CN200959431Y

CN200959431Y - Electrical connectors and their components

Info

Publication number: CN200959431Y
Application number: CN 200620077165
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑启升; 何家勇; 尧中华; 刘文宇
Original assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foxconn Kunshan Computer Connector Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Priority date: 2006-08-18
Filing date: 2006-08-18
Publication date: 2007-10-10
Anticipated expiration: 2016-08-18

Abstract

The utility model discloses an electrical connector and components thereof. The electrical connector is provided on the circuit board of electronic equipments to house an electronic component. The electrical connector consists of an insulation body, a plurality of conductive terminals housed therein and a masking shell, the insulation body thereof is provided with housing spaces and two side walls connected therewith, each side wall is arranged with a pair of integral extending flexible arms, the flexible arms extend to the housing spaces so as to press against the electronic components, the masking shell has a simple structure and is easy to manufacture and assemble according to such arrangement.

Description

Electric connector and assembly thereof

[technical field]

The utility model relates in particular to a kind of electric connector that can reliably accommodate such as electronic components such as camera modules about a kind of electric connector and assembly thereof.

[background technology]

Along with development of wireless communication devices and high-tech making rapid progress, the function of portable electric appts such as mobile phone, PDA is tending towards enriching, variation, to satisfy people's demand, increases camera function as giving mobile phone, PDA, that is to say, on mobile phone, PDA, set camera.Generally speaking, need on the corresponding circuit board of mobile phone, to be provided with an electric connector setting camera on the mobile phone, then the camera module is implanted in the electric connector, conductive path on camera module and the circuit board is realized electrically connecting by the conducting terminal of electric connector, in order to realize the stable fixing of camera module and electric connector, electric connector can be provided with the buckle structure that matches with the camera module usually.

The prior art relevant with the utility model can be with reference to the Chinese utility model patent of on December 22nd, 2004 bulletin CN2665983Y number, this patent has disclosed a kind of electric connector and assembly thereof, described electric connector comprises insulating body, some conducting terminal and shielding casings that is contained in the insulating body, wherein insulating body is provided with receiving space, and conducting terminal is provided with the contact site that is positioned at receiving space, described shielding casing comprises the two side that is oppositely arranged, and each sidewall comprises and extending in the receiving space and the camera module elastic arm of buckle mutually.In this kind fit system, described elastic arm is the sidewall punching press formation from shielding casing, so be provided with, and the shielding casing complex structure, manufacture difficulty is bigger, is unfavorable for saving cost; In addition, the shielding casing of this structure is difficult to guarantee the installation accuracy of elastic arm when mounted, and then is unfavorable for the accurate location of camera module.

[utility model content]

The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of have buckle structure and electric connector of being convenient to assemble and assembly thereof.

The purpose of this utility model is achieved through the following technical solutions: a kind of electric connector, it comprises: insulating body, some shielding casings that is immobilizated in the conducting terminal in the insulating body and matches with insulating body, wherein insulating body is provided with the two side that is oppositely arranged and the receiving space between the two side, described conducting terminal is provided with the contact site that is positioned at receiving space, each sidewall one is extended with an elastic arm, described elastic arm extends forward from the sidewall rear end, and the end of described elastic arm is provided with the hook portion that extends in the receiving space.

A kind of electric coupler component, it comprises: an electric connector and be contained in electronic component in the electric connector, described electric connector comprises insulating body, some shielding casings that are immobilizated in the conducting terminal in the insulating body and match with insulating body, wherein insulating body is provided with the two side that is oppositely arranged and the receiving space between the two side, described conducting terminal is provided with the contact site that is positioned at receiving space, each sidewall one is extended with an elastic arm, described elastic arm extends forward from the sidewall rear end, the end of described elastic arm be provided with extend in the receiving space and with the electronic component hook portion of snap close mutually.

Compared with prior art, elastic arm of the present utility model is one-body molded by insulating body, makes the simple in structure of shielding casing, is convenient to make and the assembling location.

[description of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a three-dimensional combination figure of the present utility model.

Fig. 2 is a decomposing schematic representation of the present utility model.

Fig. 3 is the decomposing schematic representation of another angle of the utility model.

Fig. 4 is the cut-away view along A-A direction among Fig. 1.

