TWI603541B - Plug connector - Google Patents

Description

Plug connector

The present invention is directed to a plug connector.

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 can prevent electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference, and the plug connector and the socket connector have many components, but due to the small size of the connector, it is difficult to manufacture and strength.

Therefore, it is desirable to design a new solution to solve the above technical problems.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a plug connector that has good strength.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a plug connector including an insulative housing, a terminal, and a metal housing, the insulative housing is provided with a forwardly extending receiving cavity, and the terminal includes a forward extending a contact portion of the receiving cavity, the metal casing covering the outer surface of the insulating body. The metal housing includes an abutting portion and a fixing portion, and the abutting portion and the fixing portion are integrally formed and the fixing portion is larger in size than the abutting portion. The abutting portion is a tubular structure that is seamlessly connected.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following effects: the seamless metal casing manufactured by the drawing technique of the present invention can effectively ensure the strength of the plug connector.

111‧‧‧Docking Department

112, 113, 322‧‧ ‧ fixed department

1121, 1131‧‧ long

1122, 1132‧‧‧ short side

1123, 1124, 1133, 16c, 330‧‧‧ buckles

1126, 1127, 1128‧‧ ‧ gap

11, 216, 314, 414, 514‧ ‧ metal shell

2121, 403, 5121‧‧‧ side wall

2151, 405, 515‧‧‧ through holes

213, 320‧‧‧ side slots

215, 513 ‧ ‧ shallow pit area

218, 306, 406‧‧‧ terminals

219, 426‧‧ ‧ fixed block

200, 300, 400, 500‧‧‧ plug connectors

220, 305, 4061‧ ‧ contact

221, 307, 326, 538‧‧‧ connecting feet

222, 316, 420, 526‧‧‧ elastic plates

224, 421b‧‧‧ rear fixed area

225, 422‧‧‧ fixing holes

226, 527‧‧‧ resilient arm

227, 428, 528, 529‧ ‧ contact arms

232‧‧‧Terminal slot

233‧‧ ‧ transverse partition

234, 532‧‧‧ terminal block

235‧‧‧foot slot

236‧‧‧ dent

238, 308, 410, 524‧‧‧ internal circuit boards

239, 318, 412, 534‧‧‧Locks

240, 323, 413, 536‧‧‧ lock arms

212, 302, 402‧‧‧Insulated body

304, 404, 214, 516‧‧‧ containment chamber

310, 416, 540‧‧‧ cables

312, 418‧‧ ‧ core wire

324‧‧‧Lock head

325‧‧‧ outside side

329‧‧‧Back edge film

331‧‧‧holding holes

421a‧‧‧ Front contact area

407, 544‧‧‧ positioning parts

430, 530‧‧ ‧ insulating sheet

441‧‧‧First metal casing

442‧‧‧Second metal casing

443‧‧‧First Insulation Shell

444‧‧‧Second insulation shell

445‧‧‧Insulated jacket

531‧‧‧ pin hole

600‧‧‧Flexible power terminal

602, 614‧‧‧ touch points

610‧‧‧ plug power terminal

612‧‧‧ vulnerable points

700‧‧‧Socket power terminal

702‧‧‧Signal terminal

The first drawing is an exploded perspective view of the connector of the plug connector of the first embodiment of the present invention; the second drawing is an exploded perspective view of the first angle of the first drawing; and the third drawing is an exploded perspective view of the first drawing. The fourth drawing is an exploded perspective view of the complete structure of the first plug connector; the fifth drawing is a cross-sectional view of the plug connector of the fourth figure; the sixth figure is the connection of the plug connector of the second embodiment of the present invention; The three-dimensional exploded view of the head; the seventh figure is a perspective view of the insulating body and the elastic plate of the sixth figure; the eighth figure is a three-dimensional exploded view of the further assembly of the sixth figure; the ninth figure is a schematic sectional view of the plug connector; FIG. 11 is a perspective exploded view of a connector of a plug connector according to a third embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 12 is an exploded perspective view of another angle of the eleventh diagram; Figure 13 is an exploded perspective view of the complete structure of the plug connector of the eleventh embodiment; fourteenth to seventeenth drawings are four modified structures of the metal casing; and the eighteenth figure is the plug terminal of each embodiment Connector with socket Figure 19 is a schematic view showing a modified structure of the plug terminal; the twentieth view is an exploded perspective view of the connector of the plug connector of the fourth embodiment of the present invention; An exploded perspective view of the further assembly; the twenty-second diagram is an exploded perspective view of the complete structure of the plug connector of the twentieth diagram; and the twenty-third diagram is a perspective view of the further assembly of the twenty-second diagram; Figure 23 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the plug connector after assembly.

