JP2007035568A - Attachment for information communication - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information communication attachment capable of connecting and holding an information communication plug missing a locking member. <P>SOLUTION: The information communication attachment includes a plug insertion part 30 into which an information communication plug is inserted, a holding means for retaining the insertion state of the information communication plug, and a relay terminal part 21 electrically connected to the terminal part of the information communication plug. With this structure, the information communication plug missing a locking member can be connected and held to the information communication attachment. Further, by making the relay terminal part 21 to be of same structure as the terminal part of the information communication plug, it becomes possible to insert into an existing information communication terminal or the like, thereby, the information communication plug missing the locking member can be continuously used as ever. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information communication attachment that is used by being attached to various information communication plugs such as a LAN (Local Area Network) plug.

  Information communication connection cables such as LAN cables and telephone cables are provided with information communication plugs at both ends, one of which is connected to a jack attached to an information communication terminal, etc., and a router, hub, wall wiring panel The information communication terminal can be connected to an information communication line such as a LAN, a telephone line, or the Internet.

FIG. 8A is a perspective view showing a configuration of LAN plugs (information communication plugs) provided at both ends of the LAN cable.
In general, this type of information communication plug has a standardized configuration, and has a terminal portion 11 in the plug body 10 and an elastically flexible locking piece 12 extending from the plug body 10. A configuration in which the stepped portion 12a formed at the base portion of the locking piece 12 is engaged with the engaging portion provided in the jack when inserted into the jack as the connection destination, and the inserted state is maintained. It has become.

As described above, various information communication plugs including the LAN plug are configured to be held in the state of being inserted into the jack by the step portion 12a formed at the base portion of the locking piece 12. As shown in FIG. 8B, if the locking piece 12 is lost, the inserted state into the jack cannot be maintained, and there is a risk that information communication failure may occur due to unintentional disconnection.
For this reason, when the locking piece 12 is missing, it is necessary to cut the plug with the missing locking piece 12 from the cable and replace it with a new plug, or replace it with a new cable.

  However, the replacement of the plug requires a special caulking tool and requires a certain level of skill in the replacement work, and it has not been easy for everyone. In addition, replacement with a new cable is costly, and if it is wired under the floor or ceiling, there is a problem that the replacement work becomes large.

  In recent years, there are many business scenes that use LAN cables, such as carrying laptop computers, attending meetings, connecting to LAN outlets installed in conference rooms using LAN cables, and attendees exchanging information. Along with this, the chances of missing the locking piece are increasing.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is possible to continue the information communication plug by simply attaching it to the information communication plug lacking the locking piece, without requiring a complicated plug replacement operation. The purpose is to provide an information communication attachment that can be used in the future.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention has a terminal part in the plug main body, and an elastically flexible locking piece extends from the plug main body, and when inserted into a jack to be connected, For the information communication plug of the configuration in which the locking piece is engaged with the engaging portion provided in the jack and the inserted state is maintained,
An information communication attachment attached to the information communication plug,
It is characterized by comprising the following components (a) to (c).
(A) Plug insertion portion into which the information communication plug lacking the locking piece is inserted (b) Holding means for holding the insertion state of the information communication plug (c) Terminal portion of the information communication plug and electricity Connected relay terminals

Here, the relay terminal portion can be inserted into the jack with a structure corresponding to the terminal portion of the information communication plug, and has a structure corresponding to the locking piece of the information communication plug. It can be set as the structure provided with the latching piece to engage.
According to the information communication attachment having such a configuration, the information communication plug lacking the locking piece can be inserted into the plug insertion portion, and the inserted state can be held by the holding means. And a relay terminal part can be inserted in a jack and the insertion state to a jack can be hold | maintained with the locking piece formed in the said relay terminal part.
Therefore, it is possible to continue to use the information communication plug in which the locking piece is missing.

  Further, the relay terminal portion can be a female terminal portion into which the terminal portion of the information communication plug can be inserted. Such a female terminal has a function as a relay connector for inserting and holding a separate information communication plug.

  The holding means can be, for example, a locking claw that is provided in the plug insertion portion and that locks the information communication plug inserted into the plug insertion portion. Moreover, it is good also as a structure further provided with the cancellation | release means which cancels | releases the holding state of the information communication plug by a holding means.

