CN218242319U - Modular connector - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a module connector, including insulating seat and a plurality of hat spring needles, hat spring needle is including fixing the needle tubing on insulating seat, be provided with two at least grafting ends on the needle tubing, two at least grafting ends expose respectively from the different regions of insulating seat, every grafting end all is provided with a hat spring and fixed cover, every grafting end has all seted up a mounting hole along the axial, fixed cover is established in the mounting hole periphery and with grafting end interference fit, hat spring is placed in the mounting hole and is fixed through fixed cover, hat spring includes contact ring and elastic claw, contact ring and mounting hole inner wall contact intercommunication, connect through a plurality of elastic claw between two contact rings, a plurality of elastic claw all form the plug-in passageway that the aperture reduces gradually toward hat spring axle center direction bending, fixed cover is provided with the jack that accesss to plug-in passageway. The utility model discloses a public end of can pegging graft respectively by two grafting ends of crown spring needle plays the function of switching, connection, wire rod end extension between product and the product.

Description

Modular connector

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a connector technical field, in particular to module connector for switching.

Background

Electronic connectors, also commonly referred to as circuit connectors, are important components of the circuit of the device, so that the device can conveniently transmit current and signals, and a large number of connector types are available on the market, wherein the connectors include adapter connectors and distributor types, and the adapter connectors are also called adapters for converting different plugs and different voltages to adapt to the device; the distributor is used for dividing the current or the signal into a plurality of parts, namely one part or two parts or one part or more.

Chinese utility model patent like application number CN202122765892.2 discloses a many PIN formula one advances two adapter and connector, and the adapter jack in this patent is glossy round hole, needs the contact PIN of public end to have the cooperation of elastic claw just can normal use, can appear the condition of contact failure when adapter in this patent and the smooth solid contact PIN cooperation of outer wall, consequently need design be fit for with solid contact PIN complex adapter.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides a conveniently carry out the connector for switching of moduleization.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a technical scheme does: the utility model provides a module connector, includes insulating seat and fixes a plurality of hat spring needles on insulating seat, hat spring needle is including fixing the needle tubing on insulating seat, be provided with two at least grafting ends on the needle tubing, two at least grafting ends expose respectively from the different regions of insulating seat, and every grafting end all is provided with a hat spring and fixed cover, and every grafting end has all seted up a mounting hole along the axial, fixed cover is established on the mounting hole periphery and with grafting end interference fit, the hat spring is placed in the mounting hole and is fixed through fixed cover, the hat spring includes contact ring and elastic claw, contact ring and mounting hole inner wall contact intercommunication, connect through a plurality of elastic claws between two contact rings, a plurality of elastic claws all form the plug-in passageway that the aperture reduces gradually towards hat spring axle center direction bending, fixed cover is provided with the jack that accesss to the plug-in passageway.

In the above technical solution, the plurality of crown spring pins are fixed on an insulating base to form a sub-module, and at least two sub-modules can be spliced to form a main module.

In the technical scheme, the needle tube main body is provided with a connecting section which connects at least two insertion ends together, the connecting section is a solid section, and the outer wall of the connecting section is provided with an outer step.

In the technical scheme, the shape of the crown spring needle is linear, L-shaped, Z-shaped, cross-shaped or T-shaped.

In the above technical scheme, the outer side wall of the fixed sleeve is flush with the outer side wall of the insertion end.

In the above technical scheme, the mounting hole is a blind hole, the inner wall of the mounting hole is provided with an inner step, the inner wall of the fixed sleeve is provided with a limit step, and the contact rings at the two ends of the crown spring are respectively abutted against the inner step and the limit step.

In the above technical scheme, the limiting step is a slope.

In the technical scheme, the length of the crown spring is smaller than that of the mounting hole, the end face of one side of the crown spring, which is in contact with the ring, abuts against the inner step, and the end face of the other side of the crown spring, which is in contact with the ring, is flush with the hole edge of the mounting hole.

In the above technical solution, the minimum aperture of the insertion passage is smaller than the inner diameter of the insertion hole.

In the above technical scheme, the contact ring is a circular ring, and the contact ring is provided with a fracture.

