CN218975944U - Push-button fluid connector - Google Patents
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The application discloses a button fluid connector, includes: a socket base housing and a plug housing; the socket base shell is internally provided with a mounting cavity along the length direction of the socket base shell, a sealing rod and a lower sealing mechanism are arranged in the mounting cavity, and the lower sealing mechanism is sleeved outside the sealing rod. One end of the plug shell extends into the mounting cavity, and the end face of the plug shell abuts against the top face of the lower sealing mechanism; the plug shell is provided with a through hole along the length direction of the plug shell, and an upper sealing mechanism is arranged in the through hole. The lower end of the sealing rod is clamped with the inner wall of the socket base shell, and the upper end of the sealing rod is abutted against the upper sealing mechanism. The side wall movable mounting of socket base casing has the button, and the button can be followed the cross section direction of socket base casing and removed to install the joint of spacing plug casing inside the socket base casing. The plug housing is limited by arranging the button, and the plug housing is convenient to assemble, perfect in structure and high in tightness.
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Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of fluid connectors, and in particular, to a push button fluid connector.
Background
The common cooling modes of the electronic equipment are an air cooling mode and a liquid cooling mode. With the development trend of equipment integration and miniaturization, the performance and service life of the equipment are directly affected by heat dissipation and cooling of electronic components. The liquid cooling heat dissipation has the advantages of high heat dissipation efficiency, low noise, small occupied space and the like, so that the liquid cooling is widely used on a cooling system of electronic equipment instead of air cooling. The fluid connector is used as an important component for connecting a high-pressure fluid pipeline and controlling the on-off of the pipeline, and the connection of a plug and a socket is particularly important. The fluid quick connector with the button lock has a check function due to quick plugging and one-way sealing, so that the fluid quick connector is widely applied to the fields of petroleum, chemical industry, metallurgy, hydropower, engineering machinery, ships, electromechanical equipment and the like.
The existing fluid quick connector with the button lock consists of a socket and a plug, wherein a group of steel balls are uniformly distributed on the circumference of the socket body, when the plug body stretches into the socket body, the steel balls can slide into locking grooves of the plug body, and the steel balls are locked by an outer sleeve, so that a pipeline can be connected. After the outer sleeve is loosened, the plug body is pulled to enable the steel ball to slide out of the locking groove to disconnect the pipeline. The product has the advantages of complex structure, large volume and high manufacturing cost, and the two hands are required to act simultaneously during operation, so that the installation space is required to be large, and the use effect and the use performance of the quick connector are affected.
Therefore, it is a problem that needs to be solved by those skilled in the art to provide a fluid connector locking device that is well-structured and easy to assemble.
Disclosure of Invention
The purpose of this application is to provide a perfect structure, convenient button type fluid connector of assembly.
To achieve the above object, the present application provides a push button type fluid connector comprising: a socket base housing and a plug housing; the socket base shell is internally provided with a mounting cavity along the length direction of the socket base shell, a sealing rod and a lower sealing mechanism are arranged in the mounting cavity, and the lower sealing mechanism is sleeved outside the sealing rod;
one end of the plug shell extends into the mounting cavity, and the end face of the plug shell abuts against the top face of the lower sealing mechanism; the plug shell is provided with a through hole along the length direction of the plug shell, and an upper sealing mechanism is arranged in the through hole;
the lower end of the sealing rod is clamped with the inner wall of the socket base shell, and the upper end of the sealing rod is abutted against the upper sealing mechanism;
the side wall of the socket base shell is movably provided with a button, and the button can move along the section direction of the socket base shell so as to be clamped with the side wall of the limit plug shell.
In some embodiments, a socket housing is sandwiched between the plug housing end and the socket base housing, and the socket housing is clamped and limited with the socket base housing inner wall to seal the gap.
