EP2287971A1 - Connecteur plaque-à-plaque et procédé de sa réalisation - Google Patents

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EP2287971A1
EP2287971A1 EP10007926A EP10007926A EP2287971A1 EP 2287971 A1 EP2287971 A1 EP 2287971A1 EP 10007926 A EP10007926 A EP 10007926A EP 10007926 A EP10007926 A EP 10007926A EP 2287971 A1 EP2287971 A1 EP 2287971A1
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Savvas Valsamakis
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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
    • 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
    • H01R12/721—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
    • 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
    • H01R12/7005—Guiding, mounting, polarizing or locking means; Extractors
    • H01R12/7011—Locking or fixing a connector to a PCB
    • H01R12/7047—Locking or fixing a connector to a PCB with a fastener through a screw hole in the coupling device
    • 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
    • H01R12/82—Coupling devices connected with low or zero insertion force
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a connector for connecting printed circuit boards and / or plug-in boards, i. a so-called board-to-board connector. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for forming such a connector.
  • Connectors of the so-called board-to-board type are used in particular in computers for connecting two circuit boards by the board-to-board connector is mounted on a circuit board and electrically contacted, for example via screws and corresponding solder pins, while the second circuit board or a Plug-in card is inserted into a slot of the board-to-board connector.
  • In this slot are contacts that contact corresponding contacts at one edge of the plug-in card when plugging and clamp the plug-in card in a resilient manner, so that the insertion of the plug-in card simultaneously causes an electrical contact and a mounting of the plug-in card or circuit board.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a novel board-to-board connector, which can ensure a secure attachment of a printed circuit board or a plug-in card and a secure contacting of the contacts, especially in a vibrating environment.
  • the additional spring causes a much stiffer spring characteristic or a steeper spring characteristic, so that contact bruising and / or lifting of a contact are avoided by a mating contact of the circuit board. In this way a secure signal transmission is ensured.
  • the inserted into the recording circuit board or plug-in card is clamped with a larger force, so that a vibration-proof mounting of the circuit board or plug-in card is guaranteed.
  • the additional spring is configured such that the contact tongue is supported only after a predetermined spring travel of the contact tongue by the additional spring.
  • the additional spring is designed so that it is deformed only after a predetermined travel of the contact tongue to apply a spring force, a progressive spring characteristic is provided so that a natural frequency of the vibration of the circuit board changes instantaneously or abruptly. In this way, a possibly occurring vibration of the inserted printed circuit board is brought to a standstill within the shortest possible time substantially.
  • a spring characteristic is provided, which has a bend after a certain travel and is much steeper. Up to this predetermined or predeterminable spring travel only the resilient contact tongue and after this predetermined or predeterminable spring travel acts both the resilient contact tongue and additionally the additional spring. Thus, the spring forces of both springs add up to the predetermined travel, while up to this predetermined travel only one spring (resilient contact tongue) acts.
  • the contact consists of an embossed or stamped plate and / or has in one piece the contact tongue and the auxiliary spring.
  • the one-piece or integral construction leads to low production costs and to a simple and compact design. In addition, mounting the contact is very easy.
  • each contact further comprises a solder tag or a contact pin.
  • the resilient contact tongue on its free end on a curved contact loop.
  • a printed circuit board By providing the curved contact loop at the free end of the resilient contact tongue, a printed circuit board can be guided with its edge at the curvature of the contact loop to slide smoothly into the receptacle into it. A chamfer or bevel or the like on the circuit board is not necessary. Therefore, the circuit board can be produced at a lower manufacturing cost.
  • a connector housing at one end of the receptacle on a contact portion and at the other end a spring for pressing the circuit board against the abutment portion.
  • the abutment portion on the connector housing in particular in conjunction with the spring at the opposite end of the housing to a predetermined positioning or orientation of an inserted circuit board or plug-in card.
  • the inserted circuit board is positioned so that formed on the edge of the circuit board mating contacts with the contacts of the connector are precisely aligned and securely contacted.
