CN217768890U

CN217768890U - Terminal module, socket connector and plug connector

Info

Publication number: CN217768890U
Application number: CN202221483983.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苟亚娟; 容志强
Original assignee: Alltop Electronics Suzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Alltop Electronics Suzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-14
Filing date: 2022-06-14
Publication date: 2022-11-08
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-14

Abstract

The utility model discloses a terminal module, a socket connector and a plug connector, wherein the terminal module comprises a plurality of conductive terminals and a fixing body for fixing the conductive terminals; a connecting part is arranged between the fixing bodies and is used for assembling the fixing bodies together; the anti-dropping part is arranged in the connecting part and used for preventing the connecting part from being separated along the connecting direction. The electric connector can effectively resist external force, and the terminal module can be stably fixed in plastic and can resist the stress vertical to the butting direction by sliding assembly of the terminal module in the butting direction of the electric connector and interference with the plastic through the convex block on the terminal module.

Description

Terminal module, socket connector and plug connector

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an electric connector technical field, especially a terminal module and socket connector, plug connector.

Background

For many emerging applications requiring high-speed data transmission, the serial technology can solve the performance bottleneck problem faced by the traditional parallel technology, serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the development of parallel SCSI based on the serial technology, except for the advantage of higher signal transmission rate, an MCIO connector mainly supports high-speed serial signals and can realize higher reliability in compact storage application, and the MCIO connector has smaller overall volume and inconvenient terminal plug-in mounting, generally adopts an injection molding mode to form a terminal module, and assembles the terminal module into a plastic body after the two are relatively buckled with each other. However, when the terminal modules are relatively engaged with each other, the assembly direction is opposite to the pulling direction under the condition that the butting connector is pulled, which easily causes the terminal modules to be disintegrated, resulting in poor contact. In view of the above, there is a need for an improved electrical connector to solve the above problems.

Therefore, there is a need for an improved electrical connector to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, an object of the present invention is to provide a terminal module, a socket connector and a plug connector, in which a connection portion is disposed on a fixing body of the terminal module to prevent separation, so as to prevent the terminal module from being collapsed due to pulling force when the terminal module is connected.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a terminal module, which comprises a plurality of conductive terminals and a fixing body for fixing each conductive terminal;

a connecting part is arranged between the fixing bodies and is used for assembling the fixing bodies together;

the anti-dropping part is arranged in the connecting part and used for preventing the connecting part from being separated along the connecting direction.

Further, the connecting part comprises a groove and a convex column which are arranged on the fixed body, wherein one end of the groove is open so as to be suitable for the convex column to be embedded from the open end.

Further, the recess is provided with the lug along fixed body one side with interconnect, the projection front end be provided with lug complex depressed part, the depressed part is used for preventing interconnect's fixed body along the direction of connection separation with the lug cooperation.

Further, connecting portion are including setting up the lock structure on fixed body, and shown lock structure is including setting up trip and the draw-in groove on fixed body respectively, trip and draw-in groove match and are used for producing to resist the fixed body that is connected and at the ascending power of butt joint side, prevent that the fixed body of connection from separating along the direction of connection and disintegrating.

Further, the conductive terminals comprise an upper row of terminals and a lower row of terminals; the fixed body comprises a first injection molding body and a second injection molding body; the first injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the upper row of terminals in an injection molding mode; the second injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the lower row of terminals in an injection molding mode; the upper row of terminals and the first injection molding body form an upper terminal module; and the lower row of terminals and the second injection molding body form a lower terminal module.

The utility model also provides a socket connector constructed by utilizing the terminal module, which comprises an insulating body, the terminal module which is installed and contained in the insulating body and a shell which covers the insulating body and the terminal module;

the shell comprises two opposite side walls, and one ends of the two side walls are both concavely provided with concave parts;

the insulating body comprises a butt joint part and an installation part extending backwards from the butt joint part, and the sunken part is sunken and formed towards the installation part along the butt joint part.

Furthermore, an upper accommodating groove and a lower accommodating groove for accommodating the upper row of terminals and the lower row of terminals respectively and a butt joint groove positioned between the upper accommodating groove and the lower accommodating groove are formed in the insulating body.

