CN213242877U - Connector set with safety power-off mechanism and female terminal thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A connector set with a safe power-off mechanism and a female terminal thereof, the connector set at least comprises two female terminals and a male terminal, wherein, the top sides of the two female terminals are respectively provided with a socket, the bottom sides thereof are respectively provided with a plurality of fixing pins in a protruding way, the fixing pins can be connected to a circuit board, and the two female terminals are respectively provided with a clamping part; the male terminal is formed by bending another metal plate and comprises a body part and two plug-in parts, the two plug-in parts are arranged on the body part and are separated from each other by a distance, one plug-in part of the male terminal can be clamped by the clamping part in the female terminal in a state that the male terminal is plugged into each female terminal, and the other plug-in part of the male terminal can be clamped by the other clamping part in the other female terminal, so that the male terminal can be plugged into and pulled out of the connector group to form an electrical connection state, or the connector group can form a completely power-off safety state.

Description

Connector set with safety power-off mechanism and female terminal thereof

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a connector assembly and a female terminal thereof, and more particularly to a connector assembly having a male terminal extending into and fixed to the female terminal, or a male terminal pulled out of the female terminal to form an electrical connection state or a complete power-off state.

Background

With the progress of communication technology and electronic technology, electronic devices with various functions, such as: portable mobile power supply devices for mobile phones to supply power continuously, mobile phones which enable people to communicate at both ends of the world, walkmans which can satisfy people to listen to music anytime and anywhere, and Personal computers (Personal computers) which can assist people to process various things have become indispensable tools in modern people's life and work.

In addition, in order to receive electronic signals and power from the outside, various electronic devices (such as smart phones, tablet computers, desktop computers, notebook computers, digital cameras, etc.) usually have to configure a signal Connector on the body of each electronic device, generally speaking, the signal Connector (Connector) refers to all the connecting components and accessories thereof applied to electronic signals and power, and is a bridge for all signals, the quality of the signal Connector affects the reliability of current and signal transmission, and is also related to the operation of the electronic device.

With the progress of flight equipment in recent years, air transportation becomes the traffic transportation which grows the fastest, the comfort and the convenience of the air transportation change the ability of people to search the periphery, and the economic development and various communication activities are expanded. Any flight service is operated based on a set of safety specifications and civil aviation regulations of various countries, and once a serious flight accident occurs, the willingness of people to pick up aircraft is influenced. Research shows that the electronic device may interfere with a navigation system of an airplane, and such interference may affect the flight of a pilot, and may cause misjudgment and cause an aviation accident, so that, based on the consideration of aviation safety, the portable electronic device for personal use includes: cameras, smart phones, tablet computers, laptops, video recorders, and aerial cameras, etc., when placed in a piece of luggage, must ensure that they are not damaged by unexpected start-up or short circuits, and that these electronic devices must be completely shut down, rather than in a sleep or hibernate mode. Therefore, it is a major issue of the present invention to ensure that the electronic device is not started under unexpected circumstances, is in a completely closed (power off) state, and is not a concern for safety of flight.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

For can be in the market that the competition is fierce, stand alone, the creative people relies on the abundant practical experience that various power supplies or signal connector designs, processing and make of specialty engaged in for many years, and inherits the research spirit of lean and seek essence, after permanent diligence research and experiment, develop eventually the utility model discloses a connector group and female end terminal of motor system are cut off to utensil safety, pass through in term the utility model discloses an it provides the better use experience of user.

An object of the present invention is to provide a connector set with a safety power-off mechanism, which at least comprises two female terminals and a male terminal, wherein the two female terminals are separated from each other by a space and do not directly contact each other, the two female terminals can be respectively bent and formed by at least one metal plate, the top sides of the two female terminals are respectively provided with a socket, the bottom sides of the two female terminals are respectively provided with a plurality of fixing pins, the fixing pins can be connected to a circuit board, wherein the two female terminals are respectively provided with an accommodating space, each socket can be communicated with each accommodating space, each female terminal is also respectively provided with a clamping portion, and each clamping portion is located in each accommodating space; the male terminal is bent from another metal plate, is at least U-shaped, and comprises a body part and two plug-in parts, wherein the two plug-in parts are arranged on the body part and are separated from each other by a distance; when the male terminal is pulled out of the two female terminals, the inserting part can be separated from the clamping part, and the other inserting part can be separated from the other clamping part, so that the two female terminals can not transmit current, and the connector set is in a completely power-off safe state.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a female terminal, become by at least a metal sheet bending type, its top side is equipped with a bayonet socket, the protruding a plurality of fixed feet of establishing of its bottom side, these fixed feet can be connected to a circuit board, wherein, be equipped with a accommodation space in this female terminal, this bayonet socket is linked together with this accommodation space, still be equipped with a clamping part in it, this clamping part is arranged in this accommodation space, and a grafting part of a public end terminal can stretch into to this clamping part, in order to be held by this clamping part, make this female terminal and this public end terminal can transmit current, under the condition that this grafting part of this public end terminal breaks away from this clamping part, can make this female terminal form the safe state of cutting off the power supply completely.

