JP3479776B2 - Connector drive mechanism with mating lock - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock for fitting and disconnecting connectors by moving a slider.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The essential points of a conventional connector drive mechanism will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the structure will be described. The operation frame container 21 is composed of a main body 21A and side plates 21B symmetrically provided so as to face the left and right sides of the main body 21A. A guide plate 22 is provided outside each side plate 21B.
Is fixed. A linear slider guide 21C is formed on the outer surface of each side plate 21B so as to project therefrom.

Each side plate 21B has n-step grooves (not shown).
The operation frame 23 is mounted in the groove of each step so as to be movable in the direction orthogonal to the paper surface in FIG. 6A. Each operation frame 23 is configured symmetrically, a connector 25 is held on both sides near the center, and mold bosses 23A are provided on both end sides.

A slider 24 is adopted as a means for moving each operation frame 23. The slider 24 is a pair of cam plates 2
4A and a connecting plate 24B that connects both cam plates 24A are formed in a U shape. A linear guide groove 24B and an operation frame driving cam groove 24C are formed from the lower end of each cam plate 24A, and the operation frame driving cam groove 24C is linear with the mold boss driving groove 24D. Groove 24E
And are composed in succession.

Next, the mating and unmating of the connector will be described. Both cam plates 24A of the slider 24 are inserted between both side plates 21B of the main body 21A of the operation frame housing 21 and each guide plate 22, respectively, and the slider 24 is moved to the position shown in FIG.
Push down from positions (a) and (b) toward position (c). Then, each guide groove 24B of the slider 24 is guided by the slider guide 21C of each side plate 21B, and first, each mold boss driving groove 24D is provided in the operation frame 23 mounted on the uppermost groove of both side plates 21B. Press both mold bosses 23A. Therefore, since the operation frame 23 moves, both connectors 25 held by the operation frame 23 are fitted to both header connectors (not shown) provided on the back side of the operation frame container 21. Then, since each mold boss holding groove 24E holds each mold boss 23A, the fitting between the both connectors 25 and the both header connectors is maintained.

Further, when the slider 24 is pushed down, the operation frame 23 mounted in the second groove from the uppermost stage of the operation frame housing body 21 is also operated in the uppermost groove.
Move as well as. Thereafter, the slider 24 is moved to the operation frame 23 mounted in the lowest groove in the same manner, and the slider 24 is moved to the position shown in FIG.
The position of (c) is reached. The slider operation space is shown in Fig. 6.
It is the range of the two dashed lines in (b). The slider 24 cannot be removed from the operation frame 23 with the connector fitted.

When detaching each connector 25 from each header connector, the connecting plate 24B of the slider 24 located in the state of FIG. 6C is lifted upward.
Then, contrary to the case of the above-described fitting, the operation frame 23 mounted in the lowermost groove is sequentially moved to the operation frame 23 mounted in the uppermost groove. As a result, each connector 25 reaches the position separated from each header connector.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-123914 discloses a connector drive mechanism in which a pin side connector and a socket side connector are fitted and separated by moving a slider. However, although the pin side connector and the socket side connector are locked in a fitted state, the connector is large and complicated because a lock plate, a wire, a pulley, etc. are adopted.

[0010]

The above-mentioned conventional connector drive mechanism has the following drawbacks. That is, the connector is
It is locked in the mated state, but not locked in the disengaged state. Further, it is difficult to miniaturize the connector drive mechanism because a large operation space for the slider is required. Further, when the connector is fitted, it is impossible to remove the slider, and therefore one connector drive mechanism requires one slider.

Therefore, the present invention improves on the drawbacks of the conventional connector driving mechanism, is locked in both the fitted state and the disengaged state, and the connector driving mechanism can be easily miniaturized. An object of the present invention is to provide a connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock that allows the slider to be shared by a plurality of connector drive mechanisms.

[0012]

The present invention adopts the following means in order to solve the above problems.

1. In a connector drive mechanism for engaging and disengaging connectors with each other by a slider, the connector drive mechanism includes an operation frame that holds the connector, an operation frame container that slidably accommodates the operation frame, and a slide of the operation frame. The operation frame has a holding portion of the connector, a driven portion, and an engaging portion that engages with the fitting lock, and the slider includes the fitting portion. A mating lock moving cam groove that moves the mating lock,
A connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock, which has an operation frame drive cam groove for driving the driven part.

