EP1128476B2 - Method of manufacturing a connector - Google Patents

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EP1128476B2
EP1128476B2 EP01102541.8A EP01102541A EP1128476B2 EP 1128476 B2 EP1128476 B2 EP 1128476B2 EP 01102541 A EP01102541 A EP 01102541A EP 1128476 B2 EP1128476 B2 EP 1128476B2
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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
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve
    • H01R43/205—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve with a panel or 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
    • H01R12/712—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit
    • H01R12/716—Coupling device provided on the PCB

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing a connector with arranged in an insulating body contact elements, which are provided with a plug contact end and a Lötan gleichende, wherein the Lötan gleichende is designed for surface mounting on a circuit board.
  • Connectors are provided to improve the transmission characteristics of high-frequency signals with suitable contacts for surface mounting, with good coplanarity of the contacts with respect to the solder joints on the circuit board is required.
  • an electrical connector is known whose arranged in an insulating housing electrical contact portions have outwardly projecting soldering, whose molded surface mounting contact surfaces are aligned coplanar at provided for this narrow constrictions by means of a tool after completion of the assembly of the individual contact portions.
  • solder termination ends When mounting a printed circuit board with surface mount connectors, the solder termination ends are usually dipped in a solder paste and then soldered to the solder pads on the circuit board under the action of heat. To ensure proper soldering, the solder tail must contact the solder paste, but requires coplanar alignment of the solder tail against the solder pads on the board.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for producing a connector of the type mentioned, 5c that the Lötan gleichenden have good coplanarity and the connector is simple and inexpensive to produce.
  • the advantages achieved by the invention are that the bending stress in the smallest cross-sectional area is compressed by the constriction in a designated region of the contact element, so that in a bending operation, the contact element is bent without special bending edge only in this constriction.
  • a connector 1 consisting of an insulating body 2 with a number of contact elements 3 shown.
  • the contact elements 3 have a plug contact end 4, a fixing region 5 and a Lötan gleichende 6, wherein the contact elements are fixed by means of the widened running fixing region 5 in correspondingly adapted receiving openings 7 in the bottom region of the insulating body 2.
  • the Fig. 2 shows a plan view of a contact carrier strip 9 with the molded contact elements 3, which have on their entire contact length differently shaped geometric structures.
  • Such contact carrier tapes which are rolled up on a reel spool, serve for a continuous feed the contact elements in the manufacture of connectors, wherein the structures of the contact elements are punched out of flat metal bands in a previous operation.
  • two-sided concave recesses 10 are provided, in which the material, on both sides of the outer Envelope boundary of the contact element structure was compressed to an inwardly facing constriction.
  • a separation area 11 is provided, within which the contact carrier strip 9 is separated after the fixation of the contact elements 3 in the insulating housing 2 of the contacts.
  • the Fig. 3 shows a connector 1 in the insulating housing 2 of the insertion of a section with contact elements 3 of the contact strip 9 is already completed, and an already positioned Maisieri Hor, the contact carrier tape 9 has already been separated.
  • the contact elements 3 are fixed with the conclusion of the insertion process in its final position by being inserted with the widened running fixing region 5 in accordance with adapted receiving openings 7 of the insulator 2, or pressed.
  • the contact carrier tape 9 is separated in the separation region 11 by means of a device not further described here.
  • the recesses 10 of the contact elements 3 are arranged flush with an edge 8 of the insulating body, which is formed from the end of the receiving opening 7 with the bottom of the insulating body 2.
  • a free bending of the fixed in the insulating body 2 contact elements 3 is shown, in which the Lötan gleichenden 6 are bent in the region of the two-sided recesses 10 by a two-part tool 13.
  • the initially perpendicular Lötan gleichenden 6 angled to an angle ⁇ around the edge 8.
  • the bending stress is compressed in the smallest cross section of the constricting portion of the recesses 10 of the contact element 3, so that the Lötan gleichenden 6 are angled only in this area.
  • solder terminal ends 6 which are initially held by the tool 14, are angled by lowering the second tool 16 to an angle of almost 90 °, wherein all solder terminal ends are simultaneously aligned precisely and coplanar. Whereby it makes sense to include the spring restoring force in the manufacturing process after the bend of the solder termination ends, so that the angle of the solder termination ends is not exactly 90 ° but a little less than 90 °.

