Connector for coaxial cable having a helically corrugated inner conductor

• US 5,137,470 A
• Filed: 06/04/1991
• Issued: 08/11/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andrew LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Andrew Corporation (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Inventors: Doles, Connie S.
• Primary Examiner(s): PIRLOT, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US07/710,017
• Time in Patent Office: 434 Days
• Field of Search: 439/578-585, 439/675, 439/322, 439/98, 439/99, 439/426, 439/427, 439/805
• US Class Current: 439/578
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/564 Corrugated cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/566 Hollow cables

Abstract

A connector assembly has a cylindrical inner contact member with a threaded outer surface to match the helical corrugations of the inner conductor of the coaxial cable so that the inner contact member can be threaded into the helically corrugated inner conductor. A flaring ring and a clamping member have opposed bevelled surfaces for engaging the respective inner and outer surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable. A body member draws and holds the bevelled surface of the flaring ring and the clamping member together against opposite surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable.

Claims

1. A connector assembly for a coaxial cable having an outer conductor and a helically corrugated inner conductor, the connector assembly comprising:

a cylindrical inner contact member having a threaded outer surface to match the helical corrugations of the inner conductor of the coaxial cable so that said contact member can be threaded into the helically corrugated inner conductor, the outside diameter of at least a portion of said inner contact member being slightly greater than the inside diameter of the mating portion of said inner conductor so that the threading of said inner contact member into said inner conductor forms a tight press-fit between said inner contact member and said inner conductor;

a flaring ring and a clamping member having opposed bevelled surfaces for engaging the respective inner and outer surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable; and

a body member having means for drawing and holding the bevelled surfaces of said flaring ring and said clamping member together against opposite surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable.

2. The connector assembly of claim 1 wherein said inner contact member has a head portion which forms diametrically opposed flat surfaces to facilitate the threading of said contact member into said inner conductor.

3. The connector assembly of claim 1 which includes and inner conductor and a dielectric spacer which encircles the inner conductor so as to center it respect to the outer conductor.

4. The connector assembly of claim 1 wherein the clamping and body members include integral telescoping sleeves with cooperating threaded surfaces which form said drawing and holding means.

5. The connector assembly of claim 1 wherein said outer conductor has a major inside diameter at the crests of the corrugations therein and a minor inside diameter at the roots of the corrugations, and said inside diameter of said flaring ring is smaller than the minor inside diameter of the helically corrugated outer conductor.

6. The connector assembly of claim 1 wherein said outer conductor has a major inside diameter at the crests of the corrugations therein and a minor inside diameter at the roots of the corrugations, and the inside diameter of the bevelled surface of said flaring ring is at least as small as the minor inside diameter of said outer conductor, and the inside diameter of a portion of the flaring ring is larger than the minor inside diameter of said outer conductor.

7. The connector assembly of claim 1 wherein the bevelled surface of said flaring ring is bevelled at a shallower angle at the end of the beveled surface which initially engages said outer conductor than along the remainder of the beveled surface.

8. A connector assembly for a coaxial cable having an outer conductor and a helically corrugated inner conductor, the connector assembly comprising:

a cylindrical inner contact member having a threaded outer surface to match the helical corrugations of the inner conductor of the coaxial cable so that said contact member can be threaded into the helically corrugated inner conductor, the outside diameter of at least a portion of said inner contact member being slightly greater than the inside diameter of the mating portion of said inner conductor so that the threading of said inner contact member into said inner conductor forms a tight press-fit between said inner contact member and said inner conductor;

a flaring ring and a clamping member having opposed bevelled surfaces for engaging the respective inner and outer surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable, the end of said flaring ring opposite the bevelled surface of said ring being threaded into said body member; and

a body member having means for drawing and holding the bevelled surfaces of said flaring ring and said clamping member together against opposite surfaces of the outer conductor of the cable.