  • the connector housing at both ends of the receptacle on a support surface for placing the circuit board and / or a threaded bore for screwing the circuit board, wherein the support surface is preferably formed as a grounding plate.
  • the support surface provides a predetermined positioning of the circuit board in a transverse direction of the receptacle, that is to say in a direction in which the contact tongues spring. This ensures that both contacts on the upper side of the receptacle and contacts on the lower side of the receptacle are pressed with a predetermined or predeterminable force against the mating contacts of the printed circuit board to ensure a secure contact.
  • contacts are on one of the upper and lower sides the slot-like receptacle are arranged, the auxiliary spring, while arranged on the other opposite side contacts have a spring stop for limiting the spring travel of the resilient contact tongue.
  • an additional vibration damping is provided because an additional high force is applied to the resilient contact tongue and the circuit board by the abutment against the spring stop due to its rigidity, after a certain Travel of the additional spring to provide additional damping of vibration.
  • the method of further comprises the step of forming the auxiliary spring such that the contact tongue is supported by the auxiliary spring only after a predetermined spring travel of the contact tongue.
  • the contact (16) is formed from an embossed or stamped plate and / or the contact (16) is formed integrally with the contact tongue (162) and the auxiliary spring (164).
  • a connector housing 18 of a connector 10 has a receptacle 12 for receiving or insertion of a (not shown) printed circuit board L1 or plug-in card or the like.
  • a plurality of contacts 14, 16 are arranged, which can resiliently clamp the circuit board L1 between them and can contact.
  • the connector housing 18 has a lateral stop 182 for the positioning of a printed circuit board L1 to be inserted and at the opposite lateral end a spring 20 which presses an inserted circuit board L1 against the stop 182.
  • tapped holes 186 or screw holes or the like for fixing the printed circuit board L1 to the opposite lateral ends of the housing 18 are arranged.
  • These threaded holes 186 or screw holes or the like are also bearing surfaces 184, which provide vertical positioning of a circuit board jossteckenden L1. In this way, a printed circuit board L1 to be inserted is positioned in the vertical direction so that a sufficient spring force of both the upper contacts 14 and the lower contacts 16 acts on the printed circuit board L1 to be inserted.
  • an inserted circuit board L1 is fixed to the board-to-board connector 10 via a pair of screws S, S and the threaded bores 186, 186.
  • the support surface 184 is formed by a ground plate 30, which on the one hand creates a predetermined or specifiable positioning of the circuit board L1 on the board-to-board connector 10 and on the other hand provides a large area for grounding of the circuit board L1.
  • the grounding plate 30 is further connected to a corresponding grounding contact (not shown) of the circuit board L2.
  • the board-to-board connector is soldered, for example via corresponding (not shown) solder tails on the circuit board L2.
  • the soldering of the contacts 14, 16 of the board-to-board connector 10 to the circuit board L2 is a preferred contacting of the contacts 14, 16 to corresponding (not shown) trace of the circuit board L2.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 a detail view of the contacts 14 and 16 is shown. It shows Fig. 4 in particular a lower contact which is to be arranged on a lower side of the receptacle 12 of the connector 10 and Fig. 5 shows an upper contact 14, which is arranged on an upper side of the receptacle 12 of the connector 10.
  • a lower side of the receptacle 12 is here referred to as a side near a circuit board L2, ie near a circuit board on which the board-to-board connector 10 is to be arranged.
  • a side remote from the circuit board L2 is referred to.
  • upper contacts 14 and lower contacts 16 are each formed with resilient contact tongues 142, 162 and lower contacts 16 are additionally formed with an auxiliary spring 164, while the upper contacts 14 are formed without additional spring. It is understood that both the upper and lower contacts may be formed with the auxiliary spring or vice versa to the preferred embodiment, only the upper contacts may be formed with the auxiliary spring to form the lower contacts without additional spring.
