CN210167584U - Grounded midplane with thin area and its connector - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a ground connection medium plate and connector with thin shape region, this connector includes an insulator, a first metal terminal group, a second metal terminal group and a ground connection medium plate, wherein, this first metal terminal group can be fixed in the insulator with second metal terminal group, this ground connection medium plate then is located this first metal terminal group and second metal terminal group between the two, this ground connection medium plate comprises a medium plate body and a thin shape region at least, this medium plate body is made for the metal material, its front side extends and forms this thin shape region, and the regional thickness of this thin shape can be less than the thickness of this medium plate body, so, through the regional design of this thin shape, can make these metal terminal groups when being close to each other, still can keep predetermined interval with this ground connection medium plate.

Description

Ground midplane with thin shaped regions and connectors thereof

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a grounding middle plate of a connector, and more particularly to a grounding middle plate with a thin area.

Background

In order to receive electronic signals and power from the outside, various electronic devices (e.g., smart phones, tablet computers, desktop computers, notebook computers, digital cameras …, etc.) usually have to configure a signal Connector on the body of each electronic device, generally speaking, the signal Connector (Connector) refers to all the connecting components and accessories thereof applied to electronic signals and power, and is a bridge for all signals, the quality of which affects the reliability of current and signal transmission and is also closely related to the operation of the electronic devices.

In view of the above, with the development of AR/VR applications and the emergence of 4K/8K displays, high-quality image transmission has become the mainstream, so that the original analog interface certainly cannot meet the application requirements, and the DisplayPort (video connector) becomes the preferred interface standard of Consumer Electronics (CE) devices, wherein, due to the requirement of modern design on the appearance of the Consumer Electronics devices, most of them are "thin, short, and compact", but the functional requirement is desired to have various novel functions, so that the configuration space of each component in the Consumer Electronics devices must be relatively small by workers in the field, so as to meet the requirements of consumers between appearance and function, to improve the competitiveness of the worker on the market, and in this situation, the volume of DisplayPort must be reduced together, so as to move more available space, however, as the volume of the DisplayPort is reduced, the two sets of signal terminals therein are necessarily closer to each other, and for high frequency transmission, the two sets of signal terminals are likely to interfere with each other, which adversely affects the high frequency and high speed transmission performance of the DisplayPort.

In addition, in the situation that the transmission speed of the digital signal is advancing to high speed and high frequency, the digital signal transmitted through the signal connector itself will also generate loss during the transmission process, so that the loss is minimized, and the digital signal can obtain stable and accurate transmission quality, which has become an important issue in the development of the high frequency signal connector industry, especially for the signal connector, the design of the mechanical structure and the analysis of the high frequency electromagnetic electrical design are two distinct professional fields, so how to obtain the best balance point in the engineering design is a difficult challenge.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to be able to be in the market with fierce competition, it is clear that the inventor relies on the abundant work experience of various power supply or signal connector designs, processing and manufacturing that the specialty was engaged in for many years, and inherits the research spirit of lean and refined, after long-term hard research and experiment, finally develop the utility model discloses a ground connection medium plate and connector with thin shape region hopes to pass through the utility model discloses an emerge, provide the better experience of use of user.

An object of the utility model is to provide a ground connection medium plate with thin shape is regional, it can be located between two sets of metal terminal group of a connector, wherein, this ground connection medium plate includes that a medium plate body and a thin shape are regional, this medium plate body is made for the metal material, and its front side can extend and form this thin shape region, the characterized in that of this ground connection medium plate, the regional thickness of this thin shape can be less than the thickness of this medium plate body, so, when the metal terminal in these metal terminal group, when needing to be close each other because of the design demand, through the space that this thin shape region gave way, can make each this metal terminal and ground connection medium plate keep predetermined interval.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a connector having a grounding middle plate with a thin area, which includes an insulating body, a first metal terminal set, a second metal terminal set and a grounding middle plate, wherein the insulating body is provided with a receiving space therein, the first metal terminal set includes a plurality of first metal terminals, the first metal terminals are disposed in the insulating body, and the front ends of the first metal terminals are exposed out of the receiving space; the second metal terminal group comprises a plurality of second metal terminals, the second metal terminals are also arranged in the insulating body, the front end of the second metal terminals is exposed out of the accommodating space, the grounding middle plate is positioned between the first metal terminal group and the second metal terminal group, and the connector is characterized in that the grounding middle plate at least comprises a middle plate body and a thin area, wherein the middle plate body is made of metal materials, the thin area extends out from the front side of the middle plate body, and the thickness of the thin area is smaller than that of the middle plate body.

