TWI713645B - Electrical connector - Google Patents

Abstract

An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a number of first contacts and a number of second contacts accommodated in the insulative housing, a shielding plate and a shell enclosing the insulative housing. Each first contact and each second contact comprise a contacting portion and a soldering portion respectively. The shielding plate is made of ceramic material, and comprises a middle plate and an enhancing portion extending from an edge of a front end of the middle plate. The middle plate is sandwiched between the contacting portions of the first contacts and the second contacts. The thickness of the enhancing portion is larger than the thickness of the middle plate.

Description

Electrical connector

The present invention relates to an electrical connector, in particular to an electrical connector suitable for positive and negative insertion.

For the prior art, please refer to a connector socket disclosed in Taiwan Patent No. TWM519829. The connector socket includes an insulating body, and a first terminal and a second terminal housed in the insulating body are located between the first terminal and the second terminal. Metal center piece. The manual has disclosed that the metal center piece can be made of ceramic material, but it does not disclose the specific structure of the center piece made of ceramic material. If the metal center piece is directly replaced with a ceramic material center piece, its structure is too complicated to produce manufacture.

Therefore, it is indeed necessary to provide a new electrical connector to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrical connector that is simple to manufacture and resistant to plugging.

The object of the present invention is achieved by the following technical solution one: an electrical connector, including an insulating body, a plurality of first conductive terminals, second conductive terminals, and reinforcements fixed in the insulating body, and sleeved on the insulating body A shielding shell outside the body, the first and second conductive terminals respectively include a contact portion and a welding portion, the reinforcing member is made of ceramic material, and includes the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal clamped The center piece between the contact portions and the reinforcing portion extending from the edge of the front portion of the center piece, the thickness of the reinforcing portion is greater than the thickness of the center piece.

Further, the reinforcing part is a vertically extending sheet structure.

Further, the reinforcing member further includes a positioning part clamped between the welding parts of the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal, and a connecting part connecting the positioning part and the center piece.

Further, when the electrical connector is mated with a mating connector provided with a locking member, the reinforcing portion is provided at a mating place where the locking member and the electrical connector are mated.

Further, the reinforcing portion includes a side reinforcing portion extending upward and downward from the front ends of the two side edges of the center piece, respectively, and upper and lower surfaces of the reinforcing portion protrude from the upper and lower surfaces of the center piece, respectively.

Further, the reinforcement portion further includes a neck portion formed rearward from the side reinforcement portion, and the distance between the left and right neck portions is less than the distance between the two side reinforcement portions. When the electrical connector is connected to the device When a butting connector with a locking member is butted, the neck and the locking member are locked with each other.

Further, the reinforcing part further includes a front reinforcing part extending from both sides of the front surface of the center piece in the upward and downward directions respectively, and connected to the side reinforcing part.

Further, the insulating body includes a first insulating body accommodating the first conductive terminal, a second insulating body accommodating the second conductive terminal, and an insulating base covering the first insulating body and the second insulating body Seat, the distance between the two reinforcing parts is greater than the distance between the two outermost first conductive terminals and the outermost two second conductive terminals.

Further, the center piece is clamped between the first and second insulating bodies, the reinforcing part is exposed on the left and right sides of the first and second insulating bodies, and the insulating base covers Covering the first and second insulating bodies and the reinforcing member and exposing the outer side surface of the reinforcing part to the outside of the insulating base.

Further, the first insulating body and the second insulating body are respectively provided with buckling devices that buckle each other, and the front part of the center piece is provided with a notch for accommodating the buckling device.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects: the electrical connector of the present invention adopts a reinforcing member of ceramic material provided with a reinforcing part, the reinforcing part is a fireproof ceramic material and the thickness of the reinforcing part Greater than the thickness of the center piece, it can further separate the first and second conductive terminals to avoid short circuiting between the first and second conductive terminals, and can also enhance the resistance to plug during mating, increase the plug life, and Simple to manufacture.

100: electrical connector

1: Insulating body

11: The first insulating body

12: The second insulating body

13: Insulating base

14: Base

15: tongue plate

16: buckle device

21: The first conductive terminal

22: second conductive terminal

24: Contact

25: Welding Department

3: reinforcement

30: Center piece

300: The upper and lower surfaces of the center piece

301: Gap

302: front surface

303: front

31: Reinforcement

310: The upper and lower surfaces of the reinforcement

311: Side reinforcement

312: front reinforcement

313: neck

316: outer side

32: Connection part

33: Positioning part

331: Transverse

332: Vertical part

333: fixed feet

4: shelter the shell

40: Containment Space

41: top wall

42: positioning part

43: Positioning Department

5: Positioning department

53: Positioning Department

61: The first terminal module

62: The second terminal module

7: The second terminal module

The first figure is a three-dimensional assembly view of the electrical connector of the present invention; the second figure is a partial exploded view of the electrical connector shown in the first figure; the third figure is the insulating body and the first Partial exploded view of the conductive terminal, the second conductive terminal and the reinforcing member; the fourth figure is another angle view of the third figure; the fifth figure is the insulating body, the first conductive terminal, and the second conductive terminal shown in the third figure And a further exploded view of the reinforcement; Figure 6 is another angle view of Figure 5; Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view of the electrical connector of the present invention along the line VII-VII in Figure 1.