For the purpose of facilitating the examination of the objects, features and functions of the present invention, further understanding and appreciation are now provided by the following embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

drawings

Fig. 1 is an exploded schematic view of a connector set of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the female terminal and the male terminal of the present invention inserted;

fig. 3 is a schematic partial sectional view illustrating the female terminal and the male terminal of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic partial sectional view of the female terminal and the male terminal of the present invention not inserted; and

fig. 5 is a front view of the female terminal and the male terminal of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

1 connector set

2. 3 female terminal

21. 31 accommodating space

22. 32 interface

23. 33 clamping part

231. 331 pieces

232. 332 open pore

24. 34 fixed foot

25. 35 gap

4 male terminal

41 body

42 plug part

Distance A

Thickness of B

C1 first direction

Second direction of C2

W1, W2 Width

L axis

Obtuse angle of theta 1

Acute angle of theta 2

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The utility model relates to a connector group and female end terminal of motor system is cut off to utensil safety, please refer to fig. 1 and show that in an embodiment of the utility model, this connector group 1 includes two female end terminals 2, 3 and a public end terminal 4 at least, and the one end of these two female end terminals 2, 3 can be connected with this public end terminal 4, and the other end of these two female end terminals 2, 3 then can be connected to on the circuit board to form the electrical connection state. The form of the connector group 1 of the present invention is not limited to the form drawn by these drawings, and those skilled in the art can adjust the style of each component according to the product requirement, so that the connector group 1 is just the connector group 1 to be protected as long as the connector group 1 has the related basic structure and efficacy of the subsequent embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, for convenience of illustration, the upper side of fig. 1 is used as the top side (upper) position of the device, the lower side of fig. 1 is used as the bottom side (lower) position of the device, in this embodiment, the two female terminals 2, 3 are separated from each other by a space and do not directly contact each other, the two female terminals 2, 3 can be respectively bent and formed by at least one metal plate, the two bent ends of the metal plate are separated by a space to form a gap 25, 35, the cross section of the two female terminals 2, 3 is rectangular to have two corresponding long side surfaces and two corresponding short side surfaces, the two short side surfaces are respectively located at the two ends of the two long side surfaces, for example, one of the female terminals 2 is used, the female terminal 2 surrounds and forms a receiving space 21 which is through up and down, the gap 25 is located at one of the short side surfaces of the female terminals 2, the top sides of the two female terminals 2 are provided with a socket 22, the socket 22 is communicated with the accommodating space 21, the female terminal 2 is further provided with a clamping portion 23, the clamping portion 23 belongs to a part of the female terminal 2, and can be integrally formed on the female terminal 2, for example, the clamping portion 23 can be directly stamped from the metal plate and bent toward the inner side of the female terminal 2 to form symmetrical sheet bodies 231, the two sheet bodies 231 are separated by a distance a, so that the male terminal 4 can be inserted and fixed (as shown in fig. 3), but not limited thereto, the clamping portion 23 can also be an independent component to be assembled (e.g., welded) to the female terminal 2.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the male terminal 4 can be formed by stamping another metal plate, and is at least U-shaped, and includes a main body 41 and two inserting portions 42, in this embodiment, the two inserting portions 42 are formed by extending the bottom edges of the two sides of the main body 41 in the same direction, and the two inserting portions 42 are separated from each other by a distance, in a state where the male terminal 4 is inserted into the two female terminals 2 and 3, one of the inserting portions 42 of the male terminal 4 can extend into the inserting port 22 of one of the female terminals 2, the clamping portion 23 can clamp the two sides of the inserting portion 42 to fix the inserting portion 42, the other inserting portion 42 of the male terminal 4 can extend into the inserting port 32 of the other female terminal 3, the other clamping portion 33 can clamp the two sides of the other inserting portion 42 to fix the other inserting portion 42, and thus, the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be connected to each other, The clamping portions 23, 33 of the female terminal 2, 3 can be firmly connected with the male terminal 4, so that the female terminal 2, 3 can be electrically connected, and the female terminal 2, 3 can transmit current to each other through the male terminal 4. When the male terminal 4 is pulled out of the two female terminals 2, 3, one of the plug-in portions 42 of the male terminal 4 will be separated from the holding portion 23 of one of the female terminals 2, and the other plug-in portion 42 of the male terminal 4 will be separated from the holding portion 33 of the other female terminal 3, so that the two female terminals 2, 3 can be completely disconnected from each other, and the two female terminals 2, 3 cannot transmit current to each other, so that the connector set 1 is in a completely power-off safety state.

