CN2874834Y

CN2874834Y - Electric connector

Info

Publication number: CN2874834Y
Application number: CN 200520140443
Authority: CN
Inventors: 渡边常基; 曾国忠; 杨孟桓
Original assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Priority date: 2005-12-27
Filing date: 2005-12-27
Publication date: 2007-02-28
Anticipated expiration: 2015-12-27

Abstract

The utility model discloses an electric connector, which comprises an insulating body, several terminals held in the insulating body, and a metal casing wrapping the insulating body. The metal casing includes a main body part, an abutting part, and a connection part for connecting the main body part and the abutting part. The connection part is formed by extending from one side surface of the main body part. Through the connection part, the abutting part is flexible with respect to the main body part.

Description

Electric connector

[technical field]

The utility model is about a kind of electric connector, refers to a kind of miniature electric connector especially.

[background technology]

General electric connector all is used for and the butt connector butt joint, unavoidably needs electric connector and butt connector to do the action of plug when butt joint.General electric connector is because volume is more firm than macrostructure, usually can be because of not overexerting or undue force damages when electric connector docks with butt connector.Now along with the trend toward miniaturization of various electronic products; its pairing electric connector also needs corresponding miniaturization; so miniature electric connector is applied in the various electronic products; and miniature electric connector is because the less easy damage of volume; with the cooperating of butt connector in need to do the action of plug, and this moment electric connector through regular meeting because of overexerting or undue force damages.The butt connector operated by rotary motion of docking with electric connector is in the inside of electronic product, and electronic product can have no idea because of the damage of connector to continue to use.

Therefore, need a kind of new electric connector, when electric connector docked with butt connector, meeting was before the connector that is arranged at electronic product inside destroys, and damage earlier oneself, thereby the protection electronic product is not damaged.

[utility model content]

The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of electric connector that can protect butt connector.

The purpose of this utility model is achieved through the following technical solutions: a kind of electric connector, have insulating body, the some interior terminal of this insulating body and metal shells of coated insulation body of being contained in, wherein, above-mentioned metal shell has main part, docking section and is connected main part and the connecting portion of docking section, one side of the autonomous body of this connecting portion extends to form, by this connecting portion, the relative main part in docking section is a flexible.

Compared with prior art, the utlity model has following beneficial effect: this electric connector can with the docking operation of butt connector in, the protection butt connector is not damaged.

[description of drawings]

Fig. 1 is the stereogram of the utility model electric connector.

Fig. 2 is the decomposing schematic representation of the utility model electric connector.

Fig. 3 is the decomposing schematic representation of another angle of the utility model electric connector.

Fig. 4 is the schematic perspective view of upper shell housing.

Fig. 5 is the part assembling schematic diagram of electric connector, and this moment, upper and lower casing was not installed as yet.

Fig. 6 is the part assembling schematic diagram of electric connector, and this moment, lower house was not installed as yet.

Fig. 7 is the part assembling schematic diagram of another angle of the utility model electric connector shown in the 5th figure.

[embodiment]

See also Fig. 1 to shown in Figure 4, the utility model electric connector 100 has metal shell 1, insulating body 2, latch part 3, terminal group 4 and stopper 5.Metal shell 1 has upper shell 11 and lower house 12, upper shell 11 comprises main part 111, connecting portion 115 and docking section 112, main part 111 has last plane 113, two sides 114 and bottom surface 117 with an otch (not label), on plane 113 on the upper shell 11, be provided with a pair of first breach 1130 and one second breach 1131, be equipped with first opening 1140 and second opening 1141 on the two sides 114, bottom surface 117 is provided with the shell fragment 1170 that a pair of inside punching press forms, shell fragment 1170 deflection under external force, bottom surface 117 makes upper shell 11 have elasticity because of offering an otch that runs through 117, and two shell fragments 1170 lay respectively at the both sides of the otch of bottom surface 117.Connecting portion 115 is used to connect main part 111 and docking section 112, this connecting portion 115 extends to form for the last plane 113 by upper shell 11, can certainly extend from other sides of metal shell 1, setting by this structure can make docking section 112 relative main part 113 flexibles, on connecting portion 115, also be provided with two breach 116 that are used to reduce connecting portion 115 rigidity, docking section 112 is used to dock butt connector (not shown), docking section 112 comprises a column resettlement section 118, the front end face of column resettlement section 118 has a D font interface (not label), extending back from the two sides of column resettlement section 118 (not label) is formed with a pair of spacer 1181, is provided with pair of openings 1180 on column resettlement section 118.

