Contact securing sleeve for use with a coaxial cable

• US 6,394,840 B1
• Filed: 07/08/2000
• Issued: 05/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tyco Electronics Services GmbH (TE Connectivity Ltd. (United Kingdom))
• Original Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation (Meggitt PLC)
• Inventors: Lietz, Dieter, Neumeuer, Horst, Post, Lothar Andreas, Gassauer, Uwe
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Khiem
• Assistant Examiner(s): Prasad, Chandrika
• Application Number:
  US09/612,651
• Time in Patent Office: 689 Days
• Field of Search: 439/584,843,846,578,579,580,675,905
• US Class Current: 439/584
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6277 comprising annular latching means, e.g. ring snapping in an annular groove

Abstract

An electrical connector for coaxial cable having at least one contact with a contact region for connection to a mating contact and a connection region for connection to a coaxial cable, wherein the contact includes a peripheral groove; a contact-securing sleeve can be pushed onto the contact from an end face that has at least one latching arm which latches in the groove and at least one further latching element; and a casing with at least one receiving chamber for receiving the contact with the contact-securing sleeve, wherein the latching element of the contact-securing sleeve latches with a mating latching element of the casing and the receiving chamber holds the latching arm in the latched position.

Claims

1. An electrical connector for coaxial cable comprising at least one contact for connection to a mating contact, the connector having a mating face at a first end and an opposed cable termination end for connection to a coaxial cable, wherein the contact includes a peripheral groove having a shoulder directed toward the mating face;

a contact-securing sleeve pushed onto the contact, having at least one latching arm which latches in the peripheral groove and which cooperates with the shoulder to limit movement of the contact-securing sleeve away from the mating face, the contact-securing sleeve having at least one further latching element; and

a casing having at least one receiving chamber for receiving the contact with the contact-securing sleeve thereupon, wherein the latching element of the contact-securing sleeve latches with a mating latching element of the casing and the receiving chamber holds the latching arm in the latched position.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1, characterised in that the contact-securing sleeve comprises two mutually opposed latching arms.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 1, characterised in that the contact-securing sleeve comprises three peripherally distributed latching arms.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 2, characterised in that the contact-securing sleeve comprises a ring to which the latching arms and the latching element are attached.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 4, characterized in that the contact-securing sleeve can be pushed, ring first, over the contact.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 1, characterised in that the groove comprises a shoulder, orientated toward the end face of the contact, that interacts with a latching projection on the latching arm and prevents the contact-securing sleeve from being pushed further onto the coaxial cable.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 4, characterized in that the ring conforms to the shape of the contact.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 1, characterised in that the casing comprises a coding rib.

9. The electrical connector according to claim 1, characterised in that the contact-securing sleeve