阅读说明：本技术 一种异构型连接器 (Heterogeneous connector ) 是由 唐开东 罗川 张宁 王吉召 宿春杨 于 2021-09-22 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种异构型连接器,包括主刚性板,所述主刚性板上设置有第一柔性板和第二柔性板,所述第一柔性板和第二柔性板的端部均设置有第一分支刚性板,所述主刚性板和第一分支刚性板上分别设置有主端子器件和分支端子器件,所述第一柔性板和第二柔性板中至少有一个的端部形成多个分支柔性板,所述分支柔性板的端部设置有第二分支刚性板,每个第二分支刚性板上均设置有分支端子器件,所述第一柔性板和第二柔性板均采用柔性材料制成。本发明采用一个连接器实现了主设备和多个分支设备之间的信号互通。(The invention discloses a heterogeneous connector which comprises a main rigid plate, wherein a first flexible plate and a second flexible plate are arranged on the main rigid plate, first branch rigid plates are arranged at the end parts of the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate respectively, a main terminal device and a branch terminal device are arranged on the main rigid plate and the first branch rigid plates respectively, a plurality of branch flexible plates are formed at the end part of at least one of the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate, second branch rigid plates are arranged at the end parts of the branch flexible plates, a branch terminal device is arranged on each second branch rigid plate, and the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate are made of flexible materials. The invention adopts a connector to realize the signal intercommunication between the main equipment and a plurality of branch equipment.)

1. A heterogeneous connector is characterized by comprising a main rigid plate (1), wherein a first flexible plate (2) and a second flexible plate (3) are arranged on the main rigid plate (1), the end parts of the first flexible board (2) and the second flexible board (3) are respectively provided with a first branch rigid board (6), the main rigid plate (1) and the first branch rigid plate (6) are respectively provided with a main terminal device (5) and a branch terminal device (8), a plurality of branch flexible plates (4) are formed at the end part of at least one of the first flexible plate (2) and the second flexible plate (3), the end part of the branch flexible board (4) is provided with a second branch rigid board (7), each second branch rigid board (7) is provided with a branch terminal device (8), the first flexible plate (2) and the second flexible plate (3) are both made of flexible materials.

2. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 1, wherein said main rigid board (1) has a rectangular structure, said main terminal device (5) is mounted on the upper end face of said main rigid board (1), one end of each of said first flexible board (2) and said second flexible board (3) is embedded in a longer side wall of said main rigid board (1), and the other end of each of said first flexible board (2) and said second flexible board (3) is embedded in a different first branch rigid board (6).

3. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 2, characterized in that the embedding heights of said first flexible board (2) and said second flexible board (3) on the side wall of the main rigid board (1) are not on the same horizontal line.

4. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 2, characterized in that the external side walls of said first (2) and second (3) flexible plates do not protrude from the two shorter side walls of the main rigid plate (1).

5. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 2, characterized in that said main rigid plate (1) is provided with two mounting holes (9), said two mounting holes (9) being symmetrically arranged on both sides of the main terminal device (5).

6. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 1, characterized in that the width of the first branched rigid board (6) provided at the end of the first flexible board (2) is equal to or greater than the width of the first flexible board (2), the width of the first branched rigid board (6) provided at the second flexible board (3) is equal to or greater than the width of the second flexible board (3), and the width of the second branched rigid board (7) is equal to or greater than the width of the branched flexible board (4).

7. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 1, wherein the width of the first flexible board (2) is smaller than that of the second flexible board (3), one end of the first flexible board (2) is connected with the main rigid board (1), the other end is connected with the first branch rigid board (6), one end of the second flexible board (3) is connected with the main rigid board (1), the other end is branched to form 4 independent branch flexible boards (4), and the end of each branch flexible board (4) is connected with the second branch rigid board (7).

8. A connector of the heterogeneous type according to claim 1, characterized in that said branch flexible plates (4) extend from a middle section to a rear section of the first flexible plate (2) or of the second flexible plate (3).

9. A heterogeneous connector according to claim 1, characterized in that said first flexible sheet (2) and said second flexible sheet (3) are each constituted by an upper flexible layer and a lower flexible layer.

10. The heterogeneous connector according to any of the claims 1-9, wherein the first flexible board (2) and the second flexible board (3) are made of a mixture of copper foil layers and insulating material layers, the insulating material layer is filled between two adjacent copper foil layers, the upper surface and the lower surface of the first flexible board (2) and the second flexible board (3) are made of insulating material layers, the copper foil layers are made of a plurality of metal wires, and the insulating material of the insulating material layers is made of one or more of polyimide, polyester and acrylic glue by mixing.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, in particular to a heterogeneous connector.

