CN215184866U - Electrical connector - Google Patents

Abstract

An electrical connector comprises an insulating body, a light-emitting piece and a cover body. The insulating body is provided with a butt joint space, and the butt joint space is provided with a plug interface for the butt joint connector to be inserted along a first direction. The luminous element is embedded on the insulating body and close to the inserting port, the cover body is fixed on the insulating body, and the cover body is limited and shielded on a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The utility model discloses electric connector provides the illumination of inserting the kneck, has solved the problem that the illuminating part takes place to rock easily.

Description

Electrical connector

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of electronic equipment connects and specifically relates to an electric connector.

Background

The RJ connector comprises a first module for plugging and a second module for switching. The RJ connector usually adopts a direct-plug type switching mode, that is, a circuit board and a second module are arranged in an accommodating space behind a butt joint space, the circuit board extends vertically to be arranged behind the accommodating space, and the insulating seat is arranged behind the circuit board. The mating connector is inserted into the front mating space in the front-rear direction, and the mating terminal is inserted onto the circuit board in the front-rear direction, which is called a "direct-insertion" mating method. Further, the RJ connector is usually provided with LED lamps at two sides of the docking space and near the socket for illuminating the socket, so as to facilitate the user to complete the insertion of the docking connector into the docking space from the socket. Further, in order to meet the demand of miniaturization of electronic products by customers, it is not necessary to provide a metal case surrounding the insulator entirely, and therefore, how to keep the LED lamp from rattling after the LED lamp is assembled into the insulator is a problem to be solved.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a new electrical connector to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide an electric connector, when it had satisfied the miniaturization of electronic product, avoided the equipment to go into insulator and inserted the light-emitting component of kneck and take place the problem of rocking.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: an electric connector comprises an insulating body, a light-emitting piece and a cover body, wherein a butt joint space is formed in the insulating body, the butt joint space is provided with a socket for a butt joint connector to be inserted in a first direction, the light-emitting piece is embedded on the insulating body and is close to the socket, the cover body is fixed on the insulating body, and the cover body is limited and shields the light-emitting piece in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

As a further improved technical scheme of the utility model, the illuminating part is a pair of, the illuminating part is located in the third direction the both sides in butt joint space, the third direction with first direction with the second direction is all perpendicular.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the cover body includes a pair of longitudinal arms extending in the same direction, each of the light emitting member includes a light emitting portion and two conductive legs extending from the light emitting portion in a bent manner, the light emitting portion is disposed in the second direction, and the second direction is clamped between the longitudinal arms and the insulating body.

As a further improved technical scheme of the utility model, the lid includes a pair of horizontal arm of subtend extension, form the interval space between the horizontal arm, insulator is equipped with and is located location portion in the interval space, horizontal arm with form the knot between the location portion and hold.

As a technical scheme of the utility model further improved, the transverse arm has and supports the face of holding, location portion in towards that one side in butt joint space have with support face complex butt face, the transverse arm with at least one of them of location portion is equipped with and is used for the guide support the face with complex guide surface between the butt face.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the guiding surface includes a first guiding surface located on the transverse arm and a second guiding surface located on the positioning portion; the first guide surface is formed below the abutting surface, the second guide surface is formed above the abutting surface, and the first guide surface and the second guide surface are both inclined surfaces.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the top surface of the lid body is flush with the top surface of the insulating body.

As a further improved technical scheme of the utility model, still include first module, second module and the surface circuit board that is equipped with electronic component, insulator still has in the first direction with the parallel accommodation space who sets up in butt joint space, accommodation space accepts the circuit board and the second module, the second module is in the second direction with the circuit board sets up side by side, makes the circuit board not by the centre gripping first module with between the second module.

As a further improved technical solution of the utility model, the circuit board is followed first direction level set up in the accommodation space, the circuit board has the upper surface and the lower surface of opposite setting, the second module is including being located the insulator foot under the lower surface.

As the utility model discloses further modified technical scheme, the second module includes the casing of semi-enclosed structure, the casing is including being located the end wall of insulator seat below, being located a pair of side barricade of insulator seat both sides and being located the back barricade at insulator seat rear, the casing have with the end wall is relative and be located the first face of top and with the back barricade is relative and the second face that is located the place ahead, first face with the second face is for opening the mouth form.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses the electric connector passes through the illuminating part provides the illumination effect of inserting the kneck, has still solved the illuminating part through a lid that is fixed in the interface top and has taken place the problem of rocking easily, has satisfied the needs of customer about the electronic product is miniaturized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective assembly view of the electric connector of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the electrical connector of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the cover and light emitting member of FIG. 2, except for the cover;

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the portion of FIG. 3 with the insulator removed;

FIG. 5 is another angled view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a view from another angle of FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 is another angled view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 8 is a view from another angle of FIG. 4;

fig. 9 is a top view of the insulating body of the electrical connector of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a top view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 10;

fig. 13 is a sectional view taken along line C-C of fig. 10.

