Electrical connector

• US 9,960,513 B1
• Filed: 08/15/2017
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• 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:
  US15/677,340
• Time in Patent Office: 259 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 carrying a chip module includes an insulating body having terminals arranged in the insulating body and used for contacting the chip module, a carrying member used for carrying the chip module to the insulating body, a pressing plate used for pressing the carrying member or the chip module, and a positioning member pivoted to the carrying member through a pivoting device. The pivoting device includes a pivoting shaft and at least one elastic portion. The elastic portion includes a first elastic section and at least two limiting portions being elastic and enclosing a pivoting space. The pivoting shaft is pivoted to the pivoting space. When the electrical connector is opened, the first elastic section springs back to remove the chip module from the insulating body without damaging the terminals, so as to align and contact the chip module with the terminals without tool.

Claims

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

an insulating body having a plurality of terminals arranged in the insulating body and used for contacting the chip module;

a carrying member used for carrying the chip module to the insulating body;

a pressing plate used for pressing the carrying member or the chip module; and

a positioning member, pivoted to the carrying member through a pivoting device comprising

a pivoting shaft; and

at least one elastic portion comprising

a first elastic section; and

at least two limiting portions being elastic and enclosing a pivoting space, wherein the pivoting shaft is pivoted to the pivoting space.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein an elastic deformation direction of the limiting portions is different from that of the first elastic section.

3. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the limiting portions elastically deforms in lateral directions, and the first elastic section elastically deforms in a vertical direction.

4. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the two limiting portions are arranged in a mutually staggered manner.

5. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the two limiting portions are arranged opposite to each other, each of the limiting portions has an arc-shaped surface, and the two arc-shaped surfaces enclose the pivoting space.

6. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the elastic portion is formed by extending from the positioning member, and the pivoting shaft is located on the carrying member.

7. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein the first elastic section extends from the positioning member, and the first elastic section is connected to the two limiting portions.

8. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein the elastic portion has a second elastic section extending from the positioning member, bending and extending along a first vertical direction from the first elastic portion, and being connected to the first elastic section and the two limiting portions.

9. The electrical connector of claim 8, wherein a bending portion is formed by bending and extending from the positioning member along a second vertical direction opposite to the first vertical direction, the first elastic portion horizontally extends from the bending portion, the second elastic portion bends and extends from the first elastic section along the first vertical direction, and the two limiting portions are horizontally arranged with an interval between the two limiting portions at a tail end of the second elastic portion.

10. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein the positioning member has a buffer portion, the buffer portion abuts against the pivoting shaft.

11. The electrical connector of claim 10, wherein the pivoting shaft has an assembling plane and a stopping plane adjacent to each other, the carrying member has an assembling state and a buffer state, when the carrying member is in the assembling state, the assembling plane abuts against the buffer portion, and when the carrying member is in the buffer state, the stopping plane abuts against the buffer portion.

12. The electrical connector of claim 10, wherein the buffer portion is located between the insulating body and the carrying member.

13. The electrical connector of claim 10, wherein an elastic connecting section is formed by extending from the positioning member, and the buffer portion is connected to the elastic connecting section.

14. The electrical connector of claim 13, wherein a bending portion is formed by bending and extending from the positioning member along a first vertical direction, the elastic connecting portion horizontally extends from the bending portion, the buffer portion is formed by bending from the elastic connecting section along a second vertical direction opposite to the first vertical direction, and the elastic connecting section is connected to the bending portion and the buffer portion.

15. The electrical connector of claim 14, wherein the buffer portion bends and extends from the elastic connecting section along a lateral direction away from the positioning member.

16. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein the pivoting device comprises two elastic portions, the positioning member has a buffer portion, and the buffer portion is located between the two elastic portions and abuts against the pivoting shaft.

17. The electrical connector of claim 6, wherein a buffer portion and the elastic portion are formed by extending from the same positioning member, respectively.

18. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the elastic portion is formed by extending from the carrying member, the pivoting shaft is formed by extending from the positioning member, the first elastic section extends from the carrying member, and the first elastic section is connected to the limiting portion.

19. The electrical connector of claim 18, wherein the elastic portion comprises two first elastic sections extending toward each other from two sides of the carrying member, respectively, and extension directions of the two first elastic sections are perpendicular to a rotating direction of the carrying member.

20. The electrical connector of claim 18, wherein the positioning member bends and extends along a vertical direction to form a bending portion, an elastic connecting portion extends horizontally from the bending portion, and the elastic connecting portion bends and extends to form the pivoting shaft.

21. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the carrying member has a buffer portion abutting against the insulating body, located on a side of the carrying member away from the elastic portion, and comprising two elastic buffer arms abutting against the insulating body.

22. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein a base is arranged at the periphery of the insulating body, the positioning member is soldered and fixed to the base, and a buffer portion is fixed to the base and located opposite to the positioning member, and abuts against the carrying member.

23. The electrical connector of claim 22, wherein the buffer portion has a main body portion, the main body portion is fixed to the base, two elastic arms extend from the main body portion along a direction toward the insulating body, an elastic buffer arm extends from the elastic arm a long a vertical direction, and the elastic buffer arm abuts against the carrying member.

24. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the pressing plate and the carrying member are located on two adjacent sides of the periphery of the insulating body, respectively.

25. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the pressing plate has two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, one of the short sides of the pressing plate serves as a pivoting side, the carrying member has two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, and one of the long sides of the carrying member serves as a pivoting side.

26. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein a side of the carrying member away from the pivoting side is provided with at least one first guide portion fitting an outer wall surface of the insulating body and guiding the carrying member to the insulating body.

27. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the carrying member is provided with at least one second guide portion on each of two opposite short sides of the carrying member, the second guide portions fits an outer wall surface of the insulating body and guides the carrying member to the insulating body.

28. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein a base is arranged at the periphery of the insulating body, a first reinforcing member and a second reinforcing member are fixed to the base, the second reinforcing member is located on a first side of the base opposite to a second side of the base where the first reinforcing member is located, a first lever is pivoted to the first reinforcing member, a second lever is pivoted to the second reinforcing member, the pressing plate is pivoted to the first lever, the pressing plate has a projecting portion, the second lever is configured to press the projecting portion, two third guide portions extend from the first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member, respectively, and the third guide portions fit an outer wall surface of the carrying member and guide the carrying member to be pressed to the insulating body.

29. An electrical connector used for carrying a chip module, comprising:

an insulating body having a plurality of terminals arranged in the insulating body and used for contacting the chip module;

a carrying member used for carrying the chip module to the insulating body;

a pressing plate used for pressing the carrying member or the chip module; and

a positioning member, pivoted to the carrying member through a pivoting device comprising

an elastic portion having a pivoting space; and

a pivoting shaft, pivoted to the pivoting space, wherein when the pivoting shaft enters the pivoting space, the elastic portion elastically deforms for a first time, and when the pressing plate presses the carrying member or the chip module, the elastic portion elastically deforms for a second time.

30. The electrical connector of claim 29, wherein the elastic portion comprises a first elastic section and at least two limiting portions being elastic and enclosing the pivoting space.

31. The electrical connector of claim 30, wherein when the pivoting shaft is pressed against the limiting portions, the limiting portions elastically deform, and when the pressing plate presses the carrying member or the chip module, the first elastic section elastically deforms.

32. The electrical connector of claim 30, wherein an elastic deformation direction of the limiting portions is different from that of the first elastic section.

33. The electrical connector of claim 30, wherein the limiting portion laterally and elastically deforms, and the first elastic section elastically deforms in a vertical direction.

34. The electrical connector of claim 30, wherein the two limiting portions are oppositely arranged in a mutually staggered manner.

35. The electrical connector of claim 29, wherein the elastic portion is formed by extending from the positioning member, the pivoting shaft is arranged on the carrying member, the elastic portion comprises at least two limiting portions and a first elastic section extending from the positioning member and connected to the two limiting portions.

36. The electrical connector of claim 35, wherein the elastic portion has a second elastic section connected to the first elastic section and the limiting portions.

37. The electrical connector of claim 36, wherein a bending portion is formed by bending and extending from the positioning member along a first vertical direction, the first elastic portion horizontally extends from the bending portion, and the second elastic portion bends and extends from the first elastic section along a second vertical direction opposite to the first vertical direction.

38. The electrical connector of claim 29, wherein the positioning member has a buffer portion abutting against the pivoting shaft.

39. The electrical connector of claim 38, wherein the pivoting shaft has an assembling plane and a stopping plane adjacent to each other, the carrying member has an assembling state and a buffer state, when the carrying member is in the assembling state, the assembling plane abuts against the buffer portion, and when the carrying member is in the buffer state, the stopping plane abuts against the buffer portion.

40. The electrical connector of claim 38, wherein an elastic connecting section is formed by extending from the positioning member, and the buffer portion is connected to the elastic connecting section.