Connector Assembly With Resilient Positioning For Distance Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connector assemblies face challenges in maintaining a consistent distance between coupled connectors, leading to variations that affect their alignment and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A connector assembly featuring a coupling member with a top plate and positioning sets, including resilient portions that press the connectors against positioning portions, ensuring accurate alignment and maintaining a consistent distance between them.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a coupling member is used to connect two connectors, then the connectors are coupled together, but the distance between the connectors varies
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling member is designed with pre-formed positioning portions that extend from the top plate at predetermined locations. These positioning portions are prepared in advance to receive and locate the connectors, ensuring consistent positioning before the actual coupling operation occurs.
Solution Approach 2:
The positioning portions act as intermediary elements between the top plate and the connectors. They provide a mediating interface that translates the rigid structure of the top plate into precise connector locations, reducing distance variation through this intermediate positioning layer.
2Manufacturing precision
If positioning portions are added to the coupling member, then connector positioning is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling member is segmented into functional zones: the top plate provides overall support, while the positioning portions are separate, discrete elements extending from the top plate. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, simplifying the design and manufacturing of each part while achieving precise positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The positioning portions are located only at specific positions where connectors need to be positioned, rather than making the entire top plate complex. Each positioning portion has a specific local function of locating a connector, while the rest of the top plate maintains its simple flat-plate structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively reduces variations in the distance between connectors, ensuring precise alignment and reliable coupling, while the resilient design allows for secure attachment and reduced risk of misalignment.
Implementation Method 1
Each of the resilient portions is fixed to the top plate, is located inward of the corresponding one of the connectors in the lateral direction and presses the corresponding one of the connectors against a corresponding one of the positioning portions
Data Source
AI summary
A connector assembly comprises two connectors and a coupling member. The coupling member couples the two connectors which are apart from each other in a lateral direction. The coupling member has a top plate and two positioning sets which correspond to the two connectors, respectively. Each of the positioning sets includes a positioning portion and a resilient portion. The top plate has a single and continuous flat-plate shape and is located above the two connectors in an upper-lower direction perpendicular to the lateral direction. Each of the positioning portions extends downward from the top plate and is located outward of the corresponding connector in the lateral direction. Each of the resilient portions is fixed to the top plate, is located inward of the corresponding connector in the lateral direction and presses the corresponding connector against the corresponding positioning portion.