Plug connector

Connector

This creation is about a connector, especially a connector that can be used to transmit high frequency signals with a speed higher than 10 GB and a bandwidth greater than 500 MHz.

According to the IEC 61076-2-109 standard specification, there is a connector for connecting a twisted pair cable having four wires, and a total of eight wires of the twisted pair cable are connected to a contact element, and the eight contacts are connected. The component is built in an insulator of an associated connector, wherein the insulator constitutes four insulating segments which can respectively accommodate two contact elements (contact element pairs), and the pair of contact elements are respectively connected to one of the twisted pair cables. The insulator is covered with a metal outer casing, and the outer casing functions as a shield for the inner contact element, and has a threaded shape, a bayonet joint or an embedded mechanism, and the two complementary plugs can be connected to each other to form a plug. status.

In the ICE 61076-2-109 standard specification, the conventional connector is only suitable for high frequency signals with a transmission speed of approximately 10 GB and a bandwidth of approximately 500 MHz.

The main function of this creation is to provide an improved connector, especially for high frequency signals with a transmission speed higher than 10 GB and a bandwidth greater than 500 MHz.

The main function of this creation can be achieved by applying the connector described in the first paragraph of the patent scope, and also by the connector and the twisted pair cable described in claim 11 The unit formed by the unit can also be achieved by the plug device composed of the connector and the adapter described in claim 13 of the patent application.

The present invention has at least four connector elements located inside the casing and used for transmitting high frequency signals. The two contact elements respectively form a pair of contact elements and are respectively built in an insulator. The basic concept of the present invention lies in The transmission performance of the connector is improved by using a shielding layer respectively coated on the outside of the insulator, and the interference between the pair of contact elements can be reduced by the insulator and the shielding layer of the contact element pair accommodated in the insulator. In addition, the shielding layer can also improve the electromagnetic interference to the outside and the shielding effectiveness of adjacent wires.

The connector of the present invention is a unit composed of a (twisted pair) cable, wherein the cable has a twisted pair of wires, and the tail ends of the pair of wires are respectively connected with the contact elements of the pair of contact elements.

The plug device of the present invention is composed of a connector and an adapter, and at least the contact elements are in contact with each other in the plugged state.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the pair of wires can be shielded (for example, by an aluminum foil), wherein the shield of the pair of wires and the shield of the connector have an electrically conductive connection, and the (twisted pair) cable can be called " Shielded twisted pair cable or "coated twisted pair" cable.

Another preferred embodiment of the present invention is that the wires are shielded from each other in the wire (which can be an overall shield of all the pairs of wires), that is, each wire pair has its own shielding (for example, one) A film consisting of aluminum foil, such a twisted pair cable is called a "screen shielded twisted pair" cable or a "screen covered twisted pair" cable, and the shield layers of individual wire pairs are respectively The contact elements that are in contact are connected to the shield.

The plugging device of the present invention is configured to realize uninterrupted shielding, and the two shielding layers constituting the connector and the adapter respectively constitute at least one contact piece, and the contact piece can be connected with the contact piece of the adapter. Contact, wherein the contact piece is mounted in a direction of relative plugging motion, which is oblique, and at least one contact piece is laterally offset when the two contact pieces are in contact, which can compensate for the tolerance of the relative position of the two contact pieces, and the contact between the pieces The elastic pre-force contact can thus form a good conductive contact.

The connector of the present invention, in which a contact member is mounted inside the casing for transmitting power.

The contact member of the present invention can be a coaxial contact member having an inner contact member and an outer contact member, the coaxial contact member being connectable to a coaxial wire, and a simple block conductor can be used as the contact member.

The contact member of the present invention is mounted in the center of the inner portion of the outer casing, and the pair of contact elements and the insulator for accommodating the pair of contact elements are surrounded by a ring shape, particularly a circular shape, around the contact member.

The insulators of the present invention each have a cross section of an annular section, wherein a shielding sheet is respectively disposed between the two insulators, and each shielding sheet forms at least one contact piece.

The shielding sheet of the present invention protrudes into the space between the insulator and the contact member, so that the shielding effect of the individual insulator is not interrupted, and the two shielding sheets and one portion of the outer casing respectively form a (surrounding) shielding for the individual insulators.

The plug-in device of the present invention has an address code, so that the connector and the adapter can be inserted only in a single direction position, and the connector of the plug device has a protrusion or a groove, which can be combined with a corresponding connector. Complementary grooves or projections are fitted, the fitting of which is only in the opposite direction of the connector and the adapter (rotatability).