Hereinafter, the specific implementation of the electrical connector 100 of the present invention will be described in conjunction with the first to seventh figures. The port where the electrical connector 100 and the mating connector are plugged is defined as a plug end. Define the butt direction, the transverse direction perpendicular to the butt direction, and the vertical direction perpendicular to the butt direction and the transverse direction.

Please refer to the first to sixth figures, the electrical connector 100 of the present invention includes an insulating body 1, a plurality of first conductive terminals 21 fixed in the insulating body 1, a plurality of second conductive terminals 22 and a reinforcing member 3, The shielding shell 4 covering the outside of the insulating body 1, the metal shell 5 covering the outside of the shielding shell 4, and the sealing part 7 that seals the rear end of the insulating body 1.

Please refer to the third to seventh figures, the insulating body 1 includes a first insulating body 11 accommodating a first conductive terminal 21, a second insulating body 12 accommodating a second conductive terminal 22, and covering the first An insulating body 11 and an insulating base 13 outside the second insulating body 12. The first insulating body 11 and the second insulation The rim body 12 includes a base 14 and a tongue 15 extending forward from the base 14. Each of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 includes a contact portion 24 and a welding portion 25 respectively. The contact portions 24 of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 are respectively exposed on the upper and lower surfaces of the corresponding tongue plate 15, that is, the contact portion 24 of the first conductive terminal 21 is exposed on the tongue plate of the first insulating body 11. Outside the upper surface of 15, the contact portion 24 of the second conductive terminal 22 is exposed outside the lower surface of the tongue 15 of the second insulating body 12. The welding portions 25 of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 are respectively exposed outside the corresponding base 14. The first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12 are respectively provided with buckling devices 16 that buckle each other.

In this embodiment, the first conductive terminal 21 and the first insulating body 11 are integrally formed to form the first terminal module 61, and the second conductive terminal 22 and the second insulating body 12 are integrally formed to form the first terminal module. Two-terminal module 62. The reinforcing member 3 is clamped between the first terminal module 61 and the second terminal module 62, and the insulating base 13 is overmolded on the assembled first terminal module 61, the second terminal module 62 and the reinforcing member 3 outer. In other embodiments, the first terminal module 61 and the second terminal module 62 can also be formed by assembling, or the first conductive terminal 21, the second conductive terminal 22, the reinforcement 3 and the insulating body 1 can be integrated. The molding method is directly molding.

Please refer to the second to seventh figures, the reinforcing member 3 is made of ceramic material, which includes a center piece 30 clamped between the contact portion 24 of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22, from the center The edge of the front portion 303 of the sheet 30 extends in the vertical direction to form a reinforcing portion 31, a positioning portion 33 clamped between the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12, and the connecting portion 33 and the center piece 30 Connecting part 32. The center of the front surface 302 of the center piece 30 is recessed inward to form a notch 301 to provide a space for receiving the buckle device 16. The distance between the two reinforcing parts 31 is greater than the distance between the two outermost first conductive terminals 21 and also greater than the distance between the outermost two second conductive terminals 22. The center piece 30 is clamped between the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12, the reinforcing portion 31 is exposed on the left and right sides of the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12, and the insulating base 13 is coated on the first insulating body 11, the second The insulating body 12 and the reinforcing member 3 are outside and the outer side surface 316 of the reinforcing portion 31 is exposed to the outside of the insulating base 13.

Please refer to the fifth to seventh figures, when the electrical connector 100 is mated with a butting connector (not shown) provided with a locking member, the reinforcing part 31 is provided on the locking member of the butting connector and the electric Where the connector 100 is mated, the reinforcing portion 31 is made of fireproof ceramic material and the thickness of the reinforcing portion 31 is greater than the thickness of the center piece 30, which can further separate the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 to avoid first conduction The overlap between the terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 is short-circuited, which can enhance the resistance to plug and unplug during mating and increase the plug life. The reinforcing portion 31 is a vertical sheet-like structure. The reinforcing portion 31 includes a side reinforcing portion 311 extending upward and downward from the front ends of both sides of the center piece 30 respectively, and a side reinforcing portion 311 extending backward from the side reinforcing portion 311 and forming a The neck portion 313 of the butting connector's locking member is butted and bent forward from the side reinforcement portion 311 to form a front reinforcement portion 312. The reinforcing portion 31 includes one on the left and one on the right. Please refer to the seventh figure. The upper and lower surfaces 310 of the reinforcing portion 31 protrude from the upper and lower surfaces 300 of the center piece 30 respectively. The distance between the left and right necks 313 is smaller than the distance between the reinforcing parts 311 on both sides. When the electrical connector 100 is mated with the mating connector, the neck 313 is locked with the locking member. The front reinforcement portion 312 is formed from two sides of the front surface 302 of the center piece 30 extending upward and downward respectively, and is connected to the side reinforcement portion 311.

