CN211404791U - Connector assembly - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a connector assembly adds operation structure at public end connector, through operation structure for public end connector and female end connector butt joint, like this, multiplicable public end connector and female end connector joint strength between the two, and avoid the accident to remove public end signal terminal and female end signal terminal and be connected between the two, with the reliability that improves the connector assembly.

Description

Connector assembly

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a connector assembly particularly, is a connector assembly that can strengthen public end connector and female end connector relation of connection between the two.

Background

In general, a plurality of signal components, which are essential to an electronic device, need to be connected to each other to transmit signals. However, in recent years, due to the demand for thinning of precision electronic devices, the overall size of the connectors is required to be reduced, so that the fitting force between the connectors respectively disposed on the signal members is insufficient, the fitting between the connectors is easily released by external impact, the connection relationship between the signal members is easily broken, and the normal operation of the electronic device is affected, and even the electronic device is damaged.

Based on the foregoing, how to ensure that the engaging force between the connectors on the signal components in the electronic device is sufficient is a matter of urgent concern to those skilled in the art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above-mentioned shortcomings of the prior art, the present invention provides a connector assembly, comprising: a female end connector comprising: the female end insulating seat is provided with a female end stop structure; the female end signal terminal is embedded in the female end insulating seat; a male end connector for operatively mating or unmating said female end connector, comprising: the male end insulating seat is provided with a male end stop structure and an operation structure; the male end signal terminal is embedded in the male end insulating seat; during the process that the male end connector is in butt joint with the female end connector in an operation mode, the operation structure deforms to enable the male end stopping structure to overlap the female end stopping structure, and therefore the connection relation between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal is maintained; and in the process that the male end connector is undocked from the female end connector, the operating structure deforms to cause the male end stopping structure to leave the female end stopping structure, so that the connection relationship between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal is relieved.

Preferably, in the electrical connector, the operating structure is an elastic arm structure and has a force application end, and the force application end is exposed to provide a force to deform the body of the elastic arm structure, so as to cause the male end stop structure to stop the female end stop structure, or cause the male end stop structure to leave the female end stop structure.

Preferably, the male end insulating base has a male end exposed structure, and the male end exposed structure provides a space to expose the force application end.

Optionally, the male end stop structure and the female end stop structure are respectively located above the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal, so as to avoid interference between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal.

Optionally, the male end stop structure and the handle structure are formed as an aggregate, and the male end stop structure is an embossed structure on the aggregate, and the handle structure is located at an end of the aggregate away from the embossed structure.

Optionally, the male terminal insulating base further has a male terminal insulating base body, and the aggregate has an aggregate embedding structure, and the aggregate embedding structure is embedded in the male terminal insulating base body and deviates from the operating structure to be set so that the operating structure becomes a cantilever structure.

Optionally, the aggregate is formed by bending a sheet material.

Optionally, the female end insulating base further has a female end guide structure, and the female end guide structure is used for guiding the male end stop structure to enter the female end insulating base and then overlap the female end stop structure, or guiding the male end stop structure to leave the female end stop structure and then exit the female end insulating base.

Optionally, the female end insulating base further has an inner chamber, the inner chamber is provided to accommodate the male end stopping structure, and the female end stopping structure and the female end guiding structure are respectively formed by at least one chamber wall of the inner chamber.

Optionally, at least one of the male terminal signal terminal and the female terminal signal terminal has a spring structure, so as to maintain a connection relationship between the male terminal signal terminal and the female terminal signal terminal.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses a connector assembly adds operation structure at public end connector, through operation structure for public end connector butt joint female end connector, like this, can strengthen public end connector and female end connector relation of being connected between the two, and avoid the accident to remove public end signal terminal and female end signal terminal and be connected between the two, thereby improve the credibility of connector assembly.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a connector assembly according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the connector assembly of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the connector assembly of FIG. 2 taken along line AA;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the connector assembly of FIG. 2 taken along line BB;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the male end connector of the present invention;

figures 6 to 9 are exploded views of the male end connector part member shown in figure 5;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the female end connector of the present invention; and

figures 11 to 13 are exploded views of the female connector part member shown in figure 10.

Detailed Description

The technical contents of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings by specific embodiments, and other advantages and effects of the present invention can be easily understood by those skilled in the art from the disclosure of the present specification. The invention is capable of other and different embodiments and of being practiced or being carried out in various ways. Various modifications and changes may be made in the details of the present description without departing from the spirit of the invention, which is also based on different perspectives and applications. In particular, the relative positions and proportions of the various elements in the drawings are merely exemplary in nature and are not intended to represent the actual conditions under which the present invention may be practiced.