Lower house 12 comprises a bottom surface 121, a front 123, a back 122 and two sides 124, these five faces surround the receiving space (not label) that opening makes progress, the back 122 of lower house 12 has a cable accepting hole 1220, first opening 1140 and second opening, 1141 opposite positions at lower house 12 two sides 124 and upper shell 11 are respectively equipped with projection 1240 and the 3rd opening 1241 that inside punching press forms, and the bottom surface 12 of lower house 12 also is provided with the 3rd breach 125 with second breach, 1131 opposite positions on the last plane 113 of upper casing 11.

Terminal group 4 comprises plurality of terminals, as shown in Figure 2, each terminal has contact site 43, afterbody 41 and is connected the holding section 42 of contact site 43 and afterbody 41, terminal group 4 comprises signal terminal and power supply terminal, tail portion of terminal 41 in the per two adjacent terminal group 4 is presented down setting, the interval of the afterbody 41 of terminals of adjacent is enlarged, and convenient heart yearn with cable such as welds at operation.

Latch part 3 is made up of the identical member of two structures, have lock catch arm 31, fixing arm 32 and elastic portion 33, end at lock catch arm 31 is provided with snap close 35 and the guiding face 36 that is positioned at latch part 5 outsides, guiding face 36 is one to have the inclined-plane of certain angle, in the inboard of snap close 35 plane (not label) vertical with lock catch arm 31, fixing arm 32 is provided with down blocked block 37 and is used to be held in cards thorns (not label) in the insulating body 21, be provided with on the lock catch arm 31 with following blocked block 37 align on blocked block 34.

Insulating body 2 comprises base portion 21 and tongue 22, be equipped with blocked block 212 in the two sides of base portion 21 (not label), the mid portion of base portion 21 is provided with some first of the holding section 42 that is used to accommodate terminal group 4 and accommodates passage 211, this first is accommodated passage 211 and runs through base portion 21, is provided with a pair of first accepting groove 213 that is used to accommodate latch part 3 in first two outsides of accommodating passage 211.Be provided with a pair of locating piece 214 that mirror image is provided with that is in the front of base portion 21, be positioned at two outsides of first accepting groove 213, this locating piece 214 has a ladder resettlement section 216, is used to locate the docking section 112 of upper shell 11.Interfere hole 215 and interfere hole (not shown) down on corresponding being respectively equipped with on the above and below of base portion 21, wherein go up and interfere hole 215 and first to accommodate passage 211 to communicate, and interfere hole and first to accommodate passage 211 isolation down.Tongue 22 is by extending to form from base portion 21, be provided with some with first accommodate that passage 211 communicates second accommodate the contact site 43 that passage 221 is used to accommodate terminal group 4, two lateral surfaces of tongue 22 (not label) are respectively equipped with card 222, receiving space between card 222 and tongue 22 two sides constitutes second accepting groove 223, be used to accommodate the end of the lock catch arm 31 of latch part 3, this two accepting groove only limits the displacement of lock catch arm 31 in the horizontal, and in the vertical direction can not limit the displacement of lock catch arm 31.Tongue 22 is provided with and the corresponding end of docking section 112D font interface (not label).

Stopper 5 comprises stop part 51 and abutting part 52, and this stopper 5 is contained on the insulating body 2 interferes in the hole 215.

