Integrated Power Connector Pins for High-Current Thermal Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing power connectors face challenges in integrating multiple interfaces and pins while enhancing current-carrying efficiency, particularly in withstanding larger currents and managing temperature rises effectively.
Innovation Solution
A power connector design that incorporates multiple insertion pins and conductive pins from a single conductive plate, increasing the cross-sectional area for improved current-carrying capacity and thermal management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple insertion pins and conductive pins are integrated from a single conductive plate, then current-carrying efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple insertion pins and conductive pins into a single integrated conductive plate structure. The conductive plate serves as a common base from which multiple pins extend, combining what would traditionally be separate components into one unified structure. This integration increases the cross-sectional area for current flow while reducing the number of separate parts to assemble.
Solution Approach 2:
The conductive plate performs multiple functions simultaneously: it serves as the structural base for multiple insertion pins, provides additional conductive pins for power transmission, and acts as the primary current-carrying path. This multi-functionality allows a single component to replace what would traditionally require multiple separate components.
2Reliability
If the cross-sectional area of the conductive plate is increased, then the power connector can withstand larger currents, but the volume of the connector increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of increasing the cross-sectional area in a single plane, the patent extends pins in multiple directions from the conductive plate. The conductive plate serves as a central hub with insertion pins and conductive pins extending in different spatial dimensions, allowing increased current capacity without proportionally increasing overall volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The current-carrying function is segmented across multiple pins rather than requiring a single large conductive element. Multiple thinner pins distributed from the conductive plate collectively provide the same or greater current-carrying capacity as one large plate, distributing the thermal and electrical load across more surface area while maintaining a compact form factor.
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 design achieves enhanced current-carrying efficiency by allowing the power connector to handle larger currents and better manage temperature rises, ensuring reliable performance in electrical circuits.
Implementation Method 1
multiple ones of the insertion pins extend from one end of each of the conductive plates, at least one conductive pin extends from another end of each of the conductive plates, the conductive plates is respectively inserted into the strip-shaped openings, and each of the insertion pins is inserted into a respective corresponding one of the sockets, and each of the conductive pins is inserted into a respective corresponding one of the conductive holes
Implementation Method 2
a cross-sectional area of the conductive plate increases, allowing the power connector of this disclosure to withstand larger currents and achieve better effects when temperature rises
Data Source
AI summary
A power connector is provided, used with a circuit board having conductive holes. The power connector includes an insulating housing and a power terminal group. One end of the insulating housing includes two strip-shaped openings arranged side by side, and the other end includes multiple sockets. A portion of the sockets are arranged in a column aligned with one strip-shaped opening, and the rest of the sockets are arranged in a column aligned with the other strip-shaped opening. Both a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the power terminal group have a conductive plate, with multiple insertion pins extending from one end of the conductive plate, and at least one conductive pin extending from the other end. Each conductive plate is inserted into each strip-shaped opening, each insertion pin is inserted into each socket, and each conductive pin is inserted into each conductive hole.