Further, the shell still includes the connection wall of connecting both sides wall, seted up at least one trompil on the connection wall, just at least one trompil runs through the connection wall setting.

Furthermore, the shell is provided with a welding part, and the welding part is formed by extending two oppositely arranged wall surfaces;

the shell is provided with two opposite connecting walls which are arranged in a flat plate shape, so that the section of the shell is rectangular in the thickness direction of the socket connector.

The utility model also provides a plug connector which is used for correspondingly plugging with the socket connector, and the plug connector comprises a plastic body and a circuit board positioned in the plastic body; the two sides of the plastic body are provided with protruding blocks, so that when the plug connector is plugged with the socket connector, the protruding blocks are clamped and contained in the concave part of the socket connector.

Furthermore, the plug connector further comprises an elastic sheet arranged on the plastic body, salient points are arranged on the top of the elastic sheet in a protruding mode, one end of the elastic sheet is provided with a reverse extending portion, the other end of the elastic sheet is provided with clamping portions extending towards two sides, and a pressing portion is further arranged between the reverse extending portion and the clamping portions.

The beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that:

an object of the utility model is to provide an effectively resist external force's electric connector through the terminal module in the ascending slip equipment of electric connector butt joint side to see through lug and plastics on the terminal module and interfere, make the terminal module can fix firmly in plastics, and can resist in with butt joint direction vertically atress.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by the means of the instrumentalities and/or combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Drawings

In order to make the purpose, technical scheme and beneficial effect of the utility model clearer, the utility model provides a following figure explains:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal module.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a separated structure of the terminal module fixing body.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of another fixing body separation structure of the terminal module.

Fig. 4 is a front view of a separated structure of the terminal module fixing body.

Fig. 5 is a front view of another fixing body separation structure of the terminal module.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the fixing body structure.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of another fixing body structure.

Fig. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of the insulating body.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of the insulating body and the terminal module.

Fig. 10 is a schematic view of the receptacle connector housing.

Fig. 11 is a schematic view of the socket connector assembly structure.

Fig. 12 is a schematic view of the mutual fastening structure of the fixing bodies.

In the figure, 1-terminal module, 11-conductive terminal, 12-fixed body 12, 13-connecting part, 131-groove, 132-convex column, 141-convex block, 142-concave part; 2-an insulating body, 3-a shell, 4-a clamping hook and 5-a clamping groove.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments so that those skilled in the art can better understand the present invention and can implement the present invention, but the embodiments are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "fixed," and the like are used in a broad sense, and may be, for example, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection, or may be a connection between two elements, or may be a direct connection, or may be an indirect connection via an intermediate medium, and those skilled in the art will understand the specific meaning of the terms according to specific situations.

As shown in fig. 1 to 7, the terminal module 1 provided in this embodiment includes a plurality of conductive terminals 11 and a fixing body 12 for fixing each conductive terminal 11;

a connecting part 13 is arranged between the fixing bodies 12, and the connecting part 13 is used for assembling the fixing bodies 12 together;

the connecting portion 13 is provided therein with a coming-off prevention portion for preventing the connecting portion from being separated in a direction perpendicular to the connecting direction.

The connecting portion 13 provided by this embodiment includes the groove 131 and the protruding column 132 disposed on the fixing body 12, one end of the groove 131 is open to allow the protruding column 132 to be inserted from the open end, the groove 131 is provided with the protruding block 141 along one side of the fixing body 12 connected to each other, the front end of the protruding column 132 is provided with the concave portion 142 matched with the protruding block 141, the concave portion 142 is matched with the protruding block 141 to prevent the fixing body 12 connected to each other from separating along the connecting direction, and the concave portion 142 and the protruding block 141 form the anti-separation portion in the connecting portion 13.

The fixing body of the embodiment can be provided with two or more grooves on the same fixing body, and the other fixing body is correspondingly provided with two or more convex columns; a groove and a convex column can be arranged on one fixed body, so that the function of fastening the fixed body together can be realized.

The conductive terminal 11 provided in this embodiment includes an upper row terminal and a lower row terminal;

the fixed body 12 comprises a first injection molded body and a second injection molded body;

the first injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the upper row of terminals in an injection molding mode;

the second injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the lower row of terminals in an injection molding mode;

the upper row of terminals and the first injection molding body form an upper terminal module 1;

and the lower row of terminals and the second injection molding body form a lower terminal module 1.

