Connector Housing Moving Guide Latching Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connector housing apparatuses face challenges in accurately connecting multiple RF connectors to cables from outside the housing, leading to improper connections and degradation in communication quality due to the complexity of operating from within the housings when connecting multiple cables.
Innovation Solution
A connector housing apparatus with a main body section and a moving guide section that latches onto the external housing, allowing the connectors to be collectively fitted from the outside, ensuring accurate alignment and fitting of multiple connectors to external connectors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple cables are individually connected to multiple RF connectors from inside the housing, then each connector can be connected, but the operation becomes complex and connection accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual connector connections into a single collective connection operation. The connector housing apparatus allows multiple RF connectors to be connected to external connectors simultaneously by moving the entire housing, transforming multiple separate operations into one unified operation that maintains high connection accuracy while simplifying the operational process.
Solution Approach 2:
The connector housing apparatus serves as an intermediary device that houses multiple RF connectors and enables their collective connection. By using this intermediate structure, the system achieves accurate alignment of multiple connectors with external connectors while simplifying the operation to a single movement action.
2Ease of manufacture
If connectors are fitted individually from inside the housing, then connection can be made, but the housing structure becomes complex and operation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the conventional approach by enabling connection operations to be performed from the outside of the housing rather than from inside. The connector housing apparatus is designed to be moved and operated externally, allowing connectors to be fitted collectively from outside the housing, thereby simplifying both the housing structure and the operational process.
3Productivity
If multiple connectors are connected individually, then each connection can be made, but time consumption increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual connection operations into a single collective connection operation. By designing the connector housing apparatus to move and connect multiple RF connectors simultaneously to external connectors, the system achieves significant time savings and improved productivity compared to sequential individual connections.
Data Source
AI summary
A connector housing apparatus includes a main body section that has a plurality of connectors confronting a plurality of external connectors of an external housing and a moving guide section that guides movement of the main body section toward the external housing. The moving guide section has a latching section that latches the moving guide section on the external housing. The main body section is connected to the moving guide section so as to be movable in a fitting direction of the plurality of connectors. The latching section latches the moving guide section on a position at which the plurality of connectors are fitted to the plurality of external connectors. The main body section moves along the moving guide section in the fitting direction of the plurality of connectors, and thereby the plurality of connectors are fitted to the plurality of external connectors.