Float-Type Connecting Module for Docking Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current docking devices face challenges with precise alignment between connectors and dock connectors, leading to difficulties in docking and limited transmission speed, as well as alignment issues between a housing slot and a connector port.
Innovation Solution
A float-type connecting module with a position limiting structure, flexible circuit boards, and connectors that allow the connectors to float and align precisely with dock connectors, addressing alignment issues and increasing transmission speed by enabling multiple connectors on both the pluggable device and circuit board.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a slot on the housing is not precisely aligned with the port of the connector, then docking becomes impossible or difficult, but requiring precise alignment increases manufacturing complexity and cost
Solution Approach 1:
The connector is designed to float dynamically within the position limiting structure, allowing it to move and adjust its position automatically during the docking process. This dynamic capability enables the connector to compensate for initial misalignment between the housing slot and connector port, ensuring reliable docking without requiring high manufacturing precision
Solution Approach 2:
The position limiting structure acts as an intermediary mechanism between the housing slot and the connector port. It provides guided movement paths that mediate the docking process, allowing the connector to float and align itself with the dock connector while being constrained within acceptable positional boundaries
2Productivity
If multiple dock connectors are configured on a pluggable device to increase transmission speed, then transmission speed increases, but precise alignment requirements between connectors and dock connectors become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Each connector is equipped with floating capability within its own position limiting structure, allowing independent dynamic adjustment during docking. This enables multiple connectors to be configured on the pluggable device for increased transmission speed while each connector can automatically compensate for alignment variations, reducing the overall alignment precision requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The docking system is segmented into multiple independent connector-dock connector pairs, each with its own position limiting structure. This segmentation allows each connector to float and align independently, so that alignment errors in one connector do not affect others, enabling multiple connectors to work simultaneously with relaxed alignment tolerances
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AI summary
A float-type connecting module and a float-type docking device having the module. The float-type docking device includes a float-type connecting module and a pluggable device including at least one dock connector. The float-type connecting module includes a position limiting structure, at least one flexible circuit board and at least one connector. The position limiting structure is provided at the hard circuit board. The connector is for electrically connecting to the dock connector, is electrically connected to the hard circuit board through the flexible circuit board, and floats in the position limiting structure. Thus, the issues of precise alignment required between a slot of a housing and a port of the connector and precise alignment respectively required between connectors and dock connectors are resolved.