Patent Grant
11489308
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of the communication technology, and in particular to a mobile terminal, a power interface, and a method for manufacturing the power interface.
With the advancement of times, the Internet and the mobile communication network provide a huge number of functional applications. Users may use mobile terminals not only for traditional applications, for example, using smart phones to answer or make calls, but also for browsing webs, transferring pictures, playing games, and the like at the same time.
While using mobile terminals to handle things, due to the increase in frequencies of using the mobile terminals, it will consume a large amount of powers of batteries the mobile terminals, such that the batteries need to be charged frequently. Furthermore, due to the acceleration of the pace of life, especially the increasing of sudden and urgencies, the users hopes that the batteries of the mobile terminals are charged with a large current.
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below, and examples of the embodiments will be illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and are intended to explain the present disclosure, and cannot be construed as a limitation to the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it is to be understood that terms such as “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “upright”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “circumference”, and the like, refer to the orientations and locational relations illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Thus, these terms used here are only for describing the present disclosure and for describing in a simple manner, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the device or the elements are disposed to locate at the specific directions or are structured and performed in the specific directions, which could not to be understood as limiting the present disclosure.
In addition, terms such as “first”, “second”, and the like are used herein for purposes of description, and are not intended to indicate or imply relative importance or significance or to imply the number of indicated technical features. Thus, the feature defined with “first”, “second”, and the like may include one or more of such a feature. In the description of the present disclosure, “a plurality of” means two or more, such as two, three, and the like, unless specified otherwise.
In the present disclosure, unless specified or limited, otherwise, terms “mounted”, “connected”, “coupled”, “fixed”, and the like are used in a broad sense, and may include, for example, fixed connections, detachable connections, or integral connections; may also be mechanical or electrical connections; may also be direct connections or indirect connections via intervening structures; may also be inner communications of two elements, as can be understood by one skilled in the art depending on specific contexts.
A power interface 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may be described in detail below with reference to
Referring to
More specifically, the connection body 110 may include a first connection surface 111 and a second connection surface 112. Each of the first connection surface 111 and the second connection surface 112 may be adapted to be electrically connected with a corresponding interface of the power adapter. The plurality of the power pins 120 may be embedded in the connection body 110. Each power pin 120 may include a first sidewall surface 121 and a second sidewall surface 122. The first sidewall surface 121 may be configured as a part of the first connection surface 111, and the second sidewall surface 122 may be configured as a part of the second connection surface 112. In other words, the first sidewall surface 121 may extend beyond and be exposed outside the connection body 110, so as to be configured as a part of the first connection surface 111, thereby facilitating each power pin 120 to electrically connect to a corresponding pin of the power adapter. Likewise, the second sidewall surface 122 may extend beyond and be exposed outside the connection body 110, so as to be configured as a part of the second connection surface 112, thereby facilitating each power pin 120 to electrically connect to a corresponding pin of the power adapter.
