阅读说明：本技术 屏蔽笼子与收容于屏蔽笼子内的电连接器 (Shielding cage and electric connector contained in shielding cage ) 是由 田立春 邵锋 朱成刚 于 2019-11-29 设计创作，主要内容包括：一种屏蔽笼子与收容于屏蔽笼子内的电连接器,用以与高速线缆的插入模组配合,所述屏蔽笼子与所述电连接器用以安装于电路板上,所述屏蔽笼子设有收容通道,所述屏蔽笼子具有围成前述收容通道的顶壁、底壁、两侧壁与后壁,所述底壁与后壁之间设有通孔,所述电连接器位于所述屏蔽笼子内,并从所述通孔露出,以安装于所述电路板上,所述电连接器设有收容槽,所述收容槽向前开口并连通所述收容通道,所述屏蔽笼子的收容通道与电路板呈倾斜设置,使所述线缆插入模组可以倾斜向下插入所述收容通道,并伸入所述收容槽中与所述电连接器导电配合。通过上述设计,方便观察与插入模组的插接。(The utility model provides a shielding cage and accept electric connector in shielding cage for with the cooperation of the module that inserts of high-speed cable, shielding cage with the electric connector is used for installing on the circuit board, shielding cage is equipped with accepts the passageway, shielding cage has roof, diapire, both sides wall and the back wall that encloses into aforementioned accept the passageway, be equipped with the through-hole between diapire and the back wall, the electric connector is located shielding cage is interior, and follows the through-hole exposes in order to install in on the circuit board, the electric connector is equipped with the accepting groove, the accepting groove opens forward and communicates accept the passageway, shielding cage's accepting channel is slope setting with the circuit board, makes the cable inserts the module can slope and insert downwards accept the passageway, and stretch into in the accepting groove with the electric connector electrically conducts the cooperation. Through the design, the plugging of the module is convenient to observe and insert.)

1. A shielding cage for installing on a circuit board, the shielding cage being provided with a housing channel for insertion of a module, the shielding cage having a top wall, a bottom wall, two side walls and a rear wall enclosing the housing channel, a through hole being provided between the bottom wall and the rear wall for housing an electrical connector, characterized in that: the accommodating channel of the shielding cage is obliquely arranged with the circuit board, so that the inserting module can be obliquely inserted into the accommodating channel downwards and is in conductive fit with the electric connector.

2. The shielding cage of claim 1, wherein: the shielding cage includes last shield and lower shield of mutually assembling together, it includes to go up the shield the roof, follow the aforesaid both sides wall of roof both sides downward buckling and follow the back wall of roof rear end downward buckling, the shield forms down the diapire, the both sides wall is equipped with downwardly opening's dovetail, the diapire is equipped with the dovetail arch of upwards extending, protruding embedding in the dovetail to prevent that the diapire from breaking away from the lateral wall downwards easily.

3. The shielding cage of claim 2, wherein: the lower shielding assembly further comprises a baffle plate, the front end of the bottom wall of the baffle plate is bent downwards and is perpendicular to the insertion direction of the accommodating passage, the shielding cage is provided with a punching opening and a buckle structure in the punching opening, the lower end of the baffle plate is bent backwards to form a shielding piece, the shielding piece is shielded at the lower side of the punching opening to prevent the inner structure from being seen, and two sides of the shielding piece are fixed on two side walls to further enhance the stability of the shielding cage structure.

4. The shielding cage of claim 1, wherein: the rear end of the bottom wall is bent downwards to form a front wall extending vertically downwards.

5. The shielding cage of claim 4, wherein: the lower side of the front wall is bent forwards to form a horizontal supporting sheet, the supporting sheet is supported between the two side walls and is buckled with the two side walls, and the front end of the supporting sheet is bent downwards to form pins for being downwards mounted on the circuit board.

6. The shielding cage of claim 4, wherein: the front wall extends downwardly to form pins for mounting to the circuit board.

7. The shielding cage of claim 4, wherein: the shielding cage further comprises a bottom shielding piece, the bottom shielding piece is connected to the lower end of the front wall in a nested mode, the bottom shielding piece comprises a horizontal bottom wall extending forwards and horizontally and fixed to the two side walls, and the front end of the horizontal bottom wall bends downwards and forms pins used for being installed on the circuit board.

8. The shielding cage of any one of claims 1-7, wherein: the shielding cage top is fixed with the suction plate, the suction plate is equipped with the smooth upper surface of horizontally to the erection equipment absorbs in the suction plate, the suction plate sets up to high heat conduction material, and the roof is equipped with the opening, the downside of suction plate stretches into accept the passageway for the contact inserts the module of inserting of accepting the passageway and carries out the heat conduction cooling, the suction plate is fixed in the shielding cage through the shell fragment of frame mouth shape.