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1 to 13, an electrical connector includes an insulative housing 1, a first module 2, a second module 3, and a circuit board 4 having an electronic component 40 disposed on a surface thereof. In this embodiment, the electronic component 40 includes an iron core and a coil wound outside the iron core for filtering; of course, in other embodiments, the electronic component 40 may also include other types of components.

Referring to fig. 1 to 8 and 13, the insulating housing 1 includes a front end portion 11 and a rear end portion 12 integrally extending in a first direction. The front end portion 11 forms a docking space 101 for inserting the docking connector along the first direction, and the docking space 101 has a socket 1010 for inserting the docking connector along the front-back direction. The rear end portion 12 forms an accommodation space 102 that accommodates the circuit board 4 and the second module 3. The insulating body 1 comprises a vertical partition wall 13 between the front end portion 11 and the rear end portion 12, and the vertical partition wall 13 is provided with a plurality of slots 130. Referring to fig. 1 in particular, the first direction is a front-rear direction, the up-down direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction is a second direction, and the left-right direction perpendicular to both the front-rear direction and the up-down direction is a third direction.

Referring to fig. 4, 8 and 13, the first module 2 includes a plurality of butt terminals 21. The mating terminal 21 includes a first end portion 211, a second end portion 212 bent from the first end portion 211, and a contact portion 213 bent from the second end portion 212. The mating terminal 21 includes a contact portion 213, the contact portion 213 extends into the mating space 101 from the second end 212, and the contact portion 213 has a free end 2130 limited in the slot 130. The first module 2 further comprises a first insulating block 22 holding the first end 211 and a second insulating block 23 holding the second end 212. Referring to fig. 3, 4, 5, 7 and 13, a portion of the first module 2 is disposed in the second module 3, and another portion of the first module 2 is disposed in the insulating body 1.

Referring to fig. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 13, the circuit board 4 is horizontally disposed in the accommodating space 102 along the front-back direction, and the circuit board 4 has an upper surface 41 and a lower surface 42 disposed oppositely. The second module 3 is adjacent to the circuit board 4 in the up-down direction. The second module 3 includes an insulating base 31 and a transfer terminal 32. The insulating seat 31 is located below the lower surface 42. The insulating base 31 includes a bottom wall 311 and a plurality of sidewalls 312 integrally extending from the bottom wall 311, and the bottom wall 311 and the sidewalls 312 enclose the receiving cavity 310. The side wall 312 holds the adapting terminal 32, and the adapting terminal 32 is inserted into the circuit board 4 along the up-down direction.

Referring to fig. 1 to 13, in a first embodiment of the present invention, the circuit board 4 is located at a middle position of the accommodating space 102 in the up-down direction, and in a specific embodiment, the "middle position" refers to a height position of the circuit board 4 at 1/3 to 2/3 of the accommodating space 102 in the up-down direction, and preferably, the circuit board 4 is located at a height position of 1/2 of the accommodating space 102. That is, the first embodiment of the present invention provides that the second module 3 is a sinking structure in the accommodating space 102 to reserve the space above the circuit board 4 for the electronic component 40, i.e., the electronic component 40 is disposed on the upper surface 41 exposed outside the circuit board 4, and then the present invention has a larger space for welding the electronic component 40, and therefore, the welding process is simple.

In a second embodiment of the present invention, which is not shown, the electronic component 40 is disposed on the lower surface 42 of the circuit board 4. In this embodiment, the electronic component 40 and the circuit board 4 need to be soldered in advance, and then the second module 3 and the circuit board 4 with the electronic component 40 soldered thereon are assembled, so that the electronic component 40 is accommodated in the accommodating cavity 310 shown in fig. 4, and the space above the circuit board 4 can be saved, thereby the electric connector of the present invention is suitable for miniaturization.

