TW201539882A - Receptacle connector and movable device - Google Patents

Abstract

A receptacle connector includes a base portion and a terminal module secured therein. The base portion has a mating cavity opening forwardly and an accommodate room opening rearwardly and communicating with the mating cavity. The terminal module has a rear base portion, a mating tongue extending forwardly and a plurality of terminals. The rear base portion is retained in the accommodate room. The mating tongue extends into the mating cavity. The terminals have contacting portions arranged at the mating tongue along a longitudinal direction and soldering legs extending out of the base portion.

Description

Socket connector and mobile device

The present invention relates to a socket connector and a mobile device in which the socket connector is mounted.

U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 20130095702A1 discloses a two-way plug connector having a plug connector having opposing upper and lower surfaces, the plurality of conductive terminals being disposed on the upper and lower surfaces. The conductive terminals exposed to the upper and lower surfaces are symmetrically spaced apart from each other, and the shape of the plug connector is substantially 180 degrees symmetric so that it can be inserted into the corresponding receptacle connector in the forward and reverse directions.

However, the socket connector or the inside of the electronic device needs to be provided with a switching circuit to detect whether the plug connector is inserted in the forward direction or reversely inserted, thereby starting the corresponding subsequent program. The more the terminals of the connector, the more complicated the switching circuit, and thus, the trend is not met. At the same time, the plug connector is an exposed plug, and there is still the possibility of plugging damage in actual use.

A new type of plug connector emerges, which can be inserted into the socket connector in both forward and reverse directions, and the two connectors can transmit high frequency signals. After continuous technical development, new plug connectors and The socket connector prevents electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference, and provides a socket connector different from the previous one in order to expand the application range of the connector.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a receptacle connector that can be easily assembled in a mobile device.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a socket connector including a base body and a terminal module. The base body is provided with a front and rear connecting docking chamber and a receiving cavity. The terminal module includes a rear base and extends forward. The abutting tongue and the terminal, the rear base is fixed in the receiving cavity, and the butting tongue extends into the docking cavity. The terminal includes a contact portion arranged on the mating tongue and a pin extending from the seat.

To solve the above technical problems, the present invention also provides a mobile device including an outer casing, a socket connector, and a circuit board. The outer casing is provided with a receiving space, and the socket connector is accommodated and fixed in the receiving space. The socket connector includes a seat body and a terminal, and the terminal includes a pin extending outside the seat body, and the pin is a crimp type. The circuit board is mounted over the receptacle connector and is in electrical contact with the pins of the terminals that are crimped to each other.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following effects: The crimp type pin of the present invention can facilitate assembly of the socket connector on the mobile device.

The first figure is a perspective view of a socket connector of a first embodiment of the present invention mounted on a circuit board;

The second drawing is a perspective view of another angle of the first figure;

The third figure is a perspective view of the disassembled part of the first figure;

The fourth figure is a perspective view of another angle of the third figure;

The fifth figure is a perspective view of the socket connector in the third figure being further disassembled;

Figure 6 is a perspective view of another angle of the fifth figure;

The seventh figure is a perspective view of the terminal module of the socket connector of the sixth figure being further disassembled;

The eighth figure is a perspective view of the seventh module terminal module further disassembled;

Figure 9 is a cross-sectional view of the first figure taken along the dotted line IX-IX;

Figure 11 is a perspective view showing the socket connector of the second embodiment of the present invention mounted on a circuit board;

Figure 11 is a perspective view of the socket connector of the tenth figure separated from the circuit board;

The twelfth figure is a perspective view of the upper and lower metal cover of the socket connector of the tenth figure;

Figure 13 is a cross-sectional view of the tenth figure along the dotted line XIII-XIII;

Figure 14 is a perspective view showing the socket connector of the third embodiment of the present invention mounted on a mobile device;

The fifteenth figure is a perspective view of the fourteenth figure further disassembled;

Figure 16 is a perspective view of the socket connector separated from the seal in the fifteenth diagram;

Figure 17 is a perspective view showing the exploded view of the socket connector of Figure 16;

Figure 18 is a perspective view further exploded of Figure 17;

Figure 19 is a perspective view of the upper body of the socket connector assembled in the middle body in the seventeenth figure;

Figure 20 is a perspective view showing a further exploded view of the terminal module of the socket connector in the eighteenth diagram;

Figure 21 is a cross-sectional view of the socket connector of Figure 16 taken along the dotted line XXI-XXI; and

Figure 22 is a cross-sectional view showing a portion of the socket connector mounted on the mobile device.

