EP3089275A1 - Module de contact, connecteur et procédé de fabrication du module de contact - Google Patents

Module de contact, connecteur et procédé de fabrication du module de contact Download PDF

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EP3089275A1
EP3089275A1 EP16167767.9A EP16167767A EP3089275A1 EP 3089275 A1 EP3089275 A1 EP 3089275A1 EP 16167767 A EP16167767 A EP 16167767A EP 3089275 A1 EP3089275 A1 EP 3089275A1
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Jianfei Yu
Ning Wang
Hao Wang
Qijun Zhao
Bo Gao
Cui LI
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Tyco Electronics Shanghai Co Ltd
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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
    • H01R12/722—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures coupling devices mounted on the edge of the printed circuits
    • H01R12/724—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures coupling devices mounted on the edge of the printed circuits containing contact members forming a right angle
    • 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
    • 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
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/405—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting

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  • the present invention relates to a contact module of a connector, a connector comprising the contact module, and a method of manufacturing the contact module.
  • a connector applied to a small computer system interface mainly comprises: a vertical type connector, a right angle type connector, and a vertical flag type connector.
  • the vertical type connector and the right angle type connector are commonly used, but the vertical flag type connector is rarely used.
  • the vertical flag type connector generally comprises two rows of contacts opposite to and separated from each other in a lateral direction of the connector.
  • the two rows of contacts completely are aligned with each other in the lateral direction of the connector.
  • the present invention has been made to overcome or alleviate at least one aspect of the above mentioned disadvantages.
  • a contact module of a connector in which the contact module comprises a single insulation body molded on two rows of contacts, thereby reducing the cost of the connector.
  • a contact module comprising: an insulation body; a first row of contacts held in the insulating body and separated from each other by a first pitch; and a second row of contacts held in the insulating body and separated from each other by a second pitch, the first row of contacts being arranged to be opposite to the second row of contacts in a first direction, wherein each contact of the first and second rows of contacts comprises an elastic contact end portion, a welding end portion and a connection portion between the elastic contact end portion and the welding end portion; the contacts of the first row of contacts correspond to the contacts of the second row of contacts, respectively, and the elastic contact end portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are aligned with each other in the first direction; the connection portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are offset from each other in the first direction; and the insulation body is a single molding piece over-molded on the connection portions of the first and second rows of contacts.
  • the first pitch is equal to the second pitch
  • the connection portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are offset from each other in the first direction by a pitch equal to half of the first pitch or the second pitch.
  • the welding end portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are offset from each other in the first direction by a pitch equal to half of the first pitch or the second pitch
  • the elastic contact end portion of each contact of the first and second rows of contacts extends beyond an end surface of the insulation body, and the welding end portions of each contact of the first and second rows of contacts extends beyond a bottom surface of the insulation body, wherein the end surface of the insulation body is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the insulation body.
  • the end surface of the insulation body is defined by the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction
  • the bottom surface of the insulation body is defined by the first direction and a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
  • connection portions of the first row of contacts are arranged in a first plane perpendicular to the first direction
  • connection portions of the second row of contacts are arranged in a second plane perpendicular to the first direction
  • the first plane is separated from the second plane by a predetermined distance in the first direction.
  • a connector comprising: a housing; and the above contact module.
  • the connector is configured to be a vertical flag type connector.
  • connection portion of each contact of the first and second rows of contacts is sandwiched and held by one or more pairs of column protrusions.
  • connection portions of the first and second rows of contacts are offset from each other in the lateral direction of the connector, the first and second rows of contacts may be fixed in the injection mold by sandwiching the connection portions of the first and second rows of contacts from both sides of the connection portions. In this way, a single insulation body may be over molded on the first and second rows of contacts, decreasing the cost of the connector.
  • the two rows of contacts are held in a single insulation body without a need to assemble two separate insulation bodies, it improves the assembly precision of the connector and increases the reliability of connector.
  • a contact module comprising: an insulation body; a first row of contacts held in the insulating body and separated from each other by a first pitch; and a second row of contacts held in the insulating body and separated from each other by a second pitch, the first row of contacts are arranged to be opposite to the second row of contacts in a first direction.
  • Each contact of the first and second rows of contacts comprises an elastic contact end portion, a welding end portion and a connection portion between the elastic contact end portion and the welding end portion.
