CN216055423U - Interface device and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an interface device and electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of electronics. The interface device includes: connecting the body, the housing assembly and the seal; the housing assembly is located on an outer peripheral side of the connection body, the housing assembly including a stopper; the connecting body comprises a connector end, the sealing element is located on the outer periphery side of the connector end, and the stopping portion abuts against an end face, away from the connector end, of the sealing element. According to the interface device, the blocking part is arranged on the shell component and abuts against the sealing element, so that extrusion sealing force can be provided for the sealing element, and the sealing element is prevented from loosening and losing efficacy due to insufficient extrusion sealing force.

Description

Interface device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of electronic technologies, and in particular, to an interface device and an electronic apparatus.

Background

As electronic devices permeate into various aspects of our lives, waterproofness is an important index for measuring the overall performance of electronic devices.

However, charging and data transmission interfaces are inevitably required to be designed for electronic equipment, the waterproof performance of the interface directly determines the waterproof performance of the whole machine, and the sealing structure of the interface device in the prior art is complex, so that the cost and the assembly efficiency of the interface device are restricted.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides an interface device and electronic equipment, which can solve the problems of complex waterproof structure and high assembly precision requirement of an interface. The technical scheme is as follows:

in one aspect, an interface apparatus is provided, the interface apparatus including: connecting the body, the housing assembly and the seal;

the housing assembly is located on an outer peripheral side of the connection body, the housing assembly including a stopper;

the connecting body comprises a connector end, the sealing element is located on the outer periphery side of the connector end, and the stopping portion abuts against an end face, away from the connector end, of the sealing element.

In some embodiments, an included angle between an end surface of the stopping portion abutting against the sealing member and the outer side surface of the connecting body is a, and 0 < a < 90 °.

In some embodiments, the stop is formed by an edge cuff of the housing assembly proximate the interface end.

In some embodiments, the stopper portion is cooperatively connected to an edge of the housing assembly near the interface end, and the cooperative connection includes but is not limited to: welding connection, clamping connection and splicing connection.

In some embodiments, the seal is made of a rubber material.

In some embodiments, the housing assembly is provided with at least one through hole.

In some embodiments, the housing assembly further comprises: a covering part and a leg part; the stopping part is positioned at the edge of the cladding part close to the interface end, and the leg parts are positioned at two sides of the cladding part in the width direction.

In some embodiments, the housing assembly includes a first housing and a second housing arranged on an outer peripheral side of the connection body in a butt-joint connection.

In some embodiments, the connecting body comprises: accommodating the shell and the tongue piece; the tongue piece is positioned in the containing shell, and the surface of the tongue piece is provided with a conductive part.

In another aspect, an electronic device is provided, the electronic device comprising a housing, a printed circuit board, and any one of the interface devices;

the printed circuit board is located in the shell, and the interface device is connected to the printed circuit board.

In some embodiments, an interface hole is formed in the housing, the interface end is located in the interface hole, and the sealing member is in sealing contact with the inner wall of the housing around the interface hole.

The technical scheme provided by the utility model has the beneficial effects that at least:

according to the interface device, the blocking part is arranged on the shell component and abuts against the sealing element, so that extrusion sealing force can be provided for the sealing element, and the sealing element is prevented from loosening and losing efficacy due to insufficient extrusion sealing force.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the interface device structure provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of a connection structure between an interface device and a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The reference numerals in the figures are denoted respectively by:

10. an interface device; 20. a printed circuit board;

1. a connecting body; 11. an interface end; 12. an accommodating case; 13. a tongue piece; 2. a housing assembly; 21. a stopper portion; 22. a covering part; 23. a leg portion; 24. a first housing; 25. a second housing; 3. a seal member; 4. a through hole; 201. a support leg hole.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the utility model, as detailed in the appended claims.

