CN212626406U

CN212626406U - Electric connector module and heat radiation shell

Info

Publication number: CN212626406U
Application number: CN202022003016.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王晓凯; 李铁生; 吴小平; 段白玉
Original assignee: Dongguan Luxshare Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Dongguan Luxshare Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-14
Filing date: 2020-09-14
Publication date: 2021-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 2030-09-14

Abstract

An electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing includes a heat dissipation housing and a plurality of electrical connectors. The heat dissipation shell comprises a metal shell, a positioning assembly, a plurality of heat dissipation pieces and a plurality of clamping pieces. The metal shell is provided with a shell body and a plurality of positioning pieces, the shell body comprises a setting surface, an accommodating space and a plurality of first openings, and the plurality of first openings are arranged on the setting surface and communicated with the accommodating space. The plurality of electric connectors are arranged in the accommodating space of the shell body. The positioning assembly comprises an assembly body and a plurality of positioning pieces, the assembly body is arranged on a setting surface and is provided with a plurality of second openings, and two opposite side edges of each second opening are respectively connected with at least one positioning piece. The heat dissipation members are respectively arranged in the second openings and are in thermal contact with the electric connectors through the first openings and the second openings, and each heat dissipation member is positioned between the two positioning members. Each fastener enables each heat dissipation piece to be connected and positioned on two positioning pieces arranged on two opposite side edges of each second opening.

Description

Electric connector module and heat radiation shell

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an electric connector's technical field especially relates to a be provided with a plurality of second opening edges positioning assembly who turns over upwards with metal casing for a plurality of heat dissipation shells that play the radiating element of heat dissipation effect to electric connector and have the electric connector module of heat dissipation shell.

Background

Existing electrical connector modules having a plurality of high power electrical connectors typically have a metal housing for receiving the plurality of electrical connectors and for supporting mounting of a plurality of heat sinks for dissipating heat from the electrical connectors, while the metal housing also serves as an electromagnetic shield. In order to fix a plurality of heat dissipation members on a metal shell and maintain thermal contact with an electrical connector, a conventional structure is to provide positioning protrusions on two opposite outer side surfaces of the metal shell, and a fastening member abuts against the plurality of heat dissipation members at the same time and two ends of the fastening member are respectively positioned and fastened on the positioning protrusions on the two opposite outer side surfaces of the metal shell, so that the heat dissipation members are positioned on the metal shell and exert pressure on the heat dissipation members, and the heat dissipation members are pressed against the electrical connector to form a thermal contact structure with good thermal conductivity. However, since the conventional latch is configured to press all heat dissipating members at a time and must be located according to the size of the metal housing, when the number of the electrical connectors is different and the metal housings with different sizes are used correspondingly, the latch corresponding to the size of the metal housing must be additionally manufactured, which increases the manufacturing cost of the overall electrical connector module or reduces the design flexibility.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the application provides an electric connector module and a heat dissipation shell, and solves the problems that the cost is increased and the design elasticity is reduced because a buckle piece of the existing heat dissipation shell needs to correspond to the size of a metal shell.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

a heat dissipation housing is provided that includes a metal shell, a positioning assembly, a plurality of heat sinks, and a plurality of snaps. The metal shell is provided with a shell body, the shell body comprises a setting surface, an accommodating space and a plurality of first openings, and the plurality of first openings are arranged on the setting surface and communicated with the accommodating space. The positioning assembly comprises an assembly body and a plurality of positioning pieces, the assembly body is arranged on a setting surface and is provided with a plurality of second openings, the plurality of second openings correspond to the plurality of first openings respectively, and two opposite side edges of each second opening are respectively connected with at least one positioning piece. The heat dissipation members are respectively arranged at the second openings, and each heat dissipation member is positioned between the two positioning members arranged at the two opposite side edges of each second opening. Each fastener enables each heat dissipation piece to be connected with and positioned at two positioning pieces arranged at two opposite side edges of each second opening.

An electrical connector module is provided that includes a heat dissipating housing and a plurality of electrical connectors. The plurality of electric connectors are arranged in the accommodating space of the shell body of the heat dissipation shell and respectively correspond to the plurality of first openings. The plurality of heat dissipation members are in thermal contact with the plurality of electrical connectors through the plurality of first openings and the plurality of second openings. In this application embodiment, set up the setting element through two opposite sides of setting up every second opening of locating component of radiating piece to the buckle spare only need to correspond to the size preparation of second opening can. Even if the metal shell has different sizes corresponding to the number of the electric connectors, the buckling pieces with the same size can be used, the number of the buckling pieces can be increased or decreased, and different buckling pieces do not need to be manufactured corresponding to the size of the metal shell as in the prior art, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the design elasticity is provided. In addition, the size of the second opening of the positioning component can be made to correspond to the size of the first opening, so that the design is more flexible.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and not to limit the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a perspective view and a partial enlarged view of an electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing of an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing of fig. 1;

