EP2789057A1 - Procédé de réalisation d'un connecteur enfichable - Google Patents

Procédé de réalisation d'un connecteur enfichable

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EP2789057A1
EP2789057A1 EP12805941.7A EP12805941A EP2789057A1 EP 2789057 A1 EP2789057 A1 EP 2789057A1 EP 12805941 A EP12805941 A EP 12805941A EP 2789057 A1 EP2789057 A1 EP 2789057A1
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conductor contacts
conductor
contacts
housing
connector
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EP2789057B1 (fr
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Martin Zebhauser
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Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • H01R43/16—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
    • 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
    • H01R43/02—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for soldered or welded connections
    • 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
    • H01R43/24—Assembling by moulding on contact members
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49002—Electrical device making
    • Y10T29/49117—Conductor or circuit manufacturing
    • Y10T29/49204—Contact or terminal manufacturing
    • Y10T29/49208—Contact or terminal manufacturing by assembling plural parts
    • Y10T29/49222—Contact or terminal manufacturing by assembling plural parts forming array of contacts or terminals

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a method for producing a connector having at least two electrically insulated conductor contacts and in particular a suitable for the transmission of high-frequency signals (RF signals) and provided (multiple) connector.
  • Such connectors are usually produced by isolating the individual conductor contacts, an insulator receiving and insulating the conductor contacts, and a housing accommodating the conductor contacts and the insulator, and a subsequent assembly of the individual parts. It can also be provided that the housing, if it is formed from an electrically insulating material, takes over the function of the insulator.
  • the present invention seeks to provide an improved and more cost-effective method for producing a connector.
  • This object is achieved by a method according to independent claim 1.
  • Advantageous embodiments of the method according to the invention are the subject of the dependent claims and will become apparent from the following description of the invention.
  • the invention is based on the idea of simplifying the manufacture of generic plug connectors, which regularly consist of metallic conductor contacts and an insulator / housing made of plastic, and to make them more cost-effective in producing plastic components (housing and / or insulator ) is used on such production processes that have proven to be useful for the mass production of plastic components, as this low unit costs can be realized.
  • injection molding but also other processes in which a still deformable and, in particular, flowable plastic is brought into shape and then cures are among these production methods.
  • a basic idea of the invention is thus to inject (preferably) the insulator or the corresponding insulator housing unit made of electrically insulating plastic (plastic) at least in an electrically insulating and mutually fixing manner the insulator housing unit.
  • the conductor contacts in the injection molding machine
  • the conductor contacts which are to be electrically insulated from one another in the finished connector are first connected to one another via a connection element which is not embedded in the plastic in order to ensure positioning and after curing of the plastic to remove the connecting element.
  • connection element which is not embedded in the plastic
  • the unit can be cut out inexpensively from a sheet metal, "sheet metal” being understood here to mean all sheet-like semi-finished products of an electrically conductive material.
  • the conductor contacts are cut from a metal sheet such that the conductors are connected to one another via (at least) one connecting part of the metal sheet, the conductor contacts are then partially embedded in an electrically insulating material to form an electrically insulating housing which fixes the conductor contacts, and then especially after curing of the material of the housing), the connecting part is separated.
  • the inventive method is characterized by low unit costs for the connectors produced, because both the production of the unit of conductor contacts and connecting part by cutting out of a sheet and preferably by punching and the production of the insulator / housing by embedding in an electrically non-conductive material and
  • plastic in particular by means of injection molding and similar processes, such as injection compression, etc., each represents a cost-effective for mass production process.
  • largely or completely eliminated in the inventive method largely or completely, since the integration of the conductor contacts in the insulator / Housing takes place in the context of its design.