The patent application No. 104103354 is filed on February 2, 2015, in which the socket connector includes an insulative body, a terminal, a grounding member, and a metal housing. The insulative housing comprises a rear base and a forwardly extending abutment tongue, the butt tongue has two opposite surfaces, the terminal comprises a contact portion and a pin arranged on two opposite surfaces of the abutment tongue, and the metal shell surrounds the butt tongue A docking chamber is formed between the two. The opposite surfaces of the butt tongue are provided with a step at a root adjacent to the rear base, and the grounding member is wrapped around the outside of the step. A shielding plate is disposed in the butt tongue, and the shielding plate isolates the terminals of the opposite surfaces of the butting tongue from each other. The terminal and the insulator form a terminal module. The plug connector has a latch member that is held at a side edge of the shield plate. The present invention is mainly directed to the improvement of the socket connector and the plug connector shown in the first to the fourteenth drawings of the above patent application. Therefore, the present invention is not described for the previously described structure or the same structure. Please refer to the above patent application. Related description in .

The first to ninth figures show the socket connector 110 of the first embodiment, which is mounted in a notch provided in the circuit board 106, that is, the socket connector 110 is a sinker type structure. Referring to FIGS. 5 to 8 , the terminal module 1101 of the receptacle connector 110 includes an upper body 112 injection molded with an upper terminal 114 , a middle body 116 having a shielding plate 118 , and a lower body 120 injection molded with a lower terminal 122 . The upper and lower bodies 112 and 120 sandwich the middle body 116 to form the terminal module 1101, and an annular grounding member 124 for preventing electromagnetic interference is enclosed outside the terminal module 1101. The grounding member 124 has an L-shaped fixing piece 125 fixed in the shallow groove 121 formed in the lower surface of the lower body 120, and the fixing piece 125 is provided with a convex portion 123 crimped to the metal casing 126. The shielding plate 118 is provided with a pair of fastening side edges 119 for docking with the mating plug connectors. After the upper, middle and lower bodies 112, 116, 120 are assembled, the terminal module 1101 includes a rear base 1102 and abutting tongue 129 extending forward from the rear base 1102. The abutting tongue 129 extends forward from the middle body 116. Forming, extending forward here means that the butt tongue 129 extends in the docking direction, and the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment.

Referring to the third to sixth figures, the metal casing 126 is surrounded by the outer side of the terminal module 1101, and includes a capsule abutting portion 126a and an inverted U-shaped rear cover portion 130a. The abutting portion 126a surrounds the butt tongue of the terminal module 1101. The plate 129 forms a docking chamber 127 therebetween, and the docking tongue 129 extends into the docking chamber 127. The rear cover portion 130a is formed by bending and extending from the rear edge of the upper wall of the butting portion 126a, and is attached to the rear base portion 1102 of the terminal module 1101. The rear cover portion 130a includes a top wall 130, two side walls 132 and an upper rear wall 134 covering the corresponding portions of the rear base portion 1102. The rear end of the side wall 132 extends downwardly from the circuit board mounting leg 1321, as can be seen from the drawing. The shape of the rear cover portion 130a and the rear base portion 1102 are substantially matched, so that the portion of the rear base portion 1102 of the terminal module 1101 located above the circuit board 106 is completely shielded, as shown in the ninth figure, and has a good shielding effect. The upper and lower wall surfaces of the abutting portion 126a are provided with elastic arms 128 for cooperating with the mating plug connectors.

An upper metal cover 138 is overlaid on the abutting portion 126a, which is welded to the upper wall surface of the abutting portion 126a and is provided with a pair of circuit board mounting legs 139 for mounting on the upper surface of the circuit board 106, and the upper metal cover 138 is corresponding thereto. A front notch 1381 is provided at the elastic arm 128 to provide a space in which the elastic arm 128 is elastically deformed outward. A lower metal cover 140 is disposed under the abutting portion 126a, which is welded to the lower wall surface of the abutting portion 126a and is provided with a plurality of sheet-like circuit board mounting legs 142 for mounting on the lower surface of the circuit board 106. As can be seen from the fourth and sixth figures, one row of upper terminals 114 has surface soldering type pins 1141, one row of lower terminals 122 has through hole type pins 1221, and the upper metal cover 138 has board mounting legs 139 of In the hole type, the circuit board 106 is provided with a through hole 108 through which the through hole type pin 1221 and the circuit board mounting leg 139 pass. The pins 1221 penetrate from the upper surface of the circuit board 106 to the lower surface, and the lower metal cover 140 The pins, the board mounting legs, and the through holes 108 of the circuit board are just enclosed therein to provide shielding.

