, the six soldering pins have the same extending direction and are arranged in parallel, and the six soldering pins are used for realizing external electrical connection and are specifically used for soldering with a PCB. This embodiment improves the scheme of traditional 24PIN and 16PIN into 6 welding PINs (6 PIN promptly), can greatly reduce manufacturing cost and manufacturing difficulty, promotes product production yield and efficiency.

It should be noted that although the above-mentioned number of terminals and welding pins are specifically described in this embodiment, in the specific implementation, those skilled in the art can adjust the number of the terminals and welding pins according to the concept of the present invention to ensure the corresponding functions, specifically, the TYPE-C connector proposed in this embodiment can provide the combination portion on the terminals for charging and the terminals for signal transmission in the lower row of terminal assemblies, and can realize the parallel electrical connection between the upper row of terminal assemblies and the lower row of terminal assemblies through the fixed connection of the combination portion and the functionally corresponding terminals in the upper row of terminal assemblies, and can reduce the number of the terminals in the terminal design, and in addition, the welding pins are located at the end portions of the lower row of terminal assemblies and exposed outside the overmolded plastic part, and can realize the same functions by using a smaller number of welding pins, the welding pins in traditional dense arrangement are combined, so that the problems of dense pin arrangement and high patch difficulty in the prior art are solved, the manufacturing cost and the manufacturing difficulty can be reduced, the process difficulty of plug-in welding can be particularly reduced, and the production yield and efficiency of products are improved.

In addition, in this embodiment, two middle steel sheets 90 are disposed between the upper row of molding plastic parts 30 and the lower row of molding plastic parts 40, a steel sheet positioning hole 91 is disposed on each middle steel sheet 90, a positioning column 42 is correspondingly disposed on each lower row of molding plastic parts 40, the positioning column 42 is used for being inserted into the steel sheet positioning hole 91, and L-shaped locking bosses 92 are disposed on two sides of each middle steel sheet 90.

Specifically, after the upper row of molded plastic parts 30 and the lower row of molded plastic parts 40 are overlapped and fastened, the two middle steel sheets 90 are placed in the middle, and through the matching and fixing positions of the steel sheet positioning holes 91 formed in the middle steel sheets 90 and the positioning columns 42, the L-shaped locking bosses 92 on the two sides of the middle steel sheets 90 are used for providing the plug-in and plug-out force for the male and the female.

Then, the upper row terminal assembly 10 and the lower row terminal assembly 20 are fixed together by laser spot welding, soldering or mutual engagement and buckling, and then secondary injection molding is performed to obtain a secondary molded plastic part 70, specifically, a terminal welding observation hole 71 may be formed on the secondary molded plastic part 70, a terminal head protection surface 72 may be formed on the head of the secondary molded plastic part 70 to prevent the terminal from warping PIN, and then the secondary molded plastic part 70 is installed in the iron case 100 and fixed.

Furthermore, a second embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, which at least includes the TYPE-C connector of the first embodiment, and it should be noted that the electronic device can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, etc.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a TYPE-C connector, includes row's of going up terminal subassembly and lower row of terminal subassembly, it locates in the row's of going up shaping plastic part to go up the terminal subassembly, it locates in the row's of lower row of terminal subassembly shaping plastic part to go up the terminal subassembly, it all is equipped with the joint portion on the terminal that is used for the terminal that charges and is used for signal transmission in the row's of terminal subassembly, the joint portion with the terminal fixed connection that the function corresponds in the row of terminal subassembly of going up, go up row's shaping plastic part with it locates in the post forming plastic part to go up the row's of terminal subassembly, the tip of lower row's of terminal subassembly extends the welding pin.

2. The TYPE-C connector according to claim 1, wherein the upper row of terminal assemblies comprises an upper row GND terminal, an upper row VBUS terminal, an upper row CC terminal, an upper row DP terminal and an upper row DN terminal, the upper row GND terminal and the upper row VBUS terminal are terminals for charging, the upper row DP terminal and the upper row DN terminal are terminals for signal transmission, the upper row GND terminal and the upper row VBUS terminal are both U-shaped, the upper row CC terminal and the upper row DP terminal are both L-shaped, the upper row DN terminal, the upper row DP terminal, the upper row CC terminal, the upper row VBUS terminal and the upper row GND terminal are arranged from inside to outside in sequence, the lower row of terminal assemblies comprises a first GND terminal, a first VBUS terminal, a lower row DN terminal, a lower row DP terminal, a first CC terminal, and a second GND terminal arranged from one side to the other side in sequence, The first GND terminal, the first VBUS terminal, the second VBUS terminal, and the second GND terminal are terminals for charging, and the lower row of DN terminals and the lower row of DP terminals are terminals for signal transmission.

3. The TYPE-C connector of claim 2, wherein one end of the first GND terminal is bent to extend out of a first GND terminal combining portion, one end of the second GND terminal is bent in two directions to extend out of a second GND terminal combining portion and a sixth welding pin, and the upper-row GND terminal is fixedly connected with the first GND terminal combining portion and the second GND terminal combining portion respectively.

4. The TYPE-C connector of claim 3, wherein one end of the first VBUS terminal is bent in two directions to extend out of a first VBUS terminal combining portion and a first welding pin, one end of the second VBUS terminal is bent to extend out of a second VBUS terminal combining portion, and the upper row of VBUS terminals are fixedly connected with the first VBUS terminal combining portion and the second VBUS terminal combining portion respectively.

5. The TYPE-C connector of claim 4, wherein one end of the lower DN terminal row is bent in two directions to extend out of a lower DN terminal binding portion and a second solder pin, and the upper DN terminal row is fixedly connected with the lower DN terminal binding portion.

6. The TYPE-C connector of claim 5, wherein one end of the lower DP terminal is bent in two directions to extend out of a lower DP terminal combining part and a third welding pin, and the upper DP terminal is fixedly connected with the lower DP terminal combining part.

7. The TYPE-C connector of claim 6, wherein one end of the first CC terminal is bent to extend out of a first CC terminal combining part, the other end of the first CC terminal is bent to extend out of a fourth welding pin, the upper row of CC terminals is fixedly connected with the first CC terminal combining part to lead out the upper row of CC terminals, and one end of the second CC terminal is bent to extend out of a fifth welding pin.

8. The TYPE-C connector of claim 7, wherein the first solder pin, the second solder pin, the third solder pin, the fourth solder pin, the fifth solder pin and the sixth solder pin extend in the same direction and are arranged parallel to each other.

9. The TYPE-C connector according to claim 1, wherein a middle steel sheet is arranged between the upper row of the molding plastic parts and the lower row of the molding plastic parts, a steel sheet positioning hole is formed in the middle steel sheet, a positioning column is correspondingly arranged on the lower row of the molding plastic parts and is used for being inserted into the steel sheet positioning hole, and L-shaped locking bosses are respectively arranged on two sides of the middle steel sheet.

10. An electronic device comprising the TYPE-C connector of any one of claims 1 to 9.