In the related art, pins of the power interface includes two rows of pins that are arranged in an up-down direction, and each row of pins includes a plurality of pins spaced from each other. The pins in the upper row are respectively opposite to the pins in the lower row. It can be understood that, in the power interface 100 in this embodiment, as shown in
According to the power interface 100 of one embodiment of the present disclosure, the first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 of each power pin 120 are configured as the connection surfaces adapted to be electrically connected to the power adapter. Thus, the cross-sectional area of each power pin 120 can be increased, thereby increasing the current-carrying amount of each power pin 120, and in turn increasing the transmission speed of the current, such that the power interface 100 is capable of having a fast charging function, and thus the charging efficiency of the battery may be improved.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
As shown in
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a cross-sectional area of each power pin 120 may be defined as S, and S≥0.09805 mm2. It is proved by experiments that when S≥0.09805 mm2, the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120 is at least 10 A, and the charging efficiency can be improved by increasing the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120. In other words, when the cross-sectional area S of each power pin 120 satisfies: S≥0.09805 mm2, each power pin 120 may bear a current not less than 10 A, that is, each power pin 120 may bear a large charging current and the large charging current won't damage each power pin 120. It is proved by experiments that when S=0.13125 mm2, the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120 is at least 12 A, which can improve the charging efficiency. In other words, when the cross-sectional area S of each power pin 120 satisfies: S=0.13125 mm2, each power pin 120 may bear a current not less than 12 A.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to
It should be noted that, in order to improve the universality of the power interface 100, the structural design of the power interface 100 needs to meet certain design standards. For example, in the design standard of the power interface 100, if the maximum thickness of the power interface 100 is h, then during the designing process of the power pins 120, the thickness D of each power pin 120 needs to be equal to or less than h. In the condition that D≤h, the greater the thickness D of each power pin 120 is, the greater the amount of current that each power pin 120 can carry, and the higher the charging efficiency of the power interface 100 is. That is, the thickness D of each power pin 120 which is between the first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 may be substantially same to the thickness h of the power interface 100. For example, taking an USB Type-C interface as an example, the design standard for the thickness of the USB Type-C interface is h=0.7 mm. Thus, when designing the power interface 100, it is required to set D≤0.7 mm. Therefore, not only the power interface 100 can meet the general requirements, but also the cross-sectional area of each power pin 120 can be increased in comparison with the related art. In this way, the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120 can be increased, thereby improving the charging efficiency.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, at least one of the plurality of power pins 120 has a width W satisfying the following condition: 0.24 mm≤W≤0.32 mm. It is proved by experiments that when 0.24 mm≤W≤0.32 mm, the cross-sectional area of each power pin 120 can be maximized, which may in turns increase the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120, thereby improving the charging efficiency. Alternatively, it is possible that W=0.25 mm. It is proved by experiments that when W=0.25 mm, the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120 is at least 10 A. Thus, the charging efficiency may be improved by increasing the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, each power pin 120 may be an one-piece component. In this way, on one hand, it is possible to simplify the processing of each power pin 120, shorten the production cycle, and save the manufacturing cost. On the other hand, it is also possible to increase the cross-sectional area of each power pin 120, thereby increasing the current-carrying amount of the plurality of power pins 120.
The power interface 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to
For convenience of description, a Type-C interface is taken as an example of the power interface 100. The Type-C interface may also be called an USB Type-C interface. The Type-C interface belongs to a type of an interface, and is a new data, video, audio and power transmission interface specification developed and customized by the USB standardization organization to solve the drawbacks present for a long time that the physical interface specifications of the USB interface are uniform, and that the power can only be transmitted in one direction.
The Type-C interface may have the following features: a standard device may declare its willing to occupy a VBUS (that is, a positive connection wire of a traditional USB) to another device through a CC (Configuration Channel) pin in the interface specification. The device having a stronger willing may eventually output voltages and currents to the VBUS, while the other device may accept the power supplied from the VBUS bus, or the other device may still refuse to accept the power; however, it does not affect the transmission function. In order to use the definition of the bus more conveniently, a Type-C interface chip (such as LDR6013) may generally classify devices into four types: DFP (Downstream-facing Port), Strong DRP (Dual Role Power), DRP, and UFP (Upstream-facing Port). The willingness of these four types to occupy the VBUS bus may gradually decrease.
In this embodiment, the DFP may correspond to an adapter, and may continuously want to output voltages to the VBUS. The Strong DRP may correspond to a mobile power, and may give up outputting voltages to the VBUS only when the strong DRP encounters the adapter. The DRP may correspond to a mobile phone. Normally, the DRP may expect other devices to supply power to itself. However, when encountering a device that has a weaker willingness, the DRP may also output the voltages and currents to the device. The UFP will not output electrical power externally. Generally, the UFP is a weak battery device, or a batteryless device, such as a Bluetooth headset. The USB Type-C interface may support the insertions both from a positive side and a negative side. Since there are four groups of power sources and grounds on both sides (the positive side and the negative side), the power supported by USB Type-C interface may be greatly improved.