  • a multiple connector by means of the method according to the invention, which has a plurality of first conductor contacts and a plurality of second conductor contacts. Since such a multiple connector has a plurality of components, the advantages of the method according to the invention have an increased effect here.
  • first conductor contacts may be, for example Signal conductor contacts act, thus - in connection with a signal conductor contact of a corresponding mating connector - the signal-transmitting connection of two signal lines (for example, a printed circuit board or a cable, in particular coaxial cable).
  • the plurality of second conductor contacts may be, for example, ground contacts.
  • such a multiple connector is produced according to the invention by cutting the plurality of first conductor contacts from a sheet and cutting the plurality of second conductor contacts from one (other or the same) sheet, wherein at least the plurality of first conductor contacts are connected to each other via the connecting portion of the sheet. Accordingly, it is provided, at least those conductor contacts, which are preferably provided as signal conductor contacts, and therefore in the later use of the connector are insulated from each other, to position during embedding in the material of the housing via the connecting part.
  • the plurality of second conductor contacts which may be ground contacts and which then need not be insulated from one another when using the connector and consequently may be formed as a one-piece unit, are connected to the plurality of first conductor contacts are.
  • the connecting part not only the first conductor contacts (in particular signal conductor contacts) from each other, but also the second conductor contacts (in particular ground conductor contacts) are separated from the first conductor contacts and with These are therefore no longer electrically connected.
  • the plurality of second Conductor contacts are formed as a conductor contact plate, that is, continuously cut out of the sheet and no longer separated from each other (but possibly only from the first conductor contacts).
  • the connector according to the invention can be provided for HF applications (HF: high frequency).
  • HF high frequency
  • an impedance eg 50 ⁇
  • the conductor contacts may preferably be formed as projecting into a recess of the housing contact spring tabs, which are thus slightly deformed when connected to a corresponding conductor contact of a mating connector and thereby generate a sufficient contact pressure, which allows a secure transmission of particular RF signals.
  • connection contacts can be formed, via which the conductor contacts of the connector with conductors of, for example, a board or one or more (coaxial) cables can be connected.
  • connection can be made in particular by soldering, in which case the advantage can be realized that the solder joints outside the housing are easily accessible, where they can be easily subjected to a quality inspection.
  • the housing is formed such that this connecting means for connecting to (the housing of) forms a mating connector.
  • Fig. 1 to 6 a first embodiment of a produced by a method according to the invention
  • FIGS. 7 to 12 show a second embodiment of a method produced by means of a method according to the invention
  • FIGS. 1 to 6 show a first embodiment of a connector 10 produced by means of a method according to the invention in three production stages.
  • a metallic stamped component is shown in Fig. 1 (in a plan view) and Fig. 2 (in an isometric view).
  • This stamped component forms a total of four first conductor contacts 1 and a total of ten second conductor contacts 2.
  • the first conductor contacts 1 are to serve in the connector of the transmission of RF signals, while the second conductor contacts 2 are provided for a connection to ground.
  • the second conductor contacts 2 are formed as contact spring tabs and an integral part of a conductor contact plate 3. All second conductor contacts 2 are thus electrically conductively connected to each other.
  • the second conductor contacts 2 are also connected via a connecting part 4 (also electrically conductive) to the first conductor contacts 1.
  • the connecting part 4 also forms an integral part of the stamped component. While the first conductor contacts 1 are all connected individually to the connection part 4, a connection between the connection part 4 and the conductor contact plate 3 comprising the second conductor contacts 2 takes place via two webs 5.
  • the conductor contacts 1, 2 are partially provided with an electrically insulating plastic to overmold to form a housing 6 for the connector, as shown in Fig. 3 (in a plan view) and Fig. 4 (in an isometric view) is shown.
  • the housing 6 surrounds all of the conductor contacts 1, 2 partially, wherein in each case one end of each of the conductor contacts 1, 2 exposed in recesses, so that these conductor contacts of a mating connector can contact.
