CN215445497U

CN215445497U - Adjustable liquid joint structure

Info

Publication number: CN215445497U
Application number: CN202121679628.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨明璁; 黄冠霖; 李嵩蔚
Original assignee: Asia Vital Components Co Ltd
Current assignee: Asia Vital Components Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-22
Filing date: 2021-07-22
Publication date: 2022-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 2031-07-22

Abstract

The utility model provides an adjustable liquid joint structure, which comprises a shell, a bearing piece and a joint body, wherein the shell is provided with a plurality of through holes; the shell is a hollow frame, the receiving piece is arranged in the shell, the center of the front side of the receiving piece is provided with an opening for configuring the joint body, a positioning hole is arranged below the adjacent opening, a plurality of elastic pieces are arranged on the outer peripheral side and the rear side of the receiving piece, the receiving piece is suspended in the shell by virtue of the plurality of elastic pieces, and the joint body can be elastically adjusted in the shell in a vertical, front-back or left-right floating manner by virtue of the plurality of elastic pieces of the receiving piece, so that the assembly tolerance is effectively absorbed, and the effects of smooth assembly, correct alignment and stable combination are achieved.

Description

Adjustable liquid joint structure

Technical Field

The present invention relates to an adjustable fluid connector structure, and more particularly, to an adjustable fluid connector structure capable of achieving blind-mating and absorbing assembly tolerance to achieve smooth assembly and correct alignment.

Background

In recent years, liquid cooling systems are widely used for heat dissipation of high-power heat sources, and have good heat dissipation efficiency, so that the liquid cooling systems are widely applied to heat dissipation of industrial computers or server cabinets, besides personal computer desktops. The water-cooling heat dissipation system generally applied to a server cabinet is mainly characterized in that a master cylinder is used for injecting working fluid in a water tank into water-cooling heads corresponding to heat sources in different servers in the cabinet respectively in a shunting manner, so as to achieve the effect of water-cooling heat dissipation.

However, when the water pipes of the water distribution pipes on the existing server cabinet are distributed to the water cooling heads of the servers, the water pipes are communicated by inserting the male connectors and the female connectors of the water distribution pipes, and when the male connectors installed on the water distribution pipes are inserted into the female connectors installed on the servers, one end of the male connector is connected with one end of the female connector only by inserting a pin arranged on the male connector into a jack arranged in the female connector in a guiding manner, but the problems of assembly tolerance and manufacturing tolerance of elements exist in the past between the female connector of each server end and the male connector corresponding to each water distribution pipe, so that the tolerance sum of each male connector and each female connector on the server cabinet exceeds the allowable tolerance range, the pin of the male connector cannot be inserted into the jack of the female connector, and the female connectors of all the server ends and the male connectors of all the water distribution pipes cannot be oppositely inserted and combined on the same axis, and one or both of the whole diversion water pipeline and the server end on the server cabinet are required to replace all pipeline joints and the arrangement positions thereof again so as to enable all the male joints and the female joints to be re-adapted to be connected or not, if at least more than two relative connection tolerances in all the re-adapted male joints and female joints are too large, the re-adapted male joints and female joints are required to be repeatedly adapted until the male joints and female joints can be connected, so that the male joints and female joints cannot be assembled in a relative position and smoothly, and the problems of difficult assembly, time consumption in assembly and the like are caused.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present invention provides an adjustable fluid connector structure for a server, which is adjustable to achieve a blind-mate effect by correct alignment and fast and stable coupling, and can absorb assembly tolerance and be assembled smoothly.

To achieve the above objects, the present invention provides an adjustable fluid connector structure, which includes a housing, a receiving member, and a connector body; the utility model relates to a connector, which comprises a shell, a bearing piece, a positioning hole, a plurality of elastic pieces and a plurality of elastic pieces, wherein the shell is a hollow frame body, the bearing piece is arranged in the shell, an opening is arranged on the front side of the bearing piece to configure a connector body, a positioning hole is arranged below the opening, a plurality of elastic pieces are arranged on the periphery side of the bearing piece, and the bearing piece is suspended in the shell by virtue of the plurality of elastic pieces.

