Connector Assembly Partitioning Element Warpage Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing connector assemblies face assembly and quality issues due to manufacturing tolerance variations, causing the partitioning walls and panels to warp and fail to properly attach, leading to non-matching components and compromised product quality.
Innovation Solution
A connector assembly design featuring a partitioning element with a grounding gasket that includes bulging portions at corners, allowing for a larger matching range and preventing warpage, along with locking and latching mechanisms to ensure stable assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the first distance or second distance is changed toward the upper or lower limit of dimension tolerance due to manufacturing process variations, then the partitioning walls and panels cannot flatly attach to each other, but adding compensation structures increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces bulging portions with curved surfaces at the corners of the grounding gasket. These bulging portions protrude outwardly relative to the first panel and second panel, creating a curved geometric feature that provides dimensional compensation. The curvature allows the structure to accommodate tolerance variations without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms, thereby resolving the contradiction between manufacturing precision and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the geometric parameters of the grounding gasket by adding bulging portions that modify the distance relationship between the first panel and second panel. This parameter change creates a larger matching range for the distance between panels, allowing the structure to absorb dimensional tolerance variations from manufacturing processes while maintaining proper attachment, thus improving manufacturing precision without significantly increasing device complexity.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the panels are made rigid to maintain structural stability, then warpage occurs due to tolerance accumulation, but making them flexible reduces structural strength
Solution Approach 1:
The grounding gasket is segmented into multiple functional parts: a front plate, a first panel, a second panel, and multiple bulging portions at the corners. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function - the panels maintain structural strength while the bulging portions provide dimensional compensation to prevent warpage, thus resolving the contradiction between stability and strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by making only specific portions of the grounding gasket (the corner regions) have different geometric properties through the addition of bulging portions. The main panel areas remain rigid for structural strength, while the localized bulging portions provide the necessary flexibility and tolerance compensation to prevent warpage, thereby resolving the contradiction between structural strength and panel flatness.
3Area of stationary object
If the panels are made larger to improve grounding coverage, then the matching range decreases due to tolerance accumulation, but reducing panel size limits grounding effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a third dimensional element by introducing bulging portions that protrude outwardly from the plane of the panels. This dimensional change creates additional clearance and matching range in the radial direction, allowing the panels to maintain large grounding area while accommodating tolerance variations through the extra dimensional space provided by the bulging portions, thus resolving the contradiction between grounding area and matching range.
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AI summary
A connector assembly includes a receptacle connector, a shielding cage and a partitioning element. The shielding cage has a receiving cavity. The partitioning element is provided to the receiving cavity and partitions the receiving cavity into a first module passageway and a second module passageway, the partitioning element includes a compartment frame and a grounding gasket assembled to a front end of the compartment frame, the compartment frame has a first partitioning wall and a second partitioning wall which respectively correspond to the first module passageway and the second module passageway, the grounding gasket integrally has a front plate, a first panel and a second panel, the first panel and the second panel together clamp the first partitioning wall and the second partitioning wall, the first panel and the second panel and the front plate are integrally connected by bulging portions at certain corners.