This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202011231294.0, filed Nov. 6, 2020, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection device, and particularly relates to an electrical connection device which has a lower height and is adapted to high speed transmission.
At present, an electronic information product is toward lightness in weight and thinness in volume and due to large amount of information, needs to conform with the requirement on rapid transmission speed. In the electronic information product, an electrical connector generally plays an important role in signal transmission. Because the electronic information product needs to be lightness in weight and thinness in volume, the electrical connector is necessary to lower a height thereof, so as to decrease a space occupied by the electrical connector in a casing of the electronic information product.
How to make the electrical connector lower the height thereof (for example, a height of the electrical connector is lower than 5 mm) and capable of conforming to an electrical requirement on high-speed transmission (for example, conforming to 112 GHz transmission speed requirement) still needs to be improved.
Therefore, one of objects of the present disclosure is to provide an electrical connection device which has a lower height and can meet electrical requirement on high-speed transmission.
Accordingly, in some embodiments, an electrical connection device of the present disclosure comprises a receptacle connector. The receptacle connector comprises a receptacle housing and a plurality of receptacle terminals. The receptacle housing has a bottom surface, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface and a plurality of terminal grooves extending from the bottom surface toward the top surface, a groove wall defining each terminal groove comprises a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion which face each other and a top wall portion which extends from the first side wall portion toward the second side wall portion, and the top wall portion and the second side wall portion are spaced apart from each other to allow the terminal groove to form an insertion opening portion exposed on the top surface. The plurality of receptacle terminals are respectively provided in the plurality of terminal grooves, each receptacle terminal has a fixed segment which is fixed to the receptacle housing and is close to the bottom surface and the first side wall portion, an elastic segment which extends obliquely and upwardly from a top end of the fixed segment, then is folded back and extends obliquely, upwardly and straightly toward the top wall portion and a tail segment which extends from a bottom end of the fixed segment toward the second side wall portion. A tip end of the elastic segment is positioned below the top wall portion, the elastic segment has a contact portion which is formed at a position where the elastic segment is folded back and a guiding surface which is positioned between the contact portion and the tip end of the elastic segment and is positioned below the insertion opening portion.
In some embodiments, the receptacle housing further has a plurality of positioning walls which protrude from the bottom surface respectively corresponding to the plurality of terminal grooves, each positioning wall is provided along a circumferential side of the tail segment of the correspond receptacle terminal.
In some embodiments, the tail segment has a soldering surface which faces downwardly and is used to be soldered with a solder.
In some embodiments, the soldering surface is a concave arc surface and the solder is a tin ball, the soldering surface and a surface shape of the tin ball are matched with each other.
In some embodiments, in each receptacle terminal, a width of the fixed segment is larger than a width of the tail segment, and the tail segment extends from a middle of the bottom end of the fixed segment, the fixed segment has two notches which are recessed inwardly from the bottom end of the fixed segment respectively correspondingly to two sides of the tail segment.
In some embodiments, the contact portion presses against the second side wall portion.
In some embodiments, the electrical connection device further comprises a plug connector which is used to mate with the receptacle connector, the plug connector comprise a plug housing and a plurality of plug terminals provided to the plug housing, the plurality of plug terminals and the plurality of receptacle terminals correspond to each other, the insertion opening portion of the receptacle connector is used to allow the plug terminal to insert therein to limit the plug terminal, so that in an inserting process of the plug terminal, a tip end of the plug terminal pushes the guiding surface of the corresponding receptacle terminal to make the contact portion of the corresponding receptacle terminal move toward a direction away from the second side wall portion, in turn make the contact portion of the corresponding receptacle terminal abut against the plug terminal.
In some embodiments, the plurality of plug terminals are divided into multiple plug terminal groups, each plug terminal group is composed of three plug terminals, the two plug terminals of the three plug terminals are signal terminals and the other one plug terminal of the three plug terminals is a ground terminal, the ground terminal has two guiding connection portions which are respectively positioned at two sides of the two signal terminals and a connecting portion which connects the two guiding connection portions, the plurality of receptacle terminals are divided into multiple receptacle terminal groups which respectively correspond to the multiple plug terminal groups, each receptacle terminal group is composed of four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned in a middle of the four receptacle terminals respectively mate with the two corresponding signal terminals and the two receptacle terminals positioned at two sides of the four receptacle terminals respectively mate with the two guiding connection portions of the corresponding ground terminal, the plurality of terminal grooves are divided into multiple terminal groove groups corresponding to the multiple receptacle terminal groups, the receptacle housing further has multiple insertion grooves respectively provided corresponding to the multiple terminal groove groups to allow the connecting portions of the ground terminals of the multiple receptacle terminal groups to insert therein respectively.
In some embodiments, the second side wall portion has an inner taper segment which is positioned below the corresponding contact portion and extends to the bottom surface.
