Right-angle adaptor for coaxial jacks

• US 5,904,579 A
• Filed: 10/29/1997
• Issued: 05/18/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Spaulding, Mark G., McLean, Norris B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NASRI, JAVAID H
• Application Number:
  US08/960,689
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 439/63, 439/581, 439/582, 439/944
• US Class Current: 439/63
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/542 Adapters
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/944 Coaxial connector having circuit-interrupting provision effected by mating or having "dead" contact activated after mating

Abstract

A right angle adaptor for a straight coaxial jack having a jack body (10) and at least one jack terminal (48) extending axially from a base of the jack body. The adaptor includes an adaptor board having at least one jack terminal opening for receiving a jack terminal that extends axially from a base of a coaxial jack body. The adaptor board (200) has at least one adaptor terminal (48) mount, and a conductive path that electrically connects the adaptor terminal mount to a corresponding jack terminal opening in the adaptor board. At least one adaptor terminal has one end part electrically connected to an adaptor terminal mount on the adaptor board, and an opposite end part of the adaptor terminal extends substantially parallel to the adaptor board for connection with an outside board.

Claims

1. A right angle adaptor for a straight coaxial jack having a jack body and at least one jack terminal extending axially from a base of the jack body, said adaptor comprising:

an adaptor board having at least one jack terminal opening located and dimensioned to receive said jack terminal that extends axially from said base of said coaxial jack body;

said adaptor board having at least one adaptor terminal mount, and a conductive path that electrically connects the adaptor terminal mount to said corresponding jack terminal opening in the adaptor board; and

at least one adaptor terminal one end part of which is electrically connected to said adaptor terminal mount on the adaptor board, and an opposite end part of which extends substantially parallel to the board for engaging part of an outside board to which said jack terminal of the coaxial jack is to be connected.

2. A right angle adaptor for a coaxial jack according to claim 1, wherein said adaptor terminal mount is defined by an adaptor terminal opening formed a certain distance from the corresponding jack terminal opening in the adaptor board.

3. A right angle adaptor according to claim 1, wherein said adaptor board has at least one jack body mounting pin opening located and dimensioned to receive a mounting pin projecting axially from the jack body, an adaptor ground terminal mount, and a conductive path that electrically connects the ground terminal mount to the jack body mounting pin opening in the adaptor board.

4. A right angle adaptor according to claim 1, including an adaptor housing having an interior that conforms to the base of the of a coaxial jack body with the adaptor board fixed to said base.

5. A right angle adaptor according to claim 2, including a header block overlying said adaptor terminal opening on said adaptor board, and wherein said one end part of said adaptor terminal is supported by and projects behind said header block to engage said adaptor terminal opening, and said opposite end part of the adaptor terminal extends ahead of the header block substantially parallel to the adaptor board.

6. A right angle adaptor according to claim 4, wherein said adaptor housing has at least one mounting projection for engaging an outside board.

7. A right angle adaptor according to claim 4, wherein said adaptor housing includes an axial end wall having a circular cut out that subtends more than a 180 degree arc.

8. In combination;

a straight coaxial jack having a jack body and at least one jack terminal extending axially from a base of the jack body;

a right-angle adaptor joined to said jack, said adaptor comprising,

an adaptor board placed perpendicular to the axis of the jack body and having at least one jack terminal opening located and dimensioned to receive said jack terminal that extends from the base of said jack body;

said adaptor board having at least one adaptor terminal mount, and a conductive path that electrically connects the adaptor terminal mount to said corresponding jack terminal opening in the adaptor board; and

at least one adaptor terminal one end part of which is electrically connected to said adaptor terminal mount on the adaptor board, and an opposite end part of which extends substantially parallel to the board for engaging part of an outside board to which said jack terminal of the coaxial jack is to be connected.

9. The combination of claim 8, wherein said adaptor terminal mount is defined by an adaptor terminal opening formed a certain distance from the corresponding jack terminal opening in the adaptor board.

10. The combination of claim 8, wherein said jack body has an axially projecting mounting pin, and said adaptor board has at least one jack body mounting pin opening located and dimensioned to receive said mounting pin, an adaptor ground terminal mount, and a conductive path that electrically connects the ground terminal mount to the jack body mounting pin opening in the adaptor board.

11. The combination of claim 8, including an adaptor housing having an interior that conforms to said jack body with the adaptor board fixed to the base of the jack body.

12. The combination of claim 9, including a header block overlying said adaptor terminal opening on said adaptor board, and wherein said one end part of said adaptor terminal is supported by and projects behind said header block to engage said adaptor terminal opening, and said opposite end part of the adaptor terminal extends ahead of the header block substantially parallel to the adaptor board.

13. The combination of claim 11, wherein said adaptor housing has at least one mounting projection for engaging an outside board.

14. The combination of claim 11, wherein said adaptor housing includes an axial end wall having a circular cut out that subtends more than a 180 degree arc of a circumference of said jack body.