At least two outer sides of the receiving member are provided with a plurality of accommodating parts (holes, grooves, cavities, protruding ends or various combination modes), one end of each elastic member is arranged on the corresponding accommodating part, and the other end of each elastic member is in butt joint with at least two inner sides of the corresponding shell. The rear side of the bearing piece is sleeved with an elastic piece at the rear end of the joint body in the opening.

The upper side and the lower side of the bearing piece are covered by the shell, a gap is formed between the lower side of the bearing piece and the shell, and the shell is composed of a single component or a plurality of components. The joint body is a quick joint.

The plurality of elastic members are springs. The connector body can be elastically adjusted in the shell in a front-back floating manner through the plurality of elastic pieces of the bearing piece. The shell is connected and arranged on a water cooling cabinet, an adaptive joint is arranged on the water cooling cabinet, the adaptive joint is provided with an adaptive joint body and a positioning part which is arranged adjacent to the adaptive joint body, one end of the adaptive joint body and the positioning hole are respectively connected with one end of the adaptive joint body and the positioning part, and the adaptive joint body and the other end of the adaptive joint body are respectively connected and communicated with a liquid branch pipe and a water cooling module.

The utility model has the advantages that the design of the adjustable liquid joint structure is adopted, the blind insertion effect is effectively achieved, the tolerance between the adaptive joint body and the joint body can be absorbed, the effects of leveling, correct alignment and stable connection of the adaptive joint body and the joint body can be adjusted in a floating manner, and the assembly is quick and convenient.

Drawings

Fig. 1A is an exploded perspective view of a fluid connector structure according to the present invention.

FIG. 1B is an exploded perspective view of a fluid coupling structure and adapter of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a schematic sectional view of the combination of the fluid connector structure and the adapter of the present invention.

FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view of the combination of a fluid connector structure and a fitting of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the liquid joint structure of the present invention applied to a water-cooling cabinet and connected to the adapter.

Description of reference numerals: an adapter 11; a liquid joint structure 13; fitting joint body,

joint body

111, 131; a coupling space 1112; a plug-in part 112; a connecting flow channel 1121; first, two

spools

1122, 1315; a spring member 1125; a positioning section 113; a substrate 115; first and

second flow channels

114, 132; front and

rear housing portions

1311, 1312; front and

rear flow passages

1313, 1314; a socket 134; openings 1341; positioning holes 1342; an elastic member 1343; a receptacle 1344; a guide slope 1345; a housing 136; a mount 1361; an upper housing 1362; a lower housing 1363; stops 1364; the gap 137; a water-cooling cabinet 2; a liquid manifold 21; a water cooling module 22; a liquid pipe 23; a server 24.

Detailed Description

The above objects, together with the structural and functional features thereof, are accomplished by the preferred embodiments according to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1A, fig. 1B, fig. 2A and fig. 2B, and fig. 3, an adjustable fluid joint structure 13 is applied to a water-cooling cabinet 2 installed in a server, the fluid joint structure 13 is separated from or combined with an adapter 11 installed on the water-cooling cabinet 2, and the adapter 11 has an adapter body 111 and a positioning portion 113. The liquid joint structure 13 includes a joint body 131, a receiving member 134 and a housing 136, the housing 136 is a hollow frame and is composed of a single component or a plurality of components, in this embodiment, the housing 136 is composed of an upper housing 1362 and a lower housing 1363, as shown in the figure, an upper side and a lower side of the receiving member 134 are covered by the upper housing 1362 in a reversed-u shape and the lower housing 1363 in a reversed-u shape, and a gap 137 is formed between the lower side of the receiving member 134 and the lower housing 1363, the gap 137 is used for floating and adjusting a space in which the receiving member 134 can move up and down in the housing 136. And a stopper 1364 is connected to an (inner) side of the upper and

lower housings

1362, 1363 to abut against a rear side of the receiving member 134 to form an elastic member 1343 therein.