In order to make the objects, technical features and functions of the present invention clearer, the embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings:

[ description of the drawings ]

Fig. 1 is an exploded view of the connector of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an assembly view of the connector of the present invention with the metal shell omitted;

fig. 3 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of a connector according to the present invention; and

fig. 4 is an assembly diagram of the grounding middle plate and the second metal terminal set according to the present invention.

[ description of main element symbols of the embodiments in the drawings ]

Connector … … 1

Insulating body … … 10

Front seat … … 10A

Rear seat … … 10B

Accommodating space … … 100

Interface … … 101

Terminal groove … … 102

First metal terminal group … … 11

First metal terminal … … 111

Second metal terminal group … … 12

Second metal terminal … … 121

Ground middle plate … … 13

Middle plate body … … 131

Thin region … … 133

Metal casing … … 14

Assembly space … … 140

Circuit board … … E

Detailed Description

The present invention relates to a grounding middle plate with a thin area and a connector thereof, please refer to fig. 1 and 2, in an embodiment, the connector 1 includes an insulation body 10, a first metal terminal set 11, a second metal terminal set 12, a grounding middle plate 13 and a metal housing 14, for convenience of description, the upper side of fig. 1 is used as the upper (top side) position of the assembly, the lower side of fig. 1 is used as the lower (bottom side) position of the assembly, the left lower side of fig. 1 is used as the front position of the assembly, and the upper right side of fig. 1 is used as the rear position of the assembly. In addition, the form of the connector of the present invention is not limited to that depicted in fig. 1, and ordinary workers in the field can adjust the style of each component, or even increase or decrease the components according to the product requirements, for example, the connector 1 may not be provided with the metal shell 14, or the metal shell 14 is integrated with the shell of the product or other mechanisms, and the ordinary workers in the field only need to assemble the insulating body 10 together with the components thereon into the components equivalent to the metal shell 14, so as long as the connector 1 has the relevant basic structure and efficacy of the following embodiments, that is, the connector 1 to be protected of the present invention is described in advance.

Referring to fig. 1-2 again, in this embodiment, an assembly space 140 is disposed in the metal housing 14, the insulating body 10 can extend into and be fixed to the assembly space 140, so as to achieve the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) prevention and protection of the insulating body 10 through the effect of the metal housing 14, a socket 101 is disposed at the front side of the insulating body 10, an accommodating space 100 is disposed therein, and the accommodating space 100 and the socket 101 are communicated with each other, in this embodiment, the specification type of the connector 1 is exemplified by a male end (plug end) of a video connector (DisplayPort), therefore, a plurality of terminal slots 102 are further disposed on two corresponding inner side surfaces of the insulating body 10, and the socket 101, the terminal slots 102 and the accommodating space 100 are also communicated with each other. In other embodiments of the present invention, the insulation body 10 may not have the terminal groove 102, or a tongue plate is added to the accommodation space 100 and the terminal groove 102 is formed on the tongue plate, not only in the form shown in fig. 1, but also in other embodiments according to the requirements of connectors with different specifications.