Referring to fig. 2, 4 and 5, in the embodiment, when the male terminal 4 is inserted into the two female terminals 2 and 3, the clamping portions 23 and 33 of the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be stably connected with the two insertion portions 42 of the male terminal 4 by the elastic restoring force thereof, so that the clamping portions 23 and 33 do not lose the elastic restoring force due to excessive deformation, the distance a between the clamping portions 23 and 33 can be slightly smaller than the thickness B of the corresponding insertion portion 42, so as to clamp the insertion portion 42 by the elastic restoring force. In addition, in order to improve the connection strength between the clamping portions 23 and 33 and the corresponding plugging portion 42, and to prevent the problems of falling off, poor contact, poor conductivity, etc. caused by external force, the width W1 of the plugging portion 42 can be slightly larger than or equal to the width W2 of the two sheet members 231 and 331, so that the clamping portions 23 and 33 and the corresponding plugging portion 42 have a large contact area, and when the clamping portions 23 and 33 and the corresponding plugging portion 42 have a large contact area, a large amount of current can flow.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 4, two long side surfaces corresponding to the two female terminals 2 and 3 are respectively provided with an opening 232 and 332, one end of the two sheets 231 and 331 is respectively fixed to an inner wall of the two corresponding openings 232 and 332, and the other ends of the two sheets 231 and 331 are folded toward each other at a distance a, in this embodiment, for one of the female terminals 2, a metal plate can be formed into the two openings 232 and the two sheets 231 at one time by stamping, and then the metal plate is folded, as shown in fig. 4, for one of the sheets 231, one end of the sheet 231 is fixed to the inner wall of the corresponding opening 232 to have an axis L, the other end of the sheet 231 can be folded toward a first direction C1, the first direction C1 intersects with one end (i.e., the axis L) of the sheet 231 to form an obtuse angle θ 1, then, the other end of the sheet 231 can be bent toward a second direction C2, the first direction C1 intersects with the second direction C2 to form an acute angle θ 2, so that the two sheet 231 can be opposite to each other to form the clamping portion 23, so that when the connector 1 transmits a large current, a large amount of heat generated by the flow of the large amount of current between the two female terminals 2 and 3 and the male terminal 4 can be dissipated to the outside through the openings 232 and 332, thereby preventing the adjacent components from being aged or damaged due to high temperature acceleration because of the excessive heat accumulated in the two female terminals 2 and 3.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 5, the bottom side of the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be provided with a plurality of fixing pins 24 and 34 to be connected to the circuit board, in this embodiment, one long side of the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be provided with two fixing pins 24 and 34, the other long side of the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be provided with one fixing pin 24 and 34, and the fixing pins 24 and 34 are disposed in a staggered manner, so that when the fixing pins 24 and 34 are connected to the circuit board, the space configuration of the circuit board can be saved. In other embodiments of the present invention, one skilled in the art can adjust the number and configuration of the fixing legs 24, 34 according to the product requirement to adapt to different product requirements.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2 again, in the embodiment, the two female terminals 2 and 3 can be disposed on a portable electronic device, and the male terminal 4 can be an independent component and can be inserted and fixed to the two female terminals 2 and 3, so that a user can pull the male terminal 4 away from the two female terminals 2 and 3 during the air transportation process, so that the two female terminals 2 and 3 cannot transmit current to each other, and the electronic device is in a completely power-off safe state. In addition, compared with the conventional connector products, the connector set 1 of the present invention has a simple structure and can omit the colloid component (e.g., the insulating body), thereby effectively reducing the cost for manufacturing the connector set 1 and simplifying the process for manufacturing the connector set 1, and in addition, because the connector set 1 has no additional colloid component (e.g., the insulating body), the space can be effectively saved to meet the design requirements (e.g., lightness, thinness, shortness and smallness) of modern people for the appearance of the electronic device.

