CN215834831U

CN215834831U - Connector for base plate with locking function

Info

Publication number: CN215834831U
Application number: CN202122405753.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨洪雨; 张威武; 戚晶晶; 曾文春; 石亚楠; 陈亚; 唐金涛; 吴莹
Original assignee: Guoguang Group Weicheng Precision Electronics Kunshan Co ltd
Current assignee: Guoguang Group Weicheng Precision Electronics Kunshan Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-30
Filing date: 2021-09-30
Publication date: 2022-02-15
Anticipated expiration: 2031-09-30

Abstract

The application discloses a connector for a substrate with a locking function, which comprises a body part extending along the longitudinal direction and a plurality of terminals combined with the body part and arranged into at least one row along the longitudinal direction; the body part is provided with a butt joint cavity for inserting a butt joint connector; the sliding lock catch is arranged at least one end of the body part along the longitudinal direction, and the attached spring part is matched with the sliding lock catch; the sliding locking piece can slide along the longitudinal direction relative to the body part and is provided with a locking part used for locking the butting connector; one end of the functional part of the additional spring piece is abutted against the body part, the other end of the functional part is abutted against the sliding lock catch piece, and the additional spring piece applies elastic holding force to the sliding lock catch piece, so that the lock catch part of the sliding lock catch piece is maintained in a state of protruding into the butt joint cavity. The substrate connector and the mating connector can be locked.

Description

Connector for base plate with locking function

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of connectors, and particularly relates to a connector for a substrate with a locking function.

Background

Referring to CN213340830U patent, a board-to-board connector is disclosed, which includes a female terminal connector and a male terminal connector connected with the female terminal connector, wherein the female terminal connector generally includes an insulating base and a plurality of terminals combined on the insulating base. The insulating seat comprises a bottom plate, a middle island, two side walls arranged oppositely and two end walls arranged oppositely, wherein the middle island, the side walls and the end walls are respectively connected with the bottom plate. The two ends of the side walls are respectively connected with the two end walls, the two side walls and the two end walls jointly enclose a frame-shaped structure, the middle island is located in the frame-shaped structure, and a butt joint cavity used for containing at least part of the region of the male end connector is formed between the middle island and the frame-shaped structure. And the terminals are combined in two rows on the two side walls.

Among the above-mentioned board among the prior art to the board connector, wherein the headwall position of female end connector still combines female end gold utensil, female end gold utensil correspond and realize the butt joint fixing of public female end connector with public end connector buckle, and female end gold utensil still can be used to the transmission signal of telecommunication, nevertheless only realize through female end gold utensil with public end connector buckle fixing, is far away not enough, when dropping or by the striking, separation and inefficacy appear easily in female end connector and public female end connector.

Therefore, it is desirable to design a substrate connector with a locking function to solve the above-mentioned technical problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the present application is to provide a connector for a substrate having a locking function, which can achieve locking with a mating connector.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present application provides the following technical solutions:

a connector for a substrate with a locking function comprises a body part extending along the longitudinal direction and a plurality of terminals combined with the body part and arranged into at least one row along the longitudinal direction;

the body part is provided with a butt joint cavity for inserting a butt joint connector;

each terminal comprises a fixed section combined with the body part, a contact section at least partially protruding into the butting cavity and a butting section extending outwards out of the body part, wherein the butting section is used for being electrically connected with the butting substrate, and the contact section is used for being electrically connected with the butting connector;

the sliding lock catch is arranged at least one end of the body part along the longitudinal direction, and the attached spring part is matched with the sliding lock catch;

the sliding locking piece can slide along the longitudinal direction relative to the body part and is provided with a locking part used for locking the butting connector;

one end of the functional part of the additional spring piece is abutted against the body part, the other end of the functional part is abutted against the sliding lock catch piece, and the additional spring piece applies elastic holding force to the sliding lock catch piece, so that the lock catch part of the sliding lock catch piece is maintained in a state of protruding into the butt joint cavity.