[embodiment]

Please refer to Fig. 1 to shown in Figure 3, the utility model discloses a kind of electric connector and assembly thereof, described electric connector 100 is welded on the circuit board (not shown), in order to accommodate electronic component (in the present embodiment, this electronic component is a camera module 5), described electric connector 100 and electronic component are formed electric coupler component, and described electric connector 100 comprises insulating body 1, is installed on the plurality of conductive terminals 2 on the insulating body 1 and is coated on insulating body 1 shielding casing 4 outward.

Insulating body 1 is roughly cube structure, the two side 13 that it comprises first side 11, second side 12 and connects first,

second side

11,12, wherein, first,

second side

11,12 lays respectively at top and bottom and is parallel to each other, and described two side 13 is oppositely arranged and all perpendicular to first, second side 11,12.Described first,

second side

11,12 and two side 13 surround a receiving space 10 of accommodating camera module 5 jointly, and described insulating body 1 comprises that also one is positioned at the rear wall 15 of receiving space 10 rear ends.Described first side 11 top middle portion are provided with first projection 111, and described first side 11 front ends are provided with a pair of first shrinkage pool 112 that is communicated with receiving space 10; 12 middle parts, described second side are provided with a mounting groove 121 that is communicated with receiving space 10 and are positioned at second shrinkage pool 122 of mounting groove 121 both sides, described second side 12 also comprises reference column 123 and some slits that runs through 124 of a pair of downward extension, and described reference column 123 is in order to be mounted to electric connector 100 on the circuit board; Described two side 13 is a symmetrical structure, and wherein, the upper/lower terminal of each sidewall 13 inner surface is respectively equipped with storage tank 132 and reaches and storage tank 132 corresponding elastic arms 131, and described elastic arm 131 can move in storage tank 132.Described elastic arm 131 extends from back to front, wherein, the end of elastic arm 131 is provided with a hook portion 133 that enlarges, described hook portion 133 extends into the front end appropriate position of receiving space 10, and described hook portion 133 is provided with the buckling surface 1331 that inclined-plane 1332 reaches and camera module 5 compresses that guiding camera module 5 inserts.Described rear wall 15 is communicated with receiving space 10, and it is provided with some accepting grooves 151 that are communicated with slit 124.

Conducting terminal 2 comprises the contact site 22 of a main part 21, autonomous body 21 1 ends revolution bending and the weld part 23 that autonomous body 21 other ends extend.Described main part 21 is provided with some hangnails 211, in order to main part 21 is fixed in the accepting groove 151; Described contact site 22 is in accepting groove 151 extends into receiving space 10, in order to electrically connect with camera module 5.

Shielding casing 4 is roughly " ㄇ " shape structure, it is provided with an end face 41, the two sides of the vertical bending from end face 41 two ends 42 reach the host cavity 43 that is surrounded by this three, described end face 41 is provided with first recess 411 that matches with first projection 111, the leading edge of described end face 41 is provided with a pair of first retaining sheet 412 that extends in host cavity 43, described first retaining sheet 412 matches with first shrinkage pool 112; Described two sides 42 are provided with lug 421 that extends in opposite directions and the fixing pin 422 that extends downwards, and described lug 421 is provided with second retaining sheet 423 that matches with second shrinkage pool 122, and described fixing pin 422 is in order to match with circuit board.

Camera module 5 comprises a camera module 51 and the sub-circuit board 52 that electrically connects with camera module 51.Described camera module 51 is provided with a matrix part 511 and protrudes in the cylindrical portion 512 of matrix part 511, described matrix part 511 comprises front surface 513, rear surface 514 and both sides 515, each sidepiece 515 is provided with from cave in backward two mating grooves 516 (as shown in Figure 2) of certain depth of front surface 513, and each mating groove 516 is provided with a mating surface 5161 in order to match with the buckling surface 1331 of hook portion 133; Described matrix part 511 also is provided with the raised line 517 that matches with mounting groove 121 and is positioned at the latch part 518 in 514 4 corners, rear surface.Described sub-circuit board 52 comprises breach 521 and the plurality of conducting strips 522 that cooperates with latch part 518, and described conducting strip 522 electrically connects with the contact site 22 of conducting terminal 2 respectively.When sub-circuit board 52 was mounted on the camera module 51, described sub-circuit board 52 flushed with the rear surface 514 of camera module 51.

