CN202856009U - Connector of flexible circuit board - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a connector for a flexible circuit board. The connector for the flexible circuit board is used for inserting more than one flexible circuit board and plugging into a docking connector. The connector comprises an insulating body and a plurality of transmission terminals. The insulating body is provided with an input part and an output part connected to the rear side of the input part, and each transmission terminal is respectively arranged in the insulating body and extends from the input part to the output part. Among them, more than one socket is arranged on the input part, and each transmission terminal extends to the input part and is respectively arranged corresponding to the socket so that the above-mentioned flexible circuit board can be inserted, and the output part can be plugged into the above-mentioned docking connector.

Description

Connectors for flexible printed circuit boards

technical field

The utility model relates to an electric connector, in particular to a connector for a flexible circuit board.

Background technique

One end of the existing flexible circuit board (FPC) usually corresponds to a butt connector, that is, a flexible circuit board needs to be connected through a butt connector; in other words, when multiple flexible circuit boards need to be connected to the same If it is on a circuit board, a corresponding number of docking connectors must be installed on the circuit board, so as to occupy the space on the circuit board, resulting in an increase in the overall area of the circuit board, and the design space of the product cannot meet the requirements of lightness, thinness, Short, small and other characteristic requirements, the most direct cost considerations cannot be further reduced, so there is a need for improvement.

Utility model content

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the inventor of the present utility model devoted himself to research and combined with theoretical application, and finally proposed a connector for flexible circuit boards with a reasonable design and effectively improved the above-mentioned defects.

The utility model provides a connector for a flexible circuit board, which is used for inserting more than one flexible circuit board and plugged into a pair of butt connectors. It includes an insulating body and a plurality of transmission terminals. The insulating body is provided with a The input part, and an output part connected to the rear side of the input part, and each transmission terminal is respectively arranged in the insulating body, and extends from the input part to the output part; wherein, the input part is provided with more than one socket, and each transmission terminal The terminals extend to the input part and respectively correspond to the sockets for inserting the flexible circuit board, and the output part can be plugged into the above-mentioned docking connector.

Preferably, the input part of the insulating body is covered with a metal shell.

Preferably, a handle is pivoted on the insulating body and can be flipped toward the output part to be buckled to the rear end of the docking connector.

Preferably, there are a plurality of sockets, and the multiple sockets are stacked in the input part in upper and lower layers.

Preferably, the socket is provided with a plurality of terminal slots for accommodating the transmission terminals, and the terminal slots in the socket on the upper and lower floors respectively extend to the upper and lower surfaces of the output part.

Preferably, the socket is provided with a plurality of terminal grooves for accommodating the transmission terminals, and the terminal grooves extend from the input part to the output part.

Preferably, the transmission terminal is provided with a fixing part, a contact part extending from one end of the fixing part, and a conducting part extending from the other end of the fixing part, the fixing part is fixed in the insulating housing, and the The contact part extends into the input part along with the terminal slot, and the conducting part extends onto the output part along with the terminal slot.

Preferably, a hook portion is formed on the front edge of the contact portion, and is hooked on the front edge of the terminal groove.

Preferably, a pressing plate is pivotally disposed on the insulating body, and the pressing plate is respectively provided with a protruding shaft corresponding to the transmission terminal, and the protruding shaft presses against the fixing portion of the transmission terminal.

Preferably, the transmission terminal is provided with a clamping part between its fixing part and the contact part, and the clamping part is respectively provided with an elastic section connected between the fixing part and the contact part, and a The driving section extending from the top, and a clip arm extending from the elastic section to the contact part, and the driving section abuts on the protruding shaft and can be pulled by the protruding shaft so that the clip arm exerts force on the flexible circuit board. pressure.

The utility model has the following beneficial effects:

The connector of the flexible circuit board provided by the utility model, through the concept of integration, integrates more than one flexible circuit board together, and then inserts them together on a single docking connector, which can reduce the number of flexible circuit boards Both need to correspond to a defect of a butt connector, and at the same time effectively reduce the number of butt connectors, so as to further reduce costs.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a three-dimensional appearance schematic diagram of the utility model.

Fig. 2 is a three-dimensional exploded schematic diagram of the utility model and the flexible circuit board.

Fig. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the utility model and the flexible circuit board before fastening.

Fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the utility model and the flexible circuit board after being fastened.

Fig. 5 is a three-dimensional exploded schematic view of the utility model and the docking connector.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the combination of the utility model and the docking connector before being fastened.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the combination of the utility model and the docking connector after being fastened.