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Steckverbinders mit in einem Isolierkörper angeordneten Kontaktelementen, die mit einem Steckkontaktende und einem Lötanschlussende versehen sind, wobei das Lötanschlussende zur Oberflächenmontage auf einer Leiterplatte ausgebildet ist.The invention relates to a method for producing a connector with arranged in an insulating body contact elements, which are provided with a plug contact end and a Lötanschlussende, wherein the Lötanschlussende is designed for surface mounting on a circuit board.

Steckverbinder werden zur Verbesserung der Übertragungseigenschaften bei hochfrequenten Signalen mit zur Oberflächenmontage geeigneten Kontakten versehen, wobei eine gute Koplanarität der Kontakte bezüglich der Lötstellen auf der Leiterplatte erforderlich ist.Connectors are provided to improve the transmission characteristics of high-frequency signals with suitable contacts for surface mounting, with good coplanarity of the contacts with respect to the solder joints on the circuit board is required.

Aus der EP 0 846 350 ist ein Verfahren für die Herstellung eines Verbinders mit koplanaren Kontaktflächen für die Oberflächenmontage auf einer Leiterplatte bekannt, bei dem bereits vorgebogene Kontaktelemente in Kontaktaufnahmeschlitze eines Gehäuses eingesetzt werden und nach dem Einsetzen alle Kontaktelemente gemeinsam durch ein Werkzeug koplanar ausgerichtet werden.From the EP 0 846 350 a method for the production of a connector with coplanar contact surfaces for surface mounting on a printed circuit board is known in which already pre-bent contact elements are inserted into contact receiving slots of a housing and after insertion all the contact elements are co-aligned by a tool coplanar.

Weiterhin ist aus der EP 0 757 849 ein elektrischer Verbinder bekannt, dessen in einem isolierenden Gehäuse angeordnete elektrische Kontaktabschnitte nach außen herausragende Lötenden aufweisen, deren angeformte Oberflächenmontagekontaktflächen an dazu vorgesehenen schmalen Einschnürungen mittels eines Werkzeuges nach Abschluß der Montage der einzelnen Kontaktabschnitte koplanar ausgerichtet werden.Furthermore, from the EP 0 757 849 an electrical connector is known whose arranged in an insulating housing electrical contact portions have outwardly projecting soldering, whose molded surface mounting contact surfaces are aligned coplanar at provided for this narrow constrictions by means of a tool after completion of the assembly of the individual contact portions.

Bei den bekannten Verfahren zur Herstellung von Steckverbindern sind stets relativ aufwendige Prozeduren und mehrere Arbeitsschritte notwendig, um die Lötanschlüsse eines Steckverbinders für die Oberflächenmontage koplanar auszurichten, in dem z.B. die Kontakte vereinzelt, mittels eines Abbiegewerkzeuges abgewinkelt und anschließend wiederum einzeln in ein Gehäuse montiert und ausgerichtet werden.In the known methods for the production of connectors always relatively complex procedures and several steps are necessary to align the solder terminals of a connector for surface mounting coplanar, in which e.g. the contacts isolated, angled by means of a bending tool and then again mounted and aligned individually in a housing.

Bei der Bestückung einer Leiterplatte mit oberflächenmontierbaren Steckverbindern werden die Lötanschlussenden üblicherweise in eine Lötpaste eingetaucht und anschließend unter Hitzeeinwirkung mit den Lötflächen auf der Leiterplatte verlötet. Um eine einwandfreie Lötung sicherzustellen, müssen die Lötanschlussenden die Lötpaste berühren, wozu jedoch eine koplanare Ausrichtung der Lötanschlussenden gegenüber den Lötflächen auf der Leiterplatte erforderlich ist.When mounting a printed circuit board with surface mount connectors, the solder termination ends are usually dipped in a solder paste and then soldered to the solder pads on the circuit board under the action of heat. To ensure proper soldering, the solder tail must contact the solder paste, but requires coplanar alignment of the solder tail against the solder pads on the board.

Der Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde ein Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Steckverbinders der eingangs genannten Art anzugeben, 5c dass die Lötanschlussenden eine gute Koplanarität aufweisen und der Steckverbinder einfach und kostengünstig herstellbar ist.The invention has for its object to provide a method for producing a connector of the type mentioned, 5c that the Lötanschlussenden have good coplanarity and the connector is simple and inexpensive to produce.

Diese Aufgabe wird durch ein Verfahren mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 1 gelöst.This object is achieved by a method having the features of claim 1.

Die mit der Erfindung erzielten Vorteile bestehen darin, dass durch die Einschnürung in einem vorgesehenen Bereich des Kontaktelementes die Biegespannung im kleinsten Querschnittsbereich komprimiert wird, so dass bei einem Abbiegevorgang das Kontaktelement auch ohne spezielle Abbiegekante nur in diesem Einschnürbereich umgebogen wird.The advantages achieved by the invention are that the bending stress in the smallest cross-sectional area is compressed by the constriction in a designated region of the contact element, so that in a bending operation, the contact element is bent without special bending edge only in this constriction.

Bei dem vorgeschlagenen Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Steckverbinders ist von besonderem Vorteil, dass mehrere Arbeitsgänge eingespart werden, wobei die an einem Kontaktträgerband zusammenhängenden Kontaktelemente direkt in entsprechende Aufnahmeöffnungen des Isolierkörpers eines Steckverbinders eingefügt und dort fixiert werden. Anschließend wird das Kontaktträgerband entfernt und in einem nächsten Arbeitsgang werden die Lötanschlussenden der Kontaktelemente umgebogen und koplanar ausgerichtet.In the proposed method for producing a connector is of particular advantage that several operations can be saved, wherein the contiguous on a contact carrier band contact elements are inserted directly into corresponding receiving openings of the insulator of a connector and fixed there. Subsequently, the contact carrier strip is removed and in a next operation, the Lötanschlussenden the contact elements are bent and aligned coplanar.

Ein Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung ist in der Zeichnung dargestellt und wird im folgenden näher erläutert. Es zeigen:

Fig. 1
eine perspektivische Schnittdarstellung eines Steckverbinders mit abgewinkelten Lötanschlussenden,
Fig. 2
eine Aufsicht auf ein Kontaktträgerband mit Kontaktelelementen,
Fig. 3
eine perspektivische Schnittdarstellung des Steckverbinders mit geraden Lötanschlussenden und einem Kontaktträgerband,
Fig. 4
eine Schnittdarstellung des Steckverbinders mit leicht abgewinkelten Lötanschlussenden, und
Fig. 5
eine Schnittdarstellung des Steckverbinders mit ausgerichteten Lötanschlussenden.
An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawing and will be explained in more detail below. Show it:
Fig. 1
a perspective sectional view of a connector with angled Lötanschlussenden,
Fig. 2
a plan view of a contact carrier tape with Kontaktelelementen,
Fig. 3
a perspective sectional view of the connector with straight Lötanschlussenden and a contact carrier tape,
Fig. 4
a sectional view of the connector with slightly angled Lötanschlussenden, and
Fig. 5
a sectional view of the connector with aligned Lötanschlussenden.

In der Fig.1 ist ein Steckverbinder 1 bestehend aus einem Isolierkörper 2 mit einer Anzahl von Kontaktelementen 3 dargestellt.
Die Kontaktelemente 3 weisen ein Steckkontaktende 4, einen Fixierbereich 5 und ein Lötanschlussende 6 auf, wobei die Kontaktelemente mittels des verbreitert ausgeführten Fixierbereiches 5 in entsprechend angepaßte Aufnahmeöffnungen 7 im Bodenbereich des Isolierkörpers 2 fixiert sind.In the Fig.1 is a connector 1 consisting of an insulating body 2 with a number of contact elements 3 shown.
The contact elements 3 have a plug contact end 4, a fixing region 5 and a Lötanschlussende 6, wherein the contact elements are fixed by means of the widened running fixing region 5 in correspondingly adapted receiving openings 7 in the bottom region of the insulating body 2.

Die Fig. 2 zeigt eine Aufsicht auf ein Kontaktträgerband 9 mit den angeformten Kontaktelementen 3, die auf ihrer gesamten Kontaktlänge unterschiedlich geformte geometrische Strukturen aufweisen.
Derartige Kontaktträgerbänder, die auf einer Wickelspule aufgerollt sind, dienen einer kontinuierlichen Zuführung der Kontaktelemente bei der Fertigung von Steckverbindern, wobei die Strukturen der Kontaktelemente in einem vorhergehenden Arbeitsgang aus flachen Metallbändern herausgestanzt werden.
In einem bestimmten Abschnitt der vorzugsweise mit einem rechteckigen Querschnitt ausgestanzten Kontaktelemente 3, zwischen dem verbreitert (verbreitert gegenüber der sonstigen Breite des Kontaktelementes) ausgeführten Fixierbereich 5 und dem Lötanschlussende 6, sind zweiseitig gegenüberliegende konkave Ausnehmungen 10 vorgesehen, bei denen das Material, beidseitig der äußeren Umhüllungsgrenze der Kontaktelementestruktur, zu einer nach innen weisenden Einschnürung komprimiert wurde. Oberhalb der Lötanschlussenden 6 ist ein Abtrennbereich 11 vorgesehen, innerhalb dessen das Kontaktträgerband 9 nach der Fixierung der Kontaktelemente 3 im Isoliergehäuse 2 von den Kontakten getrennt wird.The Fig. 2 shows a plan view of a contact carrier strip 9 with the molded contact elements 3, which have on their entire contact length differently shaped geometric structures.
Such contact carrier tapes, which are rolled up on a reel spool, serve for a continuous feed the contact elements in the manufacture of connectors, wherein the structures of the contact elements are punched out of flat metal bands in a previous operation.
In a certain portion of the preferably punched with a rectangular cross-section contact elements 3, between the widened (widened compared to the other width of the contact element) running fixing region 5 and the Lötanschlussende 6, two-sided concave recesses 10 are provided, in which the material, on both sides of the outer Envelope boundary of the contact element structure was compressed to an inwardly facing constriction. Above the Lötanschlussenden 6 a separation area 11 is provided, within which the contact carrier strip 9 is separated after the fixation of the contact elements 3 in the insulating housing 2 of the contacts.

Die Fig. 3 zeigt einen Steckverbinder 1 in dessen Isoliergehäuse 2 der Einfügevorgang eines Abschnittes mit Kontaktelementen 3 des Kontaktbandes 9 bereits vollzogen ist, sowie eine bereits positionierte Kontaktelementereihe, deren Kontaktträgerband 9 bereits abgetrennt wurde.
Dabei sind die Kontaktelemente 3 mit Abschluss des Steckvorganges in ihrer endgültigen Position fixiert, indem sie mit dem verbreitert ausgeführten Fixierbereich 5 in entsprechend angepaßte Aufnahmeöffnungen 7 des Isolierkörpers 2 eingefügt, bzw. eingepreßt werden.
Daran anschließend wird das Kontaktträgerband 9 im Abtrennbereich 11 mittels einer hier nicht weiter beschriebenen Vorrichtung abgetrennt.
Die Ausnehmungen 10 der Kontaktelemente 3 sind dabei bündig an einer Kante 8 des Isolierkörpers angeordnet, die vom Ende der Auffnahmeöffnung 7 mit dem Boden des Isolierkörpers 2 gebildet wird.The Fig. 3 shows a connector 1 in the insulating housing 2 of the insertion of a section with contact elements 3 of the contact strip 9 is already completed, and an already positioned Kontaktelementereihe, the contact carrier tape 9 has already been separated.
In this case, the contact elements 3 are fixed with the conclusion of the insertion process in its final position by being inserted with the widened running fixing region 5 in accordance with adapted receiving openings 7 of the insulator 2, or pressed.
Subsequently, the contact carrier tape 9 is separated in the separation region 11 by means of a device not further described here.
The recesses 10 of the contact elements 3 are arranged flush with an edge 8 of the insulating body, which is formed from the end of the receiving opening 7 with the bottom of the insulating body 2.

