CN217444716U

CN217444716U - Power supply connector

Info

Publication number: CN217444716U
Application number: CN202221231661.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 茆玉龙; 胡兵波
Original assignee: Smart Chip Microelectronic Co ltd
Current assignee: Smart Chip Microelectronic Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-05-20
Filing date: 2022-05-20
Publication date: 2022-09-16
Anticipated expiration: 2032-05-20

Abstract

The utility model provides a power connector, it includes insulator, accepts conductive terminal and stop gear in insulator, insulator has the holding tank that holds stop gear and accepts conductive terminal's butt joint chamber, the holding tank with the butt joint chamber link up, stop gear including accept in rotate in the holding tank and with rotate the elastic component that the piece links to each other, it is in to rotate the piece the elastic restoring force effect of elastic component down rotate and make its screens convex part stretch into with locking butt joint connector in the butt joint intracavity, power connector still has to cover and fits insulator is in order to incite somebody to action it is fixed in to rotate the lid in the holding tank. The power connector can conveniently realize the locking and unlocking operations of the butt end connector and is convenient for the disassembly and replacement of elements.

Description

Power supply connector

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an electric connection field especially relates to a power connector.

Background

A power connector is an electrical component widely used in computers, servers, and energy transmission/storage systems, and is one of the basic components for connecting different systems, and is used for transmitting large current in various electrical lines. Common power connector is including socket and plug, and the stable connection is realized through quick locking structure after pegging graft between the two, prevents to drop to cause to connect not hard up.

Taking an energy storage system as an example, the energy storage system is generally provided with a power connector with large current, and can be applied to the field of new energy (such as new energy automobiles), the plug and the socket of the power connector all adopt a round male terminal and a round female terminal, and have the defects of complex manufacture and complex structure, moreover, the plugging of the plug and the socket has some problems, the locking structure between the plug and the socket is complex, more parts are arranged, the assembly is inconvenient, the fault is easy to occur under the frequent plugging condition, so that the plugging safety is influenced, the plugging is inconvenient, the service life is also influenced, the defect is particularly fatal in the field of new energy, and the power utilization safety of the whole system can be directly influenced.

In view of the above, there is a need for an improved power connector to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The technical problem solved by the utility model is to provide a power connector to improve the complicated, inconvenient scheduling problem of equipment of locking structure among the prior art.

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides a power connector, it includes insulator, accepts conductive terminal and stop gear in insulator, insulator has and holds stop gear's holding tank and accept conductive terminal's butt joint chamber, the holding tank with the butt joint chamber link up, stop gear including accept in rotate in the holding tank and with rotate the elastic component that links to each other, it is in to rotate the elastic restoring force effect of elastic component down rotate and make its screens convex part protrusion go into with locking butt joint connector in the butt joint intracavity, power connector still has the lid fit insulator in order will it is fixed in to rotate the lid in the holding tank.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the insulating body has a protruding column integrally protruding in the accommodating groove, the extending direction of the protruding column is the same as the butt joint direction of the power connector, and the rotating member rotates under the action of external force with the protruding column as a rotating shaft.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the insulating body has a base portion formed with the holding tank and is formed with the butt joint portion of butt joint chamber, the base portion have for the butt joint portion is the depressed part of sunken form, the one end of elastic component connect in rotate piece, relative other end butt that sets up in on the butt joint wall in the insulating body, the base portion still have with the butt joint wall links to each other in order to enclose and establish the formation the spacing wall of depressed part.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the stud extends forward from the receiving groove and protrudes into the recess, but does not extend beyond the front end surface of the base.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the holding tank is communicated with the recess and is formed by the spacing wall continuing to be recessed rearward.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the rotating member has a main body portion extending in the up-down direction, the locking convex portion is located on one side of the main body portion in the transverse direction, the main body portion has an operating portion and a pivot portion which are relatively arranged in the extending direction thereof, the pivot portion is sleeved on the protruding column, and the operating portion is exposed from the upper side of the base portion.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the base portion further has a stop surface defined to form the holding tank, the main body portion is received in the holding tank and rotates under the action of the elastic restoring force of the elastic member until the stop surface abuts against the limit.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the cover is assembled to the insulating body from front to back and is received in the recess and is fastened to the recess.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the base portion further has a position limiting wall recessed rearward and with a fastening groove and at least one positioning hole communicated with the recessed portion, and the lid body has a fastening portion fastened with the fastening groove and a positioning hole-matched positioning column.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the base portion further has at least one fitting groove formed by the abutting wall being recessed, and the lid body has a protruding portion protruding outward in the lateral direction to extend into and latch in the fitting groove.