2. 2. The fitting lock according to claim 1, wherein the engaging portion of the operation frame has a first engaging portion that maintains the connector in a disengaged state and a second engaging portion that maintains the connector in a fitted state. Connector drive mechanism with.

3. 3. The connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock according to the above 2, wherein the slider is attachable to and detachable from the operation frame in a detached state and a fitted state of the connector.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, in FIG. 1, the operation frame container 1 is
It is composed of a main body 1A and side plates 1B symmetrically provided so as to face the left and right sides of the main body 1A. Each side plate 1B
Is formed with an n-step groove 1C, and a substantially L-shaped fitting lock 2 is attached to each groove 1C so as to be movable in the thickness direction of each side plate 1B, and each side plate 1B has a lock spring. 3 is fixed. The fitting lock 2 includes a short piece 2A and a long piece 2B.
Composed of and. The n elastic strips 3A formed on each lock spring 3 press the n fitting locks 2, respectively. A guide plate 4 is fixed to the outside of each side plate 1B.

A metal operation frame 5 is movably mounted in the groove 1C of each step of the operation frame container 1. Each operation frame 5
Are symmetrically configured, and connector holding portions 5A are provided on both sides near the center, and resin mold bosses 5 are provided on both end sides.
B are provided respectively. Each mold boss 5B has a convex driven portion 5C and a concave first engaging portion 5D.
And a concave second engaging portion 5E are formed.

A pair of sliders 6 is employed to drive each operation frame 5. The pair of sliders 6 are simultaneously pressed by a single slider jig 11 (see FIG. 3A). As shown in FIG. 4, a linear guide groove 6A and an operation frame driving cam groove 6B are formed on the front surface of each slider 6, and a fitting lock moving cam groove 6F is formed on one side surface. . The operation frame driving cam groove 6B is formed by continuously forming a linear separation state maintaining groove 6C, an inclined linear mold boss driving groove 6D, and a linear fitting state maintaining groove 6E. The fitting lock moving cam groove 6F is formed by continuously forming an inclined linear moving groove 6G, a linear lock releasing groove 6H, and an inclined linear moving groove 6I.
A substantially T-shaped protruding portion 6J is formed on the other surface side of each slider 6, and the slider jig 11 is provided on both upper and lower sides of each protruding portion 6J.
Pressed portions 6K and 6L that are pressed against are formed.

On the back surface of the operation frame container 1, a rectangular frame-shaped stiffener 7 and a printed circuit board 8 are stacked and fixed. On the printed circuit board 8, n header connectors 10 shown in FIG. 2B are attached in two rows.

Next, mating and unmating of the connector by this connector driving mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 5.
However, since this mechanism is bilaterally symmetric, only the right side will be described in order to simplify the description.

In the state before fitting (disengaged), the slider 6 is located above the operation frame container 1 as shown in FIG. The pressed portion 6 of the slider 6 is moved by the slider jig 11.
When K is pressed downward, the guide groove 6A of the slider 6 is guided by the slider guide 1D formed on the side plate 1B so that the slider 6 descends.

At this time, first, the moving groove 6G of the fitting lock moving cam groove 6F is the uppermost groove 1C of the operation frame housing 1.
The short piece portion 2A of the fitting lock 2 located inside is on the right side (side plate 1
Since it is moved to the outside of B), the long piece 2 of the fitting lock 2
3B from the position of FIG. 3A through the position of FIG.
It reaches the position of (c). Therefore, the long piece 2B is pulled out from the first engaging portion 5D of the operation frame 5 in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 3B, so that the operation frame 5 is unlocked.

Next, the driven portion 5C of the mold boss 5B of the operation frame 5 in which the mold boss drive groove 6D of the operation frame drive cam groove 6B is mounted in the uppermost groove 1C of the operation frame container 1 is removed. , From the position of FIG. 3 (c) through the position of FIG. 3 (d) to the position of FIG. 3 (e). At the position of FIG. 3 (e),
The cable connector 9 held by the connector holding portion 5A of the operation frame 5 fits into the header connector 10.

