CN2884586Y

CN2884586Y - Adaptive card connector

Info

Publication number: CN2884586Y
Application number: CNU2006201000368U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 林火元; 高永顺; 廖哲贤; 赖志明
Original assignee: Giga Byte Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Giga Byte Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2006-03-31
Filing date: 2006-03-31
Publication date: 2007-03-28
Anticipated expiration: 2016-03-31

Abstract

An adaptable card connector, in particular for the main board of computers. The adaptable card connector comprises a connector body and a plurality of terminals placed on the connector body; wherein the bottom of the connector body is divided into the terminal and space areas along the transversely extending direction. The terminal in the terminal area stretches from the bottom of the connector body and the space area has a concave notch part on the connector body, so that the bottom formed in the space area is higher than that formed in the terminal area. The space area is able to equip the main board with the electronic parts, or to leave more space for the utilization and design in the power circuit layout, thereby solving the problem of the insufficient space and area on the main board.

Description

A kind of adapter connector

Technical field

A kind of adapter connector, especially a kind of plugging position that reduces terminal and circuit board, and then can vacate more space and area with effective adapter connector for motherboard circuit layout or electronic component configuration.

Background technology

The general adapter that can be inserted with various different types on computer motherboard, as video card, network interface card or sound card etc., these adapters must reach signal transmission and UNICOM with motherboard by an adapter connector.

Because the arithmetic speed of computer increases day by day, thus also more and more higher to the functional requirement of video card, causing the increase of display card board area, the pairing adapter connector of display card also increases the slot length that is used for the display card grafting for this reason simultaneously.And the increase of adapter connector slot length certainly will cause the increase of connector volume, and volume can take space and area on the motherboard again in case increase, and therefore promptly causes the difficulty in the signal line design and layout on the motherboard.

The novel patent M271270 (improvement of connector structure of PCI interface card) and the disclosed technology of patent of invention I249976 (motherboard and PCI Express x16 slot thereof) of TaiWan, China bulletin, its purpose all is to address the above problem.And above-mentioned two patents all are to utilize the connector of low specification, as 1 times, 4 times or 8 times, be provided with one in connector one side and be communicated with straight breach, and cooperate a strutting piece to be fixed in the lower edge of adapter, the long adapter of specification that so can corresponding 16 times with its slot.This mode can reduce occupied board area, makes adapter golden finger partly expose also, so that increases oxidized chance.Add the design that connector separates with strutting piece, the also easy error when being assemblied on the circuit board, cause the smoothness of the splicing stability that can not align between connector and strutting piece and influence adapter and the action of planting, even when error is excessive, may cause adapter to insert, so also promote the disqualification rate of product easily.

Therefore, expectation occurs a kind of reasonable in design and effectively improve the adapter connector of above-mentioned defective.

The utility model content

Main purpose of the present utility model, be to provide a kind of adapter connector, strengthen to solve because of the adapter connector cooperates the adapter functional requirement, so that take the motherboard space, cause problems such as motherboard space and area deficiency, under the situation that does not influence the adapter function, also can provide the joint demand of high-order and low order adapter simultaneously.

Another purpose of the present utility model, be to provide a kind of adapter connector, it can reach under the preceding topic of above-mentioned main purpose, can be inserted in the slot for all golden finger positions of adapter again, to reduce oxidized chance, and need not accurate contraposition in the assembling, be difficult for causing adapter peg graft unstable, be difficult for inserting or even problem such as can't peg graft.

In order to reach above-mentioned purpose, the utility model provides a kind of adapter connector, it has a connector body that is extending transversely, be provided with the slot that is used for for the adapter insertion in the connector body end face, and be provided with a plurality of terminal accommodation holes in the slot both sides, be located at respectively in each terminal accommodation hole for a plurality of terminals; Wherein, the connector body bottom surface is distinguished along its extending transversely direction terminal region and space region, and described terminal ends is to be protruded out to the connector body bottom surface by terminal region, and space region is then to the recessed notch part in connector body place, so that the formed bottom surface of space region is higher than the formed bottom surface of terminal region.

The space region of adapter connector of the present utility model can dispose required electronic component or therefore can vacate unnecessary area on the motherboard surface and make things convenient for circuit layout and satisfy design for motherboard, thereby make motherboard that broad more design space be arranged, and then can achieve the above object.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the stereoscopic figure of an embodiment of adapter connector of the present utility model;

Fig. 2 is the top plan view of an embodiment of adapter connector of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 is that adapter connector of the present utility model is configured in the decomposing schematic representation on the motherboard;

Fig. 4 is that adapter connector of the present utility model is disposed at the floor map on the motherboard;

Fig. 5 is that adapter connector of the present utility model and 8 times of adapters are configured in the floor map on the motherboard jointly;

Fig. 6 is that adapter connector of the present utility model and 16 times of adapters are configured in the floor map on the motherboard jointly.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with the drawings and the specific embodiments the utility model is described further.

Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are respectively stereoscopic figure of the present utility model, top plan view and the utility model and are disposed at decomposing schematic representation on the motherboard.The utility model discloses a kind of adapter connector, described adapter connector 1 has a connector body 10, and this connector body 10 is made for the insulation material, as plastic cement etc.Connector body 10 extending transverselies are rectangle, and be provided with at least one inwardly deep slot 100 at its end face, this slot 100 is used to cooperate the plant of adapter, and along connector body 10 horizontal expansions, be provided with a plurality of terminal accommodation holes 101 in slot 100 both sides, be used to hold a plurality of terminals 11.

Connector body 10 bottom surfaces contact with a circuit board 2 surfaces, circuit board 2 can be a computer motherboard, on circuit board 2, be provided with a plurality of terminal jacks 20 of welding for terminal 11 terminal insertions, and be provided with the location hole 21 that connects circuit board and insert for the reference column 104 that is convexly set in connector body 10 bottom surfaces and locate, this reference column 104 is positioned at connector body 10 bottom surfaces one side, the reference column 104 other detecting terminals 110 that are provided with.

The utility model is divided into terminal region 102 and space region 103 with connector body 10 bottom surfaces along its extending transversely direction, wherein terminal region 102 is protruded out downwards by above-mentioned terminal 11 ends that are configured in the terminal accommodation hole 101, space region 103 then is not provided with any terminal, and, make space region 103 formed bottom surfaces be higher than terminal region 102 formed bottom surfaces further to the recessed notch part 105 in connector body 10 places.Please cooperate and consult shown in Figure 4ly, when connector body 10 is configured on the circuit board 2, can utilize the required electronic component 3 of spatial configuration motherboard of 2 of the space region 103 of connector body 10 and circuit boards; Or do not have because of space region 103 any terminal 11 is set, and make circuit board 2 need not to be provided with terminal jacks 20 with respect to these space region 103 places, thereby can vacate as Fig. 3 with surface area A that dotted line was crossed, making things convenient for the motherboard circuit layout and to satisfy design, and then can provide circuit board 2 that broad more design space is arranged.

Fig. 5 is that adapter connector of the present utility model and 8 times of adapters are configured in the floor map on the motherboard jointly.Because connector body 10 of the present utility model is based on 16 times of adapter corresponding connector, more unnecessary terminal is removed, only stay required signal terminal 11, so also can corresponding comparatively 8 times of adapters 4 of low order on using.

Fig. 6 is that adapter connector of the present utility model and 16 times of adapters are configured in the floor map on the motherboard jointly.Wherein, the utility model is by changing the signal line design, make 16 times of adapters 4 ' under the situation that does not reduce its pairing function, can effectively use circuit board 2 limited space and area.

Therefore, adapter connector of the present utility model, not only can make the adapter 4,4 ' of compatible 8 times and 16 times of motherboard, simultaneously again can be under the situation that does not reduce by 16 times of adapter 4 ' pairing functions, utilize space region 103 to come the required electronic component of configure host plate 3 or the surface area A that vacated because of space region 103 makes motherboard elastification more on configuration, therefore the stability of circuit board 2 can be improved, also design cost can be reduced.In addition, the design that connector body 10 keeps original integral type, with respect to for the design that has connector and strutting piece separate type at present now, this creation can reduce the oxidized chance in golden finger position on the adapter 4,4 ', and with circuit board 2 assemblings the time, do not need too to require accurate contraposition yet, can make adapter 4,4 ' insert and provide good splicing stability smoothly, more can not cause the lifting of product disqualification rate in the production.

Claims

1, a kind of adapter connector, it is characterized in that: have a connector body that is extending transversely, be provided with the slot that is used for for the adapter insertion in this connector body end face, and be provided with a plurality of terminal accommodation holes, be provided with a plurality of terminals in these a plurality of terminal accommodation holes in the slot both sides;

Wherein, this connector body bottom surface is distinguished along its extending transversely direction terminal region and space region, and the terminal of described terminal region stretches out from this connector body bottom surface, described space region then to the recessed notch part in this connector body place, makes the formed bottom surface of space region be higher than the formed bottom surface of terminal region.

2, adapter connector as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, wherein this connector body bottom surface one side is provided with reference column.

3, adapter connector as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, wherein is provided with the detecting terminal in described reference column side on this connector body.