Compared with the prior art, power connector can realize and the locking and the unblock operation between the butt joint connector through stirring the simple of rotating the piece, and overall structure design is simple to cross convenient the tearing open of detachable lid can realize spare part and trade.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the power connector of the present invention when it is not mated with a mating connector.

Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the power connector shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a further exploded view of the power connector portion of fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a partially assembled view of the power connector shown in fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view of the power connector of fig. 4 from another perspective.

Fig. 6 is a top view of the power connector shown in fig. 2.

Fig. 7 is a front view of the power connector of fig. 2 with the cover removed.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1 to 7, the present invention provides a power connector 100, which includes an insulating housing 1, a conductive terminal 2 housed in the insulating housing 1, and a limiting mechanism. The insulating body 1 is wrapped around the conductive terminals 2 and the limiting mechanism, and the specific structure of each component is described in detail below.

The insulating body 1 is provided with a containing groove 110 for containing the limiting mechanism and a butt joint cavity 120 for containing the conductive terminal 2, the containing groove 110 is communicated with the butt joint cavity 120, and the limiting mechanism comprises a rotating part 3 contained in the containing groove 110 and an elastic part 4 connected with the rotating part 3.

The rotating member 3 rotates under the elastic restoring force of the elastic member 4 and makes the locking protrusion 31 protrude into the mating cavity 120 to lock the mating connector 200, and the power connector 100 further has a cover 5 covering the insulating body 1 to fix the rotating member 3 in the receiving groove 110.

The insulating body 1 has a stud 112 integrally protruding into the receiving groove 110, the extending direction of the stud 112 is the same as the butt joint direction of the power connector 100, and the rotating member 3 rotates under the action of an external force by using the stud 112 as a rotating shaft.

Specifically, the insulating main body 1 has a base portion 11 formed with the receiving groove 110 and a butting portion 12 formed with the butting cavity 120, and the base portion 11 has a recessed portion 113 recessed with respect to the butting portion 12. The docking portion 12 has a docking post 121 formed to protrude forward and having a hollow shape.

The post 112 extends forwardly from the receiving slot 110 and projects into the recess 113, but does not extend beyond the front face 118 of the base 11.

One end of the conductive terminal 2 is accommodated in the butt-joint cavity 120 of the insulating body 1, and the other end is connected with the cable 6 and further extends outwards to the outside of the insulating body 1. The conductive terminal 2 comprises a base body 21, a contact part 22 perpendicular to the base body 21 and a tail pipe 23 connected with the cable 6, the contact part 22 is cylindrical and contained in the butt joint cavity 120, and the tail pipe 23 extends out of the insulating body 1.

In addition, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, in order to improve the air tightness, an annular sealing sleeve 24 may be sleeved on the conductive terminal 2, and the sealing sleeve 24 is sleeved outside the docking post 121 and clamped between the contact portion 22 and the docking post 121.

In the present embodiment, the mating direction of the power connector 100 is the front-rear direction, the extending direction of the cable 6 is the lateral direction, also referred to as the left-right direction, and the other orthogonal direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and the lateral direction is the up-down direction.

One end of the elastic element 4 is connected to the rotating element 3, the other end of the elastic element opposite to the rotating element is abutted to the abutting wall 101 in the insulating body 1, and the base 11 further has a limiting wall 102 which is connected to the abutting wall 101 to form the recess 113 in an enclosing manner. The receiving groove 110 is communicated with the recess 113 and is formed by being recessed backward from the limiting wall 102.

The rotating member 3 has a main body portion 32 extending in the up-down direction, the locking protrusion 31 is located on one side of the main body portion 32 in the transverse direction, the main body portion 32 has an operating portion 321 and a pivot portion 323 oppositely arranged in the extending direction, the pivot portion 323 is sleeved on the protruding column 112 through a pivot hole 3231 arranged thereon, and the operating portion 321 is exposed outwards from the upper side of the base portion 11.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 7, the operating portion 321 is shifted clockwise (as shown by the arrow in the figure) under the action of an external force, so that the locking protrusion 31 moves rightward to disengage from the docking cavity 120, and the elastic member 4 moves rightward to be pressed and pushed by the abutting wall 101, at which time the docking connector 200 can be inserted into or pulled out of the power connector 100; when the operating portion 321 is released, the elastic member 4 is restored to the free state by the elastic restoring force thereof, and the rotating member 3 is driven to rotate in the counterclockwise direction.

Further, in the present embodiment, the elastic member 4 is a spring; in other embodiments, the elastic member 4 may also be a leaf spring structure.

The base portion 11 further has a stop surface 114 defining the receiving slot 110, and the main body portion 12 is received in the receiving slot 110 and rotates under the elastic restoring force of the elastic element 4 until being stopped by the stop surface 114.