It should be understood that terms of orientation such as "upper", "lower", "top", "bottom", "front", "rear", "side", etc. are used in the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the orientation of the interface device as being disposed, wherein the first housing is oriented top or top, the second housing is oriented bottom or bottom, the portion between the top and bottom is the side, the interface end is oriented front, and the orientation opposite to the front is the rear. The embodiments of the present invention use these terms only for the purpose of describing structures and relationships between structures, and not for the purpose of describing absolute orientations, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the utility model.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical terms used in the embodiments of the present invention have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art.

As small consumer electronic devices penetrate the aspects of our lives, the electronic devices need to withstand various harsh environments. High water resistance has become a popular trend for electronic devices. Particularly, the waterproof performance is more important for portable mobile phones, tablet computers, smart watches and other small electronic products. Water resistance has become an important selling point for manufacturers of smart phones to market their products to consumers.

Electronic equipment is usually designed with interfaces for charging and data transmission, and waterproof sealing at the interfaces adopts a rubber ring extrusion sealing mode. Specifically, a rubber ring and a stop ring are assembled on the outer peripheral side of the connecting main body, and the stop ring extrudes the rubber ring on the inner wall of the shell to realize sealing at the interface. However, the connection main body is positioned in the casing by the support legs, the stop ring and the rubber ring are positioned on the connection main body, the connection main body and the stop ring have different positioning references, so that a large error exists in the position of the rubber ring relative to the connection main body, the rubber ring and the casing have large assembly error, uneven extrusion or insufficient extrusion force degree of a contact area between the rubber ring and the inner wall of the casing can be caused in the assembly process, and poor sealing of a joint is caused. In order to avoid poor sealing, in the prior art, the positioning accuracy of the casing and the connecting main body, the stop ring and the connecting main body, and the rubber ring and the connecting main body can only be improved, so that the sealing and waterproof requirements of the whole machine can be met. This makes it impossible to improve the assembling efficiency of the seal structure of the interface device.

In addition, the stop ring in the prior art is an independent part, the rubber ring is positioned by the stop ring, the positioning precision is low, the sealing structure is complex, and the production cost and the production efficiency are not high.

Therefore, the interface device provided by the utility model has a simple structure, can greatly improve the position precision of the rubber ring, realizes better sealing effect of the rubber ring under the same extrusion force through the extrusion, sealing and water prevention of the rubber ring, and can meet the sealing requirement of a higher level.

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

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an interface device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 2 is a structural sectional view of the interface device 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention; fig. 3 is an exploded view of the interface device 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In one aspect, referring to fig. 1-3, the present embodiment provides an interface device 10, where the interface device 10 includes: connecting the main body 1, the housing assembly 2 and the seal 3; the case assembly 2 is located on the outer circumferential side of the connecting body 1, the case assembly 2 including a stopper portion 21; the connection body 1 includes a mouthpiece 11, the sealing member 3 is located on an outer peripheral side of the mouthpiece 11, and the stopper portion 21 abuts on an end surface of the sealing member 3 facing away from the mouthpiece 11.

The interface device 10 of this embodiment sets up backstop portion 21 on the shell subassembly 2, backstop portion 21 butt is on sealing member 3, for sealing member 3 provides extrusion sealing force, prevent that sealing member 3 from becoming flexible the inefficacy because of extrusion sealing force is not enough, backstop portion 21 supports tightly at the sealing member 3 and deviates from the terminal surface of interface end 11, make sealing member 3 obtain with interface end 11 syntropy's holding power, after interface device 10 is assembled in place, sealing member 3 can compress tightly the casing (not shown in the figure) inner wall around the interface under the extrusion of backstop portion 21, thereby form reliable sealed.

Furthermore, designing the stop portion 21 as part of the housing assembly 2 simplifies the sealing structure, facilitates reducing the manufacturing cost of the interface device 10, and improves the efficiency of its production and assembly. Stopping portion 21 assembles along with connecting body 1, and stopping portion 21 is the same with connecting body 1's location benchmark, and sealing member 3 passes through stopping portion 21 location, also can keep less error with the casing, can promote sealing member 3's position accuracy greatly, and through sealing member 3 extrusion seal, realized under the same extrusion force, sealing member 3's sealed effect is better, can reach the sealed requirement of higher level.

