CN211556251U

CN211556251U - Connector and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN211556251U
Application number: CN201921937371.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王宁宁; 崔颖武
Original assignee: Mind Electronics Appliance Co Ltd
Current assignee: Mind Electronics Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-11
Filing date: 2019-11-11
Publication date: 2020-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 2029-11-11

Abstract

The utility model provides a connector and vehicle, the connector is used for being connected between flexible pencil or flexible pencil and terminal, it includes the female seat of connector that can be connected with flexible pencil, and can be with the public seat of connector of flexible pencil or terminal connection, the cooperation of can pegging graft between the female seat of connector and the public seat of connector, in order to establish the electricity and connect, be provided with the anticreep subassembly between the public seat of female seat of connector and connector, this anticreep subassembly is including constructing the draw-in groove on the female seat of connector or the public seat of connector, and the corresponding pothook of arranging on the public seat of connector or the female seat of connector, the draw-in groove runs through the public seat of the female seat of connector or connector along the grafting direction of the public seat of connector and sets up, the pothook has the extension rod that passes the draw-in groove, and set firmly on the extension rod, can keep off the coupler body of arranging the draw-in groove tip in. The connector can avoid the connector to appear momentarily disconnected and the butt joint is bad under vibration environment.

Description

Connector and vehicle

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a technical field is connected to the cable, in particular to connector, the utility model discloses still relate to an use the vehicle that has this connector.

Background

The flexible flat wire harness changes the design concept of the traditional round wire harness, the wire harness is made into a flat belt shape, the flat belt shape can be tightly superposed, the volume and the weight of the wire harness are reduced, the development trend of miniaturization and light weight of the wire harness is met, the competitiveness of a wire harness product is improved, and the wire harness is particularly suitable for application scenes with narrow installation space, such as application vehicles; when flexible flat pencil was used, between pencil and the pencil, perhaps be connected between pencil and the terminal and need use the connector, the connector includes public end and female end, public end sets up on cable or terminal, female end sets up on the cable, the butt joint through female end and public end can realize the cable and be connected with the electricity of cable, the cable is connected with the electricity at terminal, nevertheless, current connector is under the vibration condition, for example along with jolting or vibration of vehicle, the situation that probably appears the instantaneous break, the butt joint is bad, harm whole car safety such as withdraw from takes place, there is certain potential safety hazard.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the present invention is directed to a connector, which has a better connecting effect.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is realized like this:

a connector is used for connection between flexible wiring harnesses or between a flexible wiring harness and a terminal, and comprises a connector female seat capable of being connected with the flexible wiring harness and a connector male seat capable of being connected with the flexible wiring harness or the terminal, wherein the connector female seat and the connector male seat can be in plug-in fit to establish electrical connection; the anticreep subassembly including construct in female seat of connector perhaps draw-in groove on the public seat of connector to and corresponding arrange in public seat of connector or pothook on the female seat of connector, the draw-in groove is followed female seat of connector with the grafting direction of the public seat of connector runs through female seat of connector perhaps the public seat of connector sets up, the pothook has and passes the extension rod of draw-in groove, and set firmly in on the extension rod, can keep off and arrange in the coupler body of draw-in groove tip.

Furthermore, the female connector base is provided with at least one port into which the flexible wiring harness can be inserted, and a plurality of wiring harness connection terminals are arranged on the female connector base and can be electrically connected with conductors of the flexible wiring harness.

Furthermore, the flexible wiring harness comprises a plurality of FPC flexible cables which are stacked together, and an adapter which can be electrically connected with the FPC flexible cables on each layer is fixedly arranged at the end part of the flexible wiring harness; the adapter is insertable into the port to electrically connect each of the harness connection terminals with a conductor of each of the FPC flex cables.

Furthermore, a guide unit is arranged between the connector female seat and the adapter, and the adapter can be slidably arranged in the port in a penetrating way due to the guide of the guide unit; the guide unit comprises guide grooves formed in two inner walls of the port, and guide bars formed on the outer wall of the adapter and capable of sliding in the guide grooves in a guiding mode.

Further, the distance between the guide groove and the other two inner walls of the port is different relative to the two inner walls configured with the guide groove.

Furthermore, a positioning hole matched with an external positioning piece is formed in one outer side face of the connector female seat, and the positioning hole can form restraint on the installation direction of the flexible wiring harness.