The cover 5 is assembled to the housing 1 from front to back, and is received in the recess 113 and engaged therewith.

Specifically, the base 11 further has a locking groove 115 recessed rearward from the stopper wall 102 and communicating with the recessed portion 113, and at least one positioning hole 116, and the cover 5 has a locking portion 52 locked to the locking groove 115 and a positioning post 53 fitted to the positioning hole 116.

Preferably, in this embodiment, a pair of the positioning holes 116 are respectively disposed on both sides of the protruding column 113 in the transverse direction to limit the rotating member 3 on both sides, so as to ensure the smoothness of the rotation thereof.

The base 11 further has at least one fitting groove 117 formed recessed from the abutting wall 101, and the cover 5 has a protrusion 54 protruding outward in the lateral direction to protrude into and be latched in the fitting groove 117. Further, the cover 5 has a covering portion 51 for covering the recessed portion 113, the locking portion 52 and the positioning post 53 are formed to project rearward from the covering portion 51, and the pair of protruding portions 54 are formed to project rightward from the covering portion 51.

In addition, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the power connector 100 further includes an insulating housing 7 that is sleeved outside the insulating body 1 and covers the cable 6.

To sum up, the utility model discloses power connector 100 can realize and the butt joint connector 200 between locking and the unblock operation through stirring the simple of rotating piece 3, and overall structure design is simple to cross the convenient of detachable lid 5 and tear open and trade that can realize spare part.

Terms such as "upper," "lower," "left," "right," "front," "rear," and the like, used herein to denote relative spatial positions, are used for ease of description to describe one feature's relationship to another feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative positional terms may be intended to encompass different orientations than those shown in the figures depending on the product presentation position and should not be construed as limiting the claims. In addition, the descriptor "horizontal" as used herein is not entirely equivalent to allowing an angular tilt along a direction perpendicular to the direction of gravity.

The above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and not for limiting, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the technical solutions of the present invention can be modified or replaced equivalently without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a power connector, includes insulator, accepts conductive terminal and stop gear in insulator, insulator has the holding tank that holds stop gear and accepts conductive terminal's butt joint chamber, the holding tank with the butt joint chamber link up, stop gear including accept in the holding tank rotate the piece and with rotate the elastic component that links to each other, its characterized in that: the rotating piece rotates under the action of the elastic restoring force of the elastic piece and enables the clamping convex part to protrude into the butt joint cavity so as to lock the butt joint connector, and the power connector is further provided with a cover body which covers the insulating body so as to fix the rotating piece in the accommodating groove.

2. The power connector of claim 1, wherein: the insulating body is provided with a protruding column integrally protruding in the accommodating groove, the extending direction of the protruding column is the same as the butt joint direction of the power connector, and the rotating piece rotates by taking the protruding column as a rotating shaft under the action of external force.

3. The power connector of claim 2, wherein: the insulating body has the basal portion that is formed with the holding tank and is formed with the butt joint portion in butt joint chamber, the basal portion have for the butt joint portion is sunken form depressed part, the one end of elastic component connect in rotate piece, the other end butt that sets up relatively in on the butt joint wall in the insulating body, the basal portion still have with the butt joint wall links to each other in order to enclose to establish and form the spacing wall of depressed part.

4. A power connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the protruding column extends forwards from the accommodating groove and protrudes into the concave part, but does not extend beyond the front end face of the base part.

5. A power connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the accommodating groove is communicated with the concave part and is formed by continuously and reversely sinking from the limiting wall.

6. A power connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the rotating piece is provided with a main body portion extending along the vertical direction, the clamping convex portion is located on one side of the main body portion in the transverse direction, the main body portion is provided with an operating portion and a pivoting portion, the operating portion and the pivoting portion are arranged in the extending direction of the main body portion in an opposite mode, the protruding column is sleeved with the pivoting portion, and the operating portion is exposed outwards from the upper side of the base portion.

7. The power connector of claim 6, wherein: the base part is provided with a stop surface for limiting and forming the accommodating groove, and the main body part is accommodated in the accommodating groove and rotates under the action of the elastic restoring force of the elastic piece until being abutted and limited by the stop surface.

8. The power connector of claim 6, wherein: the cover body is assembled on the insulation body from front to back, accommodated in the concave part and buckled with the concave part.

9. A power connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein: the base part is also provided with a buckling groove which is backwards sunken from the limiting wall and is communicated with the sunken part and at least one positioning hole, and the cover body is provided with a buckling part which is buckled with the buckling groove and a positioning column which is matched with the positioning hole.

10. A power connector as claimed in claim 9, wherein: the base further has at least one mating groove formed recessed from the abutment wall, and the cover has a protrusion protruding outward in a lateral direction to protrude into and latch into the mating groove.