Referring to fig. 1-2, the first metal terminal group 11 is fixed on the insulating body 10 and includes a plurality of first metal terminals 111, in this embodiment, the first metal terminals 111 can be disposed in corresponding terminal slots 102 on one side surface, and front ends thereof can be exposed out of the accommodating space 100 (as shown in fig. 2), and rear ends of the first metal terminals 111 can be connected (e.g., welded) to a circuit board E or other components; the second metal terminal set 12 is also fixed on the insulating body 10 and includes a plurality of second metal terminals 121, in this embodiment, the second metal terminals 121 are disposed in the corresponding terminal slots 102 on the other side surface, and the front ends thereof are exposed out of the accommodating space 100 (as shown in fig. 2), and the rear ends of the second metal terminals 121 can be connected (e.g., soldered) to a circuit board E or other components; each of the first metal terminals 111 and the second metal terminals 121 can be at least one of a signal terminal, a ground terminal, or a power terminal, for example, the first metal terminal group 11 can include a combination of a plurality of signal terminals, a plurality of ground terminals, and a power terminal …, and the second metal terminal group 12 can include the three types of terminals, or only one or two types of terminals, depending on the specification of the connector 1.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, the grounding middle plate 13 is located between the first metal terminal set 11 and the second metal terminal set 12, the present invention is characterized in that the grounding middle plate 13 is at least composed of a middle plate body 131 and a thin area 133, wherein the middle plate body 131 is made of metal material, the thin area 133 extends from the front side of the middle plate body 131, and the thickness of the thin area is smaller than the thickness of the middle plate 131, as shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, the front ends and the middle areas of the first metal terminals 111 and the second metal terminals 121 are gradually adjacent to each other, which is mainly designed to tightly clamp and connect the first metal terminals 111 and the second metal terminals 121 with the corresponding metal terminals of another connector when the connector 1 is plugged with another connector, but as the connector 1 becomes thinner, it may cause both the first metal terminal 111 and the second metal terminal 121 to be too close to the ground middle plate 13, however, by disposing the thin region 133, both the first metal terminal 111 and the second metal terminal 121 can be kept at a proper distance (as shown by the dashed circle in fig. 3) from the thin region 133, thereby avoiding the first metal terminal 111 and the second metal terminal 121 from inadvertently contacting the ground middle plate 13 to cause a short circuit phenomenon, for example, the signal terminal is in principle unable to contact the ground middle plate 13.

In order to avoid excessive wear of the metal terminals during transmission, due to the material quality or length thereof, the applicant also shortens the length of the first metal terminals 111 and the second metal terminals 121, which means that the length of the first metal terminals 111 and the second metal terminals 121 of the present invention does not exceed the entire length of the insulating body 10, compared to the conventional connector, so that, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the applicant adds a circuit board E in the connector 1, the circuit board E can be located in the insulating body 10 (i.e. in the accommodating space 100), the rear ends of the first metal terminals 111 can be soldered to the top surface of the circuit board E and adjacent to the front side, the rear ends of the second metal terminals 121 can be soldered to the bottom surface of the circuit board E and adjacent to the front side, the rear end region of the circuit board E can be connected to other transmission lines, the foregoing has the following advantages:

(1) the lengths of the first metal terminal 111 and the second metal terminal 121 are short, so that the loss rate can be reduced when the signal or the current is transmitted; and

(2) with the public end of video connector (DisplayPort), its outside will set up the button usually for the user when plug, can unlock through pressing this button, moreover, because this circuit board E can replace the plastics region of being hollowed out, and its intensity often can be higher than plastics, consequently, can effectively improve this insulator 10's bulk strength, has longer life.

In view of the above, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, in this embodiment, the insulation body 10 can be composed of at least a front seat 10A and a rear seat 10B, and the rear side of the front seat 10A and the front side of the rear seat 10B can be assembled into a whole (as shown in fig. 2), so that the inner spaces of the front seat 10A and the rear seat 10B can jointly form the accommodating space 100, and the circuit board E can be conveniently disposed in the insulation body 10, as shown in fig. 1, the circuit board E can be inserted from the rear end of the front seat 10A, and the rear seat 10B can be assembled from the rear end of the circuit board E forward to the front seat 10A, so as to completely cover the circuit board E, thereby greatly improving the convenience of assembly.

