The present invention relates to electronic experiment devices, in particular, to a PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device.
There are several electronic circuit experiment devices widely used hitherto and defects of them would be stated individually hereinafter:
Firstly, these popular experiment devices in China such as electronic tables, electronic kits, demo boards, electronic bricks, specific experiment boards, and module experiment boards are merely capable of performing interest-related electronic validation experiments under the direction of the enclosed instruction rather than general electronic experiments for developing the electronic products or training the innovative personnel on electronics, where the general electronic experiments refer to these experiments in which parameters of all components are adjustable during the process of experiments, the power supply of the circuit can be turned up or turned down, the circuit itself also is modifiable or adjustable, i.e. any simple or complex electronic circuit experiment can be accomplished thereby.
Secondly, the experiment devices like breadboards and perfboards appeared in the 70s of the last century when both the electronic components and electronic circuits are very simple are still in wide use in high school, colleges and universities in developed countries and Taiwan district because of the capacity of undertaking general experiments; the entries for all previous national undergraduate electronic design contests are all presented by the perfboards. However, the enterprises are thirsty for personnel grasping PCB experiment techniques because all the designs of electronic products can be only accomplished thereby. Therefore, the graduates being habituated to breadboards and perfboards must learn the PCB techniques from the very beginning to make themselves qualified for practical electronic innovation and electronic products development for enterprises.
Next, as for PCB integrated module experiments, functional PCB modules made on the basis of validated complex circuit designs are utilized to accomplish further complex experiments. But there are still some defects of the PCB integrated modules as follows: first, the lack of simple multifunctional modules disables the PCB integrated modules for simple circuit experiments; besides, even for the complex circuit experiments, the lack of the insulation pad, module plug and module plugboard is likely to cause circuit malfunctions like instability and poor contact.
In conclusion, the global vacancy of an advanced PCB plug-in module experiment device capable of substituting the backward breadboards and perfboards hitherto has badly delayed the development of the electronic products, the cultivation of the personnel on electronics and the popularization of electronic technology.
The present invention provides a PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device, which facilitates convenient and efficient introduction of any component (in the form of plug-in module) to experiments; moreover, both simple circuit experiments and various complex circuit experiments can be realized by the PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device successfully.
The present invention provides a PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device, comprising a PCB module plugboard and a number of PCB plug-in electronic modules, wherein the PCB module plugboard is provided with a plenty of jacks, and each PCB plug-in electronic module comprises a PCB, a component and a terminal socket arranged on the PCB, a plug, and an insulation pad arranged between the PCB and the plug; each PCB plug-in electronic module can be secured to any jack on the PCB module plugboard by inserting the plug and removed therefrom by pulling out the plug; the electrical connection among multiple PCB plug-in electronic modules can be established by connecting the terminal sockets via connectors, so that various electronic experiments can be accomplished.
Preferably, the plug is matched to the jack in shape. Preferably, lower part of the plug is provided with an opening in the shape of “reversed Y” and posses extending elastic, so that self-lock of the plug is realized due to big friction between the plug and the internal surface of the jack, the plug-in and pull-out operation and the replacement of the plug is facilitated; besides, the internal middle part of the plug is provided with two screw guiding grooves, when it is necessary to keep the validated circuit for a long time or to move it for a long distance, a screw should be inserted from the bottom of the plug-in board and tightened in order to resist the possible vibration and loose so that the circuit system stays in effective contact and functions well.
Preferably, both the PCB and the insulation pad are provided with at least two screw holes correspondingly, and thereby the PCB is fastened onto the top surface of the insulation pad by the joint of screws and the screw holes.
Preferably, the bottom surface of the insulation pad is configured with a recess for receiving the top end of the plug while the top surface thereof is configured with a counterbore for the socket head screw, where the recess and the counterbore are holed through, the top end of the plug is configured with a first through hole, the plug is fastened to the bottom surface of the insulation pad by inserting the socket head screw into the counterbore and the first through hole orderly; between the socket head screw and the PCB is provided an insulation sticker to avoid short circuit of the PCB may caused by the socket head screw.
Preferably, each insulation pad is a flat pad in small size, which may be obtained by cutting from a general prefabricated module pad configured with equidistant counterbores on the top surface and equidistant square recesses for plugs on the bottom surface. Preferably, the PCB adopts various connecting approaches to connect to the external, including double quantity of plug-in terminals and corresponding bonding pads.