In some possible implementations, the interface end 11 is an insertion region of a component to which the interface device 10 is connected. For example, the interface device 10 is a female port, and the connection member is a male port, and the male port is inserted into the interface end 11 of the female port to connect the male port and the female port.

In some possible implementations, the interface device 10 includes, but is not limited to, a SCSI (Small Computer System interface) interface, a DB interface, a PS/2 interface, a USB interface, a Type-C interface, a Lighting interface, a Dock interface, an RJ interface, an AV interface, a DIN interface, a VGA (video Graphics array) interface, and a DVI (digital Visual interface) interface.

The interface device 10 of the present embodiment is suitable for portable electronic apparatuses such as: smart phones, tablet computers, MP3 players (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III, motion video Experts compression standard Audio Layer 3), MP4 players (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer IV, motion video Experts compression standard Audio Layer 4), notebook computers, desktop computers, and the like.

The interface device 10 of the present embodiment is also suitable for other products, such as electric shavers, electric toothbrushes, point of service terminals, wearable devices, and automotive, medical and industrial products.

The interface device 10 of the present embodiment is exemplarily applicable to all Type-C interface electronic devices.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 2, the angle between the end surface of the stop portion 21 abutting against the sealing member 3 and the outer side surface of the connecting body 1 is a, and satisfies 0 < a < 90 °. For example, the included angle a takes values of 10 °, 20 °, 30 °, 40 °, 50 °, 60 °, 70 °, and 80 °.

In the interface device 10 of this embodiment, the design of back portion 21 and the outer surface of connecting main body 1 is the acute angle, and when shell subassembly 2 extrudeed with sealing member 3, can guarantee that sealing member 3 hugs closely on connecting main body 1's surface to effectively prevent that sealing member 3 from deforming the back, produce the gap with connecting main body 1 separation, lead to interface device 10's sealed inefficacy, cause debris such as moisture, dust to pass through the kneck and get into in the casing.

As shown in connection with fig. 2 and 3, in some embodiments, the stop 21 is formed by flanging the edge of the case assembly 2 near the interface end 11. Illustratively, the housing assembly 2 is formed from sheet metal by sheet metal processes including, but not limited to, shearing, stamping, cutting, folding, splicing, stretching, flanging.

In the interface device 10 of the present embodiment, the edge of the housing assembly 2 forms the stopping portion 21 through the flanging process, and the stopping portion 21 abuts against the sealing member 3 to form reliable sealing; by adopting the flanging process, the structure of the stop part 21 is simpler, and the processing process is more optimized, so that the interface device 10 is further optimized in the aspects of reducing the cost and improving the production efficiency.

In other embodiments, the stop portion 21 is cooperatively connected to the edge of the housing assembly 2 near the interface end 11 by a manner including, but not limited to: welding connection, clamping connection and splicing connection. Thus, forming the stopper portion 21 as a part of the housing assembly 2, to be positioned and assembled simultaneously with the housing assembly 2, can provide a highly accurate positioning reference and sealing pressure for the packing 3.

In some embodiments, the seal 3 is made of a rubber material. The seal 3 is illustratively a rubber ring. The rubber material includes but is not limited to silicone rubber, nitrile rubber, neoprene rubber, natural rubber, fluororubber, ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber, urethane rubber, epichlorohydrin rubber, acrylate rubber.

The material of the sealing member 3 is, for example, graphite, polytetrafluoroethylene, various sealants, and the like.

As shown in connection with fig. 1-3, in some embodiments, the housing assembly 2 is provided with at least one through-hole 4. The at least one through hole 4 is located in the cladding 22 of the housing assembly 2 such that the connection body 1 inside the housing assembly 2 is at least partially exposed to the outside. The at least one through hole 4 serves to reduce the weight of the interface device 10 and to increase the heat dissipation capacity of the connecting body 1.