fig. 3 is a partial exploded perspective view of the electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing of fig. 1;

fig. 4 is a top view of the electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing of fig. 1.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Referring to fig. 1, 2, 3 and 4, fig. 1 is a perspective view and a partial enlarged view of an electrical connector module and a heat dissipation housing according to an embodiment of the present application, fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the electrical connector module and the heat dissipation housing of fig. 1, fig. 3 is an exploded partial perspective view of the electrical connector module and the heat dissipation housing of fig. 1, and fig. 4 is a top view of the electrical connector module and the heat dissipation housing of fig. 1; as shown, the present embodiment provides an electrical connector module, which includes a heat dissipation housing and a plurality of electrical connectors. The heat dissipation housing includes a metal case 10, a plurality of heat dissipation members 20, a plurality of snaps 30, and a positioning assembly 40. The electrical connector is disposed in the metal housing 10, the positioning assembly 40 is disposed on the metal housing 10, such as welding, gluing, etc., there is no limitation that a plurality of heat dissipation members 20 are disposed on the positioning assembly 40, each heat dissipation member 20 is positioned on the positioning assembly 40 by one of the snaps 30, and the snaps 30 apply pressure to the heat dissipation members 20 to keep the heat dissipation members 20 in good thermal contact with the electrical connector. In fig. 1 to 4, the electrical connector is omitted for clarity of showing the structures of the metal case 10 and the heat sink 20, the latch 30, and the positioning assembly 40.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, the metal shell 10 has a shell body 11, the shell body 11 includes a setting surface 111, an accommodating space 112 and a plurality of first openings 113, and the plurality of first openings 113 are disposed on the setting surface 111 and are communicated with the accommodating space 112. In the present embodiment, the housing body 11 is a rectangular parallelepiped, the top surface of the rectangular parallelepiped is a setting surface 111, a plurality of first openings 113 are formed on the setting surface 111, and the shape of the first openings 113 can match the shape of the electrical connector and the heat sink 20. In the present embodiment, each first opening 113 is rectangular, and each first opening 113 has two long sides 1131 disposed oppositely and two short sides 1132 disposed oppositely. The length of the long side 1131 is here greater than the length of the short side 1132.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the positioning assembly 40 includes an assembly body 41 and a plurality of positioning members 42, the assembly body 41 is disposed on the installation surface 111 and has a plurality of second openings 411, the plurality of second openings 411 correspond to the plurality of first openings 113, respectively, and the area of the second openings 411 is larger than the area of the first openings 113. Two opposite side edges of each second opening 411 are respectively connected with at least one positioning member 42. The module body 41 is fixed to the mounting surface 111 of the housing body 11 by, for example, welding or gluing, the second opening 411 has two oppositely disposed long sides 4111 and two oppositely disposed short sides 4112, and the positioning member 42 is connected to the two oppositely disposed long sides 4111 of the second opening 411. In the present embodiment, the positioning element 42 is a sheet-shaped structure formed by bending upward a portion of the protruding structure of the component body 41 located at the long side 4111 of the second opening 411, so that the positioning element 42 and the component body 41 of the present embodiment are integrally formed.

As shown in fig. 3, each positioning member 42 includes a positioning sheet 421 and a positioning protrusion 422, the positioning sheet 421 is connected to two opposite long sides 4111 of the second opening 411 and extends in a direction away from the installation surface 111, the positioning protrusion 422 is disposed on a surface of the positioning sheet 421 away from the second opening 411 and protrudes in a direction away from the second opening 411, and the locking member 30 is locked to the positioning protrusion 422.

The plurality of electrical connectors are disposed in the accommodating space 112 of the housing body 11 and respectively correspond to the plurality of first openings 113. In the embodiment, the plurality of electrical connectors are arranged in parallel in the accommodating space 112, the long sides 1131 of the plurality of first openings 113 and the long sides 4111 of the second openings 411 are also arranged in parallel, and the positions of the first openings 113 correspond to the electrical connectors, so that the housings of the electrical connectors can be exposed through the first openings 113 and the second openings 411. The metal housing 10 further has a socket 114, the socket 114 is located on a plane orthogonal to the setting surface 111, and the interfaces of the electrical connectors can be exposed through the socket 114, each electrical connector includes a plurality of terminals, and the plurality of terminals correspond to the socket 114 so that another corresponding plurality of electrical connectors pass through the socket 114 to be plugged with the electrical connectors disposed in the metal housing 10. In the present embodiment, the electrical connector disposed in the metal housing 10 is a female-end electrical connector.

