Electrical ground connection between a coaxial connector and a microwave circuit bottom plate

• US 5,550,521 A
• Filed: 01/25/1994
• Issued: 08/27/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alcatel Telspace
• Original Assignee: Alcatel Telspace
• Inventors: Maquet, Freddy, Bernaud, Maurice
• Primary Examiner(s): GENSLER, PAUL L
• Application Number:
  US08/186,442
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 439/63, 439/386, 439/507, 439/513, 439/578, 439/581, 174/50.52, 174/59, 174/60, 333/33, 333/246, 333/260
• US Class Current: 333/260
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0018 with provisions to reduce aperture leakages in walls, e.g. terminals, connectors, cables

Abstract

An electronic circuit is implemented on a substrate on an electrically conductive bottom plate fixed into an electromagnetic shield box. A coaxial socket is fixed to an outside wall of the shield box, the core of the socket being inserted in a hole in the wall in order to be connected to the electronic circuit. The socket has a grounding surface facing the wall. The grounding contact between the socket and the bottom plate is made by way of an electrically conductive ring coaxial with the core, insulated from the core and simultaneously in electrical contact with the grounding surface of the socket and the bottom plate when the socket is fixed to the wall of the box.

Claims

1. A system for making an electrical connection between an electronic circuit implemented on a substrate on an electrically conductive bottom plate fixed into an electromagnetic shield box and a coaxial connector fixed to an outside wall of said shield box, the center conductor of said coaxial connector being inserted in a hole in said wall in order to be connected to said electronic circuit, said coaxial connector having a grounding surface facing said wall and an electrically conductive ring coaxial with said center conductor,

the grounding contact between said coaxial connector and said bottom plate is made axially of said electrically conductive ring, said electrically conductive ring being insulated from said center conductor and simultaneously in electrical contact axially with said grounding surface of said coaxial connector and said bottom plate with said coaxial connector being fixed to said wall of said box.

2. System according to claim 1 wherein said ring cooperates with an electrically conductive spring washer coaxial with said center conductor between said grounding surface and said ring.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said ring is elastic.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein said elastic ring is made from a synthetic material charged with metal.

5. System according to claim 1 wherein said coaxial conductor is fixed to said wall of said box by screws and each screw cooperates with a spring washer.

6. System according to claim 1 wherein said box has a flange to which said substrate is fixed and having a notch at the location of said hole in said wall to provide access to a microstrip access line of said electronic circuit.

7. System according to claim 1 wherein said ring has a flat adapted to be soldered to said bottom plate.

8. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrically conductive ring includes first and second surfaces, each of which being transverse of an axis of said ring, said first and second surfaces simultaneously physically and electrically contacting said grounding surface and said bottom plate, respectively.