In the plugging device of the present invention, the connector and the adapter are respectively provided with a casing, a contact element, a contact piece and a contact member. In the state of being inserted, the casing is first fitted to each other, and then the contact members are in contact with each other, and then The contact elements are in contact with each other, and then the contact pieces are connected to each other. touch.

The insulator of the contact element of the present invention uses a separate shielding layer, which is especially suitable for high-frequency signal transmission, and its data speed is higher than 10 GB, and the bandwidth is over 500 MHz.

<p>1 connector</p><p>10Contact elements</p><p>11Shield sheet</p><p>12 Planar section</p><p>13 curved section</p><p>14Contact parts</p><p>15Contacts</p><p>16Long axis</p><p>17Insulator</p><p>18 Groove</p><p>19Complementary protrusions</p><p>2 Adapter</p><p>20Seal ring</p><p>3 Shell</p><p>4 inner shell</p><p>5 Annular projections</p><p>6Fixed casing</p><p>7 internal thread</p><p>8 external thread</p><p>9Insulator</p>

The first figure is a perspective view of the connector of the present embodiment.

The second figure is a perspective view of the adapter of the present embodiment.

The third figure is a top view of the connector of the present embodiment.

The fourth figure is a side view of the connector of the present embodiment.

The fifth drawing is a cross-sectional view of the connector of the present embodiment (along the VV cross section in the third figure).

The sixth drawing is a plan view of the adapter of the present embodiment.

The seventh drawing is a side view of the adapter of the present embodiment.

The eighth drawing is a cross-sectional view of the adapter of the present embodiment (along the cross section of VIII-VIII in the sixth drawing).

The ninth drawing is a cross-sectional view of the docking device of the present embodiment.

The tenth figure is a top view (I) of the plug-in device of the present embodiment.

The eleventh figure is a cross-sectional view of the plug-in device of the present embodiment (along the XI-XI cross section in the tenth figure).

The twelfth figure is an enlarged view of the detail of the plug-in device of the present embodiment (XII in the eleventh figure).

The thirteenth figure is a top view (2) of the plug-in device of the present embodiment.

Figure 14 is a cross-sectional view of the plug-in device of the present embodiment (along the XIV-XIV cross-section in Figure 13).

The fifteenth figure is an enlarged view of the detail of the plug-in device of the present embodiment (XV in Fig. 14).

Figure 16 is a cross-sectional view of the thirteenth embodiment of the present embodiment.

For the purpose of achieving the above-mentioned purposes and functions, the preferred embodiments are described in detail with reference to the drawings. For the embodiment of the present application, please refer to the first. As shown in the third to fifth figures, the shape is the different viewing angles of the connector 1 of the plug. In the different viewing angles of the second, sixth to eighth diagrams, the shape is an adapter 2, which corresponds to the connector 1, the first 9 to 16 is a plug-in device composed of the above connector 1 and the adapter 2.

The connector 1 of the present invention comprises a conductive material casing 3, in particular a metal material (such as steel, copper, etc.), wherein the casing 3 of the connector 1 is composed of a plurality of components, and the component comprises a substantially a cylindrical inner casing 4 having an annular protrusion 5 on the outer side of the inner casing 4 (see FIG. 16), a fixing sleeve 6 can abut the annular protrusion 5, The fixing sleeve 6 has on its inner side an internal thread 7 which can be locked with the external thread 8 of the outer casing 3 of the adapter 2, whereby the connector of the connector 1 and the adapter 2 can be prevented from being unexpected. Loose.

The connector 1 of the present invention comprises four insulators 9 (for example, made of ceramic or non-conductive plastic material) inside the outer casing 3, and the sections are respectively annular sections, and the insulators 9 are integrally formed, each insulator 9 has two channels parallel to the direction in which the connector 1 and the adapter 2 are inserted, wherein each channel is internally provided with a contact element 10 made of a conductive material (especially metal, such as steel, copper, etc.) This contact element 10 is immovable in the plugging direction.

The contact element 10 in the connector 1 of the present invention is in the form of a contact socket which accommodates the contact element 10 of the adapter 2 which is shaped to contact the plug.

The connector 1 of the present invention and the insulator 9 of the adapter 2 have a separate shield a layer, the shielding layer is respectively formed by a section of each of the outer casings 3 and a section between the two shielding sheets 11, the shielding sheets 11 are respectively in contact with the outer casing 3, and thus have the same potential as the outer casing 3, The individual shielding sheets 11 of the connector 1 and the adapter 2 respectively comprise a planar section 12 extending radially between two adjacent insulators 9, and a curved section 13 which shields the radially inner side of the associated insulator 9.

