Resilient Shell Electrical Cable Connector for Low-Profile Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electrical cable connectors with resilient shell members face challenges in maintaining stability and resilience when reduced in thickness for low-profile designs, leading to poor engagement between protrusions and recesses, which affects the secure coupling with mate connectors.
Innovation Solution
An electrical cable connector with a resilient shell member featuring a strip-shaped portion and extended strip-shaped portions that form a spring member, providing resilient contact and enhanced locking mechanism, while maintaining sufficient resiliency and stability even with reduced thickness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Length of moving object
If the connector is reduced in thickness for low-profile design, then the profile height is reduced, but the resilient shell member loses stability and engagement reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The resilient shell member is designed with dynamic characteristics through its resilient material properties and structural configuration (strip-shaped portions with extended ends), allowing it to maintain engagement reliability despite reduced thickness. The resilient nature enables continuous adaptation and stable coupling without requiring increased thickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The resilient shell member utilizes flexible material properties and a thin-film-like structure (strip-shaped portions) to achieve both low-profile requirements and reliable engagement. The flexibility allows the shell to deform and recover, maintaining stable coupling while keeping the overall thickness reduced.
2Length of moving object
If the resilient shell member is reduced in thickness, then the connector achieves low-profile design, but the engagement between protrusions and recesses deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The resilient shell member incorporates dynamic characteristics through its material resilience and structural design, enabling the thin structure to maintain stable engagement. The resilient portions can deform and recover, ensuring consistent engagement between protrusions and recesses despite reduced thickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical parameters of the resilient shell member, specifically using resilient material properties and configuring strip-shaped portions with extended ends, to achieve both reduced thickness and maintained engagement stability. The parameter changes in material behavior and structural geometry resolve the contradiction.
3Length of moving object
If the connector design is reduced in thickness over time, then low-profile aesthetic is achieved, but changes with time affect coupling stability
Solution Approach 1:
The resilient shell member is designed with inherent dynamic characteristics that allow it to compensate for time-related changes. The resilient material and structure enable continuous adaptation, maintaining coupling stability over extended periods despite the reduced thickness and environmental variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The resilient shell member performs self-service through its inherent resilience, automatically adjusting and maintaining engagement without external intervention. This self-adjusting capability ensures long-term coupling stability, making the connector less susceptible to changes over time while maintaining low-profile design.
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 connector maintains proper and stable coupling with the mate electrical connector, ensuring reliable electrical linkage despite thickness reduction, and is less susceptible to changes over time, ensuring consistent performance.
Implementation Method 1
a strip-shaped portion (26) linked with the concealing portion (25) to extend around the insulating housing (15) so as to cause an inner surface portion (26a) of the strip-shaped portion (26) to come into resilient contact with an outer surface portion (38a) of the holding metal member (36)
Data Source
AI summary
An electrical cable connector comprising an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the insulating housing to be connected respectively with cables, and a resilient shell member attached to the insulating housing, wherein the resilient shell member includes a concealing portion for concealing a portion of the insulating housing on which the conductive contacts are arranged, a strip-shaped portion surrounding partially the insulating housing so as to cause an inner surface portion thereof to come into resilient contact with an outer surface portion of a mating connecting device, a pair of extended strip-shaped portions each extending to be bent from one of end portions of the strip-shaped portion so as to have a free end portion, and a pair of holding portions extending from the concealing portion for positioning respectively the extended strip-shaped portions from the outside thereof.