Furthermore, a mistake-proofing plug assembly is arranged between the female connector seat and the male connector seat, and comprises two asymmetrically-arranged sliding grooves constructed on the female connector seat or on the male connector seat, and two corresponding guide pins which are arranged on the male connector seat or on the female connector seat and can be respectively inserted into the two sliding grooves.

Further, the clamping grooves are two grooves formed in the female connector seat, the clamping hooks are two grooves corresponding to the two grooves formed in the male connector seat, and the sliding grooves are formed in the female connector seat.

Furthermore, the two guide pins and the two hooks are annularly arranged, and along the circumferential direction of the ring, the guide pins and the hooks are arranged in a staggered manner.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following advantage has:

the connector of the utility model is provided with a clamping groove on the male connector seat or the female connector seat, and correspondingly provided with a clamping hook on the female connector seat or the male connector seat, wherein the clamping groove runs through the female connector seat or the male connector seat along the plugging direction of the female connector seat and the male connector seat, and the clamping hook is provided with an extension rod passing through the clamping groove and a hook body which is fixedly arranged on the extension rod and can block the end part of the clamping groove; through setting up draw-in groove and pothook, blockking by the tip of draw-in groove to the coupler body, can avoid the transient interruption that appears under the vibration condition between female seat of connector and the public seat of connector, connect situations such as bad.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle, wherein the connector is applied to the vehicle for connection between flexible harnesses or between a flexible harness and a terminal.

The vehicle of the present invention has substantially the same beneficial effects as the above-mentioned connector, and is not repeated herein.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without undue limitation. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is an exploded view of a connector according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of a mating structure of a female connector seat and an adapter according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is another angular view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is another angular view of FIG. 1;

description of reference numerals:

1-connector female seat, 11-clamping groove, 111-inserting hole, 12-guide groove, 13-locking hole, 14-base body, 15-wiring harness connecting part, 16-male seat connecting part, 17-sliding groove, 18-positioning hole, 19-waterproof rubber ring, 2-connector male seat, 21-clamping hook, 22-guide pin, 3-adapter, 31-connector, 32-guide strip and 33-wedge block.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Example one

The present embodiment relates to a connector for connection between flexible harnesses or between a flexible harness and a terminal, and as shown in fig. 1, the connector includes a female connector housing 1 connectable to a flexible harness and a male connector housing 2 connectable to a flexible harness or a terminal, the female connector housing 1 and the male connector housing 2 are mated by plugging to establish electrical connection, and an anti-separation assembly is disposed between the female connector housing 1 and the male connector housing 2 and is configured to limit separation between the male connector housing 2 and the female connector housing 1; this anticreep subassembly is including constructing draw-in groove 11 on female seat 1 of connector or the public seat 2 of connector to and the corresponding pothook 21 of arranging on public seat 2 of connector or the public seat 1 of connector, draw-in groove 11 sets up through female seat 1 of connector or the public seat 2 of connector along the grafting direction of the public seat 2 of the female seat 1 of connector and connector, pothook 21 has the extension rod that passes draw-in groove 11, and set firmly on the extension rod, can keep off the coupler body of arranging in draw-in groove 11 tip.

In the present embodiment, the connector will be described by taking the example that the card slot 11 is disposed on the female connector holder 1 and the hook 21 is disposed on the male connector holder 2, it should be noted that it is also possible to dispose the card slot 11 on the male connector holder 2 and correspondingly dispose the hook 21 on the female connector holder 1, which has the same principle as the solution of the present embodiment and is not described herein again.

The flexible wiring harness comprises a plurality of FPC flexible cables which are stacked together, and a protective layer which covers the outer side of each layer of FPC flexible cable; each layer of FPC flexible cable is provided with a plurality of conductors and can be used for data or electric energy transmission. The flexible wiring harness is obtained by processing FCCL flexible copper-clad foil in a chemical etching mode, has good flexibility, and is suitable for application in narrow and complex automobile body environments. And the application of the flexible wiring harness can greatly reduce the number and the types of the wiring harnesses on the vehicle, can better meet the requirement of the wiring harness arrangement of the whole vehicle, and simultaneously reduces the volume and the weight of the wiring harness and the oil consumption of the vehicle. In addition, the flexible wiring harness has sufficient structural integrity and rigidity, is not easy to bend and is easier to pick up, move and mount by a mechanical arm, so that the application of the flexible wiring harness is convenient for the automatic operation of vehicle assembly, and the vehicle assembly efficiency is improved.