Further, the body portion comprises a bottom wall, two side walls and two end walls, the two side walls extend upwards from two sides of the bottom wall along the longitudinal direction, the two end walls extend upwards from two ends of the bottom wall along the longitudinal direction, the bottom wall, the two side walls and the two end walls jointly enclose the butt joint cavity, the terminal is combined with the side walls, and the sliding locking piece is arranged on the end walls.

Further, the end wall extends in the longitudinal direction to form a sliding groove, the sliding locking piece is slidably combined with the sliding groove, and the sliding locking piece is located in the middle of the end wall in the transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

Further, the slide fastener member extends in a longitudinal direction in a strip-shaped sheet.

Further, the end wall is further extended to form a bolt groove communicated with the sliding groove, the sliding lock catch piece is extended to form a bolt piece correspondingly protruding into the bolt groove, and the sliding track of the sliding lock catch piece along the longitudinal direction is limited in a fixed range by the bolt groove.

Further, an assembly groove is formed in the end wall in a recessed mode, the force attaching spring piece is assembled and combined in the assembly groove, and the sliding locking fastener part is partially exposed out of the assembly groove.

Furthermore, the force attaching spring part is in a ring gap shape, support ends are defined and formed at the positions of the two sides of the gap of the force attaching spring part, a functional end is defined and formed at one end of the force attaching spring part, which is far away from the gap, along the longitudinal direction, or the force attaching spring part is in a C shape, a support end is defined and formed at one free end of the force attaching spring part, and a functional end is defined and formed at the other free end of the force attaching spring part;

the supporting end is supported on the inner wall surface of the assembling groove, and the functional end is embedded in the embedding notch of the sliding lock catch piece.

The operating part comprises a covering part and a stressed part, the covering part covers the upper part of the stressed spring part and is integrally connected with the stressed spring part, and the stressed part is formed by further extending the covering part and comprises an end cover part covering the outer side surface of the end wall and a stressed part extending upwards to exceed the body part and the covering part and used for being operated by a user.

Further, still include the armor piece, the armor piece includes roof protection portion, by roof protection portion along the lateral surface protection portion of the both sides downwardly extending formation of longitudinal direction, by roof protection portion along the one end downwardly extending formation's that the longitudinal direction is close to the butt joint chamber endwall protection portion and by the chamber endwall protection portion further extend the corresponding lateral wall protection portion of striding over the region except that the terminal of lateral wall that forms, the hasp portion of slip hasp piece passes chamber endwall protection portion and protruding to the butt joint intracavity, roof protection portion covers the upper surface of covering, lateral surface protection portion covers the lateral surface of endwall.

Further, when the stress part is pushed towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity along the longitudinal direction, the force attaching spring part is integrally linked, so that the force attaching spring part is pressed and deformed towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity by taking the support end as a support point, and then the sliding locking piece is driven to move towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity until the locking part is withdrawn from the butt joint cavity.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of this application are: the locking with the butting connector can be realized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a substrate connector with a locking function according to the present application.

Fig. 2 is a partially exploded perspective view of the substrate connector having a locking function shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a further exploded perspective view of the substrate connector with latching feature shown in fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a further exploded perspective view of the substrate connector with latching feature shown in fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of fig. 4 from another angle.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the substrate connector having the locking function according to the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line a-a of fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a side view of the connector for a substrate having a latch function according to the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken along line B-B in fig. 8.

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 only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. 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 to 9, a substrate connector with a locking function disclosed in the present application is mainly used for connecting with a mating substrate (not shown) and mating with a mating connector. The connector with the locking function for the substrate comprises a body part 1 extending along the longitudinal direction, a plurality of terminals 2 combined with the body part 1, sliding locking pieces 3 arranged at two longitudinal ends of the body part 1, an attaching spring piece 4 in elastic fit with the sliding locking pieces 3 and an armor piece 5.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, the main body 1 is formed by injection molding of an insulating material, and includes a bottom wall 11, two side walls 12 extending upward from two sides of the bottom wall 11 along a longitudinal direction, two end walls 13 extending upward from two ends of the bottom wall 11 along the longitudinal direction, and an island wall 14 extending upward from a middle position of the bottom wall 11. The bottom wall 11, the two side walls 12, the two end walls 13 and the island wall 14 together enclose an annular docking cavity 10 with an upward opening, and the docking cavity 10 is used for inserting a docking connector (not shown).

