An inner terminal (54) of the present invention includes a horizontal part (C) held in an insulator part (55) covered with an outer terminal (56) and a suspending part (D) extended in a direction substantially orthogonal to the horizontal part (C) and having a lower end part connected to a signal patter of a circuit board. In the suspending piece (C) as a part opposed to one pair of side surface pieces (56b) suspended and extended in the outer terminal (56), plate shaped impedance adjusting pieces (54c) are integrally provided which respectively face the side surface pieces (56b) with prescribed spaces held from the side surface pieces.
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1. A connector, comprising:
an outer terminal connected to a ground pattern of a circuit board;
an inner terminal connected to a signal pattern of the circuit board;
an insulator part interposed between the outer terminal and the inner terminal and
a connector housing in which the outer terminal, the inner terminal and the insulator part are accommodated;
wherein the outer terminal has side surface pieces extended toward the circuit board when the connector is attached to the circuit board and including end parts connected to the ground pattern, and the inner terminal has a horizontal part extended in parallel with the circuit board when the connector is attached to the circuit board and a suspending piece extended toward the circuit board from the horizontal part when the connector is attached to the circuit board and having an end part connected to the signal pattern and the suspending piece has impedance adjusting pieces opposed to the side surface pieces with prescribed spaces held thereto.
2. The connector according to
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The present invention relates to a connector for a circuit board connected to a coaxial connector.
Usually, as a connector for a circuit board to which a coaxial connector is connected, is known a connector having an inner conductor terminal soldered and connected to a signal pattern of a printed circuit board, an outer conductor terminal soldered and connected to a ground pattern of the printed circuit board and an insulator part interposed between them and accommodated in a connector housing made of a resin (see patent literature 1). This connector for the circuit board will be described by referring to
In the connector 11 for the circuit board, a connector terminal 16, is accommodated in the connector housing 17 made of a resin, which includes the inner conductor terminal 13 soldered and connected to the signal pattern on the printed circuit board, the outer conductor terminal 14 soldered and connected to the ground pattern on the printed circuit board and the insulator part 15 interposed between them. To the inner conductor terminal 13, a signal wire of a shielded electric wire which is not shown in the drawing is connected to transmit a high frequency signal. The outer conductor terminal 14 is connected to a shield wire of the shielded electric wire to cover a periphery of the inner conductor terminal 13 and electromagnetically shield it.
The inner conductor terminal 13 is formed substantially in the shape of an inverted L in which a suspending part 19 is suspended downward from a base end of a pin shaped horizontal part 18 by punching an electrically conductive plate material. The base end side of the pin shaped horizontal part 18 has a diameter formed to be a little larger than that of an end side thereof and is provided with an engaging protrusion 20.
The suspending part 19 is inserted into a through hole of the printed circuit board and connected to a desired signal pattern on the printed circuit board. Then, when the horizontal part 18 is connected to an inner conductor terminal of a mate side shield connector not shown in the drawing, an electric signal is delivered between the signal wire of the shielded electric wire and the signal pattern of the printed circuit board.
The insulator part 15 in which the inner conductor terminal 13 is accommodated is formed with an insulating material made of the resin having a prescribed dielectric constant and attached between the inner conductor terminal 13 and the outer conductor terminal 14 to insulate a part between them. The insulator part 15 has an accommodating chamber 22 having a vertically long opening surface 21 formed therein and a horizontal tube part 23 is extended and formed in a front side of the accommodating chamber 22.
In the horizontal tube part 23, an insert hole 24 into which the pin shaped horizontal part 18 of the inner conductor terminal 13 is inserted is opened and formed in a longitudinal direction and its rear side communicates with the accommodating chamber 22. When the horizontal part 18 of the inner conductor terminal 13 is inserted into the insert hole 24, the horizontal part is pressed in by the engaging protrusion 20 formed to be bulged in the base end side whose diameter is slightly larger than that of the end side. Thus, the inner conductor terminal 13 is held by the insulator part 15.
The outer conductor terminal 14 is formed in a cylindrical shape by drawing an electrically conductive plate material and then bending the plate material by a press, so that the insulator part 15 can be accommodated in an inner accommodating chamber 25. A front end part is a fitting part 26 fitted to an outer conductor terminal of the mate side shield connector. The end of the horizontal part 18 of the inner conductor terminal 13 inserted into the insert hole 24 of the insulator part 15 accommodated in the accommodating chamber 25 protrudes from the insulator part 15 and is arranged in the fitting part 26.
On an upper surface of a central part of the outer conductor terminal 14, an engaging piece 27 protrudes upward so as to be bent and deformed. In a rear edge of the upper surface of the outer conductor terminal 14, a bent piece 29 of such a size as to cover a rear opening part 28 is extended and formed. The bent piece 29 is bent downward to cover the insulator part 15 accommodated in the accommodating chamber 25 of the outer conductor terminal 14 from a rear part and close the rear opening part 28. Thus, a shielding performance of the connector 11 for the circuit board can be prevented from being deteriorated.