In some embodiments, the button comprises: the device comprises a mounting plate and a pressing plate arranged on one side of the mounting plate;
the assembly plate includes: a round hole formed in the center, and an arc clamping plate and an arc resetting plate which are arranged on two sides of the round hole;
the side walls of the two opposite sides of the socket base shell are respectively provided with a mounting opening and a clamping opening; the pressing plate is arranged in the mounting opening, and the assembly plate extends to the clamping opening along the section direction of the socket base shell;
the circular arc joint board is limited with joint opening inner wall joint, is equipped with the elasticity piece that resets between circular arc reset plate and the installation opening inner wall.
In some embodiments, the diameter of the circular aperture is smaller than the outer diameter of the receptacle housing and larger than the outer diameter of the plug housing; the elastic reset piece can maintain the relative distance between the arc reset plate and the inner wall of the mounting opening so as to ensure that the bottom surface of the button limits the top surface of the plug shell.
In some embodiments, two edges of the clamping opening are provided with clamping tables, and two sides of the arc clamping plate are provided with clamping extension plates; the buckle extension board corresponds two joint platforms of joint, avoids the button to deviate from with the spacing of socket base casing.
In some embodiments, the lower seal mechanism comprises: the clamping spring, the first spring and the sealing ring are sleeved on the outer side of the sealing rod in sequence;
the clamp spring is pressed on the top surface of the lower end of the sealing rod and is clamped and limited with the inner wall of the socket base shell;
the top surface of the sealing ring is correspondingly attached to the end surface of the plug shell;
the first spring is clamped between the clamp spring and the sealing ring.
In some embodiments, the upper sealing mechanism comprises: the sealing block, the second spring and the pressing block are sequentially connected;
the sealing block bottom surface butt sealing rod top surface, briquetting and plug shells inner wall fixed spacing.
In some embodiments, the outer wall of the socket housing is provided with a protruding portion, and the inner wall of the socket base housing is correspondingly provided with a recessed groove; the protruding part can be clamped in the concave groove to prevent the socket shell from falling out of the mounting cavity.
In some embodiments, the inner wall and the outer wall of the socket housing are each sleeved with a plurality of sealing rings.
In some embodiments, the sealing rod bottom is provided with a clamping leg, and the socket base housing inner wall is provided with a clamping groove corresponding to the clamping leg.
With respect to the background art described above, the present application provides a socket base housing and a plug housing; the socket base shell is internally provided with an installation cavity along the length direction of the socket base shell, the installation cavity is internally provided with a sealing rod and a lower sealing mechanism, and the lower sealing mechanism is sleeved outside the sealing rod. One end of the plug shell extends into the mounting cavity, and the end face of the plug shell is abutted against the top face of the lower sealing mechanism; the plug shell is provided with a through hole along the length direction of the plug shell, and an upper sealing mechanism is arranged in the through hole. The lower end of the sealing rod is clamped with the inner wall of the socket base shell, and the upper end of the sealing rod is abutted against the upper sealing mechanism. The side wall of the socket base shell is movably provided with a button, and the button can move along the cross section direction of the socket base shell, so that the limit plug shell is clamped and installed inside the socket base shell. The plug housing is limited by arranging the button, and the plug housing is convenient to assemble, perfect in structure and high in tightness.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings may be obtained according to the provided drawings without inventive effort to a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is an axial cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a seal ring according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a sub-assembly of a buckle extension plate and a socket base housing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 4 is a partial cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 5 is another Zhang Jubu cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 6 is an axial cross-sectional view of a receptacle base housing provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a sealing rod according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a plane of a button according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of a sealing rod according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 10 is an axial cross-sectional view of a plug housing provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 11 is an axial cross-sectional view of a button provided by an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 12 is an axial cross-sectional view of a seal ring provided by an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 13 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a socket housing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
Wherein:
1-socket base shell, 101-concave groove, 102-clamping groove, 2-plug shell, 3-sealing rod, 4-button, 41-assembly plate, 42-pressing plate, 43-circular arc clamping plate, 44-circular arc reset plate, 45-elastic reset piece, 46-buckle extension plate, 5-socket shell, 51-protruding part, 6-jump ring, 7-first spring, 8-sealing ring, 9-sealing block, 10-second spring, 11-briquetting, 12-sealing ring.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without undue burden from the present disclosure, are within the scope of the present disclosure.
In order to better understand the aspects of the present application, a further detailed description of the present application will be provided below with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description.
Referring to fig. 1 of the specification, fig. 1 is an axial cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector provided in an embodiment of the present application, including: a socket base housing 1 and a plug housing 2; the socket base shell 1 is internally provided with an installation cavity along the length direction of the socket base shell, the installation cavity is internally provided with a sealing rod 3 and a lower sealing mechanism, and the lower sealing mechanism is sleeved outside the sealing rod 3. One end of the plug housing 2 extends into the mounting cavity, and the end face of the plug housing 2 abuts against the top face of the lower sealing mechanism; the plug housing 2 has a through hole along its longitudinal direction, and an upper seal mechanism is provided in the through hole. The lower end of the sealing rod 3 is clamped with the inner wall of the socket base shell 1, and the upper end of the sealing rod 3 is abutted against the upper sealing mechanism. The button 4 is movably mounted on the side wall of the socket base housing 1, and the button 4 can move along the cross section direction of the socket base housing 1, so that the limit plug housing 2 is mounted inside the socket base housing 1 in a clamping manner. The plug housing 2 is inserted and limited by the button 4, and the plug housing is convenient to assemble, perfect in structure and high in tightness.
Further, referring to fig. 2 of the specification, fig. 2 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a seal ring according to an embodiment of the present application, including: a socket housing 5 is sandwiched between the end of the plug housing 2 and the socket base housing 1, and the socket housing 5 is locked and limited with the inner wall of the socket base housing 1 to seal a gap. The socket shell 5 adopts integrated design, replaces the screw connection structure in the prior art, avoids the problem that when a product is installed on equipment for use, the screw connection is loose due to vibration of the equipment, and causes poor sealing, liquid passing through the inside of the product leaks, and the normal use of the product is affected
Further, referring to fig. 3 to 5 of the specification, fig. 3 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a buckle extension plate and a socket base housing according to an embodiment of the present application, fig. 4 is a partial cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector according to an embodiment of the present application, fig. 5 is another Zhang Jubu cross-sectional view of a push button fluid connector according to an embodiment of the present application, and the push button 4 includes: a mounting plate 41 and a pressing plate 42 provided on one side of the mounting plate 41. The mounting plate 41 includes: a circular hole formed in the center, and circular arc clamping plates 43 and circular arc resetting plates 44 arranged on two sides of the circular hole. The side walls of the two opposite sides of the socket base shell 1 are respectively provided with a mounting opening and a clamping opening; the pressing plate 42 is mounted in the mounting opening, and the fitting plate 41 extends to the engagement opening in the cross-sectional direction of the receptacle base housing 1. The circular arc clamping plate 43 is clamped and limited with the inner wall of the clamping opening, and an elastic reset piece 45 is assembled between the circular arc reset plate 44 and the inner wall of the mounting opening.
Further, the diameter of the circular hole is smaller than the outer diameter of the socket housing 5 and larger than the outer diameter of the plug housing 2; the elastic restoring member 45 maintains the relative distance between the circular arc restoring plate 44 and the inner wall of the mounting opening, so as to ensure that the bottom surface of the button 4 limits the top surface of the plug housing 2. The circular hole diameter phia of the button 4 is smaller than the outer diameter phib of the socket housing 5, so that the button 4 has a blocking effect on the socket housing 5 coming out of the socket base housing 1. The risk of the parts coming out of the socket base housing 1 is reduced.
Further, two edges of the clamping opening are provided with clamping tables, and two sides of the arc clamping plate 43 are provided with clamping extension plates 46; the latch extending plate 46 is correspondingly connected with the two latch platforms, so as to prevent the push button 4 from being separated from the socket base housing 1.
When the button 4 is assembled into the socket base shell 1, the button 4 and the socket base shell 1 are in interference fit, the buckle extension plate 46 on the button 4 is a stress concentration position, the arc clamping plate 43 is designed into an arc surface, and the stress transfer generated during the installation of the button 4 can be released, so that the strength of the buckling position is increased.
Further, referring to fig. 6 to 12 of the specification, fig. 6 is an axial sectional view of a socket base housing provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 7 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a seal rod provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 8 is a schematic view of a plane in which a button provided in an embodiment of the present application is located, fig. 9 is a schematic view of a structure of a seal rod provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 10 is an axial sectional view of a plug housing provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 11 is an axial sectional view of a button provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 12 is an axial sectional view of a seal ring provided in an embodiment of the present application, and the lower seal mechanism includes: and a clamp spring 6, a first spring 7 and a sealing ring 8 which are sleeved on the outer side of the sealing rod 3 in sequence. The clamp spring 6 is pressed on the top surface of the lower end of the sealing rod 3 and is clamped and limited with the inner wall of the socket base shell 1. The top surface of the sealing ring 8 is correspondingly attached to the end surface of the plug housing 2; the first spring 7 is interposed between the clip spring 6 and the seal ring 8. The socket base shell 1 increases the jump ring 6 structure in sealing rod 3 base department, has solved because fluid pressure is too big to lead to sealing rod 3 antedisplacement, leads to interface department poor seal, and liquid leaks, influences the normal use of product.
Further, the upper sealing mechanism includes: the sealing block 9, the second spring 10 and the pressing block 11 are sequentially connected. The bottom surface of the sealing block 9 is abutted against the top surface of the sealing rod 3, and the pressing block 11 is fixedly limited with the inner wall of the plug housing 2.
The above-mentioned matching manner of the sealing block 9, the second spring 10 and the pressing block 11 can refer to the arrangement of the fluid connector in the prior art, and only the sealing of the upper structure is needed.
Further, referring to fig. 13 of the specification, fig. 13 is a schematic view of a partial assembly of a socket base housing and a socket housing according to an embodiment of the present application, including: the outer wall of the socket housing 5 is provided with a protruding part 51, and the inner wall of the socket base housing 1 is correspondingly provided with a concave groove 101; the protruding portion 51 may be engaged in the recess 101 to prevent the socket housing 5 from being separated from the mounting cavity. The socket base shell 1 and the socket shell 5 are matched by adopting interference buckling positions, so that the assembly is convenient, the socket shell 5 is only required to be installed into the socket base shell 1 by using the installation jig, and the steps of rotation, glue spraying and the like are more convenient than those of threaded connection.
Further, the inner wall and the outer wall of the socket housing 5 are both sleeved with a plurality of sealing rings 12, and in one embodiment of the application, the inner wall and the outer wall of the socket housing 5 are designed by adopting double-O-shaped sealing rings 12, so that the sealing safety is improved. Meanwhile, the sealing ring 12 is completely positioned in the shell, and the sealing ring 12 is not in direct contact with the outside all the time in the use process, so that the pollution and damage of the outside to the sealing ring 12 are reduced.
Further, a clamping leg is provided at the bottom end of the sealing rod 3, and a clamping groove 102 is provided on the inner wall of the socket base housing 1 corresponding to the clamping leg. The engagement legs cooperate with the engagement slots 102 to enhance stability.
The above-mentioned mating structure of the clamping leg and the clamping groove 102 can refer to the prior art, and is not developed herein.
It should be noted that in this specification relational terms such as first and second are used solely to distinguish one entity from another entity without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities.
The push button fluid connector provided by the present application is described in detail above. Specific examples are set forth herein to illustrate the principles and embodiments of the present application, and the description of the examples above is only intended to assist in understanding the methods of the present application and their core ideas. It should be noted that it would be obvious to those skilled in the art that various improvements and modifications can be made to the present application without departing from the principles of the present application, and such improvements and modifications fall within the scope of the claims of the present application.
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1. A push button fluid connector, comprising: a socket base housing (1) and a plug housing (2); an installation cavity is formed in the socket base shell (1) along the length direction of the socket base shell, a sealing rod (3) and a lower sealing mechanism are arranged in the installation cavity, and the lower sealing mechanism is sleeved outside the sealing rod (3);
one end of the plug housing (2) extends into the mounting cavity, and the end face of the plug housing (2) abuts against the top face of the lower sealing mechanism; the plug shell (2) is provided with a through hole along the length direction of the plug shell, and an upper sealing mechanism is arranged in the through hole;
the lower end of the sealing rod (3) is clamped with the inner wall of the socket base shell (1), and the upper end of the sealing rod (3) is abutted with the upper sealing mechanism;
the side wall movable mounting of socket base casing (1) has button (4), button (4) can be followed the cross-section direction of socket base casing (1) is removed to the joint spacing the lateral wall of plug casing (2).
2. The push button fluid connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a socket housing (5) is sandwiched between the end of the plug housing (2) and the socket base housing (1), and the socket housing (5) is clamped and limited with the inner wall of the socket base housing (1) to seal a gap.
3. The push button fluid connector according to claim 2, wherein the push button (4) comprises: a mounting plate (41) and a pressing plate (42) provided on one side of the mounting plate (41);
the mounting plate (41) includes: a round hole formed in the center, and arc clamping plates (43) and arc resetting plates (44) arranged on two sides of the round hole;
the side walls of two opposite sides of the socket base shell (1) are respectively provided with a mounting opening and a clamping opening; the pressing plate (42) is installed in the installation opening, and the assembly plate (41) extends to the clamping opening along the section direction of the socket base shell (1);
the circular arc clamping plate (43) is in clamping limit with the inner wall of the clamping opening, and an elastic reset piece (45) is arranged between the circular arc reset plate (44) and the inner wall of the mounting opening.
4. A push button fluid connector according to claim 3, characterized in that the diameter of the circular hole is smaller than the outer diameter of the socket housing (5) and larger than the outer diameter of the plug housing (2); the elastic reset piece (45) can maintain the relative distance between the circular arc reset plate (44) and the inner wall of the mounting opening, so that the bottom surface of the button (4) is ensured to limit the top surface of the plug housing (2).
5. The push button fluid connector as defined in claim 4, wherein two edges of the clamping opening are provided with clamping tables, and two sides of the circular arc clamping plate (43) are provided with clamping extension plates (46); the clamping extension plates (46) are correspondingly clamped with the two clamping tables, so that the push button (4) is prevented from falling out of the limit of the socket base shell (1).
6. The push button fluid connector of claim 2, wherein the lower seal mechanism comprises: the clamping spring (6), the first spring (7) and the sealing ring (8) are sleeved on the outer side of the sealing rod (3) in sequence;
the clamp spring (6) is pressed on the top surface of the lower end of the sealing rod (3) and is clamped and limited with the inner wall of the socket base shell (1);
the top surface of the sealing ring (8) is correspondingly attached to the end surface of the plug housing (2);
the first spring (7) is clamped between the clamp spring (6) and the sealing ring (8).
7. The push button fluid connector of claim 2, wherein the upper seal mechanism comprises: the sealing block (9), the second spring (10) and the pressing block (11) are sequentially connected;
the bottom surface of the sealing block (9) is abutted against the top surface of the sealing rod (3), and the pressing block (11) and the inner wall of the plug housing (2) are fixed and limited.
8. The push button fluid connector according to claim 2, wherein the outer wall of the socket housing (5) is provided with a protruding portion (51), and the inner wall of the socket base housing (1) is correspondingly provided with a recessed groove (101); the protruding part (51) can be clamped in the concave groove (101) to prevent the socket shell (5) from falling out of the mounting cavity.
9. The push button fluid connector according to claim 2, wherein the inner wall and the outer wall of the socket housing (5) are each provided with a plurality of sealing rings (12).
10. The push-button fluid connector according to claim 1, wherein the bottom end of the sealing rod (3) is provided with a clamping leg, and the inner wall of the socket base housing (1) is provided with a clamping groove (102) corresponding to the clamping leg.
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