Antenna Connector

• US 5,293,177 A
• Filed: 03/26/1992
• Issued: 03/08/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hideki, Sakurai, Kaoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US07/858,120
• Time in Patent Office: 712 Days
• Field of Search: 343/906, 343/905, 343/713, 439/578, 439/579, 439/581, 439/582, 439/585, 439/394, 439/916
• US Class Current: 343/906
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/52 mounted in or to a panel or structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/0515 Connection to a rigid planar substrate, e.g. printed circuit board
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/916 Antenna

Abstract

An antenna connector comprises a first housing for housing an end of a coaxial cable, first and second contact to be connected to a core wire and a shield wire, respectively, of the coaxial cable housed in the first housing, a second housing for housing the first housing, and a pair of conductive feeding metal plates. The feeding metal plates are arranged on and secured to a conductive antenna pattern formed on an insulative substrate and each of them has a first holder for receiving and holding the second housing and a second holder for receiving and holding the first and second contacts. When the first housing is housed in the second housing, the first and second contacts are engaged with and held by the second holder to plugably connect the coaxial cable to the antenna without disturbing an impedance matching and with a sufficient mechanical strength.

Claims

1. An antenna connector comprising:

a first housing for housing an end of a feeding cable;

first and second contacts to be connected to a core wire and a shield wire, respectively, of the cable housed in said first housing;

a second housing for housing said first housing; and

a pair of conductive feeding metal plates being arranged on and secured to a conductive antenna pattern formed on an insulative substrate and each having first hold means for receiving and holding said second housing and second hold means for receiving and holding said first and second contacts, wherein said feeding metal plates form together a general T-shape and ends of branches thereof are soldered to said conductive antenna pattern.

2. An antenna connector according to claim 1 wherein the branches of said feeding metal plates each has a kink or crank-shaped groove formed to outwardly protrude across the end of the branch.

3. An antenna connector according to claim 2 wherein said second hold means is formed closely to opposite sides of said feeding metal plates.

4. An antenna connector according to claim 2 wherein the ends of the branches of said feeding metal plates each has a projection facing said conductive antenna pattern.

5. An antenna connector according to claim 4 wherein said second hold means is formed closely to opposite sides of said feeding metal plates.

6. An antenna connector according to claim 1 wherein said second hold means is formed closely to opposite sides of said feeding metal plates.