The first to fifth figures show the plug connector 400 of the first embodiment, and the plug connector 400 can be inserted into the corresponding receptacle connector in both the forward and reverse directions. Plug connector 400 includes an insulative body 402. The insulative housing 402 defines a receiving cavity 404 extending forwardly. The two rows of terminals 406 are assembled in the insulative housing 402. The two rows of terminals 406 are respectively arranged on both sides of the receiving cavity 404, and include a contact portion 4061 extending forward into the receiving cavity 404 and a connecting leg extending backward from the insulating body 402. A U-shaped one-piece locking member 412 is fixed in the insulative housing 402. The locking member 412 is located in front of the positioning member 407. The pair of locking arms 413 of the locking member 412 extend into the receiving cavity 404, a metal housing 414. Covered on the outer surface of the insulative housing 402, a pair of metal elastic plates 420 for preventing electromagnetic interference are sandwiched between the insulative housing 402 and the metal housing 414. The elastic plate 420 includes an inwardly bent portion and extends into the receiving cavity. At least two contact arms 428 of 404, the contact arms 428 are located in front of the contact portion 4061 of the terminal 406. The connecting leg of the terminal 406 is positioned by the positioning member 407, and the rear of the positioning member 407 receives the front portion of the internal circuit board 410. A cable 416 includes a plurality of core wires 418 that are soldered to the rear of the inner circuit board 410. The main improvement of this embodiment lies in the metal elastic plate 420. The elastic plate 420 is a frame-like structure including a front contact area 421a and a rear fixed area 421b. The rear fixed area 421b is a beam structure, and the front contact area 421a is The door-shaped structure has two sides connected to the front edges of the two ends of the beam, and the whole body extends obliquely in the direction of the receiving cavity 404 to have a certain elasticity. Compared with the structure of the prior application, the elastic plate 420 of the present embodiment does not have a side fixing area. Conversely, the elastic plate 420 is provided with fixing holes 422 at the end sides thereof, and the fixing holes 422 are located at both end sides of the rear fixing area 421b, and are insulated. The body 402 is provided with a fixing block 426 fixed in the fixing hole 422 at the corresponding position, so that the material of the insulating body 402 can be omitted, thereby ensuring that the insulating body 402 which is relatively thin is inherently strong. In addition, the front contact area 421a extends three contact arms 428, and the contact arms 428 are bent inwardly to extend into the front end of the receiving cavity 404. The insulative housing 402 has a pair of opposite side walls 403 forming a receiving cavity 404, and the side wall 403 is provided. The through holes 405 are provided for the contact arms 428 to pass through, and the through holes 405 are independent of each other. Thus, the holes are minimized to ensure that the relatively thin insulating body 402 has sufficient strength. At the same time, the insulating sheet 430 is changed from the original 0.05 mm thick to the 0.1 mm thick plastic sheet. The contact arm 428 is bent from the front to the rear at the front edge of the front contact region 421a, which is located in front of the contact portion 4061 of the two rows of terminals 406, and has a shape different from that of the cantilever structure extending from the rear to the front, which can be avoided. The risk of shorting contact of contact arm 428 with terminal contact 4061 during extension. The plug connector 400 further includes a first metal casing 441 coated on the outer side of the inner circuit board 410, a second metal casing 442 wrapped on the outer side of the cable 416, and a first insulating casing 443 molded on the outside of the first metal casing 441. A second insulative housing 444 molded out of the second metal housing 442 and an insulative housing 445 molded into the metal housing 414, the first insulative housing 443, and the second insulative housing 444 form a complete cable connector 400.