As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, a plurality of heat dissipation members 20 are respectively disposed at the plurality of second openings 411 and are respectively in thermal contact with the plurality of electrical connectors through the plurality of first openings 113 and the plurality of second openings 411, and each heat dissipation member 20 is located between two positioning members 42 disposed at two opposite long sides 4111 of each second opening 411. In the present embodiment, each heat sink 20 includes a substrate 21 and a plurality of heat dissipation fins 22, the substrate 21 is rectangular and disposed on the module body 41 of the positioning module 40, and the substrate 21 covers the second opening 411 and contacts the housing of the electrical connector exposed from the second opening 411 through the second opening 411, thereby forming a heat conduction structure. Heat generated by the electrical connector as a result of transmitting high frequency signals is conducted from the housing of the electrical connector to the base 21 and the heat dissipating fins 22 of the heat sink 20 and then carried away by the airflow through the heat dissipating fins 22 by way of thermal convection through the heat dissipating fins 22.

As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, each catch member 30 connects and positions each heat sink 20 to two positioning members 42 disposed on two opposite long sides 4111 of each second opening 411. As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the locking member 30 includes two positioning portions 31 and at least one limiting portion 32, the two positioning portions 31 respectively correspond to the two positioning members 42 disposed on the two opposite long sides 1131 of each first opening 113, the two positioning portions 31 are respectively engaged with the positioning protrusions 422 of the positioning members 42, and the limiting portion 32 connects the two positioning portions 31. In the present embodiment, the number of the stopper portions 32 is two. The positioning portion 31 is parallel to the long side 4111 of the second opening 411, and the limiting portion 32 is parallel to the short side 4112 of the second opening 411.

As shown in fig. 1 and 3, each heat sink 20 is disposed between the two positioning portions 31 and between the stopper portion 32 and the second opening 411. After the positioning portion 31 is engaged with the positioning convex portion 122 of the positioning member 42, the stopper portion 32 is pressed against the heat sink 20, so that the heat sink 20 is held in contact with the electrical connector, thereby forming the aforementioned heat conduction structure. As shown in fig. 3, the stopper portion 32 has an approximately shallow U-shaped structure, and a depressed portion of the center of the stopper portion 32 can be crimped onto the heat sink 20. Each heat sink 20 has a limiting recess 23, the limiting recess 23 is disposed between two adjacent sets of heat sink fins 22, and the limiting portion 32 of the clip 30 passes through the limiting recess 23 and is pressed against the base 21 of the heat sink 20. The extending direction of the restriction groove 23 is parallel to the short side 4112 of the second opening 411.

As shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the two positioning portions 31 are sheet-shaped structures, one side of each positioning portion 31 abuts against the component body 41 of the positioning component 40, and a side of each positioning portion that is far away from the component body 41 has at least one positioning notch 311, and at least one positioning notch 311 is engaged with the positioning protrusion 422 from one end of the positioning protrusion 422 that is close to the component body 41, so that the positioning protrusion 422 limits the positioning portion 31 to prevent the locking member 30 from disengaging from the positioning member 42, thereby playing a role of positioning the locking member 30 at the positioning member 42. In the present embodiment, each positioning portion 31 has two positioning notches 311.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, each positioning portion 31 of the snap 30 further includes a positioning notch 312, the positioning notch 312 is disposed on the same side as the positioning notch 311, and the positioning notch 312 is used to position the light pipe passing above the heat sink 20. The heat sink 20 is provided with a guide groove 24 between the two stopper grooves 23, and the guide groove 24 allows the light pipe to extend through the heat sink 20 and to be positioned in the positioning recess 312 of the positioning portion 31 of the grommet 30.

As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, the electrical connector module of the present embodiment further includes a plurality of partition plates 50 disposed in the accommodating space 112 of the housing body 11 to partition the accommodating space 112 into a plurality of partitioned spaces, and each electrical connector is disposed in a partitioned space between two adjacent partition plates 50. The spacer 50 may be made of a conductive material so as to provide an electromagnetic shield for the adjacent electrical connectors. Each partition plate 50 has a plurality of fixing portions 51, and the plurality of fixing portions 51 pass through the case body 11 and are fixed on the setting surface 111 between two adjacent first openings 113. Since the positioning portion 31 of the grommet 30 abuts on the installation surface 111, in the present embodiment, the fixing portions 51 of the partition plate 50 extend toward the positioning members 42 in opposite directions, respectively, so that the positioning portion 31 of the grommet 30 is pressed against the fixing portions 51. As shown in fig. 2 and 4, the component body 41 of the positioning component 40 further has a plurality of relief holes 412, the plurality of relief holes 412 correspond to the plurality of fixing portions 51, and when the positioning component 40 is fixed on the installation surface 111 of the housing body 11, the relief holes 412 allow the fixing portions to pass through so that the component body 41 of the positioning component 40 can be smoothly fixed on the installation surface 111.