The assembly direction in this embodiment refers to a direction extending along the upper and lower rows of terminals; the pulling stress direction is along the direction vertical to the connecting surface of the fixed body; the butt joint direction refers to the direction of the connecting force of the groove and the convex column of the fixing body.

The fixing body 12 provided in this embodiment is injection molded on the outer side of each conductive terminal 11; the connecting parts 13 are used for assembling the fixing bodies 12 together in a mutually opposite buckling mode;

as shown in fig. 12, the connection portion 13 provided in this embodiment includes a fastening structure disposed on the fixing body 12, the fastening structure includes a hook 4 and a slot 5 respectively disposed on the fixing body, the hook 4 and the slot 5 are matched to generate a force resisting the fixing body connected to the fixing body in the docking direction, so as to prevent the fixing body connected to the fixing body from separating and disintegrating in the connection direction.

The connecting portion 13 and the anti-dropping portion provided in this embodiment may be provided in other forms of structures according to actual needs.

The setting of this embodiment is connected face at fixed body 12 and is had anti-disengaging structure, has prevented terminal module 1 effectively when using because external force drags the production and assembles opposite direction's effort to terminal module 1's destruction, has overcome terminal module 1 with butt joint direction vertically atress, has prevented interconnect's in the terminal module 1 fixed body 12's separation, avoids the problem that contact failure that it caused brought.

One end of the groove 131 provided by this embodiment is open, so that the groove 131 and the protruding post 132 can be assembled in a sliding manner, thereby facilitating and simplifying the assembling process of the electrical connector.

As shown in fig. 8 to 11, the terminal module 1 provided in this embodiment can be further assembled into a receptacle connector, where the receptacle connector includes an insulating housing 2, the terminal module 1 mounted in the insulating housing 2, and a housing 3 covering the insulating housing 2 and the terminal module 1;

the shell 3 comprises two opposite side walls, and one end of each side wall is concavely provided with a concave part 142;

the insulating body 2 includes a butt portion and a mounting portion extending rearward from the butt portion, and the recess 142 is formed by being recessed toward the mounting portion along the butt portion.

The terminal module 1 comprises a conductive terminal 11 and a fixed body 12 injection-molded on the outer side of the conductive terminal 11, the conductive terminal 11 comprises an upper row of terminals and a lower row of terminals which are arranged in an up-down symmetry manner, and an upper accommodating groove and a lower accommodating groove for accommodating the upper row of terminals and the lower row of terminals respectively and a butt joint groove positioned between the upper accommodating groove and the lower accommodating groove are formed in the insulating body 2.

The shell 3 further comprises a connecting wall connected with the two side walls, at least one opening is formed in the connecting wall, and the at least one opening penetrates through the connecting wall.

The housing 3 is provided with a weld extending from two oppositely disposed walls.

The shell 3 is provided with two opposite connecting walls which are arranged in a flat plate shape, so that the cross section of the shell 3 is rectangular in the thickness direction of the socket connector.

The shell 3 is provided with two opposite connecting walls, and the middle position of one of the connecting walls protrudes outwards, so that the cross section of the shell 3 is convex in the thickness direction of the socket connector.

The other end of both sides wall is all concave to be equipped with the shrinkage pool, just the shrinkage pool is followed the installation department is sunken to form towards butt joint portion direction, insulator 2 is last to correspond and is equipped with the protruding portion, with shell 3 cover in when the insulator 2 outside, the protruding portion is spacing accept in the shrinkage pool.

The embodiment also provides a plug connector which is used for being correspondingly plugged with the socket connector, wherein the plug connector comprises a plastic body and a circuit board positioned in the plastic body; the two sides of the plastic body are provided with protruding blocks, so that when the plug connector is plugged with the socket connector, the protruding blocks are clamped and contained in the concave part of the socket connector.

The plug connector further comprises an elastic sheet arranged on the plastic body, salient points are arranged on the top of the elastic sheet in a protruding mode, one end of the elastic sheet is provided with a reverse extending portion, the other end of the elastic sheet is provided with clamping portions extending towards two sides, and a pressing portion is further arranged between the reverse extending portion and the clamping portions.