The terminals 2 are arranged in two rows along the longitudinal direction and fixed with the two side walls 12 respectively, each terminal 2 includes a fixing section 21 combined with the body portion 1, an elastically deformable contact section 22 at least partially protruding into the docking cavity 10, and a docking section 23 extending outward from the body portion 1, the docking section 23 is used for docking with a docking substrate, and the contact section 22 is used for electrically connecting with a docking connector.

In the present application, the width of the end wall 13 in the longitudinal direction is wide in order to reserve a sufficient position for the assembly of the force spring element 4. Wherein, the upper surface of the end wall 13 is recessed downwards to form a sliding groove 130, the sliding groove 130 extends along the longitudinal direction, the sliding locking piece 3 is slidably combined in the sliding groove 130, and the sliding locking piece 3 is located at the middle position of the end wall 13 along the transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The sliding groove 130 is communicated with the docking chamber 10. The sliding locking piece 3 can slide along the longitudinal direction relative to the body part 1, and one end of the sliding locking piece 3 adjacent to the butt joint cavity 10 is provided with a locking part 31 for locking with a butt joint connector.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, further, a latch groove 131 communicating with the sliding groove 130 is formed on the end wall 13 in an extending manner, a latch 32 correspondingly protruding into the latch groove 131 is formed on the sliding locking piece 3 in an extending manner, and the latch groove 131 limits the sliding track of the sliding locking piece 3 in the longitudinal direction within a fixed range. In the present application, the latch groove 131 is located directly below the slide groove 130. The sliding fastener 3 is a metal member and extends in a longitudinal direction to form a strip-shaped sheet structure.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an assembly groove 132 is concavely formed on the upper surface of the wider end wall 13, the force-applying spring member 4 is assembled in the assembly groove 132, and the sliding locking member 3 is partially exposed to the assembly groove 132 and is engaged with the force-applying spring member 4.

Referring to fig. 1 to 8, a first embodiment of the force-attaching spring element 4 of the present application is shown, wherein the force-attaching spring element 4 is in a shape of a ring-shaped gap, and the specific shape of the force-attaching spring element can be described as including two arc-shaped plates (not numbered) with opposite openings, a straight plate (not numbered) integrally connecting one ends of the two arc-shaped plates, and two extending plates (not numbered) respectively formed by extending the other ends of the two arc-shaped plates in opposite directions. Wherein a gap (not numbered) is formed between the free ends of the two extension plates, and the two extension plates are opposite to the straight plate and are arranged at intervals. The specific shape of the biasing spring member 4 is shown in plan view in fig. 8. Wherein, the spring element 4 defines support ends 41 (i.e. the free end positions of the two extending plates) at two sides of the notch, and the spring element 4 defines a functional end 42 (i.e. the middle position of the straight plate) at one end position far away from the notch along the longitudinal direction. The sliding locking member 3 passes through the notch of the force-applying spring member 4, the supporting ends 41 (i.e., the other end of the functional part) are located at both sides of the sliding locking member 3 and supported on the inner wall surface of the assembling groove 132, and the functional end 42 (i.e., the one end of the functional part) is embedded in the embedding notch 33 of the sliding locking member 3. The functional end 42 exerts a resilient holding force on the slide fastener 3 so that the locking portion 31 of the slide fastener 3 is maintained in a state of protruding into the mating chamber 10 (see fig. 8).

Of course, the force-attaching spring element 4 may also have a second embodiment (not shown), in which the force-attaching spring element 4 in the second embodiment takes a half structure of the force-attaching spring element 4 in the first embodiment, that is, the force-attaching spring element 4 is designed into a C shape, one free end of the force-attaching spring element 4 defines the supporting end 41, and the other free end defines the functional end 42. The support end 41 is supported by the inner wall surface of the assembly groove 132, and the functional end 42 is fitted into the fitting notch 33 of the slide fastener 3 (may be fixed by welding). The functional end 42 exerts a resilient holding force on the slide fastener 3 so that the locking portion 31 of the slide fastener 3 is maintained in a state of protruding into the mating chamber 10.

