Patent Application
20060264080
1. Field of the Present Invention
The invention relates to a connector assembly, particularly the connector assembly with angular positioning structure.
2. Description of Prior Art
Normally the conventional type connector assembly comprises a pair of male connecting piece and female connecting piece which are connected to each other to form electric connection that enables the connector assembly as an apparatus for transmitting electronic signal between electronic devices.
However under some specific purpose of application when the male and female piece of the connector assembly are connected to each other to form electric connection it requires that the male piece must be arranged in some selected angular position relative to the female piece. However, since the conventional type connector assembly has no angular positioning structure, it is really difficult for the conventional type connector to achieve the aforesaid purpose of arranging the male piece in some specific angular position relative to the female piece when they are connected to each other that results in the inconveniency in use and the need of further improvement of the conventional type connector assembly.
In view of the above-mentioned shortcoming the major purpose of the invention is to disclose a connector assembly comprising a pair of male and female connecting piece which are connected to each other, and has angular positioning structure formed between the male and female connecting piece of the connector assembly. When the male piece and female piece are connected to each other the male piece can be arranged in some selected angular position relative to the female piece by means of the angular positioning structure.
The minor purpose of the invention is to disclose a connector assembly comprising a pair of male and female connecting piece which are connected to each other, the positioning tenon block formed on the male connecting piece, and several angular positioning mortise holes formed on the female connecting piece arranged. When the male connecting piece and the female connecting piece are connected to each other to form electric connection the angular position of the male piece relative to the female piece can be varied simply by matching and inserting the positioning tenon block on the male piece with and to different angular positioning mortise hole on the female connecting piece.
Another purpose of the invention is to disclose another kind of connector assembly comprising a pair of male and female connecting piece, wherein the positioning tenon block is formed on the female connecting piece, and several positioning mortise holes are formed on the male connecting piece. When the male connecting piece and female connecting piece are connected to each other to form electric connection, the angular position of the female connecting piece relative to the male connecting piece can be varied simply by matching and inserting the positioning tenon block on the female connecting piece with and to different angular positioning mortise holes on the male connecting piece.
a˜3d is the schematic drawing of the connector assembly shown in
Referring to
The positioning tenon block 23 is formed on the main-body 21 of the male connecting piece 20, and is arranged on the circumference of the common border surface between the main-body 21 and the plug portion 22 of the male connecting piece 20.
The angular positioning mortise holes 33 are arranged on the socket portion 32 and are arranged at an angular interval of “θ” along the circumference of the opening of the socket portion 32 of the main-body 31 of the female connecting piece 30.
Therefore, when the male connecting piece 20 and the female connecting piece 30 are connected to each other, the positioning tenon block 23 on the male connecting piece 20 can be matched with and inserted into any selected angular positioning mortise hole 33, and a specific angle “θ” is set for the angular interval between any two adjacent mortise holes.
As shown in
Moreover, when the plug portion 22 of the male connecting piece 20 and the socket portion 32 of the female connecting piece are connected to each other to form electric connection, the variation of the angular position of the male connecting piece 20 relative to the female connecting piece 30 including such as θ, 2θ, 3θ or 4θ etc. can be achieved by inserting the positioning tenon block 23 into respective angular positioning mortise hole arranged for specific angle of connection.
As shown in
Similarly, when the angle between two adjacent positioning mortise holes 33 is set at 15°, a total number of twenty-four angular positions of the angular positioning mortise hole 33 can be arranged along the circumference of the opening of the socket portion 32 of the female connecting piece 30, and therefore the total number of variation of angular position of the male connecting piece relative to the female connecting piece has twenty-four different positions.
As for the present example of embodiment of the invention the angle between two positioning mortise holes 33 of the female connecting piece 30 is set at 10 degrees, 15 degrees and 30 degrees.
Referring to
Therefore, the main-body 21 of the male connecting piece 20 has several angular positioning mortise holes 24, and any one of the angular positioning mortise holes 24 can be selected to match and for being inserted by the positioning tenon block 34 of the female connecting piece to form electric connection. And, by varying the positioning mortise holes 24 for matching and being inserted by the positioning tenon block 34 the variation of the angular position of the male connecting piece relative to the female connecting piece can be easily achieved.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 094208006 | May 2005 | TW | national |
