Leaf Spring Connector Layout for Current Shunting and Lower Power Loss
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electrical connectors typically transmit current through a single output interface, leading to increased current-carrying demands on circuit boards and resulting power loss during current shunting.
Innovation Solution
An electrical connector with a shunt structure, featuring an insulating housing and multiple conductive terminals, allows for current shunting to additional components, reducing power loss and enhancing space efficiency by distributing the current through multiple interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If current is transmitted through a single output interface, then the electrical connector structure is simple, but the current-carrying capacity of the circuit board must be increased and power loss occurs during shunting
Solution Approach 1:
The electrical connector is segmented into multiple independent output interfaces (first output interface and second output interface), allowing current to be divided and transmitted through separate paths. This segmentation enables the circuit board to distribute current across multiple connection points, reducing the current-carrying burden on any single interface and minimizing power loss during shunting operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a spatial dimension by adding a second output interface perpendicular to the first output interface. This dimensional expansion allows current to flow through multiple spatial paths simultaneously, effectively increasing the current-carrying capacity without requiring a single interface to handle excessive current, thereby reducing power loss.
2Device complexity
If current is transmitted through a single output interface, then the connector design is straightforward, but space efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
By utilizing three-dimensional space with output interfaces extending in different directions (first output interface and second output interface perpendicular to each other), the connector achieves higher space efficiency. This spatial arrangement allows multiple current paths within a compact footprint, maximizing the use of available space without increasing overall connector complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of electrical terminals. A first side surface of the connector has a plug input interface provided for insertion of a power supply component along a first direction and a length direction thereof is perpendicular to the first direction. A third side surface of the connector has a shunt socket with at least one shunt slot. Each of the electrical terminals has an A contact portion, a B contact portion, a middle portion and a pin portion. Each of the A contact portions extends into the plug input interface along the first direction. Each of the pin portions extends out of the second side surface along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the B contact portions extends into the shunt slot along a third direction perpendicular to the first direction.