In this embodiment, the power interface 100 thereof may be the USB Type-C interface. The power interface 100 may be suitable for a power adapter having a fast charging function, and also suitable for an ordinary power adapter. Here, it should be noted that, the fast charging may refer to a charging state in which the charging current is greater than or equal to 2.5 A, or a charging state in which the rated output power is no less than 15 W. The ordinary charging may refer to a charging state in which the charging current is less than 2.5 A, or the rated output power is less than 15 W. That is, when the power interface 100 is charged by using the power adapter having the fast charging function, the charging current is greater than or equal to 2.5 A, or the rated output power is no less than 15 W. However, when the power interface 100 is charged by using the ordinary power adapter, the charging current is less than 2.5 A, or the rated output power is less than 15 W.
In order to standardize the power interface 100 and the power adapter adapted to the power interface 100, the size of the power interface 100 needs to meet the design requirements of the standard interface. For example, for the power interface 100 having 24 pins, the width meeting the design requirements (the width refers to the length of the power interface 100 in the left-right direction as shown in
More specifically, as shown in
The plug housing 130, the data pins 150, and the power pins 120 may be all coupled to the circuit board 140. The connection body 110 may include a hard frame 113 and a plastic encapsulation portion 114. The hard frame 113 may have a plurality of receiving grooves 1131. The power pins 120 and the data pins 150 may be disposed in the corresponding receiving grooves 1131. The plastic encapsulation portion 114 may be configured to wrap the power pins 120 and the hard frame 113. Upper and lower sidewall surfaces of the plastic encapsulation portion 114 may be respectively configured as a first connection surface 111 and a second connection surface 112. Both the first connection surface 111 and the second connection surface 112 may be adapted to be electrically connected to corresponding interfaces of the power adapter. The power pin 120 may include a first sidewall surface 121 and a second sidewall surface 122. The first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 may be exposed outside the plastic encapsulation portion 114.
It can be understood that, by using the plastic encapsulation portion 114 to wrap the power pin 120 and the hard frame 113 together, the structural strength of the connection body 110 can be enhanced. In this way, fatigue damage to the connection body 110 due to the repeated insertion and removal of the power interface 100 may be reduced. The hard frame 113 may serve as a support, such that the structural strength of the connection body 110 may be enhanced.
The hard frame 113 may have protrusions 1132 respectively disposed at two ends of a front end of the hard frame 113 that are spaced from each other in the width direction (the left and right direction as shown in
As shown in
Therefore, the first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 of the power pin 120 are configured as the connection surfaces adapted to be electrically connected to the power adapter. Thus, the cross-sectional area of the power pin 120 can be increased, thereby increasing the current-carrying amount of the power pin 120, and in turn increasing the transmission speed of the current, such that the power interface 100 is capable of having a fast charging function, and thus the charging efficiency of the battery may be improved.
As shown in
At block S10: providing a pin workblank 200. The pin workblank 200 may include a first surface 201 and a second surface 202 adjacent to each other.
At block S20: performing a fine blanking process for the first surface 201 in a predefined blanking direction (the direction indicated by the arrow a in
At block S30: adjusting a position of the pin workblank 200, and performing another fine blanking process for the second surface 202 in the predefined blanking direction, thereby forming the power pin 120 of the power interface 100.