The receiving member 134 is a seat body and is provided with an opening 1341, a positioning hole 1342, a plurality of elastic members 1343 and a plurality of accommodating portions 1344, wherein the front center of the receiving member 134 is provided with the opening 13141 for disposing the connector body 131, the positioning hole 1342 is disposed below the adjacent opening 1341, in this embodiment, the opening 1341 penetrates through the front and rear centers of the receiving member 134 in the coaxial direction with the adaptive connector body 111 for disposing the connector body 131, the positioning hole 1342 penetrates through the front side of the receiving member 134 in the coaxial direction with the positioning portion 113, the positioning hole 1342 is used for inserting and positioning the positioning portion 113, a guiding inclined plane 1345 is obliquely formed towards the positioning hole 1342 at the opening of the positioning hole 1342, and the guiding inclined plane 1345 is used for guiding the positioning portion 113 to move towards the positioning hole 1342. In addition, in practical implementation of the present invention, a fixing member 1361 is disposed outside the upper casing 1362 of the casing 136, and the fixing member 1361 is used to be connected and fixed to a server 24 of the water-cooling cabinet 2, so that the fluid joint structure 13 can be stabilized on the server 24.

The receiving portion 134 has a plurality of receiving portions 1344 disposed on at least two outer sides thereof, in this embodiment, the plurality of receiving portions 1344 can be selected to be a hole (e.g., a concave hole), but can also be selected to be any one of a groove, a cavity and a convex end or other various forms capable of being combined without being bound to the plurality of elastic members 1343. The accommodating portions 1344 are respectively disposed on the upper side, the left side and the right side of the receiving member 134 and are perpendicular to the openings 1341, the elastic members 1343 are spring members with elastic deformation and support functions, the elastic members 1343 are selectively disposed on an outer peripheral side (i.e., the upper side, the left side and the right side) and a rear side of the receiving member 134, and in specific implementation, the elastic members can be disposed on the outer peripheral side of the receiving member 134.

One end of the elastic members 1343 is received and fixed on the receiving portions 1344 (i.e., the receiving portions 1344 located at the upper side, the left side and the right side), and the other end of the elastic members 1343 is respectively abutted to the upper inner side, the left inner side and the right inner side of the housing 136, wherein one of the elastic members 1343 is sleeved on the rear end of the connector body 131 in the opening 1341 and abutted to the blocking portion 1364. The receiving member 134 is suspended and properly (centered) in the housing 136 by the plurality of elastic members 1343, that is, the receiving member 134 is supported in the housing 136 by the plurality of elastic members 1343 to be in a floating state, and the receiving member 134 can move elastically (i.e., can move elastically in a multi-dimensional direction in the housing 136) up and down (including obliquely up and obliquely down), front and back (including obliquely front and obliquely back) or left and right (including obliquely left and obliquely right) in the housing 136 to absorb the tolerance generated when the connector body 131 is combined with the adapter body 111. The connector body 131 and the adapter body 111 are shown as a quick connector in this embodiment, but not limited thereto, which can have the function of quick connection or quick release.

The one end of the adapter body 131 and the positioning hole 1342 are respectively connected to one end of the adapter body 111 and the positioning portion 113, and the receiving member 134 is inserted into the positioning hole 1342 along the positioning portion 113 of the adapter body 111 along the guiding slope 1345 contacting the positioning hole 1342 (as shown in fig. 2A), so as to adjust the adapter body 111 and the adapter body 131 to be connected on the same axis (i.e. on the same axis) by floating elasticity (as shown in fig. 2B), so that a first flow channel 114 in the adapter body 111 is connected to a second flow channel 132 in the adapter body 131. Therefore, the joint body 131 of the present invention absorbs the manufacturing tolerance and the assembly tolerance of the adapter body 111 and the joint body 131 by the elastic deformation of the plurality of elastic members 1343 of the receiving member 134, so as to adjust the effect of the adapter body 111 and the joint body 131 to be aligned flush and connected fast on the same axis by floating elasticity.