The lower metal cover 140 includes a bottom wall 140a, a lower rear wall 141 bent from a rear edge of the bottom wall 140a, and two front side walls 143 and two rear side walls 145. The front and rear side walls 143, 145 are from both sides of the bottom wall 140a. The bending is extended while being formed, and the front and rear side walls 143, 145 are independent of each other. The front side wall 143 is tightly wrapped around the abutting portion 126a, and the rear side wall 145 and the lower rear wall 141 respectively extend out of the pair of the circuit board mounting legs 142, and the circuit board mounting legs 142 are soldered to the lower surface of the circuit board 106. Referring to the second, fourth, and ninth views, the bottom wall 140a and the lower rear wall 141 are surrounded by the pins 1221 of the lower terminal 122, the pins of the shielding plate 118, and the outer side of the board mounting leg 139 of the upper metal cover 138. The upper rear wall 134 of the rear cover portion 130a surrounds the pins of the upper terminal 114. In this embodiment, as shown in the sixth figure, the lower body 120 is formed with a pair of recessed holes 111 for inserting and holding the tabs 113 of the metal casing 126.

11 to 13 show the socket connector 110' of the second embodiment. This embodiment is substantially the same as the structure of the first embodiment, and is mainly distinguished from the lower metal cover 140'. The same structure is given the same reference numerals, and No longer detailed, mainly introduce different points. The lower metal cover 140' covers the underside of the abutting portion 126a of the metal casing 126 and is mounted on the lower surface of the circuit board 106, so that the pins of the lower terminal 122 and the through holes 108 of the circuit board 106 can be relatively completely shielded. The lower metal cover 140' includes a bottom wall 140a', a lower rear wall 141', and two side walls 143'. Different from the first embodiment, the lower metal cover 140' is manufactured by the drawing technique, and the four walls 140a', 141', 143' are integrally formed by drawing, and the side wall 143' does not have the board mounting foot. As can be seen, the four walls are smooth transitions and are seamlessly connected to each other. Referring to Fig. 13, the front end of the bottom wall 140a' of the lower metal cover 140a' is welded to the rear edge of the abutting portion 126a, and the top surfaces of the side wall 143' and the lower rear wall 141' are directly welded to the lower surface of the circuit board 106.

The fourteenth to twenty-secondth drawings show the mobile device 255 of the third embodiment in which the receptacle connector 200 is mounted, and the receptacle connector 200 is not sinking into the notch of the circuit board as in the first and second embodiments. Connected to the upper surface of the circuit board, but mounted in a receiving space 262 formed by the outer casing 266 of the mobile device 255, and provided by the outer casing 266 such that the receiving cavity 262 communicates with the external communication port 268 to provide the butt plug connector insertion. The opening of the circuit board 250 is pressed on the upper side of the socket connector 200 after the socket connector 200 is mounted, and is elastically crimped with the elastic terminals 208, 212.

17 to 21, the socket connector 200 includes a base 204 and a terminal module 202 received in the base 204. In this embodiment, the base 204 is an insulator, and of course, the base is also It can be formed by casting a metal material, or by drawing a metal plate/block and then injecting it with an insulating material. The terminal module 202 includes an upper body 206 molded with an upper terminal 208, a lower body 210 molded with a lower terminal 212, and a middle body 214 molded with a shielding plate 216. The middle body 214 forms a butt tongue 221, and the shielding plate 216 forms a For the latching side edge 217, the latching side edge 217 is exposed on the outer side of the corresponding side edge of the mating tongue 221 for holding a pair of latching members of the plug connector. The shielding plate 216 of the middle body 214 is provided at its rear end with a fixing plate 218 vertically disposed vertically, and the upper and lower bodies 206, 210 are respectively provided with fixing slits 220 at the rear ends thereof, and the upper and lower bodies 206, 210 When the middle body 214 is clamped, the fixing plate 218 is inserted and fixed in the fixing slit 220, thereby assembling the three components together to form the terminal module 202. The number of upper and lower terminals 208, 212 is small, only four, all of which are power terminals. The contact portions 2082 and 2122 of the upper terminal 208 and the lower terminal 212 are arranged on the mating tongue plate 221, and the pins of the upper terminal 208 and the lower terminal 212 are pressed, that is, the pins of the upper and lower terminals 208 and 212 are pressed against the circuit board by elastic pressing. So easy to replace. The annular grounding member 222 surrounds the outside of the terminal module 202.