In the method for manufacturing the power interface 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, different surfaces of the pin workblank 200 are processed by means of fine blanking. In this way, it is possible to not only improve the manufacturing accuracy of the power pin 120, but also omit the process of removing the burrs. Thus, the manufacturing cycle of the power interface may be shortened, and the manufacturing cost thereof may be saved.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the power interface 100 may be the power interface 100 described in the above embodiments.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, before the block S30, the method may further include the following block as shown in
At block S21: forming a chamfer 210 at an edge of the second surface 202 as shown in
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, before the block S30, the method may further include the following block as shown in
At block S22: forming a round fillet at an edge of the second surface 202 as shown in
As described in the above, the power interface 100 may include the connection body 110 and a plurality of power pins 120, and the connection body 110 may include the hard frame 113 and the plastic encapsulation portion 114. Therefore, after forming the plurality of the power pins 120 each manufactured by the above steps S10˜S30, the method may further include: embedding the plurality of the power pins 120 into the connection body 110, while the first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 of each of the power pins 120 are exposed outside the connection body 110, such that the first sidewall surface 121 of each of the power pins 120 exposed outside the connection body 110 is configured as a part of the first connection surface 111 of the connection body 110, the second sidewall surface 122 of each of the power pins 120 exposed outside the connection body 110 is configured as a part of the second connection surface 112 of the connection body 110, and the first connection surface 111 and the second connection surface 112 of the connection body 110 are configured as connection surfaces of the power interface adapted to be electrically connected to the power adapter.
In detailed, the step of embedding the plurality of the power pins 120 into the connection body 110, may further include: arranging the plurality of the power pins 120 into the receiving grooves 1131 of the hard frame 113 respectively; and wrapping the plurality of the power pins 120 and the hard frame 113 together by the plastic encapsulation portion 114, while the first sidewall surface 121 and the second sidewall surface 122 of each of the power pins 120 are exposed outside the plastic encapsulation portion 114.
As shown in
At block T10: providing a pin workblank 200, and disposing the pin workblank 200 on a first mold 220. In this embodiment, for conveniently positioning the pin workblank 200, the pin workblank 200 may have a plurality of positioning holes 203 formed therein.
At block T20: performing a punching shear process for the pin workblank 200 by a second mold 230, thereby forming the power pin of the power interface.
According to the manufacturing method of the power interface according to the present embodiment of the present disclosure, the power pin may be formed by means of the punching shear process. In this way, it is possible to omit the process of removing burrs. Thus, the manufacturing cycle may be shortened, and the manufacturing cost may be saved.
Referring to
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may include a power interface 100, which may be the power interface 100 manufactured by the above methods. The mobile terminal may achieve a transmission of the electrical signals and data signals via the power interface 100. For example, the mobile terminal may be charged or achieve the data transmission function by electrically connecting the power interface 100 to a corresponding power adapter.
In the mobile terminal according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, different surfaces of the workblank 200 are processed by means of fine blanking. In this way, it is possible to not only improve the manufacturing accuracy of the power pin 120, but also omit the process of removing the burrs. Thus, the manufacturing cycle of the power interface may be shortened, and the manufacturing cost thereof may be saved.
In the power adapter according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the power adapter may include the power interface 100 as described in the embodiments above. The power adapter may achieve a transmission of the electrical signals and data signals via the power interface 100.
In the power adapter according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, different surfaces of the pin workblank 200 are processed by means of fine blanking. In this way, it is possible to not only improve the manufacturing accuracy of the power pin 120, but also omit the process of removing the burrs. Thus, the manufacturing cycle of the power interface may be shortened, and the manufacturing cost thereof may be saved.
Reference throughout this specification, the reference terms “an embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “one embodiment”, “another example”, “an example”, “a specific example”, or “some examples”, and the like means that a specific feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Thus, the illustrative descriptions of the terms throughout this specification are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Furthermore, the specific features, structures, materials, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or examples. In addition, one skilled in the art may combine the different embodiments or examples described in this specification and features of different embodiments or examples without conflicting with each other.
Although explanatory embodiments have been shown and described, it would be appreciated by one skilled in the art that the above embodiments previously described are illustrative, and cannot be construed to limit the present disclosure. Changes, alternatives, and modifications can be made in the embodiments without departing from scope of the present disclosure.
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