Preferably, each PCB plug-in electronic module can be any of a single multifunctional electronic module composed of a single component, a systematic functional electronic module composed of multiple components or a node module capable of substituting the public node.
The single multifunctional electronic module may be but is not limited to a 3-hole socket module, 6-hole socket module, 8-pin IC socket module, a variable resistor module and a node module; the systematic functional electronic module may be but is not limited to a RS232 serial communication module and a 51 single chip microcontroller socket module. The systematic functional electronic module also can adopt various connection approaches like line rows.
Preferably, the PCB module plugboard is rectangle, and a plenty of square jacks are located equidistantly on the PCB module plugboard, forming an M*N matrix. Comparing to the prior art, the PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device according to the present invention takes each module as an eligible component with certain functional features, input and output features, working features for use. When a certain experiment is to be conducted, the only thing needs to be done is selecting the modules with suited features from the module bank, plugging them into the plugboard, and connecting their input and output terminals, power supply, and testing instruments to each other by a few Dupont wires with reference to the experiment circuit diagram. When necessary, the experiment aim can be realized by modifying a part of circuits relating to a certain module thereof, and the other parts keeps operating normally all the time without any adjustment, which is highly efficient. When the experiment is completed, the experiment circuits are dismantled and the modules are restored in the module bank individually for reuse, and thereby the cost of time and money for the experiment are saved greatly. Particularly, PCB techniques are utilized from the experiment to production manufacture, the students in various colleges on electronics do not need to experiment on breadboards and perfboards at first and then transfer to PCB techniques in latter process, which is a waste of time for product development and personnel cultivation on electronics.
The advantages according to the present invention are as follows:
1. Universal and efficient, any component can act as a PCB plug-in electronic module through design and process, and participate in the experiment simply, besides, the PCB plug-in electronic module may be a multifunctional electronic module composed of a single component or a systematic functional electronic module, various combinations of these modules can be employed to accomplish the experiments with simple circuits or complex circuits in a highly efficient way;
2. PCB plug-in electronic module can be plugged into or pulled out from the PCB module plugboard optionally allowing a convenience replacement, especially when the multifunctional module composed of a single component and the node module are used for simple circuit experiments, the experiment layout can be arranged according to the principle diagram, making them two very similar, which facilitates to check the circuits, the instruments connection and malfunctions, the circuits stay in good contact and have anti-vibration property and thereby the efficiency of experiment is extremely high. Therefore, the present invention is helpful for prompting the juveniles' interest on electronics and the global popularization of electronics.
3. Either components or systematic functional circuits can be made as modules to participate the PCB plug-in module experiments; either simple circuits or complex circuits can be realized by the efficient experiment approach of PCB plug-in modules; the device according to the present invention is suited to training personnel on electronics during the electronic experiments step by step, so as to prepare for the global electronic technique revolution.
4. The combination of the insulation pad, module plug and module plugboard ensures good stability of the circuit during complex circuit experiments, fewer malfunctions and higher efficiency.
5. Using the general experiment techniques like PCB plug-in modules during the whole progress of the personnel cultivation on electronics from the beginning can avoid the use of these backward experiment techniques like breadboards and perfboards, and bridge the development of electronic products, the cultivation of the innovative personnel on electronics and the electronic design competition techniques directly with the PCB techniques required by the enterprises, prompting the electronic experiment techniques greatly.
Hereinafter, the embodiments of the present invention will be described distinctly and completely accompanied with the drawings. Obviously, described are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, which do not mean any limit to the scope of the protection of the present invention. It should be noted, any modification or improvement carried out by the skilled in the art within the principle of the present invention should be taken as within the scope of protection of the present invention.
