CN215989371U

CN215989371U - Protective cover for connector

Info

Publication number: CN215989371U
Application number: CN202122044782.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨帅杰; 刘乃常; 王旭涛; 陈明; 韩云钊; 李卫可; 陈林凯; 姚文浩; 鲁志远; 齐永恒; 薛金钢; 赵晓鸣
Original assignee: China Aviation Optical Electrical Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: China Aviation Optical Electrical Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-27
Filing date: 2021-08-27
Publication date: 2022-03-08
Anticipated expiration: 2031-08-27

Abstract

The utility model provides a protection casing for connector, seals including the rear end, the front end is equipped with the opening in order to peg graft the complex cover body with the connector casing, and the lateral wall of the cover body is equipped with the cantilever, the tail end of cantilever be equipped with the connector casing butt joint hook cooperation portion that sets up in the inslot, along the cover body with connector casing's grafting direction locking complex hook portion, it is equipped with the pressing blade that is used for driving the vertical removal of cantilever, so that hook portion and hook cooperation portion along the unblock of grafting direction to connect the cantilever on the cover body. When the protective cover is matched with the connector for use, the locking and unlocking operations of the protective cover are not influenced by the space size of the corresponding area outside the side wall of the cover body, and when the protective cover is applied to the connectors arranged side by side, the locking and unlocking of the protective cover and the connector shell can be realized very conveniently and quickly.

Description

Protective cover for connector

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of connectors, in particular to a protective cover for a connector.

Background

The connector in communication field installs on the panel of communication machine case, in order to guarantee the sealed of communication machine case, the connector need cooperate and use the protection casing, current connector all sets up the butt joint groove at the lateral wall of casing, when protection casing and connector are pegged graft, as figure 1, two terminal surfaces of the left and right sides that protection casing and connector casing butt joint groove correspond are equipped with presses the shell fragment, press the butt joint groove of shell fragment centre gripping connector casing both ends face and realize the locking of protection casing and connector, during the unblock, through applying pressure to the back end of pressing the shell fragment, make the front end of pressing the shell fragment perk, protection casing and connector unblock, consequently, this kind of locking and unblock need leave certain operating space outside two lateral walls that protection casing and connector casing butt joint groove correspond.

However, in some cases, as shown in fig. 2, connectors are arranged side by side on a communication chassis, the locking and unlocking manner of the existing protective cover needs to be operated on both sides of the connector, and there is not enough operating space between two connectors arranged side by side, so that the locking and unlocking operation of the existing protective cover is very inconvenient.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide a protective cover for a connector, which solves the problem of inconvenient operation caused by the fact that locking and unlocking operations need to be carried out on two sides of the connector when the conventional protective cover is used for the connectors arranged side by side.

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model to achieve the aim is as follows:

a protective cover for a connector comprises a cover body with a closed rear end and an opening at the front end for being inserted and matched with a connector shell,

a cantilever is arranged on the side wall of the cover body;

the tail end of the cantilever is provided with a hook matching part arranged in the butt joint groove of the connector shell and a hook part which is locked and matched along the insertion direction of the cover body and the connector shell;

the cover body is connected with a cantilever and is provided with a pressing sheet which is used for driving the cantilever to vertically move so as to enable the hook part and the hook matching part to be unlocked along the inserting direction.

Furthermore, the cantilever extends in the insertion direction of the cover body and the connector shell to form a plate shape.

Further, the pressing sheet is arranged on the top wall or the bottom wall of the cover body.

Furthermore, the cantilevers are symmetrically arranged along the plugging direction, and the pressing sheets are respectively arranged on the top wall and the bottom wall of the cover body and connected with the corresponding cantilevers.

Furthermore, the front end of the pressing sheet extends along the insertion direction of the cover body and the connector shell to form a bulge which is used for just shielding the coloring mark point of the connector shell when the hook part and the hook matching part are locked.

Furthermore, the pressing sheet is made of elastic material.

The utility model has the beneficial effects that:

the protective cover is provided with the pressing sheet, the cantilever positioned on the pressing sheet and the hook part positioned on the cantilever, when the protective cover body is in splicing fit with the connector shell, the hook part moves along the side wall of the connector shell until the protective cover body is locked with the hook fitting part in the butt joint groove, when the protective cover body is unlocked, the force for enabling the cantilever to vertically move on the side wall surface of the cover body is applied to the cantilever through the pressing sheet, the purpose of unlocking the hook part and the hook fitting part is achieved, the operation of the protective cover is not influenced by the space size of a corresponding area outside the side wall of the cover body, and when the protective cover is applied to the connectors arranged side by side, the locking and the unlocking of the protective cover and the connector shell can be conveniently and quickly realized.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a conventional shield and connector assembly;

FIG. 2 is a schematic side-by-side arrangement of connectors fitted with prior art shields;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the shield of the present invention in a mated configuration with a connector;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the present invention with the protective cover mounted to the connector;

fig. 5 is a schematic view showing the side-by-side arrangement of connectors to which the shield of the present invention is mounted.