Description of main component symbols:

Insulation body 1; Input part 10;

socket 100; terminal slot 101;

metal shell 102; output part 11;

Pressing plate 12; Protruding shaft 120;

Space 121; Button handle 13;

transmission terminal 2; fixed part 20;

contact part 21; hook part 210;

Leading part 22; Clamping part 23;

Elastic section 230; Driving section 231;

clamp arm 232; end 233;

flexible circuit board 3; butt connector 4;

circuit board 40.

Detailed ways

In order to further illustrate the features and technical contents of the present utility model, please refer to the following detailed description and accompanying drawings of the present utility model, but the accompanying drawings are only for reference and illustration, and are not intended to limit the present utility model.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , which are respectively a three-dimensional appearance schematic diagram of the utility model, and a three-dimensional exploded schematic diagram of the utility model and the flexible circuit board. The utility model provides a connector for a flexible circuit board, which is used for more than one flexible circuit board 3 to be plugged and integrated on it, and then can be plugged together into a docking connector 4 such as a socket (i.e. As shown in FIG. 7 ), in order to achieve the integration of the flexible circuit board 3 into a mating connector 4 for its electrical connection. The utility model mainly includes an insulating body 1 and a plurality of transmission terminals 2 arranged on the insulating body 1; wherein:

The insulating body 1 can be a flat horizontal strip, with an input part 10 at the front end and an output part 11 connected to the rear side of the input part 10 at the rear end, and the input part 10 and the output part 11 are matched. The insulating body 1 is elongated in a horizontal strip shape. And the input part 10 is provided with one or more (that is, at least one) sockets 100 for inserting the flexible circuit board 3 , and the socket 100 is provided with a plurality of terminal slots 101 , and each terminal slot 101 extends from the input part 10 to the output unit 11 (that is, as shown in FIG. 3 ). In addition, a metal shell 102 can be covered outside the input portion 10 of the insulating body 1 .

Please also refer to Fig. 3, in the embodiment of the utility model, there are multiple sockets 100, and each socket 100 can correspond to flexible printed circuit boards 3 of different specifications and be in the form of upper and lower layers. The method is stacked in the input part 10, and the terminal grooves 101 in the sockets 100 on the upper and lower layers extend to the upper and lower surfaces of the output part 11 respectively; in addition, the sockets 100 on the same layer (such as the lower layer) also It can be arranged side by side depending on the width of the flexible circuit board 3. According to the embodiment of the utility model, the socket 100 on the upper layer has a longer width, and only one is provided, while the socket 100 on the lower layer has a larger width. The short width allows two or more sockets 100 with shorter widths to be arranged side by side, so that many flexible printed circuit boards 3 can be plugged together for integration.

As shown in FIG. 3 , as mentioned above, the transmission terminals 2 are accommodated in each terminal groove 101 respectively, and these transmission terminals 2 respectively have a fixing portion 20 , a contact portion 21 extending from one end of the fixing portion 20 , and a The guiding part 22 extends from the other end of the fixing part 20 . The fixing part 20 of each transmission terminal 2 is fixed in the insulating body 1, and can be roughly bounded between the input part 10 and the output part 11 of the insulating body 1, and the contact part 21 extends into the input part 10 along with the terminal groove 101, The lead part 22 extends to the output part 11 along with the terminal groove 101, for the flexible circuit board 3 to be inserted into the socket 100, so that the flexible circuit board 2 can contact the contact part 21 of each transmission terminal 2, and Through the indirect electrical connection of each transmission terminal 2, the conductive part 22 of each transmission terminal 2 can be inserted into the docking connector 4 through the output part 11 (as shown in Figures 5 to 7) to achieve electrical connection the goal of. It is worth mentioning that, in order to facilitate the positioning of each transmission terminal 2 in each terminal groove 101, a hook portion 210 may also be formed on the front edge of the contact portion 21 of each transmission terminal 2 to be hooked at the front edge of the terminal groove 101. When the flexible circuit board 3 is inserted into the socket 100 , each transmission terminal 2 is pushed backward by the flexible circuit board 3 and can still use the hook portion 210 to prevent falling off or displacement.

