EP1274152B1 - Schwimmender Batterieverbinder - Google Patents

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EP1274152B1
EP1274152B1 EP02100754A EP02100754A EP1274152B1 EP 1274152 B1 EP1274152 B1 EP 1274152B1 EP 02100754 A EP02100754 A EP 02100754A EP 02100754 A EP02100754 A EP 02100754A EP 1274152 B1 EP1274152 B1 EP 1274152B1
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Pascal Ribeau
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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
    • 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
    • H01R13/631—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only
    • H01R13/6315—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection
    • 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
    • H01R12/50—Fixed connections
    • H01R12/51—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/55—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals
    • H01R12/57—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals surface mounting terminals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R2201/00—Connectors or connections adapted for particular applications
    • H01R2201/16—Connectors or connections adapted for particular applications for telephony

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  • the present invention relates to a floating battery connector. More generally, it finds its use in the field of connectors fixed on a substrate and to be connected with a device complementary to mount on this substrate.
  • a connector can be used in a mobile phone as a connector drums.
  • a telephone battery is a detachable element to be mounted on a phone case.
  • the advantage of the connector according to the invention is to provide a connection with such a device complementary by accepting a fairly wide tolerance compared to placement of this additional device in the housing.
  • EP-A-0 519 264 describes a connector according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the connector mounted on a printed circuit board.
  • the connector includes an insulating support and a contact inside of it.
  • the contact ensures a connection with the printed circuit board.
  • the contact generally proposes a zone of flexible contact to receive an additional device to be connected with the printed circuit board.
  • the printed circuit board is preferably mounted in a case of a mobile phone, the additional device generally corresponding to a battery.
  • a battery generally consists of a shell in which are located the battery cells, and offers contact pads on an exterior facade of this shell. Battery contact ranges are intended to come to rest against the flexible contact area.
  • the connector is erected so that the contact area flexible is presented perpendicular to the printed circuit board for cooperate with the exterior facade of the battery, this facade being itself presented orthogonally to the printed circuit when mounting the drums.
  • generally mobile phone cases are made up of two portions: a first portion before and a second rear portion.
  • the first portion generally presents at a front panel: a screen and dialing keys.
  • the second portion is for example provided to ensure continuity of form with the battery disposed at a rear face of the first portion.
  • the first portion and or the second portion of the housing include means for retaining this battery on the phone.
  • the battery connector of such a phone is retained by both the first portion of the housing in which the printed circuit board is located on which it is mounted and on the other hand in the second portion of the housing, because this second portion comes opposite the front of the battery to connect.
  • the portions of the phone case have a cavity for both retain and present the battery connector.
  • the connector is subject to some constraints.
  • the battery connector is necessarily mounted on the printed circuit, in the first portion, before assembling the two portions.
  • means are used to fasteners presented on both of the housing portions.
  • the commitment fixing means corresponds mainly to a depression of the second portion, perpendicular to the printed circuit board, in the first portion of the case.
  • the connector support being previously rigidly mounted on the printed circuit board, operations of assembly of the second portion with the first portion of the housing generate damage to the battery connector during this step.
  • the mounting of the second portion constrains the connector support in opposite directions to those provided by its mounting inside of the first portion.
  • the prior art battery connectors pose a problem. Indeed, they do not tolerate any flexibility of positioning by compared to the constraints linked to the mechanical assembly of the portions of the housing in which they are mounted. As a result, the problems arising from this lack of flexibility are risks of poor connection with the additional device, or even unexpected interruptions of this connection by simple handling of the case. Indeed, handling a phone can sometimes generate a relative displacement of the portions of the case and the battery between them, because they are generally retained through simple mechanical means. There is a risk of connection interruptions between the connector and the battery can cause a general stop of the phone operation since power is on deleted.
  • the object of the invention is to remedy the problems cited by proposing a connector according to claim 1.
  • the connector includes a first support mounted on the printed circuit to retain a first portion of the contact. And it features a second insulating support disposed above the first insulating support floatingly. Indeed, the first insulating support is preferably held together with the printed circuit board which is itself fixedly retained in a first half housing, while the second insulating support is retained by a second half housing. So, when the second half of the phone case is mounted on the first half housing, the connector tolerates a certain flexibility in positioning respective of the second support opposite the first support.
  • this floating battery connector can be easily handled by grasping the second insulating support
  • the invention allows the first insulating support is well maintained in position relative to the second insulating support (this which is not the case when there is only the contact blade between the two supports) allowing its flat positioning on the circuit board printed.
  • the flexibility between the two parties allowing in addition as indicated previously, a slight shift in the respective positioning of the two supports.