As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, the electrical connector module of the present embodiment further includes a circuit board 60, and the metal housing 10 is disposed on the circuit board 60 and fixed to the circuit board 60 by, for example, a plug connector having a fisheye structure. The terminals of the plurality of electrical connectors are electrically connected to the circuit board 60 by soldering to the circuit board 60.

As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 4, the electrical connector module of the present embodiment further includes a latch 70, and the latch 70 is disposed on the mounting surface 111 of the housing body 11. The elastic fastener 70 is used for abutting and positioning the metal shell 10 to a housing of an electronic device when the metal shell 10 is inserted into the housing of the electronic device.

To sum up, this application provides an electric connector module and heat dissipation shell, sets up the setting element through two relative sides of every second open-ended of the locating component that sets up the radiating piece to buckle spare only need to be corresponding to the open-ended size preparation of second can. Even if the metal shell has different sizes corresponding to the number of the electric connectors, the buckling pieces with the same size can be used, the number of the buckling pieces can be increased or decreased, and different buckling pieces do not need to be manufactured corresponding to the size of the metal shell as in the prior art, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the design elasticity is provided. In addition, the size of the second opening of the positioning component can be made to correspond to the size of the first opening, so that the design is more flexible.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A heat-dissipating housing, comprising:

the metal shell is provided with a shell body, the shell body comprises a setting surface, an accommodating space and a plurality of first openings, and the plurality of first openings are arranged on the setting surface and communicated with the accommodating space;

the positioning assembly comprises an assembly body and a plurality of positioning pieces, the assembly body is arranged on the arrangement surface and is provided with a plurality of second openings, the plurality of second openings respectively correspond to the plurality of first openings, and two oppositely arranged side edges of each second opening are respectively connected with at least one positioning piece; the heat dissipation parts are respectively arranged at the second openings and pass through the first openings and the second openings, each heat dissipation part is positioned between two positioning parts, and the two positioning parts are arranged at two opposite side edges of each second opening;

and each buckling piece enables each heat dissipation piece to be connected and positioned at two positioning pieces arranged at two side edges of each second opening.

2. The heat dissipating housing of claim 1, wherein each of the positioning members includes a positioning sheet and a positioning protrusion, the positioning sheet is connected to two opposite sides of each of the second openings and extends in a direction away from the installation surface, the positioning protrusion is disposed on a surface of the positioning sheet away from each of the second openings, and the locking member is locked to the positioning protrusion.

3. The heat dissipating housing of claim 2, wherein a plurality of the positioning members are integrally formed with the assembly body.

4. The heat dissipation housing as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fastening member includes two positioning portions and at least one limiting portion, the two positioning portions respectively correspond to the two positioning members disposed at the two side edges of each of the first openings and are engaged with the positioning protrusions, the limiting portion connects the two positioning portions, and each of the heat dissipation members is disposed between the two positioning portions and between the limiting portion and each of the second openings.

5. The heat dissipating housing of claim 4, wherein each of the positioning portions has a positioning notch, and the positioning notch engages with the positioning protrusion.

6. The heat dissipation casing of claim 5, wherein each positioning portion abuts against the installation surface, and at least one positioning notch is disposed on an edge of the positioning portion away from the installation surface.

7. The heat dissipation housing of claim 4, wherein each of the heat dissipation members has a retaining groove through which the retaining portion passes.

8. The heat dissipating housing of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of partition plates disposed in the receiving space of the case body.

9. The heat dissipating housing of claim 8, wherein each of the partition plates has a plurality of fixing portions penetrating the housing body and fixed to the installation surface between two adjacent first openings.

10. The heat dissipating housing of claim 9, wherein the component body of the positioning component further has a plurality of relief holes corresponding to the plurality of fixing portions, each of the fixing portions passing through the plurality of relief holes.

11. The heat dissipating housing of claim 1, wherein the area of each of said second openings is greater than the area of each of said first openings.

12. An electrical connector module, comprising:

the heat dissipating housing of claims 1-11;

a plurality of electrical connectors disposed in the accommodating space of the housing body and respectively corresponding to the plurality of first openings;

wherein the plurality of heat dissipation members are in thermal contact with the plurality of electrical connectors through the plurality of first openings and the plurality of second openings.

13. The electrical connector module of claim 12, further comprising a circuit board, wherein the metal shell is disposed on the circuit board, and wherein a plurality of the electrical connectors are electrically connected to the circuit board.