The female connector holder 1 may be disposed at an end of a flexible cable, the male connector holder may be disposed at an end or a terminal of the flexible cable, and the female connector holder 1 and the male connector holder 2 may be inserted and engaged to form an electrical connection between the flexible cables or an electrical connection between the flexible cables and the terminal.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 2, at least one port into which a flexible cable can be inserted is provided on the female connector holder 1, and a plurality of harness connection terminals, each of which can establish electrical connection with a conductor of a flexible harness, are provided on the female connector holder 1. In order to facilitate the electrical connection between the flexible cable and the female connector holder 1, in this embodiment, referring to fig. 2, an adapter 3 is fixedly disposed at an end of the flexible wiring harness, an intermediate terminal capable of being electrically connected to each layer of FPC flexible cable is disposed on the adapter 3, the adapter 3 can be inserted into the port, and after the adapter 3 is inserted into the port, the intermediate terminal of the connector can be electrically connected to a wiring harness connection terminal on the female connector holder 1, thereby forming the electrical connection between the female connector holder 1 and the flexible wiring harness.

In a specific structure, as shown in fig. 2, the adapter 3 is integrally in a square block shape, the rear end of the connector, that is, one end connected to the flexible cable, is provided with the interfaces 31 corresponding to the FPC flexible cables in each layer one to one, each FPC flexible cable can be inserted into the corresponding interface 31 to establish electrical connection with the adapter 3, it should be noted that, for one flexible harness, the number of the adapters 3 may be one, two, or other, only the connector female socket 1 needs to be provided with the ports in a corresponding number, and the specific manner of establishing connection between the intermediate terminal and the FPC flexible cable conductor may refer to the existing mature technology, which is not described herein again.

In order to facilitate the insertion of the adaptor 3 in the port, in this embodiment, a guiding unit is disposed between the adaptor 3 and the female connector holder 1, and the adaptor 3 is slidably inserted into the port through the guidance of the guiding unit. One preferred construction of the guide unit is shown in fig. 2, and includes guide grooves 12 formed on opposite inner walls of the port, and guide bars 32 formed on the outer wall of the adaptor 3 to be slidably guided in the guide grooves 12. The sliding of the guide strip 32 in the guide groove 12 allows the adapter 3 to be inserted into the port.

In this embodiment, the guide grooves 12 are disposed at different distances from the other two inner walls of the port, with respect to the two inner walls configured with the guide grooves 12, specifically, in the illustration of the embodiment, the guide grooves 12 are symmetrically disposed on the two inner walls in the left-right direction of the port, and the distance between the guide grooves 12 and the top inner wall of the port and the distance between the guide grooves 12 and the bottom inner wall of the port are different, and it should be noted that the distances between the center line of the guide grooves 12 and the top inner wall and the bottom inner wall are different; or the distance between the upper edge line of the guide groove 12 and the top inner wall, and the distance between the lower edge line of the guide groove 12 and the bottom inner wall are different; it should be noted that the guide grooves 12 may be disposed on the upper and lower inner walls of the port at different distances from the left and right inner walls.

By setting the guide groove 12 to have different distances from the top side wall and the bottom side wall, the adapter 3 can be prevented from being inserted in a wrong direction when being inserted into the port, and the wire harness or the terminal can be prevented from being damaged. In addition, by adopting the mode, the insertion of the adapter 3 can be guided, the wrong insertion direction of the adapter 3 can be avoided, and the structure is simpler.

In this embodiment, a locking assembly is provided between the adapter 3 and the female connector housing 1, which locking assembly may constitute a locking of the adapter 3 on the female connector housing 1, i.e. in the port. In this embodiment, a preferred structure of the locking assembly is shown in fig. 2, and includes a locking hole 13 penetrating through a side wall of the port, and a wedge 33 fixedly disposed on a side wall of the adapter 3, when the adapter 3 penetrates into the port, a wedge surface of the wedge 33 faces the female connector holder 1, when the adapter 3 is inserted into the port, the wedge surface of the wedge 33 can drive an outer side wall of the locking hole 13 to deform, so that the wedge 33 can cross over the side wall of the locking hole 13 and penetrate into the locking hole 13, and after the wedge 33 penetrates into the locking hole 13, the outer side wall of the locking hole 13 can prevent the wedge 33 from coming off, i.e., forming a locking of the adapter 3 in the port.