In addition, the structures or components with the same or similar functions in the following embodiments will be described by using the same symbols, and the description of the same or equivalent technical features will be omitted so as to make the disclosure more concise and clear.

To the technical idea of the present invention, please refer to fig. 1 to fig. 13 together.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the present invention mainly provides a connector assembly 1 disposed on a plurality of circuit substrates 5 to electrically connect the circuit substrates 5 to each other. The circuit substrate 5 may be a flexible circuit board or a rigid circuit board. Particularly, the utility model discloses a connector assembly 1 includes: female end connector 2 and public end connector 3, wherein, public end connector 3 is used for the operation butt joint or undock butt joint female end connector 2.

As shown in fig. 10, the female connector 2 includes: as shown in fig. 3 to 4, the female terminal insulating base 21 is concavely provided with a female terminal stopping structure 211, and the female terminal signal terminal 22 is embedded in the female terminal insulating base 21.

As shown in fig. 5, the male end connector 3 includes: the male terminal insulating base 31 and the male terminal signal terminal 32, the male terminal insulating base 31 has a male terminal stopping structure 311, an operating structure 312 and a male terminal insulating base body 314, and the male terminal signal terminal 32 is embedded in the male terminal insulating base body 314 of the male terminal insulating base 3. In the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the male end stop structure 311 is structurally matched with the female end stop structure 211.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, male end stop 311 is integrally formed with handle structure 312 as aggregate 33, specifically, male end stop 311 is an embossment 331 on aggregate 33, and handle structure 312 is located on a handle of aggregate 33 at an end away from embossment 331.

As shown in fig. 6 to 9, the assembly 33 has an assembly embedding structure 332, the assembly embedding structure 332 is embedded in the male end insulating base body 314, so that the operating structure 312 is a cantilever structure and can be deformed by force, the male end stopping structure 311 is overlapped with or separated from the female end stopping structure 211, and the male end connector 3 is operated to butt or un-butt the female end connector 2. The aggregate 33 is formed by bending a sheet-like elastic metal material, thereby increasing the elastic deformability of the cantilever structure.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in the process of the male end connector 3 operating to butt against the female end connector 2, as shown in fig. 4, the operating structure 312 may be deformed by a force so that the male end stopping structure 311 overlaps the female end stopping structure 211 to stop the relative movement between the male end connector 3 and the female end connector 2, thereby maintaining the connection relationship between the male end signal terminal 32 and the female end signal terminal 22, and thus, the connection relationship between the male end signal terminal 32 and the female end signal terminal 22 may be prevented from being accidentally released due to other unexpected factors such as vibration or pulling of the male end connector 3 or the female end connector 2, thereby improving the reliability of the connector assembly 1.

Accordingly, as shown in fig. 13, at least one of the male signal terminal 32 and the female signal terminal 22 has a spring structure 4, so as to increase the fitting force between the male signal terminal 32 and the female signal terminal 22, and to maintain the connection relationship between the male signal terminal 32 and the female signal terminal 22. Thus, it is possible to prevent the male terminal connector 3 or the female terminal connector 2 from accidentally releasing the connection relationship between the male terminal signal terminal 32 and the female terminal signal terminal 22 due to other unexpected factors such as vibration or pulling, and the reliability of the connector assembly 1 is improved.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 4 and 10, the female insulating base 21 is provided with an inner chamber 212 and a female guiding structure 213, and the female stopping structure 211 and the female guiding structure 213 are respectively formed by at least one cavity wall 2121 of the inner chamber 212 and are used for guiding the movement of the male stopping structure 311, so that the male stopping structure 311 enters the inner chamber 212 of the female insulating base 21 and then overlaps the female stopping structure 211, or the male stopping structure 311 leaves the female stopping structure 211 and then exits the female insulating base 21.

In addition, as shown in fig. 4, during the process of undoing the male end connector 3 from the female end connector 2, the operation structure 312 can be deformed under force to cause the male end stop structure 311 to leave the female end stop structure 211, so that the male end connector 3 and the female end connector 2 can move relatively, thereby providing the connection relationship between the undoing male end signal terminal 32 and the female end signal terminal 22.