The utility model has the advantages that the structure is reasonable, the design is novel, the practicability is strong, the two inserting ends of the crown spring needle can be respectively inserted with a male end, and the functions of switching, connecting and wire end prolonging between products are achieved; through a plurality of elastic claws of the crown spring, the crown spring has good stability and insertion and extraction force after being in opposite insertion contact with the male end, and can be applied to large current transmission of more than 10A; the fixed sleeve and the needle tube are in interference fit, the crown spring is fixedly held in the hole, the contact pin at the male end is prevented from being easily and directly inserted into the crown spring in an inclined state, the crown spring is easily deformed and loses efficacy, and the service life of the crown spring needle is prolonged.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic sectional structure of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the crown spring needle according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional structure of the crown spring needle of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of four crown spring needles.

Fig. 5 is a second schematic view of the structure of four kinds of crown spring needles.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the sub-modules assembled into a main module.

In the figure: 1. an insulating base; 2. a crown spring needle; 3. a needle tube; 30. mounting holes; 31. a first plug end; 32. a second plug end; 33. fixing the step; 34. an inner step; 35. a third plug end; 36. a fourth plug end; 4. a connecting section; 41. an outer step; 5. a crown spring; 50. a plug channel; 51. an elastic claw; 52. a contact ring; 53. breaking off; 6. fixing a sleeve; 60. a jack; 61. a limiting step; 101. a sub-module; 102 and 103, a main module.

Detailed Description

The embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. Based on the embodiments provided by the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention. Moreover, it should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual embodiment, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which will vary from one implementation to another.

Reference in the specification to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is to be expressly and implicitly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the described embodiments of the present invention may be combined with other embodiments without conflict.

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terms "a", "an", "the" and the like in the description of the invention do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the singular or plural. The present invention relates to the terms "comprises," "comprising," "includes," "including," "has," "having" and any variations thereof, which are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions; for example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or modules (elements) is not limited to the listed steps or elements, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. The terms "connected," "coupled," and the like in the description may not be limited to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct or indirect. The utility model relates to a "a plurality of" means more than or equal to two. "and/or" describes an association relationship of associated objects, meaning that three relationships may exist, for example, "A and/or B" may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The terms "first," "second," "third," and the like in the description of the invention are used merely to distinguish between similar objects and not necessarily to represent a particular ordering for the objects.

As shown in fig. 1, the crown spring needle 2 of the connector has plug ends exposed at two opposite sides of the insulating base 1, and the two opposite plug ends can be respectively plugged with a male end to perform the functions of switching, connecting and extending the wire ends between products.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the first,

as shown in fig. 1-4 and 6, a modular connector comprises an insulating base 1 and four crown spring needles 2 fixed on the insulating base 1, wherein each crown spring needle 2 comprises a needle tube 3 fixed on the insulating base 1, the needle tube 3 is provided with two plugging ends, the two plugging ends are respectively exposed from two opposite regions of the insulating base 1, each plugging end is provided with a crown spring 5 and a fixing sleeve 6, each plugging end is provided with an installation hole 30 along the axial direction, the fixing sleeve 6 is sleeved on the periphery of the installation hole 30 and is in interference fit with the plugging ends, the crown spring 5 is placed in the installation hole 30 and is fixed through the fixing sleeve 6, the crown spring 5 comprises a contact ring 52 and elastic claws 51, the contact ring 52 is in contact communication with the inner wall of the installation hole 30, the two contact rings 52 are connected through a plurality of elastic claws 51, the plurality of elastic claws 51 are bent towards the axial direction of the crown spring 5 to form a plugging channel 50 with gradually reduced aperture, and the fixing sleeve 6 is provided with a jack 60 leading to the plugging channel 50.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the plurality of elastic claws 51 of the crown spring 5 have good stability and insertion and extraction force after being inserted into and contacted with the male end, and can be applied to large current transmission of more than 10A. The fixed sleeve 6 is in interference fit with the needle tube 3, and mainly fixes the crown spring 5 in the hole, so as to prevent the pin at the male end from being easily inserted into the crown spring 5 in an inclined state, and easily causing deformation and failure of the crown spring 5.

As shown in fig. 4, in the part a of the figure, the shape of the crown spring needle 2 is linear, the first inserting end 31 and the second inserting end 32 are arranged along a straight line, the needle tube 3 body is provided with a connecting section 4 for connecting the two inserting ends together, the connecting section 4 is a solid section with a smaller outer diameter, the outer wall of the connecting section 4 is provided with an outer step 41, the insulating base 1 is a plastic base, the crown spring needle 2 is fixed on the insulating base 1 in a plastic coating mode, and the crown spring needle 2 can be ensured not to be separated from the insulating base 1 through the outer step 41.