In addition, as shown in fig. 1 to fig. 3, when a key is disposed on the outer side of the connector 1 (e.g., the male end of a video connector), in order to provide the space for the key, the first metal terminal 111 is disposed downward, which will cause the first metal terminal 111 and the second metal terminal 121 to be too close to the ground middle plate 13, but the space left by the thin region 133 can keep the metal terminals 111, 121 and the ground middle plate 13 at a predetermined distance, so that the connector 1 of the present invention can be more stable in high frequency and high speed transmission, and the thin region 133 can be disposed without excessively increasing the overall volume of the connector 1, and in addition, the ground middle plate 13 can be formed by stamping a metal plate, and the front side of the metal plate is flattened (thinned) to form the corresponding body 131 and thin region 133, therefore, the production is extremely convenient.

Furthermore, the width of the thin region 133 can be changed according to the specification of the connector 1, as shown in fig. 1 and 4, in this embodiment, the width of the thin region 133 is smaller than the width of the middle plate body 131, as shown in fig. 4, the thin region 133 of fig. 4 only corresponds to a portion of the second metal terminals 121 in the second metal terminal set 12. In addition, when the specification of the connector 1 is DisplayPort, the thin area 133 can correspond to the second, fifth, eighth, eleventh and fourteenth pin ranges of DisplayPort, and the pins are "Ground (GND)" according to the DisplayPort specification, in other embodiments of the present invention, the width of the thin area 133 can be the same or close to the same width of the middle plate body 131, wherein the "close to the same width of the middle plate body 131" is mainly because the thin area 133 is tolerance formed by production technology in production, but substantially close to the width of the middle plate body 131, which is described in advance.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the claimed invention is not limited thereto, and all persons skilled in the art should understand that the equivalent changes can be easily considered according to the technical content disclosed by the present invention without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A grounded midplane with a thin area between two sets of metal terminals of a connector, comprising: a middle plate body, made of metal; and a thin area extending from the front side of the mid-plate body; It is characterized in that the thickness of the thin region is smaller than the thickness of the middle plate body. 2 . The grounded midplane as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the width of the thin region is the same as or close to the same as the width of the midplane body. 3 . 3 . The grounded midplane as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the width of the thin region is smaller than the width of the midplane body. 4 . 4 . The grounded midplane of claim 3 , wherein when the specification of the connector is DisplayPort, the thin area corresponds to the second, fifth, eighth, eleventh and fourteenth of DisplayPort. 5 . pin range. 5. A grounded midplane connector with a thin area, comprising at least: an insulating body, which is provided with an accommodating space; a first metal terminal group including a plurality of first metal terminals, the first metal terminals are arranged in the insulating body, and the front ends of the first metal terminals expose the accommodating space; a second metal terminal group including a plurality of second metal terminals, the second metal terminals are arranged in the insulating body, and the front ends of the second metal terminals are exposed to the accommodating space; and a grounded middle plate located between the first metal terminal group and the second metal terminal group; It is characterized in that the grounding middle plate is composed of at least a middle plate body and a thin area, wherein the middle plate body is made of metal material, and the thin area extends from the front side of the middle plate body, And its thickness will be smaller than the thickness of the middle plate body. 6 . The connector of claim 5 , wherein the width of the thin region is the same as or close to the same as the width of the midplane body. 7 . 7 . The connector of claim 5 , wherein the width of the thin region is smaller than the width of the midplane body. 8 . 8 . The connector of claim 7 , wherein the specification of the connector is DisplayPort, and the thin area corresponds to the second, fifth, eighth, eleventh, and fourteenth pin ranges of DisplayPort. 9 . 9 . The connector according to claim 5 , further comprising a circuit board, the circuit board is located in the accommodating space, and the rear ends of the first metal terminals can be soldered to the circuit. 10 . The top surface of the board is located adjacent to the front side; the rear ends of the second metal terminals can be soldered to the bottom surface of the circuit board and located adjacent to the front side. 10 . The connector of claim 9 , wherein the insulating body comprises a front seat body and a rear seat body, and the rear side of the front seat body and the front side of the rear seat body can be assembled into one body. 11 .

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