In some embodiments, the plurality of receptacle terminal are divided into multiple receptacle terminal groups, each receptacle terminal group is composed of four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned at a middle of the four receptacle terminals are signal terminals, and the two receptacle terminals respectively positioned at outer sides of the four receptacle terminals are ground terminals, the elastic segments of the two signal terminals in each receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a first distance, the elastic segment of the signal terminal and the elastic segment of the ground terminal in the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in each receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance, the tail segments of the two signal terminals in each receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a third distance, the tail segment of the signal terminal and the tail segment of the ground terminal in the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in each receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a fourth distance, and the third distance is larger than the fourth distance.
In some embodiments, the plurality of receptacle terminals are divided into multiple receptacle terminal groups, each receptacle terminal group is composed of four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned at a middle of the four receptacle terminals are signal terminals, and the two receptacle terminals respectively positioned at outer sides of the four receptacle terminals are ground terminals, the plurality of terminal grooves are divided into multiple terminal groove groups, each terminal groove group is composed of four terminal grooves arranged side by side and correspondingly receives one of the multiple receptacle terminal groups, the two terminal grooves in each terminal groove group which are used to respectively receive the two signal terminals of the corresponding receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a fifth distance, the two terminal grooves in each terminal groove group which are used to receive the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in the corresponding receptacle terminal group are spaced apart from each other by a sixth distance, and the fifth distance is smaller than the sixth distance.
In some embodiments, an electrical connection device of the present disclosure comprises a receptacle connector. The receptacle connector comprises a receptacle housing and multiple terminal blocks. The receptacle housing has a bottom surface, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface and multiple terminal groove groups, each terminal groove group comprises a receiving groove which is recessed from the bottom surface and terminal grooves which are communicated with the receiving groove and extend toward the top surface, a groove wall defining each terminal groove comprises a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion which face each other and a top wall portion which extends from the first side wall portion toward the second side wall portion, and the top wall portion and the second side wall portion are spaced apart from each other to allow the terminal groove to form an insertion opening portion exposed on the top surface. The multiple terminal blocks are respectively provided in the multiple terminal groove groups, each terminal block comprises an insulative base and receptacle terminals, the insulative base is provided to the receiving groove of the corresponding terminal groove group. Each receptacle terminal is provided corresponding to one of the terminal grooves and has a fixed segment which is fixed to the insulative base and is close to the first side wall portion, an elastic segment which extends obliquely and upwardly from a top end of the fixed segment, then is folded back and extends obliquely and upwardly toward the top wall portion and a tail segment which extends from a bottom end of the fixed segment toward the second side wall portion. A tip end of the elastic segment is positioned below the top wall portion, the elastic segment has a contact portion which is formed at a position where the elastic segment is folded back and a guiding surface which is positioned between the contact portion and the tip end of the elastic segment and is positioned below the insertion opening portion.
In some embodiments, the tail segment has a soldering surface which faces downwardly and is used to be soldered with a solder.
In some embodiments, the soldering surface is a concave arc surface and the solder is a tin ball, the soldering surface and a surface shape of the tin ball are matched with each other.
In some embodiments, in each receptacle terminal, a width of the fixed segment is larger than a width of the tail segment, and the tail segment extends from a middle of the bottom end of the fixed segment, the fixed segment has two notches which are recessed inwardly from the bottom end of the fixed segment respectively correspondingly to two sides of the tail segment.
In some embodiments, the contact portion presses against the second side wall portion.
In some embodiments, the electrical connection device further comprises a plug connector which is used to mate with the receptacle connector, the plug connector comprises a plug housing and a plurality of plug terminals provided to the plug housing, the plurality of plug terminals and the receptacle terminals correspond to each other, the insertion opening portion of the receptacle connector is used to allow the plug terminal to insert therein to limit the plug terminal, so that in an inserting process of the plug terminal, a tip end of the plug terminal pushes the guiding surface of the corresponding receptacle terminal to make the contact portion of the corresponding receptacle terminal move toward a direction away from the second side wall portion, in turn make the contact portion of the corresponding receptacle terminal abut against the plug terminal.
In some embodiments, the plurality of plug terminals are divided into multiple plug terminal groups, each plug terminal group is composed of three plug terminals, the two plug terminals of the three plug terminals are signal terminals and the other one plug terminal of the three plug terminals is a ground terminal, the ground terminal has two guiding connection portions which are respectively positioned at two sides of the two signal terminals and a connecting portion which connects the two guiding connection portions, the multiple terminal blocks respectively correspond to the multiple plug terminal groups, each terminal block has four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned in a middle of the four receptacle terminals respectively mate with the two corresponding signal terminals and the two receptacle terminals positioned at two sides of the four receptacle terminals respectively mate with the two guiding connection portions of the corresponding ground terminal, each terminal groove group further has an insertion groove to allow the connecting portion of the corresponding ground terminal to insert therein.