Referring to FIG. 17 and FIG. 18, the front end of the base 204 is formed with a capsule abutting cavity 230 and a rectangular receiving cavity 232 formed at the rear end. The two cavities 230 and 232 communicate with each other in the front-rear direction for receiving The fixed terminal module 202 has a mating tongue 221 extending into the mating cavity 230. The rear base 223 of the terminal module 202 is fixed in the receiving cavity 232. The seat 204 is fastened on the two inner sidewalls of the receiving cavity 232. The protrusion 238 is provided in the rear base 223 of the terminal module 202. The fastening protrusion 238 is fixed in the fastening opening 240, so that the terminal module 202 is further fixed in the base 204, and the fastening opening 240 is respectively They are disposed on the side edges of the upper and lower bodies 206, 210.

Referring to FIG. 14 to FIG. 16 , the receiving space 262 of the outer casing 266 of the mobile device 255 is formed by three walls 261a and 261b. The receiving space 262 is open upward, and two opposite walls 261a are provided. There is a holding groove 264 and an upwardly extending vertical groove 260. The vertical groove 260 is adjacent to the communication port 268. The fastening groove 264 is located behind the communication port 268 and adjacent to the bottom wall 261c of the outer casing 266. The bottom wall 261c of the outer casing 266 A support rib 269 is provided at a position inside the accommodating space 262, and the wall 261b is opposed to the communication port 268. The base body 204 is provided with a lateral fixing plate 234 on the outer surface thereof and a pair of fastening protrusions 236 located behind the lateral fixing plate 234. The lateral fixing plate 234 is inserted into and fixed in the vertical slot 260 of the receiving space 262. The latching projections 236 are fastened in the latching slots 264. Thus, the receptacle connector 200 can be stably fixed in the receiving space 262 of the mobile device 255.

Referring to the sixteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-second figures, the base 204 is provided with an upward opening 242 at the rear end of the upper wall thereof, and the pin 2081 of the upper and lower rows of terminals 208 and 212. 2121 extends upward through the opening 242 and is exposed outside the base 204. The pins 2081 and 2121 of the two rows of terminals 208 and 212 are arranged in a row and alternately arranged. After the circuit board 250 is mounted, the pins 2081 and 2121 are in contact with each other. Circuit board 250. A rubber seal 251 is wrapped around the front end of the base 204, that is, the abutting portion 231, and the sealing member 251 is pressed rearward against the front surface of the lateral fixing plate 234, and the front end surface of the abutting portion 231 is pressed against the front surface of the inner surface of the sealing member 251. Set on the ring rib 253. The socket connector 200 is mounted in the housing chamber 262, and the sealing member 251 is pressed against the outer casing 266 in the front-rear direction. The socket connector 200 is first mounted downwardly in the receiving cavity 262, and then the circuit board 250 is assembled over the socket connector 200 such that the pins 2081, 2121 of the upper and lower terminals 208, 212 are mechanically and electrically connected by crimping. The circuit board 250, the front end of the circuit board 250 is pressed against the rear surface of the lateral fixing plate 234. In this embodiment, the socket connector 200 only has the power terminals 208, 212, and the signal terminals can be added if necessary.

In summary, the present invention has indeed met the requirements of the invention patent, and has filed a patent application according to law. However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. Equivalent modifications or variations made by those skilled in the art in the spirit of the present invention are still included in the scope of the appended claims.

