CN110867689A - High-speed socket electric connector assembly with light pipe - Google Patents

Abstract

A high-speed socket connector assembly for mating with an insert module of a high-speed cable, the high-speed socket connector assembly includes a shielding cage, a plurality of electrical connectors and a plurality of light guide pipes, the plurality of light guide pipes are electrically connected to A metal shell is arranged between the light guides, the metal shell includes a first side wall disposed between the light guide pipe and the electrical connector, and the first side wall includes a first side wall disposed between the first light guide pipe and the second light guide A first separation structure between the light pipes, the first separation structure isolates the light signal between the first light pipe and the second light pipe, thereby preventing light channeling between the light pipes.

Description

High-speed socket electrical connector assembly with light pipe

technical field

The present application relates to a high-speed socket electrical connector assembly, in particular to a high-speed socket electrical connector assembly with a light guide.

Background technique

Chinese Invention Patent Bulletin CN101699665B (refer to Figure 9 of this patent document), discloses a 2XN high-speed socket electrical connector module with a light guide. The light guide is divided into two pairs and integrally formed. The two pairs of light guides The tubes are inserted and fixed to the insulating housings of the connectors, respectively. When multiple light guide tubes are on the same side of the electrical connector, light is easily channeled between the light guide tubes, resulting in an inconspicuous visual effect.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The technical problem to be solved by the present application is to provide a high-speed socket electrical connector assembly with a light guide, the high-speed socket connector assembly can avoid light channeling from the light guide.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present application provides a high-speed socket connector assembly for mating with an insert module of a high-speed cable, the high-speed socket connector assembly comprising a shielding cage mounted on a circuit board, a plurality of electrical connectors A number of light guide pipes for guiding optical signals, the light guide pipes are arranged corresponding to each electrical connector to guide the optical signal indicating the connection state of the insertion module and the corresponding electrical connector to the front, and the shielding The cage is provided with upper and lower rows of accommodating channels for accommodating the above-mentioned insertion modules respectively. The accommodating channels include a top wall, a bottom wall, two side walls and a rear wall. The electrical connector has an upper card corresponding to the upper accommodating channel. The accommodating groove and the lower card accommodating groove corresponding to the lower accommodating channel, the several light guide tubes have a front section, a rear section and a connecting section connecting the front section and the rear section, and the front section extends between the upper accommodating channel and the lower accommodating channel , the rear section is on the side of the electrical connector, a metal shell is arranged between the plurality of light guide pipes and the electrical connector, and the light guide pipe includes a first light guide pipe corresponding to one side of the electrical connector and a metal shell. The second light guide pipe, the metal shell includes a first side wall disposed between the first and second light pipes and the electrical connector, and the first side wall includes a first side wall disposed between the first light pipe and the electrical connector. A first separation structure between the second light guides, the first separation structure isolates the light signal between the first light guide and the second light guide, thereby preventing light channeling between the light guides.

As a further design, the light guide pipe further includes a third light guide pipe and a fourth light guide pipe corresponding to the other side of the electrical connector, and between the first light guide pipe and the third light guide pipe a A horizontal connecting beam, a horizontal connecting beam is arranged between the second light guide tube and the fourth light guide tube, and the metal shell further includes a second light guide tube arranged between the third and fourth light guide tubes and the electrical connector. The side wall, the second side wall includes a second separation structure disposed between the third light pipe and the fourth light pipe, the second separation structure separates the third light pipe and the fourth light pipe The optical signal between them is isolated.

As a further design, the rear section of each light guide includes a horizontal section and a vertical section, and the first separation structure and the second separation structure include a separation structure between the horizontal sections and a separation structure between the vertical sections Separation structure between.

As a further design, the metal shell is clamped and fixed between the bottom wall of the upper accommodating channel and the top wall of the lower accommodating channel.

As a further design, the metal shell includes a metal front wall, the first side wall and the second side wall are formed by bending backwards on opposite lateral sides of the metal front wall, and the metal shell also includes a metal front wall. The upper and lower ends of the upper and lower ends are bent backwards to form a metal upper wall and a metal lower wall, the metal upper wall bears upward against the bottom wall of the aforementioned upper receiving channel, and the metal lower wall bears downward against the top wall of the aforementioned lower receiving channel .