The labels in the figure are: 1. pressing spring plate, 2, connector housing, 201, butt joint groove, 202, hook cooperation portion, 203, color code point, 3, chassis panel, 4, the cover body, 401, seal groove, 5, pressing plate, 501, hook portion, 502, cantilever, 503, arch.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description, wherein in the description of the utility model it is to be noted that, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more; the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "inner", "outer", "front", "rear", "head", "tail", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are only for convenience in describing and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the utility model.

In order to facilitate a clearer understanding of the present invention, the use of the existing protective cover is inconvenient to be explained by combining with the figure, as shown in fig. 1, in the existing connector, a butting groove is arranged on a side wall of a connector housing 2, when the protective cover is plugged with the connector housing, a pressing elastic sheet 1 is arranged on the left end surface and the right end surface of the protective cover corresponding to the butting groove of the connector housing, when the protective cover is plugged, pressure is applied to the tail end of the pressing elastic sheet 1, the front end of the pressing elastic sheet 1 is tilted, when the pressing elastic sheet 1 corresponds to the butting groove, the pressing elastic sheet 1 is loosened, the front end of the pressing elastic sheet 1 clamps the butting groove, so as to lock the protective cover and the connector, when unlocking is required, pressure is applied to the tail end of the pressing elastic sheet 1 on the side wall of the protective cover, so that the front end of the pressing elastic sheet 1 is tilted, and the unlocking of the pressing elastic sheet 1 and the butting groove can be realized by moving the protective cover outwards, but a certain space needs to be left on the side wall of the protective cover, under some application scenes, the connectors are required to be arranged close to each other side by side, as shown in fig. 2, at this time, an insufficient operation space is not provided between the two connectors, and the problem that locking and unlocking are inconvenient exists when the existing protective cover is applied, so that the utility model provides a protective cover.

Specific embodiment 1 of the protective cover for a connector of the present invention:

as shown in fig. 3 to 4, the protective hood of this embodiment includes a hood body 4, a rear end of the hood body 4 is closed, a front end of the hood body 4 is provided with an opening to form a plug-in fit with the connector housing 2, the rear end and the front end both refer to a front-back sequence when the hood body 4 is plugged in a plug-in direction, a pressing piece 5 is provided on the hood body 4, a cantilever 502 is provided on a side wall of the hood body 4, the cantilever 502 is connected to the pressing piece 5, the side wall of the hood body 4 refers to a surface corresponding to a mating groove 201 provided on an existing connector housing 2 when the hood body 4 is plugged in the connector housing 2, a hook fitting portion 202 is provided in the mating groove 201 of the connector housing 2, a hook portion 501 forming a locking fit with the hook fitting portion 202 in the plug-in direction of the hood body 4 and the connector housing 2 is provided at a tail end of the cantilever 502, and the tail end of the cantilever 502 refers to an end of the cantilever 502 far from the piece 5 for locking fit, when hook portion 501 cooperates with hook mating portion 202, hook portion 501 is to hooking mating portion 202 power on cover 4 and connector housing 2's grafting direction, and pressing tab 5 can drive cantilever 502 vertical movement, makes hook portion 501 and hook mating portion 202 unblock, vertical movement means cantilever 502 reciprocating motion between cover 4 roof and diapire, and its moving trajectory can be parallel with the lateral wall face, also can take inclination a little, and cantilever 502's removal is as long as there is the displacement in vertical direction promptly, and this displacement satisfies the unblock demand can, need not to keep strict geometric perpendicular relation.

In addition, the cantilever 502 may be directly fixed on the pressing plate 5, that is, the cantilever 502 and the pressing plate 5 are integrally disposed, the sidewall of the cover 4 on which the cantilever 502 is suspended is disposed opposite to the sidewall of the cover 4, and the cantilever 502 may also be vertically movably disposed on the sidewall of the cover 4 through other structures and then connected to the pressing plate 5, where only the sidewall region of the cover 4 needs to be provided with a device for transmitting the pressing force of the pressing plate 5 to the hook 501 through the vertical cantilever 502 so as to unlock the hook 501 from the hook mating part 202.

Compared with the prior protective cover, when the protective cover is used for plugging and matching the cover body 4 and the connector housing 2, the hook part 501 vertically moves on the side wall of the connector housing 2 until the hook part is locked with the hook matching part 202 in the butt joint groove 201, when the protective cover is unlocked, the force for enabling the cantilever 502 to vertically move on the side wall surface of the cover body 4 is applied to the cantilever 502 through the pressing sheet 5, so that the purpose of unlocking the hook part 501 and the hook matching part 202 is achieved, as the pressing sheet 5 only needs to provide the force for enabling the cantilever 502 to vertically move, as shown in fig. 5, the arrangement can be in a non-side wall area of the cover body 4, such as the top or the bottom of the cover body 4, the operation is not influenced by the space size of a corresponding area outside the cover body side wall 4, and therefore, when the protective cover is applied to the connectors arranged side by side, the locking and unlocking of the protective cover and the connector housing 2 can be conveniently and rapidly realized.