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The other kind is the systematic functional module composed of multiple components or a node component substituting the public node, both the RS232 serial communication module 6 and 51 single chip socket module 7 in
Below the specific structure of individual PCB plug-in electronic module 100 is demonstrated by taking the 8-pin IC socket module 3 as an example. As shown in
Wherein the plug 16 is suited to be inserted the jack 21 on the PCB module plugboard 20 and be stuck therein perfectly, for instance, when the jack is a square hole, the plug is a nylon plug well matched to the jack in shape. Each PCB plug-in electronic module 100 can be secured to any jack 21 on the PCB module plugboard 20 by inserting the plug 16 and removed therefrom by pulling out the plug; the plug 16 is a nylon plug well matched to the jack in shape. Both the PCB and the insulation pad are provided with at least two screw holes (18&18′) correspondingly, and thereby the PCB 11 can be fastened onto the top surface of the insulation pad 15 by the joint of screws 8 and the screw holes (18&18′). Meanwhile, the bottom surface of the insulation pad 15 is configured with a recess 152 for receiving the plug 16, the top surface of the insulation pad 15 is configured with a counterbore 151 for the socket head screw (see
Wherein, lower part of the plug 16 is provided with an opening in the shape of “reversed Y” and posses extending elastic, so that self-lock of the plug is realized due to big friction between the plug and the internal surface of the jack 21; besides, the internal surface of the lower end of the plug 16 is provided with screw guiding grooves 162, when each PCB plug-in electronic module is plugged into any jack of the PCB module plugboard via the plug, a fastening screw 17 may be inserted through the jack 21 and the screw guiding grooves 162, and thereby the plug 16 is fastened into the jack 21. The fastening screw 17 is required only when it is necessary to prevent the module from loosing. Generally, because lower part of the plug 16 is provided with an opening in the shape of “reversed Y” and posses extending elastic, which ensures big friction between the plug and the internal surface of the jack to realized self-lock thereof and facilitates the plug-in and pull-out operation and the replacement of the plug. The internal middle part of the lower end of the plug 16 is provided with two screw guiding grooves 162, when it is necessary to keep the validated circuit for a long time or to move it for a long distance, screws should be inserted from the bottom of the plug-in board and tightened in order to resist the possible vibration and loose so that the circuit system stays in effective contact and functions well.
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It should be understood that the PCB module plugboard can be formed by piecing at least two PCB module plug sub boards provided with the jacks together. When conducting complex circuit experiments, two, three or more PCB module plugboards can be pieced together to form a big-sized PCB module plugboard, so as to realize the circuit experiment.
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In conclusion, a systematic integrated circuit can be got in the following way: designing a PCB according to a small validated systematic functional circuit, mounting components on the PCB and conducting debugging thereon, and then mounting the insulation pad and plug. Various complex experiments can be accomplished by using multiple systematic modules of corresponding circuits, which is beneficial to novel electronic products development and participation of electronic design competitions. Especially, using highly precise tools to make PCB for experiment by themselves can greatly boost the speed of electronic products development and innovative personnel cultivation.
The PCB plug-in electronic modules can be plugged in the PCB module plugboard and stay thereon stably, both the position and the orientation are adjustable. Simple experiments mainly rely on these simplest component function modules. It is very expediently to lay out the circuits on the basis of principle diagrams, and using red wires to connect to the positive pole of the power supply while black wire to negative pole thereof makes the experiment layouts similar to the principle diagrams, which is beneficial to the beginners to check the circuits, to connect testing instruments and to remove the trouble, and thereby the success rate of experiments is prompted. Complex experiments mainly rely on these successfully tested systematic integrated modules with stable performance, which can reduce the quantity of wires and avoid signal interference, moreover, when some parameters need regulation, only relative modules needs to be modified, so that the efficient and success rate become extremely high. The PCB module plugboard can be arranged on various platforms with supports.
Multiple PCB module plugboards can be pieced together to form one board in big size for conducting circuit experiments with large or extra large systems, besides, the PCB module plugboard can be stacked on each other, so that the stability of the experiment system and the circuit contact can be ensured, and thereby the experiment can be accomplished successfully. The PCB module plugboard also provides the double-sided plug-in functions of modules for experiment circuit layout, and the spare sockets act as through hole for wires. When the experiment needs to move the experimental PCB module plugboard or to be accomplished in a long period, the plugs of these modules can be locked from the bottom of the PCB module plugboard by screws.
Under the support of the PCB plug-in electronic module experiment device, it is highly efficient to conduct either simple circuit experiments or complex circuit experiments. Therefore, apart from the increasing number of electronic amateurs, PCB techniques well bridge the experiments and products, which is beneficial to the products development and personnel cultivation on electronics, and in turn the electronic industry development of China.
Hereinbefore described are only preferred embodiments of the present invention. It should be noted that any modification or improvement carried out by the skilled in the art within the principle of the present invention should be taken as within the scope of protection of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201420428940.6 | Jul 2014 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2015/075567 | 3/31/2015 | WO | 00 |