See also Fig. 5 to shown in Figure 7, during assembling, the plurality of terminals of terminal group 40 is contained in corresponding first of insulating body 2 respectively and accommodates passage 211 and second and accommodate in the passage 221, wherein the holding section 42 of terminal group 4 is housed in first of base portion 21 and accommodates passage 211, contact site 43 is housed in second of tongue 22 and accommodates passage 221, and the afterbody 41 of terminal group is exposed to outside the insulating body 2.Stopper 5 interferes hole 215 to insert insulating body 2 from going up of the body 2 that insulate, the abutting part 52 and the terminal group 4 of stopper 5 connect, stop part 51 is held in interferes in the hole 215, and the last plane of stop part 5 (not label) a little less than the last plane of the base portion 21 of insulating body 2, and promptly the wall in the last plane of stop part 5 and last interference hole 215 constitutes a receiving space.Latch part 3 respectively from insulate body 2 first accepting groove 213 by after insert insulating body 2 forward, the rear end face (not label) that the last blocked block 34 of latch part 3 and following blocked block 37 all are held in insulating body 2, make the elastic portion 33 of latch part 3 be exposed to outside the insulating body 2, the fixing arm 32 of latch part 3 is held in the base portion 21 of insulating body 2, lock catch arm 31 then passes the base portion 21 of insulating body 2, make the end of lock catch arm 31 be housed in second accepting groove 223, by the setting of this structure, lock catch arm 31 in the vertical directions are fulcrum deflection with the fixing arm 32 that is held in insulating body 2.Insulating body 2 inserts upper shell 11 at the rear end face from upper shell 11, the base portion 21 of insulating body 2 is contained in the main part 111 of upper shell 11, insert in the process of upper shell 11 in insulating body 2, shell fragment 1170 deflects down because of the bottom surface extruding that is subjected to insulating body 2, so that insulating body 2 can insert in the upper shell 11 smoothly, after insulating body 2 inserts upper shell 11 fully, two shell fragments 1170 of upper shell 11 return to original state, and twice blocked blocks 37 of latch part 3 are held in respectively on two shell fragments 1170 of bottom surface 117 of upper shell 11 to stop latch part 3 movement tendency backward, and what make that latch part 3 can be stable is retained on insulating body 2.Because of offering second opening 1141 that two blocked blocks 212 that otch rubber-like upper shell 11 makes the base portion 21 of insulating body 2 can be housed in the two sides 114 of upper shell 11 easily respectively in bottom surface 117; and tongue 22 is contained in the column resettlement section 118 of the docking section 112 of upper shell 11; because of the docking section 112 relative main parts 111 of upper shell 11 are flexible; and the connecting portion 115 that connects docking section 112 and main part 111 is offered the breach 116 of the rigidity of promising reduction connecting portion 115; docking section 112 is overexerted or undue force and fractureing when docking with butt connector; thereby the protection butt connector is injury-free; when the tongue 22 of insulating body 2 is contained in column resettlement section 118 fully; the spacer 1181 of column resettlement section 118 is contained in the ladder resettlement section 216 of locating piece 214; the connecting portion of the last plane butt upper shell 11 of locating piece 214; the docking section 112 of the last end face butt upper shell 11 of ladder resettlement section 216; and the medial surface of two ladder resettlement sections 216 respectively with the outer surface butt of the two sides of column resettlement section 118; and column resettlement section 112 has location and the effect that limits, and whether can detect simultaneously column resettlement section 118 complete with engaged.Be held in insulating body 2 rear end face latch part 3 two on blocked block 34 lay respectively at the below of a pair of first breach 1130 of upper shell 11, and two snap closes 35 of latch part 3 are contained in respectively in two openings 1180 of docking section 112 of upper shell 11, and part is exposed to outside the upper shell 11, is used for fastening with the corresponding snap close piece of butt connector.Lower house 12 fastens upper shell 11 from bottom to top, wherein the projection 1240 of the two sides 124 of lower house 12 is housed in respectively in first opening 1140 of two sides 114 of upper shell 12, and also is held on two blocked blocks 212 of insulating body 2 with the 3rd opening 1241 of the two sides 124 of second opening, the 1140 corresponding lower houses 12 of the two sides 114 of upper shell 11.

When using, the afterbody 41 of the terminal group 4 of electric connector 100 electrically connects with the heart yearn of cable (not shown), cable passes the cable accepting hole 1220 of the lower house 12 of metal shell 1, enter in the metal shell 1, outside electric connector 100, also be coated with an insulation crust body (not shown), between the upper shell 11 of insulation crust body and metal shell 1, also be provided with an operating portion (not shown), this operating portion is provided with a pair of butt pin that can insert first breach 1130 of metal shell 1, this butt pin can be pressed in latch part 3 two on the blocked block 34, promptly when compressing during operating portion the lock catch arm 31 of latch part 3 can deflect down by last blocked block 34, the snap close 35 that then is exposed to the outer latch part 3 of metal shell 1 is with downward bias then be contained in column resettlement section 118.When electric connector 100 docks with butt connector, butt connector is inserted in the docking section 112 of electric connector 100, the terminal group 4 of electric connector 100 electrically contacts with the corresponding terminal of butt connector, when electric connector 100 inserts butt connector, the snap close 35 that is exposed to outer latch part 3 can fasten with the corresponding snap close piece of butt connector, and the snap close piece of butt connector can the 36 pairs of latch part of guiding face by latch part 3 produces straight down and level active force backward in the fastening process, the active force of in the vertical direction makes lock catch arm 31 times to deflection, and the active force on the horizontal direction is offset because of the shell fragment 1170 of the following blocked block 37 of latch part 3 and upper shell 11 holds.When butt connector withdraws from, the snap close 35 of latch part 3 is broken away from electric connector 100 from the snap close piece of butt connector, and electric connector 100 is separated from butt connector by the effect operating portion.

Claims

1. electric connector, it comprises insulating body, the some interior terminal of this insulating body and metal shells of coated insulation body of being contained in, it is characterized in that: above-mentioned metal shell has main part, docking section and is connected main part and the connecting portion of docking section, one side of the autonomous body of this connecting portion extends to form, by this connecting portion, the relative main part in docking section is a flexible.

2. electric connector as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: also be provided with on the described connecting portion and be used to reduce the connecting portion rigidity, increase the flexual at least one breach of connecting portion.

3. electric connector as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described insulating body comprises base portion and tongue, be contained in respectively in the main part and docking section of metal shell, terminal has contact site, holding section and afterbody, the contact site of terminal and holding section are housed in the tongue and the base portion of insulating body respectively, and per two adjacent tail portion of terminal are presented down setting.

4. electric connector as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that: described electric connector also has a latch part, being used for corresponding snap close piece with butt connector fastens, it is reliable and stable that electric connector is cooperated with butt connector, the latch part of electric connector has lock catch arm, fixing arm and elastic portion, and the end of lock catch arm also is provided with snap close.

5. electric connector as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: the connecting portion of described metal shell is to extend from the last plane of the main part of metal shell.

6. electric connector as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described insulating body is provided with locating piece, and the docking section of metal shell is provided with the spacer that matches with aforementioned locating piece.

7. electric connector as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that: the locating piece of described insulating body is provided with a ladder resettlement section, is used to accommodate the spacer of metal shell, and the docking section of metal shell is had positioning action.

8. electric connector as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that: the base portion of insulating body is provided with first accepting groove, and the fixing arm of latch part is fastened in the base portion of insulating body, and lock catch arm passes first accepting groove of insulating body.

9. electric connector as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that: the tongue of insulating body is provided with second accepting groove that can limit the displacement of snap close horizontal direction, and the snap close of lock catch arm end is contained in second accepting groove of insulating body.

10. electric connector as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that: the base portion of insulating body also is provided with a upward interference hole that communicates with the terminal accommodating passage, electric connector also comprises a stopper, stopper has an abutting part, this stopper is contained in interferes hole, the abutting part butt terminal of stopper.