The pressing piece 5 of the present embodiment may be provided on a top wall or a bottom wall of the cover 4, the top wall or the bottom wall referring to a plane perpendicular to the side wall of the cover 4, and when provided on the top wall or the bottom wall, it can be arranged by extending out of the edge of the top wall or the bottom wall of the cover body 4, the cantilever 502 is fixed at the end of the edge of the pressing sheet 5 extending out of the top wall or the bottom wall of the cover body 4, it should be noted that the pressing sheet 5 only needs to provide the cantilever 502 with vertical movement on the side wall of the cover body 4, for example, the pressing piece 5 may be made of an elastic material, and when the pressing piece 5 is fixed to the top wall or the bottom wall of the cover 4, the edge of the side wall of the cover 4 can still elastically displace up and down to drive the cantilever 502 to move, and the pressing sheet 5 can also provide the cantilever 502 with vertical movement on the cover 4 through other mechanical structures, such as a sliding rail or a sliding groove vertically arranged on the cover 4.

Embodiment 2 of the protective cover for a connector of the present invention:

different from embodiment 1, the pressing tabs 5 of this embodiment are respectively disposed on the top wall and the bottom wall of the cover 4 to form two upper and lower pressing tabs, the cantilevers 502 are symmetrically disposed along the plugging direction, the pressing tabs 5 are respectively connected with the corresponding cantilevers 502, that is, the pressing tab 5 on the top wall of the cover 4 is connected with the cantilever 502 above, the pressing tab 5 on the bottom wall of the cover 4 is connected with the cantilever 502 below, when the cover 4 is plugged with the connector housing 2, the hooking portions 501 on the two cantilevers 502 on each side wall of the cover 4 are locked with the hooking portions 202 in the mating grooves 201 on the side walls of the connector housing 2, when unlocking, the pressing tabs 5 on the top wall and the bottom wall of the cover 4 are pressed to unlock the hooking portions 501 and the hooking portions 202, when the connector is assembled, not only the unlocking of the protective cover is not affected by the space of the side wall regions, but also the locking of the protective cover 4 with the connector housing 2 is firmer, the unlocking is more convenient.

Embodiment 3 of the protective cover for a connector of the present invention:

unlike

embodiments

1 and 2, in this embodiment, the cantilever 502 may extend in a plate shape along the insertion direction of the cover 4 and the connector housing 2, and the connection with the pressing piece 5 and the locking and unlocking processes are more firm due to the opposite arm shape.

Embodiment 4 of the protective cover for a connector of the present invention:

different from the above-mentioned embodiment, the front end of the pressing sheet 5 in this embodiment extends along the grafting direction of the cover body 4 and the connector housing 2 and forms the protrusion 503, the front end still uses the precedence order of the grafting contact in the grafting process as the benchmark, when the cover body 4 is pegged graft with the connector housing 2 promptly, the pressing sheet 5 is located the one end that the grafting process takes place to contact or cover earlier with the connector housing 2, the protrusion 503 is used for when the hook portion 501 locks with the hook cooperation portion 202, just covers the color marking point 203 on the connector housing 2 to suggestion protection casing and socket connector housing locking, has made things convenient for the judgement of locking in the protection casing use.

It should be noted that the detailed description is not given for the prior art, and the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the present invention fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a protection casing for connector, is equipped with the opening including the rear end is sealed, the front end and pegs graft complex cover body (4) with connector housing (2), its characterized in that:

a cantilever (502) is arranged on the side wall of the cover body (4);

the tail end of the cantilever (502) is provided with a hook matching part (202) arranged in the butt joint groove (201) of the connector shell (2) and a hook part (501) locked and matched along the plugging direction of the cover body (4) and the connector shell (2);

the cover body (4) is connected with a cantilever (502) and is provided with a pressing sheet (5) which is used for driving the cantilever (502) to vertically move so as to enable the hook part (501) and the hook matching part (202) to be unlocked along the plugging direction.

2. A protective cover for a connector according to claim 1, wherein said cantilever (502) is formed in a plate shape extending in a direction of insertion of the cover (4) into the connector housing (2).

3. A protective cover for a connector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pressing piece (5) is provided on the top wall or the bottom wall of the cover body (4).

4. A shield for a connector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the arms (502) are symmetrically arranged in the plugging direction, and the pressing pieces (5) are respectively provided on the top wall and the bottom wall of the housing (4) to be connected to the corresponding arms (502).

5. The protective cover for a connector according to claim 1, wherein the front end of the pressing piece (5) extends in the direction of the insertion of the cover (4) into the connector housing (2) to form a protrusion (503) for just shielding the colored mark (203) on the connector housing (2) when the hook (501) is locked with the hook fitting (202).

6. A protective cover for a connector according to claim 1, wherein said pressing piece (5) is made of an elastic material.