Electric connector with unlatching mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11742610-B2
Application number	US-202117556366-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2021
Priority date	Nov 17, 2021
Publication date	Aug 29, 2023
Grant date	Aug 29, 2023

Abstract

The disclosure provides an electric connector, which includes a base, a cover, and an elastic member. The cover covers the base and is formed with a chamber. The cover is disposed with a key and a trough. The elastic member is disposed in the chamber and includes a lower plate, an upper plate, and a flexible arm. The lower plate is fixed on the base. The upper plate is formed above the lower plate. The flexible arm is connected between the lower plate and the upper plate. The upper plate is extended with a hook. The hook movably enters or leaves each trough. The upper plate is disposed with a pressed portion corresponding to the key in position. The pressed portion drives each hook to move out from each trough through pressing of the key so as to implement unlatching of the electric connector.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric connector with an unlatching mechanism, the electric connector comprising:
a base, comprising an insulative seat, a circuit board, and a cable, wherein an end of the circuit board and an end of the cable are embedded in the insulative seat, the circuit board comprises multiple printed terminals, and the cable is electrically connected with each printed terminal;
a cover, covering the base, a chamber defined between the insulative seat and the cover, a key disposed on the cover, and a trough respectively disposed on two sides of the key and communicating with the chamber;
an elastic member, received in the chamber and comprising a lower plate, an upper plate and at least one flexible arm, the lower plate fixed on the insulative seat, the upper plate disposed above the lower plate, the flexible arm connected between the lower plate and the upper plate, a hook respectively extended from two ends of the upper plate, each hook movably entering or leaving each trough, and a pressed portion disposed on the upper plate corresponding to the key in position; and
a pulling belt assembly, disposed in the chamber and projecting to outside of the base and cover;
wherein the pressed portion is configured to drive each hook to move out of each trough through pressing of the key to unlatch the electric connector;
wherein the insulative seat comprises a platform, the pulling belt assembly comprises an actuator and a pulling belt, the actuator is disposed in the chamber, and an end of the pulling belt is connected to the actuator and attached on a top of the platform and further extended to outside of the base and the cover.

2. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the insulative seat comprises multiple positioning bars extended therefrom, multiple through holes are defined on the cover, each through hole is correspondingly passed by each positioning bar, and each positioning bar is treated with melting.

3. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the insulative seat comprises multiple positioning bars extended therefrom, multiple positioning holes are defined on the lower plate, each positioning hole is passed by each positioning bar to make the lower plate be fixed on the insulative seat.

4. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein a recess is disposed on the platform, the flexible arm is multiple in number, and one of the flexible arms is correspondingly fastened in the recess.

5. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the upper plate is substantially parallel with the lower plate, and each flexible arm and each hook are extended from the upper plate toward opposite directions.

6. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the insulative seat comprises multiple latching blocks, and the cover comprises multiple latching slots separately engaging with each latching block.

7. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the key comprises a pressing block, and the key is configured to press the pressed portion through the pressing block.

8. The electric connector of claim 1 , wherein the upper plate comprises a pressed slant, the actuator comprises a pressing slant, after the pulling belt assembly being pulled, the pressing slant presses the pressed slant to make each hook move out from each trough to unlatch the electric connector.

Assignees

• Jess Link Products Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chang Hsu-Feng
• Kao Ya-Fen
• Lai Cheng-Chung
• Wang Siang-Ting

Classifications

• H01R13/506 Primary

  assembled by snap action of the parts · CPC title

• H01R12/712

  co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit (H01R12/72 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01R13/6335 Primary

  comprising a handle · CPC title

• H01R13/6275

  Latching arms not integral with the housing (H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01R12/721

  cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits · CPC title