Floating Connector With Conductive Adjustment Members
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to design a connector with a reduced profile that supports high-capacity and high-speed signal transmission while maintaining improved transmission characteristics, as existing connectors with elaborate contact shapes struggle to achieve both miniaturization and effective signal transmission.
Innovation Solution
The connector features a floating structure with a first and second insulator, adjustment members with electrical conductivity, and contacts that elastically deform to accommodate positional deviations, allowing for reduced profile dimensions while enhancing signal transmission characteristics through capacitive effects and electromagnetic noise reduction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the contact shape is made elaborate to maintain transmission characteristics, then signal transmission quality is improved, but the connector profile cannot be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
A ground member is introduced as an intermediary element between the signal transmission path and the housing. This ground member includes a ground contact that makes contact with the housing, creating an intermediate reference potential that stabilizes signal transmission without requiring elaborate contact shapes. The ground member acts as a mediator that provides electromagnetic shielding and reference potential, thereby maintaining transmission quality while allowing simplified signal contact geometry.
2Length of moving object
If the connector is miniaturized to reduce profile, then device integration is improved, but transmission characteristics deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the electrical parameter configuration by introducing a ground member that establishes a reference potential. This parameter change (adding a reference potential layer) allows the connector to maintain proper impedance control and signal integrity even with reduced dimensions. The ground contact creates an electromagnetic reference plane that compensates for the size reduction effects on transmission characteristics.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the ground member is positioned closer to the signal transmission path, then electromagnetic noise reduction is improved, but insulation requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces mechanical insulation requirements with electromagnetic field management. The ground member is configured to extend toward the signal transmission path, creating an electromagnetic shield that reduces noise coupling. Instead of relying solely on physical insulation clearances, the design uses the ground member's electromagnetic field to contain and control signal fields, thereby reducing noise while maintaining practical insulation distances.
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
This design achieves improved signal transmission characteristics and reliability by reducing characteristic impedance and accommodating positional deviations, ensuring effective connectivity and reduced noise impact, even in high-capacity and high-speed applications.
Implementation Method 1
enhancing signal transmission characteristics through capacitive effects
Implementation Method 2
contacts that elastically deform to accommodate positional deviations
Data Source
AI summary
A connector having a floating structure and a reduced profile that improves transmission characteristics of a signal transmission is provided. A connector according to the present disclosure is to be fitted to a connection object and includes a first insulator, a second insulator that is movable relative to the first insulator, a contact attached to the first insulator and the second insulator, and adjustment members having electrical conductivity arranged within the first insulator. The adjustment members include adjustment portions, which are configured to oppose the contact.