The sixth to tenth views show the plug connector 200 of the second embodiment. The plug connector 200 includes an insulative housing 212, two rows of terminals 218, and a metal housing 216. The insulative housing 212 has a bladder-shaped front end. The bladder front end is provided with a rectangular receiving cavity 214 extending forwardly. The metal housing 216 is tightly wrapped. Covering the outer surface of the insulative housing 212. The sidewalls 2121 of the insulative housing 212 are disposed on the two sides of the receiving cavity 214. The upper and lower rows of terminals 218 are disposed in the terminal slots 232 on both sides of the receiving cavity 214, and extend into the receiving cavity 214. The contact portion 220 and the connecting leg 221 extending from the insulative housing 212, wherein the upper and lower rows of terminals 218 are symmetrically arranged diagonally for insertion into the corresponding socket connector in both the forward and reverse directions. A pair of metal elastic plates 222 for preventing electromagnetic interference are disposed inside the metal casing 216, and each elastic plate 222 is sandwiched between the metal casing 216 and the insulative housing 212, and includes a rear fixing region 224 and an elastic arm. 226. The rear fixing portion 224 is a cross member disposed in a lateral direction (ie, a direction perpendicular to the mating direction), and has fixing holes 225 at both ends thereof, and the two ends of the insulating body 212 are disposed at the corresponding positions and fixed in the fixing holes 225. Fixed block 219. The elastic arms 226 extend inwardly from the front inner edge of the rear fixed region 224, that is, the two elastic arms 226 extend laterally opposite to each other, and are disposed substantially in parallel with the rear fixed region 224. The free end of the elastic arm 226 is bent to form the contact arm 227. The contact arm 227 is formed by bending back from the front edge of the free end of the elastic arm 226. The contact arm 227 extends from the elastic arm 226 in the front-rear direction and is located in front of the terminal contact portion 220. The improvement of this embodiment is that the elastic arm 226 first extends in a lateral direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction/butt direction, so that less space of the insulating body 212 can be occupied, and the outer surface of the side wall 2121 of the insulating body 212 is at the terminal slot 232. The front side is provided with a shallow recessed area 215 for accommodating the elastic arm 226 and the rear fixed area 224, and the corresponding contact arm 227 is provided with independent through holes 2151 for the contact arm 227 to pass through and extend into the receiving cavity 214. The hollowing of the insulating body 212 is reduced, thereby ensuring that the insulating body 212 has a certain strength. A pair of insulating sheets (not shown) are provided on both outer surfaces of the side walls of the insulative housing 212 for isolating the terminal contact portion 220 from the metal housing 216 from each other.

The other structure of the plug connector 200 is substantially the same as that of the first embodiment. Therefore, the terminal block 234 is located behind the insulative housing 212. The terminal block 234 is provided with a plurality of pin slots 235 for extending the terminal connecting pins 221 rearward. The rear surface of the 234 is formed with a recess 236 for receiving the front end of the inner circuit board 238, and the terminal pins 221 are soldered to the inner circuit board 238 through the pin slots 235. The terminal block 234 includes a lateral partition 233 that extends forward. The terminal block 234 and the insulative housing 212 are fixed together by interference fit with each other. The two sides of the rear end of the lateral partition 233 are mostly inserted into the side grooves 213 of the insulative housing 212 for better positioning and positioning. A U-shaped metal locking member 239 is made of a metal plate The flat-shaped structure formed by the direct punching is assembled into the plug insulating body 212 from the rear to the front. The lateral sides of the receiving cavity 214 are provided with side grooves 213, and the locking member 239 has a pair of locking arms received in the side grooves 213. 240, the locking arms 240 are respectively located at lateral sides of the receiving cavity 214. When assembled, the locking member 239 is first inserted into the side groove 213, then the lateral partition 233 of the terminal block 234 is inserted, and the lateral partition 233 is located behind the locking arm 240.

11 to 13 show a plug connector 500 of a third embodiment. The basic structure of the plug connector 500 is substantially the same as that of the plug connector 200 of the second embodiment, and the same portions will not be described. point. The first improvement is that the locking member 534 of the plug connector 500 extends two opposite connecting legs 538 behind the locking arm 536. The two connecting legs 538 are disposed up and down, so that they can pass through the terminal block 532. The pin holes 531 are respectively connected to the upper and lower surfaces of the internal circuit board 524. A second improvement is that the end of the pair of elastic arms 527 of the metal elastic plate 526 is provided with a contact arm 528 extending from the front to the rear, and the rear fixing region of the beam structure is provided with another contact arm 529 extending from the rear to the front, and the other Contact arms 529 are located between contact arms 528 and are spaced apart from one another. The side wall 5121 of the insulative housing is provided with two dimples 513 and three through holes 515 for the elastic arms 527. The through holes 515 pass through the contact arms 528 and 529 to enter the receiving cavity 516. Compared with the third embodiment, The contact arm 529 increases the contact area, and at the same time, because the lateral length of the elastic arm 527 is short, the setting of the dimple is reduced, thereby ensuring the strength of the insulating body. The third improvement is that the metal casing 514 is manufactured by deep drawing technology, the side walls of the metal casing 514 are seamlessly connected, and the abutting portion and the fixing portion of the metal casing 514 are seamlessly connected. A fourth improvement is that the cable 540 is coupled to the internal circuit board 524 by the keeper 544. Further, the function of the insulating sheet 530 is the same as that of the insulating sheet 430 in the first embodiment, and is used to isolate the contact portion of the terminal from the metal case 514 from each other.

