Multi-conductor coaxial electrical connector

• US 3,154,360 A
• Filed: 10/29/1962
• Issued: 10/27/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Paul J. Plishner
• Original Assignee: Paul J. Plishner
• Inventors: Plishner, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US04/233,606
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• US Class Current: 439/335
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/58 Contacts spaced along longitudinal axis of engagement

Claims

1. AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMPRISING A SOCKET MEMBER HAVING AN ELONGATED LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING CAVITY FORMED THEREIN, A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED MUTUALLY INSULATED FIRST CONTACT ELEMENTS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CAVITY, A MATING PLUG MEMBER SLIDABLY REGISTERING WITH SAID CAVITY BETWEEN ADVANCED AND RETRACTED POSITIONS AND HAVING A LEADING END DIRECTED TOWARD THE BASE OF SAID CAVITY, A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED, MUTUALLY INSULATED SECOND CONTACT ELEMENTS DISPOSED ALONG SAID PLUG MEMBER, MEANS MAINTAINING A PREDETERMINED ANGULAR ORIENTATION BETWEEN SAID PLUG AND SOCKET MEMBERS DURING RELATIVE SLIDING THEREOF AND PERMITTING RELATIVE ROTATION THEREOF AT SAID PLUG MEMBER ADVANCED POSITION, SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONTACT ELEMENTS BEING OUT OF ENGAGEMENT AT SAID PREDETERMINED ORIENTATION AND IN ENGAGEMENT UPON ROTATION IN A SINGLE PREDETERMINED SENSE FROM SAID PREDETERMINED RELATIVE ORIENTATION TO A CLOSED CONTACT POSITION, AND SEPARABLE ENGAGABLE CONDUCTOR COLLAR MEMBERS AND CONDUCTOR PIN ELEMENTS COAXIAL WITH AND MOUNTED AT THE LEADING END OF SAID PLUG MEMBER AND AT THE BASE OF SAID CAVITY AND DEFINING A COAXIAL CONNECTOR, SAID COAXIAL CONNECTOR BEING IN A COUPLED CONDITION WHEN SAID PLUG IS IN ITS CAVITY ADVANCED POSITION.