JPH0547444A - Connector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable equipment having connectors of different contact pitches to be connected to each other with simple constitution and with ease. CONSTITUTION:A connector plug 2 and a pitch conversion adapter 1 having a contact pitch different from each other are used, and the connector plug 2 is coupled to an SCSI I/O connector provided in an equipment body. As a result, a connection equipment having an SCSI I/O connector of the same contact pitch as the connector socket 3 can be connected to the equipment body via the connector socket 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is applied to a subsystem of an optical disk drive device (ODD) or a hard disk drive device (HDD), a music box, or the like, and is a SCSI (Small C) for connecting electronic devices to each other.
The present invention relates to a connector device used for an omputer Systems Interface) connector.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a device body having a SCSI connector is provided with a dedicated mounting hole for each SCSI connector having a different contact pitch (for example, 2.16 pitch, 1.27 half pitch).

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional SCSI
In the connector, due to the difference in contact pitch, the user needs to select the connected device according to the type of the SCSI connector provided in the owned device, which gives the user a feeling of complexity, and the device producer is , SCS
Since it is necessary to prepare a device main body for each type of I connector, it is not possible to easily meet the user's needs relating to the type of SCSI connector, which is a manufacturing problem.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a connector device which has a simple structure and facilitates connection between devices having connectors having different contact pitches.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, the first means of the present invention is to convert an input / output connector of a device body into a connector having a different contact pitch. And a pitch changing adapter provided with a second connecting portion having a contact pitch different from that of the input / output connector.

The second means is to contact the both ends with
It is characterized in that it is provided with a plug cable in which plug bodies having different pitches are provided.

A third means is characterized in that a mounting member corresponding to an input / output connector having a different contact pitch can be mounted in a predetermined connector mounting hole of the device body.

[0008]

According to the above-mentioned first means, by connecting the first coupling portion to the input / output connector which is already installed in the equipment body, the connecting device has different contact pitches through the second coupling portion. It is possible to connect with the connector.

Further, according to the second means, the connection between the equipment main body in which the connectors having different contact pitches are installed and the connection equipment can be performed via the plug cable.

Further, according to the third means, different contact holes are formed in predetermined connector mounting holes formed in the main body of the device.
By making it possible to attach different mounting members to which pitch input / output connectors can be attached, it is not necessary to manufacture a device body for each type of input / output connector, and it is easy to meet the needs of users for input / output connectors. It

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of the pitch conversion adapter of the first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the pitch conversion adapter of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a rear view of the pitch conversion adapter of FIG. The pitch conversion adapter 1 is provided with a connector plug 2 which is the first coupling part corresponding to a 2.16 mm contact pitch SCSI input / output connector on the rear side, and a 1.27 mm half pitch SCSI input / output connector on the front side. A connector socket 3 which is a second coupling portion corresponding to the connector socket 3 is provided, and the connector plug 2 and the connector socket 3 are electrically connected.

The pitch exchange adapter 1 is an SCS having a contact pitch of 2.16 mm in a device body (not shown).
By connecting the connector plug 2 to the I / O connector, even if the connected device to be connected to the main unit has a SCSI input / output connector with a connector pitch of 1.27 mm, it extends from the SCSI input / output connector. Since the half-pitch plug cable and the front-side connector socket 3 can be connected, the main device and the connection device are connected.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the plug cable according to the second embodiment of the present invention, in which 2.16 is provided at the left end of the plug cable 10.
The first plug body 11 corresponding to the SCSI input / output connector with a contact pitch of mm is provided, and 1.27 mm is provided at the right end.
The second plug body 12 corresponding to the half-pitch SCSI input / output connector is provided.

The plug cable 10 uses a harness capable of flattening the cable pitch of 0.67 mm because the end of the round cable is flat-processed and pressure-bonded on the second plug body 12 side of the half pitch. To do.

By using the plug cable 10, the installed SCSI input / output connector has a contact pitch of 2.16 mm and 1.27 mm, which enables connection between the device body and the connected device. Also, because it has the same number of cable relays as before,
The shield corresponding to the radio wave absorption obstacle can be made equivalent to the conventional one.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a device body according to a third embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 6 (a) and 6 (b) are front views of a mounting plate used in the third embodiment.

In FIG. 5, the device body 20 is provided with a rectangular connector mounting hole 21 in the installation portion of the input / output connector.

FIG. 6 (a) shows a mounting plate 22 which is a mounting member to which a 2.16 mm contact pitch SCSI input / output connector is mounted, and FIG. 6 (b) shows a 1.27 mm half pitch SCSI input / output connector. It shows a mounting plate 23 to which is attached.

The mounting plates 22 and 23 to which the SCSI input / output connectors are mounted are selected in accordance with the user's needs regarding the type of connector, and the connector mounting hole 21 of the main body 20 of the device is shown in FIG. As shown in the explanatory view of (b), it is fixed by an appropriate fixing means such as a screw 24. Therefore, in order to meet the needs, the device main body 20 is not manufactured for each type of SCSI input / output connector, but the mounting plates 22 and 23 are selected using the same device main body 20 to attach the corresponding SCSI input / output connector. This facilitates the installation of SCSI input / output connectors of different types.

In each of the above embodiments, the SCSI connectors having the contact pitches of 2.16 mm and 1.27 mm are illustrated, but the contact pitch is not limited to the above value.

[0022]

As described above, according to the above-mentioned first means of the present invention, the contact contact is made through the second coupling portion.
It is possible to connect the device main body having connectors with different pitches to the connected device, and according to the second means,
The main body of equipment with connectors with different pitches can be connected to the connected equipment via a plug cable.
According to the method, since different mounting members for mounting input / output connectors with different contact pitches can be mounted on the device body, it is easy to meet user needs without manufacturing the device body for each type of input / output connector. Therefore, it is possible to provide a connector device in which devices having connectors with different contact pitches can be easily connected to each other with a simple configuration.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pitch conversion adapter in a first embodiment of a connector device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the pitch conversion adapter of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a rear view of the pitch conversion adapter of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a plug cable according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a device body according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view of a mounting plate according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a mounting state of the mounting plate of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Pitch conversion adapter, 2 ... Connector plug (first coupling part), 3 ... Connector socket (second coupling part),
10 ... Plug cable, 11,12 ... Plug body, 20 ... Device body, 21 ... Connector mounting hole, 22,23 ... Mounting plate (mounting member).

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. The input / output connector of the device main body is converted into a connector having a different contact pitch, so that the first connecting portion that can be connected to the input / output connector of the device main body and the input / output connector have different contact pitches. A connector device comprising a pitch exchange adapter provided with a second coupling portion. 2. A connector device comprising a plug cable having plug bodies having different contact pitches at both ends. 3. A connector device, wherein mounting members corresponding to input / output connectors having different contact pitches can be mounted in predetermined connector mounting holes of a device body.