  • the connecting part 4 and adjoining short sections of the first conductor contacts 1 as well as sections of the webs 5 connecting the connecting part 4 to the conductor contact plate 3 are not overmoulded. This makes it possible to separate the connecting part in a subsequent method step (cf., FIGS. 5 and 6), wherein the separation takes place at a defined distance from the edge of the housing 6.
  • first conductor contacts 1 and the webs 5, of which can serve as terminals to connect the first conductor contacts 1 and / or the conductor contact plate 3 with, for example, tracks of a board, for example, to solder.
  • Both the first conductor contacts 1 and the second conductor contacts 2 are, as is apparent in particular from the isometric representations according to FIGS. 2, 4 and 6, designed as contact spring tabs with twice angled course (The function of the first conductor contacts 1 as contact spring tabs results as a result Your embedding in the plastic of the housing). This course is achieved by bending the conductor contacts 1, 2 in the context of the stamping process. Due to the double bend of the conductor contacts 1, 2 is achieved that the free ends are arranged in a plane which are parallel to the plane of the non-bent portions of the stamped component. The free ends of the conductor contacts thus protrude from the housing 6.
  • the housing further comprises three fastening elements 7, with which the connector e.g. can be mounted on the board.
  • the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 to 12 of a connector 10 produced according to the invention differs from that of FIGS. 1 to 6 essentially in that the contact printed circuit board 3 comprising the second contact conductors 2 is a stamped component other than the one comprising the first conductor contacts 1 and forms the connecting part 4 connecting them.
  • both stamped components are produced in the same punching process and / or from the same metal sheet.
  • the conductor contact plate 3 is in turn connected via two webs 5 with a second connecting part 4a and forms with this a one-piece stamped part. Since the conductor contact plate 3 and the associated connecting part 4a forming punching member on the one hand and the first conductor contacts 1 and the associated connecting part 4 forming punching member on the other hand in the embodiment according to FIGS. 7 to 12 are not connected to each other, their positioning during the overmolding with the Plastic to be formed to form the housing 6. This can be achieved by fixing the two stamped components in an injection molding machine (not shown). In this case, a fixation can also be provided in particular via the connecting parts 4, 4a protruding from the injection mold.
  • both connecting parts 4, 4a are separated, again remaining portions of the first conductor contacts 1 and the webs 5 remain, which can serve as terminal contacts.
  • the conductor contact plate 3 connected to the connecting part 4a, unless for this formed by remaining portions of the webs 5 connecting contacts are required and a fixation of the conductor contact plate 3 in the injection mold also does not take place via the associated connection part 4a.
  • the housing 6 of the connector in both embodiments form connecting means, which serve to connect the connector with a mating connector 9.
  • These connecting means are formed as grooves 11 in two opposite inner surfaces of a protruding on three sides of the housing 6 edge. In these grooves 11, a corresponding projection 12 can be inserted, which is externally formed on a housing of the mating connector 9 (see, Fig. 13 and 14).

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé de réalisation d'un connecteur enfichable (10) comprenant au moins deux contacts conducteurs (1, 2) électriquement isolés l'un de l'autre. Le procédé se caractérise en ce que les contacts conducteurs (1, 2) sont découpés dans une tôle de sorte qu'ils sont reliés entre eux par une partie de liaison (4) de la tôle, les contacts conducteurs (1, 2) sont noyés partiellement dans un matériau électriquement isolant pour former un boîtier (6) électriquement isolant qui immobilise les contacts conducteurs l'un par rapport à l'autre, puis la partie de liaison (4) est séparée.
EP12805941.7A 2011-12-09 2012-12-03 Procédé de réalisation d'un connecteur enfichable Active EP2789057B1 (fr)

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DE102011120761A DE102011120761A1 (de) 2011-12-09 2011-12-09 Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Steckverbinders
PCT/EP2012/004981 WO2013083257A1 (fr) 2011-12-09 2012-12-03 Procédé de réalisation d'un connecteur enfichable

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CA2855852A1 (fr) 2013-06-13
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KR101853939B1 (ko) 2018-05-03
CN103975489A (zh) 2014-08-06
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CA2855852C (fr) 2018-10-09
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