This application claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201510498478.6, filed Aug. 13, 2015, 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 having two mating directions.
Generally a mating connector which may have two directions, for example, as disclosed in Chinese patent issued publication No. CN202454786U, comprises: a first insulating body provided with a plurality of terminal grooves, each terminal groove has a horizontal opening opened in a horizontal direction and a vertical opening opened in a vertical direction, each terminal groove is correspondingly provided with a clamping arm-type terminal; and a second insulating body provided with a plurality of blade-type terminals respectively mating with the plurality of clamping arm-type terminals. Two sides of the first insulating body each are provided with a first guide groove which is in the same direction as the horizontal opening of the terminal groove and a second guide groove which is in the same direction as the vertical opening of the terminal groove, and two sides of the second insulating body each are provided with a positioning protrusion. When the first insulating body and the second insulating body mates with each other in the horizontal direction, the positioning protrusion enters into the first guide groove, and the blade-type terminal enters into the terminal groove via the horizontal opening to mate with the clamping arm-type terminal; when the first insulating body and the second insulating body mate with each other in the vertical direction, the positioning protrusion enters into the second guide groove, and the blade-type terminal enters into the terminal groove via the vertical opening to mate with the clamping arm-type terminal.
Since the blade-type terminal will enter into the terminal groove via the horizontal opening or the vertical opening to mate with the clamping arm-type terminal, that is, the blade-type terminal will mates with the clamping arm-type terminal in the two directions, in order to avoiding the blade-type terminal crashing the clamping arm-type terminal, a spherical bulge is provided on a contact portion of the clamping arm-type terminal to contact the blade-type terminal. However, the spherical bulge is generally formed by stamping a metal sheet to make a part of the metal sheet curved so as to protrude at a side and be recessed at an opposite side so that the inside of the spherical bulge is hollow, the spherical bulge is easily recessed from the protruding side toward the inside of the spherical bulge and plastically deformed and in turn be damaged after many times collisions. So such a mating connector cannot bear high times of plug, for example, more than ten thousand times of plug.
Therefore, the present disclosure provides an electrical connection device with resistance to plug.
The present disclosure further provides a terminal which can increase a soldering area to make soldering more firm.
Accordingly, in some embodiments, an electrical connection device of the present disclosure comprises a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises an insulating body and a plurality of blade-type terminals. The insulating body has a base portion which is longitudinally long and two ear portions which perpendicularly protrude respectively from two ends of the base portion, are spaced apart from each other and face each other, an inner wall surface of one of the two ear portions is provided with a first guide groove which is perpendicular to the base portion and a second guide groove which is parallel to the base portion. The plurality of blade-type terminals are provided to the base portion along a longitudinal direction of the base portion, spaced apart from each other and positioned between the two ear portions, each blade-type terminal has a contact portion extending out of the base portion and positioned between the two ear portions. The second connector comprises an insulating housing and a plurality of elastic terminals. The insulating housing has a mating portion and a protruding rail, the mating portion is correspondingly received between the two inner wall surfaces of the two ear portions of the first connector, and the mating portion has two long side surfaces respectively positioned at two sides of a longitudinal direction, two short side surfaces respectively positioned at two ends of the longitudinal direction and connecting the two long side surfaces, a top surface connecting the two long side surfaces and the two short side surfaces and a plurality of terminal grooves spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction of the mating portion, each terminal groove has a mating opening at the top surface and a side opening at one of the two long side surfaces, the protruding rail protrudes from one of the two short side surfaces and extends in a direction perpendicular to the top surface to engage with the first guide groove or the second guide groove. The plurality of elastic terminals are provided to the insulating housing and respectively received in the plurality of terminal grooves, each elastic terminal has a contact portion positioned in the mating portion and a guide portion extending from the contact portion toward the top surface. When the first connector and the second connector mate with each other in a first direction, under guiding due to engagement of the first guide groove of the first connector and the protruding rail of the second connector, the contact portions of the plurality of blade-type terminals respectively enter into the plurality of terminal grooves respectively via the mating openings of the plurality of terminal grooves and each contact portion can firstly contact the guide portion of the corresponding elastic terminal and then contact the contact portion of the corresponding elastic terminal. When the first connector and the second connector mate with each other in a second direction, under guiding due to engagement of the second guide groove of the first connector and the protruding rail of the second connector, the contact portions of the plurality of blade-type terminals respectively enter into the plurality of terminal grooves respectively via mating openings of the plurality of terminal grooves and each contact portion can firstly contact the guide portion of the corresponding elastic terminal and then contact the contact portion of the corresponding elastic terminal.
In some embodiments, the protruding rail is adjacent to the long side surface provided with the side openings of the plurality of terminal grooves, the mating portion cannot enter into between the two ear portions from the long side surface provided with the side openings of the plurality of terminal grooves, so as to prevent the plurality of blade-type terminals from respectively entering into the plurality of terminal groove respectively via the plurality of side openings.
In some embodiments, an inner wall surface of the other ear portion of the insulating body is also provided with a first guide groove which is perpendicular to the base portion and a second guide groove which is parallel to the base portion, the two first guide grooves of the two ear portions are aligned with each other in position and the two second guide grooves of the two ear portions are aligned with each other in position; the insulating housing further has a protruding rail protruding from the other short side surface, the two protruding rails are aligned with each other in position.
