Coaxial connector

• US 3,199,061 A
• Filed: 01/31/1963
• Issued: 08/03/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest H. Johnson, William E. Voigt
• Original Assignee: Ernest H. Johnson, William E. Voigt
• Inventors: Johnson, Ernest H., Voigt, William E.
• Application Number:
  US04/255,235
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• US Class Current: 439/429
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 1/045 Coaxial joints
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/40 specially adapted for high frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/566 Hollow cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/05 for coaxial cables

Claims

1. A HIGH-FREQUENCY CONNECTOR COMPRISING:

(A) AN OUTER SHELL HAVING THEREIN A TUBULAR OUTER CONDUCTOR CONNECTOR PORTION AND MEANS FOR CLAMPINGLY SECURING SAID TUBULAR PORTION TO THE END PORTION OF A CABLE OUTER CONDUCTOR OF SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME INNER DIMENSION AS SAID TUBULAR PORTION TO FORM AN OUTER CONDUCTOR JOINT OF SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS INNER DIMENSION, (B) AT LEAST ONE ANNULAR INSULATOR WITHIN THE SHELL, AND (C) A CENTER CONDUCTOR SUPPORTED BY THE INSULATOR, (D) THE REARWARD PORTION OF THE CENTER CONDUCTOR HAVING THEREON AN EXTERIOR THREADED TERMINATION FOR SCREW-IN ATTACHMENT TO THE CORRESPONDING CONDUCTOR OF A CABLE, AND (E) A CONICAL FLARE, A MAXIMUM DIAMETER EXCEEDING THE ROOT DIAMETER OF THE THREADS ON THE TERMINATION, BY AN AMOUNT SMALL COMPARED TO THE CREST DIAMETER OF THE THREADS ON THE TERMINATION, AT THE INNER END OF THE TERMINATION, SO THAT TIGHTENING OF THE SCREW-IN CONNECTION PRODUCES A FORCE FIT OF THE LEADING PORTION OF THE CABLE CONDUCTOR ON THE CONICAL FLARE TO ESTABLISH FIRM CONTACT AROUND THE ENTIRE CIRCUMFERENCE AND FORM AN INNER CONDUCTOR JOINT OF SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS OUTER DIMENSION.