The curved section 13 of the four shielding sheets 11 of the present invention constitutes a cylindrical outer layer which isolates the insulator 9 from a contact member 14 located at the inner center of the inner casing 4.

The shielding sheet 11 of the present invention extends in a planar section 12 between two adjacent insulators 9, each having a contact piece 15 which is curved obliquely with respect to the plugging direction (this plugging direction is connected with the plugging direction) The long axis 16 of the adapter 1 and the adapter 2 are the same), and a conductive connection can be formed between the shielding layer of the connector 1 and the shielding layer of the connector 2 via the contact piece 15 (refer to the fifteenth figure).

The connector 1 of the present invention is mounted in the center of the inner side of the outer casing 3 and is formed as a contact plug which is located inside the other insulator 17, which insulates the plug from the curved section 13 of the shielding foil 11. Isolation, in contrast, the contact member 14 of the adapter 2 is constructed as a contact socket which is also located inside an additional insulator 17 which insulates the socket from the curved section 13 of the shielding foil 11.

The insulator 9 of the connector 1 of the present invention for accommodating the contact element 10 has a recess 18 into which the complementary protrusion 19 of the insulator 9 on the adapter 2 can be fitted; thereby forming an address code, The connector 1 and the adapter 2 can be inserted only in a single direction; on different plug-in devices, the complementary protrusions 19 are paired with the grooves 18, as long as the cross-sectional shape (including the cross-sectional area) or In view of the difference in position between the connector 1 and the housing 3 of the adapter 2, the addressing code can be additionally designed such that the appropriately functioning connector 1 and the adapter 2 can be inserted into a plug-in device.

When the connector 1 and the adapter 2 of the present invention are inserted, the first contact of the connector 1 is first contacted. The plug tail of the component 14 reaches the central opening of the outer casing 3 of the adapter 2 (the first step of the insertion process) whereby the connector 1 and the adapter 2 can be aligned with each other.

When the insertion movement continues, the insulator 17 surrounding the contact member 14 contacting the socket of the adapter 2 will reach the cylindrical outer layer formed by the curved section 13 of the four shielding sheets 11 (refer to the ninth figure, In the second step of the insertion process, the connector 1 and the adapter 2 can be aligned with each other.

When the insertion process continues, the protrusions 19 of the adapter 2 are inserted into the recesses 18 of the connector 1 (see the third step of the insertion process shown in Figure 11), a prerequisite for this step. The relative orientation of the connector 1 and the adapter 2 is correct, and is the insertion of the connector 1 and the adapter 2.

When the insertion process continues, the contact member 14 will contact, that is, the central contact plug of the connector 1 will be inserted into the central contact socket of the adapter 2.

When the insertion process continues, the contact elements 10 of both the connector 1 and the adapter 2 will contact each other, whereby the contact plug of the connector 1 can be inserted into the contact socket of the associated adapter 2 (interpolation process) The fourth step).

The contact piece 15 of the shield sheet 11 of both the connector 1 and the adapter 2 will be in contact with each other by the continuous insertion operation (refer to the fourth step of the insertion process shown in the fourteenth and fifteenth drawings). ).

When the fixing sleeve 6 on the outer casing 3 of the connector 1 and the outer casing 3 of the adapter 2 are twisted, the insertion device can be prevented from being unintentionally loosened; at the same time, the connector 1 is engaged with the connector 1 The sealing ring 20 between the outer casing 3 of the device 2 (between the annular projection 5 of the outer casing 3 of the connector 1 and the insertion end of the outer casing 3 of the adapter 2) can be surely isolated from the inner function of the outer casing 3. The components are free from outside interference.

The connector 1 or the adapter 2 of the present invention, wherein the configuration of the four shielding sheets 11 can be an integrally formed shielding block, which can be a low cost component, particularly a zinc die casting assembly.

Since the contact piece 15 is not easily built into the interior of the zinc die-cast assembly, the connector 1 can be additionally contacted with the shield block of the adapter 2 on the side. For this purpose, the connector extends between the two insulators 9. 1 is overlapped with the planar section 12 of the shield block on the adapter 2, and the cylindrical section of the shield block surrounding the central contact member 14 can be additionally overlapped.

According to this alternative, the construction of the connector 1 and the remainder of the adapter 2 is in accordance with the embodiment shown and described in the drawings.

In summary, the present invention has achieved the intended use and effect, and is more desirable and practical than the prior art. However, the above embodiments are only specifically described for the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The present invention is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and all other equivalents and modifications may be included in the scope of the invention covered by the present invention.