UNIVERSAL FEMALE COAXIAL CONNECTOR

• US 3,858,156 A
• Filed: 12/19/1973
• Issued: 12/31/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Michael Zarro
• Original Assignee: Michael Zarro
• Inventors: Zarro, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Feinberg, Craig R.
• Application Number:
  US05/426,223
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: 339/32,33,69-73,89,177
• US Class Current: 439/221
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/40 specially adapted for high frequency

Abstract

A novel female coaxial connector adapted for universal use as a push-on or quick-disconnect connector and as a threaded connector, embodying a novel outer-conductor combined threaded and resilient sleeve terminal section that, with a common resilient, inner-conductor, clip-like contact means, provides for universal connection with both types of connectors.

Claims

1. A universal female coaxial connector for both push-on and threaded connection usage, having, in combination, a cylindrical outer conductor member extending from one side of a conductive flange and interNally containing a resilient inner-conductor contact means insulatingly mounted therein;

inner-conductor terminal means insulatingly carried within said member, connected to said inner-conductor contact means, and extending from the other side of said flange;

said member terminating beyond said contact means in a threaded section adapted to permit threaded attachment to connectors having external outer-conductor interiorly threaded terminal means, and carrying between said threaded section and said one side of the flange an external sleeve containing resilient flap means extending outwardly therefrom for enabling push-on connection with the interior of connectors having interiorly smooth external outer-conductor terminal means of inner diameter slightly greater than that of the outer diameter of the threads of said threaded section;

the threads of the said threaded section serving as a stop for the said sleeve, and the outer conductor member serving as a limiting stop for the depth of threaded connection of the threaded section within threaded terminal means; and

the said inner-conductor contact means receiving male inner-conductor terminals of all said terminal means, resiliently to engage and to permit disengagement therefrom.

2. A connector as claimed in claim 1 and in which said threaded section is substantially one-third the length of said member, and said sleeve is substantially two-thirds said length.

3. A connector as claimed in claim 1 and in which said sleeve comprises a resilient slit cylinder.

4. A connector as claimed in claim 1 and in which said depth is adjusted to enable adequate inner-conductor insertion of a male connector within said contact means.