As shown in fig. 2, the inserting end is provided with a fixing section with a smaller thickness, the fixing section is provided with a fixing step 33, the fixing sleeve 6 is sleeved on the fixing section and is in interference fit with the fixing section, the end surface of the fixing sleeve 6 is abutted against the fixing step 33, and the outer side wall of the fixing sleeve 6 is flush with the outer side wall of the inserting end. The thickness of the fixing sleeve 6 on the side of the jack 60 is thicker, so that in the process of inserting with the male end, the jack 60 of the fixing sleeve 6 is ensured not to deform, and the pin inserting of the male end is well guided.

The mounting hole 30 is a blind hole, the inner wall of the mounting hole 30 is provided with an inner step 34, the inner wall of the fixing sleeve 6 is provided with a limiting step 61, the contact rings 52 at two ends of the crown spring 5 are respectively arranged close to the inner step 34 and the limiting step 61, the limiting step 61 is a slope, wherein the contact ring 52 at the inner side end of the crown spring 5 basically abuts against the inner step 34, and the contact ring 52 at the outer side end is reduced by guiding through the slope limiting step 61 when the crown spring 5 extends out, so that a certain distance is reserved between the contact ring 52 at the outer side end of the crown spring 5 and the limiting step 61, the crown spring 5 can stretch out and draw back, and the male end contact pin in the plug channel 50 can be clamped, and the plug force between the male end contact pin and the crown spring 2 is improved.

As shown in fig. 3, the length of the crown spring 5 is smaller than that of the mounting hole 30, the end surface of the contact ring 52 on one side of the crown spring 5 abuts against the inner step 34, and the end surface of the contact ring 52 on the other side is flush with the hole edge of the mounting hole 30. Contact ring 52 is the ring, fracture 53 has been seted up to contact ring 52, make contact ring 52 can warp through the elasticity of self and adjust its external diameter, when assembling crown spring 5 in mounting hole 30, can lead to fracture 53 and make contact ring 52 shrink and diminish, conveniently put into mounting hole 30 crown spring 5 in, crown spring 5 enlarges through the elasticity of self after putting into mounting hole 30, make contact ring 52's outer wall can be stable with the inner wall contact of mounting hole 30, guarantee crown spring 5 and needle tubing 3 normality and switch on.

As shown in fig. 3, the minimum aperture of the plug channel 50 is smaller than the inner diameter of the plug hole 60, the aperture of the plug channel 50 can be adjusted by the elastic force of the elastic claws 51, when the pin of the male end is inserted into the plug channel 50, the pin can prop open several elastic claws 51 to enlarge the plug channel 50, and when the pin leaves the plug channel 50, the elastic claws 51 elastically contract to reduce the plug channel 50, and the pin is located between the inner diameter of the plug hole 60 and the minimum aperture of the plug channel 50.

The needle tube 3, the crown spring 5 and the fixed sleeve 6 of the crown spring needle 2 are made of copper materials, so that the crown spring needle 2 has good conductivity; the needle tube 3 is integrally processed and molded, then the crown spring 5 is placed in the mounting hole 30 of the needle tube 3, then the fixed sleeve 6 is sleeved at the inserting end of the needle tube 3 and the assembly of the crown spring needle 2 is completed, and four crown spring needles are arranged

As shown in fig. 6, four crown spring pins 2 are fixed on an insulating base 1 to form a sub-module 101, two sub-modules 101 are adjacently spliced to form a main module 102, or three sub-modules 101 may be in a delta shape to form a main module 103. Similarly, four, five, six sub-modules 101 can be respectively combined into different main modules, and the sub-modules 101 can be combined into different main modules according to the application requirements of the product to meet the modularization requirements.

In the second embodiment, the first embodiment of the method,

the difference from the first embodiment lies in the shape of the crown spring needle 2, as shown in fig. 4, part b in the figure, the shape of the crown spring needle 2 is L-shaped, the first plugging end 31 and the second plugging end 32 are arranged at right angles, and the plugging areas of the sub-module and the male end formed by fixing a plurality of crown spring needles 2 on the insulating base 1 are located on two adjacent faces. Of course, the crown spring needle 2 may be formed in a zigzag shape.