It should be noted that the connection manner between the flexible wire harness and the female connector holder 1 can also be applied to connection between the flexible wire harness and the male connector holder 2, which is not described herein again, and the connection manner between the male connector holder 2 and the terminal can refer to the prior art, which is not described herein again, and a specific structure of the connection end between the male connector holder 2 and the wire harness or the terminal is not shown in the attached drawings of this embodiment.

In this embodiment, the specific structure of the female connector holder 1 is as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, and includes a square base 14 and a harness connection portion 15 disposed on one side of the base 14, the port is specifically disposed on the harness connection portion 15, a male connector holder 16 is disposed on the other side of the base 14 opposite to the side on which the harness connection portion 15 is disposed, and both the cross sections of the male connector holder 16 and the harness connection portion 15 are smaller than the cross section of the base 14, the card slot 11 is specifically disposed on the base 14, and the card slot 11 is located on the outer sidewall of the base 14, so that one side of the card slot 11 is open; the extension rod can be clamped in the clamping groove 11 after the male connector seat 2 and the female connector seat 1 are in insertion fit, the hook body is a hook plate, one end of the hook body is fixedly connected with the extension rod, the other end of the hook plate extends towards the base body 14 on the periphery of the end portion of the clamping groove 11, the free end of the hook plate is tightly abutted to the base body 14, and preferably, referring to fig. 4, the base body 14 is provided with an insertion hole 111 which is arranged adjacent to the clamping groove 11, the free end of the hook body is contained in the insertion hole 111, and through the structure, the situations that the male connector seat 2 and the female connector seat 1 are broken instantaneously, poor in contact and the like due to vibration and the like can be avoided.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 2, a waterproof rubber ring 19 is sleeved on the periphery of the male seat connecting portion 16, so as to ensure the waterproof connection effect between the male connector seat 2 and the female connector seat 1 after the male seat connecting portion 16 is inserted into the male connector seat 2, and avoid the potential safety hazards such as corrosion and short circuit when the connector is in a wet environment, for example, when a vehicle wades for driving.

In order to prevent the connector female socket 1 and the connector male socket 2 from being inserted in a wrong way, in the embodiment, a wrong insertion prevention assembly is arranged on the connector female socket 1 and the connector male socket 2, and a preferred structure of the wrong insertion prevention assembly is shown in fig. 1 to 4, and comprises two sliding grooves 17 which are formed on the connector female socket 1 or the connector male socket 2 and are asymmetrically arranged, and two corresponding guide pins 22 which are arranged on the connector male socket 2 or the connector female socket 1 and can be respectively inserted into the two sliding grooves 17. Through setting up two asymmetric two chutes 17 that set up for two guide pins 22 have and only have a correct cartridge orientation when inserting to chute 17, thereby avoid inserting the mistake between female seat 1 of connector and the male seat 2 of connector.

The above-mentioned chute 17 is preferably the same in the arrangement position of the card slot 11, that is, the chute 17 and the card slot 11 are preferably arranged on the male connector seat 2 at the same time, or arranged on the female connector seat 1 at the same time, in this embodiment, the chute 17 and the card slot 11 are arranged on the female connector seat 1 at the same time, and the guide pin 22 and the hook 21 are arranged on the male connector seat 2 at the same time.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 3, the two guide pins 22 and the two hooks 21 are preferably arranged in a ring shape, and along the circumferential direction of the ring shape, the guide pins 22 and the hooks 21 are disposed alternately, that is, along the circumferential direction of the ring shape, the guide pins 22 are adjacent to the two hooks 21, and the hooks 21 are adjacent to the two guide pins 22; that is, the two guide pins 22 and the two hooks 21 are located at four corner positions of a quadrangle, the two guide pins 22 are located at two end points of one diagonal of the quadrangle, and the two hooks 21 are located at two end points of the other diagonal of the quadrangle.

In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 3, a positioning hole 18 that can be matched with an external member is formed on one of the outer side surfaces of the female connector housing 1, and by providing the positioning hole 18, the overall installation direction and installation position of the wire harness can be ensured, and errors can be avoided.

