The present disclosure relates to a connector, and in particular, to an electrical connector.
Currently, there are various types of electrical connectors with signal ports, such as USB Type-A and USB Type-C connectors and SD card connectors, which are becoming increasingly popular on the market. A part of the electrical connector is cut into an elastic piece, to overlap a housing of an electronic device, thereby generating an electromagnetic interference (EMI) barrier, to avoid a problem of signal interference.
However, currently, the height of the elastic piece of the electrical connector is fixed. As a result of insufficient height for the elastic piece to overlap the housing of the electronic device, it is currently only possible to add an accessory (such as a gasket) or replace the electrical connector with an electrical connector having an elastic piece with a different height.
In view of the foregoing subject, a main objective of the present disclosure is to provide an electrical connector having a novel structure of an adjustable elastic piece assembly, to resolve the problem that the height of the elastic piece of the conventional electrical connector cannot be adjusted.
To achieve the foregoing objective, the present disclosure provides an electrical connector, including a connector body and an adjustable elastic piece assembly. The connector body includes a mounting surface. The adjustable elastic piece assembly includes a fixing plate and a grounding elastic piece. The fixing plate is arranged on the mounting surface of the connector body. The fixing plate includes a guide rail extending along a first direction. The guide rail has a plurality of limiting grooves, and the limiting grooves are arranged at intervals. The grounding elastic piece is arranged on a side surface of the fixing plate opposite to the mounting surface along the first direction. The grounding elastic piece includes a fixed end and a movable end that are opposite to each other. The fixed end is fixed to a side of the fixing plate. The movable end is slidably arranged in the guide rail, and is adapted to be positioned in one of the limiting grooves.
Based on the above, a height of the grounding elastic piece relative to the connector body can be adjusted by changing the position of the movable end of the grounding elastic piece in different limiting grooves, so that the electrical connector can be applied to different electronic devices.
To understand the technical content of the present disclosure better, descriptions of specific preferred embodiment are provided below particularly. The following further describes specific implementations of the present disclosure with reference to the drawings and the embodiments. The following embodiments are merely used for more clearly describing the technical solutions of the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present disclosure.
In descriptions of the embodiments, terms such as “first” and “second” are used for describing different elements, and the elements are not limited by such terms. In addition, for convenience and clarity of the description, thicknesses or sizes of the elements in the drawings expressed in an exaggerated, omitted or general manner are used to help a person skilled in the art to understand and read, and the sizes of elements are not completely actual sizes and are not intended to limit restraint conditions under which the present disclosure can be implemented and therefore have no technical significance. Any modification to the structure, change to the proportional relationship or adjustment on the size should fall within the scope of the technical content disclosed by the present disclosure without affecting the effects and the objectives that can be achieved by the present disclosure. The same reference numerals are used to indicate the same or similar elements in all of the drawings.
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The grounding elastic piece 22 includes a fixed end 221 and a movable end 222 that are opposite to each other. The fixed end 221 is fixed to the fixing plate 21, and is close to a side 215 of the fixing plate 21. For example, the fixed end 221 is fixed to the fixing plate 21 by a screw 2211, or in a bonding manner. The movable end 222 is slidably arranged in the guide rail 210, and is adapted to be positioned in one of the limiting grooves 211.
In this embodiment, the clamping structure 223 may be a combination of a screw and a nut, that is, the lower protruding portion 2231 may be a screw, and the upper protruding portion 2232 may be a nut. Specifically, after the screw penetrates through the guide rail 210 from a lower surface 217 of the fixing plate 21, the nut is locked with the screw on the upper surface 216 of the fixing plate 21, to form the clamping structure 223 of this embodiment.
The structure of the limiting grooves 211 is not particularly limited in the present disclosure, and only needs to be a structure that can limit the displacement of the clamping structure 223. Preferably, as shown in
In this embodiment, the angle θ is 90 degrees, and each of the limiting grooves 211 includes a first part 2111 and a second part 2112 that are connected in a bent manner, and the angle θ is formed between the first part 2111 and the first direction D1. Specifically, with the first part 2111 and the second part 2112 connected in a bent manner, the movable end 222 of the grounding elastic piece 22 can be limited in the second part 2112. Preferably, the limiting groove 211 is L-shaped, so that the second part 2112 of the limiting groove 211 is parallel to the first direction D1 and parallel to the primary rail 212.
In addition, the grounding elastic piece 22 of this embodiment further has an extension portion 224 located at the movable end 222, to fit with the L-shaped limiting groove 211. Specifically, the extension portion 224 is parallel to the second direction D2. In addition, the grounding elastic piece 22 includes a guide hole 225 arranged at the extension portion 224. A long axis of the guide hole 225 is parallel to the second direction D2, and the clamping structure 223 movably penetrates through the guide hole 225 and the guide rail 210 in sequence, so that the clamping structure 223 can be moved left and right in the guide hole 225.
The plurality of limiting grooves 211 of this embodiment is arranged in the guide rail 210 at intervals, so that distances between the limiting grooves 211 and the fixed end 221 are different. Therefore, the clamping structure 223 may be arranged in different limiting grooves 211, so that the grounding elastic piece 22 has different heights. For example, when the clamping structure 223 is arranged in the limiting groove 211 closest to the fixed end 221, the grounding elastic piece 22 has a highest height, that is, the bent part of the grounding elastic piece 22 is farthest away from the connector body 10. In other words, the height of the grounding elastic piece 22 can be adjusted by adjusting an arranged position (being in different limiting grooves 211) of the clamping structure 223, so that the electrical connector 1 of this embodiment can be applied to different electronic devices.
In other embodiments, the angle θ may be less than 90 degrees. When the clamping structure 223 is moved to the limiting groove 211, with the structure of which the angle θ is less than 90 degrees, the clamping structure 223 can be limited in the limiting groove 211, to fix the adjusted height of the grounding elastic piece 22.
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In other embodiments, the fixing plate 21 may be integrally formed on the mounting surface 11 of the connector body 10. In other words, the connector body 10 and the fixed board 21 and the guide rail 210 are integrally formed, and the grounding elastic piece 22 is additionally assembled onto the fixing plate 21, which is not limited in the present disclosure.
In summary, the electrical connector according to the present disclosure includes a connector body and an adjustable elastic piece assembly. The adjustable elastic piece assembly includes a fixing plate and a grounding elastic piece. The fixing plate includes a guide rail, and is arranged on the connector body. The guide rail has a plurality of limiting grooves arranged at intervals. The grounding elastic piece is arranged on the fixing plate. One end of the grounding elastic piece is a fixed end fixed to the fixing plate, and the other end is a movable end. The movable end is slidably arranged in the guide rail, and is adapted to be positioned in one of the limiting grooves, so that the grounding elastic piece can have different heights. Therefore, a height of the grounding elastic piece relative to the connector body can be changed by adjusting the limiting groove in which the movable end of the grounding elastic piece is positioned, so that the electrical connector can be applied to different electronic devices.
It should be noted that the above embodiments are merely examples for description, and the scope of rights claimed in the present disclosure should be subject to the scope of the patent application, rather than being limited to the above embodiments.
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110138749 | Oct 2021 | TW | national |