Coaxial ribbon cable connector

• US 4,040,704 A
• Filed: 06/30/1976
• Issued: 08/09/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Huber, John Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bicks, Mark S.
• Application Number:
  US05/701,266
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 339/97 R, 339/97 P, 339/98, 339/99 R, 339/17 F, 339/176 M, 339/176 MF, 339/176 MP, 339/258
• US Class Current: 439/400
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/596 Connection of the shield to an additional grounding conductor, e.g. drain wire
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/675 with contacts having at least a slotted plate for penetration of cable insulation, e.g. insulation displacement contacts for round conductor flat cables

Abstract

This invention relates to a connector for multi-unit coaxial cable of the type wherein each center conductor has a individual shield and each shield has a separate drain wire. More particularly, the connector includes a plurality of contact members each of which consists of an opposing cantilever contact spring section for mating with contact elements of other electrical circuits, a dual in-line cantilever, torsion bar terminating section for receiving either the coaxial cable center conductor or the drain wire, a housing to hold the plurality of contact members and a strain relief clamp member.

Claims

1. A connector for terminating ribbon coaxial cable of the type having a plurality of signal carrying wires and parallel drain wires, which comprises:

a. a housing of insulating material having a plurality of cavities extending from front to back thereof, said cavities being arranged in upper and lower rows, and further opening out vertically and rearwardly at the rear end of the housing to provide contact openings with the contact openings in the upper row being opened vertically upwardly and the contact openings in the lower row opening vertically downwardly; and

b. a plurality of conductive contact members positioned in the cavities, each contact member comprising;

i. an elongated flat base having first and second ends;

ii. means on the first end for engaging contact elements on other electrical circuits;

iii. a first terminal formed at and from the second end of the base, said end being bent upwardly to provide a vertical portion, a wire-receiving slot extending through the vertical portion and into a portion of the adjacent horizontal base; and

iv. a second terminal having vertical and horizontal portions relative to the base, a wire-receiving slot extending through the vertical and into the horizontal portions, said second terminal being positioned inwardly from the first terminal and in overlying relation to the base and attached thereto by a section of material extending from the horizontal portion to a side of the base so that the second terminal may be moved independently from the first terminal and the base.