9. The shielding cage of any one of claims 1-7, wherein: an absorbing plate is fixed to the top of the shielding cage and is made of plastic materials, the lower side of the absorbing plate is provided with support columns extending downwards to support the top wall, clamping arms extending downwards are arranged on two sides of the absorbing plate, and the clamping arms are fastened to two side walls of the shielding cage.

10. An electrical connector for mounting within a shielding cage of any one of claims 1-7, wherein: the electric connector is provided with a clamping slot which limits an inclined forward upper opening, when a high-speed cable insertion module is inserted into the accommodating channel in an inclined backward lower direction, the high-speed cable insertion module can enter the clamping slot for conductive matching, the electric connector comprises an insulating body, an upper row terminal and a lower row terminal, the upper row terminal is inserted into the insulating body and is provided with a contact arm extending forward, a pin used for being installed on a circuit board, a connecting arm connected between the contact arm and the pin, and a holding arm which is connected to the front side of the upper connecting arm and is inserted into the insulating body in the forward upper direction in a direction parallel to the opening direction and is in interference fit, the lower row terminal is provided with a contact arm extending backward, a pin used for being installed on the circuit board, a connecting arm connected between the contact arm and the pin, and a holding arm which is connected to the rear side of the connecting, and the upper row of terminals and the lower row of terminals are formed by blanking metal plates.

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a shielding cage and an electrical connector housed in the shielding cage, and more particularly, to a shielding cage and an electrical connector housed in the shielding cage, which are convenient for inserting a module into the shielding cage.

Background

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem that this application will be solved provides a shielding cage and accommodates the electric connector in the shielding cage, can make things convenient for high-speed cable to insert the module and insert the cooperation.

In order to realize the above-mentioned purpose, the application provides a shielding cage for install on the circuit board, shielding cage is equipped with and is used for supplying to insert the module complex and accepts the passageway, shielding cage has roof, diapire, both sides wall and the back wall in order enclosing into aforementioned accepting the passageway, be equipped with the through-hole between diapire and the back wall for accept the electric connector, shielding cage's accepting passageway is the slope setting with the circuit board, makes it can slope downwardly inserting to insert the module accept the passageway, and with the electrically conductive cooperation of electric connector. Through the design, compared with the prior art, the structure is slightly complex, the use is convenient, and the insertion of the module is convenient to observe and insert.

As a further design, the shielding cage includes last shield and lower shield of mutually assembling together, it includes to go up the shield the roof, follow the aforesaid both sides wall of roof both sides downward buckling and follow the back wall of roof rear end downward buckling, the shield forms down the diapire, as the further design of shielding cage, the both sides wall is equipped with downwardly opening's dovetail, the diapire is equipped with the dovetail arch of upwards extending, protruding embedding in the dovetail to prevent that the diapire from breaking away from the lateral wall downwards easily. The shielding cage of design like this simple structure, the equipment is convenient, stable in structure.

As a further design, the lower shielding assembly further comprises a baffle plate which is bent downwards at the front end of the bottom wall and extends in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction of the accommodating channel, the front side of the bottom wall of the shielding cage is provided with a punching opening and a buckle structure in the punching opening, the lower end of the baffle plate is bent backwards to form a shielding piece, the shielding piece is shielded at the lower side of the punching opening to prevent an internal structure from being seen, and two sides of the shielding piece are fixed on two side walls to further enhance the stability of the shielding cage structure.

As a further design, the rear end of the bottom wall is bent downwards to form a front wall extending vertically downwards. The front wall is used to provide complete shielding of the front side of the electrical connector.

As a further design, the lower side of the front wall is bent forwards to form a horizontal supporting sheet, the supporting sheet is supported between the two side walls and fastened with the two side walls, and the front end of the supporting sheet is bent downwards to form pins for being mounted on the circuit board downwards. The design structure is stable, and the grounding structure is provided, so that the shielding performance is good.

As a further design of the front wall, the front wall may also extend downward to form pins for mounting to the circuit board. The design has short grounding length of the bottom wall and good high-frequency performance.

As another design of the front wall, the shielding cage further comprises a bottom shielding plate, the bottom shielding plate is connected to the lower end of the front wall in a nesting mode, the bottom shielding plate comprises a horizontal bottom wall which extends forwards and horizontally and is used for fixing the two side walls, and the front end of the horizontal bottom wall is bent downwards and forms pins used for being installed on the circuit board. The design is convenient to assemble.