Subsequently, the moving groove 6I of the fitting lock moving cam groove 6F is located on the left side (the side plate 1) of the short piece 2A of the fitting lock 2.
Since it is moved to the inside of B), the long piece 2 of the fitting lock 2
B reaches from the position of FIG. 3 (e) to the position of FIG. 3 (f).
Therefore, the long piece portion 2B is the second engaging portion 5E of the operation frame 5.
The operation frame 5 is locked because it is inserted into the. Figure 3
In the state of (f), the fitting between the cable connector 9 and the header connector 10 is maintained.

Further, the slider 6 is moved by the slider jig 11.
When is depressed, the operation frame 5 mounted in the groove 1C at the second stage from the top of the operation frame container 1 also moves in the same manner as the operation frame 5 mounted in the groove 1C at the top stage. Thereafter, the operation frame 5 mounted in the groove 1C at the lowermost stage is sequentially moved in the same manner, and the slider 6 reaches the lower position in FIG. The operation space of the slider is a range from the uppermost dash-dotted line in FIG. 5 to the lowermost dash-dotted line. The slider 6 can be detached from the operation frame 5 at a position before or after fitting the connector.

The cable connector 9 is replaced with the header connector 1
When the slider 6 is to be separated from 0, the pressed portion 6L of the slider 6 located in the lower part of FIG. 5 is pressed upward by the slider jig 11. Then, contrary to the case of the above-described fitting, the operation frame 5 mounted in the lowest groove 1C is sequentially moved to the operation frame 5 mounted in the highest groove 1C. As a result, each operation frame 5 is locked and the cable connector 9 is maintained in a state of being separated from the header connector 10.

[0028]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

1. The connector remains engaged and disengaged unless the slider is manipulated.

2. The drive mechanism of the connector becomes smaller.

3. Since the slider is small, the operating space of the slider is also reduced.

4. The pair of sliders can be shared by a plurality of connector drive mechanisms.

5. The unlocking of the connector in the detached state and the fitting and the locking of the fitted state, or the unlocking of the connector in the fitted state and the detaching and the locking of the detached state can be performed by one stroke of the pair of sliders.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention,
(A) shows a state in which the cable connector, the header connector, etc. are not attached, and (b) shows a state in which the cable connector, the header connector, etc. are attached.

3A to 3F are cross-sectional views sequentially showing a process from a locked state of the connector to a locked state of the connector in one embodiment of the present invention.

4A and 4B are views of a slider according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 4A is a front view, FIG. 4B is a side view, and FIG. 4C is a bottom view.

FIG. 5 is a side view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is views of a conventional connector drive mechanism,
(A) is a front view before the slider is attached to the operation frame container, (b) is a side view before the slider is attached to the operation frame container, and (c) is a state where all the connectors are fitted by the slider. The side view of each is shown.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Operation frame container 1A body 1B side plate 1C groove 1D slider guide 2 Mating lock 2A short piece 2B long piece 3 Lock spring 3A elastic strip 4 Guide plate 5 operation frame 5A connector holding part 5B mold boss 5C Driven part 5D First engaging portion 5E Second engaging portion 6 slider 6A guide groove 6B Operation frame drive cam groove 6C Detachable state maintaining groove 6D mold boss drive groove 6E Groove for maintaining mated state 6F Mating lock movement cam groove 6G moving groove 6H Lock release groove 6I Moving groove 6J protrusion 6K Pressed part 6L Pressed part 7 stiffeners 8 printed circuit boards 9 cable connector 10 header connector 11 Slider jig

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (56) Reference JP 2000-123914 (JP, A) JP 11-86958 (JP, A) JP 2000-286010 (JP, A) JP 8-273754 ( (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) H01R 43/26 H01R 13/639

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A connector drive mechanism for engaging and disengaging connectors with a slider, wherein the connector drive mechanism includes an operation frame that holds the connector, and an operation frame container that slidably accommodates the operation frame. A fitting lock that locks a slide of the operation frame, wherein the operation frame includes a holding portion of the connector, a driven portion, and
An engaging portion that engages with the fitting lock; the slider includes a fitting lock moving cam groove that moves the fitting lock, and an operation frame driving cam groove that drives the driven portion. A connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock, comprising: 2. The engagement portion of the operation frame has a first engagement portion that maintains the connector in a disengaged state and a second engagement portion that maintains the connector in a fitted state. The connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock according to claim 1. 3. The connector drive mechanism with a fitting lock according to claim 2, wherein the slider is attachable to and detachable from the operation frame in a detached state and a fitted state of the connector.