With the rapid growth of consumer electronics, automotive electronics and communication, and the global connector productivity is transfer continuously to Asia and China, Asia has been the most potential area for the connector market, and China will be the greatest among that. Automotive connector is the biggest connector segmenting market, there are around 1500 pcs connector in a normal vehicle. The growth rate for connector market in China is estimated to keep on surpassing the Global average in the future. In the next 5 years.the average annual growth rate for connector market size in China will reach 15%. In 2020, the connector market size will be valued at 105 billion.
①Production improvement - Connector can not only simplify the assembly of electronic products, but also simplify its mass production
②Easy to repair - When a device uses the connectors, we can replace the damage electronic components quickly
③Easy to upgrade -it’s easy to replace the old electronic components in the device when we find the better one
④Increase design flexibility - It Increase design flexibility when the engineer design a integrated product project.
The connector was born from the combat aircraft industrial technology. The combat aircraft have to be refueled and repaired on the ground, so the time stay on the ground is the important factor that will decide the battle result. In the second world war, U.S. military try to short the ground maintenance time for increasing the aircraft fighting time. They utilized the control equipment and parts, then connected them to the complete system by the connectors. While repairing the aircraft, they just took apart the damage unit then assemble a new one quickly by connectors. After the war, Nokia Bell Labs researched and designed the telephone system, and with the computer and communication etc. Industry development, the connectors play a more and more important role, their market size expanded rapidly.
A connector is a coupling device that joins electrical terminations to create an electrical circuit.
Broadly speaking, the connectors can refer all bridges between all signals, including utilized electronic/electrical modules and components which consist of a complete system in a short time.
①Nature of Usage：External connector and Internal connector
②Processing Methods：Crimp Type, I.D.C Type, Solder Type, Z.I.F Type
③Methods of Usage: wire to board, board to board, wire to wire, input/output connector,socket etc.
④Form of Connector：PCB connector, flat cable connector,coaxial cable connector,embedded connector, spool connector, round connector, rectangular connector etc.
⑤Function: Normal connector, moisture and waterproof connector, environment-resistant connector, airtight connector, fire-resistant connector, water resistant connector
①Insulator - Connector Housing: maintain the fixed position and connector combination insulation
②Receptacle Combination: usually refer to female connector terminals
③Pin Combination: usually refer to male connector terminals
④Cable
①There is elasticity in female or male contacts, it can ensure to create a circuit by its connect.
②The terminals have the structure which are easy to assemble to wire or PCB, such as welding, crimping etc
③The contacts are fixed in the right position inside the insulator to keep the stable insulation resistance
④coupling structure make the contacts easy to insert or take apart, and fix its position even if shock