Background

Connectors are an essential component in electronic devices. The main device and the branch device are mainly connected to realize the signal intercommunication of the main device and the branch device.

The existing connector is a rigid structure and cannot be bent; due to the compact and irregular space of the electronic device, in the prior art, in order to achieve signal intercommunication between the main device and the plurality of branch devices, a plurality of connectors are generally required, resulting in a large occupied space in the electronic device.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a heterogeneous connector, which can realize signal intercommunication between a main device and a plurality of branch devices by adopting one connector.

The invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

the utility model provides an isomeric type connector, includes main rigid plate, be provided with first flexboard and second flexboard on the main rigid plate, the tip of first flexboard and second flexboard all is provided with first branch rigid plate, be provided with main terminal device and branch terminal device on main rigid plate and the first branch rigid plate respectively, the tip that has at least one in first flexible plate and the second flexible plate forms a plurality of branch flexible plates, the tip of branch flexible plate is provided with the branch rigid plate of second, all is provided with branch terminal device on every branch rigid plate of second, first flexible plate and second flexible plate all adopt flexible material to make.

The first branched rigid board and the second branched rigid board of the present invention function identically only to distinguish the branched rigid boards, the branched rigid board is defined as the first branched rigid board when the free ends (ends distant from the main rigid board) of the first flexible board and the second flexible board have no branches, and is defined as the second branched rigid board when the free ends of the first flexible board and the second flexible board have a branch(s).

The main terminal device and the branch terminal device are respectively used for realizing signal intercommunication with a main device and a plurality of branch devices, a plurality of metal leads are arranged on the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate, the metal leads extend from the main rigid plate to the branch rigid plates along with the flexible plates, metallized through holes are arranged on the main rigid plate, the first branch rigid plate and the second branch rigid plate, and communication is realized between the main device and the branch devices through the plurality of metal leads designed on the flexible plates and the main terminal device and the branch terminal devices; the branch equipment can be connected with the metal wires of the first flexible board and the second flexible board through the metalized through holes designed on the main rigid board, so that signal communication is realized, and therefore pairwise interconnection communication can be realized between the main equipment and the branch equipment.

Specifically, the method comprises the following steps:

the main rigid plate, the first branch rigid plate and the second branch rigid plate are rigid plates and have the same structure, the rigid plates are of a multilayer structure and mainly comprise multiple metal conductor layers, an insulating layer is filled between every two adjacent metal conductor layers, the metal conductor layers are signal layers, the metal conductor layers can be copper foils, and the insulating layers can be epoxy resin glass cloth.

Since the rigid board is a multi-layer structure, the metallized via holes are used for conducting metal conductors of different signal levels.

The first flexible board and the second flexible board are both flexible boards and have the same structure, the flexible boards are formed by mixing a copper foil layer and an insulating material layer, and the insulating material is made by aliasing of one or more of polyimide, polyester and acrylic adhesive.

The first flexible board and the second flexible board are independent from each other, the branch flexible boards are independent from each other, and the first flexible board and the second flexible board are made of flexible materials and have flexibility, so that the flexible boards can be switched through the heterogeneous connectors in a compact and irregular space in electronic equipment by utilizing the flexibility and the appearance diversity of the flexible boards, and the signal intercommunication between the main equipment and the branch equipment is realized. The invention realizes the signal intercommunication between the main equipment and a plurality of branch equipment by adopting one connector.

Furthermore, the main rigid plate is of a rectangular structure, the main terminal device is installed on the upper end face of the main rigid plate, one end of each of the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate is embedded into one longer side wall of the main rigid plate, and the other end of each of the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate is embedded into different first branch rigid plates respectively.

The upper end face is specifically a side face with a larger area of the rectangular structure, one side face with the larger area is defined as an upper end face, the other side face with the larger area is defined as a lower end face, and the rectangular structure further comprises two side walls with longer lengths and two side walls with shorter lengths.

According to the invention, one ends of the first flexible board and the second flexible board are embedded into one longer side wall of the main rigid board, so that the whole heterogeneous connector is beneficial to realizing compact structure.

Further, the embedding heights of the first flexible board and the second flexible board on the side wall of the main rigid board are not on the same horizontal line.

According to the invention, the first flexible board and the second flexible board are arranged in a layered manner, so that the first flexible board and the second flexible board can be staggered according to the actual space position when in use.

Further, the outer side walls of the first and second flexible plates do not protrude beyond the two shorter side walls of the main rigid plate.

Preferably, the outer side walls of the first and second flexible plates are flush with the two shorter side walls of the main rigid plate, respectively.

The outer side wall of the invention specifically refers to the side of the first flexible plate opposite to the second flexible plate.