In a lower end of the rear part of the outer conductor terminal 14, one pair of right and left connecting tabs 30 and 30 protrude downward at positions shifting in the longitudinal direction, are inserted into through holes of the printed circuit board and electrically connected to the ground pattern.
The connector housing 17 is integrally formed with an insulating resin and accommodates and fixes the connector terminal 16 in which the inner conductor terminal 13 is held in the insulator part 15 and the insulator part 15 is accommodated in the outer conductor terminal 14.
In a rear part of the connector housing 17, a terminal accommodating chamber 31 opened in the longitudinal direction is formed to pass through so that the outer conductor terminal 14 may be inserted from a rear opening surface 32. On a ceiling surface of the terminal accommodating chamber 31, an engaging protrusion 33 is formed with which the engaging piece 27 of the outer conductor terminal 14 is engaged to prevent the outer conductor terminal 14 from slipping out.
In a front part of the terminal accommodating chamber 31, a hood part 34 whose front surface is opened is provided so that a front part of the mate side shield connector may be accommodated. On an upper end edge of the hood part 34, a stopper 35 is provided to protrude with which a connector housing of the mate side shield connector is engaged. The fitting part 26 of the outer conductor terminal 14 protrudes from the terminal accommodating chamber 31 to the hood part 34. The fitting part 26 can be fitted to the outer conductor terminal of the mate side shield connector accommodated in the hood part 34.
On both side surfaces of the connector housing 17, fixing members 36 which fix the connector 11 for the circuit board to the printed circuit board are formed integrally with the connector housing 17.
As shown in
The above-described usual connector for the circuit board has below-described problems to be solved.
Namely, when the inner conductor terminal 13 is formed in the shape of L as described above, it is difficult to cover an entire part of the inner conductor terminal 13 including the horizontal part 18, a connecting part (a bent part) to the suspending part 19 and the suspending part 19 with the outer conductor terminal 14 so as to obtain an uniform electrostatic capacity from the viewpoint of a restriction to the form and size of the connector housing 17. Thus, a mismatching of impedance is generated respectively in the parts of the connector for the circuit board, so that the impedance of the entire part of the connector is hardly set to a desired numerical value.
The present invention is devised by considering the above-described circumstances and it is an object of the present invention to provide a connector for a circuit board which can suppress a mismatching of impedance due to forms of an inner conductor terminal and an outer conductor terminal and can adjust the impedance to a desired numerical value.
In order to achieve the above-described object, a connector according to the present invention is characterized by below-described (1) to (2).
(1) A connector including:
an outer terminal connected to a ground pattern of a circuit board;
an inner terminal connected to a signal pattern of the circuit board;
an insulator part interposed between the outer terminal and the inner terminal and
a connector housing in which the outer terminal, the inner terminal and the insulator part are accommodated, wherein the outer terminal has side surface pieces extended toward the circuit board when the connector is attached to the circuit board and including end parts connected to the ground pattern, and the inner terminal has a horizontal part extended in parallel with the circuit board when the connector is attached to the circuit board and a suspending piece extended toward the circuit board from the horizontal part when the connector is attached to the circuit board and having an end part connected to the signal pattern and the suspending piece has impedance adjusting pieces opposed to the side surface pieces with prescribed spaces held thereto.
(2) A connector having the structure of the above-described (1), wherein a shield cover which can be attached to the outer terminal is further provided and the shield cover is opposed to at least a part of the suspending piece when the shield cover is attached to the outer terminal.
According to the connector having the structure of the above-described (1), since the impedance adjusting pieces of a previously calculated prescribed size are opposed to the side surface pieces so as to hold prescribed spaces to the side surface pieces, an electrostatic capacity to ground of the inner terminal to the outer terminal can be improved. Thus, for the impedance larger than a desired numerical value in an angular part in which the horizontal part is connected to the suspending part and a part in the vicinity of the suspending part, the impedance can be made to be the smaller than the desired numerical value in the vicinity of the impedance adjusting pieces. Accordingly, the impedance of an entire part of the connector can be adjusted to the desired numerical value.
Further, according to the connector having the structure of the above-described (2), since at least a part of the suspending piece of a previously calculated prescribed size is opposed to the shield cover so as to hold a prescribed space to the shield cover, the electrostatic capacity to ground of the inner terminal to the outer terminal can be improved.
According to the present invention, a mismatching of impedance due to the forms of the inner conductor terminal and the outer conductor terminal can be suppressed. As a result, a high frequency performance of an entire part of the connector for the circuit board can be improved.
The present invention is briefly explained as described above. Further, when a mode for carrying out the invention described below will be read by referring to the attached drawings, a detail of the present invention will be more clarified.