  Furthermore, the present invention includes a plurality of lead wires that electrically connect the terminal portion of the LAN plug and the relay terminal portion, and the plurality of lead wires have an arbitrary connection structure corresponding to the internal connection of the LAN cable. You can also

  As described above, according to the present invention, the information communication plug can be continuously used without being subjected to complicated plug replacement work only by being attached to the information communication plug lacking the locking piece. Is possible.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
<< First Embodiment >>
1 to 6 are diagrams showing an information communication attachment according to the first embodiment.
In the present embodiment, an information communication attachment configured to be attached to LAN plugs provided at both ends of a LAN cable is shown. It should be noted that the LAN plug to be attached has the locking piece 12 missing as shown in FIG.

  1A and 1B are perspective views showing the overall configuration of an information communication attachment, wherein FIG. 1A is a view seen from the distal end side, and FIG. 1B is a view seen from the proximal end side. FIG. 2 is a side sectional view showing the overall configuration of the information communication attachment.

The information communication attachment has an overall configuration having a plug insertion part 30 on the base side of the resin-molded attachment body 20 and a relay terminal part 21 on the front side.
The plug insertion portion 30 is a portion into which the LAN plug from which the locking piece 12 is missing is inserted, and is formed in a hollow portion that extends inward from the base end surface of the attachment main body 20.

  The relay terminal portion 21 has a structure corresponding to the terminal portion 11 of the LAN plug. As is well known, a plurality of (for example, eight) metal terminals 13 are arranged side by side on the terminal portion 11 of the LAN plug, and a partition wall 14 is formed between the metal terminals. The relay terminal portion 21 has the same configuration, in which a plurality of (for example, eight) metal terminals 23 are arranged side by side and a partition wall 24 is formed between the metal terminals (FIG. 1). (B) See FIG. The relay terminal portion 21 also has an external shape corresponding to the terminal portion 11 of the LAN plug, and can be inserted into a jack attached to an information communication terminal or the like, or a modular jack provided in a router, hub, wall surface wiring panel, or the like. It has become. Further, the relay terminal portion 21 is formed with a locking piece 22 that flexes flexibly. This locking piece 22 corresponds to the locking piece 12 of the LAN plug, and has a step portion 22a at the base portion, and this step portion 22a is engaged with the engaging portion formed in the above-described jack. The plug is inserted into the jack.

  As shown in FIGS. 1B and 2, the plug insertion portion 30 is provided with a plurality of (for example, eight) connection terminals 31 made of metal wires on the inner bottom portion. Are electrically connected to the metal terminal 23 of the relay terminal portion 21 via the lead wires 25 respectively. The connection terminal 31 is electrically connected to the metal terminal 13 of the LAN plug inserted into the plug insertion part 30.

Further, the information communication attachment includes a locking claw 32 (holding means) for locking the LAN plug inserted into the plug insertion portion 30 in the plug insertion portion 30 (see FIG. 2). The locking claw 32 is formed of, for example, a resilient metal flat plate, and extends obliquely forward and downward from near the base end of the ceiling surface in the plug insertion portion 30.
By the way, as shown in FIG. 8A, the LAN plug has a protruding portion 15 formed on the extending portion of the locking piece 12. Usually, the locking piece 12 is lost at the boundary with the projection 15, and the projection 15 remains in the plug body 10 as it is.
The locking claw 32 of the information communication attachment engages with the protrusion 15 to prevent the LAN plug from coming off.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing the inside of the plug insertion portion when the LAN plug is inserted into the information communication attachment. FIG. 4 is an external perspective view showing a state in which a LAN plug is inserted into the information communication attachment.
As shown in FIGS. 3A and 4, the LAN plug in which the locking piece 12 is lost except for the protrusion 15 is connected to the plug insertion portion 30 formed on the proximal end side of the information communication attachment. Insert the main body 10.

  When the plug body 10 is inserted into the plug insertion portion 30, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), the projection 15 comes into contact with the locking claw 32 provided on the ceiling surface in the plug insertion portion 30. Bend elastically. For this reason, the plug main body 10 can be inserted into the plug insertion portion 30 without being blocked by the locking claw 32.