106‧‧‧Circuit board

121‧‧‧ shallow trough

108‧‧‧through hole

122, 212‧‧‧ lower terminal

110, 110', 200‧‧‧ socket connectors

1221, 1141, 2081, 2121‧‧‧ feet

101, 202‧‧‧ Terminal Module 1

123‧‧‧ convex

1102, 223 ‧ ‧ rear base

124, 222‧‧‧ Grounding parts

111‧‧‧ recessed hole

125‧‧‧Fixed tablets

112, 206‧‧‧ Ontology

126‧‧‧Metal housing

113‧‧‧1 piece

126a, 231‧‧‧ docking department

114, 208‧‧‧ upper terminal

127, 230‧‧‧ docking chamber

116, 214‧‧‧ in ontology

128‧‧‧Flexible arm

118, 216‧‧ ‧ shielding board

129, 221‧‧ ‧ tongue tongue

119‧‧‧holding side edges

130a‧‧‧Back cover

120, 210‧‧‧ ontology

130‧‧‧ top wall

1321, 139, 142‧‧‧ board mounting feet

132‧‧‧ side wall

134‧‧‧Upper back wall

1381‧‧‧ front gap

138‧‧‧Upper metal cover

140, 140’‧‧‧ under the metal cover

140a, 140a’, 261‧‧‧ bottom wall

141, 141’ ‧ ‧ lower back wall

143, 143’‧‧‧ front side wall

145‧‧‧back side wall

204‧‧‧ body

2082, 2122‧‧‧Contacts

220‧‧‧fixed seam

217‧‧‧holding side edges

232‧‧‧ containment chamber

218‧‧‧ fixed plate

238‧‧‧Bucking the convex part

236‧‧‧Bucking bumps

234‧‧‧ fixed plate

240‧‧‧Knockout

250‧‧‧ boards

242‧‧‧ openings

251‧‧‧Seal

253‧‧‧ Ring ribs

255‧‧‧Mobile devices

260‧‧‧ vertical trough

261a, 261b‧‧‧ walls

262‧‧‧ accommodating space

264‧‧‧ holding slot

266‧‧‧ outer casing

268‧‧‧Connected

269‧‧‧Support ribs

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200‧‧‧ socket connector

2081, 2121‧‧‧ feet

231‧‧‧Docking Department

234‧‧‧ fixed plate

236‧‧‧Bucking bumps

240‧‧‧Knockout

242‧‧‧ openings

251‧‧‧Seal

253‧‧‧ Ring ribs

Claims (10)

A socket connector includes a base body and a terminal module, wherein the base body is provided with a front and rear communicating docking chamber and a receiving cavity, and the terminal module comprises a rear base portion, a forwardly extending butt tongue plate and a terminal. The rear base is fixed in the receiving cavity, and the butt tongue extends into the docking cavity, and the terminal comprises a contact portion arranged on the mating tongue and a pin extending from the seat. The socket connector of claim 1, wherein the pin is a crimp type pin, and the pin extends upwardly out of the outer side of the base. The socket connector of claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises an upper row of terminals and a row of lower terminals, and the pins of the two rows of terminals are arranged in a row and alternately arranged. The socket connector of claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises only a power terminal. The socket connector of claim 1, wherein the terminal module comprises an upper body molded with an upper terminal, a lower body molded with a lower terminal, and a middle body provided with a shielding plate, upper, middle and lower The body stacks are fixed together. The socket connector of claim 5, wherein the shielding plate is provided with a fixing plate extending from the middle body, and the fixing plate is vertically disposed vertically and inserted into the fixing seam provided by the upper and lower bodies. A mobile device includes an outer casing, a socket connector, and a circuit board; the outer casing is provided with a receiving space, and the socket connector is received and fixed in the receiving space; wherein the socket connector comprises a seat body and a terminal, The terminal includes a pin extending outside the seat body, the pin being of a crimp type, and the circuit board is mounted above the socket connector and is in pressure contact with the pins of the terminal to make electrical contact. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the seat body is provided with an opening penetrating upwardly, and a pin of the terminal passes through the opening to be exposed outside the seat body. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the base body is provided with a lateral fixing plate and a fastening protrusion on an outer surface thereof; the outer casing of the mobile device is provided with a vertical slot in the receiving space and a latching slot; the lateral fixing plate is inserted and fixed in a vertical slot, and the latching lug is fixed in the latching slot. The mobile device of claim 9, wherein the socket connector comprises a sealing member sleeved at a front end of the seat body; in a front-rear direction, a front end of the sealing member is pressed against a casing of the mobile device The rear end of the sealing member is pressed against the front surface of the lateral fixing plate; the circuit board is pressed against the rear surface of the lateral fixing plate.