The above-mentioned embodiments, further detailed description of the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention, it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only specific embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (20)

1. A connector set with a safety power-off mechanism, comprising at least:

two female terminals separated by a space and not directly contacted with each other, each of the female terminals is formed by bending at least one metal plate, the top side of the female terminal is respectively provided with a socket, an accommodating space is respectively arranged in the socket, each socket is communicated with each accommodating space, each female terminal is internally provided with a clamping part, each clamping part is positioned in each accommodating space, the bottom side of each female terminal is also convexly provided with a plurality of fixing pins, and the fixing pins can be connected to a circuit board; and

a male terminal bent from another metal plate and at least U-shaped, comprising a body and two insertion parts, wherein the two insertion parts are arranged on the body and are separated from each other by a distance, when the male terminal is inserted into each female terminal, one of the insertion parts of the male terminal can pass through the insertion port of one of the female terminals and is clamped by the clamping part in the female terminal, and the other insertion part of the male terminal can pass through the insertion port of the other female terminal and is clamped by the other clamping part in the other female terminal, so that the two female terminals form electrical connection, and the two female terminals can transmit current through the male terminal; when the male terminal is pulled out of the two female terminals, the inserting part can be separated from the clamping part, and the other inserting part can be separated from the other clamping part, so that the two female terminals can not transmit current, and the connector set is in a completely power-off safe state.

2. The connector set of claim 1, wherein the female terminal is formed by bending a single metal plate, the cross section of the metal plate is rectangular to form two corresponding long side surfaces and two corresponding short side surfaces, and the two bent ends of the metal plate are separated by a space to form a gap, the gap is located on one of the short side surfaces of the female terminal.

3. The connector set of claim 2, wherein one of the long sides of the female terminal is provided with a plurality of fixing legs, the other long side of the female terminal is provided with at least one fixing leg, and the number of the fixing legs of the two long sides is different.

4. The connector set of claim 3, wherein the retention portion is integrally formed on the female terminal.

5. The connector set of claim 3, wherein the clamping portion is a separate component and is capable of being assembled to the female terminal.

6. The connector set according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the holding portion is formed of two pieces, one end of each piece is fixed to the female terminal, and the other end of each piece is bent in a first direction and then in a second direction.

7. The connector set of claim 6, wherein an end of the blade intersects its corresponding first direction at an obtuse angle, and the first direction intersects the second direction at an acute angle.

8. The connector set of claim 7, wherein the two bodies are spaced apart from each other by a distance such that the mating portion can extend between the two bodies, the width of the mating portion being greater than or equal to the width of the two bodies.

9. The connector set of claim 8, wherein the spacing between the two blades is less than the thickness of the corresponding mating part.

10. The connector set as claimed in claim 9, wherein the two long side surfaces of the female terminal are respectively formed with an opening, one end of the two pieces is fixed to the inner wall of the corresponding opening, and the other end of the two pieces is folded toward each other and spaced apart from each other by the distance.

11. A female terminal is characterized in that at least one metal plate is bent, a plug port is arranged on the top side of the female terminal, a plurality of fixing pins are convexly arranged on the bottom side of the female terminal, the fixing pins can be connected to a circuit board, an accommodating space is arranged in the female terminal, the plug port is communicated with the accommodating space, a clamping part is further arranged in the female terminal, the clamping part is located in the accommodating space, a plug part of a male terminal can extend into the clamping part to be clamped by the clamping part, so that the female terminal and the male terminal can transmit current, and the female terminal can be in a completely power-off safety state under the condition that the plug part of the male terminal is separated from the clamping part.

12. The female terminal as claimed in claim 11, wherein said female terminal is formed by bending a single metal plate, and the cross section of said female terminal is rectangular, so as to form two corresponding long sides and two corresponding short sides, and the two bent ends of said metal plate are separated by a space to form a gap, said gap being located on one of said short sides of said female terminal.

13. The female terminal as claimed in claim 12, wherein one of the long sides of the female terminal is provided with a plurality of fixing legs, the other long side of the female terminal is provided with at least one fixing leg, and the number of the fixing legs of the two long sides is different.

14. The female terminal as claimed in claim 13, wherein said clamping portion is integrally formed on said female terminal.

15. The female terminal as claimed in claim 13, wherein said clamping portion is a separate component and is capable of being assembled to said female terminal.

16. The female terminal as claimed in claim 14 or 15, wherein said holding portion is formed of two pieces, one end of each piece is fixed to said female terminal, and the other end of each piece is bent in a first direction and then in a second direction.

17. The female terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein an end of said blade intersects its corresponding first direction at an obtuse angle and said first direction intersects its corresponding second direction at an acute angle.

18. The female terminal as claimed in claim 17, wherein the two bodies are spaced apart from each other by a distance such that the mating part can be inserted between the two bodies, the width of the two bodies being equal to or less than the width of the mating part.

19. The female terminal as claimed in claim 18, wherein said spacing between said two pieces is less than the thickness of said mating portion.

20. The female terminal as claimed in claim 19, wherein said female terminal has an opening on each of two corresponding long side surfaces, one end of said two pieces is fixed to the inner wall of each of said two openings, and the other end of said two pieces is folded toward each other and spaced apart from each other by said distance.

Images