  • FIG. 1 shows a connector 1 according to the invention.
  • Connector 1 is preferably mounted in a mobile phone 2.
  • the mobile phone 2 has a housing comprising a first half housing 3 and a second half box 4.
  • this mobile phone 2 includes a card printed circuit 5 on which the connector 1 is mounted.
  • the circuit board printed 5 is for example mounted inside the first half housing 3.
  • the half housing 3 has for this purpose an orifice 6 to allow the connector 1 on the side of a rear face 7 of this first housing half 3.
  • the rear face 7 is opposite to a front face 8 provided for example with a screen and dialing keys.
  • This connector 1 is intended to be connected with a device 9 to be connected with the printed circuit board 5.
  • the additional device 9 is for example a charging battery.
  • This device 9 preferably has an elongated and parallelepiped shape provided to be applied against the rear face 7 of the first housing half 3.
  • the second half housing 4 has dimensions such that, when the additional device 9 is put in place, it is in the extension of this additional device 9. Indeed, the second half case 4 is also mounted on the side of the rear face 7.
  • the second half housing 4 comprises an alcove 10 in which the connector 1 is retained. alcove 10 nevertheless leaves a portion of a contact 11 beyond the connector 1. This portion of the contact 11 protrudes from the alcove 10 on one side 14 of the half housing 4, this side 14 preferably being perpendicular to the face rear 7.
  • the additional device 9 is mounted on the telephone mobile 2, generally the second half box 4 is already assembled with the first half housing 3.
  • this front facade 12 has precisely a conductive pad 13 complementary to the contact 11.
  • the complementary device 9 is preferably inserted in the mobile phone 2 so that the front panel 12 comes into abutment against this side 14.
  • the complementary device 9 can first be presented at an oblique angle to the rear face 7, then be folded down by a rotation according to arrow 15. Then the front panel 12 is presented perpendicular to the rear face 7.
  • Figure 2 shows a sectional view of the connector 1 at the contact 11.
  • Contact 11 is preferably a metal blade precut in a sheet, and then bent at different levels of this metal blade so as to present at least a first portion 16 parallel to the printed circuit 5 and a second flexible portion 23 of orthogonal preference to this one.
  • the first portion 16 comes into contact with conductive pads of the printed circuit 5.
  • the first portion 16 is soldered on the printed circuit board, it can also be surface mounted.
  • the first portion 16 is retained in a first support 17 of the connector 1.
  • the first support 17 comprises a housing 18 in which the first portion 16 can be retained. Indeed, the first portion 16 is pressed and retained against a bottom 19 of this housing 18, the bottom 19 being parallel to a plane 20 formed by the printed circuit 5.
  • the first portion 16 has lateral recesses 21, formed in the width of the blade metallic, to cooperate with lateral edges 22 of the housing 18.
  • the side edges 22 are perpendicular to the bottom 19.
  • the recesses 21 are retained in force against the edges 22.
  • the contact 11 has a first bend 24 allowing an intermediate portion 25 of the contact 11 to stand perpendicular to the bottom 19 from the first portion 16.
  • the elbow 24 is not sufficiently flexible, the portion intermediate 25 is connected via a second elbow 26 to the second flexible portion 23.
  • the first bend 24 forms an angle of approximately 90 °.
  • the second bend 26 forms an angle of approximately 180 °. So the second flexible portion 23 is presented roughly parallel to the intermediate portion 25, ie perpendicular to the bottom 19 of the housing 18 that is to say perpendicular to the plane 20 of the printed circuit board 5, and by extension perpendicular to the rear face 7.
  • the second flexible portion 23 comprises several curvatures 27 so as to present a loop 28.
  • This loop 28 is prominent with respect to an axis erected perpendicular to the bottom 19.
  • the loop 28 is open, it is flexible. It can be moved in parallel at the bottom 19. It is for example constrained during assembly of the device complementary 9.
  • the intermediate portion 25 and the second portion flexible 23 are retained inside a second insulating support 29.
  • the second insulating support 29 has an opening 30 for leaving exceed the loop 28.
  • the particularity of this second insulating support 29 is to be floating relative to the first support 17. Indeed, the second support 29 is not frozen in a position with and relative to the first support 17.
  • Connector 1 has an assembly joint 31 between the first support 17 and the second support 29.
  • This assembly articulation 31 makes it possible to propose a some flexibility in positioning the second support 29 relative to the first support 17.
  • the first support 17 is definitively drawn up on the map of printed circuit 5 along an axis 32.
  • This first support 17 is provided so as not to not be in contact with the second half box 4 when it is mounted on the first half housing 3.