Fourteenth to seventeenth drawings are various modified structures of the metal casing of the third embodiment, which are all manufactured by the drawing technique, and the technology forms a seamless structure to ensure the connector of the plug connector well. Strength, especially when there are many parts of the plug connector and the strength of the insulating body is weak. Referring to FIG. 14, the metal casing 11 includes a bladder-shaped abutting portion 111 and a fixing portion 112. The abutting portion 111 is a seamless tubular shape, and the fixing portion 112 is also a seamless tubular shape. The abutting portion 111 and the fixing portion 112 are integrally formed. The fixing portion 112 is located at the rear end of the abutting portion 111 and has a larger size than the abutting portion 111. The fixing portion 112 is fixed to the outer side of the terminal block, and the long side 1121 of the fixing portion 112 is opened outward. The inclined fastening pieces 1123, 16c are fixed to the fastening holes of the metal casing, and the fastening pieces 1123, 16c are torn from the long side 1121 and then inclined outward. Referring to the fifteenth figure, another modified structure is the fastening piece 1123 from the long side 1121 Directly extending rearward without any tearing, the fixing portion 112 is provided with a U-shaped notch 1126 that penetrates rearward on the long side 1121 thereof, and the short side 1122 is provided with a notch 1127 that penetrates backward, because the fixing portion 112 has a large size and is deeply drawn. It is easy to break, and the notches 1126 and 1127 which are provided in the rearward direction of the fixing portion 112 can prevent the fixing portion 112 from being broken as much as possible. The size of the notch 1126 is larger than the notch 1127, and the notch 1127 has a slit shape. Referring to the sixteenth figure, another modified structure fastening piece 1124 extends directly rearward from the long side without any tear, and the long side is provided with a plurality of notches 1128 extending backward, and the notch 1128 is slit-shaped. Referring to FIG. 17, the improved structure disclosed is because the fixing portion 113 has a large size and is not easy to be drawn. Therefore, the improvement is that the fixing portion 113 is a pair of long sides 1131 and a pair of short sides 1132 which are formed by bending. The short sides 1131 and 1132 are independent of each other, and the long side 1131 is provided with a fastening piece 1133.

The eighteenth and nineteenth figures show the improved structure of the terminal of the plug connector, especially the improvement of the structure of the power terminal. The contact portions of the upper and lower rows of terminals (including the signal terminal and the ground terminal or the power supply terminal) of the above embodiments have a V-shaped front end, thereby forming a contact point at the V-shaped apex, which is scraped to contact the socket terminal, and is referred to as the eighteenth Figure 18 shows a process in which the elastic power terminal 600 of the plug connector is in contact with the socket power terminal 700 of the socket connector of the socket connector, and the plug power terminal 600 is provided with a tilt contact point 602 at the V-shaped apex. The upper black area shows the vulnerable area where the contact point 602 is most susceptible to damage due to the scratch contact during the insertion process. When the position indicated by the letter A (ie, the earliest contact of the terminal) is the maximum force of the contact point 602 That is, when it is most susceptible to damage, the contact point 602 contacts the socket terminal when the same plug power terminal 600 completes the contact socket power terminal at the position indicated by the letter B. Please note that in the socket connector, the signal terminal 702 is shorter than the power terminal 700, that is, the damage point at the front end is located behind the power terminal. It is clear that the contact point 602 has an arcuate vulnerable area, so that the effect of the connection is not good enough. The nineteenth figure shows an improvement to the contact portion. The plug power terminal 610 has a cantilever-shaped contact portion, and the front end of the contact portion forms a bowl-like structure, that is, the contact portion has a vulnerable point 612 and a contact point 614, and the contact point 614 is located. Behind the vulnerable point 612, the susceptible point 612 first contacts the socket power terminal 700 at the earliest contact, and the contact point 614 contacts the socket power terminal 700 when fully contacted, such that the contact point 614 is separated from the vulnerable point 612. The distance is about 0.75 mm. In the free state, the contact point 614 is substantially at the same level as the vulnerable point 612, and is tilted back and forth after the full contact. In this embodiment, if the signal terminal is a V-shaped structure, the contact point thereof is about 0.5 mm from the contact point of the bowl-like structure.

