EP0582960B1 - Connexion à haute fréquence coaxiale à fiches - Google Patents

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EP0582960B1
EP0582960B1 EP93112508A EP93112508A EP0582960B1 EP 0582960 B1 EP0582960 B1 EP 0582960B1 EP 93112508 A EP93112508 A EP 93112508A EP 93112508 A EP93112508 A EP 93112508A EP 0582960 B1 EP0582960 B1 EP 0582960B1
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Edgard Ing. Acke (Grad.)
Michel Ing. Mussen (Grad.)
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/38—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts
    • H01R24/40—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency
    • H01R24/50—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency mounted on a PCB [Printed Circuit Board]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/73—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/735—Printed circuits including an angle between each other
    • H01R12/737—Printed circuits being substantially perpendicular to each other
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/629—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R2103/00—Two poles

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  • the invention relates to an RF coaxial connector, with several, at a certain pitch with press-in contacts on a base, for example a printed circuit board, fixed coaxial connectors and corresponding coaxial mating connectors, the number of coaxial connectors corresponding to the number and in the same pitch as this are attached to a further surface with press-in contacts.
  • coaxial connectors of the 1.0 / 2.3 series are used for the transmission of the RF signals with a pitch, that is to say an average spacing of the mounting holes on a printed circuit board or a module of 7.5 or 7.62 mm used. So far, the compact design in electronic communications equipment has been sufficiently taken into account.
  • straight and 90 ° angled coaxial connector types with cable connection and with solder pins for a printed circuit board connection have been used, for example in an arrangement with several coaxial plug connections, the plug connectors of the mating connector have been snapped individually into a bar with suitable holes.
  • RF coaxial plug connections are required for smaller spacing of the order of 5 mm and simplified connection technology.
  • EP 0 488 482 A1 discloses a coaxial plug connection which has two modules, each with a housing made of insulating material. In these housings there are two rows each with three coaxial connectors, that is to say the coaxial connectors in one module and the coaxial mating connectors in the other module are arranged in the same number and at the same pitch.
  • a module of the coaxial plug connection also consists of several individual column-shaped housing parts made of metal, which are each connected to the outer conductor of the corresponding mating connector.
  • the connections of the coaxial connector and the mating connector can be designed as press-in pins for attachment to a respective printed circuit board.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a suitable for a very small pitch of 5 mm, for example, that is mechanically and electrically adapted RF coaxial connector in a simplified connection technology.
  • an RF coaxial connector of the type mentioned according to the invention in that the mating connectors are integrated in a monoblock made of conductive material, which forms the outer conductor for all coaxial mating connectors, that the inner conductor of the coaxial mating connector and their Connections for the base are each insulated in bores of the monoblock and in addition to the connections of the inner conductor of the coaxial mating connector, the outer conductor connections of the monoblock are also formed as press-in contacts.
  • both the coaxial plug and the coaxial mating connector are fastened to their respective base in a press-in technique and thus advantageously in a simplified connection technique. Since the coaxial mating connectors are integrated in a monoblock, a higher packing density can be achieved with smaller pitch spacings of, for example, 5 mm, thus creating a miniature coaxial connector family that - mechanically and electrically adapted - is even smaller than that small connector family of the series 1.0 / 2.3.
  • the plug connection according to the invention is particularly well suited, in particular, for HD (high density) HF coaxial plug connectors.
  • a particularly advantageous embodiment of a plug connection according to the invention with regard to the packing density is obtained if two rows of coaxial mating connectors lying one above the other are provided in the monoblock.
  • the connector can e.g. be constructed as an 8-way connector by providing two rows of four coaxial mating connectors one above the other in a monoblock.
  • the coaxial plugs are fastened together on their base to form a unit.
  • the connector consists of Figures 1 and 2 of several coaxial connectors 1 in a straight version, which are combined by means of a common mounting plate 2 to form a unit 15 on a base, for example a printed circuit board 3 or a rear wall and by means of press-in contacts 4 at a certain pitch of e.g. 5 mm are attached.
  • the plug-in connection also consists of coaxial mating connectors 6 arranged on a base, for example on a printed circuit board 5 or an assembly, which are integrated in a number corresponding to the number of coaxial plugs 1 and at the same pitch as these in a monoblock 7.
  • This consists of conductive material and forms the common outer conductor for all coaxial mating connectors 6 integrated in it, the inner conductor 8 (FIG.
  • the coaxial mating connectors 6 are designed in an embodiment angled by 90 ° to their direction of insertion.
  • the connections of the inner conductors of the coaxial mating connector 6 and the outer conductor terminals formed as press-fit contacts 13, 14 respectively 8, which according to the 90 o -Abwinkelung of the coaxial mating connector angled at 90 ° to the insertion direction are arranged.
  • FIG. 2 and 4 show that in the illustrated embodiment of an HD-RF coaxial connector according to the invention two rows of superimposed Coaxial connectors and accordingly two rows of coaxial mating connectors one above the other, each with four coaxial connectors 1 and four coaxial mating connectors 6, are provided, so that the coaxial connectors 1 form an 8-way unit 15 and the monoblock 7 is designed as an 8-way mating connector.
  • the monoblock 7 has eight press-in contacts 13 for the inner conductor connections and 4 ⁇ 3 press-in contacts 14 for the outer conductor connections.
  • the unit 15 is also formed with two guide pins 16 which engage in guide bores 17 of the monoblock 7.
  • FIG. 4 shows that an 8-fold monoblock 7 of approximately 10 ⁇ 24 mm cross-sectional area can be realized with a pitch of 5 mm.
  • the printed circuit boards 3 and 5 shown in FIG. 2 are provided with a coaxial connector unit 15 and a monoblock 7 with coaxial mating connectors 6 as well as with NF connector organs.
  • the printed circuit board 3 can be designed with an LF male connector and the printed circuit board 5 with a corresponding LF female connector. The entire plug-in connection is then produced in certain plug-in phases, which are explained in more detail on the basis of the schematic illustration in FIG.
  • the NF contact means are centered, for example by a guide pin 21 arranged on the printed circuit board 3 in a centering member 22 engages on the circuit board 5.
  • the strip body 24 of an LF female connector arranged on the printed circuit board 5 can slide into the strip body 23 of an LF male connector provided on the other printed circuit board 3.
  • a guide pin 16 of the coaxial connector unit 15 engages in a guide bore 17 of the monoblock 7 in the third plug-in phase in order to first initiate the centering and subsequently the contacting of the RF contact means.
  • an outer conductor spring sleeve 25 slides into the bore 11 of the monoblock 7 in the fourth plugging phase.
  • the inner conductor 8 of the coaxial mating connector 6 of the monoblock 7 slides into a made of insulating material in a fifth plugging phase existing pre-centering funnel 26 of the coaxial connector 1, whereupon the inner conductor socket 27 of the coaxial connector 1 is plugged onto the pin-shaped inner conductor 8 of the coaxial mating connector 6 in a 6th plug-in phase.
  • the NF contact elements 28 and 29 contained in the strip bodies 23 and 24 are connected in the 7th and last plugging phase by further plugging the mixed HF - / NF connector.

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  1. Connexion à haute fréquence coaxiale à fiches, comprenant plusieurs fiches coaxiales (1) fixées sur une base (3), par exemple une plaquette à circuit imprimé, avec une distance de séparation déterminée, au moyen de contacts à enfoncer (4), et des connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6) correspondants qui sont fixés sur une autre base (5), au moyen de contacts à enfoncer (13, 14), en nombre correspondant au nombre de fiches coaxiales (1) et avec la même distance de séparation que ces dernières,
    caractérisée en ce que les connecteurs antagonistes (6) sont intégrés dans un monobloc (7) fait d'un matériau conducteur qui forme le conducteur extérieur pour tous les conducteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6), en ce que les conducteurs intérieurs (8) des connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6) et leurs bornes (13) pour la base (5) sont reçus, à chaque fois de manière isolée, dans des alésages (11, 12) du monobloc (7), et en ce que les bornes des conducteurs extérieurs du monobloc (7) sont, avec les bornes des conducteurs intérieurs (8) des connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6), également exécutés en tant que contacts à enfoncer (14).
  2. Connexion à fiches selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la distance de séparation des connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6) intégrés dans le monobloc (7) mesure 5 mm.
  3. Connexion à fiches selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que deux rangées de connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6) situées l'une au-dessus de l'autre sont prévues dans le monobloc (7).
  4. Connexion à fiches selon la revendication 3, caractérisée par un monobloc (7) pourvu de deux rangées situées l'une au-dessus de l'autre comportant chacune quatre connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6).
  5. Connexion à fiches selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que les contacts à enfoncer (13, 14) des bornes des conducteurs intérieurs et des conducteurs extérieurs du monobloc (7) sont pliés à 90° par rapport à la direction d'enfichage des connecteurs antagonistes coaxiaux (6).
  6. Connexion à fiches selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que les fiches coaxiales (1) sont fixées sur leur base (3) en étant regroupées sous forme d'une unité (15).
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