Referring to fig. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8, in a preferred embodiment, the second module 3 includes a housing 33 with a semi-enclosed structure to provide protection. The housing 33 includes a bottom wall 331 located below the housing 31, a pair of side walls 332 located at two sides of the housing 31, and a rear wall 333 located behind the housing 31, the housing 33 has a first surface 334 opposite to the bottom wall 331 and located above and a second surface 335 opposite to the rear wall 333 and located in front, and the first surface 334 and the second surface 335 are both open. The first surface 334 is used for assembling the second module 3 with the circuit board 4; the second face 335 is used for mounting the first module 2 to the circuit board 4. The outer side of the side retaining wall 332 is formed with a guide post portion 3320, and the insulation body 1 is provided with a cutting groove 10 which is matched with the guide post portion 3320 for limiting. The housing 33 has a pair of mounting walls 330 extending in the left-right direction, the first insulating block 22 is vertically fitted to the mounting walls 330, and the second insulating block 23 is horizontally fitted to the insulating main body 1. In some embodiments, the insulation body 1 further includes a slot 105 located at the front end portion 11, the slot 105 communicates the slots 130 and the accommodating space 102, and the second insulation block 23 is horizontally embedded in the slot 105.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 4, fig. 7, fig. 8 and fig. 13, in particular, the electrical connector of the present invention further includes a transmission terminal 5 inserted on the circuit board 4. The transmission terminal 5 includes a first head 51 extending upward out of the housing 33 and a second head 52 extending downward out of the housing 33. The first head parts 51 are fixed on the rear retaining wall 333 in a row, and the second head parts 52 are fixed on the bottom wall 331 in a front row and a rear row after being bent from the first head parts 51. Therefore, the utility model discloses a butt joint terminal 21 receives and transmits extremely behind butt joint connector's the RJ signal go up filtering on the circuit board 4, transmission terminal 5 is used for on the main circuit board with signal transmission after the filtering to the electric connector installation.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 6, the electrical connector of the present invention further includes a light emitting member 6 and a cover 7. The light-emitting piece 6 is embedded on the insulating body 1 and is close to the socket 1010, the cover body 7 is fixed on the insulating body 1, and the cover body 7 is limited in the up-down direction to shield the light-emitting piece 6. In some embodiments, the glowing member 6 is an LED lamp.

Referring to fig. 1, 2, 10 to 12, in a preferred embodiment, the light emitting members 6 are a pair, and the light emitting members 6 are located at two sides of the docking space 101 in the left-right direction. Correspondingly, the cover 7 includes a base 71, a pair of longitudinal arms 72 extending from both ends of the base 71 in the same direction, and a pair of transverse arms 73 extending from the inner sides of the longitudinal arms 72 in opposite directions. Each of the light emitting members 6 includes a light emitting portion 61 and two conductive legs 62 bent and extended from the light emitting portion 61, and the light emitting portion 61 is sandwiched between the longitudinal arm 72 and the insulating body 1 in the up-down direction. Correspondingly, the insulating body 1 is provided with a groove 103 and a slot 104 communicating with the groove 103, the groove 103 receives the light emitting portion 61, and the slot 104 receives the conductive leg portion 62. Referring to fig. 1, 5 and 12, in some embodiments, the top surface of the cover 7 is flush with the top surface of the insulating body 1.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 6 and fig. 12, a space 730 is formed between the lateral arms 73, and the insulating housing 1 is provided with a positioning portion 14 located in the space 730. Specifically, the lateral arm 73 has an abutting surface 732, and the positioning portion 14 has an abutting surface 142 that engages with the abutting surface 732 on the side facing the docking space 101. In a preferred embodiment, the guide surfaces include a first guide surface 731 on the transverse arm 73 and a second guide surface 141 on the positioning portion 14; the first guiding surface 731 is formed below the abutting surface 732, and the second guiding surface 141 is formed above the abutting surface 142. The first guiding surface 731 and the second guiding surface 141 are both inclined surfaces, and the two surfaces are matched to have a guiding function; after the guiding between the lateral arm 73 and the positioning portion 14 is completed, the engagement is finally formed between the abutting surface 732 and the abutting surface 142. Of course, in other embodiments, the first guide surface 731 may be provided on the lateral arm 73, or the second guide surface 141 (having only one guide surface) may be provided on the positioning portion 14, so that the effect of guiding may be achieved.