It will be appreciated that the number of through-holes 4 in the housing assembly 2 is one or more, for example one, two, three. When the number of the through holes 4 is plural, the plural through holes 4 are symmetrically provided on the housing assembly 2.

As used herein, the terms "plurality", "at least one" mean one or more, and the terms "plurality", "at least two" mean two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship.

As shown in connection with fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments, the housing assembly 2 further includes: a covering portion 22 and a leg portion 23; the stopper portions 21 are located on the edge of the covering portion 22 near the interface end 11, and the leg portions 23 are located on both sides of the covering portion 22 in the width direction. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the width of the covering portion 22 is perpendicular to both the vertical direction and the front-rear direction of the interface device 10.

In the interface device 10 of the present embodiment, the main function of the housing assembly 2 is to position and assemble the connecting body 1, for example, to assemble and fix the connecting body 1 on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) 20 in a housing. The shape of the inner surface of the covering part 22 of the case assembly 2 corresponds to the shape of the outer surface of the connecting body 1, so that the covering part 22 covers the connecting body 1. The leg portion 23 and the covering portion 22 are an integral structure, and the leg portion 23 is fixedly connected with other structural members (such as a PCB), so that the covering portion 22 and the connecting body 1 are indirectly fixed on the structural members.

As shown in connection with fig. 2, in some embodiments, the housing assembly 2 includes a first housing 24 and a second housing 25, and the first housing 24 and the second housing 25 are arranged on an outer circumferential side of the connection body 1 in a butt joint. Correspondingly, the first casing 24 and the second casing 25 respectively form a part of the structure of the stopping portion 21, the covering portion 22 and the leg portion 23, and when the first casing 24 and the second casing 25 are connected in an involutory manner, the stopping portion 21, the covering portion 22 and the leg portion 23 are formed completely.

In some possible implementations, the first and second shells 24 and 25 are made of sheet metal by sheet metal processes, including but not limited to shearing, punching, cutting, folding, splicing, stretching, and flanging.

Illustratively, the housing assembly 2 is divided into a first housing 24 and a second housing 25 along the up-down direction, the two parts of the housing are symmetrical along the central transverse section of the connecting body 1, and the first housing 24 and the second housing 25 are connected in a involution manner along the up-down direction.

In the interface device 10 of this embodiment, the housing assembly 2 is divided into the first housing 24 and the second housing 25, so that the processing difficulty of the housing assembly 2 can be reduced, the assembly of the housing assembly 2 and the connecting body 1 is facilitated, the production cost of the interface device 10 is reduced, and the production assembly efficiency of the interface device 10 is improved.

It is to be noted that, in the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted", "connected" and "connected" are to be interpreted broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; may be a mechanical connection; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more features. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically defined otherwise.

As shown in connection with fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments, connecting body 1 includes: a housing case 12 and a tongue piece 13; the tongue 13 is located in the housing case 12, and the surface of the tongue 13 has a plurality of conductive portions.

Illustratively, a plurality of conductive portions are disposed in a sunken groove on the surface of the tongue 13, the conductive portions are formed in the sunken groove by copper deposition, and the length of the conductive portions is suitable for the electronic device.

In the interface device 10 of the present embodiment, the stopping portion 21 and the housing assembly 2 are integrally designed, so that the stopping portion 21 and the leg portion 23 of the housing assembly 2 can have higher position accuracy, thereby reducing the error between the stopping portion 21 and the PCB, and further reducing the positioning difficulty between the PCB and the housing; the stopper portion 21 and the outer surface of the connecting body 1 are designed to form an acute angle, so that the rubber sealing ring can be tightly attached to the outer surface of the connecting body 1 when being extruded, and the sealing performance of the rubber sealing ring is ensured.