With reference to fig. 1B, 2A and 2B, the specific structure of the adapter 11 and the fluid connector 13 will be described in detail.

The adapter 11 includes the adapter body 111, a substrate 115 and the positioning portion 113, in this embodiment, the positioning portion 113 is a long positioning pin, the positioning portion 113 and the adapter body 111 are disposed adjacent to each other, and in this embodiment, the adapter body 111 and the positioning portion 113 are disposed on the substrate 115 adjacent to each other. However, in practical applications, the substrate 115 may be a portion integrally extending outward from the outer periphery of the adapter body 111.

The adapter body 111 has the first flow channel 114, an inserting portion 112 and a combining space 1112, the first flow channel 114 penetrates through the front end and the rear end of the adapter body 111, the combining space 1112 is disposed in one end of the adapter body 111, and opposite to the first flow channel 114, the combining space 1112 is used for accommodating and connecting one end of the adapter body 131, the inserting portion 112 is disposed in the combining space 1112, one end of the inserting portion 112 is connected to the inside of the adapter body 111 in the combining space 1112, and the other end of the inserting portion 112 protrudes outward from one end of the inserting portion 112 to the outside of the combining space 1112 for being inserted into the corresponding adapter body 131 for connection.

The inserting portion 112 has a connecting flow channel 1121, a spring element 1125 and a first valve element 1122, the connecting flow channel 1121 is connected to the first flow channel 114, the first valve element 1122 is disposed in the connecting flow channel 1121, the first valve element 1122 is used to control the connecting flow channel 1121 to be connected to the first flow channel 114 or not to be connected to the first flow channel 114, the spring element 1125 is disposed in the first flow channel 114, one end of the spring element 1125 abuts against the rear end of the first valve element 1122, and the other end of the spring element 1125 abuts against a platform of the middle inner wall of the adapting connector body 111 protruding toward the center of the first flow channel 114.

In addition, the joint body 131 includes a front casing portion 1311, a rear casing portion 1312, and the second flow channel 132, wherein one end of the front casing portion 1311 and one end of the rear casing portion 1312 are respectively connected to the combining space 1112 of the fitting body 111 and a liquid pipe 23 (such as a water pipe), the other end of the front casing portion 1311 and the other end of the rear casing portion 1312 are respectively inserted into the opening 1341 and are butted with each other, and an elastic member 1343 sleeved on the rear casing portion 1312 is used for providing axial tolerance absorption to achieve adjustment of an axial distance (gap), or providing a thrust to push the joint body 131 to advance toward the fitting body 111, so that the two joints (the fitting body 111 and the joint body 131) can achieve the effect of pressing, connecting and combining.

A front flow channel 1313 and a second valve core 1315 are disposed in the front housing portion 1311, the second valve core 1315 is disposed in the front flow channel 1313, the second valve core 1315 is abutted against the first valve core 1122 to control the front flow channel 1313 to communicate with the connection flow channel 1121 (as shown in fig. 2B), or the second valve core 1315 is not abutted against the first valve core 1122 to control the front flow channel 1313 not to communicate with the connection flow channel 1121 (as shown in fig. 2A), a rear flow channel 1314 is disposed in the rear housing portion 1312, and the front flow channel 1313 communicates with the rear flow channel 1314 and jointly defines the second flow channel 132. Therefore, when the adapter body 111 and the connector body 131 are inserted in one direction toward each other, the positioning portion 113 of the adapter body 111 is guided to move and insert toward the positioning hole 1342 along the guiding inclined plane 1345 in the positioning hole 1342 contacting the connector body 131 (as shown in fig. 2A), and the connector body 131 floats downward (or upward, leftward, rightward, forward, or backward) in the housing 136 by the elastic deformation of the plurality of elastic members 1343 of the receiving member 134 to adjust the position (e.g., height) of the connector body 131 to be flush with the position (e.g., height) of the adapter body 111, so that the adapter body 111 and the connector body 131 can be quickly inserted on the same axis (as shown in fig. 2B), thereby achieving the blind insertion effect, and absorbing the assembly tolerance to achieve the effects of smooth assembly, correct alignment and stable combination.