20 to 24 show a plug connector 300 of a fourth embodiment, the plug connector 300 including an insulative housing 302, two rows of terminals 306, a metal housing 314, and a pair of independent The locking member 318. The insulative housing 302 is provided with a receiving cavity 304. The two rows of terminals 306 are assembled in the insulative housing 302 and arranged on both sides of the receiving cavity 304. The insulative housing 302 includes a contact portion 305 extending forwardly into the receiving cavity 304 and a connection extending backwardly from the insulative housing 302. Feet 307. The main improvement of this embodiment is that the locking member 318 is a pair of independent locking members, and is not a U-shaped one-piece locking member. Each of the locking members 318 includes a forwardly extending elastic locking arm 323 and a connecting leg 326 extending from the insulating body 302. The front end of the locking arm 323 has a locking head 324 protruding into the lateral ends of the receiving cavity 304. The insulative housing 302 is provided with side slots 320 at lateral ends of the receiving cavity. The side slots 320 extend forward and backward, and the latching members are received in the side slots 320. A fixing portion 322 is disposed between the locking arm 323 of each locking member 318 and the connecting leg 326. The upper and lower edges of the fixing portion 322 have a barb fixed to the insulating body 302. The locking member 318 is fixed by barb interference. Inside the side groove 320. The side slot 320 extends through the insulative housing 302 rearwardly. Therefore, the latching member 318 is assembled from the rear to the front side into the side slot 320. The side slot 320 extends through the inner and outer end faces of the insulative housing 302 in the lateral direction, so the outer side of the latching arm 323 325 contacts metal housing 314 as shown in FIG. The connecting leg 326 at the rear end of each locking member 318 has a fork-like structure, is clamped to the front edge of the inner circuit board 308, and is further fixed by welding. The metal casing 314 is wrapped on the outer surface of the insulative housing 302. A pair of metal elastic plates 316 are mounted on the insulative housing 302 and sandwiched between the insulative housing 302 and the metal housing 314. The connecting leg 307 of the terminal 306 is soldered to the front of the inner circuit board 308, the front end of the inner circuit board 308 is disposed at the rear end of the insulating body 302, and one cable 310 includes a plurality of core wires 312, and the core wire 312 is soldered to the inner circuit board 308. The back. It can be understood that the locking member 318 is formed by bending a metal plate, and the locking head 324 has an abutting direction perpendicular to the plane of the metal plate. The locking member structure can allow a relatively large manufacturing process. tolerance. The rear edge of the metal housing 314 is provided with a pair of opposite rear edge pieces 329, each of the rear edge pieces 329 has a fastening piece 330 for use with a metal outer casing wrapped around the inner circuit board 308. The fastening holes 331 are fixed.

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.

1121‧‧‧ long side

1122‧‧‧ Short side

1123‧‧‧Buckle film

1126, 1127‧‧ ‧ gap

Claims (9)

A plug connector includes an insulative housing, a terminal, and a metal housing, the insulative housing is provided with a forwardly extending receiving cavity, and the terminal includes a contact portion extending forwardly into the receiving cavity, the metal housing Covering the outer surface of the insulative housing; wherein the metal housing includes an abutting portion and a fixing portion, the abutting portion and the fixing portion are integrally formed, and the fixing portion is larger in size than the abutting portion; The connected tubular structure is sewn, the fixing portion is a seamlessly connected tubular structure, and the fixing portion is provided with a notched structure penetrating backward. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the fixing portion defines two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, each of the long sides being provided with a U-shaped notch penetrating rearward. The short side is provided with a slit-like notch that penetrates rearward. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the fixing portion defines two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, and each of the long sides is provided with a slit-shaped gap penetrating backward. The short side is also provided with a slit-like cutout penetrating backward. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the fixing portion defines two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, the long side and the short side being independent of each other and leaving a gap. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the plug connector comprises a pair of latch members that are independent of one another. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the plug connector comprises an H-shaped latch. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the plug connector comprises a metal elastic plate, the elastic plate is provided with a contact arm extending from the front to the rear into the receiving cavity, and the contact arm is located The front of the contact portion of the terminal. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the contact portion of the terminal includes a susceptibility point and a contact portion that are separated from each other, and the susceptibility point is located in front of the contact portion. The plug connector of claim 1, wherein the plug connector comprises a metal elastic plate, the elastic plate being clamped between the insulative body and the metal casing, the elastic plate comprising an inward bend At least two contact arms that extend into the receiving cavity, contact arm positions In front of the contact portion of the terminal; the insulative housing has a pair of opposite side walls forming a receiving cavity, and the side wall is provided with a through hole through which the contact arm passes, the through holes being independent of each other.