On the other hand, as shown in fig. 4, the present embodiment provides an electronic device, which includes a housing, a printed circuit board 20, and the interface device 10 of any one of the embodiments; a printed circuit board 20 is located within the housing and the interface device 10 is connected to the printed circuit board 20. The printed circuit board 20 is provided with a leg hole 201 for receiving the leg portion 23, and the leg portion 23 is soldered in the leg hole 201.

The electronic device of the present embodiment employs the interface device 10 of the present invention, and has all the beneficial technical effects of all the embodiments herein.

The electronic device of the embodiment includes a portable electronic device, such as: the mobile phone comprises a smart phone, a tablet personal computer, an MP3 player (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III, Moving Picture Experts compress standard Audio Layer 3), an MP4 player (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer IV, Moving Picture Experts compress standard Audio Layer 4), a notebook computer or a desktop computer, and the like, and also comprises other products, such as an electric shaver, an electric toothbrush, a service point terminal, wearable equipment, an automobile, medical and industrial products.

In some embodiments, the housing is provided with an interface hole (not shown), the interface end 11 is located in the interface hole, and the sealing member 3 is in sealing contact with the inner wall of the housing around the interface hole. Therefore, the electronic device of the embodiment can perform charging or data connection through the interface end 11 of the interface device 10, and the inner wall of the housing around the interface hole is sealed with the sealing member 3 in a pressing manner, so that the sealing performance of the interface hole is ensured.

It is noted that, in the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the "over" or "under" a first feature may include the first and second features being in direct contact, or the first and second features being in contact not directly but via another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description of the specification, reference to the terms "certain embodiments," "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "illustrative embodiments," "examples," "specific examples," or "some examples" means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the utility model.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the utility model, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (11)

1. An interface device, characterized in that said interface device (10) comprises: connecting the main body (1), the housing assembly (2) and the seal (3);

the housing assembly (2) is located at an outer circumferential side of the connection body (1), the housing assembly (2) comprising a stopper (21);

the connecting body (1) comprises a joint end (11), the sealing element (3) is located on the outer periphery side of the joint end (11), and the stopping part (21) abuts against the end face, away from the joint end (11), of the sealing element (3).

2. Interface device according to claim 1, characterized in that the end face of the stop (21) abutting against the seal (3) and the outer side face of the connecting body (1) have an angle a, satisfying 0 < a < 90 °.

3. Interface device according to claim 1, wherein the stop (21) is formed by an edge flange of the housing assembly (2) near the interface end (11).

4. Interface device according to claim 1, wherein the stop (21) is fittingly connected to an edge of the housing assembly (2) near the interface end (11), the fittingly connection comprising: welding connection, clamping connection and splicing connection.

5. Interface device according to claim 1, characterized in that said seal (3) is made of rubber material.

6. Interface device according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing assembly (2) is provided with at least one through hole (4).

7. Interface device according to claim 1, wherein the housing assembly (2) further comprises: a covering part (22) and a leg part (23); the stopping part (21) is positioned at the edge of the cladding part (22) close to the interface end (11), and the leg parts (23) are positioned at two sides of the cladding part (22) in the width direction.

8. Interface device according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing assembly (2) comprises a first housing (24) and a second housing (25), the first housing (24) and the second housing (25) being arranged opposite each other on the outer circumference side of the connecting body (1).

9. Interface device according to claim 1, characterized in that said connection body (1) comprises: a housing case (12) and a tongue piece (13); the tongue piece (13) is positioned in the accommodating shell (12), and the surface of the tongue piece (13) is provided with a conductive part.

10. An electronic device, characterized in that the electronic device comprises a housing, a printed circuit board (20) and an interface device (10) according to any of claims 1-9;

the printed circuit board (20) is located in the housing, and the interface device (10) is connected to the printed circuit board (20).

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein an interface hole is provided on the housing, the interface end (11) is located in the interface hole, and the sealing member (3) is in sealing contact with an inner wall of the housing around the interface hole.

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