Modular Angled Connector Sleeve With Stable Ejection Opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing angled connector sleeves are inflexible, prone to damage under mechanical stress, and require multiple designs for different cable connector types, leading to increased production costs and instability at openings.
Innovation Solution
A modular angled connector sleeve design with a first sleeve part completely surrounding an ejection opening and a second part that can be joined securely through a fixing mechanism, allowing it to be used with various cable connectors and providing stable protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the contact surface runs sagittally through the angled connector sleeve, then the two sleeve parts can be joined at the contact surface, but the openings are traversed by the contact surface which reduces stability
Solution Approach 1:
The connector sleeve is divided into two separate sleeve parts that are joined at a contact surface. This segmentation allows the contact surface to be positioned in a way that does not traverse the openings, thereby maintaining stability at the openings while still enabling assembly of the two parts.
2Ease of manufacture
If the second sleeve part is designed as an insertion element into grooves of the first sleeve part, then assembly is simplified, but the second sleeve part can easily be pushed out again
Solution Approach 1:
The fixing mechanism is designed to engage the second sleeve part with the first sleeve part in a preliminary action that prevents easy separation. The fixing mechanism includes features such as lugs, protrusions, or interlocking elements that are预先 designed to resist being pushed out, thereby ensuring connection reliability while maintaining ease of assembly.
3Device complexity
If the angled connector sleeve itself forms the insertion end, then the housing is integrated, but the angled connector sleeve can only be used for one specific cable connector type
Solution Approach 1:
The angled connector sleeve is designed as a universal housing that can accommodate multiple types of cable connectors. The sleeve parts and fixing mechanism are designed with standardized features that allow different cable connector types to be used with the same angled connector sleeve, thereby achieving multi-functionality and versatility while maintaining integrated housing design.
Data Source
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an angled connector sleeve 1, which is designed as a housing for a cable connector 2 that can be inserted into a mating panel connector to form a mechanically lockable connection, wherein the cable connector 2 is designed to be inserted into the panel connector with an insertion-side end 3 of an insertion assembly 4 to form the connection, the angled connector sleeve 1 is designed to receive and enclose at least the insertion assembly 4, is designed as a hollow body angled, in particular at right angles, and has a first sleeve part 5 and a second sleeve part 6, the first sleeve part 5 and the second sleeve part 6 being joinable along a contact surface extending through the angled connector sleeve 1, and the first sleeve part 5 having an ejection opening 7, wherein the ejection opening 7 is designed such thatthat the insertion-side end 3 of the insertion assembly 4 can be extended through the ejection opening 7 from the first sleeve part 5, wherein the ejection opening 7 is completely radially surrounded by the first sleeve part 5.