Coaxial connector plug

• US 4,412,717 A
• Filed: 06/21/1982
• Issued: 11/01/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AMP Limited
• Original Assignee: AMP Limited
• Inventors: Monroe, Kevin T.
• Primary Examiner(s): McQuade, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Austin, Paula
• Application Number:
  US06/390,427
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 339/177 R, 339/177 E, 339/91 P, 339/94 C, 339/126 J, 339/258 R, 339/258 A, 339/276 T
• US Class Current: 439/582
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/0518 Connection to outer conductor by crimping or by crimping ferrule

Abstract

A coaxial connector comprises a dielectric spacer captured in an inner shell. A forward part of the inner shell is secured within a tubular section of a spring contact member with leaf spring contact members having contact sections extending axially along and spaced from a forward part of the dielectric spacer and bent back sections extending along the contact sections. An outer shell has a rear section crimpably secured onto the tubular section of the spring contact member and a forward section extending along the leaf spring contact members with the forward end being rolled in to serve as an entrance to the connector. A center contact is crimpable onto a center conductor of a stripped end of a coaxial cable, the crimped center contact is inserted into the dielectric spacer, and an outer conductor of the coaxial cable is crimped onto the inner shell.

Claims

1. A coaxial connector comprising:

a dielectric member having a bore extending therethrough;

a center contact member for disposition in said bore and for connection with a center conductor of a coaxial cable;

inner shell means hving a first section in which said dielectric member is positioned and a ferrule section on which an outer conductor of the coaxial cable is to be crimped;

spring contact means including a tubular section and spring contact section means, said tubular section extending about said first section of said inner shell means, said spring contact section means including leaf spring contact means extending parallel relative to the axis of the connector and leaf spring means bent back along respective ones of said leaf spring contact means;

outer shell means having a first member engaging said tubular section and a second member extending along said spring contact section means, a front end of said second member defining an entrance to said spring contact section means;

means between said first member and said tubular section securing said first member and said tubular section together; and

crimping ferrule member means for crimping the outer conductor onto said ferrule section.

2. A coaxial connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said ferrule section is coaxial with the axis of the connector and said center contact member is to be crimped onto the center conductor prior to being inserted into said bore.

3. A coaxial connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said ferrule section extends at a right angle relative to the axis of the first section, said center contact member includes a conductor-receiving section in alignment with the axis of said ferrule section.

4. A coaxial connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said leaf spring means are V-shaped and have tapered configurations.

5. A coaxial connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said front end is rolled inwardly.