Except for the improvement of the structure of the fixing body 12 of the terminal module 1 and the structure of the anti-separation structure, other structures such as the structure of the insulating body 2 and the housing 3 in the receptacle connector are the same as those described in the patent document CN201820506799.5, and are not repeated herein.

The above-mentioned embodiments are merely preferred embodiments for fully illustrating the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. Equivalent substitutes or changes made by the technical personnel in the technical field on the basis of the utility model are all within the protection scope of the utility model. The protection scope of the present invention is subject to the claims.

Claims

1. Terminal module (1), its characterized in that: comprises a plurality of conductive terminals (11) and a fixing body (12) for fixing each conductive terminal (11);

a connecting part (13) is arranged between the fixing bodies (12), and the connecting part (13) is used for assembling the fixing bodies (12) together;

the connecting part (13) is provided with a separation preventing part which is used for preventing the connecting part from separating along the direction vertical to the connecting direction.

2. The terminal module of claim 1, wherein: the connecting part (13) comprises a groove (131) and a convex column (132) which are arranged on the fixed body (12), wherein one end of the groove (131) is open so as to be suitable for the convex column (132) to be embedded from the open end.

3. The terminal module of claim 2, wherein: the groove (131) is provided with a convex block (141) along one side of the mutually connected fixed bodies (12), the front end of the convex column (132) is provided with a concave part (142) matched with the convex block (141), and the concave part (142) and the convex block (141) are matched to prevent the mutually connected fixed bodies (12) from being separated along the connection direction.

4. The terminal module of claim 1, wherein: connecting portion (13) are including setting up lock structure on fixed body (12), and shown lock structure is including setting up trip and the draw-in groove on fixed body respectively, trip and draw-in groove match are used for producing to resist and the fixed body that is connected is at the ascending power of butt joint direction.

5. The terminal module of claim 1, wherein: the conductive terminals (11) comprise upper-row terminals and lower-row terminals; the fixed body (12) comprises a first injection molded body and a second injection molded body; the first injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the upper row of terminals in an injection molding mode; the second injection molding body is formed on the outer side of the lower row of terminals in an injection molding mode; the upper row of terminals and the first injection molding body form an upper terminal module (1); and the lower row of terminals and the second injection molding body form a lower terminal module (1).

6. Socket connector built with a terminal module (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: the socket connector comprises an insulating body (2), a terminal module (1) which is installed and contained in the insulating body (2), and a shell (3) which covers the insulating body (2) and the terminal module (1);

the shell (3) comprises two opposite side walls, and one ends of the two side walls are both concavely provided with concave parts (142);

the insulating body (2) comprises a butt joint part and an installation part extending backwards from the butt joint part, and the sunken part (142) is sunken and formed towards the installation part along the butt joint part.

7. The receptacle connector of claim 6, wherein: the insulation body (2) is internally provided with an upper containing groove and a lower containing groove which are used for containing the upper row terminal and the lower row terminal in the terminal module (1) respectively, and a butt joint groove positioned between the upper containing groove and the lower containing groove.

8. The receptacle connector of claim 6, wherein: the shell (3) further comprises a connecting wall connected with the two side walls, at least one opening is formed in the connecting wall, and the at least one opening penetrates through the connecting wall;

the shell (3) is provided with a welding part, and the welding part is formed by extending two oppositely arranged wall surfaces;

the shell (3) is provided with two opposite connecting walls which are arranged in a flat plate shape, so that the cross section of the shell (3) is rectangular in the thickness direction of the socket connector.

9. Plug connector for mating with the socket connector according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein: the plug connector comprises a plastic body and a circuit board positioned in the plastic body; the two sides of the plastic body are provided with protruding blocks, so that when the plug connector is plugged with the socket connector, the protruding blocks are clamped and contained in the concave part of the socket connector.

10. The plug connector of claim 9, wherein: the plug connector further comprises an elastic sheet arranged on the plastic body, salient points are arranged on the top of the elastic sheet in a protruding mode, one end of the elastic sheet is provided with a reverse extending portion, the other end of the elastic sheet is provided with clamping portions extending towards two sides, and a pressing portion is further arranged between the reverse extending portion and the clamping portions.