Please refer to the fourth to sixth figures, the positioning portion 33 includes a lateral portion 331 clamped between the first insulating body 11 and the second insulating body 12, bending and extending from the lateral portion 331 clamped in the first The vertical portion 332 between the conductive terminal 21 and the welding portion 25 of the second conductive terminal 22 and the fixed leg 333 that is bent and extended from the lateral portion 331 and separated from the vertical portion 332. The center piece 30 of ceramic material is clamped between the contact portions 24 of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22, and the vertical portion 332 of ceramic material is clamped to the welding of the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 Between the parts 25, the short circuit between the first conductive terminal 21 and the second conductive terminal 22 is effectively avoided.

Referring to the first to second figures, the shielding shell 4 includes a top wall 41 and a bottom wall 42 arranged opposite to each other, a pair of side walls 43 connecting the top wall 41 and the bottom wall 42 and a top wall 41 , The receiving space 40 surrounded by the bottom wall 42 and the side wall 43. The metal shell 5 is assembled on the bottom wall 42 of the shielding shell 4 in a substantially flat shape. Two sides of the metal shell 5 are respectively provided with a pair of shell fixing feet 53 extending to both sides and bending downwards to form a pair of shell fixing feet 53.

The above descriptions are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of them. Any equivalent changes made by those of ordinary skill in the art to the technical solutions of the present invention by reading the description of the present invention shall be covered by the claims of the present invention. Covered.

11: The first insulating body

12: The second insulating body

13: Insulating base

14: Base

15: tongue plate

16: buckle device

21: The first conductive terminal

22: second conductive terminal

24: Contact

3: reinforcement

30: Center piece

301: Gap

302: front surface

303: front

31: Reinforcement

311: Side reinforcement

312: front reinforcement

313: neck

32: Connection part

33: Positioning part

61: The first terminal module

62: The second terminal module

Claims (9)

An electrical connector, comprising: an insulating body; a plurality of first and second conductive terminals fixed in the insulating body, the first and second conductive terminals respectively including a contact part and a welding part; a reinforcing member; and a shielding shell , Sleeved in the insulating body; wherein the reinforcing member is made of ceramic material, which includes a center piece clamped between the contact portion of the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal and from the A reinforcing portion formed by extending the edge of the front portion of the center piece, the thickness of the reinforcing portion is greater than the thickness of the center piece, and the reinforcing portion includes side reinforcements extending upward and downward from the front ends of both sides of the center piece respectively The upper and lower surfaces of the reinforcing portion respectively protrude from the upper and lower surfaces of the center piece. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the reinforcing portion is a vertically extending sheet structure. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the reinforcing member further includes a positioning portion clamped between the welding portions of the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal, and connecting the positioning portion and the center The connecting part of the film. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein when the electrical connector is mated with a butting connector provided with a locking member, the reinforcing portion is provided between the locking member and the electric connector butting Mate. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the reinforcing portion further includes a neck portion formed rearward from the side reinforcing portion, and the distance between the left and right neck portions is smaller than the distance between the two side reinforcing portions , When the electrical connector is paired with a mating connector provided with a lock When connected, the neck and the locking member lock each other. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the reinforcing portion further includes a front reinforcing portion that is formed to extend upward and downward from both sides of the front surface of the center piece and is connected to the side reinforcing portion. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the insulating body includes a first insulating body accommodating the first conductive terminal, a second insulating body accommodating the second conductive terminal, and covering the first insulating body For the insulating base of the main body and the second insulating body, the distance between the two reinforcing parts is greater than the distance between the two outermost first conductive terminals and the outermost two second conductive terminals. The electrical connector according to claim 7, wherein the center piece is clamped between the first and second insulating bodies, and the reinforcing portion is exposed to the left and right sides of the first and second insulating bodies On both sides, the insulating base covers the first and second insulating bodies and the reinforcing member, and the outer side surface of the reinforcing part is exposed outside the insulating base. The electrical connector according to claim 7, wherein the first insulating body and the second insulating body are respectively provided with buckling devices that buckle each other, and a front part of the center piece is provided with a buckling device for accommodating The gap.

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