Coaxial connector with a switch

• US 6,761,571 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2002
• Issued: 07/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Hida, Kohei
• Primary Examiner(s): HYEON, HAE M
• Application Number:
  US10/270,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20030077931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 439/188, 439/581, 439/944, 439/63, 200/51.1
• US Class Current: 439/188
• 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 24/46 comprising switches
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/50 mounted on a PCB [Printed Circuit Board]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/944 Coaxial connector having circuit-interrupting provision effected by mating or having "dead" contact activated after mating

Abstract

A coaxial connector with a switch comprises an insulative housing (22) having an opening (35), an outer conductor (23) provided outside the insulative housing (22), a fixed terminal (24) having a contact portion (40), and a movable terminal (25) having a fixed portion (42) and a cantilevered flexible portion (44). The flexible portion (44) has at least one cut-off portion (47). When a central conductor (29) of a coaxial plug (26) is plugged into the opening (35), the flexible portion (44) separates from the contact portion (40) to switch a signal circuit.

Claims

1. A coaxial connector with a switch to be mounted on a board, comprising:

an insulative housing having an opening for receiving a central conductor of a coaxial plug;

an outer conductor provided outside said insulative housing and engaging with an outer conductor of said plug such that said coaxial plug is attached to or detached from said coaxial connector;

a fixed terminal provided under said opening and having a contact portion;

a movable terminal provided under said opening and having a fixed portion fixed to said insulative housing and a cantilevered flexible portion extending from said fixed portion and contacting with said contact portion of said fixed terminal, wherein when said central conductor of said coaxial plug is plugged into said opening of said insulative housing, said central conductor of said coaxial plug abuts against said flexible portion so that said flexible portion separates from said contact portion of said fixed terminal to switch a signal circuit, and said flexible portion comprises at least one cut-off portion at a position located on a side of said fixed portion with respect to an abutting position with said central conductor of said coaxial plug, wherein said flexible portion comprises side faces between which a distance increases from a vicinity of said abutting position toward said fixed portion of said movable terminal and said cut-off portion has a shape formed along said side faces.

2. The coaxial connector with a switch according to claim 1, wherein said cut-off portion has a substantially triangular shape.

3. The coaxial connector according to claim 1 or 2, said side faces are curved from said vicinity of said abutting position toward said fixed portion of said movable terminal in a concave form.

4. A coaxial connector with a switch to be mounted on a board, comprising:

an insulative housing having an opening for receiving a central conductor of a coaxial plug;

an outer conductor provided outside said insulative housing and engaging with an outer conductor of said plug such that said coaxial plug is attached to or detached from said coaxial connector;

a fixed terminal provided under said opening and having a contact portion; and

a movable terminal provided under said opening and having a fixed portion fixed to said insulative housing and a cantilevered flexible portion extending from said fixed portion and contacting with said contact portion of said fixed terminal, wherein when said central conductor of said coaxial plug is plugged into said opening of said insulative housing, said central conductor of said coaxial plug abuts against said flexible portion so that said flexible portion separates from said contact portion of said fixed terminal to switch a signal circuit, and said flexible portion comprises side faces curved from a vicinity of an abutting position with said central conductor of said coaxial plug toward said fixed portion of said movable terminal in a concave form.

5. The coaxial connector with a switch according to claim 4, wherein each of said side faces of said flexible portion is formed by a quarter circular arc having a diameter of substantially ½

to 2 times of a difference between a width of said flexible portion at said vicinity of said abutting position and a width of said fixed portion of said movable terminal.

6. A coaxial connector with a switch to be mounted on a board, comprising:

an insulative housing having an opening for receiving a central conductor of a coaxial plug;

an outer conductor provided outside said insulative housing and engaging with an outer conductor of said plug such that said coaxial plug is attached to or detached from said coaxial connector;

a fixed terminal provided under said opening and having a contact portion and a fixed portion; and

a movable terminal provided under said opening and having a fixed portion fixed to said insulative housing and a cantilevered flexible portion extending from said fixed portion and contacting with said contact portion of said fixed terminal, said fixed portions of said fixed and movable terminals having substantially same width which is greater than a width of said flexible portion of said movable terminal, and at least one of said fixed and movable terminals comprising an arm portion to cover a space on both sides of said flexible portion.