  • the resilient contact tongues 142, 162 are formed at a front free end with a contact loop 148, 168, which forms a curved shape, so that at a front free end, where a Popesteckende PCB L1 contacts the contact blades 142, 162 in contact, a sloping curved shape is provided.
  • the circuit board L1 during insertion in a gentle manner with the resilient contact tongues 142, 162 and their free ends 148, 168 come into contact and is guided by this into the receptacle 12.
  • a chamfer of the circuit board L1 or chamfer or the like is not required due to the curved shape of the contact loops 148, 168, so that the manufacturing cost of the circuit board L1 is small.
  • the circuit board L1 By positioning the circuit board L1 in the lateral direction via the stopper 182 and the spring 20 attached to the opposite side end, as well as the vertical positioning of the circuit board L1 via the support surfaces 184, 184, the circuit board L1 is disposed at a predetermined position within the receptacle 12. In this position, a predetermined resilient contact force of the contact blades 142, 162 acts on corresponding mating contacts (not shown) of the circuit board L1, which are positioned at a peripheral portion of the circuit board L1. Thus, a secure contact of mating contacts of the circuit board L1 is ensured with the contacts 14, 16 of the connector 10, when the circuit board L1 is inserted substantially completely into the receptacle 12.
  • At least one of the lower contacts 16, preferably all lower contacts 16 further have an additional spring 164, which preferably only after a certain predetermined spring travel of the resilient contact tongue 162 presses against the resilient contact tongue 162 in order to significantly increase a spring stiffness.
  • the resilient contact tongue 162 comes after the predetermined spring travel a in contact with the auxiliary spring 164 to resiliently support this.
  • Such a progressive spring characteristic is provided to let act according to the predetermined spring a both springs 162, 164, while up to the predetermined spring a only the resilient contact tongue 162 acts alone.
  • a spring characteristic results in such a way that up to the predetermined spring travel a is a spring characteristic with low slope and after the spring travel a is a spring characteristic with high slope.
  • spring stops for the upper resilient contact tongues 142 are provided on the connector housing 18, which come in contact with a certain predetermined spring deflection of the resilient contact tongue 142 in particular with the contact loop 148. Such will be another Stiffening of the spring-mass system provided.
  • the contacts 14, 16 are inserted into corresponding slots of the connector housing 18 and positioned via positioning lugs 147, 167 in a vertical and a lateral position within the slot provided in the housing 18.
  • teeth 149, 169 are disposed on the contacts 16 to provide for hooking or engagement of the contacts 14, 16 in the plastic connector housing 18.
  • solder tails 146, 166 for soldering the contacts 14, 16 to a printed circuit board L2 are preferably provided on a lower side of the contacts 14, 16, to which the connector 10 is preferably fixed by soldering the solder tails 146, 166.
  • the board-to-board connector 10 can also be attached and contacted in other ways to the circuit board L2, for example by screws or clamps or the like.
  • the contacts 14, 16 are preferably stamped or punched from a conductive material such as copper or a corresponding alloy.
  • a contact 14, 16 is punched and stamped from a plate-like conductive semifinished product or material to have resilient contact tongues 142, 162, solder tails 146, 166, positioning tabs 147, 167 and the auxiliary spring 164 in integral or integral fashion.
  • This auxiliary spring 164 can thus be made in one step with the manufacture of the contact 16 and assembly and positioning of the auxiliary spring 164 is not required.
  • the board-to-board connector 10 has a very good capacitive property and there is no need for an additional ground line for grounding the inserted board L1 to the ground plane L2 be provided.
  • the connector according to the invention or board-to-board connector can be used in particular in a vibrating environment such as a tool or construction machine, a motor vehicle or any other vibrating tool or component.
  • a vibrating environment such as a tool or construction machine, a motor vehicle or any other vibrating tool or component.
  • the connector 10 according to the invention can also be used in other applications, for example in computers.
  • the connector 10 according to the invention is used in navigation systems and car radios of motor vehicles and also in portable computers, such as laptops, which are also exposed to vibrations and vibrations or vibrations when used during a train journey, for example.

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