Floating Female Socket Self-Return Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Coaxial connectors face assembly difficulties due to the male socket easily deviating relative to the female socket during insertion, leading to reduced assembly efficiency and potential damage, which affects signal conduction stability.

Innovation Solution

A floating female socket with a self-return function, featuring a female socket insulator, cover, terminal, and shielding housing with elastic guide plates and support parts that allow for position adjustment and self-return, ensuring correct alignment and stability during assembly and disassembly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a floating female socket is used to allow position adjustment, then assembly difficulty is reduced and assembly efficiency is improved, but the female socket cover cannot return to its original position after the male socket is removed, causing problems for the next insertion

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassembly efficiencyVSAvoidposition return reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The elastic guide plates automatically push the female socket cover back to its original position after the male socket is removed, without requiring external intervention. The elastic deformation and recovery of the guide plates provides the self-return function, solving the problem of position retention for the next insertion.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic guide plates change their physical state between deformed and recovered states. When the male socket is inserted, the guide plates deform to allow position adjustment; when the male socket is removed, the guide plates recover to push the female socket cover back to its original position, thus changing the positional parameter dynamically.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If the male socket position deviates during insertion, then assembly flexibility is reduced, but using a floating female socket allows position correction, however the cover cannot maintain correct position after removal

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveposition adjustment capabilityVSAvoidcover position stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The floating female socket structure allows the female socket cover to move dynamically relative to the female socket insulator during insertion, enabling position adjustment. The elastic guide plates provide the dynamic mechanism that allows movement during assembly while maintaining stability after assembly is complete.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic guide plates are pre-configured to counteract the displacement of the female socket cover. After the male socket is removed, the elastic guide plates automatically exert a restoring force to return the cover to its correct position, preventing position instability for the next insertion.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

3Device complexity

If a rigid female socket is used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but assembly damage occurs due to position misalignment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesocket structure simplicityVSAvoidassembly damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The elastic guide plates act as a cushioning mechanism that absorbs and compensates for position misalignment during assembly. Before the actual connection is made, the elastic guide plates deform to accommodate position differences, preventing direct impact and damage to the fitting pieces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic guide plates function as flexible components that can deform elastically to accommodate position variations. This flexibility allows the structure to adapt to misalignment without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms, maintaining relative structural simplicity while preventing assembly damage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

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 floating female socket enables precise alignment of the male and female sockets, reducing damage and maintaining signal transmission stability by allowing the female socket cover to self-return to its original position, facilitating easy reinsertion and improving connector reliability.

Implementation Method 1

two elastic guide plates which are formed by upwardly extending left and right side walls of the shielding housing. The elastic guide plates each include an elastic side top and an arc-shaped guide part

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS10910767B1Floating female socket with self-return function and coaxial connector including such female socket

Publication Date: 2021.02.02 GOLDENCONN ELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is a floating female socket with a self-return function, which includes a female socket insulator, a female socket cover, a female socket terminal, a shielding housing, and an elastic guide plate. Two elastic guide plates are disposed, which are formed by upwardly extending left and right side walls of the shielding housing. The elastic guide plates each include an elastic side top and an arc-shaped guide part, where the elastic side top is configured to jack up against the female socket cover and is formed by inwardly extending an inner wall of the elastic guide plate. The arc-shaped guide part is formed by externally bending and extending a free end of the elastic guide plate.