As a further design, shielding cage top is fixed with the suction plate, the suction plate is equipped with the smooth upper surface of horizontally to the erection equipment absorbs in the suction plate, the suction plate sets up to high heat conduction material, and the roof is equipped with the opening, the downside of suction plate stretches into accept the passageway for the contact inserts the module of inserting of accepting the passageway and carries out the heat conduction cooling, the suction plate is fixed in the shielding cage through the shell fragment of frame mouth shape. The suction structure is simultaneously used as a cooling structure, is fixed through the frame-mouth-shaped elastic sheet, and is simple and reliable in structure.

As another design of the suction structure, a suction plate is fixed at the top of the shielding cage and is formed by a plastic material, a support column extending downwards to support the top wall is arranged on the lower side of the suction plate, clamping arms extending downwards are arranged on two sides of the suction plate, and the clamping arms are fastened on two side walls of the shielding cage. The suction structure made of the plastic material has the advantages of simple and stable structure, low cost and convenience in installation.

The application provides an electric connector, which is used for being installed in the shielding cage, the electric connector is provided with a clamping and accommodating groove, the clamping and accommodating groove limits an opening inclined towards the upper front side, when a high-speed cable is inserted into a module inclined towards the lower rear side and inserted into the accommodating channel, the electric connector can enter the clamping and accommodating groove to be in conductive fit, the electric connector comprises an insulating body, an upper row of terminals and a lower row of terminals, the upper row of terminals are inserted into the insulating body, the upper row of terminals are provided with contact arms extending forwards, pins used for being installed on a circuit board, connecting arms connected between the contact arms and the pins, and fixing arms which are connected on the front side of the upper connecting arms and are inserted into the insulating body towards the upper front side in parallel to the opening direction and are in interference fit, the lower row of terminals are provided with contact arms extending backwards, pins used for being installed on the circuit board, connecting arms connected between the contact arms and the, and the upper row of terminals and the lower row of terminals are formed by blanking metal plates.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the embodiments of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the application and together with the description serve to explain the embodiments of the application and not to limit the embodiments of the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a perspective assembly view of a first embodiment of a high-speed receptacle electrical connector assembly of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a perspective assembled view of the high-speed receptacle electrical connector assembly shown in FIG. 1 from another perspective;

FIG. 3 is another perspective view of the shielding cage of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective assembly view of a second embodiment of the high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a third embodiment of the high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the electrical connector of the high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly of the present application taken along the lower row of terminal locations;

figure 9 is a cross-sectional view of the electrical connector of the high speed receptacle electrical connector assembly of the present application taken along the upper row of terminal locations.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions of the present application will be described in detail and completely with reference to the specific embodiments of the present application and the accompanying drawings. It should be apparent that the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that, in order to avoid obscuring the present application with unnecessary details, only the structures and/or processing steps closely related to some embodiments of the present application are shown in the drawings, and other details that are not relevant to some embodiments of the present application are omitted.

In addition, it is also to be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," "has," "having" or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

For the sake of descriptive accuracy, all references to directions herein are made with reference to fig. 1, wherein the extending direction of the X-axis is the left-right direction (wherein the positive direction of the X-axis is the front-right direction), the extending direction of the Y-axis is the front-back direction (wherein the negative direction of the Y-axis is the front), and the extending direction of the Z-axis is the up-down direction (wherein the positive direction of the Z-axis is the up).

For convenience of description, the up, down, left, right, front and back directions in the present application are relative positions, and do not limit the implementation.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, a first embodiment of the present application discloses a high-speed receptacle connector assembly 100 for mating with a plug-in module (not shown) for connecting a high-speed cable, wherein the high-speed receptacle connector assembly 100 comprises a shielding cage 200 for mounting on a circuit board (not shown) and an electrical connector 10. The shielding cage 200 has a receiving channel 20 for receiving the insertion module, and has a top wall 202, a bottom wall 206, two side walls 204 and a rear wall 208 enclosing the receiving channel. A through hole 207 is provided between the bottom wall 206 and the rear wall 208, and the electrical connector 10 (see fig. 6) is located in the shielding cage 200 and exposed from the through hole 207 for mounting on the circuit board. The electrical connector 10 is provided with a receiving groove 12, and the receiving groove 12 is opened forward and communicated with the receiving channel 20. The receiving channel 20 of the shielding cage 200 is inclined from the circuit board, so that the cable insertion module can be obliquely inserted into the receiving channel 20 and extend into the receiving slot 12 to be electrically connected with the electrical connector 10. Through the design, although the structure is slightly complex, the utility model is convenient to use and observe and insert,