Further, the main rigid plate is provided with two mounting holes, and the two mounting holes are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the main terminal device.

Further, the width of the first branched rigid plate disposed at the end of the first flexible plate is equal to or greater than the width of the first flexible plate, the width of the first branched rigid plate disposed at the second flexible plate is equal to or greater than the width of the second flexible plate, and the width of the second branched rigid plate is equal to or greater than the width of the branched flexible plate.

Preferably, the first branched rigid plates provided at the end portions of the first flexible plates have the same width as the first flexible plates, and the first branched rigid plates provided at the second flexible plates have the same width as the second flexible plates, which have the same width as the branched flexible plates.

The arrangement further realizes the compact structure of the whole heterogeneous connector.

Further, the width of first flexplate is less than the width of second flexplate, first flexplate one end is connected with main rigid plate, and the other end is connected with first branch rigid plate, second flexplate one end is connected with main rigid plate, and the other end branch forms 4 independent branch flexible boards, the tip and the second branch rigid plate of branch flexible board are connected.

Further, the branch flexible board extends from the middle section of the first flexible board or the second flexible board to the rear section.

The flexible board that branches can be ensured to above-mentioned setting has certain length, and staggered arrangement's length when can satisfying the use can ensure the overall structure stability of first flexible board or second flexible board again.

Further, the first flexible board and the second flexible board are both composed of an upper flexible layer and a lower flexible layer, namely the first flexible board and the second flexible board are both made of an upper flexible material and a lower flexible material.

The upper flexible layer and the lower flexible layer are both made of flexible materials, and the upper flexible layer and the lower flexible layer are relatively speaking, namely the upper flexible layer is arranged above the lower flexible layer relative to the lower flexible layer, namely the lower end surface of the upper flexible layer is in contact with the upper end surface of the lower flexible layer.

The upper and lower flexible materials have the advantages of being convenient to embed on the one hand and improving the flexibility on the other hand.

Further, the first flexible board and the second flexible board are formed by mixing copper foil layers and insulating material layers, the insulating material layers are filled between every two adjacent copper foil layers, the upper surfaces and the lower surfaces of the first flexible board and the second flexible board are both the insulating material layers, the copper foil layers are formed by a plurality of metal wires, namely when two copper foil layers exist, the insulating material layers cover the surfaces of the two copper foil layers and are filled between the copper foil layers (the insulating material layers, the copper foil layers, the edge material layers, the copper foil layers and the edge material layers are sequentially arranged from top to bottom), and the insulating material of the insulating material layers is made by aliasing one or more of polyimide, polyester and acrylic glue.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages and beneficial effects:

1. the first flexible board and the second flexible board are independent from each other, the branch flexible boards are independent from each other, and the first flexible board and the second flexible board are made of flexible materials and have flexibility, so that the flexible boards can be switched through the heterogeneous connectors in a compact and irregular space in electronic equipment by utilizing the flexibility and the appearance diversity of the flexible boards, and the signal intercommunication between the main equipment and the branch equipment is realized.

2. According to the invention, the first flexible board and the second flexible board are arranged in a layered manner, so that the first flexible board and the second flexible board can be staggered according to the actual space position when in use.

3. This embodiment makes certain interval between first flexbile plate and the second flexbile plate through arranging first flexbile plate and second flexbile plate respectively at the both ends of the same lateral wall of main rigid plate, can avoid the space of the two to a certain extent to overlap, and realize compact structure, and simultaneously, carries out the layered design with first flexbile plate and second flexbile plate, further avoids interfering mutually that the space coincidence that appears after first flexbile plate and second flexbile plate tiling leads to.

4. According to the invention, the structure of the whole heterogeneous connector is compact by reasonably arranging the relative position relationship of the first flexible board and the second flexible board.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the embodiments of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the connector of the present invention.

Reference numbers and corresponding part names in the drawings:

1-main rigid board, 2-first flexible board, 3-second flexible board, 4-branch flexible board, 5-main terminal device, 6-first branch rigid board, 7-second branch rigid board, 8-branch terminal device, 9-mounting hole.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to examples and accompanying drawings, and the exemplary embodiments and descriptions thereof are only used for explaining the present invention and are not meant to limit the present invention.

Example 1:

as shown in fig. 1, a heterogeneous connector includes a main rigid board 1, a first flexible board 2 and a second flexible board 3 are disposed on the main rigid board 1, first branch rigid boards 6 are disposed at ends of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3, a main terminal device 5 and a branch terminal device 8 are disposed on the main rigid board 1 and the first branch rigid boards 6, a plurality of branch flexible boards 4 are formed at an end of at least one of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3, a second branch rigid board 7 is disposed at an end of the branch flexible board 4, a branch terminal device 8 is disposed on each second branch rigid board 7, and the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are made of flexible materials.