As a further design, the electrical connector includes two accommodating slits disposed between the upper card accommodating groove and the lower card accommodating groove, and the accommodating slits are gap-fitted with the metal upper wall and the metal lower wall of the metal shell.

As a further design, the electrical connector includes a body with a receiving cavity and a plurality of terminal pieces installed in the body, each terminal piece is fixed with a plurality of conductive terminals, and each conductive terminal includes a terminal pin for mounting on a circuit board and a plurality of terminal pieces. The terminal contact parts extending into the upper card accommodating groove and the lower card accommodating groove.

As a further design, the body includes two side walls and a top wall, the top wall is provided with a number of dovetail grooves extending backward, each terminal piece is provided with a corresponding dovetail-shaped slider, the The dovetail-shaped sliding block cooperates with the guide of the dovetail groove and is inserted forward into the body.

As a further design, the first side wall and the second side wall are provided with elastic walls that are inclined outward, and the elastic walls are elastically pressed against the shielding cage.

As a further design, the upper and lower edges of the first side wall and the second side wall are provided with a blocking piece formed by folding outwards, and the blocking piece, the first partition structure and the second partition structure separate the The light guide pipe is relatively fixed with the metal shell.

Description of drawings

The drawings described herein are used to provide further understanding of the embodiments of the present application and constitute a part of the embodiments of the present application. The drawings and descriptions of the present application are used to explain the embodiments of the present application and do not constitute inappropriate embodiments of the present application. limited. In the attached image:

FIG. 1 is a perspective combined schematic diagram of a high-speed socket electrical connector assembly of the present application;

Fig. 2 is the disassembled schematic diagram of the high-speed socket electrical connector assembly shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is another disassembled schematic diagram of the high-speed socket electrical connector assembly shown in Fig. 1;

4 is a schematic diagram of disassembly of the electrical connector, metal shell, shielding cage and light guide of the high-speed socket electrical connector assembly of the present application;

Fig. 5 is another dismantling schematic diagram of the assembly shown in Fig. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the assembly shown in FIG. 5 from another perspective.

Detailed ways

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present application clearer, the technical solutions of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the specific embodiments of the present application and the corresponding drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Here, it should also be noted that, in order to avoid obscuring the present application due to unnecessary details, only structures and/or processing steps closely related to some embodiments of the present application are shown in the drawings, and omitted Other details not relevant to some embodiments of the present application.

In addition, it should be noted that the terms "comprising", "comprising", "having" or any other variation thereof are intended to encompass non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article or device comprising a series of elements not only includes Those elements, but also other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such a process, method, article or apparatus.

For the accuracy of description, please refer to Figure 1 for all directions involved in this article, where the extension direction of the X-axis is the left-right direction (wherein the positive direction of the X-axis is the front-right direction), and the extension direction of the Y-axis is the front-rear direction (wherein the Y-axis is forward and rightward). The negative direction of the axis is forward), and the extension direction of the Z axis is the up and down direction (where the positive direction of the Z axis is up).

For the convenience of description, the up, down, left, right, front, and rear orientations in this application are relative positions, which do not constitute a limitation to achieve a limitation.

