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
Engineering 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Data Source
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.