In the third embodiment, the first step is that,

the difference from the first and second embodiments lies in the shape of the crown spring needle 2, as shown in fig. 5, in the part c, the shape of the crown spring needle 2 is T-shaped, the first plugging end 31, the second plugging end 32 and the third plugging end 35 are arranged in T-shape, and the plugging areas of the sub-module and the male end formed by fixing a plurality of crown spring needles 2 on the insulating base 1 are located on three adjacent surfaces.

In the fourth embodiment, the first step is that,

the difference from the above embodiment is the shape of the crown spring needle 2, as shown in fig. 5, part d in the figure shows that the crown spring needle 2 is cross-shaped, the first plugging end 31, the second plugging end 32, the third plugging end 35 and the fourth plugging end 36 are cross-shaped, and the plugging areas of the sub-module and the male end formed by fixing a plurality of crown spring needles 2 on the insulating base 1 are located on four adjacent surfaces.

The four embodiments can show that the shape and the insertion port of the crown spring needle 2 can be changed according to different practical situations, and the third and fourth embodiments have functions of butting, connecting and prolonging, and also have a function of shunting, so that the functions of dividing into two and three are realized, and the application range of the connector is improved.

The utility model has reasonable structure, novel design and strong practicability, and can respectively insert a male end through two insertion ends of the crown spring needle 2, thereby playing the functions of switching and connecting products and prolonging wire ends; through the plurality of elastic claws 51 of the crown spring 5, the stability and the insertion force are good after the crown spring is in opposite insertion contact with the male end, and the large current transmission of more than 10A can be applied; the fixed sleeve 6 is in interference fit with the needle tube 3, the crown spring 5 is fixedly held in the hole, the situation that the contact pin at the male end is easily and directly inserted into the crown spring 5 in an inclined state, the crown spring 5 is easily deformed and loses efficacy is avoided, and the service life of the crown spring needle 2 is prolonged.

The above is not intended to limit the technical scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent changes and modifications to the above embodiments are all within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a module connector, its characterized in that, includes insulating seat and fixes a plurality of hat spring needles on the insulating seat, hat spring needle is including fixing the needle tubing on the insulating seat, be provided with two at least grafting ends on the needle tubing, two at least grafting ends expose respectively from the different regions of insulating seat, and every grafting end all is provided with a hat spring and fixed cover, and every grafting end has all seted up a mounting hole along the axial, fixed cover is established on the mounting hole periphery and with grafting end interference fit, hat spring places in the mounting hole and fixes through fixed cover, hat spring includes contact ring and elastic claw, contact ring and mounting hole inner wall contact intercommunication, connect through a plurality of elastic claws between two contact rings, a plurality of elastic claw all form the plug-in passageway that the aperture reduces gradually towards the bending of hat spring direction, fixed cover is provided with the jack that accesss to plug-in passageway.

2. A modular connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of pins are fixed to an insulator to form a sub-module, and at least two sub-modules are assembled to form a main module.

3. The modular connector of claim 1, wherein the needle body is provided with a connecting section for connecting at least two insertion ends together, the connecting section is a solid section, and an outer wall of the connecting section is provided with an outer step.

4. A modular connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the crown spring pins are rectilinear or L-shaped or Z-shaped or cross-shaped or T-shaped.

5. The modular connector of claim 1, wherein the outer side wall of the retainer is flush with the outer side wall of the mating end.

6. The modular connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounting hole is a blind hole, the inner wall of the mounting hole is provided with an inner step, the inner wall of the fixing sleeve is provided with a limit step, and the contact rings at the two ends of the crown spring respectively abut against the inner step and the limit step.

7. The modular connector of claim 6, wherein the retaining step is a ramp.

8. The modular connector of claim 6, wherein the crown spring has a length less than that of the mounting hole, and the end surface of the contact ring on one side of the crown spring abuts against the inner step and the end surface of the contact ring on the other side is flush with the hole edge of the mounting hole.

9. The modular connector of claim 6, wherein the minimum aperture of the plug channel is smaller than the inner diameter of the receptacle.

10. The modular connector of claim 6, wherein the contact ring is a circular ring, and the contact ring is broken.

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