  • the contacts of the first row of contacts correspond to the contacts of the second row of contacts, respectively, and the elastic contact end portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are aligned with each other in the first direction.
  • the connection portions of each pair of corresponding contacts are offset from each other in the first direction, and the insulation body is a single molding piece over-molded on the connection portions of the first and second rows of contacts.
  • Fig.1 is an illustrative perspective view of a contact module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • the contact module of the connector mainly comprises an insulation body 100, a first row of contacts 210 and a second row of contacts 220.
  • the first row of contacts 210 and the second row of contacts 220 are held in the insulation body 100.
  • the first row of contacts 210 are arranged to be opposite to and separated from the second row of contacts 220 in a first direction Z (or referred as a lateral direction of the connector).
  • Fig.4 is an illustrative plan view of two rows of contacts 210, 220 of the contact module of Fig.1 in a first direction;
  • Fig.5 is an illustrative plan view of a first row of contacts 210 of Fig.4 ;
  • Fig.6 is an illustrative plan view of a second row of contacts 220 of Fig.4 .
  • the first row of contacts 210 are arranged to separate from each other by a first pitch
  • the second row of contacts 220 are arranged to separate from each other by a second pitch.
  • Each contact 210, 220 of the first and second rows of contacts comprises an elastic contact end portion 211, 221, a welding end portion 212, 222 and a connection portion 213, 223 between the elastic contact end portion 211, 221 and the welding end portion 212, 222.
  • Fig.2 is an illustrative plan view of the contact module of Fig.1 in the first direction Z
  • Fig.3 is an illustrative plan view of the contact module of Fig.1 in a second direction Y (or referred as a height direction of the connector) perpendicular to the first direction Z.
  • the contacts 210 of the first row of contacts correspond to the contacts 220 of the second row of contacts, respectively.
  • the elastic contact end portions 211, 221 of each pair of corresponding contacts 210, 220 are aligned with each other in the first direction Z.
  • connection portions 213, 223 of each pair of corresponding contacts 210, 220 are offset from each other in the first direction Z.
  • the first pitch may be equal to the second pitch
  • the connection portions 213, 223 of each pair of corresponding contacts 210, 220 may be offset from each other in the first direction Z by a pitch equal to half of the first pitch or the second pitch.
  • the insulation body 100 is a single molding piece that is over-molded on the connection portions 213, 223 of the first and second rows of contacts 210, 220. In this way, the first row of contacts 210 and the second row of contacts 220 both are held and fixed by the single insulation body 100.
  • the welding end portions 212, 222 of each pair of corresponding contacts 210, 220 are offset from each other in the first direction Z.
  • the welding end portions 212, 222 of each pair of corresponding contacts 210, 220 may be offset from each other in the first direction Z by a pitch equal to half of the first pitch or the second pitch.
  • the elastic contact end portion 211, 221 of each contact 210, 220 of the first and second rows of contacts extends beyond an end surface 110 of the insulation body 100.
  • the welding end portions 212, 222 of each contact 210, 220 of the first and second rows of contacts extends beyond a bottom surface 120 of the insulation body 100.
  • the end surface 110 of the insulation body 100 is perpendicular to the bottom surface 120 of the insulation body 100.
  • the end surface 110 of the insulation body 100 is defined by the first direction Z and a second direction Y perpendicular to the first direction Z.
  • the bottom surface 120 of the insulation body 100 is defined by the first direction Z and a third direction (or referred as a longitudinal direction of the connector) X perpendicular to the first direction Z and the second direction Y.
  • a plurality of holes 101 are formed in both sides 130 of the insulation body 100. These holes 101 correspond to the respective contacts 210, 220.
  • the respective contacts 210, 220 are sandwiched and fixed between column protrusions of the injection mold (it will be described in more detail in a method of manufacturing the contact module), so that the contacts are located in the insulation body 100 by the column protrusions. Thereby, after the column protrusions are pulled out of the insulation body 100, there are left these holes 101 in the insulation body 100.
  • connection portions 213 of the first row of contacts 210 are arranged in a first plane perpendicular to the first direction Z.
  • the connection portions 223 of the second row of contacts 220 are arranged in a second plane perpendicular to the first direction Z.
  • the first plane is separated from the second plane by a predetermined distance in the first direction Z.
  • a connector mainly comprises a housing and the above contact module mounted in the housing as set forth in the above embodiments. Because the contact module is a single molding piece, it may be easily assembled into the housing.
  • the connector may be a vertical flag type connector.
  • the method may comprise steps of:
  • the holes 101 are formed in both sides of the insulation body 100.
  • the column protrusions of the upper die correspond to the column protrusions of the lower die, respectively.
  • Each pair of corresponding column protrusions are aligned to each other in the first direction Z, so as to reliably sandwich the respective contact 210, 220 from both sides of the respective contact 210, 220.
  • connection portion 213, 223 of each contact 210, 220 of the first and second rows of contacts is sandwiched and held by one or more pairs of column protrusions.
  • the connection portion 213, 223 of each contact 210, 220 is sandwiched and held by three pairs of column protrusions at three different locations in different lines. In this way, each contact 210, 220 may be reliably sandwiched and fixed in the injection mold.

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