  • the axis 32 is erected perpendicularly in plane 20 of the printed circuit board 5. Thanks to the articulation 31, the second support 29 is preferably erected along this same axis 32, but it can also be presented obliquely by relative to this axis 32.
  • the second support 29 being received in the alcove 10 of the second half box 4, when the latter is subjected to stresses, the support 29 can follow without risking damaging the connection between the contact 11 and the complementary device 9.
  • the assembly joint 31 allows to tolerate an angle of around 10 ° between the position of the second support 29 and the perpendicular axis 32.
  • the assembly joint 31 comprises a flexible pin 33 inserted into a channel 34.
  • the second support 29 presents the flexible pin 33 to cooperate with the channel 34 of the first support 17.
  • the second support 29 being made of a material insulating, for example plastic, this pin 33 is flexible.
  • this pin 33 is not fully inserted inside channel 34, there remains a base 35 of pin 33 protruding from the first support 17 and providing this flexibility of the second support 29 relative to the axis 32.
  • the first support 17 has a pin such as 33 to cooperate with a channel such as 34 formed in the second support 29.
  • the connector 1 therefore consists of two supports 17 and 29 and the contact 11 capable of catching an offset of the second support 29 by compared to the first support 17.
  • a constant interface namely loop 28, is presented between the battery and phone case.
  • the shape of the loop 28 allows it to always be presented in at least one contact area 36 in upstream of the side 14 of the second half box 4.
  • This area 36 is defined around the loop 28.
  • this loop 28 has a center of rotation arranged at the level of axis 32, which means that a stress applied to the second support 29, and therefore at contact 11 located inside of it, results in a slight rotation of the loop 28 while maintaining part of this loop 28 inside this zone 36.
  • Zone 36 corresponds to the zone at which the complementary range 13 is presented after mounting of the additional device 9.
  • the movements applied to the second support 29 are directly transmitted to contact 11 disposed inside of it. Indeed, the portion intermediate 25 of contact 11 is retained by means of latches elastic bands 37 and a recess 38 each cooperating with a wall inside of the second support 29 inside which the contact 11 is retained.
  • the connector 1 has three contacts such as 11 cooperating in three respectively housings such as 18 of the first support 17 and being received distinctly in housings separate from the second support 29.
  • a wedge 39 can be provided to be placed between the first support 17 and the second support 29 to retain the first support 17 on the printed circuit board 5.

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Claims (9)

  1. Verbinder (1) mit einem Kontakt (11), der auf einer gedruckten Schaltkarte (5) verbunden ist, mit einer ersten isolierenden Halterung (17), in welcher ein erster Abschnitt (16) des Kontaktes befestigt wird, um auf der gedruckten Schaltung angeordnet zu werden, wobei der Kontakt einen zweiten elastischen Abschnitt (23) zur Kontaktaufnahme mit einer zusätzlichen Vorrichtung (9) umfasst, mit einer zweiten isolierenden Halterung (29), die im Verhältnis zu der ersten Halterung schwimmend ist, wobei der zweite Abschnitt des Kontaktes an dieser zweiten Halterung befestigt und daran angeordnet ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er ein Gelenk zur Montage (31) der ersten Halterung mit der zweiten Halterung umfasst.
  2. Verbinder nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zweite Halterung einen elastischen Stift (33) zum Zusammenarbeiten mit einem Kanal (34) der ersten Halterung umfasst.
  3. Verbinder nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der elastische Stift einen Ansatz (35) aufweist, der nicht in den Kanal eingesteckt ist.
  4. Verbinder nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der zweite Abschnitt des Kontaktes gemäß einer senkrechten Achse (32) zu der gedruckten Schaltkarte ausgerichtet ist.
  5. Verbinder nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der zweite Abschnitt des Kontaktes schräg zu einer senkrechten Achse (32) zu der gedruckten Schaltkarte ausgerichtet ist.
  6. Verbinder nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die erste Halterung auf der gedruckten Schaltkarte angebracht ist, die in einer ersten Gehäusehälfte (3) befestigt ist.
  7. Verbinder nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zweite Halterung in einer Aussparung (10) einer zweiten Gehäusehälfte (4) befestigt wird, wobei diese zweite Gehäusehälfte mit der ersten Gehäusehälfte zusammengebaut werden kann.
  8. Verbinder nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der erste Abschnitt des Kontaktes Einbuchtungen (21) zum kraftschlüssigen Befestigen in der ersten Halterung umfasst.
  9. Verbinder nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er in einem Mobiltelefon (2) angebracht ist und dass die zusätzliche Vorrichtung eine Batterie ist.
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