Of course, the biasing spring member 4 may also have a third embodiment (not shown), in which the biasing spring member 4 is a compression spring, one end of the compression spring is supported on the inner wall surface of the assembling groove 132, and the other end of the compression spring is supported on the slide fastener 3 (for example, a connecting plate (not shown) similar to a wing extending in a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction may be formed by punching and bending a corresponding position of the slide fastener 3, and the other end of the compression spring may be supported on the connecting plate, or the other end of the compression spring may be welded to the slide fastener 3). The functional end 42 exerts a resilient holding force on the slide fastener 3 so that the locking portion 31 of the slide fastener 3 is maintained in a state of protruding into the mating chamber 10.

As shown in fig. 2 to 4 and 7, the operating device 43 integrally connected to the force-applying spring 4 is further included, the operating device 43 includes a covering member 431 and a force-receiving member 432, the covering member 431 covers the force-applying spring 4 and is integrally connected to the force-applying spring 4, and the force-receiving member 432 is formed by further extending the covering member 431 and includes an end cover member 4321 covering the outer side surface of the end wall 13 and a force-receiving portion 4322 extending upward beyond the main body portion 1 and the covering member 431 for user operation. In the present application, the functional end 42 of the force-attaching spring member 4 is close to the docking chamber 10, the supporting end 41 is far from the docking chamber 10, and the operating member 43 is integrally connected with the functional end 42. When in the natural state, functional end 42 exerts a resilient holding force on slide fastener 3 so that said locking portion 31 of slide fastener 3 is maintained in a state of projecting into mating cavity 10.

When the user pushes the force-receiving portion 4312 in the longitudinal direction in the direction away from the docking chamber 10, the force-attaching spring 4 is integrally linked, so that the force-attaching spring 4 is pressed and deformed in the direction away from the docking chamber 10 by using the supporting end 41 as the supporting point, and further drives the sliding locking member 3 to move in the direction away from the docking chamber 10 until the locking portion 31 exits the docking chamber 10. When the locking part 31 protrudes into the mating cavity 10, the locking part can be correspondingly limited to lock the mating connector, so that the mating connector and the substrate connector of the present application are maintained in a mating state, and after the locking part 31 is manually withdrawn from the mating cavity 10, the mating connector can be pulled out from the substrate connector of the present application.

Of course, in the present application, an insertion guiding inclined surface (not labeled) is formed on the locking portion 31, when the docking connector is inserted into the docking cavity 10 of the connector for substrate, the downward pressure of the docking connector can force the locking portion 31 to exit from the docking cavity 10 until the docking connector is completely inserted into the docking cavity 10 of the connector for substrate, the sliding locking component 3 receives the resilience of the attaching spring component 4, so that the locking portion 31 of the sliding locking component 3 protrudes into the docking cavity 10 and is locked with the docking connector. .

This application can realize butting connector and the butt joint hasp of the connector for the base plate through sliding locking piece 3 and the 4 structural design of complex power spring part that attaches, and can be easy release the hasp. Convenient use, stable structure and suitability for batch production.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5 and 7, the connector for a substrate of the present application further includes a armor 5 made of a metal plate, where the armor 5 includes a top plate protection portion 51, an outer side surface protection portion 52 formed by extending both sides of the top plate protection portion 51 downward in a longitudinal direction, a cavity end wall protection portion 53 formed by extending one end of the top plate protection portion 51 adjacent to the mating cavity 10 downward in the longitudinal direction, and a side wall protection portion 54 formed by further extending the cavity end wall protection portion 53 and correspondingly straddling an area of the side wall 12 other than the terminal 2, the locking portion 31 of the sliding locking piece 3 passes through the cavity end wall protection portion 53 and protrudes into the mating cavity 10, the top plate protection portion 51 covers an upper surface of the cover 431, and the outer side surface protection portion 52 covers an outer side surface of the end wall 13. The armor piece 5 mainly plays the effect of spacing fixed slip hasp piece 3 and attaching power spring part 4, and simultaneously, armor piece 5 also plays the enhancement guard action to the both ends of connector for the base plate, and in some use occasions, armor piece 5 can also be used as power supply electron's function.

