Secondary Shielding Shell Prevents Soldering Leg Splaying

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electrical connectors face challenges in maintaining the alignment and stability of soldering legs during the soldering process, leading to potential splaying and reduced accuracy and effectiveness.

Innovation Solution

A secondary shielding shell with a U-shaped structure, featuring side walls, a top wall, and a rear wall, which are integral and interconnected to prevent splaying of soldering legs, is affixed to a primary shielding shell, ensuring stability and accurate soldering.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the secondary shielding shell has only side walls with soldering legs, then the structure is simple, but the soldering legs easily splay during soldering

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoidsoldering leg alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extends the shielding shell from a simple U-shape (two side walls) to a three-dimensional enclosure by adding a top wall and rear wall. This dimensional expansion creates a closed or partially closed structure that restrains the soldering legs from splaying in multiple directions, thereby improving manufacturing precision without significantly complicating the fabrication process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The shielding shell is divided into distinct functional segments: side walls for basic enclosure, top wall for preventing upward splaying, and rear wall for preventing backward splaying. Each segment addresses specific splaying directions, allowing the structure to maintain simplicity while effectively controlling soldering leg alignment through targeted geometric constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If the soldering legs are left exposed, then the soldering process is accessible, but the accuracy and effectiveness of soldering is reduced due to splaying

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesoldering accessibilityVSAvoidsoldering accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The top wall and rear wall are designed to preliminarily constrain the soldering legs in their correct positions before the soldering operation begins. This pre-positioning prevents splaying during the soldering process, ensuring that when the soldering iron contacts the legs, they remain accurately aligned, thereby maintaining both accessibility and precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The top wall and rear wall act as intermediary structures between the soldering legs and the external environment. These walls provide physical guidance and restraint, mediating the interaction between the soldering process and the legs to prevent unwanted movement while allowing the soldering operation to proceed effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10833454B2Electrical connector shielding shell having side walls interconnected to prevent rear soldering legs thereof from splaying
Publication Date: 2020.11.10 FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An electrical connector includes: a housing; an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing; a primary shielding shell enclosing the housing; and a secondary shielding shell affixed to the primary shielding shell, the secondary shielding shell including a pair of side walls and a top wall interconnected between the pair of side walls, each of the pair of side walls having a soldering leg; wherein the secondary shielding shell has a rear wall integral with a respective rear edge of a corresponding side wall.