In the present invention, as shown in fig. 5 to fig. 9, the operation structure 312 is an elastic arm structure having a force applying end 3122, and accordingly, the male end insulating base 31 has a male end exposing structure 313 providing a space and exposing the force applying end 3122, so that the force applying end 3122 can be exposed to provide force application to deform the body of the elastic arm structure, so as to cause the male end stopping structure 311 to stop the female end stopping structure 211, or cause the male end stopping structure 311 to leave the female end stopping structure 211. It should be noted that the body of the elastic arm structure can be deformed only by the force applied from the force applying end 3122, and the operation structure 312 enables the male terminal connector 3 to be operated to butt or un-butt the female terminal connector 2, so that the misoperation of accidentally removing the connection relationship between the male terminal signal terminal 32 and the female terminal signal terminal 22 can be effectively avoided, thereby improving the reliability of the connector assembly 1.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 5 to 6 and fig. 11 to 13, the male-end stopping structure 311 and the female-end stopping structure 211 are respectively located at positions above the male-end signal terminal 32 and the female-end signal terminal 22 to avoid interference with the connection between the male-end signal terminal 32 and the female-end signal terminal 22.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses a connector assembly adds operation structure at public end connector for through operation structure, make public end connector butt joint female end connector, like this, can avoid public end connector or female end connector because of vibrations or other unexpected factors such as dragging, and the unexpected relation of connection between public end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal between the two of relieving, thereby improve the credibility of connector assembly.

Description of the symbols

1 connector assembly

2 female end connector

21 female end insulating seat

211 female end stop structure

212 inner chamber

2121 chamber wall

213 female end guide structure

22 female terminal signal terminal

3 male end connector

31 public end insulating seat

311 male end stop structure

312 operation structure

3122 force application end

313 male end exposed structure

314 male end insulation seat body

32 male terminal signal terminal

33 aggregate

331 embossed structure

332 aggregate embedding structure

4-reed structure

5 Circuit board

Claims (10)

1. A connector assembly, comprising:

a female end connector comprising:

the female end insulating seat is provided with a female end stop structure; and

the female end signal terminal is embedded in the female end insulating seat;

a male end connector for operatively mating or unmating said female end connector, comprising:

the male end insulating seat is provided with a male end stop structure and an operation structure; and

the male end signal terminal is embedded in the male end insulating seat; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

during the process that the male end connector is operated to butt joint the female end connector, the operating structure deforms to cause the male end stop structure to overlap the female end stop structure, so that the connection relationship between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal is maintained; and

in the process that the male end connector is undocked from the female end connector, the operating structure deforms to cause the male end stopping structure to leave the female end stopping structure, so that the connection relationship between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal is released.

2. The connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the operating structure is an elastic arm structure and is provided with a force application end, and the force application end is exposed to provide force to deform the body of the elastic arm structure so as to enable the male end stop structure to stop the female end stop structure or enable the male end stop structure to leave the female end stop structure.

3. The connector assembly of claim 2, wherein: the male end insulating base is provided with a male end exposed structure, and the male end exposed structure provides a space to expose the force application end.

4. The connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the male end stop structure and the female end stop structure are respectively positioned above the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal so as to avoid interference between the male end signal terminal and the female end signal terminal.

5. The connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the male end stop structure and the operation structure are formed into an aggregate, the male end stop structure is a relief structure on the aggregate, and the operation structure is positioned at one end of the aggregate, which is far away from the relief structure.

6. The connector assembly of claim 5, wherein: the public end insulating base is also provided with a public end insulating base body, the aggregate is provided with an aggregate embedding structure, and the aggregate embedding structure is embedded in the public end insulating base body, so that the operating structure becomes a cantilever structure.

7. The connector assembly of claim 5, wherein: the assembly is formed by bending sheet-shaped elastic materials.

8. The connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: the female end insulating seat is further provided with a female end guide structure, and the female end guide structure is used for guiding the male end stop structure to move, so that the male end stop structure enters the female end insulating seat and then is in lap joint with the female end stop structure, or the male end stop structure leaves the female end stop structure and then exits the female end insulating seat.

9. The connector assembly of claim 8, wherein: the female end insulating seat is also provided with an inner chamber, the inner chamber is used for accommodating the male end stopping structure, and the female end stopping structure and the female end guiding structure are respectively formed by at least one chamber wall of the inner chamber.

10. The connector assembly of claim 1, wherein: at least one of the male terminal signal terminal and the female terminal signal terminal has a reed structure, thereby maintaining a connection relationship between the male terminal signal terminal and the female terminal signal terminal.

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