Point-to-point miniature coax connector

• US 4,163,598 A
• Filed: 05/17/1978
• Issued: 08/07/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AMP Limited
• Original Assignee: AMP Limited
• Inventors: Huber, John H., Bianchi, Edward A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jones, DeWalden W.
• Application Number:
  US05/906,534
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• Field of Search: 339/107, 339/18 B, 339/99 R, 339/128, 339/217 S, 339/217 R, 339/217 TF
• US Class Current: 439/459
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/506 assembled by snap action of the parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6592 the conductive member being a shielded cable
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/242 the contact members being plates having a single slot

Abstract

The disclosure relates to an assembly of electrical contacts with a center conductor and a ground conductor on a coaxial cable, the assembly including further a one-piece housing having two parts hinged to each other for closure together, thereby terminating the conductors to the contacts and providing an enclosure for the terminated conductors. The contacts protrude from the housing for pluggable connection into apertures of a printed circuit board.

Claims

1. In a container for attachment to a coaxial cable having a pair of electrical contacts secured respectively to a center conductor and a ground conductor of the cable and adapted for pluggable conection into a matrix of substrate apertures lined with conductive material, the improvement comprising:

a dielectric housing formed in two sections hinged together for enclosure on said cable,

each contact having a slit plate conductor receiving portion and a portion protruding from said housing in the form of a central blade flanked on either side by spring blade portions integrally joined to said center blade and flaring outwardly toward their free ends away from said center blade, whereby both flanking blades are progressively flattened from their flaring configurations flatly against said center blade upon pluggable connection of said contact protruding portions into said substrate apertures.

2. The structure as recited in claim 1, wherein, one section of said connector includes a side opening having an undercut surface, the other section of said connector includes a latch portion entering said opening and lockably engaged with said undercut surface, said cable being displaced into said opening by said latch and being compressibly gripped by said latch and against a side wall of said opening.