Please refer to Fig. 1 to shown in Figure 4, during assembling, at first the second side 12 of conducting terminal 2 from insulating body 1 is inserted in the insulating body 1 from bottom to top, wherein, described main part 21 is fixed in the accepting groove 151, described contact site 22 extends into receiving space 10, described weld part 23 outside slit 124 extends second side 12 downwards from accepting groove 151; Secondly, shielding casing 4 is socketed on the insulating body 1, insulating body 1 is contained in the host cavity 43, wherein, described first, second retaining sheet 412,423 is individually fixed in first, second shrinkage pool 112,122.

During use, the camera module 5 that the assembles inclined-plane 1332 along elastic arm 131 is inserted in the receiving space 10 of electric connector 100.During insertion, the both sides 515 of camera module 5 contact with elastic arm 131 earlier and compress, and at this moment, elastic arm 131 deforms in storage tank 132 respectively because of being squeezed, thereby makes camera module 5 be contained in the receiving space 10.After the insertion, raised line 517 is contained in the mounting groove 121 fully, and at this moment, elastic arm 131 discharges elastic force makes hook portion 133 be positioned at mating groove 516, the buckling surface 1331 of described hook portion 133 is interlockingly connected with the mating surface 5161 of camera module 5, makes camera module 5 stable being immobilizated in the electric connector 100.The contact site 22 of described conducting terminal 2 electrically connects with the conducting strip of sub-circuit board 52 522.

Really, the electronic component of the utility model electric connector 100 is not limited to camera module 5, also can be insertion module that all kinds of and electric connector connect or card class component etc.

Compared to prior art, described elastic arm 131 is arranged on the insulating body 1, makes the simple in structure of shielding casing 4, is convenient to make and assembling; Simultaneously, described elastic arm 131 is one-body molded with insulating body 1, guarantees that easily the length that elastic arm 131 extends in the receiving space 10 is identical, promptly, when camera module 5 inserted, elastic arm 131 had identical deflection, and then has improved the installation accuracy of camera module 5.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising: an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals held in the insulating body and a shielding shell matched with the insulating body, wherein the insulating body is provided with opposite side walls and is located on the side walls The receiving space between them, the conductive terminal is provided with a contact portion located in the receiving space, characterized in that: each side wall integrally extends an elastic arm, the elastic arm extends forward from the rear end of the side wall, and the elastic The end of the arm is provided with a hook extending into the receiving space.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each side wall is provided with a pair of elastic arms, and the elastic arms are located at two ends of the inner surface of the side wall.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hook portion is located at a front end of the receiving space.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the side wall is provided with a receiving groove corresponding to the elastic arm, and the elastic arm can move in the receiving groove.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the insulating body includes a first side and a second side connecting the two side walls, and the receiving space is defined by the first and second sides And surrounded by two side walls.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the insulating body is provided with a rear wall located at the rear end of the receiving space, and the rear wall is provided with a plurality of receiving grooves for accommodating conductive terminals, and the conductive terminals are The contact portion extends from the receiving groove into the receiving space.

7. An electrical connector assembly, which includes: an electrical connector and electronic components housed in the electrical connector, the electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals held in the insulating body and connected to the insulating body A matching shielding shell, wherein the insulating body is provided with opposite side walls and a storage space between the two side walls, and the conductive terminal is provided with a contact portion in the storage space, which is characterized in that: each side wall An elastic arm extends integrally. The elastic arm extends forward from the rear end of the side wall. The end of the elastic arm is provided with a hook extending into the receiving space and locked with the electronic component.

8. The electrical connector assembly according to claim 7, wherein the electronic component is a camera module, the camera module includes a camera module, and the hook is provided with a guide for inserting the camera module inclined plane.

9. The electrical connector assembly according to claim 7, wherein the camera module is provided with a mating surface, the hook is buckled on the mating surface, and the hook is provided with a buckle in contact with the mating surface meet face.

10 . The electrical connector assembly according to claim 9 , wherein the camera module comprises a front surface and a matching groove recessed rearward from the front surface to a certain depth, and the matching surface is located in the matching groove. 11 .