Interface cable connection

• US 5,000,700 A
• Filed: 06/06/1990
• Issued: 03/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daiichi Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Daiichi Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kawatsu, Yasuhiro, Masubuchi, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US07/534,031
• Time in Patent Office: 286 Days
• Field of Search: 439/620, 333/181-185
• US Class Current: 439/620.03
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/7197 with filters integral with or fitted onto contacts, e.g. tubular filters

Abstract

An interface cable connection is used for connecting between electronic appliances, particularly appliances associated with a computer. The connection includes a hood covering the connector. The connection is useful for preventing accidental electric shocks, filtering undesirable electromagnetic waves and facilitating connecting interface cables.

Claims

1. An interface cable connection comprising, a male and a female connector at forward ends of two interface cables, each of the connectors having an insulator tightly fitted in a forward end of the respective connector, and contacts embedded in the respective insulator, an annular conductor embedded in one of the insulators, and a hood made of an insulating material, said hood being separable from and covering one of the connectors and the interface cable connected to the connector, the hood having filter means provided therein, adjacent to but outside of the connector.

2. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said cable connection comprises fastening means having male screw threads and female screw threads, said male screw threads being formed in a metallic main body of the connector provided with the hood, and said female screw threads having an outer circumference provided with an insulating coating.

3. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said hood comprises a connector covering portion for covering the connector and a magnet enclosing portion for enclosing said filter means, and anchoring means provided between the connector covering portion and the magnet enclosing portion at an end of the magnet enclosing portion.

4. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 3, wherein said anchoring means is an inner diameter reduced portion whose inner diameter is at least equal to an outer diameter of the interface cable.

5. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 4, wherein said anchoring means is fixed to the interface cable with an adhesive.

6. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said hood is formed of an elastic material and has a connector covering portion for covering the connector, the inner diameter of said connector covering portion being slightly smaller than the outer diameter of a metallic main body of the connector.

7. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said hood is made of non-rigid polyvinyl chloride.

8. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said filter means is a cylindrical magnet having a center aperture through which the interface cable passes.

9. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 8, wherein said magnet is a ferrite core.

10. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said hood comprises a connector covering portion for covering one connector and an enlarged portion at a forward end of the connector covering portion for receiving fastening means for fastening the connector with the other connector.

11. An interface cable connection as set forth in claim 1, wherein said hood has a connector covering portion for covering the connector, said connector covering portion being formed with a screw-threaded aperture and a set screw threadly engaged in the screw-threaded aperture of the connector covering portion and having an inner end being urged against a metallic main body of the connector, thereby fixing the hood against the connector.