Moving part coaxial cable connector

• US 9,130,288 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2013
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Holland Electronics LLC (Amphenol Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Holland Electronics LLC (Amphenol Corporation)
• Inventors: Holland, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): NASRI, JAVAID H
• Application Number:
  US13/911,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20140024233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 439578-580, 298/76
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/08 Resiliently-mounted rigid pins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/17 with spring member on the pin
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/40 Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/4538 Covers sliding or withdrawing in the direction of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6582 with resilient means for engaging mating connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/40 specially adapted for high frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/525 Outlets
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/26 for engaging or disengaging the two parts of a coupling device structural association with two-part coupling device H01R13/629
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49208 by assembling plural parts

Abstract

A female F connector incorporates a nose protruding from an end of the connector and the nose is urged to protrude by a spring.

Claims

1. A moving part coaxial cable connector comprising:

a connector body with first and second ends;

an aperture at the connector body first end;

a nose urged to project from the aperture by a nose projecting spring;

the nose movable in the aperture according to external forces;

a conductive center pin and an adjoining pin mouth end, the pin mouth end slidably inserted in a central passageway of the nose;

an electromagnetic shield incorporated in the nose; and

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wherein one or more connector center conductors are shielded when the connector is unmated and the nose is free to project from the aperture.

2. The connector of claim 1 further comprising:

a terminal for fixing a coaxial cable at one end of the connector; and

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wherein the connector is a female F connector port.

3. The connector of claim 1 further comprising:

a bore extending between the connector body first and second ends;

at the connector body second end, a connection for a male F connector; and

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wherein the connector is an F splice.

4. A moving part coaxial cable connector comprising:

a connector body with first and second ends;

an aperture at the connector body first end;

a nose urged to project from the aperture by a spring;

the spring having a design and spring constant able to project the nose when the connector is not mated;

the spring having a design and spring constant able to mate connector ground path parts when the connector is mated;

the nose movable in the aperture according to external forces;

a conductive center pin and an adjoining pin mouth end, the pin mouth end slidably inserted in a central passageway of the nose;

an electromagnetic shield incorporated in the nose;

wherein when the connector is unmated, one or more connector center conductors are shielded when the nose freely projects from the aperture; and

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wherein when the connector is mated, the nose is operable to urge the separation of a mated male F connector such that mating of connector ground path parts is improved.

5. The connector of claim 4 further comprising:

a terminal for fixing a coaxial cable at one end of the connector; and

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wherein the connector is female F connector port.

6. The connector of claim 4 further comprising:

at the connector body second end, a connection for a male F connector; and

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wherein the connector is an F splice.

7. The connector of claim 4 further comprising a conductive pin fixing structure for preventing relative motion between the pin and the female F connector body.

8. The connector of claim 4 further comprising a cylindrical structure and a pin mouth that make up all or a portion of the conductive center pin.

9. The connector of claim 4 wherein the cylindrical structure is concentric about a line whose length is the shortest distance between its end points.

10. A method of mating coaxial connectors for improving continuity and electromagnetic shielding, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a female connector body with a central cavity extending between first and second ends of the body;

extending a nose incorporating an electromagnetic shield from a first end of the body;

biasing the nose to extend from the body;

engaging the body with a mating male connector;

reducing a gap between the connectors by advancing a nut of the male connector on the female connector;

the extended nose urging separation of the mated connectors;

wherein the separation urged improves electrical contact between mated connector parts included in the ground path of the mated connectors; and

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wherein the separation urged tends to close gaps in the containment enclosing the central signal path of the mated connectors.

11. The mating method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

fixing a conductive pin to the female F connector body to prevent relative motion between the pin and the female F connector body.

12. The mating method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

forming the conductive pin as a cylindrical structure with a pin mouth.

13. The mating method of claim 12 further comprising the step of:

forming the conductive pin as a straight conductive pin.