Please refer to FIGS. 1 to 6 , the present application discloses a high-speed socket connector assembly 100 for mating with a high-speed cable plug-in module (not shown), the high-speed socket connector assembly 100 includes a mounting The shielding cage 20 on the circuit board (not shown), a plurality of electrical connectors 30 and a plurality of light guide pipes 40 for guiding optical signals, the light guide pipes 40 are arranged corresponding to the electrical connectors 30 to represent all the The optical signal in the connection state between the plug-in module and the corresponding electrical connector is guided to the front. The shielding cage 20 is provided with two upper and lower rows of accommodating channels 102 and 104 for accommodating the above-mentioned plug-in modules respectively. The top wall 202, the bottom wall 206, the two side walls 204 and the rear wall (not numbered), the electrical connector 30 has an upper card receiving groove 302 corresponding to the upper receiving channel 104 and a lower card receiving groove 304 corresponding to the lower receiving channel, The plurality of light guide tubes 40 have a front section 46, a rear section 47, and a connecting section 48 connecting the front section 46 and the rear section 47. The front section 46 extends between the upper accommodating channel 102 and the lower accommodating channel 104. The segment 47 is located on one side of the electrical connector 30 , a metal shell 50 is arranged between the plurality of light guide pipes 40 and the electrical connector 30 , and the light guide pipe 40 includes a first guide tube corresponding to a position on one side of the electrical connector 30 . The light pipe 41 and the second light pipe 42, the metal shell 50 includes a first side wall 52 disposed between the first light pipe 41, the second light pipe 42 and the electrical connector 30, the The first sidewall 52 includes first separation structures 502 and 504 disposed between the first light pipe 41 and the second light pipe 42 . The first separation structures 502 and 504 separate the first light pipe 41 from the second light pipe 41 . The optical signals between the two light pipes 42 are isolated.

The light guide 40 further includes a third light guide 43 and a fourth light guide 44 corresponding to the other side of the electrical connector 30 , between the first light guide 41 and the third light guide 43 . A transverse connection beam 413 is provided, and a transverse connection beam 424 is provided between the second light guide pipe 42 and the fourth light pipe 44 , and the metal shell 50 further includes a fourth light guide pipe 43 and a fourth light pipe The second side wall 54 between the light pipe 44 and the electrical connector 30, the second side wall 54 includes a second separation structure (not numbered) disposed between the third light pipe 43 and the fourth light pipe 44 ), the second separation structure isolates the light signal between the third light pipe 43 and the fourth light pipe 44 .

The rear section of each light pipe 40 includes a horizontal section 474 and a vertical section 476 , the first partition structure 502 , 504 and the second partition structure include the partition structure 502 between the horizontal sections 474 and the partition structure 502 between the horizontal sections 474 The partition structure 504 between the vertical sections 476 is described. The metal shell 50 is clamped and fixed between the bottom wall 206 of the upper receiving channel 102 and the top wall 206 of the lower receiving channel 104 . The metal shell 50 includes a metal front wall 58 , the first side wall 52 and the second side wall 54 are formed by bending backwards on opposite lateral sides of the metal front wall 58 , and the metal shell 50 also includes a metal shell 50 . The upper and lower ends of the front wall 58 are bent backward to form a metal upper wall 56 and a metal lower wall (not numbered). The top wall 202 of the aforementioned lower receiving channel 104 is pressed downward. The electrical connector 30 includes two accommodating slits 306 disposed between the upper card accommodating groove 302 and the lower card accommodating groove 304 . Cooperate. The first side wall 52 and the second side wall 54 are provided with elastic walls 508 which are inclined outwardly and open, and the elastic walls 508 are elastically pressed against the shielding cage 40 . The upper and lower edges of the first side wall 52 and the second side wall 54 are provided with a resisting sheet 506 formed by folding outwards. The resisting sheet 506 is connected to the first separating structures 502 , 504 and the second separating structures The light guide 30 and the metal shell 50 are relatively fixed.

The electrical connector 30 includes a main body 32 with a receiving cavity and a plurality of terminal pieces 36 installed in the main body 34. Each terminal piece 34 is fixed with a plurality of conductive terminals 38. Terminal pins (not numbered) and terminal contact portions (not shown) extending into the upper card accommodating groove 302 and the lower card accommodating groove 304 .

The body includes two side walls 324 and a top wall 322. The top wall 322 is provided with a plurality of dovetail grooves 326 extending backward. Each terminal piece 34 is provided with a corresponding dovetail slider 342. The dovetail-shaped sliding block 342 of the piece 34 cooperates with the guide of the dovetail groove 326 to facilitate the insertion of each terminal piece 34 into the body 32 forwardly.