In some embodiments, the two protruding rails are adjacent to the long side surface provided with the side openings of the plurality of terminal grooves, the mating portion cannot enter into between the two ear portions from the long side surface provided with the side openings, so as to prevent the plurality of blade-type terminals from respectively entering into the plurality of terminal grooves respectively via the plurality of side openings.
In some embodiments, each elastic terminal has a group of elastic clamping arms which face each other and extend toward the top surface, a distal section of each of the elastic clamping arms which are positioned respectively at two facing sides is firstly bent inwardly toward the inside of the two facing sides and then bent outwardly toward the outside of the two facing sides along an extension direction of the distal section and extends to form the contact portion and the guide portion, the contact portion of the elastic terminal is used for clamping the contact portion of the corresponding blade-type terminal.
In some embodiments, each elastic terminal further has a fixed portion and two soldering piece portions, the fixed portion has two main sections spaced apart from each other and facing each other and a connecting section connecting the two main sections, the group of elastic clamping arms respectively extend from the two main sections toward the top surface, the two soldering piece portions respectively extend from the two main sections toward a direction away from the top surface, and the two soldering piece portions are firstly bent relative to each other so as to approach each other and then extend straight, and the two soldering piece portions are offset and arranged side by side.
In some embodiments, the first connector further comprises two fixing members respectively provided in the two ear portions and passing through and protrude from the base portion.
In some embodiments, the two fixing members are the same as the plurality of blade-type terminals in structure.
Accordingly, in some embodiments, a terminal of the present disclosure is integrally formed by a metal sheet, comprises a fixed portion, a group of elastic clamping arms and two soldering piece portions. The fixed portion has two main sections which are spaced apart from each other and face each other and a connecting section connecting the two main sections. The group of elastic clamping arms each extend from one side of one of the two main sections. The two soldering piece portions each extend from another side of one of the two main sections toward a direction opposite to the group of elastic clamping arms, and the two soldering piece portions are firstly bent relative to each other so as to approach each other and then extend straight, and the two soldering piece portions are offset and arranged side by side.
In some embodiments, a distal section of each of elastic clamping arms which are positioned respectively at two facing sides is firstly bent inwardly toward the inside of the two facing sides and then bent outwardly toward the outside of the two facing sides along an extension direction of the distal section and extends to form a contact portion and a guide portion.
The present disclosure at least has the following effects: under guiding mating of the first connector and the second connector by that the first guide groove or the second guide groove of the first connector engages with the protruding rail of the second connector, whether the first connector and the second connector mate with each other in the first direction or the second direction, the contact portions of the blade-type terminals of the first connector can respectively enter into the terminal grooves respectively via the mating openings of the terminal grooves so as to prevent the elastic terminals from being damaged. Moreover, the elastic terminal may form the guide portion extending in single direction by bending, the elastic terminal is easy to manufacture and has stronger structural strength, and may bear high times of plug. In addition, the elastic terminal has two soldering piece portions offset and arranged side by side, it can increase the soldering area to make soldering more firm.
The other features and effects of the present disclosure will be apparent through detailed description of embodiments with referring to the Figures, and in which:
Before the present disclosure is described in detail, it should be noted that similar element is indicated by the same reference numeral in the following description.
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The plurality of elastic terminals 4 are provided to the insulating housing 3 and are respectively received in the plurality of terminal grooves 324. Each elastic terminal 4 has a contact portion 41 positioned in the mating portion 32 and a guide portion 42 extending from the contact portion 41 toward the top surface 323. Also referring to
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That is, whether the first connector 100 and the second connector 200 mate with each other in the first direction or the second direction, the contact portion 22 of the blade-type terminal 2 of the first connector 100 is inserted into the corresponding terminal groove 324 via the mating opening 324a of the corresponding terminal groove 324 and in turn can firstly contact the guide portion 42 of the corresponding elastic terminal 4 and then contact the contact portion 41 of the corresponding elastic terminal 4, which could prevent the blade-type terminal 2 from colliding the elastic terminal 4 in a side direction of the elastic terminal 4 toward the long side surface 321 (without guiding of the guide portion 42), and further prevent the elastic terminal 4 from being damaged. Moreover, the elastic terminal 4 may form the guide portion 42 extending along a single direction by bending, the elastic terminal 4 is easy to manufacture and has stronger structural strength, and may bear high times of plug.
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In conclusion, under guiding mating of the first connector 100 and the second connector 200 by that the first guide groove 13 or the second guide groove 14 of the first connector 100 engages with the protruding rail 33 of the second connector 200, whether the first connector 100 and the second connector 200 mate with each other in the first direction or the second direction, the contact portions 22 of the blade-type terminals 2 of the first connector 100 can respectively enter into the terminal grooves 324 respectively via the mating openings 324a of the terminal grooves 324 so as to prevent the elastic terminals 4 from being damaged. Moreover, the elastic terminal 4 may form the guide portion 42 extending in single direction by bending, the elastic terminal 4 is easy to manufacture and has stronger structural strength, and may bear high times of plug. In addition, the elastic terminal 4 has two soldering piece portions 45 offset and arranged side by side, it can increase the soldering area to make soldering more firm.
The above contents are only embodiment of the present disclosure and are not used to limit the implementing solutions of the present disclosure. Those skilled in the art may conveniently vary or modify based on the main concept and spirit of the present disclosure, therefore the extent of protection of the present disclosure shall be determined by the terms of the Claims.
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