Coaxial plug connector

• US 6,692,286 B1
• Filed: 07/16/2002
• Issued: 02/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Huber + Suhner AG
• Original Assignee: Huber + Suhner AG
• Inventors: De Cet, Maurizio
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilman, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US10/111,215
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 439/350, 439/352, 439/357, 439/348, 439/578, 439/581, 439/675, 439/582
• US Class Current: 439/352
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6277 comprising annular latching means, e.g. ring snapping in an annular groove
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/40 specially adapted for high frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/545 Elbows

Abstract

The invention relates to a plug connector having a housing, which is open at a front side to enable the plugging in of a mating connector and has a channel extending therethrough. An inner conduct contact is isolated and arranged therein. Connecting means are used to mechanically connect the plug connector housing to the mating connector. The mating connector locks when it is plugged into the connecting means. The connecting means are shaped in such a manner that said agents subject the mating connector to an axial tension tensioning external conductor contact surface of said mating connector against an external conductor against an external conductor contact surface of the housing. The plug connector can be coupled with a mating connector very rapidly and securely and a reliable electrical contact is guaranteed between the external conductors.

Claims

1. A coaxial plug connector with a plug housing having an opening on a front side for inserting a mating connector and having a channel running through it, in which an inner conductor contact is located and isolated, with connecting means to mechanically connect the plug housing to the mating connector, wherein the mating connector is locked in position when it is inserted into the connecting means and the connecting means are configured to exert an axial clamping force on the mating connector configured to clamp an outer conductor contact surface of the mating connector against an outer conductor contact surface of the plug housing, whereby the connecting means have a radially expandable clamping sleeve configured to be locked with the mating connector during the connection on a clamping surface and divert a radial force on the clamping surface into an axial force component, whereby the outer conductor contact surfaces are clamped against each other.

2. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking sleeve is made of plastic.

3. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clamping sleeve is provided with at least one radial slot.

4. The plug connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the clamping sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve.

5. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clamping sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve.

6. The plug connector as claimed in claim 5, wherein the locking sleeve is axially movable and, in a working position, surrounds the clamping sleeve and exerts a force that is directed radially inward on the clamping sleeve.

7. The plug connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein the locking sleeve is axially secured in a retracted stand-by position.

8. The plug connector as claimed in claim 5, wherein the locking sleeve is axially secured in a retracted stand-by position.

9. The plug connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein the locking sleeve is detachably locked in the retracted position.

10. The plug connector as claimed in claim 9, wherein the locking sleeve, in a working position, is frictionally engaged with the clamping sleeve.

11. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mating connector has a rib that projects radially outward.

12. The plug connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the clamping sleeve is provided with at least one radial slot.

13. The plug connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the clamping sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve.

14. The plug connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the rib has an encircling clamping surface that is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the mating connector.

15. The plug connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein the clamping sleeve has gripping means on the front end configured to grip the rib of the mating connector from behind.

16. The plug connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein the clamping sleeve is provided with at least one radial slot.

17. The plug connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein the clamping sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve.

18. The plug connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the clamping sleeve has gripping means on the front end configured to grip the rib of the mating connector from behind.

19. The plug connector as claimed in claim 18, wherein the clamping sleeve is provided with at least one radial slot.

20. The plug connector as claimed in claim 18, wherein the clamping sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve.