CN220856967U - Socket electric connector - Google Patents
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Abstract
The application discloses a socket electric connector, comprising: the terminal module comprises an insulator and a plurality of terminals combined in the insulator, wherein the insulator is provided with a base part and a tongue plate part formed by extending the base part forwards; the metal shell is arranged around the periphery of the terminal module, and forms an annular butt joint space together with the terminal module and forms an inserting port at one end; each terminal comprises a fixed section part buried in the insulator, a contact section part exposed from the tongue plate part and a butt section part extending out of the insulator; the middle plate is embedded and fixed in the tongue plate part of the insulator, and is exposed from two ends of the tongue plate part in the width direction respectively to form buckling positions which are used for buckling and combining with the butt connector; the butt joint piece is buried and fixed in the insulator and is fixed with the rear end position of the middle plate piece through welding, the butt joint piece extends out of the insulator backwards and is formed with a butt joint pin, and the socket electric connector can reduce manufacturing cost and is beneficial to miniaturization design.
Description
Technical Field
The present application relates to a socket electrical connector.
Background
The USB association published a new Type of electrical connector, the socket electrical connector of which can be plugged in both the forward and reverse directions, and which can transmit USB2.0, USB3.0 and USB3.1 signals, and which is named USB Type C connector. The electrical connector has been widely used in 3C electronic products, especially smart phones, notebook computers, tablet computers, etc. The existing USB Type C socket electric connector connected with the circuit board is provided with a full pin structure (24 conductive terminals) for transmitting USB3.0 or 3.1 and also provided with a needle missing structure (such as 16 conductive terminals or other) for transmitting USB 2.0.
Referring to the related art, chinese patent publication CN212783889U, a USB socket is disclosed, in which each of two metal middle plates includes a welding tab extending to two lateral sides of the tail portion and exposed on an upper surface of the tail portion, and the welding tab is fixed to the upper housing. However, in practical production, two metal middle plates are typically formed on one material strip, that is, are typically formed by stamping on the same metal raw material plate, and are transported, positioned, injection molded, etc. by the same material strip. Therefore, the metal middle plate in the prior art can waste the metal raw material plate to a great extent, which is not beneficial to cost control, and the width of the whole connector can be increased by exposing the welding sheets from the two lateral sides, which is not beneficial to miniaturization design.
Accordingly, there is a need to develop a new electrical receptacle connector to solve the above-mentioned technical problems.
Disclosure of utility model
The application aims to provide a socket electric connector which can save manufacturing cost and is beneficial to miniaturization design.
In order to achieve the purpose, the application provides the following technical scheme:
A receptacle electrical connector, comprising:
The terminal module comprises an insulator and a plurality of terminals combined in the insulator, wherein the insulator is formed with a base part and a tongue plate part formed by extending the base part forwards;
The metal shell is arranged around the periphery of the terminal module, and forms an annular butt joint space together with the terminal module and forms an inserting port at one end;
Each terminal comprises a fixed section part buried in the insulator, a contact section part exposed from the tongue plate part and a butt section part extending out of the insulator;
The middle plate is buried and fixed in the tongue plate part of the insulator, and is exposed from two ends of the tongue plate part in the width direction respectively to form buckling positions which are used for buckling and combining with the butt connector;
The butt joint part is buried and fixed in the insulator and is welded and fixed with the rear end position of the middle plate part, and the butt joint part extends out of the insulator backwards and is provided with butt joint pins.
Further, the rear end position of the middle plate is stacked and attached with the butt joint piece along the up-down direction.
Further, two middle plate members are arranged and independent of each other, and the two middle plate members are respectively buried and fixed at two ends of the tongue plate part in the width direction.
Further, the butt joint parts are provided with two butt joint parts which are mutually independent, and the two butt joint parts are respectively buried and fixed at two ends of the insulator in the width direction.
Further, any one of the butt-joint members includes a welded portion and a bent portion formed by extending the welded portion in the width direction of the tongue plate portion toward the side where the other butt-joint member is located, the welded portion is welded and fixed to the middle plate member, and the bent portion is welded and fixed to the metal shell.
Further, the bending portion includes a connecting section formed by bending the welding portion upward/downward away from one side edge of the other butt joint member in the width direction of the tongue plate portion, and a lateral section formed by extending the connecting section toward the other butt joint member in the width direction of the tongue plate portion, at least part of the surface of the lateral section being exposed out of the insulator and being adhered to the inner surface of the metal shell and being fixed by welding.
Further, the plurality of terminals include at least two ground terminals, and the two ground terminals are respectively in electrical contact with the middle plate member.
Further, the pair of pins are formed by extending the rear end edges of the connecting sections rearward.
Further, the bending portion is buried and fixed in the base portion.
Further, the socket electrical connector conforms to the USB TYPE C interface standard.
Compared with the prior art, the application has the beneficial effects that: the manufacturing cost can be saved and the miniaturization design is facilitated.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a receptacle electrical connector of the present application.
Fig. 2 is a partially exploded perspective view of the receptacle electrical connector of the present application.
Fig. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a terminal module of the receptacle electrical connector of the present application.
Fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view of terminals, a middle plate member and a mating member of the electrical receptacle connector of the present application.
Fig. 5 is a top view of the receptacle electrical connector of the present application.
Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is a schematic perspective view of the middle plate and the butt joint of the socket connector of the present application when the butt joint is connected with the material belt.
Fig. 8 is a schematic perspective view of the mating member of the electrical receptacle connector of the present application after being removed from the tape and soldered to the midplane.
Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the positional relationship between a middle plate member combined with a mating member and a terminal material tape of the electrical connector for a socket according to the present application.
Detailed Description
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 embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.
For the sake of accuracy in the description of the present application, all directional references are uniformly made to fig. 1, in which: defining the direction of the X axis as the width direction; the direction in which the Y axis is located is defined as the up-down direction (i.e., the thickness direction); the direction in which the Z axis is located is defined as the front-to-back direction, with the Z axis forward direction being back.
Referring to fig. 1 to 9, a receptacle electrical connector according to the present application is shown, which comprises a keep-alive terminal module 1 and a metal housing 2. The metal housing 2 is disposed around the terminal module 1 and defines an annular docking space 101 with the terminal module 1, and forms an insertion opening 102 at one end. The terminal module 1 includes an insulator 11, a plurality of terminals 12 combined in the insulator 11, two middle plates 3 (including two embodiments, wherein one of the two middle plates 3 is completely independent and not connected, and the other is that the two middle plates 3 are integrally connected through a connecting piece, for example, the two middle plates 3 can be integrally connected through a connecting piece 5 similar to that in fig. 7), and two independent butt pieces 4, and the insulator 11 is formed with a base 111 and a tongue plate portion 112 formed by extending the base 111 forwards.
Referring to fig. 2 to 4, each of the terminals 12 includes a fixing section 121 embedded in the insulator 11, a contact section 122 exposed from the tongue plate 112, and a butt section 123 extending rearward beyond the insulator 11. The contact section 122 is used for contacting with a docking connector (not shown) inserted into the docking space 101 to realize signal transmission, and the docking section 123 is used for electrically connecting with a docking circuit board (not shown) inside the electronic device. The receptacle electrical connector of the present application meets the USB TYPE C interface standard (reference herein to the receptacle electrical connector's mating frame interface configuration is not to the number of terminals 12). Of course, the number of terminals 12 is not necessarily in the form of full Pin (i.e., standard USB TYPE C interface configuration of twenty-four terminals), and eight terminals 12 are provided in the electrical receptacle connector of the present application, two of the terminals 12 are ground terminals (not numbered), and six of the terminals are signal terminals (not numbered).
As shown in fig. 2 to 4, further, the middle plate member 3 is buried and fixed in the tongue plate portion 112 of the insulator 11, and the middle plate member 3 is exposed from two ends of the tongue plate portion 112 in the width direction and forms a fastening position 31, and the fastening position 31 is used for fastening and combining with a mating connector inserted into the mating space 101. The two ground terminals are located at two ends of the tongue plate 112 in the width direction and are respectively in electrical contact with the two intermediate plates 3, and the six signal terminals are arranged between the two ground terminals in the width direction.
Referring to fig. 2 to 4, the butt-joint member 4 is buried and fixed in the insulator 11 and is welded and fixed to the rear end of the middle plate member 3, and the butt-joint member 4 extends back out of the insulator 11 and is formed with a butt-joint pin 41. Specifically, any one of the butt-joint members 4 includes a welded portion 40, and a bent portion 42 formed by extending the welded portion 40 toward the other butt-joint member 4 along the width direction of the tongue plate portion 112, wherein the welded portion 40 is welded to the middle plate member 3, and the bent portion 42 is welded to the metal shell 2. The bending portion 42 includes a connecting section 421 formed by bending the welding portion 40 upward/downward along the width direction of the tab portion 112 away from one side edge of the other butt joint 4, and a lateral section 422 formed by extending the connecting section 421 along the width direction of the tab portion 112 toward the side of the other butt joint 4, wherein at least part of the surface of the lateral section 422 is exposed out of the insulator 11 and is adhered to the inner surface of the metal shell 2 and is fixed by welding. The pair of pins 41 is formed by extending rearward the rear end edges of the connection sections 421. The bent portion 42 is fixed in the base 111 so as to be buried therein. Preferably, the rear end position of the middle plate 3 and the butt-joint member 4 are stacked and attached in the up-down direction and then integrally fixed by welding.
In the present application, the bending portions 42 of the two butt members 4 are formed by bending and extending upwards, however, in other embodiments, one bending portion 42 may be formed by extending upwards and one bending portion 42 may be formed by extending downwards, or in other embodiments, the same butt member 4 may be formed by bending and extending upwards and the other bending portion 42 may be formed by extending downwards.
Referring to fig. 7 to 9, in the case of mass production of the socket electrical connector of the present application, the middle plate member 3 and the mating member 4 are stamped from the same metal sheet. As shown in fig. 7, at this time, one butt joint 4 is integrally connected to the rear of one middle plate 3, two adjacent butt joints 4 are integrally connected by a connecting piece 5, the front ends of two adjacent middle plates 3 are integrally connected with a material belt 6, in addition, the inner edges of two butt joints 4 integrally connected by the same connecting piece 5 are bent upward and along the width direction (transverse direction) to form bending parts 42, so that the utilization rate of the metal raw material plate can be improved to the greatest extent, and when the middle plate 3 and the butt joints 4 are integrally unfolded, the bending parts 42 utilize part of press forming between the two butt joints 4 integrally connected by the same connecting piece 5, so that the width of the metal raw material plate occupied in the width direction (transverse direction) is greatly shortened.
As shown in fig. 8, the butt-joint member 4 is cut and separated from the middle plate member 3, and is fixed to the middle plate member 3 by welding after adjusting the positions, and at this time, the bent portions 42 of the butt-joint member 4 on the pair of middle plate members 3 are respectively directed upward and toward each other Yan Shen from both ends (outer end side edges) of the corresponding welding portion 40 in the width direction. By this arrangement, the initial extending positions of the bending portions 42 can be located at the two ends of the tongue plate portion 112 in the width direction, so that the influence of the bending portions 42 on the adjacent signal terminals 12 is reduced, and the transverse sections 422 can be ensured to have a sufficient extending length, a sufficient welding position and stable holding with the metal housing 2. In the present application, the free end of the transverse segment 422 is further bent downward to form an implantation segment 423, and the implantation segment 423 is correspondingly implanted and embedded in the base 111 of the insulator 11, so as to increase the stability of the holding between the bent portion 42 and the insulator 11. Finally, the terminal module 1 is manufactured by injection molding the middle plate 3, the butt-joint member 4 and the terminal 12 shown in fig. 9 in a plurality of times.
The socket electric connector disclosed by the application can better save the manufacturing cost, is particularly characterized in that the utilization rate of the metal raw material plate is improved, and is beneficial to miniaturization design.
Although embodiments of the present application have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the application, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
Claims (10)
1. A receptacle electrical connector, comprising:
The terminal module comprises an insulator and a plurality of terminals combined in the insulator, wherein the insulator is formed with a base part and a tongue plate part formed by extending the base part forwards;
The metal shell is arranged around the periphery of the terminal module, and forms an annular butt joint space together with the terminal module and forms an inserting port at one end;
Each terminal comprises a fixed section part buried in the insulator, a contact section part exposed from the tongue plate part and a butt section part extending out of the insulator;
The middle plate is buried and fixed in the tongue plate part of the insulator, and is exposed from two ends of the tongue plate part in the width direction respectively to form buckling positions which are used for buckling and combining with the butt connector;
The butt joint part is buried and fixed in the insulator and is welded and fixed with the rear end position of the middle plate part, and the butt joint part extends out of the insulator backwards and is provided with butt joint pins.
2. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 1, wherein: the rear end position of the middle plate is stacked and attached with the butt joint piece along the up-down direction.
3. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 1, wherein: the middle plate pieces are arranged in two, and the two middle plate pieces are respectively buried and fixed at two ends of the tongue plate part in the width direction.
4. A receptacle electrical connector according to claim 1 or 2 or 3, wherein: the butt joint parts are provided with two butt joint parts which are mutually independent, and the two butt joint parts are respectively buried and fixed at two ends of the insulator in the width direction.
5. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 4, wherein: the welding part is welded and fixed with the middle plate, and the bending part is welded and fixed with the metal shell.
6. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 5, wherein: the bending part comprises a connecting section formed by bending the welding part upwards/downwards along the width direction of the tongue plate part and away from one side edge of the other butt joint part, and a transverse section formed by extending the connecting section towards the side of the other butt joint part along the width direction of the tongue plate part, wherein at least part of the surface of the transverse section is exposed out of the insulator and is attached to the inner surface of the metal shell, and the transverse section is fixed through welding.
7. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 5, wherein: the plurality of terminals at least comprise two grounding terminals, and the two grounding terminals are respectively in electrical contact with the middle plate.
8. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 5, wherein: the butt pins are formed by extending the rear end edges of the connecting sections backwards.
9. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 6, wherein: the bending part is correspondingly embedded and fixed in the base part.
10. The electrical receptacle connector of claim 1, wherein: the socket electrical connector meets the USB TYPE C interface standard.
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