The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present application and not to limit them. Although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that the technical solutions of the present application can be modified or equivalently replaced. Without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. A high-speed socket connector component is used for matching with an insertion module of a high-speed cable, the high-speed socket connector component comprises a shielding cage arranged on a circuit board, a plurality of electric connectors and a plurality of light guide pipes for guiding light signals, the light guide pipes are arranged corresponding to the electric connectors and used for guiding the light signals indicating the connection state of the insertion module and the corresponding electric connectors to the front, the shielding cage is provided with an upper row of accommodating channels and a lower row of accommodating channels used for respectively accommodating the insertion module, the accommodating channels respectively comprise a top wall, a bottom wall, two side walls and a rear wall, the electric connectors are provided with an upper clamping accommodating groove corresponding to the upper accommodating channel and a lower clamping accommodating groove corresponding to the lower accommodating channel, the plurality of light guide pipes are provided with a front section, a rear section and a connecting section for connecting the front section and the rear section, and the front section extends between the upper, back end department is in electric connector one side, be equipped with the metal casing between a plurality of light pipes and the electric connector, the light pipe includes first light pipe and the second light pipe that corresponds electric connector one side position, its characterized in that: the metal shell comprises a first side wall arranged between the first light pipe, the second light pipe and the electric connector, the first side wall comprises a first partition structure arranged between the first light pipe and the second light pipe, and the first partition structure isolates optical signals between the first light pipe and the second light pipe.

2. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 1 wherein: the light guide pipe further comprises a third light guide pipe and a fourth light guide pipe which correspond to the other side of the electric connector, a transverse connecting beam is arranged between the first light guide pipe and the third light guide pipe, a transverse connecting beam is arranged between the second light guide pipe and the fourth light guide pipe, the metal shell further comprises a second side wall arranged between the third light guide pipe, the fourth light guide pipe and the electric connector, the second side wall comprises a second partition structure arranged between the third light guide pipe and the fourth light guide pipe, and the second partition structure separates light signals between the third light guide pipe and the fourth light guide pipe.

3. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein: the rear section of each light guide pipe comprises a horizontal section and a vertical section, and the first separation structure and the second separation structure comprise a separation structure between the horizontal sections and a separation structure between the vertical sections.

4. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 1 wherein: the metal shell is clamped and fixed between the bottom wall of the upper containing channel and the top wall of the lower containing channel.

5. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 2 wherein: the metal shell comprises a metal front wall, the first side wall and the second side wall are formed by bending the two transversely opposite sides of the metal front wall backwards, the metal shell further comprises a metal upper wall and a metal lower wall, the metal upper wall and the metal lower wall are formed by bending the upper end and the lower end of the metal front wall backwards, the metal upper wall upwards props against the bottom wall of the upper containing channel, and the metal lower wall downwards props against the top wall of the lower containing channel.

6. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 5 wherein: the electric connector comprises two accommodating gaps arranged between the upper clamping accommodating groove and the lower clamping accommodating groove, and the accommodating gaps are in clearance fit with the upper metal wall and the lower metal wall of the metal shell.

7. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 1 wherein: the electric connector comprises a body provided with a containing cavity and a plurality of terminal pieces arranged in the body, wherein a plurality of conductive terminals are fixed on each terminal piece, and each conductive terminal comprises a terminal pin arranged on a circuit board and a terminal contact part extending into an upper clamping containing groove and a lower clamping containing groove.

8. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 7 wherein: the body comprises two side walls and a top wall, the top wall is provided with a plurality of dovetail grooves extending backwards, each terminal piece is provided with a corresponding matched dovetail-shaped sliding block, and the dovetail-shaped sliding blocks of the terminal pieces are matched with the dovetail grooves in a guiding mode and are inserted into the body forwards.

9. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 2 wherein: the first side wall and the second side wall are provided with elastic walls which are outwards inclined and opened, and the elastic walls are elastically abutted and matched with the shielding cage in a pressing mode.

10. A high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly as in claim 2 wherein: the upper side edges and the lower side edges of the first side wall and the second side wall are provided with retaining pieces formed by outwards turning, and the retaining pieces, the first partition structure and the second partition structure relatively fix the light guide pipe and the metal shell.

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