the shielding cage 200 includes an upper shield and a lower shield assembled to each other, the upper shield including the top wall 20, the two side walls 204 bent downward from both sides of the top wall 202, and a rear wall 208 bent downward from a rear end of the top wall 202. The lower shield includes the bottom wall 206 fixed to the two side walls 204, and further includes a baffle 212 bent downward at the front end of the bottom wall 206 and extending perpendicular to the insertion direction of the receiving channel 20. The shielding cage 200 is provided with a die cut opening 21 at the front side of the bottom wall 206 and a snap structure 22 in the die cut opening, the snap structure 22 is used for holding the insertion module inserted into the receiving channel 20 in the receiving channel 20. The lower end of the baffle 212 is bent backwards to form a shielding piece 214, and the shielding piece 214 is shielded from the lower side of the die-cut opening 21 to prevent the internal structure from being seen. The rear end of the bottom wall 206 is bent downward to form a vertically downward extending front wall 216, which is used to provide complete shielding for the front side of the electrical connector. The lower side of the front wall 216 is bent forward to form a horizontal support plate 218, the support plate 218 is supported between the two side walls 204 and fastened to the two side walls 204, and the front end of the support plate 218 is bent downward to form a pin 219 for mounting downward to the circuit board. The design structure is stable, and the grounding structure is provided, so that the shielding performance is good.

The shielding cage 200 top is fixed with the suction plate 30, suction plate 30 is equipped with the smooth upper surface of horizontally (not numbered) to be convenient for erection equipment to absorb in the suction plate, the suction plate sets up to high heat conduction material, and the roof is equipped with the opening, the downside of suction plate stretches into accept the passageway for the contact inserts the module of inserting of accepting the passageway and carries out the heat conduction cooling, the suction plate is fixed in the shielding cage through the shell fragment of frame mouth shape. The suction structure is simultaneously used as a cooling structure, is fixed through the frame-mouth-shaped elastic sheet, and is simple and reliable in structure.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, as a second embodiment of the present application, the shielding cage 200 further includes a bottom shielding plate (not numbered) nestingly connected to the lower end of the front wall 216, the bottom shielding plate includes a horizontal bottom wall 218 extending horizontally forward and securing the two side walls 204, and the front end of the horizontal bottom wall 218 is bent downward and forms pins 219 for mounting to the circuit board. The design is convenient to assemble. The two side walls 204 are provided with dovetail grooves 24 opening downward, and the bottom wall 206 is provided with dovetail-shaped projections 26 extending upward, the projections 26 being fitted into the dovetail grooves 24 to prevent the bottom wall 206 from easily separating downward from the side walls 204. In addition, the shield tabs 214 extend rearwardly between the side walls 204 and provide a secure support for the side walls 204 to further strengthen the shielding cage 200.

An absorbing plate 40 is fixed on the top of the shielding cage 200, the absorbing plate 40 is made of plastic material, a support column 42 extending downwards to support the top wall is arranged on the lower side of the absorbing plate 40, clamping arms 44 extending downwards are arranged on two sides of the absorbing plate 40, and the clamping arms 44 are fastened on two side walls 204 of the shielding cage 200. The suction structure made of the plastic materials has the advantages of simple and stable structure, low cost and convenience in installation.

Referring to fig. 7, as a third embodiment of the present application, the front wall 216 may also extend downward to form pins 221 for mounting to the circuit board. With this design, the grounding length of the bottom wall 206 is short, and the high frequency performance is good.

The electrical connector 10 is provided with a card receiving slot 12 defining an inclined forward upper opening and being capable of entering into the card receiving slot for conductive engagement when a high-speed cable insertion module is inserted into the receiving channel 12 obliquely rearward and downward, the electrical connector 10 includes an insulative housing 18 and an upper row terminal 16 and a lower row terminal 14 inserted into the insulative housing 18, the upper row terminal 14 is provided with a contact arm 142 extending forward, a pin 144 for mounting on a circuit board, a connecting arm 146 connected between the contact arm 142 and the pin 144, and a holding arm 148 connected to a front side of the upper connecting arm 146 and inserted into the insulative housing in an interference fit manner parallel to the opening direction forward and upward, the lower row terminal 16 is provided with a contact arm 162 extending rearward, a pin 164 for mounting on the circuit board, a connecting arm 166 connected between the contact arm 162 and the pin 164, and a holding arm 168 connected to a rear side of the contact arm 162 and inserted into the insulative housing in an interference fit manner parallel to the opening direction rearward and downward, and the upper row terminal 16 and the lower row terminal 14 are formed by blanking a metal plate.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.