Referring to fig. 1A, fig. 1B and fig. 3, in the practical implementation of the present invention, a plurality of liquid joint structures 13 and a plurality of adapter joints 11 are installed on a liquid pipeline (including a liquid branch pipe 21 and a liquid pipe 23) of a water-cooling cabinet 2, and each adapter joint 11 and each liquid joint structure 13 form a blind-mate joint, wherein the water-cooling cabinet 2 has a plurality of pull-out servers 24 and a plurality of liquid branch pipes 21, the plurality of liquid branch pipes 21 are erected at two sides of the water-cooling cabinet 2, a substrate 115 of each adapter joint 11 is fixed on each liquid branch pipe 21, and the other end of the adapter body 111 is connected and communicated with the liquid branch pipe 21. Each server 24 is provided with two water cooling modules 22 (such as water cooling heads) attached to a corresponding heat source (such as a cpu), and the two water cooling modules 22 are connected and communicated with the other ends of two sets of connector bodies 131 provided on the respective servers through a plurality of liquid pipes 23 (such as water pipes), so that when each layer of the servers 24 is inserted into the water cooling cabinet 2, the connector bodies 131 and the adapter bodies 111 provided on the liquid manifold 21 are adjusted to be flush with each other in the housing 136 by the elastic deformation of the plurality of elastic members 1343 of the receiving members 134 of the connector bodies 131 on the respective servers 24, and the connector bodies 131 and the adapter bodies 111 can be connected and communicated with each other relatively and quickly.

Therefore, the design of the adjustable fluid joint structure 13 of the present invention can effectively achieve the blind-mate effect, and can also absorb the tolerance between the adapter body 111 and the joint body 131 to further float and adjust the two to be flush and correctly aligned and stably connected, and the assembly is fast and convenient.

Claims

1. An adjustable fluid coupling structure, comprising:

a housing which is a hollow frame;

the bearing piece is provided with an opening on the front side, a positioning hole is arranged below the opening, a plurality of elastic pieces are arranged on the outer peripheral side of the bearing piece, and the bearing piece can be arranged in the shell in a hanging manner by virtue of the plurality of elastic pieces; and

a connector body disposed in the opening, wherein the connector body is elastically adjusted in the housing in a floating manner up and down or left and right by the plurality of elastic members of the receiving member.

2. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: at least two outer sides of the bearing piece are provided with a plurality of containing parts, one ends of the plurality of elastic pieces are contained on the plurality of containing parts, and the other ends of the plurality of elastic pieces are butted with at least two inner sides of the shell.

3. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: the rear side of the bearing piece is sleeved with an elastic piece at the rear end of the joint body in the opening.

4. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: an upper side and a lower side of the bearing piece are covered by the shell, a gap is formed between the lower side of the bearing piece and the shell, and the shell is composed of a single component or a plurality of components.

5. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: the joint body is a quick joint.

6. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: the plurality of elastic members are spring members.

7. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: the connector body is elastically adjusted in a front-back floating manner in the shell through the plurality of elastic pieces of the bearing piece.

8. The adjustable fluid coupling structure of claim 1, wherein: the shell is connected to a water cooling cabinet, an adaptive joint is arranged on the water cooling cabinet, the adaptive joint is provided with an adaptive joint body and a positioning portion arranged adjacent to the adaptive joint body, one end of the adaptive joint body and the positioning hole are respectively connected with one end of the adaptive joint body and the positioning portion, and the adaptive joint body and the other end of the adaptive joint body are respectively connected and communicated with a liquid branch pipe and a water cooling module.