Electrical connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10141677-B2
Application number	US-201715805296-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2017
Priority date	Nov 23, 2016
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating body, which has at least two body units. Each two body unit accommodates and is fixed with multiple terminals, and the at least two body units are spliced to each other. Each body unit has at least two edge portions, and the insulating body is provided with at least four fixing portions such that each of the edge portions is provided with at least one fixing portions. At least four metal members are correspondingly and fixedly provided on the at least four fixing portions respectively. At least two metal sheets are provided outside the at least two body units. Each metal sheet is soldered and fixed to at least one metal member provided on each body unit. By soldering and fixing the metal members and the metal sheets together, the overall structure of the electrical connector is firmer, and flatness is higher.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector, comprising:
an insulating body, having at least two body units, each of the at least two body units accommodating and fixed with a plurality of terminals, and the at least two body units being spliced to each other, wherein each of the at least two body units has at least two edge portions, and the insulating body is provided with at least four fixing portions such that each of the at least two edge portions of each of the at least two body units is provided with at least one of the at least four fixing portions;
at least four metal members, correspondingly and fixedly provided on the at least four fixing portions respectively; and
at least two metal sheets, provided outside the at least two body units, wherein each of the at least two metal sheets is soldered and fixed to at least one metal member provided on each of the at least two body units.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two metal sheets are integrally formed.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein when the number of the body units is two and each of the body units has two fixing portions, the two fixing portions of each of the body units are provided on two opposite edge portions respectively.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein when the number of the body units is three or more than three and each of the body units has two fixing portions, the two fixing portions of each of the body units are provided on two adjacent edge portions respectively.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein for each of the edge portions provided with the corresponding fixing portions, the number of the fixing portions provided thereon is greater than one, and the corresponding metal sheet is soldered and fixed to the fixing portions provided thereon.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein:
each of the metal members has a base, and two buckling portions are formed by bending and extending upward and downward respectively from the base toward a center of the corresponding body unit; and
two grooves are respectively provided at an upper end and a lower end of each of the fixing portions correspondingly, and each of the two buckling portions is retained in a corresponding one of the two grooves.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 6 , wherein:
the base of each of the metal members is flush with an outer side surface of each of the edge portions, or the base of each of the metal members protrudes out of the outer side surface of each of the edge portions; and
the buckling portions close to upper surfaces of the edge portions are lower than or flush with the upper surfaces of the edge portions, and the buckling portions close to lower surfaces of the edge portions are higher than or flush with the lower surfaces of the edge portions.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein the metal sheets are flat plate shaped, and the metal sheets are lower than or flush with upper surfaces of the edge portions and higher than or flush with lower surfaces of the edge portions.

9. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein each of the body units is provided with an insertion area located among the edge portions, the edge portions are higher than the insertion area to be configured to receive a chip module, each of the terminals is provided with a contact portion exposed to the insertion area, and the contact portion is configured to be in contact with the chip module.

10. An electrical connector, comprising:
an insulating body, having at least two body units, each of the at least two body units accommodating and fixed with a plurality of terminals, and the at least two body units being spliced to each other, wherein each of the at least two body units has at least one edge portion, and the insulating body is provided with at least two fixing portions such that each of the at least one edge portion of each of the at least two body units is provided with at least one of the at least two fixing portions;
at least two metal members, correspondingly and fixedly provided on the at least two fixing portions respectively; and
at least one metal sheet, provided outside the at least two body units, wherein the at least one metal sheet is soldered and fixed to a metal member provided on each of the at least two body units.

11. The electrical connector according to claim 10 , wherein each of the body units is provided with an insertion area located among the edge portions, each of the terminals is provided with a contact portion exposed to the insertion area, the contact portion is in contact with a chip module, and the edge portions are higher than the insertion area to be configured to receive the chip module.

12. The electrical connector according to claim 10 , wherein:
each of the metal members has a base, and two buckling portions are formed by bending and extending upward and downward respectively from the base toward a center of the corresponding body unit; and
two grooves are respectively provided at an upper end and a lower end of each of the fixing portions correspondingly, and each of the two buckling portions is retained in a corresponding one of the two grooves.

13. The electrical connector according to claim 12 , wherein:
the base of each of the metal members is flush with an outer side surface of each of the edge portions, or the base of each of the metal members protrudes out of the outer side surface of each of the edge portions; and
the buckling portions close to upper surfaces of the edge portions are lower than or flush with the upper surfaces of the edge portions, and the buckling portions close to lower surfaces of the edge portions are higher than or flush with the lower surfaces of the edge portions.

Assignees

• Lotes Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ju Ted

Classifications

• H10W99/00

  Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• H01R12/7076 Primary

  for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display · CPC title

• H01R12/82

  connected with low or zero insertion force · CPC title

• H05K7/10

  Plug-in assemblages of components {, e.g. IC sockets} · CPC title

• H01R13/514 Primary

  composed as a modular blocks or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them · CPC title