To sum up, the utility model discloses the electric connector not only passes through illuminating part 6 provides the illumination effect of interface 1010 department, has still solved illuminating part 6 through a lid 7 that is fixed in interface 1010 top and has taken place the problem of rocking easily, has satisfied the needs of customer about the miniaturization of electronic product. Further, the utility model discloses electric connector insulator 1 has butt joint space 101 and accommodation space 102 at the parallel setting of first direction, butt joint space 101 has and supplies butt joint connector to follow first direction male interface 1010, accommodation space 102 accepts circuit board 4 and second module 3, second module 3 with first direction vertically second direction on with circuit board 4 sets up side by side, makes circuit board 4 is not held first module 2 with between the second module 3, thereby the utility model discloses electric connector has great space to be used for welding electronic component 40, consequently, the utility model discloses electric connector's welding process is simple.

The above embodiments are only used for illustrating the present invention and not for limiting the technical solutions described in the present invention, and the understanding of the present specification should be based on the technical people in the related art, for example, the descriptions of the directions such as "front", "back", "left", "right", "up", "down", etc., although the present specification has described the present invention in detail with reference to the above embodiments, the ordinary skilled in the art should understand that the technical people in the related art can still modify or substitute the present invention, and all the technical solutions and modifications thereof that do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be covered within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. An electrical connector comprising a dielectric body (1), the dielectric body (1) being formed with a mating space (101), the mating space (101) having a socket (1010) for insertion of a mating connector in a first direction, characterized in that: the electric connector further comprises a light-emitting piece (6) and a cover body (7), the light-emitting piece (6) is embedded on the insulating body (1) and is close to the insertion port (1010), the cover body (7) is fixed on the insulating body (1), and the cover body (7) limits and shields the light-emitting piece (6) in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the light-emitting pieces (6) are in a pair, the light-emitting pieces (6) are located on two sides of the butt joint space (101) in the third direction, and the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.

3. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein: the cover body (7) comprises a pair of longitudinal arms (72) extending in the same direction, each light-emitting piece (6) comprises a light-emitting part (61) and two conductive leg parts (62) extending from the light-emitting part (61) in a bending mode, and the light-emitting part (61) is clamped between the longitudinal arms (72) and the insulating body (1) in the second direction.

4. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein: the cover body (7) comprises a pair of transverse arms (73) extending oppositely, a spacing space (730) is formed between the transverse arms (73), the insulating body (1) is provided with a positioning part (14) located in the spacing space (730), and buckling is formed between the transverse arms (73) and the positioning part (14).

5. The electrical connector of claim 4, wherein: the lateral arm (73) is provided with an abutting surface (732), the positioning part (14) is provided with an abutting surface (142) which is matched with the abutting surface (732) on the side facing the butt joint space (101), and at least one of the lateral arm (73) and the positioning part (14) is provided with a guide surface (731, 141) which is used for guiding the matching between the abutting surface (732) and the abutting surface (142).

6. The electrical connector of claim 5, wherein: the guide surfaces (731, 141) comprise a first guide surface (731) located on the transverse arm (73) and a second guide surface (141) located on the positioning portion (14); the first guide surface (731) is formed below the abutting surface (732), the second guide surface (141) is formed above the abutting surface (142), and both the first guide surface (731) and the second guide surface (141) are inclined surfaces.

7. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein: the top surface of the cover body (7) is flush with the top surface of the insulating body (1).

8. The electrical connector of any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein: the insulation body (1) is further provided with an accommodating space (102) which is arranged in parallel with the butt joint space (101) in the first direction, the accommodating space (102) accommodates the circuit board (4) and the second module (3), one part of the first module (2) is arranged in the second module (3) while the other part is arranged in the insulation body (1), and the second module (3) is arranged in parallel with the circuit board (4) in the second direction, so that the circuit board (4) is not clamped between the first module (2) and the second module (3).

9. The electrical connector of claim 8, wherein: the circuit board (4) is horizontally arranged in the accommodating space (102) along the first direction, the circuit board (4) is provided with an upper surface (41) and a lower surface (42) which are arranged oppositely, and the second module (3) comprises an insulating seat (31) positioned below the lower surface (42).

10. The electrical connector of claim 9, wherein: the second module (3) comprises a shell (33) of a semi-enclosed structure, wherein the shell (33) comprises a bottom wall (331) positioned below the insulating seat (31), a pair of side retaining walls (332) positioned at two sides of the insulating seat (31) and a rear retaining wall (333) positioned behind the insulating seat (31), the shell (33) is provided with a first surface (334) which is opposite to the bottom wall (331) and positioned above and a second surface (335) which is opposite to the rear retaining wall (333) and positioned in front, and the first surface (334) and the second surface (335) are open.

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