  When the plug body 10 is inserted all the way into the plug insertion part 30, the protrusion 15 advances further to the back than the locking claw 32. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 3C, the locking claw 32 returns to the original position even behind the protrusion 15. Therefore, in the LAN plug, the protrusion 15 is caught by the locking claw 32 of the information communication attachment, and the removal from the attachment main body 20 is prevented.

  At this time, the metal terminal 13 of the LAN plug comes into contact with the connection terminal 31 of the information communication attachment to form an electrically conductive state. The connection terminal 31 is electrically connected to the metal terminal 23 of the relay terminal portion 21 via the lead wire 25. Since the relay terminal portion 21 has a structure corresponding to the terminal portion 11 of the LAN plug as described above, the jack, router, hub, wall surface wiring panel, etc. attached to the information communication terminal and the like, as with the LAN plug. It can be inserted into a modular jack provided in the If the information communication attachment is used in this way, the LAN plug lacking the locking piece 12 can be held, and an electric signal is conducted to the metal terminal 23 of the relay terminal portion 21 via the connection terminal 31, so that the LAN The plug can be used continuously.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of wiring of lead wires built in the information communication attachment, where (a) is a straight connection, (b) is a cross connection, and (c) is a full cross connection. Here, the numerical value in the figure is the pin number when the terminal portion is viewed from the front, and the designated color is the standardized wiring color.
The lead wires 25 can be arbitrarily wired according to the wiring examples shown in FIGS. 5A to 5C and other wiring rules as required.

For example, the straight connection shown in FIG. 5A is a normal connection in which the relay terminal part 21 is directly conducted with the pin arrangement of the terminal part 11 of the LAN plug. Straight connection is used, for example, when connecting a personal computer and a modem. In the cross connection shown in FIG. 5B, the lead wire 25 having a predetermined pin number is crossed. Cross connection is used, for example, when connecting the same type of equipment such as a personal computer and a personal computer. In the full cross connection shown in FIG. 5C, all the lead wires 25 are crossed. The full cross connection is a connection corresponding to 1000BASE information communication.
A plurality of information communication attachments having different wirings for the lead wire 25 are prepared, and a desired LAN wiring such as a straight wiring or a cross wiring is realized by a single LAN cable by arbitrarily selecting it as necessary. It is also possible.

FIG. 6 is a side cross-sectional view showing a releasing means for extracting the LAN plug from the information communication attachment of the first embodiment.
As shown in the figure, the information communication attachment includes release means for releasing the locking state of the protrusion 15 by the locking claws 32 (holding means).

  As shown in FIG. 6A, the release means of the present embodiment is configured by a tool insertion gap 34 for inserting a tool 33 such as a screwdriver into the plug insertion portion 30. The gap 34 guides the tool 33 inserted from the plug insertion portion 30 to a position where the tool 33 comes into contact with the locking claw 32. When the tool 33 abuts, as shown in FIG. 6B, the locking claw 32 is flexibly elastically and releases the locked state with respect to the protrusion 15 of the plug body 10. As a result, the plug body 10 can be extracted from the plug insertion part 30.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, the information communication attachment is simply attached to the information communication plug from which the locking piece 12 is missing, and does not require complicated plug replacement work. It can be used continuously.
In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, Of course, various application implementation or deformation | transformation implementation is possible as needed. For example, applicable information communication plugs are not only LAN plugs, but also telephone cable plugs and optical fiber cable plugs, etc., forming information communication attachments corresponding to the shape and number of terminals of each plug. You can also

<< Second Embodiment >>
FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the information communication attachment of the second embodiment.
In addition, in the information communication attachment according to the present embodiment, the same or corresponding parts as those of the information communication attachment according to the first embodiment described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the detailed description of the part is as follows. Omitted.

