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Quick connect/disconnect microwave connector

  • US 4,941,846 A
  • Filed: 05/31/1989
  • Issued: 07/17/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A microwave connector for quick connection to and disconnection from a microwave coupling having externally facing ridges, comprising:

  • a housing body;

    a microwave line segment having a conductor that terminates at a forward end, said microwave line segment being mounted to the housing body and being movable relative thereto between forward and rearward positions;

    the forward end of the microwave line segment being shaped so as to be able to be pushed onto the microwave coupling to establish a microwave connection between the microwave line segment and the microwave coupling;

    said housing body having a plurality of fingers with inwardly-facing ridge portions that interlock with the externally-facing ridges on the microwave coupling, said fingers being moveable from an open position to an interlock position that is towards the microwave line segment, with the space between the fingers being sufficient to receive the microwave coupling to enable it to establish a microwave connection with the microwave line segment while bringing the externally-facing ridges in juxtaposed relationship with the ridges on the fingers;

    an outer sleeve mounted over the housing body and its fingers and being moveable relative thereto in forward and rearward directions, said sleeve having an inwardly-facing cam surface that in one rearward position of the sleeve enables the fingers to move to their open positions and in another forward position forces the fingers to move inwardly so that their inwardly-facing ridge portion interlock with the externally-facing ridges of a microwave coupling that is in microwave connection with the microwave line segment;

    means for biasing the microwave line segment towards its forward position with respect to the outer sleeve and said fingers towards their open position;

    the forward end of the microwave line segment being located so as to form an abutting microwave connection when forward motion of the sleeve causes the fingers to become interlocked with the ridges on a microwave coupling;

    whereby said microwave connector can be quickly-connected to and quickly disconnected from the microwave coupling by respectively pushing and pulling on the outer sleeve.

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