Dual-direction connector and method for cable system

• US 9,065,185 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2009
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ATX Networks Incorporated (United Communications Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Xtend Networks Ltd. (National Vision Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Magnezi, Gavriel, Degtyarev, Olga, Shohet, Yasis, Albag, Yehezkel
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, HIEN D
• Application Number:
  US12/650,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20100173523A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,000 Days
• Field of Search: 439/63, 439/581, 439/579, 439/224, 307/147
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/0506 Connection between three or more cable ends

Abstract

A connector for connecting a coaxial cable to a components box is disclosed, the connector is adapted to receive a central conductor of the coaxial cable and to firmly connect it to a central pin in the connector using a seizing force of a springy element, without needing to use a fastening screw or the like and without needing to open the component box. The connector of the invention is further adapted to allow releasing the central conductor from the central pin without needing to unfasten a screw or opening the component box. The connector is further adapted to facilitate the connection of the coaxial cable to the connector in another orientation similarly, without needing to use a fastening screw or the like and without needing to open the component box.

Claims

1. A dual orientation connector assembly comprising:

a central conducting pin having a first portion shaped as a thin tubular pin at a first end and a second portion shaped as a wider cylindrical portion at the second end;

a seizing spring element having at least a central element and several supporting legs; and

at least one isolating element encircling a portion of said wider portion of said central conducting pin,

wherein said wider portion of said central conducting pin has engraved on an outer face of said wider portion two elongated recesses stretching across the outer face through a center of said wider portion, from side-to-side in a right angle with respect to one another,

wherein said seizing spring element is shaped to provide substantial pressure to a central conductor when said wider portion is received in the seizing spring element and said central conductor is inserted along one of said recesses.

2. The connector of claim 1, further comprising a first outer connection means associated with a first connection orientation and a second outer connection means associated with a second connection orientation.

3. The connector of claim 1 further comprising an isolating element encircling a portion of said central conducting pin.

4. The connector of claim 1, wherein said central conducting pin is screw-less.

5. The connector of claim 1, wherein said wider portion is cylindrical.

6. The connector of claim 1, wherein said elongated recesses are semi-cylindrical.