In the present embodiment, the relay terminal portion 21 (see FIG. 1) in the first embodiment shown above is changed to a female terminal portion 26 (see FIG. 7).
The female terminal portion 26 corresponds in shape to the terminal portion of a jack attached to an information communication terminal or the like, and an engaging portion 27 that engages with the locking piece 12 of the LAN plug is provided at the upper portion of the opening. The engaging portion 27 is configured such that the stepped portion 12a of the locking piece 12 is hooked on the convex shape of the engaging portion 27 and locked. The female terminal portion 26 is provided with a female connection terminal 28 that is electrically connected to the connection terminal 31 of the plug insertion portion 30 at the inner bottom portion, and is electrically connected to the terminal portion 11 of the inserted LAN plug. .

By adopting such a configuration, the information communication attachment connects and holds the LAN plug from which the locking piece 12 is lost, and connects a normal LAN plug (without the locking piece 12) to the female terminal. It can be inserted into the portion 26 and electrically connected. That is, the information communication attachment of this embodiment has a function as a relay connector.
In addition, the internal connection of the lead wire 25 of the information communication attachment of the second embodiment can be arbitrarily set as in the first embodiment.
Further, the present embodiment is not limited to the above-described configuration, and it is needless to say that there are various application examples and modification examples. For example, the female terminal portion 26 may have the same configuration as the plug insertion portion 30. In this case, the two LAN plugs lacking the locking pieces 12 can be inserted into the plug insertion portion 30 and the female terminal portion 26 to be electrically connected.

It is a perspective view which shows the whole structure of the information communication attachment which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention, (a) is the figure seen from the front end side, (b) is the figure seen from the base end side. It is side surface sectional drawing which shows the whole structure of the attachment for information communication. It is side surface sectional drawing which shows the internal operation | movement at the time of inserting a LAN plug in the attachment for information communication. It is a perspective view which shows the state which inserted the LAN plug in the attachment for information communication. It is the schematic which shows the internal connection example of the attachment for information communication, (a) is a straight connection, (b) is a cross connection, (c) is a figure which shows a full cross connection. It is side surface sectional drawing which shows the cancellation | release means of the attachment for information communication. It is a perspective view which shows the information communication attachment which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the structure of a LAN plug.

Explanation of symbols

10: Plug body, 11: Terminal part, 12: Locking piece (LAN plug), 12a: Step part,
13: Metal terminal (LAN plug), 14: Bulkhead (LAN plug), 15: Projection,
20: Attachment body, 21: Relay terminal part, 22: Locking piece (attachment),
22a: Stepped portion, 23: Metal terminal (attachment), 24: Bulkhead (attachment),
25: lead wire, 26: female terminal portion, 27: engagement portion, 28: female connection terminal,
30: Plug insertion part, 31: Connection terminal, 32: Locking claw, 33: Tool, 34: Gap

Claims (6)

The plug body has a terminal portion, and an elastically flexible locking piece extends from the plug body. When the plug is inserted into a jack to be connected, the engagement portion provided on the jack is engaged with the engagement portion. For information communication plugs with a configuration in which the stopper piece is engaged and the inserted state is maintained,
An information communication attachment attached to the information communication plug,
An information communication attachment comprising the following components (a) to (c).
(A) Plug insertion portion into which the information communication plug lacking the locking piece is inserted (b) Holding means for holding the insertion state of the information communication plug (c) Terminal portion of the information communication plug and electricity Connected relay terminals The relay terminal portion can be inserted into the jack in a structure corresponding to the terminal portion of the information communication plug,
2. The information communication attachment according to claim 1, further comprising a locking piece that has a structure corresponding to the locking piece of the information communication plug and engages with an engaging portion of the jack. 2. The information communication attachment according to claim 1, wherein the relay terminal portion is a female terminal portion into which a terminal portion of the information communication plug can be inserted. The said holding | maintenance means is a latching claw provided in the said plug insertion part, and latches the information communication plug inserted in the said plug insertion part. Attachment for information communication according to item. 5. The information communication attachment according to claim 1, further comprising a release unit that releases a holding state of the information communication plug by the holding unit. 6. The information communication plug is a LAN plug,
A plurality of lead wires that electrically connect the terminal portion of the LAN plug and the relay terminal portion are provided, and the plurality of lead wires have an arbitrary connection structure corresponding to the internal connection of the LAN cable. The information communication attachment according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

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