In this embodiment, in order to achieve the compactness of the whole structure, the main rigid board 1 has a rectangular structure, the main terminal device 5 is mounted on the upper end face of the main rigid board 1, one end of each of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 is embedded into one longer side wall of the main rigid board 1, and the other end of each of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 is embedded into a different first branch rigid board 6.

In this embodiment, the main rigid board 1 is provided with two mounting holes 9, and the two mounting holes 9 are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the main terminal device 5.

In this embodiment, the width of the first flexible board 2 is smaller than that of the second flexible board 3, one end of the first flexible board 2 is connected to the main rigid board 1, the other end of the first flexible board 2 is connected to the first branch rigid board 6, one end of the second flexible board 3 is connected to the main rigid board 1, the other end of the second flexible board is branched to form 4 independent branch flexible boards 4, and the end of each branch flexible board 4 is connected to the second branch rigid board 7; the first branched rigid board 6 has the same width as the first flexible board 2, and the second branched rigid board 7 has the same width as the branched flexible board 4.

In this embodiment, each of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 is formed by mixing a copper foil layer and an insulating material layer, the insulating material layer is filled between two adjacent copper foil layers, and the upper surface and the lower surface of each of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are both the insulating material layers, each copper foil layer is formed by a plurality of metal wires, wherein the insulating material of each insulating material layer is formed by aliasing of one or more of polyimide, polyester and acrylic adhesive.

Further, in the present embodiment, the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 have the same structure, and each include 5 layers, which include a polyimide layer, a copper foil layer, and a polyimide layer from top to bottom.

In this embodiment, the main rigid board 1, the first branch rigid board 6, and the second branch rigid board 7 have the same structure, and are layered structures, 11 metal conductor layers (copper foil layers) are provided from top to bottom, an insulating layer (FR 4 material, several hundreds of epoxy glass cloth material models in the industry, FR4 is only one of epoxy glass cloth, and other models can be replaced here) is filled between two adjacent metal conductor layers, metallized holes are provided on the main rigid board 1, the first branch rigid board 6, and the second branch rigid board 7, the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are provided with metal wires, and communication is realized between the main equipment and the branch equipment through a plurality of metal wires designed on the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3, and the main terminal device 5 and the branch terminal device 8; the branch equipment can be connected with the metal wires on the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 through the metallized through holes designed on the main rigid board 1, and then signal communication is realized.

In this embodiment, the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are independent of each other, the branch flexible boards 4 are independent of each other, and the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are made of flexible materials and have flexibility, so that the signal intercommunication between the main device and the branch devices can be realized by utilizing the flexibility and the shape diversity of the flexible boards and switching through heterogeneous connectors in a compact and irregular space in the electronic device.

Example 2:

as shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment is based on embodiment 1,

in the present embodiment, in order to improve the convenience of use and achieve the mutual staggered arrangement between the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 and the branch flexible boards 4 for being suitable for the space of the equipment, the embedding heights of the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 on the side wall of the main rigid board 1 are not on the same horizontal line; the outer side walls of the first flexible plate 2 and the second flexible plate 3 are respectively flush with the two shorter side walls of the main rigid plate 1; the branch flexible board 4 extends from the middle section of the first flexible board 2 or the second flexible board 3 to the rear section; the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are both made of an upper flexible material and a lower flexible material.

In this embodiment, the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are respectively embedded in the upper and lower half regions of the side wall of the main rigid board 1, so that mutual interference caused by spatial overlapping occurring after the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are tiled can be avoided.

Therefore, this embodiment makes certain interval between first flexboard 2 and the second flexboard 3 through arranging first flexboard 2 and second flexboard 3 respectively at the both ends of the same lateral wall of main rigid plate 1, can avoid the space overlap of the two to a certain extent, and realize compact structure, simultaneously, carry out layer design with first flexboard 2 and second flexboard 3, further avoid the mutual interference that the space coincidence that appears after first flexboard 2 and second flexboard 3 tile leads to.

Moreover, in this embodiment, the first flexible board 2 and the second flexible board 3 are both made of an upper flexible material and a lower flexible material, and when a plurality of branched flexible boards 4 are formed, two adjacent branched flexible boards 4 can respectively use an upper flexible material and a lower flexible material, so that spatial layering of two adjacent branched flexible boards 4 is realized, and the problem of mutual interference of straight lines of the branched flexible boards 4 can be avoided to a certain extent.

The above-mentioned embodiments are intended to illustrate the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in further detail, and it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.