Electrical connector

• US 10,062,994 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2017
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lotes Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Lotes Company Limited
• Inventors: Peng, Jian Min, Tsai, Ming Jui
• Primary Examiner(s): Harvey, James
• Application Number:
  US15/677,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20180212387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/85 contact pressure producing means, contacts activated after insertion of printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/88 acting manually by rotating or pivoting connector housing parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62 Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62966 Comprising two pivoting levers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62994 Lever acting on a connector mounted onto the flexible or rigid printed circuit boards, flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/97 Holders with separate means to prevent loosening of the coupling or unauthorised removal of apparatus held
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1007 with means for increasing contact pressure at the end of engagement of coupling parts

Abstract

An electrical connector used for bearing a chip module includes an insulating body, terminals arranged in the insulating body, a carrying member, for carrying the chip module to the insulating body, disposed at one side of the insulating body and contacting with the terminals, a pressing plate for pressing the carrying member or the chip module, and an elastic member having at least two limiting portions. The pressing plate and the carrying member are separately disposed at two adjacent sides on the periphery of the insulating body. The two limiting portions define a pivoting space, and the carrying member is pivotally connected to the pivoting space. The elastic member and the carrying member are disposed at the same side of the insulating body, the elastic member has a buffer portion, and the buffer portion abuts against the carrying member and is disposed between the insulating body and the carrying member.

Claims

1. An electrical connector for bearing a chip module, comprising:

an insulating body;

a base fixed at the periphery of the insulating body;

a plurality of terminals arranged in the insulating body;

a carrying member, disposed at one side of the insulating body, adapted to carry the chip module to the insulating body, and configured to contact with the plurality of terminals;

an elastic member fixed at the base and disposed at the same side with the carrying member; and

a pressing plate, adapted to press the carrying member or the chip module,

wherein the pressing plate and the carrying member are separately disposed at two adjacent sides on a periphery of the insulating body.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the carrying member has two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, and one of the long sides of the carrying member is a pivoting side;

and

wherein the pressing plate has two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, and one of the short sides of the pressing plate is a pivoting side.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the carrying member is pivotally connected to the insulating body.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein each of two ends of a pivoting side of the carrying member has a pivoting shaft, the insulating body has two fixed holes, and pivoting shafts are pivotally connected to the fixed holes.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein an elastic member and the carrying member are disposed at the same side of the insulating body, the elastic member has a buffer portion, and the buffer portion abuts against the carrying member.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 5, wherein the elastic member has a main body portion, the buffer portion extends from the main body portion, and the buffer portion is disposed between the insulating body and the carrying member.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 5, wherein the carrying member is concavely formed with a matching portion, and the matching portion abuts against the buffer portion.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein an elastic member has a main body portion, at least one first elastic portion and at least one second elastic portion extend from the main body portion, and a buffer portion extends from the second elastic portion.

9. The electrical connector according to claim 8, wherein the elastic member further has

at least one bending portion, bending downward from the main body portion, wherein the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion horizontally extend from the bending portion;

and

a bearing portion, bending upward from the first elastic portion, wherein the bearing portion upward abuts against the carrying member.

10. The electrical connector according to claim 8, wherein the number of the first elastic portion is two, and the second elastic portion is disposed between the two first elastic portions.

11. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein an elastic member has at least two limiting portions, the two limiting portions define a pivoting space, and the carrying member is pivotally connected to the pivoting space.

12. The electrical connector according to claim 11, wherein the two limiting portions are arranged in a staggered manner.

13. The electrical connector according to claim 11, wherein the elastic member has a main body portion, at least one first elastic portion and at least one second elastic portion extend from the main body portion, two limiting portions extend from the first elastic portion, and a buffer portion extends from the second elastic portion.

14. The electrical connector according to claim 13, wherein the elastic member further has at least one bending portion bending downward from the main body portion, the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion horizontally extend from the bending portion, the two limiting portions bend upward from the first elastic portion, and the buffer portion bends upward from the second elastic portion.

15. The electrical connector according to claim 13, wherein the carrying member has a pivoting shaft, the pivoting shaft has an assembly plane and a stopping plane adjacent to each other, when the carrying member is in an assembly state, the assembly plane abuts against the buffer portion, and when the carrying member is in a buffer state, the stopping plane abuts against the buffer portion.

16. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein two short sides of the carrying member have at least one second guide portion, and the at least one second guide portion is adapted to match with an outer wall surface of the insulating body and guide the carrying member to the insulating body.

17. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member has a main body portion, the main body portion has a plurality of soldering portions, and the soldering portions fix the elastic member with the base.

18. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein a base is fixed on the periphery of the insulating body, a first reinforcing member and a second reinforcing member are fixed at the base, the second reinforcing member is disposed at an opposite side of the first reinforcing member, a first lever is pivotally connected to the first reinforcing member, a second lever is pivotally connected to the second reinforcing member, the pressing plate is pivotally connected to the first lever, the pressing plate has a protruding portion, and the second lever is adapted to press the protruding portion.

19. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein a side of the carrying member away from a pivoting side of the carrying member has at least one first guide portion, and the at least one first guide portion is adapted to match with an outer wall surface of the insulating body and guide the carrying member to the insulating body.