In conclusion, the connector of this embodiment, through setting up the anticreep subassembly to and the mistake proofing subassembly of inserting, can avoid the public seat 2 of connector and the female seat 1 grafting error of connector, two pothook 21 cross arrangement can effectively prevent situations such as the instantaneous outage that appears under the high vibration condition after the public seat 2 of connector and the female seat 1 of connector pair simultaneously, butt joint is bad.

Example two

The present embodiment relates to a vehicle, on which the connector according to the first embodiment is applied to connect between flexible harnesses, or between a flexible harness and a terminal.

According to the vehicle of the embodiment, the connectors in the first embodiment are used for connection between the flexible wire harnesses, or between the flexible wire harnesses and the terminal, so that the stability of cable connection can be improved, and the phenomena of instantaneous disconnection, poor butt joint and the like between the connectors are avoided.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A connector for connection between flexible harnesses or between a flexible harness and a terminal, the connector comprising a female connector housing (1) connectable to the flexible harness and a male connector housing (2) connectable to the flexible harness or the terminal, and the female connector housing (1) and the male connector housing (2) being in pluggable engagement to establish an electrical connection, characterized in that: an anti-falling component is arranged between the female connector seat (1) and the male connector seat (2), and is used for limiting the separation between the female connector seat (1) and the male connector seat (2); the anticreep subassembly including construct in female seat of connector (1) perhaps draw-in groove (11) on the public seat of connector (2), and corresponding arrangement in public seat of connector (2) or pothook (21) on the female seat of connector (1), draw-in groove (11) are followed female seat of connector (1) with the grafting direction of the public seat of connector (2) runs through female seat of connector (1) perhaps public seat of connector (2) set up, pothook (21) have and pass the extension rod of draw-in groove (11), and set firmly in on the extension rod, can keep off and arrange in the coupler body of draw-in groove (11) tip.

2. The connector of claim 1, wherein: the connector female seat (1) is provided with at least one port for inserting the flexible wiring harness, a plurality of wiring harness connecting terminals are arranged on the connector female seat (1), and each wiring harness connecting terminal can be electrically connected with a conductor of the flexible wiring harness.

3. The connector of claim 2, wherein: the flexible wiring harness comprises a plurality of FPC flexible cables which are laminated together, and an adapter (3) which can be electrically connected with each layer of FPC flexible cables is fixedly arranged at the end part of the flexible wiring harness; the adaptor (3) is insertable into the port to establish electrical connection between each of the harness connection terminals and the conductor of each of the FPC flexible cables.

4. The connector of claim 3, wherein: a guide unit is arranged between the connector female seat (1) and the adapter (3), and the adapter (3) can be slidably arranged in the port due to the guide of the guide unit; the guide unit comprises guide grooves (12) formed on two inner walls of the port, and guide bars (32) formed on the outer wall of the adapter (3) and capable of sliding in the guide grooves (12).

5. The connector of claim 4, wherein: the distance between the guide groove (12) and the other two opposite inner walls of the port is different relative to the two inner walls configured with the guide groove (12).

6. The connector of claim 1, wherein: a positioning hole (18) matched with an external positioning piece is formed in one outer side face of the connector female seat (1), and the positioning hole (18) can form restraint on the installation direction of the flexible wiring harness.

7. The connector according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein: the anti-misplug assembly is arranged between the female connector seat (1) and the male connector seat (2) and comprises two asymmetrically-arranged sliding grooves (17) formed in the female connector seat (1) or the male connector seat (2) and two corresponding guide pins (22) which are arranged on the male connector seat (2) or the female connector seat (1) and can be respectively inserted into the two sliding grooves (17).

8. The connector of claim 7, wherein: the connector is characterized in that the clamping grooves (11) are arranged on the female connector seat (1), the clamping hooks (21) are arranged on the male connector seat (2) correspondingly to the two clamping grooves (11), and the sliding grooves (17) are arranged on the female connector seat (1).

9. The connector of claim 8, wherein: the two guide pins (22) and the two hooks (21) are arranged in an annular shape, and the guide pins (22) and the hooks (21) are arranged in a staggered mode along the circumferential direction of the annular shape.

10. A vehicle, characterized in that: use of a connector according to any of claims 1 to 9 on said vehicle for connection between flexible harnesses or between a flexible harness and a terminal.