Please refer to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 together, in order to maintain contact with each flexible circuit board 3; The pressing plate 12 has a protruding shaft 120 corresponding to each transmission terminal 2 , and the protruding shaft 120 presses against the fixing portion 20 of each transmission terminal 2 . At the same time, each transmission terminal 2 is provided with a clamping part 23 between its fixed part 20 and the contact part 21. The elastic segment 230 between the parts 21, a driving segment 231 extending from the elastic segment 230 to the fixed part 20, and a clamp arm 232 extending from the elastic segment 230 to the contact part 21, and wherein the driving segment 231 abuts against the protruding shaft 120 Up and can be pulled by protruding shaft 120. In more detail, when the pressing plate 12 is turned up on the insulating body 1 (as shown in FIG. 3 ), a space 121 is formed on one side corresponding to each protruding shaft 120, for the end 233 of the driving section 231 to extend into the space. 121 relative to the protruding shaft 120; when the pressure plate 12 cover is placed on the insulating body 1 (that is, as shown in Figure 4), since each protruding shaft 120 can pull the end 233 of the driving section 231 upwards, so that the clamping The part 23 is like a seesaw structure, so that its clamping arm 232 presses down on the flexible circuit board 3, so as to achieve the effect of maintaining the contact between the transmission terminals 2 and each flexible circuit board 3, so as to prevent the flexible circuit board 3 from fall off.

Therefore, the connector structure of the flexible circuit board of the present invention can be obtained through the combination of the above structures.

Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 5 , when each flexible circuit board 3 is inserted into each socket 100 of the input part 10 of the insulating body 1, the output part 11 of the insulating body 1 can be connected to the socket on a circuit board 40. The butt connector 4 is connected to achieve the purpose of integrating one or more flexible circuit boards 3 into the butt connector 4 for electrical connection. At the same time, as shown in Figures 6 and 7, in order to facilitate the stability of the insertion between the insulating body 1 and the butt connector 4, a button handle 13 can be further pivoted on the insulating body 1, and the button handle 13 can be oriented toward The output part 11 is turned over; when the output part 11 of the insulating body 1 is inserted into the docking connector 4, the handle 13 can be turned over towards the output part 11, so that the handle 13 is buckled behind the docking connector 4 End, to achieve the effect of preventing the two from separating.

The above-mentioned embodiments are only preferred embodiments for fully illustrating the utility model, and the protection scope of the utility model is not limited thereto. Equivalent substitutions or transformations made by those skilled in the art on the basis of the present utility model are all within the protection scope of the present utility model. The scope of protection of the utility model shall be determined by the claims.

Claims (10)

1. A connector for a flexible circuit board, for inserting more than one flexible circuit board, and inserting on a pair of butt connectors, characterized in that it includes: an insulating body, provided with an input part, and an output part connected to the rear side of the input part; and A plurality of transmission terminals are respectively arranged in the insulating body and extend from the input part to the output part; Wherein, the input part is provided with more than one socket, the plurality of transmission terminals extend to the input part and respectively correspond to the sockets for inserting the flexible circuit board, and the output part can be plugged into the above-mentioned docking connector. 2 . The connector for a flexible printed circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the input portion of the insulating body is covered with a metal shell. 3 . 3 . The connector for a flexible circuit board as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a handle is pivotally mounted on the insulating body and can be flipped toward the output portion so as to be engaged with the rear end of the docking connector. 4 . 4 . The connector for a flexible circuit board as claimed in claim 1 , wherein there are a plurality of sockets, and the sockets are stacked in upper and lower layers in the input portion. 5 . 5. The connector for flexible circuit boards as claimed in claim 4, wherein the socket is provided with a plurality of terminal slots for accommodating the transmission terminals, and is located in the sockets on the upper and lower floors Each of the terminal grooves respectively extends to the upper and lower surfaces of the output part. 6. The connector of the flexible circuit board according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, the socket is provided with a plurality of terminal slots for the transmission terminals to be accommodated, and the terminal slots are formed by the input section extends to the output section. 7. The connector of the flexible circuit board according to claim 6, wherein the transmission terminal is provided with a fixing portion, a contact portion extending from one end of the fixing portion, and a contact portion extending from the other end of the fixing portion The conducting part, the fixing part is fixed in the insulating body, the contact part extends into the input part along with the terminal slot, and the conducting part extends to the output part along with the terminal slot. 8 . The connector for a flexible circuit board as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a hook portion is formed on the front edge of the contact portion, and is hooked on the front edge of the terminal groove. 9. The connector of the flexible circuit board as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that, a pressing plate is pivotally arranged on the insulating body, and the pressing plate is respectively provided with a protruding shaft corresponding to the transmission terminal, and the protruding shaft presses against on the fixed part of the transmission terminal. 10. The connector of the flexible circuit board according to claim 8, characterized in that, the transmission terminal is provided with a clamping part between its fixed part and the contact part, and each of the clamping parts is provided with a part and the contact part, a driving segment extending from the elastic segment to the fixing part, and a clip arm extending from the elastic segment to the contact part, and the driving segment leans against the protruding shaft And can be pulled by the protruding shaft so that the clamping arm exerts pressure on the above-mentioned flexible circuit board.

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