Now, a connector for a circuit board according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described below by referring to
The connector for the circuit board according to the one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an inner terminal (an inner conductor terminal) soldered to a signal pattern on a circuit board (not shown in the drawing) to which the connector is attached, an outer terminal (an outer conductor terminal) soldered to a ground pattern on the circuit board, an insulator part interposed between the inner terminal and the outer terminal and a connector housing in which the outer terminal, the inner terminal and the insulator part are accommodated and to which a mate side connector (a coaxial connector, not shown in the drawing) is fitted.
The connector housing 51 of the above-described members is formed substantially in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped as a molded product of a synthetic resin as shown in
Further, the outer terminal 56 is fixed in the connector housing 51 so as to cover the inner terminal 54 with a prescribed space provided between them. The connector fitting part 53 and the insulator part 55 are designed so as to meet the form and size of the mate side connector.
On the other hand, a closed wall part 57 is formed in an opposite side to the above-described opening part 52 side of the connector housing 51 so as to close one end of the connector fitting part 53. The closed wall part 57 has a protruding part 60 of a forward rear circular form (an inverted U shape) as shown in
Further, as shown in
On the other hand, the outer terminal accommodating hole 59 is also horizontally formed so as to pass through the dosed wall part 57 from the end face side of the protruding part 60. The outer terminal accommodating hole 59 has a form into which a semi-cylindrical piece 56a of the outer terminal 56 shown in
As shown in
Further, in the inner terminal 54, the round pin part 54a is inserted into the pin insert hole 58b of a rear surface of the closed wall part 57 shown in FIG. 2 and the impedance adjusting pieces 54c are inserted into the insert hole 58d from the rectangular hole 58c of the rear surface of the dosed wall part 57. Further, the wide part 54b is similarly fitted to the rectangular hole 58c of the rear surface of the dosed wall part 57. Thus, the inner terminal 54 is attached to the connector housing 51.
On the other hand, the outer terminal 56 includes, as shown in
In the outer terminal 56, an end part of the semi-cylindrical piece 56a is inserted to an entrance of the outer terminal accommodating hole 59 of the rear surface of the dosed wall part 57 shown in
As shown in
As shown in
In the connector for the circuit board having the above-described structure, a mismatching of impedance due to the forms of the inner conductor terminal and the outer conductor terminal can be adjusted by areas and spaces of the side surface pieces 56b of the outer terminal 56 and the impedance adjusting pieces 54c of the inner terminal 54 which are opposed to each other.
Namely, in the usual inner terminal which is not provided with the impedance adjusting pieces 54c, since an area of a part opposed to an outer terminal is small, an electrostatic capacity to ground of the inner terminal to the outer terminal in that part is low, so that high impedance arises. As compared therewith, in the present exemplary embodiment, since the impedance adjusting pieces 54c of a previously calculated prescribed size are opposed to the side surface pieces 56b of the outer terminal 56 so as to hold prescribed spaces from the side surface pieces, the electrostatic capacity to ground of the inner terminal 54 to the outer terminal 56 can be improved. Since an impedance Z is inversely proportional to an electrostatic capacity C (Z=1/ωC), the impedance can be suppressed low to a previous value or smaller. Thus, for the impedance larger than a desired numerical value in an angular part in which the horizontal part C is connected to the suspending part D and a part in the vicinity of the suspending part D, the impedance can be made to be the smaller than the desired numerical value in the vicinity of the impedance adjusting pieces 54c. Thus, the impedance of an entire part of the connector for the circuit board of the present exemplary embodiment can be adjusted to the desired numerical value. Accordingly, a high frequency performance of the connector can be improved.
Further, in the connector for the circuit board having the above-described structure, the mismatching of impedance due to the forms of the inner conductor terminal and the outer conductor terminal can be also adjusted by areas and spaces of the wide part 54b of the opposed inner terminal 54 and the dosing plate 62a of the shield cover 62 attached to the outer terminal 56. In the present exemplary embodiment, since the wide part 54b of a previously calculated prescribed size is opposed to the closing plate 62a of the shield cover 62 so as to hold a prescribed space to the closing plate 62a, the electrostatic capacity to ground of the inner terminal 54 to the outer terminal 56 can be improved.
As described in the connector according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, even when a part arises which has the impedance deviating from the desired numerical value due to the forms of the inner terminal and the outer terminal, the deviating part can be cancelled to adjust the impedance of the entire part of the connector to the desired numerical value. As a result, the high frequency performance of the connector can be improved.
The present invention is described in detail by referring to the specific exemplary embodiment, however, it is to be understood to a person with an ordinary skill in the art that various changes or modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
This application is based on Japanese Patent Application (JPA No. 2010-160693) filed on Jul. 15, 2010, and contents thereof are incorporated herein as a reference.
According to the connector of the present invention, the mismatching of impedance due to the forms of the inner conductor terminal and the outer conductor terminal can be suppressed. As a result, the high frequency performance of the entire part of the connector for the circuit board can be effectively improved.
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