Although embodiments of the present application have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the application, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A connector for a substrate with a locking function comprises a body part extending along the longitudinal direction and a plurality of terminals combined with the body part and arranged into at least one row along the longitudinal direction;

each terminal comprises a fixed section combined with the body part, a contact section at least partially protruding into the butting cavity and a butting section extending outwards out of the body part, the butting section is used for being electrically connected with the butting substrate, and the contact section is used for being electrically connected with the butting connector, and the terminal is characterized in that:

2. The connector for a substrate having a locking function according to claim 1, wherein: the body part comprises a bottom wall, two side walls and two end walls, wherein the two side walls extend upwards from two sides of the bottom wall along the longitudinal direction, the two end walls extend upwards from two ends of the bottom wall along the longitudinal direction, the bottom wall, the two side walls and the two end walls jointly enclose to form the butt joint cavity, the terminal is combined with the side walls, and the sliding locking fastener is arranged on the end walls.

3. The connector for a substrate having a locking function according to claim 2, wherein: the end wall extends along the longitudinal direction to form a sliding groove, the sliding locking piece is slidably combined with the sliding groove, and the sliding locking piece is located in the middle of the end wall along the transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

4. A substrate connector with a latch function according to claim 3, wherein: the slide fastener member extends in a longitudinal direction in a strip-shaped sheet.

5. The connector for a substrate with a latch function according to claim 3 or 4, wherein: the end wall is further extended to form a bolt groove communicated with the sliding groove, the sliding lock catch piece is extended to form a bolt piece correspondingly protruding into the bolt groove, and the bolt groove limits the sliding track of the sliding lock catch piece in the longitudinal direction within a fixed range.

6. The connector for a substrate with a locking function according to claim 2, 3 or 4, wherein: the end wall is concavely provided with an assembling groove, the force attaching spring piece is assembled and combined in the assembling groove, and the sliding locking fastener part is partially exposed in the assembling groove.

7. The connector for a substrate having a locking function according to claim 6, wherein:

the auxiliary force spring part is in a ring gap shape, support ends are defined and formed at the positions of two sides of the gap of the auxiliary force spring part, a functional end is defined and formed at one end of the auxiliary force spring part, which is far away from the gap, along the longitudinal direction, or the auxiliary force spring part is in a C shape, a support end is defined and formed at one free end of the auxiliary force spring part, and a functional end is defined and formed at the other free end of the auxiliary force spring part;

8. The connector for a substrate having a locking function according to claim 2, wherein: the operating part comprises a covering part and a stressed part, the covering part covers the upper part of the stressed spring part and is integrally connected with the stressed spring part, and the stressed part is formed by further extending the covering part and comprises an end cover part covering the outer side surface of the end wall and a stressed part extending upwards to exceed the body part and the covering part and used for being operated by a user.

9. The connector for a substrate having a locking function according to claim 8, wherein: still include the armor piece, the armor piece includes roof protection portion, by roof protection portion along the lateral surface protection portion that the both sides downwardly extending of longitudinal direction formed, by roof protection portion along the longitudinal direction close on the chamber tip wall protection portion that the one end downwardly extending of butt joint chamber formed, and by the lateral wall protection portion that the correspondence that chamber tip wall protection portion further extended the formation strides in the region of lateral wall except that the terminal, the hasp portion of slip hasp piece passes chamber tip wall protection portion and protruding to the butt joint intracavity, roof protection portion covers the upper surface of covering, lateral surface protection portion covers the lateral surface of end wall.

10. The connector for a substrate with a latch function according to claim 8 or 9, wherein: when the stress part is pushed towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity along the longitudinal direction, the force attaching spring part is integrally linked, so that the force attaching spring part is pressed and deformed towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity by taking the support end as a support point, and then the sliding locking piece is driven to move towards the direction far away from the butt joint cavity until the locking part is withdrawn from the butt joint cavity.