In some embodiments, each terminal block is formed by insert molding.
In some embodiments, each terminal block has four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned at a middle of the four receptacle terminals are signal terminals, and the two receptacle terminals respectively positioned at outer sides of the four receptacle terminals are ground terminals, the elastic segments of the two signal terminals in each terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a first distance, the elastic segment of the signal terminal and the elastic segment of the ground terminal in the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in each terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance, the tail segments of the two signal terminals in each terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a third distance, the tail segment of the signal terminal and the tail segment of the ground terminal in the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in each terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a fourth distance, and the third distance is larger than the fourth distance.
In some embodiments, each terminal block has four receptacle terminals arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals positioned at a middle of the four receptacle terminals are signal terminals, and the two receptacle terminals respectively positioned at outer sides of the four receptacle terminals are ground terminals, each terminal groove group has four terminal grooves, the two terminal grooves in each terminal groove group which are used to respectively receive the two signal terminals of the corresponding terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a fifth distance, the two terminal grooves in each terminal groove group which are used to receive the signal terminal and the ground terminal which are adjacent to each other in the corresponding terminal block are spaced apart from each other by a sixth distance, and the fifth distance is smaller than the sixth distance.
The present disclosure at least has following effect: the receptacle connector wholly can meet a requirement on small-size and lower height and can conform to an electrical requirement on high-speed transmission (112 GHz).
Other features and technical effects of the present disclosure will be apparent in an embodiment referring to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Before the present disclosure is described in detail, it is noted that the similar components are indicated by the same reference numerals in the following description.
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In the present embodiment, the second side wall portion 132 has an inner taper segment 132a which is positioned below the contact portion 221 and extends to the bottom surface 11. By that the inner taper segment 132a is more away from the corresponding receptacle terminal 2, an influence that transmission speed of the receptacle terminal 2 becomes slower due to closing to the receptacle housing 1 which is insulative (plastic) is reduced, in turn signal integrity is promoted when a signal is transmitted. And, in the present embodiment, the plurality of receptacle terminals 2 are divided into multiple receptacle terminal groups A, each receptacle terminal group A is correspondingly provided to one of the multiple terminal groove groups 130. Each receptacle terminal group A is composed of four receptacle terminals 2 arranged side by side, the two receptacle terminals 2 positioned at a middle of the four receptacle terminals 2 are signal terminal 2S, and the two receptacle terminals 2 respectively positioned at outer sides of the four receptacle terminals 2 are ground terminals 2G. The elastic segments 22 of the two signal terminals 2S in each receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a first distance L1, the elastic segment 22 of the signal terminal 2S and the elastic segment 22 of the ground terminal 2G in the signal terminal 2S and the ground terminal 2G which are adjacent to each other in each receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a second distance L2, and the first distance L1 is smaller than the second distance L2. Moreover, the tail segments 23 of the two signal terminals 2S in each receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a third distance L3, the tail segment 23 of the signal terminal 2S and the tail segment 23 of the ground terminal 2G in the signal terminal 2S and the ground terminal 2G which are adjacent to each other in each receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a fourth distance L4, and the third distance L3 is larger than the fourth distance L4. The two terminal grooves 13 positioned at a middle of each terminal groove group 130 and used to respectively receive the two signal terminals 2S of the corresponding receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a fifth distance L5, the two terminal grooves 13 of each terminal groove group 130 used to receive the signal terminal 2S and the ground terminal 2G which are adjacent to each other in the corresponding receptacle terminal group A are spaced apart from each other by a sixth distance L6, and the fifth distance L5 is smaller than the sixth distance L6. With such a configuration, signal integrity can further promoted when a signal is transmitted.
In the present embodiment, in each receptacle terminal, a width of the fixed segment 212 is larger than a width of the tail segment 23, and the tail segment 23 extends from a middle of the bottom end of the fixed segment 21, the fixed segment 21 has two notches 211 which are recessed inwardly from the bottom end of the fixed segment 21 respectively corresponding to two sides of the tail segment 23. By the notches 211, a bent location of the tail segment 23 can be closer to the fixed segment 21, which can lower a height of the receptacle terminal 2 and can increase an elasticity of the tail segment 23, that is, can increase elasticity adjusting capability of the tail segment 23 when the tail segment 23 is subject to an external force, so as to lower a risk that the tail segment 23 is fractured. In the present embodiment, a height of each receptacle terminal 2 is less than 2 mm.
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However, the above description is only for the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it is not intended to limit the implementing scope of the present disclosure, and the simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims and the contents of the specification are still included in the scope of the present disclosure.
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