In der Fig. 4 wird ein freies Abwinkeln der in dem Isolierkörper 2 fixierten Kontaktelemente 3 gezeigt, bei dem die Lötanschlussenden 6 im Bereich der zweiseitigen Ausnehmungen 10 durch ein zweiteiliges Werkzeug 13 umgebogen werden. Und zwar jeweils zu einer Seitenfläche, die nicht mit einer der zweiseitigen Ausnehmungen 10 versehen ist.
Dabei werden mit einem ersten Werkzeug 14, das schräge Flächen 15 aufweist, die zunächst senkrecht stehenden Lötanschlussenden 6 auf einen Winkel β um die Kante 8 abgewinkelt.
Hierbei wird die Biegespannung im kleinsten Querschnitt des Einschnürbereiches der Ausnehmungen 10 des Kontaktelementes 3 komprimiert, so dass die Lötanschlussenden 6 nur in diesem Bereich abgewinkelt werden. Durch die entstehende Kaltverfestigung in der Einschnürung stellt sich ein Biegeradius R ein, der von der Ausführung, bzw. der Kontur der Ausnehmungen 10 abhängig ist.In the Fig. 4 a free bending of the fixed in the insulating body 2 contact elements 3 is shown, in which the Lötanschlussenden 6 are bent in the region of the two-sided recesses 10 by a two-part tool 13. In each case to a side surface which is not provided with one of the two-sided recesses 10.
In this case, with a first tool 14 having oblique surfaces 15, the initially perpendicular Lötanschlussenden 6 angled to an angle β around the edge 8.
Here, the bending stress is compressed in the smallest cross section of the constricting portion of the recesses 10 of the contact element 3, so that the Lötanschlussenden 6 are angled only in this area. Due to the resulting strain hardening in the constriction, a bending radius R sets, which depends on the design, or the contour of the recesses 10.

In der Fig. 5 ist dargestellt, wie mit einem weiteren Biegevorgang die Lötanschlussenden 6, die zunächst noch durch das Werkzeug 14 gehalten, durch das Absenken des zweiten Werkzeuges 16 auf einen Winkel von nahezu 90° abgewinkelt werden, wobei alle Lötanschlussenden gleichzeitig präzise und koplanar ausgerichtet sind.
Wobei es sinnvoll ist, die Federrückstellkraft nach der Abbiegung der Lötanschlussenden mit in den Fertigungsprozess einzubeziehen, so dass der Winkel der Lötanschlussenden nicht exakt 90° sondern etwas weniger als 90° beträgt.In the Fig. 5 It is shown how, with a further bending operation, the solder terminal ends 6, which are initially held by the tool 14, are angled by lowering the second tool 16 to an angle of almost 90 °, wherein all solder terminal ends are simultaneously aligned precisely and coplanar.
Whereby it makes sense to include the spring restoring force in the manufacturing process after the bend of the solder termination ends, so that the angle of the solder termination ends is not exactly 90 ° but a little less than 90 °.

Damit erreicht man bei der Positionierung des Steckverbinders ein leicht federndes Auftreffen der Lötanschlussenden auf die Lötpads einer Leiterplatte und somit eine etwas vergrößerte Toleranz bezüglich der Koplanarität - also einem maximal zulässigen Abstandsband zwischen den Lötanschlussenden und der Leiterplatte.This is achieved in the positioning of the connector, a slightly resilient impact of Lötanschlussenden on the solder pads of a circuit board and thus a slightly increased tolerance for coplanarity - ie a maximum allowable distance band between the Lötanschlussenden and the circuit board.

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  1. A method of producing a plug connector (1) having contact elements (3) which are arranged in an insulating body (2) and are provided with a plug contact end (4) and a solder connecting end (6), the solder connecting end (6) being configured to be surface-mounted on a printed circuit board, the contact elements (3) having opposed recesses (10) forming a constriction between the plug contact end (4) and the solder connecting end (6), and, in the region of the recesses (10), the contact elements (3) being bent via a face which is not provided with a recess (10),
    characterized in that
    the contact elements (3) which are linked together on a contact carrier strip (9) are inserted into receiving openings (7) of the insulating body (2) and are fixed in the receiving openings (7), the recesses (10) of the contact elements (3) being positioned at the edge (8) at the bottom of the insulating body (2),
    the contact elements (3) are detached from the contact carrier strip (9),
    a first tool (14) acts on the solder connecting ends (6) of the contact elements (3), which project perpendicularly out of the insulating body, the solder connecting ends (6) being bent transversely to the recesses (10) so as to initially form an angle of < 90° with the perpendicular, and
    a second tool (16) then acts on the solder connecting ends (6), the solder connecting ends (6) being bent so as to form an angle of almost 90° with the perpendicular.
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